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A38604	The civil right of tythes wherein, setting aside the higher plea of jus divinum from the equity of the Leviticall law, or that of nature for sacred services, and the certain apportioning of enough by the undoubted canon of the New Testament, the labourers of the Lords vineyard of the Church of England are estated in their quota pars of the tenth or tythe per legem terræ, by civil sanction or the law of the land ... / by C.E. ...	Elderfield, Christopher, 1607-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing E326; ESTC R18717	336,364	362

and Put them in fear that they may know themselves to be but Men. Defend also thy servant who putteh his trust in Thee And if he desire before All things Thine Honour The stability of thy Gospel has been his chief and onely aim nor has Any line here but been meant to tend as directly as guided by humane frailty it could to that point to end in that Center O give thou Not Him then over into the Will of his adversaries that if any Hate they may obtain Lordship over Him Make good Thine Own Cause in standing by Him that laboureth for that Cause Thy Truth and Thee Stretch forth the right hand of thy Power evermore mightily to succour and defend Him Deliver him from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of Evil Doers Let the ungodly or unjust fall into their own Nets together but let him ever escape them Give also Good Lord Merciful and Gracious unto All that love thy Truth eyes to see it Hearts to embrace it Affections to cherish it and a good will to Do accordingly and vouchsafe likewise Prudence against the subtil Serpent that Any who bear good will to Sion may never procure her Hurt but stablish these due Means on Earth thy Providence looks upon and has appointed as necessary to accomplish their just and holy ends what they meant to establish by no improvidence ever disturbing or destroying Finally Grant Victory to Truth Progress to Justice Stability to thy Church Perpetuity to Thy Gospel and that no Lovers thereof Here may take up lower then with That the Light thereof may continue shining Ever and Over All the world to All ages and generations Thus let thy Name be Hallowed O our Father which art in Heaven Let thy Kingdome come O Saviour and Blessed Redeemer Let thy Will be done Most holy and blessed Spirit in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us Forgive us and preserve us from Evill For Thou only O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the glory of God the Father To which God One and Three be All Honour and Praise for ever and ever Amen Grace be with all those that Love the Lord Iesus Christ in Sincerity POST-SCRIPT Courteous Reader FOR so I style thee and hope to finde thee or have need to Make thee and the most bountiful dilatation of thy Courtesie drawn forth to Cover or Pardon those many imperfections this my first-born hath brought with it into the world Some doubtless both in matter and form for Who ever Spake that Erred not Much in More then a little In multiloquio nunquam deerit Vanitas This at the least as the Wise man assured from Shortness of Inquiry Dimness of Understanding Weakness of Judgement Distraction of Business Inadvertency or some fruitful Cause of Errour or other Most men being forced to number their mistakes by their Pages Onely as to purposedly Erroneous Deceiving or being Deceived I Sacredly and Seriously disavow At the Press also Poor Mephibosheth caught some mischance Blemished in his face nay crippled in his limbs lamed at least in his feet and complaining oft he can hardly go right forth for want of sense which bruises require thy Healing Correcting hand Some of Many are collected and annexed The rest like our daily slips almost innumerable Thou art to be 1. Remembred that In multis labimur omnes None below goes so sure but he slips sometimes None so firm and upright but he steps a little awry and Thy selfe wilt Matth. 7. 12. I trust ask pardon for thy daily failings 2. Intreated to Do as thou wouldst he Done to Ib ver 1. Judge or Judge not as thou wouldst or wouldst not be judged Gal. 6. 1. in the spirit of meekness Considering Thy self lest Thou also be tempted 3. Informed That a purpose was of attempting satisfaction of those many whether frivolous or more weighty and substantiall doubts that usually occurre about this established Course the frame whereof was likewise contrived and divers of the materials brought together As that This proportion is too much The Receivers are Ill Men Good Men take offence at Both Exactions throng in with Suits and Injuries with Exactions The bottome of all is in Canaan some Jewish Laws The people shrink under the Heaviness of the Burden Iure Divino is declined by Many and Here The Supream Power may alter all Humane Constitutions c. But because These would both lead toward the footstool of the Throne whether save in my Devotions I constantly decline to look That which Is is Much These might make Too Much And here are Principles especially from the Main of Civill Right made unquestionable and the Morall and Indispensable duty of Justice in paying which must needs follow thereon upon which common reason may work out satisfaction to the Most I therefore Suppress or Delay as Accepts of what is here may further encourage or disswade Be requested 4. and lastly not to take Causeless exceptions at any of those things which as they come from us and in our Humane frailty cannot but afford those that are Material Reall Weighty and Substantiall enough I speak of most things As They Were and as in the Times When They Were How else should I reach home as Churches Clergy Royalties Rights Jurisdictions Princes Peers Powers Priviledges and Preeminencies c. Not that I am willing to engage for All another may think good to oppose about them Philip. 3. 13. Or stand in Defensive of Any thing howsoever since altered But. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle suggested with much quickness in another case One Thing I doe That I am about I keep to and so that be Secured would not willingly intromix draw or be drawn in to other accidentall by-Quarrels So I may have leave to conveigh my Parlee to the World in the language of the World best understood by the World I would not willingly inwrap my self in controversie about any other of Those Things they yet stiffely enough maintained and in a rigid import who took up the words and gave them Us in their first and full sense Nor hast thou reason to be offended that I balk not the publick tone to conform to thy Singularity for the Many are to be regarded in A Multitude and the Most in most large by diffusive Communication to All But if thou remain obstinate and undeniable in thy expectation or otherwise satisfaction I conform to Thy desire Change what thou wilt so thou keep the matter Retain the substance and vary the phrase Hold to the Body New-shape my outward form of Expression conform to thine own will judgement or fancy At thine own charge I approve or if thou wilt Suppose the thing Already done Thou shalt but wrong thine own Discretion to thy judging friends if thou quarrel with shadows or take advantage of that I confess to take licence and scope enough in a free and plentiful use of Tropes and Figures Allusions or

because I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which hath sent me Though he always knew all things necessary for the perfect discharge of his Offices yet there was a time when he was excluded from the knowledge of the hour and day of judgement Mark 13. 32. The words from the Greek are these But of that day and hour no one knoweth neither the Angels which are in Heaven Nor the Son unless the Father Hence it is plain that the Father onely knew the day and hour of Judgement and that the Son himself was at that time excluded from the knowledge of it therefore this knowledge was not originally of himself nor always perfect COl Col. 1. 15. 1. 15. I finde next in your Paper but have already spoken to it yet was willing here to mention it least you should think I had forgot it Sir this Text you say holds forth the Eternal Generation of Jesus Christ I pray consider it again and by your next let me hear what part thereof it is in which Christs Eternal Generation may be seen THe next Scripture is Col. Col. 1. 16. with John 1. 3. 1. 16. To which I shall add John 1. 3. being reserv'd for this place Answ Sir here you harp upon two other strings and think they sound that alowd in your ears which you have entertained in your thoughts to wit that Jesus Christ is the most high God But pray Sir consider whether your Conclusion be the Eccho of those Texts or else of your own thoughts onely But you seem to gather this Argument from the words to manifest the verity of your thoughts He by whom all things were made is the most high God But all things were made by Jesus Christ Therefore Iesus Christ is the most High God I shall answer to your Major by distinguishing betwixt the Agent Principall and Instrumental That there may be in one and the same work one Principal and another Instrumentall Agent none will deny But whether there were in the work of Creation one Principall and another Instrumentall is a thing to be proved That the Father was Principall therein and so the most high God comes not under debate But whether the Son was onely Instrumental in that great work of Creation is the Controversie and must be the subject of our present inquiry I affirm that Iesus Christ was onely an Instrumentall Agent in the Creation of the worlds The Reasons by which I shall at this time guard mine assertion from suspition of errour are these that follow The first is drawn from the silence of all creatures The book of the Creatures Ex Creatione agnoscitur Deus sed non Deus pater fil spir fi quoniam vis illa efficiens quia mundus fuit creatus pertinet ad Essentiam Dei non ad subsistentiam ejus personalem Amesius as well as the book of the Scriptures speak forth with open mouth this sacred truth that there is one first cause and Principall Agent of all things Of a Trinity of Persons in Unity of Essence as Principal Agents in the work of Creation the whole Creation is wholly silent Wherefore our Divines acknowledg that God is known from the Creation but not God the Father Son and Holy Spirit because that efficient power by which the world was created belongs to the Essence of God not to his personall subsistence Yet by their leave God is a Person all actions being proper unto persons and therefore by their grant the works of Creation hold forth but one Agent who must needs be the Principall if not the only Agent therein for it is not imaginable that if there were then one Principall Agent they should not all be equally discovered by the work being equally concerned in it Therefore if Christ were an Agent he was but an instrumental one The Second Reason proceeds from the verdict of pure Reason If Reason may obtain credit she will tell us that there could be in the work of Creation but one Principall Agent because there is by nature and in way of eminency but one God For if there were two Principall Agents there must be two Gods in way of eminency the terms being convertible which to affirm would be absurd and easily disproved And therefore if Jesus Christ were any he was but an Instrumentall Agent in that work of Creation The Third Reason issues from the nature of Christs being That whole Christ is a creature hath been already proved yet let me adde a word from Col. 1. 15. which doth immediately precede the Text now in question Christ is there called the image of the invisible God and so is distinguished from God because the image and the thing whereof it is an image are not the same in that nothing can be the image of its self Now he is called the image of the invisible God in that God through him did principally manifest and declare his Divine Glory and in that the chiefest Dominion of the creature was by the Father committed to him in this sense man is called the image and glory of God 1 Cor. 11. 7. He is also called the first-born of every creature whereby he is ranked among the creatures yet so as that he is the Head of them Now if whole Christ be a creature then will it unavoidably follow that he was but an Instrument in the work of Creation for God and creatures are contradistinct and he could not be unless he were God a Principall Agent The fourth Reason doth spring from the manner of Christs working 1. Though he had an hand in the Creation of the world yet was it not originally of him 1 Cor. 8. 6. where the Apostle doth plainly shew us that all things are of God even the Father and that all things are by not of Jesus Christ and so the Son is distinguished from the Father in the work of Creation the Father being the first cause and originall of all things and Christ the instrument of the Father by whom he did manifest his Divine Glory in producing creatures 2. Instrumentum Minist Ter. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Origin In that in the work of Creation the Scripture tells us that God acted by him Ephes 3. 9. where 't is said That God created all things by Jesus Christ So in Heb. 1. 2. which openly hold forth Jesus Christ as Gods instrument in creating the world He is frequently called by the Fathers the Instrument and Servant of God But you endeavour to strengthen your Proposition by a Reason such as 't is drawn from impossibility God could say you make use of no instrument in the work of Creation But Sir this assertion derogates from Gods All-sufficiency Is any thing impossible with God Is any thing too hard for the Lord 2. It contradicts your own testimony I remember that in a Conference where I exercised both silence and patience