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A85558	Tithes a curse to all nations but Canaan, and a disturbance, and vexation to all people but the Hebrevvs. Clearly demonstrated in the case of Isaack Graye, now a prisoner, for the non-payment of tithes in the counter of great Woodstreet, London. Exposed to publick view for the discovering of the cruelties, persecutions, and oppressors of those that stand for it's maintainance.	Graye, Isaac.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1627; Thomason E809_20; ESTC R207598	8,770	16

of flesh as I had done whereby I was deceived and did too much depart from the living God whom I have found since to be my preserver and Protector blessed be JEHOVAH Oh that I had been so guided before for I was deceived by the flatteries of men in power and by their fair and religious pretences which have and did deceive me and many thousands and by their not performing their Oaths Vows and Covenants I am bereaved of my calling which God did then inable me to follow being the just and honest imployment and order which God appointed mankinde unto us from the beginning viz. To till and manure the earth that it may bring forth fruit unto his Creation and this was my righteous calling and I would their callings were as righteous that have robbed and imprisoned me although by the power of the oppressor I am taken there from and by the worst of Theeves and Robbers am destroyed as my conscience with God beareth me witnesse that they are enemies to Christ and his Gospell seeing it is in meer conscience that I cannot pay Tithes for if I do I sin against the Light of knowledge and so become an enemy to the truth of the Scripture and should thereby deny my Christ to be come in the flesh and the better hope of the Gospel which all they do that either pay Tithes or take Tithes as Heb. 7. 12. verse doth witnesse with me For the priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law which is recorded in Deuterenomie 18. 3. verse pointing out the then Priests portion and saith what should be their due from such a people as offered sacrifice whether of oxe or sheep that they should give unto the Priest the shoulder and the two cheeks also and the maw 4. verse the first fruits of thy corn of thy wine and of thy oyle c. so that it doth clearly appear that there is a great difference between the Priesthood under the Ordinance of the Law and under the Gospel which did but figure out Christ to come in the flesh therefore when Christ the substance was come the shadow was done away as Heb. 9 8. verse Chap. 10. 1. doth witnesse Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building ver 11. 23 24. Thus it is evident by the Scriptures and doth plainly appear unto all those who live in obedience to the knowledge of God and doth make the Scripture their rule to walk by and do use no hypocrisie so as to make Religion a cloak to cover their wickednesse for which if they do not they can do no other but witnesse with me that to take or pay Tithes hath and doth plainly deny Christ to be come in the flesh and so do they also that lend their power to force the payment and maintainance thereof For our Saviour doth testifie and saith as by the report of the Scripture The tree is known by the fruit for an evill tree cannot bring forth good fruit neither do men gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles Therefore my Lord if you be a reall Professor of Christ indeed and in truth it will manifestly appear in your actions whilst you have power in your hands you may appear to be for Christ for it doth clearly appear that such a power that forceth the payment of Tithes is not of God but is of the Beast and therefore not to be permitted and is of the Army of Antichrist for they force the shadow or type which was but figurative to take place of the substance viz. Christ and therefore take heed what you do in siding with or giving forth your power for this is the time that you wil show your self either to be a friend or an enemy if an enemy then know you deny Christ and his Mediatorship his Redemption Justification and the Resurrection c. for Christ saith unto all his if any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his crosse dayly and follow me Luk. 9. 23 24 25 26. verses for if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him if we deny him he also will deny us therefore once more my Lord implored I beseech you well to consider what you do or suffer to be done now you are got ●…o to be chief Magistrate of the Nation or Nations will you permit the permit the people of God in this nation any longer to be thus persecuted and cruelly used by the means of wicked Laws or rather lusts of wicked men which tyrannically compels and takes away our Liberties Lives Estates and goods many wayes and amongst others by way of Tithes and forced maintainance by Priests and Impropriators my hearty desires to Almighty God for you my Lord is that your assistance be not nor subsistance by those oppressors or oppressing wayes which proceeds from those bottomlesse pit locusts and catterpillars of this Common-wealth viz. The Armies of Antichrist that lives by devouring destroying and imprisoning the Saints of God My Lord if it must be so that we must pay Tithes against our Conscsences let there be store-houses appointed throughout the whole Nation that the Tithes may there be kept that the strangers the fatherlesse and the Widows may come thither to be filled within the Priests and Impropriators gates as was in the time of the Law of Moses who was Judge of all Israel and gave forth this Order which he had received from God which was in the first Covenant a figure of the everlasting Priesthood yet for all this know my Lord if you do thus that the Priests and other Tithe-mongers have storehouses to put Tithes and the tenth of mens estates into to fill the strangers widows and fatherless withal that there may be no beggers in England though it be a good thing in it self yet you do but act according to the figure own not Christ come in the flesh as I do through grace obtained in the acknowledgement of the truth of the Scriptures and of the Priesthood to be changed and of the everlasting high Priest over the houshold of God according to the report of the Scriptures and therefore do I suffer unworthy as I am as to be a witnesse the spoiling of my goods and Imprisonment in a joyfull Spirit Ah my Lord if you would but own the report of the truth of the Scripture you could not but acknowledge that the Priesthood is changed and by your Actions you would appear changed too for Christ and his Cause which now suffers Oh then how would you own Jesus Christ with his people who witnesseth the end of the Levitical Law and the end of the Priesthood at whose Name every knee should bow and every tongue confesse him for it is he that inlightens every one that cometh into the world though some hate it and him and a few love him

Tithes A curse to all Nations but CANAAN And a disturbance and vexation to all people but the HEBREVVS Clearly demonstrated in the Case of ISAACK GRAYE now a Prisoner for the non-payment of Tithes in the Counter of great Woodstreet London Exposed to publick view for the discovering of the cruelties persecutions and oppressions of those that stand for it's Maintainance LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by William Larner at the Black-mores head near Fleet-Bridge and Richard Moon at the Seven Stars in Pauls Church-Yara 1654. For OLIVER Lord CROMVVELL My Lord I Beseech your favourable aspect on a few rude yet true ensuing lines which for truth sake makes me implore your judicious eye a weightier matter than use of conscience cannot be did all consider it I doe and by the Almighties assistance notwithstanding mans power will not flinch an inch to save my life You know you have done things past expectation yet be pleased to favour my re-minding you that there is one above which to stand in awe of him is yours mine and all true Christians duty in speaking plain is neither falsehood nor flattery nor I hope to your Lordship therefore I shall be humbly bold to subscribe my self yours In all Christian duty ISAACK GRAYE An ensuing perusall of what followes I humbly crave To the Christian Reader My Intentions WIth endeavours to friends for the delivery of a small Tract ensuing being earnest and fervent to have truth take place and having sought all opportunities to have the same made apparently known in writing unto OLIVER Lord CROMVVELL before publishing in print according to the usuall custome or manner by such friends as should have undertaken the businesse for presentation But they upon perusall did find the Dedication was not according to the Title he now hath or is sir-named by and did thereupon reply that it was in vain to attempt any such thing for they were certain it would not be received because it wanted his title He now hath another company of friends whom I did endeavour to perswade as the former they advised me not to addresse my self for they were out of hopes of expectation of good as to my relief and therefore did disswade me from prosecution thereof yet finding in my self a conscientius tye unto the Almighty and eternall JEHOVAH who is sole Protector Justifier Preserver and Pleader of the cause of his People against the enemies the dark blinde ignorant powers of the world that hates to be reformed and that I may depart from a lying tongue do speak in and from Truth my Conscience bearing me witnesse that I cannot call any man by that name that is onely and alone due to God neither can I appear as a flatterer to give unto that man a title in words that I cannot own in conscience although it may prove to the losse of my businesse but I knowing the danger of flattery that it is the mouth of flatterers that worketh ruine to him that is the flattered and there upon my Lord as I tender your everlasting welfare I dare do no lesse than speak the truth in plainnesse how ever I be judged know I have discharged my duty in answer to this part of the Scripture look Prov. 16. 28. so in speaking truth I am imboldned through the powerfullest to let all such as love Piety and Godlinesse know that as long as I have breath or being I will not cease my continuall supplications to him that made me and the world to grant my uncessant suite in the behalfe of my self and of the whole Nation that open justice and right may be done to all and that I lay open to the worlds view in a short volume may by the Almighties blessing beget many within the Pale of his Church that too long have sate in darknesse and the shadow of death and shall beseech all perusers of the same so to estimate my small endeavours as to cast a favourable and charitable aspect of the same and to respect the inward intention together with the outward substance as from a friend Owning my self to be any one of yours in brotherly affection in answer to righteousness the persecution whereof hath urged me to the Presse that I may not lay silence buried in the oppressors hell YOur Lordship hath here presented to your view Millions of humble acknowledgements for the reception of an unexpected favour upon solicitation of precious Christian Friends in and about the City of London granted to be by your ever to be Honoured self to your poor then suffering supplicant in the Gate-house Westminster 1653. having remained there many moneths upon great charge yet by your gracious favour was then inlarged and did then injoy about a moneth and odde dayes Liberty but ever since April the third 1654. have again been cast into Woodstreet Counter London where at present I remain a Prisoner questioning not upon your Lordships perusall of these my humble addresses to finde as formerly your never to be forgotten clemency hath imboldened me the second time to reminde your Lordship for justice and for right from my illegall Antichristian tyrannicall imprisonment in the place aforementioned wherein I lye and suffer for Christ and a good Conscience in that I dare not sin against Right as to pay Tithes and this by one Budgger of Bassenburn in the County of Cambridge Impropriator and Tithe-renter for which revenues of Antichrist he hath been a cruell persecutor of me and my Family and for some time inforced me for to forsake my poor wife and children and relations and to flye for Scotland unto the Army of the Common-wealth of England for refuge that I might have my inward peace in preserving Faith and a good Conscience for non-payment of Tithes so through much danger and hazard of my life through great and miraculous preservations I returned from thence with the Army and came up to Worcester fight and ingaged the enemies there as a Souldiour for Christ and his cause against Antichrist that interest and when God had given us the victory there my life being wonderfully delivered I gained leave to go home to my poor distressed wife and family but because this bloody antichristian brood of Tithe-mongers did gape for my Liberty I was forced the time of my staying there to make a prison of my house and after I had been with my Family a certain time my Adversary Budgger hearing of me at home got up a certain company of wicked men by his appointment and sent them to take me and to carry me away to prison who did violently break into my house with their swords drawn and threatning cruelly the destroying of my life whereupon I was forced to defend my self with sword and pistoll and make my retreat into my upper Chambers but they pursuing me with a great vehement resolution and threatning to pull my house down over my head and to have me dead or alive and broke ope my stairs foot door upon