A93206:26
A short conference between a scrupling Presbyterian, and a Puritan concerning maintenance for the…
A short conference between a scrupling Presbyterian, and a Puritan concerning maintenance for the gospel ministry wherein dialogue-wise is lovingly argued; whether tithes, or any other stinted proportion of mens estates, may now under the gospel be required by the ministers, or paid by the people, by virtue of any express warrant, or good consequence from scripture. with a letter to the Assembly of Divines.A short conference between a scrupling Presbyterian, and a Puritan concerning maintenance for the gospel ministrie wherein dialogue-wise is lovingly argued; whether tythes, or any other stinted proportion of mens estates, may now under the gospel be required by the ministers, or pay'd by the people, by vertue of any expresse warrant, or good consequence from scripture. with a letter to the Assembly of Divines.
London : s.n., 1646
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Purr. Noah doubtless; for as there is no third way of Government prescribed the people of God, between, or besides the Old and new Law, or Testament, so is it impossible there should be sound any other warrantable ⟨p. 5⟩means of •ay•ing maintenance unto the Ministers of either Testament, then what God has therein prescribed them, which under the old Law, was a stinted Proportion even the Tyther, whether the increase were more or less, for the Livi•ecall Priest-hood; But for the Gospel Ministry, nothing besides the charity and free bounty of the people, which yet through faith became a larger portion then that of Tithes, whilst the believers at some time and place; had not only all things in common, Ast. 2. 44. but such as had land• and houses, sold all they had, and laid the whole price thereof at the Apostles feet, Act. 4. 34. 35.
Pur. Noe doubtl•s; for as there is no third way of Goverment prescribed the people of God, betweene, or besides the Old and new Law, or Testament, so is it impossible there should be sound any other warrantable ⟨p. 5⟩meanes of •ay•ing maintenance unto the Ministers of eyther Testament, then what God has therin prescribed them, which under the old Law, was a stinted Proportion even the Tyther, whether the encreas were more or lesse, for the Livi•ecall Preist-hood; But for the Gospell Ministry, nothing besides the charity and free bounty of the people, which yet through faith became a larger portion then that of Tythes, whilst the beleevers at some time and place; had not only all things in common, Ast. 2. 44. but such as had land• and houses, sould all they had, and laid the whole price thereof at the Apostles feete,