Queries concerning tythes to the priests and bishops Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1663 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A40237 Wing F1889A ESTC R29431 11132610 ocm 11132610 46372 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Society of Friends. Tithes -- England. 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion QUERIES concerning TYTHES TO THE Priests and Bishops . I. WAs not Tythes to be paid to the Levites which had no Lot amongst the rest of the Tribes ? And was not the decayed Widows , and Fatherless , and Strangers , which had no Lot , to have part with the Levites in their Lot ? and so eat , and drink , and praise the Lord together , the Tythes being the Lords . II. And did not Christ come to end the Levitical Priesthood that took Tythes ? And did he not end Tythes , and the Command that gave them , and also the Law by which the Priesthood was made ? And so did not Christ put down all ? III. And was not Tythes called a Heave-offering , and a Shake-offering , and a Wave-offering ? And did not Christ by offering up himself once for all the Off●rings , end all ? Not onely the Offerings of Bulls and Goats , but the Heave an● Shake-offerings of Tythes ? And if so ; then do not they that hold up the Heave-offering of Tythes , and Wave-offering , deny Christ come in the Flesh , and offered up once for all ? IV. Did any receive Tythes , or pay Tythes , but only the Jews , by the Command of God ? Or had ever the Gentiles Priests a Command to receive Tythes , or the people of the Gentiles to pay them to them ? Or are we outward Jews ? Or are they the outward Priests and Levites to whom we must pay Tythes now ? V. Or if you hold that Tythes are not to be paid Jure Divino , as you formerly pleaded , but by the Law of the Nation , then do you make that Law not to be of God , and so not being Jure Divino , is it not Jure Diaboli , and from the corrupt nature and power ? and how can that be called Civil Right , which is not civilized by the power of God ? VI. And if you say the Law commands them to be paid to God and holy Church ; will you say the Priests and Bishops are God and the Church ? would not this be ridiculous ? seeing the Poor hath no part , the Widow and Stranger hath no part , according to the Law of God ; and that though the Jews were as the Stars of Heaven , and the Sand of the Sea , yet the decayed Widows and Fatherless , who had no Lot , were to have their Lot with Levi of the Tythes , that there might not be a Begger amongst them . VII . And after Christ Jesus had ended the first Priesthood , Offerings and Tythes ; and they that were believers in him , called Christians ; was there not another provision made for the poor amongst the Christians then Tythes ? as you may see in the first Conversion , and the first Ages of Christianity , that there might not be a Begger among the Christians , according to the Gospel order , and Law of Jesus , as you see in the Acts , from the counsel of the Apostles , when they said , Chuse you seven men , fearing God , hating covetousness , full of the Holy Ghost , to be set over the Christians at Jerusalem , to see that nothing be lacking among them ; and if nothing be lacking , all is well . VIII . Did Christ give any such Command either among the Christian Jews , or Christian Gentiles , that they should receive or pay Tythes ? or was there any mention of Tythes among the Christians for several hundred years after Christ ? and was not the first paying of them in England , for praying of peoples Souls out of Purgatory ? IX . And hath not Christ said to his Ministers , Freely you have received , freely give ? And doth not the Apostle say , he coveted no man , Silver , nor Gold , nor apparel , that he might be an example to all that came after him ? And also said to Timothy and Titus how Bishops should be qualified , Not covetous , not greedy of filthy lucre ? And so here have not the Teachers and Priests of Christendom forsaken that Order of Jesus , and the Apostles , who take Tythes of peoples Estates , and will not preach without them ; and also take away the Tenths of them they do not preach to ; and if they will not pay them , sue them , and cast them into Prison ? And would not such , if they had been in the Apostles dayes been ridiculous , who serve not our Lord Jesus Christ , but their own Bellies ? And if they were not justifiable then , how are they now ? G. F.