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A61092 The larger treatise concerning tithes long since written and promised by Sir Hen. Spelman, Knight ; together with some other tracts of the same authour and a fragment of Sir Francis Bigot, Knight, all touching the same subject ; whereto is annexed an answer to a question ... concerning the settlement or abolition of tithes by the Parliament ... ; wherein also are comprised some animadversions upon a late little pamphlet called The countries plea against tithes ... ; published by Jer. Stephens, B.D. according to the appointment and trust of the author.; Tithes too hot to be touched Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665.; Bigod, Francis, Sir, 1508-1537. 1647 (1647) Wing S4928; Wing S4917_PARTIAL; ESTC R21992 176,285 297

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Iewish or Popish in Tithes but the assignation of the decimae decimarum from the Leviticall Priests to the high Priest from the high Priest to the Pope and from the Pope to the King when first Pope Urbane gave them to Richard the second to aid him against Charles the French King and others that uphold Clement the seventh against him as Polydore Virgil relateth And King Henry the eighth taking from the Pope the title of head of the Church to himself by Act of Parliament took from him the tenths and other profits annexed to that title which were setled upon the Crown by Statute in the 26th year of Henry the 8. so that the Iewish high Priesthood being expired the papall Lordship abolished the Tithes paid under those titles may be called Iewish and Popish but not that which is assigned for the maintenance of Ministers because they are yet to doe service to their Master and so to receive the maintenance of his allowance for his work which fellow-servants cannot take upon them to take away without presumption their door-neighbour will not allow them a power to appoint the wages of their servants much lesse may they usurp upon the right of God and his Ministers to alienate tithes from the support of his service and worship for that is rather Popish as hath before been observed Which being true and clear as touching the pedegree of such Tithes from the high Priesthood of Aaron to the Independent Prelacy of the Pope and from him to the King as by claim from the title Head of the Church translated from the Miter to the Crown it will not I conceive be thought congruous to the Christian Reformation the thorow Reformation professed by our worthy and religious Rulers that such Monuments of Superstition or Popery should be removed which were unprofitable and that onely retained as a silver shrine to Diana which brings gain to the King or State and puts the charge upon the Ministers of the Gospel who thereby I may say it confidently for some whom I know are brought to this perplexed Dilemma either to pay them with reluctancy as no lesse contrary to their consciences then to their commodities or to deny or withhold them with suspition or imputation of avarice or disobedience to lawfull Authority But the Parliament liketh not that Tithes should be proposed or pressed as many Divines doe both in Pulpit and from the Presse as of divine right which because they think to be wrong they will rather reject them then ratifie them under a title of so high a strain 1. Not onely Divines but divers others who are men of very eminent note hold Tithes to be due by divine right and some of them have undertaken to prove them so and to answer all objections against them which how far they have performed is left to the judgement of indifferent Readers 2. It is more like that as both religion and reason will dictate unto them they will be the more wary how they take them away lest if that tenure should prove true they should be found guilty of the sin of sacriledge that they should abolish them and that they will seriously search and enquire into the ground of that title and while they are in doubt that they will resolve of the safest course which is not to repeal them for as we must forbear to feed of meats of which another saith that they are sacrificed to idols 2 Cor. 10. 28. for his sake that saith it though but a private Christian so if Divines say and bring Scripture and reason for it that Tithes are dedicated to God or by him assumed first to himself and then assigned or set over by him to his servants for his work in waiting on his worship which must be maintained to the worlds end it will be rather a reason for them to support the tenure of Tithes by their Parliamentary power then any way to prompt or dispose them to desert it or to alienate their right from Ecclesiasticall uses The fear of sacriledge hath been of such force with some heathen Moralists as Plutarch observeth in his Morals that if they pulled down a house contiguous to a temple they would leave some of that part standing which was next unto it lest they should with it take away any part of the Temple it selfe Wherein if they shewed any spice of superstition it will be more capable of pardon or lesse liable to punishment at the hand of God then we may expect if we proceed hastily to lay violent hands upon any thing peculiarly entituled to his honour who is the authour and giver of all things to all men 2. If the plea of a divine right for Tithes supposing it setteth them up too high should incline to irritation in some to make opposition against them why should not the contrary tenet which peremptorily taketh them down too low calling them Jewish Antichristian and Popish and that undeniably as hath been said but never can be proved move others the rather to retaine them and confirm them chiefly the Parliament whose authority is most engaged for their justification and especially since the servants of God have had possession of them by so many laws and so long a prescription for according to the maxime of the law the possessors title is the best untill he bee fairly evicted out of it 3. If the Parliament doe not in their approbation of Tithes come up to the tenure of divine right they may yet be willing enough to establish them upon other grounds and leave Divines to the liberty of their judgment consciences to plead for them according to the principles of their own profession as in their Ordinances made for setting up of the Presbyterial Government though yet they be not satisfied of the claim of divine right for it they were pleased to authorize it by their Ordinance and to require Divines to prepare the people for the reception thereof by preaching of it and for it so as both to clear it and assure it so farre as they could by the sacred Scripture And on the other side while they approve it though but by a civill assent as to a prudentiall design untill they see more light which they look for in the Answer to their Queres proposed to the Assembly of Divines the Presbyterians who hold it in the highest esteem take none offence that they proceed no farther and professe themselves well satisfied with their civill sanction so one of the learned Commissioners of Scotland hath said in the name of the rest in these words If they shall in a Parliamentary and Legislative way establish that thing which is really and in it self agreeable to the Word of God though they doe not declare it to be the will of Iesus Christ they are satisfied Ob. If there were no purpose to put down Tithes by such as are in Authority how commeth it to passe that the