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A77137	A defence and justification of ministers maintence by tythes. And of infant-baptism, humane learning, and the sword of the magistrate; which some Anabaptists falsely call four sandy pillars, and popish foundations of our ministry and churches. In which tythes are proved to be due by divine right to the ministers of the gospel. All common objections answered, and divers cases of conscience humbly proposed: with a light to clear them. / In a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to Immanuel Bourne, late pastor of the church in Asheover in the county of Derby: now preacher to the congregation at Waltham in the county of Leicester. With a short answer to Anthony Peirson's great case of tythes, &c.	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3851; Thomason E1907_1	92,679	184

them away from God and the right use and end the Donor gave them what can it be less then the sin of sacrilege And upon this ground and reason I believe was the gift of King Lucius Lucius king of Britain Dr. Vsher his British Antiq. and his endowment of Churches both with Glebe-lands and Tythes within or near two hundred years after Christ besides all the practice of holy men converted to the faith then and in succeeding ages And what other can we conceive of that Donation of Pipin King of France the son of Charls Martel that Church-robber certainly out of conscience they were Gods due and belonging to the Ministers of the Gospel he did restore those tythes which he and Charls his father had taken away Dr. Tilsley his Animadvers p. 64 65 66. So Dr. Tilsley in his Record of the History of Charls Martels Sacrilege and Animadversions upon Mr. Selden's History of Tythes observes This King Pipin lived about eight hundred years after Christ Molanus de sanctis Belgii In 18 Octo. bris in vita Monen and royally gave the tythe he had between Lesche and Ourt to Monon that blessed man who was slain for his profession of Christ But what need I travel beyond sea for proof That excellent example of King Ethelwolph the Son of King Egbert a King of this land of the Saxon race who brought the Heptarchie or Sevenfold Kingdom of the Saxons into a Monarchy this King Ethelwolph having received the Christian Faith he had by his conquest all the lands in England for his Demesn as is acknowledged by that learned Judge and judicious Lawyer Sir Edward Coke in his Commentary upon Littleton and conferred the Tythes of all his Kingdom upon the Church by his Royal Charter Sir Ed Coke his com on Little●on Sir H. Spel. com 85. dated in the year of Christ Eight hundred fifty five related in these words King Ethelwolph by the consent of his Prelates and Princes which ruled in England under him in their several Provinces did enrich the Church of England with Tythes of all his lands and goods by his Charter Royal c. Adding in the end That whoso should increase that gift God would please to prosper and increase his days But if any should presume to diminish the same An item against Sacriledge or sundry Queries concerning Tythes printed 1653. that he should be called to an account for it at Gods Judgement seat c. And this he did not onely as Lord Paramount but as Proprietary of the whole land the Lord and great men having no propiety or estates of permanency but as accountants to the King whose the whole land was and yet they also gave their free consents which the King required that thereby they might be barred from pleading any Tenant right as also to oblige them to stand in the maintenance of Tythes against all pretenders that might come in after-time Here you see was a free and full donation of all the Tythes of England unto God and to the Church of Christ for the maintenance of the Gospel and Gospel-Ministery and this no doubt out of conscience informed by the word of God that they were due to them by Divine Right Now if all the Tythes of England be be God's First by reservation as his own proper right Secondly God's by dedication and consecration unto him for his service Rev. 20.12 Then I desire that men would enquire into the Book of Conscience which one day shall be opened and be fully resolved whether to take away Tythes from their proper use for which God and good men did give them be not horrid Sacriledge Mal. 3.8 that dreadful sin which subjects men to the wrath and curse of God To quicken your meditation upon this case of Conscience now consciene hath so much liberty and to move it to look within doors and truly to see if it know its own face let me mind you of some few examples of Gods direful Judgements against this sin of Sacriledge First Gen. 3.132 3 4 5 c. We have all cause to remember the sacriledge of our first parents in taking of Gods reserved part the forbidden tree for which they were driven out of Paradise and they and all their posterity subject to death and the curse of God yea Gen. 3.15 all miseries in this life and the life to come had not God given the seed of the woman Christ our Savior to break the serpents head and make our peace with the blood of his cross Col. 1.20 had not God in his unspeakable love in Christ reconciled us unto himself as the Apostle speaks 2 Cor. 5.19 yea by the death of his son Rom 5.10 without which we were all the children of wrath as well as others Ephes 2.3 Eph. 2.3 Secondly And what need I rehearse that judgement of God that fell upon sacrilegious Achan Josh 7.1 2 3 4 c. yea that great affliction that fell upon the Army of Israel for Achan's sin First the Army of Israel did flie before the men of Ai vers 4. And Achan his sons his daughters Jos 24 25 all he had were stoned with stones and burnt with fire for that sin Thirdly Sacrilegious Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar his son 2 Chro. 38.18 Dan. 5.1 2 3 c. the Father took away all the consecrated Vessels of the house of God and brought them to Babylon and the Son Belshazzar he repented nor of his Fathers sacriledge but prophaned those holy vessels in his drunken Feasts and what was his punishment God smites him on a sudden with trembling terror and amazement his knees smite one against another and the joynts of his loyns are loosed the hand-writing upon the wall witnesseth an end of his life and Kingdom he was weighed in the ballance and found wanting and that night was Belshazzar slain and Darius the Median took the Kingdom Dan. 5.31 Fourthly How sudden and fearful the death of Ananias and Saphira was Act. 5.1 2 3 4 c. I related before Fifthly King Herod committed Sacriledge in robbing God of his honor taking that glory to him him which was due to God and you may read both his sin and judgement The Angel of God did strike him that he was eaten of wormes and gave up the ghost Act. 12. Act. 12.23 Sixthly In particular the sin of Sacriledge in taking away of the Tythes the tenth part which is Gods part Mal. 3.8 it was to be cursed with a curse a fearful curse Mal. 3. Seventhly If we proceed to the antient History of the Church and Records of latter times wherein the acts of Gods providence and his works of Judgement are registred we may finde too great a number of sacrilegious persons and fearful judgements to be their portion 1. I shall onely name that wicked Emperor that Apostate Julian Socrat. Ecel Hist lib. 3. cap. 12 14 16 ●7● ●8

and Ambassadour of the Lord Jesus and your Honours Servant in Christ and for Christ Immanuel Bourne TO ALL THE Reverend Godly and Faithfull Ministers Ambassadours OF JESUS CHRIST in ENGLAND Whether moderate Presbyterians Independents or of different Judgments The Blessings of Truth Peace and Love with onenesse of Spirit and Protection in the Lord Jesus Reverend Fathers Brethren IT is a sacred and certain Truth witnessed by the Spirit of God in holy Scripture and manifested in the various turnings of the wheels of Gods Providence in all ages that the Lord Jehovah the Omnipotent all-sufficient and only wise God doth and will order all things for his own eternal Glory and the everlasting happiness of his Church and Children beloved in the Lord Jesus But yet the dispensations of God and the foot-steps of his infinite wisdom are somtimes so obscure and dark that our blind and weak eyes are not able to see the cloud of his Gracious protection walking with us by day nor his pillar of fire to give us light in the night So that a troubled and trembling soul is somtimes amazed and constrained to cry out with that great Apostle Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his waies past finding out And somtimes with the Prophet to reason the case with God in a time of trouble fear and danger O Lord how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear even cry out of violence and thou wilt not save Why dost thou shew me iniquity and cause me to behold grievance for spoyling and violence are before me and there are that raise up strife and contention It is apparent that since the fallen Angels left their first habitation and by the subtilty of the Serpent tempted and overcame our first Parents to break that first Covenant and to sin against God and lose that happy estate wherein they were created and since God was pleased to publish the second Covenant in that Gospel-promise the seed of the woman shall break the Serpents head that old Serpent the Devil Satan and the seed of that Serpent the wicked of the world discovered at full that enmity that is in them against the seed of the woman the servants of the most high God the sons and daughters of the King of Glory in Christ the Redeemer The Lord hath prosecuted his design according to his eternal councel for the salvation of his people and to this end as he himself preached the Gospel at first and revealed his mind and will to our first Parents in Paradise so he constituted Christ his only begotten Son to be the Anointed the eternal High Priest and Prophet and King of his Church And this Prophetical Office as Christ did exercise and execute himself somtimes before and somtimes since his coming in the flesh so did he call and ordain his holy Prophets and Apostles part before and part after his resurrection yea after he ascended up on high and led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men he gave some to be Apostles and some Prophets and some Pastors and teachers for the work of the Ministry for the edification of the body of Christ untill we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man and unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ and hath promised to be with them to the end of the world And for their comfortable maintenance and encouragement although the great God his Father Lord of Heaven and earth after he had created the world and gave to Adam and his posterity the Lordship and dominion over the creatures to hold upon his and their good behaviour of the Lord himself their Creator as chief Lord of all yet the Lord did never give all to Adam or to his posterity but hath reserved a special part to himself as he did the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Paradise this special part to be for his worship and service and the maintenance of his Ministers and Ambassadors to the end of the world as is fully proved to my understanding in this following Treatise But as God hath prosecuted his design to further the salvation of his people and maintenance of the Gospel and Gospel-Ministry so hath the Devil and his Angels and servants had their design to hinder the Lords great work by all subtill frauds and open hostility to their power the wicked to this end have laboured to get and keep in their hands Gods reserved part They robbed God of old before the coming of Christ and they have robbed God since and their plots and designs still are to rob the Lord Christ and his faithful Godly Ministers and Ambassadors to the utmost of their abilities both in these Nations and other Parts where the Gospel of Christ is or hath been preached It was the policy and practise of Julian that Apostate Emperour that he might more easily destroy the Gospel and Gospel-Ministry to destroy and take away their Maintenance And this certainly is and hath been the design of those who are enemies of us the Godly and Faithful Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and under the name of Antichristian Ministers seek to destroy us and our Maintenance and perswade many godly people against us and labour to stir up the godly Magistrate yea the Parliaments and powers of the Nation to take away our Tithes and to allow us no setled Maintenance but that we should live of the Charity and almes of the people that we might be starved as anti-Christian Ministers as some of them have expressed themselves to me although it is evident none are more zealous and laborious to bring down the Kingdom of Antichrist and to set King Jesus upon his Throne than we are not by blood as some dream we would have it but by the powerful preaching of the Gospel of peace and our winning of souls to God not by blood I say for this is and hath been the nature and design and practise of Antichrist that whore of Babylon to be drunk with the blood of the Saints Martyrs of Jesus Christ fulfilling the Prophecy of our Saviour that the time should come that whosoever of the blind wicked world should kill his Ministers and Disciples should think they did God good service these things shall they do unto you saith Christ because they have not known the Father nor yet me This is that which divers seduced souls have lately discovered to be their desire and design not only that the faithful witnesses may prophesie in s●ckcloath by taking away their Maintenance but be slain lie dead and unburied in the streets to the rejoycing of the wicked damnable world But the Lord hath wonderfully preserved us to this day blessed be his Name The many Pamphlets lately written and printed against Tithes or any setled Maintenance to the Ministers of

hundred years before the Council of Lateran or any Popes Decretals for payment of them to which some would relate this division of Parishes and the payment of Tythes But after that the Pope had appropriated Tythes to his Monasteries and robbed the particular Parishes and their parish Ministers of them then these new opinions concerning Tythes began to creak out and the Schoolmen and others to please the Pope they endeavor to justifie the Popes Sacriledge for certainly that was a diverting of the Ministers maintenance of Tythes from the original intention and use of them whatever men may suppose to the contrary or the Pope pretend to ustifie himself Alexander de Hales 3. part qu 51. art 3. Then Alexander De Hales an Englishman and a Schoolman he affirms tythes to be judicials and so might more lawfully be disposed of by appropriations to Monasteries This was about One thousand two hundred and fifty four hundred years since The opinion that Tythes were Almes did arise from the abuse of Tythes in Popery taking them from the Ministers to Abbyes Monasterie c. and Aquinas endeavors to the same effect This is one opinion of Rome but Tythes cannot be judicials for no holy things are judicials The judicial laws did concern the civil government of the Jews but Tythes are holy to the Lord Levit. 27.32 therefore they cannot be judicials as the said men devised And before we noted another later opinion that Tythes were mere Alms given by the Church and to Church Ministers as men were converted to Christian Religion and Religion more setled in the world This opinion say some was brought in by the Waldenses upon their sight of the abominable abuses of Tythes in the Church of Rome if I may call it a Church the Popes having perverted Tythes from the true use and turned and abused them to maintain the luxury of lazie Abbots Monks and ungodly Friers who were full of all abominations But these good men did not rightly consider the first original nor the reason which moved godly men to give the Tythes to Gods Ministers who taught them the Gospel for their comfortable livelihood and better maintenance And this was because those holy men which gave their Tythes were satisfied in Conscience that Tythes were Gods right his own reserved portion due to Christ as a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec Gen. 28.32 therefore Jacob vowed to pay Tythes as a duty to Christ for the maintenance of his faithful Ministers And the abu●e of them in Popery could not take away Gods right nor deprive Gods faithful Ministers of that comfortable maintenance which is due to them from Christ for their service to him in preaching of the Gospel 2 Cor. 5.20 For what else are Gods Ministers but Christs servants We are Ambassadors for Christ and we beseech you in Christs stead as if God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead that you be reconciled to God and therefore may lawfully expect and look for this lawful gain for their labor every one even in the place where he is whatsoever Anabaptists or Quakers alleage to the contrary To conclude A fourth opinion yet later hath been that Tythes are ceremonial and that they are to be abolished and that Ministers that take Tythes deny Christ to be come in the flesh and endeavor to setup again Aarons Priesthood and to revive it again That there is nothing due to Christs Ministers but they should live in high or rather low poverty and the like These are the common cries of our croaking Quakers who are cunningly and I believe some of them ignorantly by the Devil and Antichrist and his Emissaries set on to overthrow the Ministers of Christ in England and the Gospel too if God suffer them And thus as Schollers of that most wicked Apostate Emperor Julian by destroying Tythes and Ministers maintenance to destroy the Ministery it self that they may more easily remove the Candlestick of the Gospel and set up the Kingdom of Antichrist instead of Christ in the Nation which God of his mercy keep from us least Ephesus lot be our portion to lo●e both the Gospel and our lives estates and liberties to some Turkish Tyrant or other Antichrist to our sorrows and undoing for ever But these men blinded by the spirit of Error speak they know not what For what are Ceremonies but carnal rites which were enjoyned until the time of Reformation as you may read Heb. 9.10 noted before These the Apostle calls weak and beggerly rudiments which held men in bondage as the observation of days and moneths and times and years such shadows and ceremonies as were appointed for instruction and teaching men until Christ who is the substance and end of all was come Now Tythes were not appointed to teach men any thing but for the maintenance and livelihood of them that are Teachers the faithful Preachers of the Gospel and Ministers of Christ Therefore Tythes are not ceremonies as the ceremonious Quakers would have them but the just Temporal outward gain and reward for their labor which the faithful Ministers of Christ may lawfully seek by every man for his labor in his place As it was with the Levites in Nehemiahs time I perceived saith he Nehe. 13 10 11 12. that the portions of the Levites had not been given them For the Levites were fled every one to his field Then contended I with the Rulers and said Why is the house of God forsaken and I gathered them together and set them in their places Then brought all Judah the Tythe of the Corn and new Wine and Oyl into the Treasuries This was the second Tythe which was to be eaten before the Lord and of which the Levites were to have part and when that was kept from them they fled every man to his field to his quarter where they had their houses and where they taught the people and where they had the first Tythe to maintain them It was lawful for them in that case to seek every man for his gain from his place and so it is now for the Ministers of Christ when their just dues are kept from them they are constrained sometimes to seek though sore against their will every man for his just gain in his place where God sets him And this they may lawfully do yea to desire the help of the Magistrate if it cannot otherwise be obtained and this without any just blame whatsoever Quakers or Anabaptists teach their Auditors And thus I have sufficiently answered the Objections pretending that Tythes are Popish Antichristian and Ceremonial and cleared the contrary at full if men will not hoodwink themselves or be wilfully deceived by the deceivers I shall onely propose and examine some Cases of Conscience and wish the Anabaptists Quakers and those that take their parts to enquire into them before they go on any further to oppose Tythes or take them away from the faithful Ministers of Christ And

Ages but this was still a time when the Church was subject to persecution and dangers and many poor and so a necessity to live in Societies as the people of God did in those dayes a full answer you have in my Justification of Tythes to belong to Christ and his Ministers Hom. 23. ad Epist 1. a Cor. ● in cap. 16 Ambros Tom. 5. Serm. in Ascenti Domini by Divine right and yet all places were not in like condition even in those times Now Sir you proceed forward and bring in Hierom and Chrysostome who you say did press payment of Tythes and Ambrose Bishop of Millan about the year 400 after Christ pressed the payment of Tythes Anthony Peirson's case And page 5. Augustine say you in Sermon de tempore in Tom. 10. This is the just custome of the Lord that if thou dost not give the Tenth to him thou shall be called to the Tenth thy self And after Decimae ex debito requiruntur tythes are required as due debt you add Leo Severine and Gregory Mr. Bourn's answer Thus you have now alledged divers Antients who do not only declare for payment of tythes but for payment of them by Divine right or as a duty Gregory's judgement was that the tenth of all was to be given to God as many others and truly any man that rightly considers the Histories of the Church and what is written by the Antients may see clearly that howsoever in the beginning and dangerous times tythes were not pressed for weighty Reasons as I have shewed in my Defence page 44 yet so soon as ever the Church came to a settlement and they were more free from persecution tythes were preached and pressed and payed as a duty not as alms or liberal devotions as you would make men believe Anthony Peirson's case Again page 6. he affirms that from the opinions of these and other antient Fathers who took their ground as he thinks from the Law tythes were brought into the Church but not received as a general Doctrine that Tythes ought to be payed till about 800 years after Christ Mr. Bourn's answer First how know you that these antient Fathers took their ground out of the Law that Tythes ought to be pay'd as if it had been the Levitical Law only why might they not take their ground long before that Law even from that payment of Tythes by Abraham to Melchizedeck the Priest of the most high God and from Jacobs Vow and what Christ spake and his Apostles writ in the Gospel and Epistles especially that to the Hebrews chap. 7. I am sure some of the Fathers do alledge arguments from divers of these See my Book pag. 59 60 61 62 c. and so it might be from a light to the conscience that Tythes are Gods part and Christs right for maintenance of his worship and service hence might press the payment of them For what you say that the Doctrine was not received till the 800 year certain it doth not appear but the contrary for many Writers before that time did assert the payment of Tythes and that as a due yea by Divine right as I have declared in my Defence of Tythes read my Book with Doctor Slater and Doctor Tilseley his Animadversions on Mr. Seldens History and others Anthony Peirson's case In his 7. page and following he endeavours to prove That Tythes belonged to the Poor above 800 900 1000 years after Christ and that the Clergy was not to use them as their own and people had more willing mind to give them for the poor than the Priests but after in the year 1274. there was a Law that people should not give them at their pleasures but to the Church this by Pope Gregory Mr. Bourn's answer I answer that before that time there were amongst the people divers things out of order it was some reason till Ministers of the Gospel were setled people should have more liberty to pay their Tythes where they pleased but yet they were paid and due to be paid long before that time and that Law was good by whomsoever it was made That Tythes should be payed to the Church where Ministers were setled to preach the Gospel or to be pay'd to them for their labour in the Word and Doctrine which was most agreeable to the Divine Institution Peirson's Case Now page 8 9. c. Peirson brings History to witness payment of Tythes I shall not trouble the Reader saith he with a relation of Joseph of Arimathea coming into Brittain sent by Phillip the Apostle in the Reign of Arviragus as History reports he about the year 600 of Augustine the Monk who came and preached the Gospel in this Land and when they had brought a great part of the Nation to the Faith they began to preach up the old Romish Doctrine that Tythes ought to be paid c. Mr. Bourn's answer For answer I desire the Reader to observe he relates indeed the story of Joseph Arimathea coming into Brittain to preach the Gospel but he leaveth out the History of that gift of Gleab lands in those dayes at Glassenbury for the maintenance of them that preached the Gospel yet he confesseth that when the people were converted to the Faith then they pressed the payment of Tythes this saith he about 600 years after Christ and yet he saith they began to preach the old Romish Doctrine that Tythes ought to be pay'd I would ask first how old the doctrine of payment of Tythes was at Rome 600 years after Christ if it was an old doctrine within 600 years after Christ certain then it was in or near the Primitive times as indeed it was in some places long before the Pope or the universal Bishop of Rome was born for Origen speaks of the payment of Tythes who lived near the Primitive times about 200 after Christ as I have shewed in my Justification of Tythes read page 59 60. Secondly I demand why old Romish Doctrine for Hierom was not Bishop of Rome and yet he approveth of Tythes and Augustine Bishop of Hippo in Alexandria and divers in other places in those times writ of Tythes as due to be paid and due by divine Right but he would fain make Tythes Romish that he might make them odious though they were thought by the Lord the best way to maintain his servants for his worship and service and indeed are Gods right and Christs right for the maintenance of his Ministers to the end of the world Anthony Peirson's case Anthony Peirson goeth on page 9. c. As concerning Laws saith he for Tythes in the year 786. of a King of Merceland and Elswolph King of Northumberland made Decrees that those two Kingdoms should pay Tythes And Ethelwolf King of the West Saxons in the year 855. made a Law that the Tythe of all his own Land should be given to God and he tells us out of the History that at that time the Nation being under heavy pressure by