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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

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

men Generally injoy with us and they have enough in Any by All meeting is here a Conspiration of at least a treble sufficiency Bless we God who hath not left the support of his Gospel Here to the Good will of Men and uncertain tottering voluntary Contributions but as was said at beginning hath given habitation to this truth with us in England Firm and Stable and by the helping seconding acts of favouring state raised and established as to the outward frame and support thereof his Temple on the Mount of the same materials and under equal shelter of temporal strength and firmness with the lower buildings of the valley The Church is as strong stands as fast as the mannour house and even as much Lower Law for the Civil Temporal Right of these Dues as any other mens Possessions or Inheritances do lay claim to for their sufficient supportation This is the Lords doing and wonderfull in our eys and so let it be also gracious and the occasion of much thankfulness with his People Looked upon as no other then a Work of his Very favourable providence for the safe and long Continuance of his own honour and one of those comforts that may be among the Greatest to those that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity A means of firm establishment of the Gospels Ministery and to hold out that blessed light of the Christians Law to us which may be a Lamp to our feet and a Lantern to our paths to guide us into the ways of peace in exclusion of Saturn Jupiter Mahomet Frea Thor Woden or whosoever shall go about to recover or obtain a place of honour in our Temples now dedicated to the honour of the most high God and his Son Jesus Christ with the Holy Ghost to whom be all honour and glory in Them and through the World for ever and ever And all these things made good too by no other then those have been reputed most proper strengths The Laws of the Land No other Language almost used no other Books or but rarely cited Among that world of Volumes that are of other things and some on this subject in another way yet none chosen or stuck to but these the most of them such and so classical and authoritative that they make the Judgment even of the very Judges I desire may here not unseasonably be awaked to present remembrance and due observation which was laid down before but had There so much amplification because it was to have here its present use and operation and it is that This Law is here below in this World The onely Vmpire of all things the Rule of Right the Judge of Own the Stinter of Strifes and the only Didoes Thong that makes out the Line by which the Limit is drawn that fences Severals from the Common and among themselves the onely Donor and Continuer Preserver Sustainer and Establisher of Every mans Due and Own by which he hath to himself What he hath and No one else hath any thing to do with His Right or Inheritance that gives the Master more then the Servant the Gentleman more then his Tenant the Nobleman more than his Fermour or the rich and wealthy Merchant then his neighbour Mechanick intitles him to his Land or Rent fences in his Inclosure pales his park makes a Thief that enters and takes and carries away and inables him to ask and have and sue and obtain and recover against the most stubborn and unconscionable injustice Whereby he is so far as he is Lord and Master of All things The Law I say The Law it self doth this Alone apportioning thus to every one certainly and justly to every fellow-Commoner His Own in how much disproportion of Quantity soever with the same Equality of Justice to one man Delicates to Another but bread to One Silks to Another Frize to him Robes to the other scarce Rags All this doth one and the self same law ministring to each as it listeth whether a Mite or a Talent a Garden or a Field a Palace or a Cotage And if Then this Law should fail this Rule by any device be Made to warp and this Strong Spring prove now too weak in its full force by all Authority to bring in known dues to Some who have the same claim with All who assures that not to Others also who can pretend to expect by no further or stronger If this Judge should not be able to make good his sentence If this bountifull hand should wither and prove short to reach out allotted proportions to Whomsoever under equall reason of Right now Who distinguishes the Sinews or can warrant their Office long to quicken and actuate those fingers must reach to the wealthy Their plenty and abundance Or not rather doubt their weakness or strength quickness or deadness life and vigour or lost power and infirmity may have together and to All as proceeding fom the same Cause of liveliness or obstruction the same Uniformity This is the Basis whereon all is settled the Rock whereon all is placed the great Bottom whereon all is imbarqued that in England we call Goods and kept a floating If any should think himselfe so cunning with his malice prompted on by his Covetousness for it can be nothing else that He thinks he can sink a part boring a hole at that end where his neighbours Goods are laid up the servants of publick holy work their wealth and sustenance is treasured without further regard to the Community within Let him take heed ere long he hear Not the lowd and shrill Complaints with fearfull Out-cries of all his fellow perishing Merchants who are preserved in and by the same and whose property and safety must all by Consequent be in danger to be lost or gained sink or swim Together to satisfie the greedy desires of those that come plainly enough within the compass of 1 Iam. 4 2 3. St. James his Character Ye covet and quarrell and ask and yet ye have not because ye would consume it on your lusts And let great Possessours Chiefly look to themselves for c. I was going on to due and nearer application but the figure Aposiopesis lays my hand upon my lip and forbids to speak meaning well what may be ill interpreted and therefore prudently and silently let this inference be left to the working of every one 's own Christian and reasonable thoughts Onely this I cannot but add That there are seen great disproportions in the World and some have notable advantage thereby The Ground of All which is the Law There are very great heaps injoyed with security and none dares now touch the property of the rich and wealthy in a farthing If this be touched and removed or violated the bound is going that keeps All from primitive Community And Therefore they should think much hereon who Have much to lose They should love to keep the Fence whole who would not have All Common the boldness must be

ablatum Reg. Iur. Canon 4. Peccati venia non datur nisi correcto Reg. 5. saith he the half of my goods I give to the poor and if I have taken any thing by false accusation I restore him fourfold Then Jesus said unto him Comfortably Then and not before This day is salvation come to thy house This whether stranger or home-born demonstrated him to be one of the Sons of Abraham This is The way back by weeping cross In the fore-Right of Injury no end probably foreseen but in Hell He that Repents must Amend Hee that Amends will Restore For while the injury remains is no alteration and without alteration is no to better state-restitution In the Scripture still Does not the Old and New Testament require and joyn to call for Justice Truth Fidelity Honesty That which is 2 Deut. 16. 20. Just and Right shalt thou do and 3 Philip. 4 3. whatsoever is Iust as well as whatsoever is Holy and 4 Rom. 12. 17. Chap. 1. 18. Provide things honest in the sight of Man as well as God And sure the world counts this Honest to give every one His own the very Syllables of Rom. 13. 7. Render therefore to All their Dues whether Tribute Custome Fear or Honour And Owe Nothing but to Love Or if we doe not The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven even to true Believers against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold if it be the Truth in iniquity Which Iniqui Regnum Dei non possidebunt 1 Cor. 6. 9. and Know ye not that it is so It is Postulatum a thing grounded among Christians and with Caution Be not deceived Some may tell you otherwise The unrighteous and who are They Fornicators Idolaters Adulterers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unfit to be Englished good company and with them nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Railers nor Extortioners a good part of them those that meddle with other mens goods whether by force or fraud in deed or desire subtraction or detention violent Extortion or clancular Surreption the sin because the wrong is the same and Be not deceived Do ye not know that These shall not Inherit Gods Kingdome Should not the Kingdome of his sanctified and just Congregation his Church Here but be cast out by Excommunication with profane Heathens but shall not his holy and glorious Church of the first-born hereafter where the imputation of moral Righteousness shall be the lowest qualification The holiness of Saints shall be those white and shining glorious Robes without which 1 F●llow Peace with Al● and HOLINESS without which No one shall see the Lord. Heb. 12. 14. Blessed are the P●re in heart for they shall have this advancement Matth. ● 8. none shall be admitted to that Bride-chamber Indeed such were some of you sometimes but ye were washed in Baptism sanctified from the first uncleanness justified from the other unrighteousness in the Name of Christ and by the searching Spirit of our God and so are now a 2 Ephes 5. 27. pure Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but walking 3 ver● 15. Circumspectly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exactly precisely 4 1 Thess ● 22 Ab omni specie mali avoiding the very appearance of Evil and 5 Iud. ver 23. hating the garment that is but spotted with the flesh Besides we Know Love is the fulfilling of the Law the summ of the Christians Law The first second and third thing required All is briefly comprehended in it and can this Consist with wrong Do I love my neighbour when I injure him when I oppress him and will not give him mine own nor will not give him His own Is this Justice far below Love Is not Mercy and Pity a strong piece of humane good Nature Compassion to one that needs much more to one that hath Right the top pinacle of Christianity I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice says 6 Matth. 9. 13. chap. 12 7. Christ 7 Hosea 6. 6. from the Law and my Disciples shall be kept alive rather then the Sabbath sanctified And do these things Consist with Wolvish Cruelty and wrong to spoil a man and his inheritance to Rob a man of his Right or not to give him his Right Wherewith shall I come before the Lord saith the Prophet and bow my self before the High God Micah 6. 6 7 8. Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings and calves of a year old Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl My first-born for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul No He hath shewed thee O man what is Good and what doth Jehovah require but to do Justly and to love MERCY and to walk humbly with thy God So in another Prophet To what purpose is the multitude of sacrifices I am full of the burnt-offerings of Rams Esai 1. 11. and the fat of fed beasts Bring no more vain Oblations Incense is an abomination before me your new Moons and Sabbaths All these God himself commanded the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with c. But what then Wash you and make you clean Put away your evil doings Seek judgement Relieve the oppressed c. and then come and let us reason together And least any should think these are Old Testament Duties S. James has left Pure Religion to consist in Such things chap. 1. 27. What! has the meek Gospel brought in Cruelty and hard-heartedness Does the Christian Law allow us to be unmercifull unjust unrighteous fierce savage barbarous and no Religion or Irreligion in the dispensation of wordly Goods or conversant about them as in oppression fraud injury putting men out of their own c. that a Man may be a Lion a Christian a Tyger and a Vulture all together preying upon what he can catch of his neighbours and holding it without any bowels of compassion Rev 14. 4. Is this to follow the Lamb of God Iohn 1. 29. that taketh away the sins of the World whithersoever he goeth 1 Pet. 3. 8 9. What saith S. Peter Be pitifull be courteous rendring to none Evil though for Evil What said S. Paul Put on therefore as the Elect of God Holy and beloved Brethren bowels of mercies Col. 3. 12. kindness humbleness meekness c. What saith both their Master Matth. 5 4● Be mercifull as your heavenly is mercifull Luke 6 86. Is this agreeable hereto to oppress and undo without cause To turn our Fellows out of those Rights they have as good Titles to as our selves to any thing to contribute our small and single power to undoing of Thousands yea thousands of Families of Choicest Wits best Education greatest Hopes highest Trust that have mens Souls committed to them but They their Persons and Estates should be left to spoil themselves bequeathed to the Beggars inheritance the Wallet and the Scrip to live