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spirit_n	earth_n	heaven_n	holy_a	7,009	5	4.7805	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38604	The civil right of tythes wherein, setting aside the higher plea of jus divinum from the equity of the Leviticall law, or that of nature for sacred services, and the certain apportioning of enough by the undoubted canon of the New Testament, the labourers of the Lords vineyard of the Church of England are estated in their quota pars of the tenth or tythe per legem terræ, by civil sanction or the law of the land ... / by C.E. ...	Elderfield, Christopher, 1607-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing E326; ESTC R18717	336,364	362

and Put them in fear that they may know themselves to be but Men. Defend also thy servant who putteh his trust in Thee And if he desire before All things Thine Honour The stability of thy Gospel has been his chief and onely aim nor has Any line here but been meant to tend as directly as guided by humane frailty it could to that point to end in that Center O give thou Not Him then over into the Will of his adversaries that if any Hate they may obtain Lordship over Him Make good Thine Own Cause in standing by Him that laboureth for that Cause Thy Truth and Thee Stretch forth the right hand of thy Power evermore mightily to succour and defend Him Deliver him from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of Evil Doers Let the ungodly or unjust fall into their own Nets together but let him ever escape them Give also Good Lord Merciful and Gracious unto All that love thy Truth eyes to see it Hearts to embrace it Affections to cherish it and a good will to Do accordingly and vouchsafe likewise Prudence against the subtil Serpent that Any who bear good will to Sion may never procure her Hurt but stablish these due Means on Earth thy Providence looks upon and has appointed as necessary to accomplish their just and holy ends what they meant to establish by no improvidence ever disturbing or destroying Finally Grant Victory to Truth Progress to Justice Stability to thy Church Perpetuity to Thy Gospel and that no Lovers thereof Here may take up lower then with That the Light thereof may continue shining Ever and Over All the world to All ages and generations Thus let thy Name be Hallowed O our Father which art in Heaven Let thy Kingdome come O Saviour and Blessed Redeemer Let thy Will be done Most holy and blessed Spirit in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us Forgive us and preserve us from Evill For Thou only O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the glory of God the Father To which God One and Three be All Honour and Praise for ever and ever Amen Grace be with all those that Love the Lord Iesus Christ in Sincerity POST-SCRIPT Courteous Reader FOR so I style thee and hope to finde thee or have need to Make thee and the most bountiful dilatation of thy Courtesie drawn forth to Cover or Pardon those many imperfections this my first-born hath brought with it into the world Some doubtless both in matter and form for Who ever Spake that Erred not Much in More then a little In multiloquio nunquam deerit Vanitas This at the least as the Wise man assured from Shortness of Inquiry Dimness of Understanding Weakness of Judgement Distraction of Business Inadvertency or some fruitful Cause of Errour or other Most men being forced to number their mistakes by their Pages Onely as to purposedly Erroneous Deceiving or being Deceived I Sacredly and Seriously disavow At the Press also Poor Mephibosheth caught some mischance Blemished in his face nay crippled in his limbs lamed at least in his feet and complaining oft he can hardly go right forth for want of sense which bruises require thy Healing Correcting hand Some of Many are collected and annexed The rest like our daily slips almost innumerable Thou art to be 1. Remembred that In multis labimur omnes None below goes so sure but he slips sometimes None so firm and upright but he steps a little awry and Thy selfe wilt Matth. 7. 12. I trust ask pardon for thy daily failings 2. Intreated to Do as thou wouldst he Done to Ib ver 1. Judge or Judge not as thou wouldst or wouldst not be judged Gal. 6. 1. in the spirit of meekness Considering Thy self lest Thou also be tempted 3. Informed That a purpose was of attempting satisfaction of those many whether frivolous or more weighty and substantiall doubts that usually occurre about this established Course the frame whereof was likewise contrived and divers of the materials brought together As that This proportion is too much The Receivers are Ill Men Good Men take offence at Both Exactions throng in with Suits and Injuries with Exactions The bottome of all is in Canaan some Jewish Laws The people shrink under the Heaviness of the Burden Iure Divino is declined by Many and Here The Supream Power may alter all Humane Constitutions c. But because These would both lead toward the footstool of the Throne whether save in my Devotions I constantly decline to look That which Is is Much These might make Too Much And here are Principles especially from the Main of Civill Right made unquestionable and the Morall and Indispensable duty of Justice in paying which must needs follow thereon upon which common reason may work out satisfaction to the Most I therefore Suppress or Delay as Accepts of what is here may further encourage or disswade Be requested 4. and lastly not to take Causeless exceptions at any of those things which as they come from us and in our Humane frailty cannot but afford those that are Material Reall Weighty and Substantiall enough I speak of most things As They Were and as in the Times When They Were How else should I reach home as Churches Clergy Royalties Rights Jurisdictions Princes Peers Powers Priviledges and Preeminencies c. Not that I am willing to engage for All another may think good to oppose about them Philip. 3. 13. Or stand in Defensive of Any thing howsoever since altered But. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle suggested with much quickness in another case One Thing I doe That I am about I keep to and so that be Secured would not willingly intromix draw or be drawn in to other accidentall by-Quarrels So I may have leave to conveigh my Parlee to the World in the language of the World best understood by the World I would not willingly inwrap my self in controversie about any other of Those Things they yet stiffely enough maintained and in a rigid import who took up the words and gave them Us in their first and full sense Nor hast thou reason to be offended that I balk not the publick tone to conform to thy Singularity for the Many are to be regarded in A Multitude and the Most in most large by diffusive Communication to All But if thou remain obstinate and undeniable in thy expectation or otherwise satisfaction I conform to Thy desire Change what thou wilt so thou keep the matter Retain the substance and vary the phrase Hold to the Body New-shape my outward form of Expression conform to thine own will judgement or fancy At thine own charge I approve or if thou wilt Suppose the thing Already done Thou shalt but wrong thine own Discretion to thy judging friends if thou quarrel with shadows or take advantage of that I confess to take licence and scope enough in a free and plentiful use of Tropes and Figures Allusions or

of our humane frailty and making our troublesom earthly life more quiet calm and comfortable amid all our infirmities and tempest-breeding corruptions This is that Chymists fire that sets the several forms in compounded bodies on work to excite and raise themselvs up to cause division and thereby separation that the potential parts may come in single out of the heap and that which might be distinct may be The fan that separates one thing from another this from that which were before in the common heap the Calamus mensurae or mete-wand wherewith 1 Chap. 40 Ezekiel was to measure and fit the several proportions of the Sanctuary and wherewith are measured out unto us every ones propriety and limited and proportioned The square rule fence measure that helps to cut out properties and divide them parts the common and encloses it appoints of the whole how much every man must have imprinting the Characters of Meum and Tuum upon the divided parcels and circumscribing each with 2 Ex dom●nio ad modum jam dictum privato introducto evenit ut territorii seu agri cujus usus universis pariter erat in arando aedificando depascendo arbores caedendo fructus pe●cipiendo transeundo liber proprietas ità possidenti sive per distributionem sive per occupationem privatim acquireretur ut is liberum ejusmodi usum jure posset impedire nec ejus injussu al us licitè uti posset Atque ab hac origine manavit omnium rerum proprietas seu dominium quod sive al enatione sive quacunque aliâ cessione in al●os tran●fertur sive possessione re●●netur Seld. Mare Claus lib 1. cap. 5. Noli me tangere meddle not with anothers others touch not pitch least thou be defiled lay not a greedy and unjust hand upon anothers least it burn thy fingers Would we have that which resembles Di●o's Thong whereby she parted that which was hers from his she bought her little plat of ground of calling This City That Countrey This is it Would we behold that Sea-banck that bounds the raging and impetuous Waves speaking in the word as 't were of an Almighty Creator Hither shall you come and no further Here shall your proud Waves be stayed That restrains I mean the raging ravenous impetuous insatiable desires of mans greedy restless covetous minde telling him He shall have This and no more It is enough He must and ought be therewith contented The Law the Law doth this alone setting up every one his Hercules Pillars how far he shall come and no farther His bounds that he cannot passe nor turn again to any of that community he has thus by his own Act excluded himself from and may not re-invade though he never so much desire it Tolle Jura Imperatorum quis audet dicere Mea est illa villa aut Meus est ille Servus c. as replyed S. Augustine to some wo asked him what they had to do with Emperours And a little after Per Jura P●●um possidentur Possesiones The Laws of Kings give us our Lands which was worth remembring having been laid down at large before And so the Student to his Doctor The Law of Man gives man what is his and therefore may regulate and therefore may make conditions one of which is such as there resolvs the doubt in hand And Mr Selden speaking of Right and Civil Right and the particular Right of these Dues we call Tithes makes their strength here immediately founded in humane law page 14. of the Preface to his History And this is very reasonable for the Law is supposed every ones Act what is thereby impaled Every one to have an hand in the enclosing thereof even he that would claim Re-entry but has hereby excluded himself from any such just hope of For 1 Reg. Iur. Can. 29. Quod tangit omnes ab omnibus debet approbari and supposed so done that what is past in Law is past by NOw I come to Matth. Matth. 28. 20. 28. 20. Lo I am with yon always to the end of the world Sir Answ from the scope of your Paper it is easily seen what you would inferr hence but as yet the Reason of your inference lies in the dark the meaning of this phrase I am with you always unto the end of the World is no more then this I will do you good whilest ye remain imploy'd in my work My Authour in this Exposition is old Jacob no bad Interpreter Gen. 31. 3. the Lord commanded Jacob to return into the Land of his Fathers and to his kindred and for his encouragement adds to the promise thus I will be with thee which Jacob in chap. 32. 9. thus expounds I will deal well with thee or I will do thee good Jesus Christ is present with his Messengers or deals well with them when he doth instruct comfort strengthen or protect them and all these works he doth in his absence by his spirit whom the Father hath sent in his Name Joh. 14. 26. Let me only for brevity sake instance in the work of instruction Christ instructed his Apostles but not immediately for the spirit which came in Christs Name and received of his was the Instrument by which Jesus Christ did the work John 16. 13 14 15. When he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine Hic locus de modo praesentiae spiritus quo se suaque nobis communicat caeterum corpore abest Beza in loc and shall shew it unto you all things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you Christ is now in Heaven sitting at the right hand of God and is present with the Saints in Earth by the spirit and glorious influences of grace and mercy John 14. 16 17 18. This kinde of presence by the spirit Beza and others understand to be intended in Matth. 28. 20. REv. Rev. 2. 2. 2. 2. is now to be minded whether it doth joyn with the fore-going Texts in speaking any thing by way of Justification to your Assertion or not Answ Christ could not say you at so great a distance know all the works of the Churches as meer man What could he not Is any thing too hard for the Lord What could the Prophet Elisha know at a very great distance what the King of Syria said in his bed-chamber And yet cannot Christ know at a distance He hath the spirit to wit wisedom power c. given him without measure John 3. 34. And therefore can know beyond what we can conceive And yet is not the most high God for his knowledge is of another John 5. 30. I can of mine own self do nothing as I hear I Judge and my judgement is just