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A91192	A Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulnes & continuance of the ancient setled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel: proving, that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance due to all lawfull painfull preachers and ministers of the Gospel, by divine right, institution, and expresse texts and precepts of the Gospel: that glebes and tithes are such a maintenance, & due to ministers by divine right, law and Gospel: that if subtracted or detained, they may lawfully be inforced by coercive laws and penalties: that tithes are no reall burden nor grievance to the people; the abolishing them, no ease or benefit to farmers, husband-men, or poor people, but a prejudice and losse. That the present opposition against tithes, proceeds not from any reall grounds of conscience, but base covetousnesse, carnall policy, &c. and a Jesuiticall and Anabaptisticall designe, to subvert and ruin our ministers, Church, religion. With a satisfactory answer to all cavils and materiall objections to the contrary. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq;	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3971; Thomason E713_12; ESTC R203238; ESTC R26600	128,273	175

Baptisme which made neither of them void in Substance no more than their annexing of the Apocrypha to the Canonicall Scriptures made them uncanonicall These afterwards ordained other Bishops and Ministers without any Popish Rites in such manner as the Gospel prescribes which Mr. Mason and Yates prove against the Papists to be a lawfull Ordination though not made by the Popes Authority or according to former Popish Ceremonies In this Sense onely they write the bare Succession not the Office and Calling of our Ministers as this woodden Canne mistakes was derived from the Church of Rome but their Ministry it sel● from Christs own Institution And if this makes them Popish and Antichristian then all our Protestant Kings Parliaments Magistrates Judges Officers of all sorts must be Popish too If not Paganish because their Predecessors were such and all Officers Souldiers of the Army and Anabaptisticall Saints too who have purchased any Lands or Revenues of Abbies Priories Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters must likewise be both Antichristian and Popish because their Predecessors who first enjoyed and from whom they do derive them were such I hope therefore they will all now renounce these their Purchases to avoid the Guilt and high Scandall of Popery and Antichristianisme or disclaim this Second Loud-lying Voice against our Ministers and their Ministry as a Voice onely from a prophane empty Canne and not from a Sacred Temple But to return from the Lawfullnesse of our Ministers Calling and to their Tithes We have Secondly in this Text a Gospel Ordin●nce for their very Tithes confirmed by the old Lev●ticall Law and grounded on its Equity But how doth this appear By these emphaticall words EVEN SO HATH THE LORD ORDAINED in the Preterperfect Tense That they which Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel but where hath the Lord ordained this The Apostle thrice resolves expressely that he hath done it in the Leviticall Law ● 9. For it is written in the Laws of Moses Deut. 25. 4. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeth out the Corn doth God take care for Oxen Or saith ●e it TOGETHER FOR OVR SAKES FOR OVR SAKES NO DOVBT THIS IS WRITTEN that he that ploweth should plow in hope and he that thresheth in hope SHOVLD BE PARTAKER OF HIS HOPE which he again recites 1 Tim. 5 18. It this Precept concerning the meat and maintenance of Oxen onely in the Letter though part of the Levitical Law was doubtlesse written for and really intended of the Ministers of the Gospels food and Maintenance and in full force under the Gospel as the Apostle resolves then à fortiori the Precepts of the Law concerning the food and Livelyhood of Gods Priests and Levites under the Law by Gl●bes and Tithes not purely Ceremoniall as I have already proved must doubtlesse be intended of them and be in full force likewise in their naturall equitable Sence and Proportion in relation to their Livelyhood for preaching of the Gospel there being a greater Analogy and Proportion between them and Preachers of the Gospel than betwixt them and Oxen And to put it out of doubt he subjoyns Do not ye know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar To wit by Go●s expresse Ordinance in the Leviticall Law which ye know and therefore I need not particularly cite the words as I did the other of not neglecting the Ox c. which was more obscure and needed my former Paraphrase on them but thus mind you of in the Generall and then he inferres and subjoyns Even so hath the Lord ordained to wit by the very naturall moral Equity of the Lawes and Ordinances he made for the Priests and Levites Maintenance by Tithes and Glebes and Free-will-offerings for officiating in the Temple and at the Altar under the Law that the Preachers of the Gospel who now succeed and supply their places though in different Services in the Churches of Christ under the Gospel should live of the Gospel even so fully comfortably and in such sort as they did under the Law And to make this out more fully and clear it from the Censure of Judaisme take notice of these four particulars 1. That in the Holy Ghosts and Gospel phrase and Language there is a Temple among and for Christians under the Gospel as well as among for the Jews under the Law else Cannes Voice from the Temple if there be no such place must be thus amended in his next Edition A Voice from the Canne or Alehouse and that this Temple is nothing else but the Church and Saints of Christ 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Cor. 3 16 17. chap. 6. 19. Ephes 2. 21. 2 Thess 2. 4. Rev. 3. 12. chap 7. 15. chap. 11. 1 2 19. chap. 14 15. chap 15. 5 6 8. chap. 16. 1 17. 2 That Christians under the Gospel have likewise an Altar as well as the Jews though different from theirs Heb. 13. 10. We have an Altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the Tabernacle mentioned oft Rev. 6. 9. chap. 8. 3 5. chap. 9. 13. ch 14. 18. often coupled with the Templ● Rev. 11. 1. Rise measure THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND THE ALTAR 3. We have Sacrifices to be offered on the Altar as well as the Jews in theirs 1. The Sacrifice of Prayer Rev. 8. 3 4 5. 2. The Sacrifice of Praise Heb. 13 15. 3. The Sacrifice of Charity alms and good works Heb. 13. 16. 4. Our own bodies which we must present as a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God by serving him according to his word as rationall men not beasts that were both slain and sacrificed under the Law Rom. 12. 1. 4. We have Priests likewise to offer up these Spirituall Sacrifices 1 Pet. 2 9. Rev. 1. 6. chap. 5. 10. chap. 20. 6. And these are three 1. Every sanctified Christian who must offer up the Sacrifices of Prayer Praise alms and his own body to God in his private Closet and Family 2. The Ministers of the Gospel who must continually offer up these Sacrifices in the peoples behalf in publick here on earth now the T●mple for which we are to render them not onely Tithes and Glebes but a Freewil offering of bounty and charity besides a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to God Phil. 4. 16. 3. Christ Jesus himself our altar and High Priest too now in heaven Heb. 13. 15. cap. 2. 17. c. 4. 14 15. c. 5. 10. c. 6. 20. c. 7. 17 20 21 22 27 28. c. 8. 1. c. 10. 21. And if Christians have even under the Gospel a Temple an Altar and spiritual Sacrifices to offer them to God in publike as well as the Jews Why the Priests who minister about holy things in this Evangelical Temple wait continually at this spirituall Altar and offer these spirituall sacrifices publikely unto God thereon and preach the Gospel likewise as the Jewish Priests and

First paid by Souldiers out of the very spoyles of Battle taken in the very first Warre we read of to the very first Priest of God we find recorded in the Scripture and therefore admired that Officers and Souldiers in this age should so degenerate as to be the very ringleaders and chief oppugners of them drawing up some brief Notes of this subject out of Scripture to help passe the time in defence of Tithes relating more particularly to Souldiers to silence satisfie and reclaime them from this Sacrilegious designe which having since enlarged with Arguments and Answers to their Objections drawn from their own Military pro●essions for the better satisfaction and conviction of all Sword-men and others I hope neither Officers nor Souldiers nor any others truly fearing God if they confider Lecit 19. 17. Mat. 18. 15 16 17. Prov. 19. 25. 10. 17. 12. 1. 13. 18. 15. 10 31 32. 17. 10. 25. 12. Psal 141. 5. 1 Sam. 25. 32 33. 1 Tim. 5. 20. Luke 3. 14. will or can be justly Offended with me no more for writing truth then speaking it to their faces as I did upon all occasions whiles among them not to defame but to informe and reforme them for their own and the publick good in what I conceive not warrantable by but repugnant to Gods word and their duties as Souldiers or Christians and to those known fundamentall Lawes Liberties of the Nation they were purposely raysed commissioned waged and engaged by Protestations Covenants and their own voluntary printed Declarations to protect and not subvert and that they will not repute it a capitall crime in me not to prove a flatterer or dissembler or not to act or write wittingly against my Science and Conscience when our Ministers Maintenance Calling Religion Gods glory Lawes Liberties all we have or hope for are in danger of such a sad sodain and destructive Convulsion and concussion if not Subversion as I long since by Authority of Parliament discovered in Romes Master-piece well worth perusall now when so many known Jesuits under a new Provinciall which Hugh Peters himself reported as I have been credibly informed are now even in London it selfe acting as busily and sitting there in Councell as duely as when the reclaimed Author of that discovery purposely sent from Rome for the purposes therein discovered was resident amongst them O that these professed Enemies of our Church Religion Nation and those Janizaries of Rome may not sow their Tares of error and seeds of ruine and desolation amongst us whiles almost our who●e Nation for ought I can discerne if not those who call themselves Watch-men are in a dead sleep or Lethargy and heaving at our most faithfull Ministers maintenance and Callings too in stead of enquiring after discovering these Arch-traytors and executing the good Lawes and Oathes against them to prevent those treafonable practises destructive designes miseries and that ruine to our Religion Government Governors Lawes Parliaments Church and Common-wealth which the wise Protestant vigilant Parliaments of 13 Eliz. c. 1. 23 Eliz. c. 1. 27 Eliz. c. 2. ●5 Eliz. c. 2. 1 Jac. c. 4. 3 Jac. 1 2 4 5. 7 Jac. c. 6. and some hundreds of Declarations and p●in ed Ordinances R●monst ances of the Lords and Commons the last Parliament with the good new Lawes and Oath they provided against those Romish Vipers quite buried in Oblivion have publ●shed to allarme all drowsie stupid carelesse people all lovers of God their Religion or Country against them even at this very season when they and their confederates are wittingly or ignorantly over-turning overturning overturning whatever is not yet totally subverted am●ng us and carrying on these their designes If these my impotent undertakings with a sincere affection only to Gods glory and the reall weal and preservation of our Religion Ministry Lawes Native Country and all Protestant Churches now indangered by their mutuall discords and Jesuite Emissaries to foment their intestine differences may so farre open the eyes of all Degrees in our Nation really fearing God so to know in this their day the things which belong unto their peace and settlement and to move them effectually to pursue them before they be hid from their eyes I have all the reward I do expect and shall blesse God for the good successe If any shall be offended with me or it and requite me only with envy hatred persecution and new Oppression Bonds close Imprisonments for well-doing and endevouring any more publick good for our Church Religion Country I shall commit my cause to God who judgeth righteously who hath so often brought forth my righteousnesse as the Light and my judgement as the Noon-day to the shame and confusion of my causelesse enemies and shall carry this comfortable cordiall unto my brest to any Prison Pillory Gibbet Grave that the malice or power of poor vapouring Mortals who know not how soon their violent dealing may or will come down upon their own pates as well as on other potent adversaries shall be able to hurry me to and ascend triumphantly which is to heaven it selfe that I have discharged that duty which God Conscience Providence and the publick danger of our Ministry and Religion and my sacred Oathes and Covenants have engaged me unto And if I perish for it I perish and in perishing shall by Gods assistanced part with this Swan-like Saint-like Song of that eminent Prisoner of Jesus Christ who was in Prisons more frequent in P●rils Afflictions and Persecutions often as I have been for the faithfull discharging of his duty I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteoufnesse which God the righteous judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but to all them also which suffer for his truth and love his appearing which is the unshaken constant faith hope and expectation of thine and our Churches Countries unmercenary faithfull Friend and Servant William Prynne A GOSPELL PLEA FOR THE Lawsulnesse and Continuance of the Antient setled Maintenance and Tithes of the Ministers of the GOSPELL THE antient necessary competent maintenance of our Ministers of the Gospell setled on them by the Piety and Bounty of our religious Christian Kings and Ancestors almost from the very first preaching and embracing of the G●spell in this Iland and constantly enjoyed ever since without any publick opposition being in these times of a long expected glorious resormation and reall propagation of the Gospell more audeciously oppugned more impiously decryed declaimed petitioned publickly against and more sacrilegiously invaded detained substracted then in the very worst or profanest of former ages and that not only by professed enemies of the Ministers and Ministery of the Gospell but by such who pretend themselves their friends and the most precious Saints who not yet satisfyed with the late sales of all

be hanged for Traytors and Antichristian Ministers in good earnest else l●t him be hanged in their steed for this his impudent slander of them all as well Independents as Prebyterians Have of late years come and been sent into this Realme of England and were any of our Ministers such and not rather Canne himself coming hither from Amsterdam for the purposes following and other the Queens Dominions OF PURPOSE AS IT HATH APPEARED as well by some of their own examinations now out of date as by divers other Manifest means and proofs more visible of late years than ever not onely to withdraw her Highnesse subjects from their due obedience to her Majestie but also to st●r up and move Sedition Rebellion and open Hostility within the same her Highnesse Realms and Dominions to the great indangering of the safety of her most Royall Person and to the utter ruine desolation and overthrow of the whole Realm now effected as a Realm if the same be not the sooner and now pray God it be not over late by some good means foreseen and prevented For reformation whereof be it ordained c. That All Priests and Jesuits Canne cannot spy such good friends within the Act but deletes them out of it Seminary Priests and other Priests whatsoever made and ordained out of the Realm of England c. under the penalties therein mentioned Had Canne pressed this Statute to those he dedicates his Pamphlet for the speedy execution of it against those many Jesuites and Seminary Priests now in England for their traiterous Practises and Designes therein mentioned of late and now driven on and almost compleated by them it had been a commendable zeale but to write one word or syllable against these Romish Vermine arch-Engineers Janizaries of the Romish See now swarming among us to rui●● our Kingdomes Parliaments Laws Liberties Church Ministers Ministry Religion forreign Protestant States Churches now engaged by them in bloudy wars both by Land and Sea and to omit th● very name of the Jesuits the first Popish Agents mentioned and chiefly intended in this Act and presse it onely against our Ministers Calling Ministry Tithes and Maintenance of purpose to ruine them and theirs and by consequence our Church and Religion the Designe and scope of his whole Pamphlet is such a malicious unchristian Antichristian Practise as proclaims him to all the world either a new converted Jesuite or Romish Factor under the Garb of an old Anabaptist or an over-grown cankered Anabaptist void of Piety Honesty and inspired by the very Father of Lyes For not one of our English Ministers I know or hear of except two or three Jesuits and Priests crept into Livings in Staffordshire and elsewhere very lately I know not by whose favour or negligence was ever ordained by any such Jurisdiction or authority as is here mentioned which all our Ministers and their Ordainers too whether Prelates or Presbyters particularly and publickly abjured both at the time of their respective Ordinations and admissions to their Benefices and likewise when they took any Degree of Learning in our Vniversities by the two known famous Oaths of SUPREMACY and ALLEGIANCE purposely made and ratified by * sundry zealous Protestant Parliaments against the usurped Papal Jurisdiction and authority of the See of Rome and the Popes Jesuits and Papists practises to blow up and destroy our Protestant Kings Parliaments Laws Liberties Religion and subvert our Kingly Government whole State and Common-wealth for the better discovering of them yet lately suspended abrogated as dangerous unlawfull Oaths by some of Cannes good friends who would be reputed Zealots against the Popes Jurisdiction and his Creatures too Now how those Ministers of our Church who thus abjured the Jurisdiction of Rome at the time of their very Ordination and their Ordainers too before them and since have don● the like in their Solemne League and Covenant can without the highest slander be said to derive their Ministry from it and that by Canne his Jesuiticall Anabaptistical Fraternity who never took one of these Oaths or the Covenant and revile repeal them as unlawful out of love to the Popes Jurisdiction Jesuits Priests c. or for want of zeal against them Let the world and this slanderers own Conscience if he have any left determine Besides who knows not but this Ignoramus that the Rites and Ceremonies of Ordination in the Church of Rome recorded at large in Ceremoniale Pontificiale Pontificum Romanorum and the ends of Ordination likewise viz. to say Masse create their Creator offer up Christ in Sacrifice at the altar to his Father Invocate Saints adore Images yield Canonicall obedience to the Pope and his Supremacy c. are far different from the form and ends of our Ministers Ordination in the Church of England prescribed by the Parl. 5. 6. Ed. 6. c. 1. ratified by the Statutes of 1 Eliz. 2. c. 1 2. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. and 39 Eliz c. 8. made onely by Protestant Parliaments as they particularly condemne renounce the Popes power and Jurisdiction so they declare and resolve our Ministers Ordination to be lawfull and them in very deed to be Ministers and rightly made ordained and ●onsecrated according to Gods word without any derivative power or Ordination from the Church of Rome And therefore for this New pander for the Whore of Rome to averre they receive their ministry and ordination thence is a NOTORIOVS LYE yea but saith he Francis Mason of Consecration and Mr. Yates in his Modell of Divinity prove and confesse That the Ministry of the Church of England established by the Law of the Land IS DERIVED FROM THE POPE and ROME True but in what sense onely by way of Succession as his own Ministry and Faith if he hath any were derived from John of Leyden or just as our Bibles Religion Baptisme Churches were derived thence and all now living with Canne himself derived from Popish Ancestors many even from Popes Popish Priests Prelates Friars by naturall generation God used the Popes of Rome and their Instruments to convert the Britains and Saxons from thei Paganisme to the Christian not Papal or Roman Faith which through Gods mercy hath continued amongst us ever since yet mixed of later times with manifold Popish Errors and Superstitions These Errors and Superstitions our godly Martyrs and by them our Kings and Parliaments discovering did thereupon by speciall Acts of Parliament abolish as derived from the Church of Rome together with the Popes usurped power and Gain which they served onely to support retaining onely the Scriptures Sacraments Soul-saving Doctrines thence derived by succession onely but authoritatively and originally from God and Christ himself with such Godly Orthodox Bishops and Ministers who though first ordained in the Church of England when Popish did yet renounce all the Popish Errors Corruptions with the Popes Supremacy and all Popish additionall Rites to the form of their Ordination and