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A88653	The tythe-takers cart overthrown or, The downfall of tythes. Proved that they are not to be payd now, either to the appropriate or impropriate parsons or persons. Pen'd for the general satisfaction and easement of all the people of England. By D. Lupton, servant of Christ Jesus in the work of the Gospel.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3495; Thomason E1380_3; ESTC R209388	17,631	52

13. What faces have our Presbyterian Rabbies to fly unto this for shelter and maintenance for their taking of tythes of the People now in these Reformed Times Well we hope we have removed their old confidence from this Law of demanding tythes Next in order Argum. 7. Seventhly We having them now upon pursuit let 's not leave to follow them a little closer If we will believe them though they can get little or no comfort from Moses or the Prophets yet they have other holds as from the Canon Law the Civil the Casuists and Schoolmen Is' t possible that these men who profess Christ so strictly and Reformation too and exclaim against the Pope and his Adherents will yet flee unto Rome to a Conclave or Consistory of old musty and rotten superstitious Writters who to uphold their Seat and their State patch up their Tenets with Judaism or the Turkish Alchoran who to please their Father subscribe all their Judgments to his Verdict and either will not or dare not print directly what 's truth for fear of his Excommunications and thundering Anathema's But must we be kept hoodwink'd still and must be forc'd to have their sayings obtruded upon us and pinned upon our sleeves for truths though never so false Who knows not how they have juggled with the Text it self terming it fabula a fable What great Confidence in or from these men What hopes to find truth in the very Chair of lying and seducing What if they say Tythes are due Jure Divino and threaten all such with Bell Book and Candle who dare speak or write against it are they therefore so In such a case as this is must Antichrist be chosen Judg and Umpire Oh ye Ministers of England if yet ye be so may we not tell you herein as our Saviour told that young man who said he would follow him whither soever he went The Foxes have holes and the birds of the ayr have nests Have you yet lurking holes from the Popish Canonists and nests too amongst the Popish Lawyers Alas Priests we know have but little skill and of late as bad success in making and trusting to Canons It must not be the Civilian nor the wrangling sophistating Schoolmen who must be Judges in this Point and therefore knowing and hoping you will not foul your mouths with these Rabble of Deceivers we tell you we appeal in this particular to Gods Word if they speak not according to that it is because there is no truth in them Isa 8. We are not willing to mention this dissembling Crue and politique Cheaters who to uphold Peters old Chair and to fill their own bellies and purses too will say and unsay any thing yet for conclusion this point in agitation amongst us at present is yet unheard of and untouch'd amongst them at Rome We therefore intending to be as brief as may be go on and say Argum. 8. Eightly There is not one Iota or line directly for the payment of Tythes in kind not in all the New Testament We 'l deal plainly with the world there are some which carry a shew which we intend to answer because some have made use of them contrary to the meaning of them that spoke them The first is in Mat. 8.2 3 4. concerning the Leper unto whom Christ said Go shew thy self unto the Priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a Testimony unto them Some concluding that Christ stood for payment of Tythes himself according to Moses Law but let 's a little examine the matter and it will make nothing for our Tythe-takers now for first Christ was not then glorified secondly the Jewish Clergy was then in power and being though miserably corrupted and that party who was healed of that Nation and so liable to payment and therefore Christs Injunction was both equal and righteous at that time Another Text too is used for payment of Tythes and that is in those two men who as our Saviour says went into the Temple to pray the one a Pharisee and the other a Publican amongst other particulars which the Pharisee boasted of this was one that he gave Tythes of all that he possessed Luk. 18.12 See say our Tythe-takers the very Pharisees did not deny Tythes and so hold out to plain people that those who deny to pay Tythes are worse then the Pharisees We reply Did he pay Tythes 't was his duty to the Command then being in force and he a Jew and one that pretended to be the strictest Observant of the Law Now as the Apostle Paul saith Thou that boastest of the Law through breaking the Law dishonorest thou God Rom. 2.23 It had in him at that time been not only a breach simply of the Law but also a dishonoring God and yet we have but his own bragging and boasting word and some suspicion may be moved concerning his doing as he said for for all his boasting this did not justifie but in the last place this was not a real history but a Parable for the text saith And he spoke this Parable Luk. 18.9 So neither of these doth any thing help the cause of Tythes at this present Well we come now to the main Refuge that large and copious Text of the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 9.7 8 9. to 14. wherein say our Tythe-Takers the Apostle hath sufficiently warranted tythes even now under the Gosel we will take some pains therefore about the true opening of this Text The Apostle vindicates indeed his own liberty and power though he says he used it not at all vers 15. He speaking of eating and drinking and leading about a sister a wife vers 4 5. forbearing to work at his Trade vers 6. Urgeth his lawfulness of doing from three similitudes 1. from going to warfare at a mans own charges 2. from planting a vineyard and not eating the fruit 3. from feeding a flock and not eating of the milk of the flock vers 7. Brings an Argument from Moses Law too from muzling the ox that treadeth out the corn vers 9. fetches confirmation of this from plowmen threshers and seeds-men vers 10. proves his doctrine from an Argument called a Majori ad Minus If we sow to you spiritual is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things vers 11. from the practice of others v. 12. therefore as well to him as to others proves it also from those who ministred about holy things in the Temple and waited at the Altar both lived of and by it and so concludes this subject that so hath God ordarned that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel an Argument a pari if they lived on that these on this and this is Gods Ordinance We have not omitted any thing we would not willingly in this large Text of Scripture which seems to be the Tythe-Takers safest and uncontroulable Argument if it be not throughly examined But we shal make it appear that this Apostle even in this place doth not

you in hither not having on the wedding garment of faithful Labourers in Christs Harvest These are the things we put to our Appropriate Parsons and many more might be added but we desire them seriously upon cold blood without spleen or anger to sit down and think upon these arguments and not to blind the Farmers and Husbandmen any longer with comparing themselves with and stiling themselves if we would any longer believe them in their Panygy-rick Sermons the Embassadors of Christ Watchful Shepherds over the Flock Stewards of the Mysteries of Christ Gods Husbandmen and fellow-Laborers and fellow-Builders Watchmen and Angels all which they were were they but the parties they do pretend to be And though we know that God hath such and will have such to accomplish the Mystical Body of Christ and for the gathering together of his people for he will not want he hath hidden ones and despised ones who shall confound the wise and the learned too by the foolishness as 't is adjudged of their teaching he will finish his Work his great Work But to assume these glorious Titles unjustly and without due right and under these to Lord it over Gods people by commanding Tythes is oppressing Ambition and base Hypocrisie We wish them to take heed that what was contemptuously objected to our Saviour be not or may not be truly said unto them But as for this man we know not whence he is They said they knew it not for who could declare his generation He was from above and 't was their shame not to know him But we know these Rabbies long enough and whence they are too Look to it well O ye pretending Priests and Presbyters and take no more Tythes except you had a just title unto them Remember the Prophets words Wo to him that covets an evil Covetousness to himself to heap together that which is not his That is for our first Demand to shew their right Calling to the Ministry or else for shame to leave off that antiquated trade of Tythe-taking any more That Tythes though by our Ministers proving themselves to be true Teachers are not in genere suo in their kind to be payd or demanded Where are we now good People under the Law or under Grace Shall we groan still under this burthen which neither we nor our forefathers were able to bear The Pope you see intended to have his Chaplains better fed then taught 'T is no marvel they are so willing to uphold him since he allows them such fat and large Revenues But we pray who pays it but the oppressed people of England We shall therefore do our utmost endeavor to set them free at last from this grievous yoke under which they are great hopes there are to set this Nation in Freedom in which we hope they will stand we only intend their Freedom in this the taking away of Tythes which indeed are not nor ought to be now payd in their kind either to the Appropriate or Impropriate Gatherers And because our Intention may prosper the better and the more solidly stop the mouths of the Gainsayers for we know we shall not want enough who will grudg and repine at us for this our labour though just in it self and high time to come to light and though we set it not out to do any man wrong as God knows our intentions but if possible to convince and to convert though it be hard yet it is not impossible so to do those whose gains come in this way from going any further in this same course and however we speed amongst men we wil discharge our conscience towards God a Truth is not to be conceal'd because of opposition and we are sure were these that take Tyth's in our Case they would be as glad of Freedom as our selves What ye would that men should do unto you even so do unto them Luk. 6.31 we wish every man to be wel perswaded in his mind herein for the Receivers are the most guilty they cannot but know that to take other mens goods in an indirect way must needs be sinful and therefore to convince these our Tythe-takers that they may lay down and leave this practise for time to come or the acting it still against the light of Conscience and Knowledge it will heighten and augment their condemnation we lay down these Arguments following to prove our Assertion to be just viz. That Tythes are not now to be Paid or Demanded Argum. 1. First there is a change of that Law by which Tythes were established and commanded and of the Priest-hood too both are changed both are disanulled as we have it Heb. 7.12 The Priest-hood being changed there is of Necessity saith the Apostle a change also of the Law the change of the one of necessity brings a change of the other there is such a Relation betwixt them that the one cannot be or stand in force without the other what a change of the Law of what Law we pray but of the Ceremonial Law of the Levitical Law by virtue whereof the Jewish Priests and Levites did receive Tythes now that there was such a change of the Priest-hood appears for there arose another Priest after the Order of Melchizedec and not called after the Order of Aaron Heb. 7. v. 11.15 and therefore says of him That he was not made after the Law of a carnal Commandment but after the Power of an endless life Heb. 7.16 and again he saith of Christ But this man because he continueth for ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood v. 24. But this man not Aaron but Christ by way of distinction and excellencie too and speaking fully in cap. 6. v. 20. of the change sayes even Jesus who is made a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchizedec and further who sprang out of Judah and pertained to another Tribe v. 13 14. Who is an high Priest over the House of God Heb. 10.21 This being infallibly true it follows that the Law is changed also So that if our Ministers shall plead for Tythes from Moses and Aaron or the old Law we must tell them that herein they shew themselves to be old Jews denying that Christ is come Let them consider it well for this hath been their strong Opinion and Determination and this they have held out to the people as a sure desence when alas 't is a plain argument against them but it passed for current in times of Ignorance and Popish Superstition That 's our first dart against Tythe-takers But Argum. 2. Secondly Tythes by the Levitical Law were but carnal Ordinances and but meer shadows and figures Heb. 10.1 and to last only until the Time of Reformation Heb. 9.10 until Christ Now that time being come and the Reformation in practise shall all things and persons and services be reformed and shall we still retain and uphold this Antiquated Jewish Levitical Ceremonial Relique amongst us and rely yet upon meer figures and old vain shadows hold more love to