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A09057	Honos & onus levitarum. Or, tithes vindicated to the presbyters of the gospel in a sermon preached at an archidiaconall visitation at Marleborough, in the diocese of Sarum, on the 10. of October. 1636. By B.P.; Historie of tithes, or tithes vindicated	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1637 (1637)	STC 19348; ESTC S100345	26,502	40

HONOS ONVS Levitarum OR Tithes vindicated to the Presbyters of the Gospel In a Sermon preached at an Archidiaconall Visitation at Marleborough in the Diocese of Sarum on the 10. of October 1636. By B. P. Honour the LORD with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase PROV 3.9 I give Tithes of all that I possesse LUKE 18.12 Let him that is taught in the Word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things GAL. 6.6 ACADEMIA OXONIESIS OXFORD Printed by WILLIAM TURNER for WILLIAM WEBB 1637. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR WILLIAM DODDINGTON of Breamer in the County of Southampton Knight A Mirrour of Pietie and Patience Honoured Sir THat which Solomon maketh the children and husband of the virtuous woman to blesse her for and praise her in Many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all Prov. 31.29 is without fawning or flattery which God and all good hearts detest appliable to you many sonnes and daughters in our Church have done virtuously in refreshing the bo●els of Gods servants that serve him in the Gospel of his Sonne and casting of large gifts into his treasury but you have outrunne them all in our parts For not onely the eye that seeth you giveth witnesse to you but also the eare that hath heard you yea heard of you blesseth you for the good deeds you have done for the house of God and the offices thereof in restoring by way of free-will offering backe againe to the Church those impropriations of yours of which you might have said we have a law of our land and by that law I ought to hold thē of which many a churlish Nabal would have said Shal I take my bread my flesh give it to men I know not whence they are 1 Sam. 25 11. And the harts of most of the Clergie about you are inlarged their mouthes are opened to pray for you with Nehemiah's prayer remember him O God concerning this and wipe not out the good deeds that he hath done to speak good of these worthy works of yours in the gates and chiefe places of concourse For if that one box of ointment which Mary Magdalen poured on our Saviors head be pronounced by our Saviour himselfe to be a good worke wrought upon him for his buriall and injoyned to bee told for a memoriall of him wheresoever the Gospell should be preached through the whole world Matth. 26.13 much more may that grace of God bestowed upon you whereby the riches of your liberality hath abounded to the restitution of the Tithes of those Church-livings which you had in your possession and which it was in the power of your hand to have kept back be published and proclaimed in this our Britaine world All which as you have done not out of lightnesse vaine-glory or to gaine popular applause which you cannot looke after having beene so long crucified to the world and the world to you both in your afflictions and by your sufferings wherewith God hath tried you as a beloved sonne but out of a conscience truly informed out of the saving word of God both of the lawfulnesse and necessity of your act So that God who hath promised that a cup of cold water given to a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall not lose its reward Matth. 10.44 and that whosoever shall forsake houses or lands for his name's sake and the Gospels shall receive manifold more in this life with life everlasting Luke 18.30 hath not suffered one word of his good promise to faile in you but in his providence hath by other faire waies very plentifully restored this losse as the world would have accounted it to you and blessed you as Iacob prayed for his sonne Ioseph Gen. 49.25 with the blessings of heaven above and of the deepe that lyeth under Since then you have beene not onely a hearer but a doer also of the duties pressed in this discourse and brought forth much fruit in this kinde giving to many others an example what they should doe therein as Esau said of his benison to his father Isaac that God had brought it to his hands Gen. 27. so may I that God hath brought you to my hands to whom I should dedicate this part of my labours wherein I endeavour to make it cleare unlesse it be to them that seeing will not see that Tithes are as justly the portion and right of Gods Presbyters under the Gospel of grace as they were of the Priests of the most high God before the Law and of the Tribe of Levi by Gods gift to them under the Law Now the God of heaven who hath given to you not onely to beleeve in his name but also to doe so worthily in and for his Church and to suffer so many great afflictions as a good souldier of Iesus Christ wherein you have beene a true sonne of Abraham both in the measure of your sufferings and the eminency of your patience make your comforts abound by Christ as the sufferings of Christ have abounded in you and after you have suffered a while filled up that which is behinde of the afflictions of Christ in your flesh and are come out of the furnace of affliction as his tried gold bestow upon you that crowne of life promised to them that love him and indure tribulations Your servant in our LORD and common Saviour Barthol Parsons From the Rectory of Ludgershall in the County of Wiltes June 7. 1637. DEUT. 33.11 Blesse Lord his substance and accept the worke of his hands IT is not unknowne to them that know any thing that Moses in this whole Chapter is totus in benedictionibus spendeth himselfe in blessings and standeth as it were upon mount Gerizzim Deut. 27.12 to blesse the people of Israel with a severall blessing upon every Tribe amongst them The Text which I now propose unto you is a little drop of that dew of grace which falleth here upon the head of the Tribe of Levi which the Lord had separated from among their brethren to teach Jacob his judgements and Israel his law vers 12. And herein this man of GOD calleth upon the mighty JEHOVAH who being the greater can blesse the lesse Heb. 7.7 whose blessing is a doing of some good (a) Dei benedicere est hen●facere Lucas Brug in Matt. 25. bestoweth some gift alwaies upon them that are blessed of him (b) Dei benedictio aliqui● muneris sempe● his qui ab co lenedicuntur impertit Orig. i● Rom. 12. maketh rich Prov. 10.22 and of whom whosoever are blessed they shall be blessed indeed as Isaac said of his blessing of Jacob Gen. 27.33 To blesse that is to defend and multiply for blessing especially and properly is understood in multiplication (c) Benedicti● in multiplicatione solet max●●●e proprie intellig● Aug. 〈◊〉 Psal 66. according to which Moses telleth Israel GOD will blesse thee and multiply thee hee will blesse the fruit of thy wombe c.

for Priests and Ministers of the Churches for their hereditary portion have commanded all people to pay the Tithes of their fruits to the holy places that being no wayes hindred by unlawfull things they might attend their spirituall offices Which lawes the Christian Church hath a long time kept undefiled Whereupon we ordaine that all people shall pay their Ecclesiasticall Tithes And so I conclude with that of Junius that Tithes have beene holy to God by all right since the memory of man (b) Decima iut● o●●ns post hominum memoriā Deo fuerunt sacra And that it was sacrilege in the Pope at first to appropriate them to Monks and Friers from the labouring Oxen no better in secular persons at the dissolution of the Abbies to invade them in Patrons to set them to sale to detaine any glebe or Tithes consecrated to God In Parishioners either by secret practise or pretended customes to defraud the Minister of them And that God is much robbed in our Church partly by prescriptions and customes which snatch away somewhat from every Church in our Realme partly by impropriations which of nine thousand two hundred eighty and foure Parish Churches for that is the just number in England and Wales (c) Cam●d Brit. pag. 262. have devoured three thousand eight hundred ninety five almost the halfe in number but farre above the halfe in value and goodnesse God put it into the hearts of our Reverend Bishops Deanes and Chapiters and Colledges who hold many of them still in the right of the Church to proved so conscionably for those that labour in them that whilst they serve at the Altar they may not starve at it But to dreame of any restitution of them from the Lay possessors unlesse it bee here and there one like a berry or two in the top of a bough whose heart God hath touched were as the Poet saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a dreame of a shadow When we have said and reasoned all that we can they have against us one argument for themselves ab utili which we shall never solve nor dissolve In this case let me say to you as Jeremy said to the Prophets that prophesied Behold the vessels of the Lords house shall now shortly be brought againe from Babylon If we be Prophets let us now make intercession to the LORD of Hosts that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD goe not to Babylon Jer 27.15 16. For as the Israelites of old cryed so may we The sword of the LORD and of Gideon Judg. 7.20 It is the goodnesse of our God and the Piety of our gracious King that yet preserveth to us from those Evening wolves these Relliquias Danaum atque immitis Achillis (d) Virg. Aeneid 1. That I have so long dwelt upon this point and petition The blessing of the Levites substance I may say to these evill times whereinto wee have falne as Paul to the Corinthians in another case Ye have compelled me In the next petition which is another request for an acceptation of the worke of his hands I will briefly touch the first branch which is an intimation of a worke to be performed by him as being most pertinent to this time and personshere present Accept the worke of his hands There lay a necessity upon man even in his innocency to labour in an honest calling The LORD GOD tooke Adam after he had made him and put him into the garden of Eden to dresse it Gen. 2.15 But when man had sinned against his Maker and forfeited his state in that Paradise of pleasure when his labour should have been with pleasure without defatigation hee was turned out into the wide world into the earth cursed for his sake Gen. 3.17 In which with the sweat of his browes even with difficult labour paine and sorrow hee must eat his bread and get his living For now all his dayes are sorrow and his travell grief Eccles 2.13 And now labour lieth on him not only as a duty testifying his obedience wherein hee must imitate the holy Angels who are created of GOD to be ministring spirits Heb. 1.14 Yea his heavenly Father who laboured in the beginning of time in the creating of all things and at this time and to the end of times worketh in the preservation of all his creation John 5.17 but also as punishment of his disobedience Man is borne unto labour as the sparks flie upward Job 5.7 And this working with his hands is the discharging of the duties of that calling wherein GOD hath set him as the LORD hath called every man so let him worke 1 Cor. 7.17 Now this worke of Levies hand was that I may distinguish the things that differ either ceremoniall or morall The ceremoniall was to minister in the Priests office Ex. 28.1 to offer gifts and sacrifices Heb. 8.3 to be over the Tabernacle of the Testimonie over all the vessels thereof and all things that belong unto it Numb 1.10 The morall was to thanke and praise the GOD of Israel 1 Chro. 16.4 and 23.31 to blesse the children of Israel in GODS name Numb 6.23 Deut. 10.8 to read in the book of the Law distinctly give the sense and cause the people to understand the reading Neh. 8.8 to shew the people the sentence of judgement in hard matters Deut. 17.8 2 Chro. 19.8 Ezek. 44.23 24. to exhort them in warre Deut. 20.23 to teach them at all times the Law of the LORD of Hosts and to walk before the Lord in uprightnesse that so they might turne many stom their iniquities Mal. 2.6 7. Now the first of these the ceremoniall worke was to indure but till the time of reformation Heb. 9.10 the fastning of that hand writing of ordinances to the crosse of Christ Col. 2. that law being changed and abolished this work of the Priesthood is abolished also The other worke the morall is to continue though not in the tribe of Levi yet in those Prophets Pastors and teachers that Christ gave for the perfecting of the Saints the worke of the ministry and the edifying of his body Eph. 4.11 till the end of the world the appearing of JESUS CHRIST Mat. 28.20 1 Tim 6.14 This worke in regard of the authority by which or master for whom it is don is called the Lords work 1 Cor. 16.10 in regard of the dignity of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a good or godly worke 1 Tim. 3.1 and the workemen thereof labourers together with God 1 Cor. 3.9 in regard of the greatnes of it a worke hardly to be fitted with a workman who is sufficient for these things 2 Cor. 2.16 it is onus vel ipsis angelis formidan● dum (e) Bernard a burthen to be feared of the very Angels Ars est artium regimen animarum (f) Gregor in past par 1. ca. 1. the government of Soules is the art of arts Now beloved Brethren of the Clergie the chariots of Israel and the horsemen