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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17985	Tithes examined and proued to bee due to the clergie by a diuine right VVhereby the contentious and prophane atheists, as also the dissembling hypocrites of this age, may learne to honour the ministers and not to defraude them, and to rob the Church. The contents heereof is set downe in the page next following. Written by George Carleton Batchelour in Diuinitie.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.	1606 (1606)	STC 4644; ESTC S107556	55,614	94

TITHES Examined and Proued to bee due to the Clergie by a diuine right VVhereby the contentious and prophane Atheists as also the dissembling Hypocrites of this age may learne to honour the Ministers and not to defraude them and to Rob the Church The Contents heereof is set downe in the Page next following Written by George Carleton Batchelour in Diuinitie Printed at London by T. Este for Clement Knight dwelling in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Holy Lambe 1606. The contents of this Booke CHAP. FOL 1 The state of the question is set downe and the truth confirmed 1 2 How Tithes stood before the Law b 4. 3 How Tithes stood vnder the Law Where it is prooued that then this constitution of tithes was neither ceremoniall nor iudiciall but morall 11 4 How Tithes stood in the time of the new Testament 21 5 How Tithes stood in the ages of the Church after the Apostles wherein the point in question is confirmed by the testimonie of Fathers without contradiction vntill Antichrist by vsurped authoritie disordered the Church 24 6 The obiections answered and the point in question confirmed 35 To the most Reuerend Father in God my very good Lord the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitane of all England and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsell SVch hath beene the preiudice of the times most reuered Father in God not in this age onely but in many ages of the world heeretofore that many truthes haue lien either neglected as couered in the dust or oppressed by the countenance and multitude of such as commonly are ready to condemne the thing which they will not vouchsafe to vnderstand The feare of which censures hath moued me to suppresse for a long time that which I had written of this question In which purpose I should still haue continued if the reasons of other had not more preuailed with me then mine owne opinion Being therefore perswaded of your graces fauourable acceptance I haue presumed to offer this as a pledge of my dutie which as it was intended for the seruice of the Church so to whom may it more worthily bee offered then to him who as in place so in care and resolution sitteth to aduance the good estate of the Church In offering heereof my case is strange and singular for I must do it with protestation that I am far off from thinking that the thing for which I plead will or can be effected onely the opinion which many haue conceiued of your Graces wisedome and courage for the aduancement of the Churches oppressed estate doth incourage mee also to thinke that by your Graces care the oppressions of the Church may be mollified if not remooued that the malice of iniurious customes and prescriptions against the Church may be abated that the vse of impropriating may now at least be staied from proceeding to any further greauance of the Church In which seruice of the Church as you shall heereafter leaue a memorable name to your selfe so in the meane time you shall stir vp the prayers of many for your preseruation and continuance for the good of the Church of God who with his plentifull graces blesse and direct your wayes to his glory and the comfort of his Church through Iesus Christ. Your Graces in duetie and in the seruice of the Church to be commaunded George Carleton To the Reader SEing wee are fallen into these last times times dangerous and filled with much euill wherein the furtherances of pietie doe dayly decrease and the Church her selfe euen with that small portion which shee hath left is become an vsuall praie either to the prophane Atheist that will violently rob her or to the cunning hippocrite that vnder pretence of long prayers will deuoure Gods house I thought it fit to recommend this learned treatise to the indifferent reader that men of place in the common wealth indued with knowledge to support the truth may make a conscience to assist the clergie for obtaining their owne right least vnder coulour of some vaine title or pretense of custome the Lord himselfe complaine both against them and vs that his house is a house of prayer and we haue made it a den of theeues Our land I confesse is faire and blessed like the kingdome of Canaan but many of the people are like the Anakims that eate vp the clergie thereof and though Iosias were a good king yet the times were euill and a punishment of the former sinnes reserued in Gods iustice to the dayes that followed And howsoeuer wee cannot with Iosua finde kings in this caue yet I feare mee wee may fetch out more then fiue times fiue of our great families made richer by the spoiles of the Church who haue either come in dissemblingly like Icroboams wife or boldly like Pharo to the Israelites saying of the clergie this people is stronger then we are come let vs work wisely with them least they multiply and without a witnesse the leprosie of Gehezie sticketh so fast vnto their families as many of our most auncient houses I am perswaded haue beene ruinated by this meanes for the Church liuing dealeth as the Arck with Dagon casteth that downe which they had of their owne If some of them delt but as Dauid with Saul cut off the lap of our garment it were well yet I would wish them to haue remorse for it but to vse the Clergie as the king of the children of Ammon did the messengers of Dauid who shaued of halfe of their beards cut off their garments in the middle it is a contempt which the Lord wil not suffer to escape vnpunished Now I doubt not but the diligent perusing of this treatise shall so perswade the consciences of all that are not alreadie forestalled by some great sinnes that tithes are the Lords portion holy to himselfe that this portion he hath giuen to his ministers that serue at the Altar and so consequently that they may not safely detaine that from the Clergy which belongs vnto them but rather make restitution with al humilitie and desire the Lord with penitent harts to receiue at our hands the tenth part which in a peculiar manner holily is his owne portion for by another right the cattell are his that are on a thousand hils that so in mercy hee may blesse vnto vs the nine parts that remaine of all our substance this fruit if it shall bring vnto thee that readest and rest and peace to the poore Clergy that are torne with contentions for their owne right wee shall haue iust cause to reioyce for thy good and be ready to recommend our further paines to tho blessing of thy prayers and the benefit of this Church Lambeth Ianu. 4. 1606. WILLIAM COVELL CHAP. I. The state of the question is set downe and the truth confirmed COncerning Tithes so farre as I could learne there haue beene three opinions First that Tithes are meere