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A43226	Tythes no maintenance for gospel-ministers, or, A seasonable discourse concerning tythes wherein it is fully proved that those that urge the payment thereof for their maintenance are no true gospel ministers, but antichristian, and do concur with priests of the Leviticall order and institution ... / by T.H. and T.R.	Heath, Thomas.; Rosewell, Thomas, 1630-1692.	1652 (1652)	Wing H1344; ESTC R32342	26,306	36

worship of Christ be to be observed If he be Lord of all let him be Lord but if the ceremoniall Law be that which is now our rule then let us have Priests and Levites and burne Offerings and Sacrifices are these the Reformers of Religion that seek by their Directory to desude the Nation and briing them into a greater bondage then ever the Israelites were That after the profession of the glorious Gospell of Jesus Christ which makes men Christs free men to be inslaved again into bondage and moreover to enact Lawes Institutions and Ordinances of men to inforce the consciences of men and if that will not do to set Promoters on their backs and to imprison men and seize on their goods and take them by force is not this theft and defrauding as we may say with a Witnesse But we hope those that are entrusted with Englands Liborty will shortly see and take notice of this great bondage of the Commons we mean the poor country people who have so much suffered in this behalfe and yet have had no redresse and also the insulting cruelty of those bsoundy Priests or Presbyters that like Meroz came not out on to help the Lord against the mighty but when they did see their Dagon was like to fall together with Reg all Dignity laid all their heads together to uphold that power which the Lord had determined to overthrow and whilest they were see to be fighters against God he took of their Chariot wheels that they drove heavily and were overthrown as Pharoah and his Host yet the Lord suffers them a little while if by any means they would see the deceipt and hypocrisie of their hearts and if this writing will not work its kindly effects then let them take heed of the woe that is coming forht against them and that this last snare prove not a greater overthrow to their Kingdome then the first This one thing we heartily desire that God would please to let them see this the errour of their hearts before the great judgment fall down upon them but we shall leave and come to the fourth reason you give It is a sin whereby godly Ministers are discouraged in their work their hands weakned and their Spirits broken so that they cannot go on in their Ministery with joy but with grief This is directly contrary to that godly King Hezekiah whose example is written for our learning Rom. 15.4 for it is testified of him 2 Cron. 31.4 that he commanded the people that dwelt in Hiernsalew to give t he portion of the Priests and the Levites thay they might be incouraged in the Law of the Lord. Here the world may take notice of your zeal ion the publication of the Gospell whether it be not covetousnesse that steers you in all your proceedings you cannot forget the Gardlick and Onyons which was the food of the children of Israel which made them grumble and murmure against God and against Moses by which their hearts were enfeebled and it is now the great disease most of you are troubled withall as the French saying is fault d' Argent want of money Now your great benefices are taken away by which many of your Lords waxed wanton Now the great complaint is want of maintenance and therefore you cry out The work of the Lord goeth slowly on but we hope by this time you will be ashamed to assume to your selves the names of Priests and Levites but by the inferences you draw you make people believe no lesse by reason that all the refuge you have to fly unto for the maintenance of tythes is to the ceremoniall Law as in that place noted by you 2 Chron. 31.4 The exhortation of the King Hezekiah to the people to give the portion to the Priests and Levites to encourage them First consider as we have before declared that this portion was their wages for their work but it is otherwise with Gospell Ministers what wages had the Disciples when they were sent from Christ to declare the grace of God in Juses Christ what was there any condition made for wages or hire John 10. The Mireling in no good Shepheard as by sad experience hath been found in all that are called Christian Nations how came they in but over hedges and by-wayes and instead of laying down their live for the sheep they have devoured them But you will say the labonrer is worthy of his hire pray what did the Disciples want when they returned could not the Gospell yeeld its encrease as well in the gaining soules to God as also in the maintenance of them that work in the harvest therefore you have no warrant to use unlawfull means to come by maintenance as tythes which is altogether unlawfull and Anti-Christian and that which doth extinguish the light of the Gospell Again this your argument must of necessity unvaile much of the falsenesse of the hearts of those Ministers that make the non-payment of tythes to be alone wheel that moves their Zeal for the publication of Gospell and the bloud that moves in the veins by which they are made stong in the work of the Ministery for by withholding of tythes they are weakned in the work and their spirirs cannot act and so are become dumb these are sad soul-Physitians that though the poor souls are like to famish for want of spririuall food they may famish and perish if they have not wherewithall to give them the tythes they demand like some Physitians which will have their money in hand though in the meane time the Patient is like to perish for want of their help But you say they are discouraged by want of tythes which is their maintenance surely well they may when as they shall seek their maintenauce in an unwarrantable way having no Gospell precept for in Nor doe judge that there is any cause of discouragement or rather that they should complaine that they are discouraged for not being maintained by an errour and such an errour as even amounts to heresie it selfe for what greater heresie can there be then to deny Christ come im the flesh but the inforeing of Cireumcision Tythes with the services and rights of the Leviticall Law doth extend so far as to the denying Christs coming in the flesh therefore pray do not think to draw us ever a whit the more to be of your opinion in that particular of tythes or the lawfullnesse of it because the non-payment thereof is a discouragement to your preaching or a weakning to your spirits we could wish that this discouragement would work your hearts into an humble frame or temper then you would not cry so outragiously against the Saints and servants of God which are so kept by his power as not to submit to your wayes and worship for not paying of tythes It is not Hezekiahs command as you infer to the people that were under the Liviticall as you infer to the people that were under the Leviticall Law that can be any