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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76343	A word of information & advice touching tythes, and other the goods appropriate (as yet left) to Church-men. Wherein is given a hint of the light and knowledg of God and his mind touching these things, as they have been from the beginnging almost till now. / Humbly presented by R.B. of N.W. to the governors of this commonwealth.	R. B.	1652 (1652)	Wing B174; Thomason E671_14; ESTC R207078	6,827	8

some remembrances of the right title and interest God hath in both the persons of men and the times and things men are allowed to the use of for his glory then that all these through Atheism Pride Vnbelief and Covetousness which raign and prevail so much all the world over become wholy obliterate yea upon one account I like better of the first of these second sort viz. those that take more liberally of the usages and Customs of the Law both as touching the observations of days as having in use not only one day in seven but days upon several accounts of Consecration and Remembrance yea whole weeks and years which if they were true in but according to the mind of God in those things as they were at first given of him to Moses and of Moses to the people were of admirable use as a Manuduction or Pedagogie of the People till the times of Deliverance should come through the Revelation of Christ as it did betide the former people the Jews 6. But they having in these things of great use in the first Institution corrupted themselves and are become Apostates as well to the Law as to the Gospel there hath arose out of them the people we call Protestants but the other call them Hereticks or Schismaticks making some further adventure more hopefully first in Luther if we respect the Noise made at this sudden rupture though there were at the same time some or at least one affording though with less observation as to most a more clear light and uniform and of more use to all Nations whose testimony hath yet been alone as it were heard in silence this being overlooked as the Truth in the full extent of it useth in all ages more or less to be Comes Calvin and others of great note with him who seemed to build and attain higher then he that first lighted their Candle Luther yet their Superstructure as it proved since being very specious had not hath not enough of the foundation to perpetuate and uphold it in so much that it shakes well nigh as much as what was in their account Babel before which they no sooner perceived but they were fain as their Successors since therein evidently leaving their first Pattern and Example Luther to support themselves the same way did the Hierarchy of Rome before I mean by the weapons of this worlds warfare as Imprisonments Whippings yea Burnings of men for a different belief in the which all those most excellent men Calvin Peter Martyr Bucer yea Beza heretofore appeared and their Successors since as we have seen in England and Scotland allowed and is manifest in those of the highest attainment I mean the Churches of New England with whom doth concur those in Old or if not why are they so silent in so great a matter of Consequence as this 7. So that the Sun setting in a sort in a Cloud upon Calvin but especially upon those that would be thought his followers others have of late especially in this Land made yet some adventure further as we see at this day at the remove of which all things both fundamental superstructural and circumstantial in Religion are shattered even quite almost to pieces that there is as the Prophet speaks scarce so much as a sheard left of this earthy pitcher for any to take up a little water to refresh himself therewithall upon which opportunity is taken of the prophane spirit of worldliness wickedness ignorance and pride to ruffle and come forth as Nimrod of old and those that with him would undertake to build a City and a Tower for themselves the top of which should reach Heaven and affront even God himself for a securing of themselves in their lusts and evil For as whiles there was an outcry of the Protestants against the Papists many covetous worldlings have well provided for them and theirs after them with the spoils they took in that encounter so the like occasion since have here the Non-Conformists or rather those that came in to their ayd taken against their Lords and Task masters the Bishops heretofore so that what was left of the feathers of this so fair bird these other birds of prey have taken every one a part to themselves in so much the thing men call the Church is become as in the day she was first born even in a manner a poor despised and naked nothing as to outward and worldly appearance especially if we consider what is now last of all in imitation of them that went before pursued by all means to be brought to pass i. e. the taking away the Tythes and Glebe through pride and covetousness in a great degree detained of the Clergy and upon the same account for the most part sought to be revokt of the people 8. As to these things therefore its manifest as the Papists have faln from the Gospel Ministry and Conversation to that of the Old Law where they secure themselves as well as they can so are we the Protestants here faln in appearance which I desire the Reader to observe a degree lower and somewhat nearer the Earth having let go our hold even of the Law it self and the things and usages in it and are now become to the wonder of all the world instead of the Church of Christ a Commonwealth being faln from Rome as Antichristian to an imitation as some would have it of Rome as Heathen to reach which Politicus makes no small ado This as the Lord is witness I speak not to upbraid or vilifie him much less either the persons or the attainmēt the persons upholding the present Power have reacht unto but as having them in great honor and esteem and judging with them and with all my heart confessing that I had rather a thousand fold live in a Heathen Commonwealth then in or under an Antichristian Church in which by search will be found the blood of all that have been slain upon the Earth I seeking the glory of God and the ancient and that I say not the only glory and honour of this our Native Land would the Government of it should be given up of a ready mind to him whose right it is the Lords neither would I and for that end I make continual prayer and supplication to God our Rulers should manage or meddle with the Affairs of the Land but in the Name and the alone Authority of him whose all the Kingdoms of the world are and who is even now the second time entring upon his own Inheritance as the right Heir of all 9. Here then would be found in the third place a view of the third and best sort of People the whole Earth affords which in the Scripture phrase are Christs or the Lords true anointed ones which I for my part as Luther and others d●d judg alone meet to be likened to the third and most inward part of the Temple was form'd of Solomon according to the Pattern was seen before of Moses and