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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90205	An indictment against tythes: or, Tythes no wages for Gospel-ministers: wherein is declared, I. The time when tythes were first given in England. II. By whom, and by whose authority and power tythes were first by a law established in England. III. To whom, and to what end and purpose tythes were first given, and after continued in England. IV. Ministers pretending a threefold right to tythes, 1. By donation. 2. By the laws of the nation. And 3. By the Law of God; examined and confuted ... To which are added, certain reasons taken out of Doctor Burgess his Case, concerning the buying of bishops lands, which are as full and directly against tythes, as to what he applied them. Likewise a query to William Prynne. By John Canne. By John Osborne, a lover of the truth as it is in Jesus.	Osborne, John, lover of the truth as it is in Jesus.; Canne, John, d. 1667?	1659 (1659)	Wing O525; Thomason E989_28; ESTC R203025	30,438	45

the Lord was their portion Thirdly the poor the widow and the fatherless were to Reason 3. partake of the Tythes with them But first the Ministers of England are not the hundredth 1. part of the people of England Secondly They or most of them have besides their 2. Tythes Glebe-lands and some of them a competent estate in temporal fee-simple-Lands and some of them have a good portion of goods and moneys and some other profitable wayes to gain by Thirdly Few of them feed the hungry cloath the naked 3. relieve the poor widows and Orphans as they ought to do And therefore how dare they pretend Scripture Equity or Reason for payment of Tythes to them when God hath left no such Rule upon Record in any part of the New-Testament Nor did the Lord ever challenge Tythes of the Gentles as he did of the Jews and God is now so far from being honoured by payment of Tythes as that he is highly dishonoured thereby and Jesus Christ denied to be come in the flesh and the Levitical Priesthood seemingly upholden and maintained But it is further asserted by the same Doctor that Objection Christ chalengeth Tythes as a Right and Due belonging to himself and that he hath given them to the Ministers of the Gospel for their maintenance and therefore are to be paid to the Ministers of England at this day To this I answer That when he or any other man shall Answer prove this assertion by a positive text of Scripture in the New Testament then shall I be silent and oppose him no more But I fear that this will not content him because he still strongly endeavoureth to prove his Scriptural right as he calleth it 1 Cor. 9. 14. by multiplying a great sound of words but not according to the forme of sound words ten times repeating that pregnant place as he calleth it 1 Cor. 9. 14. Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel And this he would have to be an Ordinance of God for Ministers maintenance by Tythes at this day Even so as the Levitical Priests were maintained by Tythes in the time of the Law I deny not that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel but it must be in such a way and by such means as Christ hath appointed them that is as the Ministers of the Gospel lived in the Primitive times by the benevolence and free gift of People and not by Tythes For Christ and his Apostles never had any Tythes or great Parsonages as the Ministers of England have although they preached the Gospel diligently from house to house and from Country to Country Our Saviour saith Luk. 9. 58. Foxes have holes and the Birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head He had not a great house to dwell in nor worldly rich Revenues to maintain him though he was Lord of all he had not so much money as would pay custom for himself and Peter until it was taken out of the fishes mouth Matth. 16. 27. And he saith That the Disciple is not above his Master nor the servant above his Lord. Yet many of the Ministers Matth. 10. 24. of England who stile themselves the servants of Christ strive for great livings fair houses dainty fare and the pomp and pleasure of this world rather then to be rich in good works But to answer directly to his Even so First I say that the Apostles meaning in that place 1 Cor 9. 14. is either wholly mistaken or unjustly wrested by the Doctor to make good his assertion for there is not one word of Tythes for Ministers maintenance in all that Chapter True it is that the Apostle pleads there for a competent maintenance for the Ministers of the Gospel but not by Tythes as the Doctor would have it God himself appointed that the Ministers that served at the Altar should partake with the Altar and that they should receive Tythes and such part of the Sacrifices as was not consumed by fire But the Office of the Priests and Levites being abolished and the Law for Tythes abrogated and no new donation of the like maintenance made by Christ to the Ministers of the Gospel by what right can the Ministers of England now claim Tythes And further to his Even so which he urgeth so often I answer that I conceive he buildeth but upon a sandy foundation for if he well considereth the Greek he shall finde it to be there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which in our English Translations is rendred And so or So also and the word Even is found onely in the last translation of the Bible But secondly suppose that the Original may bear that Translation Even so yet that will not prove that it is a Divine Ordinance enjoyning men to pay Tythes to the Ministers of England For I do not finde in any part of the New Testament that God complaineth against Christians for robbing him of his honor Christ of his homage Ministers of their maintenance and the People of the means of Salvation because they pay not Tythes But sure I am that many Ministers of England rob God of his honour by their licentious conversation Christ of his homage See Heb. 2. 9. by not acknowledging him to have died for all men and men of their goods by unjustly exacting Tythes to 1 John 2. 2. spend upon their own lusts So that it may be justly said that the taking of Tythes and not the with-holding of Tythes ariseth from loose principles and argueth that such as take Tythes for preaching without any Law of God to warrant them are not the true Ministers of Jesus Christ For there is no such agreement between the Old and New Testament in point of Tythes as the Doctor would have men to believe Therefore I leave it to the judgement of wise conscientious men to judge whether I or the Doctor do erre in this point from the truth of the Scripture Some other Arguments have been also drawn from the Scriptures by others defenders of Tythes but I shall wave them at present and follow the Doctor a little further who in the next place goeth about to maintain the lawfulness of Tythes for Ministers maintenance by a Catholick Custom confirmed by Antiquity and Universality two strong props or pillars whereupon the Popish Religion Idolatry and will-worship is upholden but I finde no such custom in the Church of Christ in the first Six hundred years after Christ as it is affirmed by some Historians By others Eight hundred fifty five years by others Nine hundred and by others not until the Council of Lateran Anno 1215. or as some others do affirm that in or about the year of our Lord One thousand two hundred a decretal Epistle by Pope Innocent the third dated at Lateran was directed to the Archbishop of Canterbury that Tythes should be paid to