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A77137	A defence and justification of ministers maintence by tythes. And of infant-baptism, humane learning, and the sword of the magistrate; which some Anabaptists falsely call four sandy pillars, and popish foundations of our ministry and churches. In which tythes are proved to be due by divine right to the ministers of the gospel. All common objections answered, and divers cases of conscience humbly proposed: with a light to clear them. / In a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to Immanuel Bourne, late pastor of the church in Asheover in the county of Derby: now preacher to the congregation at Waltham in the county of Leicester. With a short answer to Anthony Peirson's great case of tythes, &c.	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3851; Thomason E1907_1	92,679	184

all that is therein 2. Again God hath a special right in the creature or part of the creatures and the increase of them which he reserved for his own proper use and service And this special right he hath never given away but hath his special right still which he did and hath reserved in all ages of the world for the outward maintenance of his worship and service and for encouragement and livelihood of his laborers and servants whom he calleth and imployeth in his own work for his own glory and the good of his Church and children First the Scripture tells us that although the Lord gave to our first parents the creatures upon the earth with every herb bearing seed and the fruit of the tree yielding fruit for meat yet he reserved some part for himself for his own service according to his own will and pleasure G●● 12.16 20. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest eat freely saith God to Adam but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die And wherefore did God forbid Adam upon pain of death to eat of that tree of knowledge of good and evil Learned and holy Augustine brings in Adam reasoning with God in this manner If the tree be good why may I not touch it Si bona est quare non tango si mala quare in paradiso ● Ideo in paradiso est quia bona est sed nolo tangas quia obedien em te volo and if it it be evil why is it in Paradise● And he answers the question as in Gods stead It is therefore in Paradise because it is good but I will not have thee to touch it because I would have thee obedient The Lord would have Adam know that he had reserved the Royalty to himself and that although he gave Adam an inheritance in the rest of the earth and the fruits thereof to hold to him and to his posterity upon their good behaviour yet he should hold it of him as chief Lord and to touch any part of what God had reserved for his own service was no less a sin then Sacrilege it self and to be punished with death This was the penalty for the breach of that Divine law as Adam and all his posterity since have found by sad experience Again this forbidden tree in Paradise was not all the part of the world which God reserved for himself and his service For if you read Gen. Gen 4.15 c. 4. you shall find that not only that tree of Knowledge of good and evil planted in Paradise was Gods reserved part or rather a part of it but part of the increase of Corn and of Sheep also This is witnessed in those sacrifices and divine services of Cain and Abel Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and Abel of the firstlings of his flock and the fat of them And without controversie Col. 2.23 this was not a will-worship of their own invention odious to God but that which was of Divine institution and so of Divine authority As to acknowledge their homage to God the Soveraign Lord of all so to typifie forth the sacrifice of Christ that seed of the woman Gen. 2.15 Joh. 1.29 which God had promised them should break the Serpents head That Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world Thus a part of Cain's Corn fruit of the ground by tillage and of Abel's increase of his Sheep was the Lords portion reserved and due to the Lord by Divine right for the maintenance of that Divine service which God had appointed our first parents 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In fine dierum in the end of days Gen. 41.1 A year of days and those their postetity And this in process of time or at the end of days as the Hebrew word may well be rendred that is at the end of the year when they had gathered in the fruits of the earth 3. The same custom or duty we find continued in after-ages as well as in that first age of the world Read Gen. 8. Gen. 8.20 and you shall see that Noah after the Flood when the waters were abated from off the earth and Noah and his family with the rest of the creatures went forth of the Ark he remembers God had a part due to him who had in mercy saved all Therefore he taketh of every clean beast and of every clean sowl and offered up a burnt-offering to the Lord and the Lord smelled a sweet savor that is the Lord accepted of Noah's sacrifice which he would not have done if it had been a Will-worship and not been his own institution his own Divine Law and appointment as a service due to him by Divine right who is Lord of all for Joh. 4.24 God is a Spirit and he will be served in spirit and truth according to his own will not the will of men Fourthly The Sons of Noah Shem Ham and Japhet and their posterities by whom the whole earth was peopled they had so much light even of nature or of that Law of God given to our first Parents and to their posterity before and continued after their fall as to know that God the great Creator had a part of the Creature and their increase due to him as a yearly chief Rent to he disposed at his own pleasure for his Worship and Service which even the Gentiles of the Sons of Noah did pay at every years end It was a custom among the Gentiles that the antient Sacrifices and Assemblies to that end were after the gathering in of the Fruits at the years end witness our learned Country-man Ainsworth in Gen. 4. ex Arist Ethic. lib. 8. Cum multis aliis c. as some antient Writers do record But you will say Objection Though some part might by the Sacrifices of Adams sons and of Noah's sons seem to be God's yet what is this to the Tenth or Tythe which the Ministers of England do seek after every one from his Parish where he liveth and preacheth to the people I answer Answer First for the posterity of Noah Shem and his off-spring we find that long before the Levitical Priesthood or that Levie was born that what was the special part or the Lords portion was declared by that great Patriark and excellent Christian Joh. 8.56 faithful Abraham called by the Apostle the Father of the faithful Rom. 4.11 Gen. 14.18 19 20 21. or of all them that believe Rom. 4 and this is that memorable action of his recorded Gen. 14.18 When Abraham came from smiting Chedor-Laomar and the Kings that were with him Melchisedec 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Omnibus dedecima● The Tenth of all Heb. 7.12 who was a Priest of the most high God met him and brought him bread and wine and blessed him c. and he gave him the Tenth of all the same is repeated

Christ and the Petitions delivered to many Parliaments by that Generation of men poor deceived souls confirm this to the full But the Lord hath yet put it into the heart of the Parliament not to destroy but to defend the Faithful and Godly Ministers of the Gospel and their just Maintenance established both by the Laws of God and the Land for which let us praise God and pray to the Lord still to be so present with them as to guide and rule their hearts that our wise Senatours may rather establish and increase the maintenance of the Godly and Faithful Ministers of Christ in the Nation than take away or diminish any part of it for this will be not only for the honour of the Parliament but for the Glory of God and good of the Nation whatsoever seduced Spirits would perswade to the contrary for whom let us pray as Christ did for his Persecutors Father forgive them they know not what they do And my beloved Brethren let us who are the Lords remembrancers give God no rest nor day nor night till he establish his Gospel and Faithful Ministers and their just maintenance and by enabling us by the assistance of his blessed Spirit to perform constantly our duties in our several places that his and our Jerusalem may be made a praise in the earth But if our adversaries the adversaries of the Gospel should prevail against us all should be taken away though they cannot take Christ away nor Heaven away Let us labour to live by Faith and depend upon God who hath provided for many of us when we had lost all preserved our lives when we were in eminent dangers and will preserve us to his Heavenly Kingdom In the mean time Honoured and Reverend Brethren let us labour by wisdom and power from Christ to fulfil our Ministry which we have received from the Lord to preach the Word in season and out of season to Catechise and instruct our people in the first Principles of the Oracles of God and this both publickly and from house to house often to confer with them and to build them up and confirm them in the knowledge of Christ that if it please God they may know the Lord as the truth is in Jesus that they may walke as becometh the Gospel of Christ and manifest the truth of their Faith by fruitfulnesse in all good works that they and we may by our holy and righteous lives put to silence the malevolent spirits of all our adversaries and bring forth abundantly like trees of righteousnesse the planting of the Lord that God may be glorified And for our selves especially let us by the Grace of God endeavour the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and although our light be not equal in all respects yet let it be far from us by our divisions to rent in pieces the seamlesse coat of our Lord and Saviour but rather in love enlighten and by our frequent communion strengthen one another that though they speak evil of us as the wicked and deceived souls have done of the Prophets and Apostles yea of Christ himself yet seeing our holy lives faithful performance and discharge of our duties in our Ministerial Office they may be convinced and glorifie God in the day of visitation knowing that if we fight the good fight of Faith and keep the Faith and be faithful to the death there is laid up for us the Crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give us at that day and not to us only but to all them that love the Lord Jesus and wait for his appearing Which that we may persevere to do and enjoy is the most humble hearty and daily prayer of London June 18 1659. Your most unworthy Brother and Fellow-Labourer in the work of Christ Immanuel Bourne A Defence Justification OF Ministers Maintenance by Tythes Humane Learning Infant Baptism and The Sword of the Magistrate In a Reply to the Answer of some Anabaptists or Antipedobaptists Declaring their Grounds of Separation For John Darker and Tobias Watson and the Thirty Congregations of Antipedobaptists The blessing of Truth with freedom from Errors and false foundations if it be the will of God in Christ Jesus FRIENDS FOr so I desire you may be in and for Christ hoping better things of some of you and such as accompany salvation although for the present too many of you appear to be Adversaries if not Enemies to the Truth of the Gospel and to the Godly faithful Ministers of Christ in England and in other parts of the Christian world Unto the Paper I sent Novemb. 11. 1658. unto one of you living within the limits of the Town and amongst the People to whom God in his Providence hath called me to preach the Gospel I received your Answer in writing Decemb. 8. in one sheet of paper with a Confession of thirty Congregations and I conceive you have consulted with your Church as you esteem it and other Congregations of your opinions to give answer unto my Demands and it was my desire you should so do that I might know your strongest Arguments or Grounds of your Separation from our Reformed and Reforming Congregations that if it be the will of God I might convince you by the help of the Spirit of Truth of the weakness and error of your Grounds and your eyes might be enlightned to see you have been deceived and now be per●waded to return and joyn with our Reformed and Reforming Congregations for your edification in the Truth of the Gospel and good of your Souls which I pray for And friends I have read your Answer and am sorrowful to see such pride of spirit self-conceit and vain boasting That your foundation-principles of the Church of God as you esteem your selves have Scripture proof as clear as the Sun at noon day without the help of Consequences or Illustrations with such rash censurings and uncharitable unchristian expressions telling me I alledge Scripture out of ignorance or weakness and that I am like the Tempter who brought Scripture against Christ and that the old Romish principle groweth still in the hearts of many of us to make Reason to be our Rule and cast away the Scriptures And your comparing me to Popish D. Story in his plea against Philpot the Martyr But whether your vain boasting be a truth or falshood Thil. 1.27 and whether your rash censurings and unchristian charge be as becometh the Gospel of Christ I leave to God and your own better enlightned consciences to judge and the Christian Reader to consider Anabaptists Answ First you say You have received some lines of my writing which I sent you upon the Eleventh of Novemb. and having weighed them in the ballance of the Sanctuary you find them very light Mr. Bour●● Reply To which I reply Certainly you were mistaken it was not the Ballance of the Sanctuary in which you weighed my lines for God requireth his people should have