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A70871	The remainder, or second part of a Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the antient setled maintenance and tithes of the ministers of the Gospel wherein the divine right of our ministers tithes is further asserted ... / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq. ...; Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the ancient settled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4050; ESTC R15632	145,173	195

hast kept me this day from coming to shed bloud and to avenge my self with my own hand But if they shall by Gods permission cast me again bound hand and foot into another fiery Fornace for this my faithfull Service or not falling down and worshipping that Golden or rather Wooden Image which they have or would now set up I doubt not but that Gracious God who hath so miraculously preserved me in delivered me out of so many fiery Trials and Fornaces heretofore will do the like again hereafter and that in such a visible eminent manner as shall enforce them at last to use those words unto me as Nebuchadnezzar did unto Shadrac Meshac and Abednego after their miraculous preservation in the midst of the fiery Fornace into which the most valiant men of his Army cast them bound by his unrighteous Command to their own immediat destruction by the flame without the least hurt to them Dan. 3. 28. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake and said Blessed be the God of Shadrac Meshac and Abednego who hath sent his Angel and delivered his Servants that trusted in him and have changed the Kings word and have yielded their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any God or Idol except their own God This being an undoubted Truth which I have ever hitherto found experimentally true from and in my former causelesse Oppressors whose Erronious Practices vices I have reproved recorded by God himself and the wisest of all Mortals Prov. 28. 23. He that rebuketh a man for his faults plainly shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth him in them with the Tongue And that saying of the truth it self in such cases of difficulty and concernment to the reprover will ever prove an experimental verity wherewith I shall conclude my Plea which I desire may be deeply engraven in the Hearts Spirits of all timorous base unworthy Christians who dare neither speak nor write their Consciences nor Discharge their Duties in these times of danger and will wrong both their Consciences Country Posterity yea shame their God Nation Religion to save their Estates Lives as they fondly conceit when they will lose all with their souls to boot by their base carnal fears Math. 16. 24 25 26. Luke 17. 33. If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Crosse and follow me For whosoever will Save or shall seek to Save his life so Luke records it shall Lose it and his Tithes Lands Liberties with it and whosoever will Lose his Lise for my sake shall find it For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole World and Lose his own Soul Or what shall a man give in exchange for his Soul I shall cloze up all with this notable Passage of our own learned Writer John Sarisbury against such Religious Hypocritical Cistersian Monks who in his age sought exemption from payment of Tithes and seised upon the Ministers Dues about the year 1170. Joannis Sarisburiensis De Nugis Curialium l. 7. c. 21. De Hypocritis qui ambitio●is labem falsae Religionis imagine nituntur occultare Hi sunt qui potestatibus persuadentes ut propter vitia personarum jure suo priventur Ecclefiae Decimationes et Primitias Ecclestis subtrahunt et Ecclesias ipsas accipiunt de manu Laicorum Episcopis inconsultis Hi sunt qui praedia avita subtrahentes indigenis vicos pagos redigunt in solitudinem in suos usus vicina quaeque convertunt Ecclesias diruunt ut in usus revocant seculares Quae Domus Orationis fuerat aut efficitur stabulum pecoris aut opilionis aut Ianificli Officina Et ut se possunt plenius exhibere charitatis implere manus ne decimas dent Apostolico privilegio muniuntur Miror tamen ut Fidelium pace Ioquar quidnam sit quod Decimas et Iura aliena usurpare non erubescunt Inquient fortè Religiosi sumus Planè Decimas solvere Religionis pars est Et eas a Deo populus duntaxat religionis solvere exigitur Hi adeo religiosi sunt quod in Decimis dandis derogare possunt constitutioni Divinae in eo licenter minus grati sunt gratiae Dei quo eam amplioribus beneficiis experiuntur FINIS A POSTSCRIPT IT is storied of Canutus the 4 th the 77 King of Denmark an eminent professor of Piety and Religion and great lover of Justice that perceiving his Subjects to stick at many things pertaining to Christian Religion and not to conform to other Christians throughout the world in Laws and Ceremonies specially in the due payment of Tithes to their Ministers he urged them out of religious Piety ut ritu aliarum Nationum Christianam Religionem prositentium Decimas Sacerdotibus suis soluerent that after the custome of other Nations professing Christian Religion they would pay Tithes to their Priests remitting to them a great fine imposed on them for their Rebellion and contempt in refusing to accompany him in an Expedition against the English to induce them thereunto But they being perswaded the contrary by his Brother Olaf thereupon rose up in Rebellion against him specially the Northern Jutes frequently perfidious whom he could never induce to pay Tithes and pursuing him to Othense cruelly murdered this their just and pious King in the Church of St. Alban Anno 1088. whom Olaf succeeding God presently sent such a great scarcity of Corn and provision in Denmark for 7. years space together the intemperatenesse of the air blasting all their Corn that many families not only of the poorer but richer and nobler sort died of famine the people fighting with one another even for grasse to eat At last the famin invading King Olaf his Court he prayed to God that if he had conceived any anger against his Subjects for not paying Tithes and murdering their King he would satisfie his wrath upon him not them and the same night Esurientem parricidii p●nitentem animam efflavit he died of hunger repenting of his paricide O that all English Tithe-Oppugners and Regicides would seriously meditate on this memorable president of Divine Justice upon such Delinquents and be brought to timely repentance thereby to prevent the like National and Personal Judgements upon our Nation themselves and their posterities ERRATA COurteous Reader correct these mistakes and omissions of the Presse occasioned by the Authors absence in the Country Page 2. l. 34. if r. of p. 8. l. 24. r Wagria p. 14. l. 20. r. inservierat pietati l. 26. r. Wilfrid p. 21. l. 39. these those p. 25. l. 11. Decima l. 15. 17. aliendis alienandis p. 27. l. 27. r. 17 E. 4. c. 7. l. 37. Parliament l. 38. sommoneri p. 28. l. 6. Heu licet quod eo r. Quod licet de l. 13. dele ut l. 16. indulgere r. inducere l. 19. quamplurimum p. 29. l. 19. superlors p. 30. l. 3. Lord God p. 34. l. 4. form r. former l. 6. last r.

WHether Nine parts of Ten of the present cager Petitioners against our Ministers Tithes if strictly examined by the poll will not appear to be poor mecanical persons of such mean inconsiderable fortunes estates condition without any Tithable lands livings estates as are no ways interessed nor concerned in the payment of Tithes And so fitter to be punished as factious seditious schismatical than thanked encouraged as zealous conscientious well-affected persons by those in present power II. Whether all or most of these Petitioners be not really greater Enemies to our Ministers and their Ministry then they are unto their Tithes petitioning purposely against their Tithes in order to the subversion extirpation of their Ministry Function and thereby of our Protestant Church and Religion And that by the instigation sollicitation of those disguised Jesuits Popish Priests Monks and Romish Emissaries the original broaches of this Doctrine that Tithes are not due to Ministers by Divine Right and may be detained from them by the people to gain them to themselves as you may read in Mr. Seldens History of Tithes p. 166 167 170 171. who now bear chief sway in most Separate Congregations of Anabaptists Quakers and other Antagonists now attempting the present abolition of Tithes If so as will appear upon an impartial Inquisition whether such persons will not be fitter to be banished as Antichristian rather than Tithes and to be taken into publike consideration before the debate of Tithes III. Whether there be not above One hundred religious well affected Protestants persons of Honor Quality Estate lyable to the payment of predial Tithes and most concerned therein who desire the constant payment and continuance of them for the maintenance of their Ministers to every one of those Tith-payers who now petition against them as a grievance though the Tithes the most of them pay be not considerable If so as is most apparent by comparing the paucity and quality of the Petitioners with those who refuse to joyn with them Whether it can bee conscionable equitable just reasonable Parliamentarie to admit of any debates for the abolishing or altering the payment of Tithes upon the Petitions of so few malecontented Sectaries and unvaluable persons against the wills consents desires of the Generality and most considerable part of the Nobility Gentry Farmers Citizens Freemen of the whole Nation And that during the absence forcible seclusion of most of those Knights Citizens and Burgesses they duly elected to represent their persons and give both their free Votes Opinions Assents and Dissents to whatever publike businesses should be propunded and ordained in Parliament Therefore to this of Tithes which is so universal and so highly concerns both our Religion and Proprieties IV. Whether it will not be an apparent breach of the Great Charter of England ch 1. 29. That the Church of England shall be free and shall have her whole Rights and Liberties inviolable That no Freeman shall be disseised of his Freehold or Liberties or Free-Customs or be outlawed ●●●led or any otherwise destroyed nor shall we pass upon him nor condemn him but by the lawfull Iudgement of his Peers and by the Law of the Land And of above 40. other Statutes for its confirmation fince some of them in the last long Parliament now revived in pretext for those now fitting to take upon them the debating and voting down of Tithes or altering their usual way of payment in any kinde being the Inheritance Right Liberty Free-hold of the Church of England of every particular Church Patron Minister Impropriator and many thousands of Freemen in all parts of the Nation without any lawfull summons given to them to appear before them to defend maintain their respective Inheritances Freeholds rights interests in them ratified by prescription time out of mind by sundry Acts of Parliament both under our antient Saxon Norman English Kings and many late Ordinances to which those now convened gave their Votes as fully as others now secluded as well as by Divine Right Institution both before under the Law and Gospel too without any lawfull judgement hearing tryal by their Peers or by the Law of the Land And whether this will be a consciencious real performance of their defence of the Church of England expressed in the Writs by which they were elected or of their printed Declaration May 9. 1659 We are resolved by the gracious assistance of Almighty God to apply our se●ves to the faithfull discharge of our Legal Trust to assert establish and secure the Property and Liberty of the people in reference unto all both as Men and Christians Therfore of all Patrons Ministers Members as well as others unless they repute them neitehr Men nor Christians V. Whether John Canne with other Adversaries to and Petitioners against Tithes as Iewish and Antichristian ought not first to prove them such by clear unanswerable Scriptures Evidences Demonstrations to the conviction of the Iudgements Consciences of the generality of the English Nation and all now sitting And to answer all the Arguments Authorities Scriptures Reasons produced by Tyndarus Rebuffus in their Treatises de Decimis Dr. George Carltons Tithes proved to be due by a Divine right London 1606. Dr. Robert Tilleslee his Animadversions on Mr. Seldens History of Tithes London 1619. Sir Iohn Sempil his Sacrilege sacredly handled London 1619. Stephen Nettles his Answer to the Jewish part of Mr. Seldens History of Tithes Oxon. 1625. Richard Mountague his Answer to the first part of the History of Tithes London 1628. Dr. William Sclater his Ministers portion Foulke Roberts The Revenue of the Gospel is Tithes due to the Ministry of the word by that word Cambridge 1613. Richard Eburne his Maintenance of the Ministry London 1609. R. G. his Truth of Tithes discovered or the Anatomy of Annanias and Saphiraes Sacriledge London 1608. My Gospel Plea interwoven with a Rational and Legal for the Lawfulness and continuance of the ancient maintenance and Tenths of the Ministers of the Gospel London 1653. others to prove Tithes Due by Divine Right to the Ministers of the Gospel and neither Jewish nor Antichristian nor illegal nor burdensom to the people in the least degree being allowed in all Leases purchases before they be voted down abolished and quite abrogated as such upon their clamorous scandalous Petitions Suggestions void of all truth VI. Whether the present and future pretended ease of the people in their Tithes to their Ministers if effected will not be recompenced with an Augmentation or Duplication of their Monthly Taxes to the Army or in Fines Rents to their Landlords to a far greater value than they now pay to their Ministers and be levyed with greater rigour and harder compositions if deteined than now they are according to Saint Augustines prediction Sermo 219. De Tempore If thou wilt not give thy Tithes Dabis impio Militi quod non vis dare Deo Sacerdoti Hoc tollis Fiscus quod non accepit