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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41852	One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of Engand [sic] and all that are with him of God permitted to be in present authority, whether Parliament, Councel or Army; by whatsoever name or title known or called: but in a more especial manner, to such of them as are yet remaining faithfnl [sic] unto the former declared for, and never to be forgotten cause of King Jesus, who are such as have not departed, through sinning against the light of a good conscience, ... And yer notwithstanding, you that are in present power know these things, do even as he did, suffer the saints in your name, and by your power daylie to be imprisoned, and otherwayes afflicted; and that you may not be ignorant thereof, I have been moved to make the same known unto you by way of declaration, which is grounded upon the Holy Scriptures; wherein is contained the manner of our sufferings, and by whom: ... Written the beginning of the second month, 1657. by Isaac Grayes, prisoner for the cause of Christ in the Wood-street Compter, London, ...; One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of England.	Graye, Isaac.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1626; ESTC R220318	27,098	37

which was their right both by Law and Commandment during that legal Ministration Now I say the contrary doth appear by these Priests for that they do not the work and service which the Law of tythes requireth should be done therefore transgressors they are and you also guilty of the same transgression for that they are by you supported and upheld for to serve in their false Ministry contrary to what the Lord hath appointed who did command that these Priests in the first Covenant should be clothed with holy Garments while their service was by them a discharging which the Priests of England do not appear in neither have they in use the Water of Purification nor do they serve at the Altar of the worldly Sanctuary as the Aaronical and Levitical Priests did who made ready all the Burnt-offrings Sacrifices c. Where I say is there an of these services by our counterfeit English Priests done neither do they circumcise as the first Priesthood did who performed what was by them of the Law required according to the will of God unto whom the right of tythes did appertain by way of a peculiar Gift for their work and service done as doth appear Numb. 18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 c. Numb. 18. 20 21 23 31 c. And now seeing that the Tythe-Egge-taking-Priests of this Nation have not donenor doth any of the services which the Law of the Lord God of Israel doth require they are manifest rebels to God and dissemblers with that people we are by them seduced for that they receive of them Tythes the wages of the Law which did belong to the Levitical Priesthood who left not their work undone as they do And thus by their wicked actions they appear not to be called of God as those Priests were who had Store-houses to put Tythes into as is evident Mal. 3. that thither the Widow Fatherless and Stranger might come read Deut. 14. 27 28 29 c. for to be filled and satisfied within the Gates of the Priests that there might not be a beggarin Israel Now by what hath been already declared it doth appear That neither the Priests have right to Tythes nor none else Yet notwithstanding Tythes by the Laws of the Pope are forced to be paid in this Nation and neither Widows Fatherless nor Strangers suffered for to partake with the Priests thereof but instead of being out of them relieved they are forced for to pay Tythes and such as do not are by them imprisoned never was there any such cruelties by the Priests under the Law unto the Widows Fathersess and Strangers done as is by these Priests of England who are of the Pope but surely wo will be their reward according to what Christ hath pronounced which will assuredly come upon them and their Assistances for their binding heavy burthens upon the poor too grievous for to be born Matth. 3. never was there such Priests known since the world began as these deceivers deluders and Seducers are who do appear to be Gods adversaries with whom it shall go ill read Isa. 3. And saith the Lord of Hosts the mighty One of Israel Ah! I will ease me of my Adversaries Isa. 1. 24. Now having proved them to be no Priests by the Law of the Lord God of Israel I shall also through his help and gracious assistance make it appear that they are no Ministers of the Gospel but such as the Apostle of them hath said should in the last dayes come who accordingly are come which have a form of godliness as all false Professors have but deny the Power thereof as he hath also said they should do who are crept into the Houses of the cruel Beast which for them was provided where they promote his worship and service whose Ministers they are for which they receive tythes leading silly women captive laden with sins led away by them with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and as Jannes and Jambers withstood Moses so do they also resist the truth being as by their actions doth appear men of corrupt minds who are reprobate concerning the Faith but they shall proceed no further then unto the making manifest of their folly and madness as theirs also was made manifest Thus by the light of Christ in my conscience am I come to see what the Priests are and their upholders in despite of their fair pretences and am made able to witness the truth fulfilled according to the sayings of the true Minister of Jesus Christ read the 2. Epist. of Paul to Timothy 3. ch 1 5 6 7 8 9 v. c. and for which Testimony of mine born against the Priests for Christ I am come by them and such as with them live by Tythes for to suffer persecution which are such evil men and seducers as the Apostle and true Minister of Christ hath said should wax worse and worse and being deceived shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power who now are unto me and all the enlightned of Christ known for to be of that sort which the Apostle had a fore-sight of in the mystery of Iniquity wherein they are now come forth in their proper colours of deceivableness of all unrighteousness which by them is made use of instead of the holy Garments of the true Priesthood they receiving not the love of the Truth that they might be saved for which cause saith the Apostle God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned who belive not the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness as doth appear by their disorderly walking in all manner of pleasure and idleness which the true Ministers of Christ did witness against who said We did not eat any mans bread for naught but wrought with labour and travel night and day that we might not he chargeable to any not because we have not Power but to make our selves ensamples unto such as follow us which the called Ministers of England do not but are enemies unto both their example and such Saints as do witness the same life and Ministry but the Priests do live upon the maintenance which they gain by making use of the power of the World by which they take away from the poor the benefit of all their labours which truth I hope is made manifest unto every one that hath but reason in them as well as unto the suffering Saints which is the fruits by which they are made manifest according as Christ hath said Matth. 7. By their fruits ye shall know them and was there ever such fruits of robbing and spoiling peoples Goods and imprisoning of the Saints and faithful servants of the Lord God of Israel since the world began as by priests in our age who sirname themselves Messengers of God and yet wrong and violence robbing and spoiling is the fruits they bring

convented and by them brought before such a company of forsworn murthering Lawyers whose continual practice is to engage themselves against the consciencious people of this Land even against their Commissions in the matter of Tythes as I have already declared for that the Law saith None shall expound it no other wayes to give remedy for tythes then what it doth of it self plainly express whereby cause of Action may be given or Suit commenc●t in the Courts temporal against any person or persons which shall refuse or deny to set out his or their Tythes or shall detain with-hold or refuse to pay his Tythes or Offerings or any parcel thereof but that in such cases the persons or parties being Ecclesiastical or Lay-persons have cause to demand or have the said Tythes or Offrings in every such case in the Spiritual Courts according to the Ordinance of the first part of this Act and not otherwayes And thus unto you the Rulers have I made it plainly appear by the Lavvs and Statutes of this Realm That it is utterly unlawful for your Temporal Judges to give judgement in the matters of Tythes against the Saints as they dayly do in such Courts as are called Temporal Courts viz. The Exchequer Common-Pleas and in that other Court or Place called the Chancery which is called a Court of Equity If lyes may take place or rather a Court of Iniquity through which deceivable Name of Equity many people have made their Addresses from out of other Courts into that in hopes of gaining right there but have found as much wrong and have met with much inconscionable dealings as ever they did before the Lawyers being all agreed to destroy the poor wronged people that have been forced to seek help where none is to be had through their ignorance of not knowing that the Lawyers Tyade is upheld and maintained by fraud and wrong as doth appear in this great controversie of Tythes there shall need no other proof against them then this of Tythes as doth appear in their wresting and abusing the Law in that cause through which they promote all manner of injustice against the Saints by whom they both suffer imprisonment and also the spoiling of their Goods contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Nation which in themselves require right should be done but contrary to that these Law-breakers do force Jury-Men through their being ignorant of the Law commonly to forswear themselves by giving up false Verdicts against their consciencious Neighbors in the matter of tythes by their fining for the ungodly Plaintiff against the poor Defendant for not dividing or setting forth and not paying their predual Tythes or for taking or carrying away the same before the tenth part be divided or set forth by which unlawful proceedings of wicked Plaintiffs before ungodly forsworn Judges in their Secular courts the Saints do greatly suffer by the Priests and others of their Antichristian Tribe who by them are well bribed for their pains so that betwixt the one and the other this poor Land and people is brought under the guilt of those horrible crying sins which Israel of old in their dayes suffered to be committed amongst them although they were the Lords beloved people unto whom he sent his holy Prophet to give them warning that the Lord had a controversie against the inhabitants of the Land for suffering those abominations through which there was no truth or mercy nor knowledge of God amongst them for by swearing lying killing and stealing and committing Adultery they brake out and blood touched blood therefore the Word of the Lord unto them was by the Prophet declared That the Land should meurn and every one that did dwell therein should languish with the Beasts of the field and with the Fowls of heaven yea the fishes also of the sea shall be taken away read Hos. 4. 2 3 4. The fore-promised matter being well considered by such as yet do live to fear the Lord may justly give their judgement for God That both the Rulers and people of this Nation are under the guilt of all those sins and are in danger of coming to suffer sad judgements from the Lord for that the Priests and the Lawyers and such as with them do live upon the gain of oppression are yet suffered to be the actors of all manner of wickedness that in this Land is committed under pretence of Law by whom this forementioned scripture is fulfilled as hath been by them made manifest from the beginning of all our troubles who yet do confederate together to divide the people from holding amity one with another that thereby they may hinder the promoting the cause of truth and the establishing of Justice through which wickedness of theirs when time was in dividing the people from the King and setting him against the people Justice by him was wholly neglected although he was much sought to by the people of God for to see the same duely administred as he was permitted of God to be the chief Magistrate of the three united Nations of England Scotland and Ireland but he not standing in the counsel of God would not hearken unto the desires of his people but grew weary in hearing them whereupon no more addresses by them unto him was made wherefore his end suddenly upon him came and therefore justly did the God of Justice deliver him up into the hands of those which sought his life Let good heed therefore be taken by you that are in present Power least the cause be forgotten which brought him to suffer the pangs of death for know you the Lords hand is not shortned but is stretched out still for to reach you also forth from all your Guards of Guns Swords and Pikes which by multitudes of men is made use of for to defend you yet notwithstanding your strong Arm of flesh you may take notice the King had as great a power in his time as you and was more esteemed regarded and beloved by the people as to the generality then possibly can be imagined you are but yet he not doing that which was right in the sight of God you see was cut off Oh therefore that you may remember with all speed for to establish Justice that so you may rule for him for the good and well-being of his poor distressed and every wayes afflicted and persecuted people who are at this day frustrated of all hopes of mans doing Justice and therefore cry they unto the Lord for to be delivered from the hands of their oppressors seeing hitherto you have denyed their redemption notwithstanding you have sworn unto the Lord you would give them deliverance This know therefore your time to perform what you have engaged and promised is almost past therefore what you do do speedily for I behold your night a coming and then will all your Works cease and then vvil all your intentions with former pretences come to be frustrated and annihilated and your memorials vvill also be blotted out

fear of the wrath of foolish proud vain man who is ready to be offended at what he ought rather to be ashamed of then to justifie himself Thus for conscience sake as I have learned of Christ am I freely willing to submit my self unto every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake although my deadly Enemies have reported otherwaies against me which the Lord our God knows I purely suffer for that I cannot give unto his Enemies that for Maintainance which belongs unto him viz. Tythes which unjust demands I must for conscience sake deny although I come to suffer death for the same seeing it is clearly manifest from the declaration of Christ and his Apostles that whosoever payeth Tythes denyeth Christ to be come in the flesh as all they do which at this day do either pay or receive the same as I have made fully appear from the sum of the holy Scriptures And thus to both you Rulers Saints and People of all forms sects and sorts have I truly discharged my conscience according to the gift of God in me by way of Grounds and Reasons laid down wherein I have shewn the justice of my cause and have therein matter of great comfort thus to declare why Tythes have been and are by me still denyed in which Grounds I have made an eminent discovery That Tythes in England have been and are forced to be paid contrary both to the Laws of God and also to the Laws of the Land which Laws I have not broke but do suffer for my obeying the Law of the Lord God of Israel in which obedience I hope he will help me to be continued in the further remaining part of the dayes of this my Pilgrimage whose servant I am and do finde in my self a freedom in like manner to be subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake onely whether it be unto the King as unto the supreme or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well according to that Declaration of the first Epist. of Peter ch. 2. v. 13 c. Isaac Craye AND lastly these few following lines I have been moved to write by way of humble desires the which lines are dedicated only unto all consciencious sincere faithful hearted Friends to that end and purpose that they would be pleased for the time to come to have a special care who and what they be are by them put in trust for to dispose of their Christian contribution which they may be from God moved for to give towards the relief of such as do for conscience sake suffer under the Enemies of the everlasting Gospel forasmuch as that I am given credibly to understand by some faithful Friends That they do fear some wicked persons under the profession of Godliness have made use of my Name and sufferings to gather moneys amongst several friends which they imploy to their own private benefit it is true the evil may be by them justly feared for in the time I was made to suffer under the Council of State I was was so served by some who did get large sums of money one of their Names I have not yet forgotten which I will here accordingly insert viz Horn a Cheese-Monger sometimes keeping his Shop not far from London-Bridge thus hath such wicked Wretches under the notion of Religion cheathed the truly religious and honest hearted and knowing that these evils hath been committed against me it is to be feared they are daylie put in practise still under colour of relieving such as are of late come to suffer for God as I do how much therefore doth it concern the truly charitable who do witness what the life of true Profession is for to take heed they trust none but such as are known truly faithful although never so much shew of outside seeming zeal for God and Christ be professed seeing it hath thus happened since the dayes of our great troubles that through such outside profession and hypocritical seeming zeal for God and cause of Christ the trul consciencious people of this Nation have been cheated out of their lives estates and liberties under which vilanous sort of professing Zealots or rather Trappanners of the innocent I have in a most wonderful manner many wayes suffered wrong both before this my imprisonment and ever since through their filthy invented lyes and giving forth notorious reproaches which they from the perswasions of the Devil and the Priests have been set on work to promote against me they thinking thereby to leave me friendless that so they may pine me to death in prison seeing they can no other wayes destroy me but the Lord having sa tisied me with inward comfort from which I find my self wonderfully supported with patience to be contented in every condition so that I can with abundance of unspeakable comfort inward peace undergoe the strife of wicked lying tongues and being fully satisfied from the measure of Christ in me that the Saints and dear servants of God in former ages have in like manner suffered under such as these English false Professors are who are unrighteously called Christians one place of Scripture for to make the same appear I shall quote and but one although I might instance the like reproaches against David the man after Gods own heart Job the servant of the Lord and Jeremiah his holy Prophet who also bore his sharein reproaches and many more of the dear servants of God as well as I at this day do it is a truth they that deserve no good Name nor righteous report themselves do give none to others The Scripture which I shall mention is Heb. 10. beginning at the 32. v. and so on where it doth and may appear That the Apostle was countenancing and counselling of such friends as he found one with them in the faith of Christ to be chearful in their sufferings wherevpon he bids them call to remembrance the former dayes in which after they were enlightned they endured a great fight of afflictions Partly saith he whilest ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and aff●ictions and par●ly whilest you were so used for ye had compassion on me in my bonds and then ye took oyfull the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that you have in Heaven a better and enduring substance cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward for you had need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might rece●ve the promise Thus from the enjoyment of that life which Christ the light of the light of the World hath given me to be possessed with do I come to see a full discovery who and what they are which are Enemies to the cross of Christ he having revived his witness in me I am thereby kept close to the Word of his Patience through whose help I am enabled to read with understanding the holy Scriptures with great joy and inward consolation according to that measure of life abiding in me by which they were given forth by way of Declaration as doth appear Luke 1. 1. and am assured the time is at hand wherein none of these fore-premised Enemies of Christ and Saint-reviling reproaching barking Dogs shall not move a Tongue as they now do Written from my unjust imprisonment in the VVood-Street-Compter London where I remain a su●ferer for Christ the everlasting Gospel which the Priests do daylie persecute The second Month 1657. FINIS