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A91192	A Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulnes & continuance of the ancient setled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel: proving, that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance due to all lawfull painfull preachers and ministers of the Gospel, by divine right, institution, and expresse texts and precepts of the Gospel: that glebes and tithes are such a maintenance, & due to ministers by divine right, law and Gospel: that if subtracted or detained, they may lawfully be inforced by coercive laws and penalties: that tithes are no reall burden nor grievance to the people; the abolishing them, no ease or benefit to farmers, husband-men, or poor people, but a prejudice and losse. That the present opposition against tithes, proceeds not from any reall grounds of conscience, but base covetousnesse, carnall policy, &c. and a Jesuiticall and Anabaptisticall designe, to subvert and ruin our ministers, Church, religion. With a satisfactory answer to all cavils and materiall objections to the contrary. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq;	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing P3971; Thomason E713_12; ESTC R203238; ESTC R26600	128,273	175

right in the sight of God Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse c. Act. 8. 18 to 25. 2. He is so far from enjoyning them to preach the Gospell freely without recompence that he allowes them to take a recompence for it closing it up with a contrary clause For the Labourer is worthy of his M●at and Hire v. 10. and recited Luke 10. 8. where the objected words are omitted as likewise Marke 3. 3. Our new Mechanick Predicants to separate Conventicles who urge this Text against Ministers maintenance should receive no money gift or recompence for their prating from their Disciples no more then our Ministers who yet gain far more from deluded blind followers of the blind then many of our Ministers get by their Ministry and more then ever they ●arned by their Trades before which makes them wholly to desert them and turne Tub-preachers 4. This sentence can no wayes be truely applyed now to Ministers For though they receive their Ministry and Orders freely without purchase which some bought for money heretofore yet their preparation for the Ministry costs them many years study and pains them their Friends and Parents many a pound as I sormerly proved whereas the Apostles received the miraculous gift of healing c. immediately by divine inspiration without study or cost 5. If those who receive any Office Commission or place freely must discharge it freely without any Reward Pay as some Army Officers and Souldiers hence conclude against our Ministers then all our Souldiers and other Military Officers by Sea and Land must henceforth at least and should have done heretofore serve their Country freely without receiving any pay reward or Contributions from the People since I conceive few or none of them ever bought their Offices Places Commissions or paid any money for their listing yea then all other publike Officers reall or pretended must serve their Country gratis unlesse they purchased their Offices from those in late or present power and then they are ipso facto void by the Statute of 5 E. 6. c. 16. against buying or selling of Offices Now upon this condition that all Soul di●s Military and Civill Officers will henceforth serve their Country freely without pay or recompence for the oppress●d peoples future freedome from long unsupportable monthly Taxes Impositions Excises I dare presume all or most of our Ministers will be content to preach the Gospell freely to the people likewise without Tithes or other Dues for so long a time as the Souldiers and Officers shall freely serve our Nation and I suppose all Ministers in Scotland and Ireland will do the like if the Officers and Souldiers there will first really begin the Precedent Which if they here and there refuse they must give Ministers leave to enjoy their ancient Tithes Dues Stipends for preaching the Gospell so long as they demand their former pay and salaries and renounce the objected Text as fatall to their own wages as the Ministers unlesse they dearly bought their Offices and Commands and did not freely receive them which if true as I presume it false very few of them would publickly acknowleuge Object 2 The second Objection most urged to me by some Pendennis Souldiers whiles there a prisoner under their Gards is the Example of the Apostle Paul who staying and preaching at Corinth a year and six monthes because he would not be burdensome but preach the Gospell freely to them without charge or reward wrought with his own hands and got his living by making tents as is recorded Act. 18. 1 2 3 c. 20. 34. 1 Cor. 4. 12. 9. 12 15 16 17 18 19. 2 Cor. 11. 8 9. 12. 13 16 17 18. The like he did among the Thessalonians labouring night and day because he would not be chargeable to any of them when he preached unto them the Gospell of God 1 Thess 2. 8 9. 2 Thess 3. 8. From whence they conclude that all other Ministers ought to preach the Gospell freely and to labour with their hands day and night in some other calling to supply their necessities and maintain themselves and ●amilies that they may not be chargeable to the people Answ To which grand argument requiring the first reply I answer that this generall inference from P●●●s particular practise in these two Churches is very same and unsound For 1. Paul expresly resolves that all Apostles and Minister● of the Gospell have a just right and power to receive a competent maintenance as wages from the people and most strongly proves it to be an ordinance of Christ himself in some of the objected Texts as I have at large demonstrated 2. He likewise declares with a salvo jure ●s Lawyers speak that himselfe had such a just right and power to receive wages and maintenance from the very Corinthians and Thessalonians themselves as well as others though he made no use of his power witnesse 1 Cor. 9. 4 11 12. where thus he expostulates Have we not power to eat and to drinke and to reap your carnall things for so●●ing u●t● you spirituall things If others be part●kers of this power over you ARE NOT WE RATHER Neve●thelesse we have not used this power And 2 Thess 3. 8 9. Neither did we eat any mans bread for nought but wrought with labour and travell night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you NOT BECAVSE WE HAVE NOT POWER but make our selves an example for you to follow us c. We have much talke and crying up of late HAVE WE NOT POWER POWER and PRESENT POWER in most Grandees mouthes and publick Papers especially Souldiers who carry it by their sides in st●ad of old Language LAW LIBERTY RIGHT FREEDOME the things they say they fought for on the peoples behalf who pay them which words and things Have we not the greater cry of Power c. hath made us not to have and quite swallowed up I wish all such who presse these Texts against Ministers Tithes and most use these words Have we not P●wer if derived from God or the Apostle who thrice mentions it in these Texts would only use and speake it in the Apostles sense and Language if not assuming usurping but utterly disclaiming the reall practise and abuses of it in his self-denying words worthy to be written in Capitalls that all persons of or in Power may now read and practise it NEVER THELESSE WE HAVE NOT USED THIS POWER BUT WROUGHT WITH LABOUR AND TRAVELL NIGHT AND DAY THAT WE MIGHT NOT BE CHARGEABLE TO ANY OF YOU to make our selves an ensample for you Ministers to follow us Then we should be no longer over-charged with endlesse Taxes Excises c. by for or from any who have power nor grieved with any fresh changes of Lawes Church Government or Ministers setled maintenance but be a Free State and Nation indeed as some have long promised to make us but still the quite contrary way in direct opposition to the Apostles Neverthelesse we have

his reigne by the Councell of his Barons through all the Counties of England caused 12. men of the most Noble wise and skilfullest in the Law to be sunm●ned out of every Shire that he might learn th●ir Lawes and Customes from them and gave them this Oath That proceeding in a right path without deel●ning to the right hand or the left to the best of their power they should make known to him the Customes and Sanctions of their Lawes pretermitting nothing adding nothing and altering n●thing in them by prevarication which they accordingly performing a●d King William intending to alter the Law only in one particul●● according to the Lawes of Norway from wh●nce he and his N●●●●ans desee●ded all the Barons and Grand English Enquest w●o presented him their Lawes on Oath being much grieved at it unanimosly besought him that he would permit them to enjoy their pr●pe● Lawes and ancient Customes under which their Fathers lived and themselves had been borne and educated because they deened it very hard for them to receive unknown Lawes and to judge of those things they knew not importunately beseeching him for the sou● of King Edward WHO HAD GRANTED TO HIM THE CROWNE and KINGDOME AFTER HIS DEATH and whose Lawes they were that he would not compell them to persevere under the Lawes of any Forainers but their owne Country Lawes alone Wherefore the King taking advise consented to the request of his Barons confirming all their Lawes and Customes in Parliament without any alteration or diminution as they presented them Whereof this is the very first Law concerning the preservation of the Churches rights and Scholars from rapine Every Cleargy-man and likewise all Scholars and all their Goods and Possessions wheresoever they are shall enjoy the Peace of God and of holy Church free from all forfeiture and Seisure and if any shall lay hands on that which Mother Church shall require LET HIM RESTORE THAT WHICH HE SHALL TAKE AWAY and likewise one hundred shillings in the name of a sorfeiture if it be from an Abby or Church of Religion and 20. s. if it be from a Mother Parish Church and 10. s. if it be from a Chappell After which follow 6. other Lawes concerning the Churches peace and priviledges and then these two Lawes concerning TITHES Of the TITHES of the Church Of all Corne the tenth Sheaf is given to God and therefore to be paid If any shall have a ●erd of Mares let him pay the tenth colt he who shall have onely one or two let him pay a penny for every colt Likewise he who shall have many Kine let him pay the tenth calfe he who shall have but one or two let him pay a penny for every calfe and he who shall make cheese let him give the tenth to God and if he shall make none the milke every tenth day Likewise the tenth Lambe the tenth Fleece the tenth Butter the tenth Pig Of BEES and all lesser TITHES In like manner also of Bees the tenth of the profit and also of Wood of Meadowes Waters and Mils and Ponds and Fishings and Copses and Orchards and Gardens and Negociations wherein Souldiery and all other Professions are included and all things which the Lord shall give THE TENTH PART IS TO BE TENDRED TO HIM WHO GIVETH THE NINE PARTS TOGETHER WITH THE TENTH And he who shall detain it SHALL BE COMPELLED TO RENDER IT BY THE JUSTICE OF THE BISHOP and OF THE KING IF NEED BE For these things St. Augustine hath prea●hed and taught and THESE THINGS ARE GRANTED BY THE KINGS and BARONS and PEOPLE But afterward let our Tith oppugners and detainers marke who is their originall Tutor BY THE INSTINCT OF THE DEVILL many have detained Tithes and rich negligent Priests do not care to prosecute them because they had sufficient necessaries for their life for in many places now there are three or four Churches where at that time was only one and so they began to be diminished This is that William the Conquerour whom our Officers Souldiers with the Levellers and Anabaptists most virulently reproach and raile against in their Discourses and silly ignorant scurrilous Pamphlets for an Invader Vsurper ROBBER TYRANT and subverter of our native Lawes and Liberties c. when as he claimed the Crowne onely by Gift and Title confirmed all our ancient Lawes and Liberties Civill and Ecclesiasticall without any alteration or diminution put never a Noble man or other person to death who rebelled or tooke up Armes against him all his reign but such who were actually slain in Battle was the gallantest Souldier and best Justiciary of any in his age as some Historians then living attest and not only much devoted to Religion frequenting the Church both morning and evening but likewise very industrious and bountifull to promote it honouring and richly endowing the Cleargy that lived according to their rule and profession but being very rough and hard hearted to the licentious and scandalous degrading his own Vnkle Malgerius Archbishop of Rhoan and many English Bishops for their dissolute lives founding no lesse then three Churches and Abbies of chief note whereof that of Battle was one endowing them with large Possessions and Priviledges according to the piety of those times out of his Conquests and confirming all the Clergies Tithes Rights Priviledges by the recited Lawes If those Officers and Souldiers who now pretend themselves Conquerers and us a Conquered or cousened Nation will really imitate his Justice Piety Bounty in these recited particulars no man will thenceforth bestow such reproachfull termes of Invaders Vsurpers Robbers Tyrants Subverters of our Lawes Liberties c. as they do usually on this first Norman King but repute them reall Saints and Patrons of Religion Ministers and the Church yea Sonnes of faithfull Abraham who gave the tenth of the Spoyles of war to God whose example with all the rest here recited in justice and conscience rather obligeth them to imitate his and their footsteps as the premises evidence then to spoyle our Ministers and Churches of their Tithes and Materials And so much in Answer of the first Evasion respecting our Army Officers and Souldiers only Object 1 The second Evasion of Abrahams Precedent is made by Country Farmers Tradesmen and their Advocates who alleage That Abraham gave the tenth only of his spoyles gained in Warre to Melchisedec but not of his Corn Wine Cattle and other Goods therefore this example bindes only Souldiers to pay personall but not them or any others to pay any such prediall mixt or personall Tithes as now they do by coercive Lawes and Ordinances against Law and Gospell To which I answer Answ 1. That the expresse words of Moses Gen. 14. 20. are And he gave him Tithes OF ALL. Which being universall not confined by him to the spoyles taken in War must be taken and intended in the largest sense that is of all his Substance or Encrease as well as of the spoyles then wonne 2. The

Apostle reciting the History Heb. 7. 2. useth the self-same generall expression To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part OF ALL without restraining it to the Spoyles of Warre which must be intended in the best and liberallest sense for Tithes of all his Substance and gaine being mentioned both to expresse his Piety and Bounty True it is the Apostle in the 4. verse useth this expression V●to whom the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the Spoyles which some oppugners of Tithes would have to be the Interpretation of the two former universall phrases Tithes of all But the Spoyles being not Abrahams all nor in truth any part thereof he refusing so much as to take a thred or shoe-latchet thereof to his own use Gen. 14. 23 24. and the word all being not so much as once used in the latter clause which recites he gave the tenth of the not all the Spoyles and the two first generall expressions necessarily including in them the tenth of the Spoyles I conceive the latter expression is rather a particular specification of one memorable thing he paid Tithes of in a new case not formerly happening even of the Spoyles taken in this first Battle he ever waged or any other that we read of included in the generall rather then a full comprehensive exposition of all that is or was intended by the Tenth or Tithes of all in the two precedent Texts 3. It is most probable that Abraham paid Tithes of all his owne substance to Melchisedec as well as of the Spoyles there being the self-same if not a stronger ground for him to pay Tithes of all his other goods as of these casuall Spoyles out of which no constant maintenance could be raised for any Pastor or Minister as there might be out of the Tithes of his Cattle and Substance encreasing every year Now Tithes being intended for the Priests and Ministers constant Maintenance by God and Man and this Precedent of Abraham recorded for that end we cannot without an absurdity restraine his paying Tithes of all only to the Spoyles then and then only unexpectedly gained from the enemy by Abraham and offered to the right owners but of the Tithes of all his Substance principally whence a constant livelihood for the Priest could only arise and of the Spoyles of Warre only by reason of his occasionall meeting of Abraham here returning from the Warres and blessing him at that time 4. This president of his was in all probability the ground of Gods appointing Tithes by a speciall Law for all the Priests and Levites MAINTENANCE amongst the Israelites Abrahams Posterity and the Apostle intimates as much Heb. 7. 4 5 6 7 8. c. that they receive Tithes of their Brethren in the same manner by the Law as Melchisedeck did of their Father Abraham Now they received Tithes of Corn Wine Oyle Cattle and all sorts of herbs and fruits for their standing Maintenance and Inheritance too Num. 18. 20. to the end Levit. 27. 30 31 32 33 34. Deut. 14. 22. 28. Therefore it is most probable if not infallible that Abraham paid Tithes of all those things which the Levites and Priests afterward received from their brethren to Melchisedeck and not of the spoiles alone out of which no certain Maintenance could be raised not specified there in these generall precepts concerning Tithes 5. The Apostle arguing the natural justice of Ministers maintenance Rom. 15. 27. and 1 Cor. 9. 11. useth this expression If we have sowen unto you spirituall things in the plurall number is it a great matter if we shall reap your CARNAL THINGS in the plurall number too and such things as seem commonly to grow and multiply as the word reap imports And Gal. 6. 6. he useth this general precept Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth IN ALL GOOD THINGS Therefore to restrain Abrahams giving Tithes of all onely to the Spoiles and not to all his carnal and Good things is a very improper exposition dissonant from the scope and sense of these parallel Texts which seem aptly to interpret it 6. The very Pharisee in the Gospel boasting of his Justice and Piety used this expression parallel with that of Abraham Luke 18. 12. I GIVE TITHES OF ALL THAT I POSSESSE and to confine Abrahams giving Tithes of all to the Tithes onely of the Spoiles and not to extend it with the Pharisee to all that he possessed besides is to make this Father of the Faithfull lesse righteous and liberall than this hypocriticall Pharisie 7. That which seems to put all out of question is the parallel Text of Gen. 28. 20 21 22. Where Jacob after his travelling vision makes this vow to God even before the Levitical Law for Tithes If God will be with me so that I come again to my Fathers house in peace Then shall the Lord be my God and this stone which I have set up for a pillar shall be Gods house and OF ALL THAT THOU SHALT GIVE ME I WILL SURELY without diminution or substraction GIVE THE TENTH UNTO THEE When should godly Jacob take his pattern of surely giving the Tenth of all not of Spoiles alone that God should give him unto God but from the practice of his Grand-father Abraham who gave Melchisedeck the Tenth of all God gave him as well as of the Spoiles Honoring God with ALL HIS SVBSTANCE and increase according to that precept of Solomon having relation to his practise and this Vow of Jacobs Prov. 3. 9. Honour the Lord with thy Substance and with the first fruits of ALL THY INCREASE And so much in refutation of this second Evasion which some armed men much urge The Third Objection which some would make fatall to all Tithes under the Gospel is from the close of the Apostles forecited words Heb. 7. 12. For the Priesthood being changed there is also a necessity of a change of the Law c. From whence William Thorpe one of our Martyes thus reasoned against Tithes and others now Saint Paul saith That Tithes were given in the old Law to Levites and to Priests that came of the linage of Levi but our Priests come not of the linage of Levi but of Juda to which Juda no Tithes were promised to be given And therefore Paul saith since the Priesthood is changed from the generation of Levi to Juda its necessary that changing also be made of the Law So that Priests live now without Tithes and other Dues that they claim following Christ and his Apostles in wilfull poverty as they have given them example Answer I Answer 1. That the Apostle in this and the three following Chapters concludes and proves by sundry Arguments That the Leviticall Priesthood and the Ceremonial Law given the people under Moses the Covenant of this Preisthood were both changed and abolished by Christ and his everlasting Priesthood shadowed to us by them and by consequence the maintenance of the Levitical Priests by Sacrifices offered by them

Baptisme which made neither of them void in Substance no more than their annexing of the Apocrypha to the Canonicall Scriptures made them uncanonicall These afterwards ordained other Bishops and Ministers without any Popish Rites in such manner as the Gospel prescribes which Mr. Mason and Yates prove against the Papists to be a lawfull Ordination though not made by the Popes Authority or according to former Popish Ceremonies In this Sense onely they write the bare Succession not the Office and Calling of our Ministers as this woodden Canne mistakes was derived from the Church of Rome but their Ministry it sel● from Christs own Institution And if this makes them Popish and Antichristian then all our Protestant Kings Parliaments Magistrates Judges Officers of all sorts must be Popish too If not Paganish because their Predecessors were such and all Officers Souldiers of the Army and Anabaptisticall Saints too who have purchased any Lands or Revenues of Abbies Priories Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters must likewise be both Antichristian and Popish because their Predecessors who first enjoyed and from whom they do derive them were such I hope therefore they will all now renounce these their Purchases to avoid the Guilt and high Scandall of Popery and Antichristianisme or disclaim this Second Loud-lying Voice against our Ministers and their Ministry as a Voice onely from a prophane empty Canne and not from a Sacred Temple But to return from the Lawfullnesse of our Ministers Calling and to their Tithes We have Secondly in this Text a Gospel Ordin●nce for their very Tithes confirmed by the old Lev●ticall Law and grounded on its Equity But how doth this appear By these emphaticall words EVEN SO HATH THE LORD ORDAINED in the Preterperfect Tense That they which Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel but where hath the Lord ordained this The Apostle thrice resolves expressely that he hath done it in the Leviticall Law ● 9. For it is written in the Laws of Moses Deut. 25. 4. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Ox that treadeth out the Corn doth God take care for Oxen Or saith ●e it TOGETHER FOR OVR SAKES FOR OVR SAKES NO DOVBT THIS IS WRITTEN that he that ploweth should plow in hope and he that thresheth in hope SHOVLD BE PARTAKER OF HIS HOPE which he again recites 1 Tim. 5 18. It this Precept concerning the meat and maintenance of Oxen onely in the Letter though part of the Levitical Law was doubtlesse written for and really intended of the Ministers of the Gospels food and Maintenance and in full force under the Gospel as the Apostle resolves then à fortiori the Precepts of the Law concerning the food and Livelyhood of Gods Priests and Levites under the Law by Gl●bes and Tithes not purely Ceremoniall as I have already proved must doubtlesse be intended of them and be in full force likewise in their naturall equitable Sence and Proportion in relation to their Livelyhood for preaching of the Gospel there being a greater Analogy and Proportion between them and Preachers of the Gospel than betwixt them and Oxen And to put it out of doubt he subjoyns Do not ye know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar To wit by Go●s expresse Ordinance in the Leviticall Law which ye know and therefore I need not particularly cite the words as I did the other of not neglecting the Ox c. which was more obscure and needed my former Paraphrase on them but thus mind you of in the Generall and then he inferres and subjoyns Even so hath the Lord ordained to wit by the very naturall moral Equity of the Lawes and Ordinances he made for the Priests and Levites Maintenance by Tithes and Glebes and Free-will-offerings for officiating in the Temple and at the Altar under the Law that the Preachers of the Gospel who now succeed and supply their places though in different Services in the Churches of Christ under the Gospel should live of the Gospel even so fully comfortably and in such sort as they did under the Law And to make this out more fully and clear it from the Censure of Judaisme take notice of these four particulars 1. That in the Holy Ghosts and Gospel phrase and Language there is a Temple among and for Christians under the Gospel as well as among for the Jews under the Law else Cannes Voice from the Temple if there be no such place must be thus amended in his next Edition A Voice from the Canne or Alehouse and that this Temple is nothing else but the Church and Saints of Christ 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Cor. 3 16 17. chap. 6. 19. Ephes 2. 21. 2 Thess 2. 4. Rev. 3. 12. chap 7. 15. chap. 11. 1 2 19. chap. 14 15. chap 15. 5 6 8. chap. 16. 1 17. 2 That Christians under the Gospel have likewise an Altar as well as the Jews though different from theirs Heb. 13. 10. We have an Altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the Tabernacle mentioned oft Rev. 6. 9. chap. 8. 3 5. chap. 9. 13. ch 14. 18. often coupled with the Templ● Rev. 11. 1. Rise measure THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND THE ALTAR 3. We have Sacrifices to be offered on the Altar as well as the Jews in theirs 1. The Sacrifice of Prayer Rev. 8. 3 4 5. 2. The Sacrifice of Praise Heb. 13 15. 3. The Sacrifice of Charity alms and good works Heb. 13. 16. 4. Our own bodies which we must present as a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God by serving him according to his word as rationall men not beasts that were both slain and sacrificed under the Law Rom. 12. 1. 4. We have Priests likewise to offer up these Spirituall Sacrifices 1 Pet. 2 9. Rev. 1. 6. chap. 5. 10. chap. 20. 6. And these are three 1. Every sanctified Christian who must offer up the Sacrifices of Prayer Praise alms and his own body to God in his private Closet and Family 2. The Ministers of the Gospel who must continually offer up these Sacrifices in the peoples behalf in publick here on earth now the T●mple for which we are to render them not onely Tithes and Glebes but a Freewil offering of bounty and charity besides a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing to God Phil. 4. 16. 3. Christ Jesus himself our altar and High Priest too now in heaven Heb. 13. 15. cap. 2. 17. c. 4. 14 15. c. 5. 10. c. 6. 20. c. 7. 17 20 21 22 27 28. c. 8. 1. c. 10. 21. And if Christians have even under the Gospel a Temple an Altar and spiritual Sacrifices to offer them to God in publike as well as the Jews Why the Priests who minister about holy things in this Evangelical Temple wait continually at this spirituall Altar and offer these spirituall sacrifices publikely unto God thereon and preach the Gospel likewise as the Jewish Priests and