Tyth-gatherers, no gospel officers. Or, Certaine briefe observations concerning the institution and paying of tythes,: whereby it appears that men were never compelled to the payment of them in the Old Testament, nor did ever practice it in the New: that the Gospel contributions were all voluntary accounted as a free gift, not a debt; the apostles themselves, not only choosing to labour with their owne hands, but requiring all their successours to doe the like, that they might not bee chargeable to any of their disciples. Together with some quotations out of Mr. Selden, a Member of the House of Commons, his History of Tythes, for the writing whereof he was much troubled by the Episcopall tythmongers of those times, from whom the Presbyterian church-publicans of these days, have learnt to persecute with far greater violence, all such as doe but speak against their Gospel-taxations, ..., by John Selden

Title:	Tyth-gatherers, no gospel officers. Or, Certaine briefe observations concerning the institution and paying of tythes,: whereby it appears that men were never compelled to the payment of them in the Old Testament, nor did ever practice it in the New: that the Gospel contributions were all voluntary accounted as a free gift, not a debt; the apostles themselves, not only choosing to labour with their owne hands, but requiring all their successours to doe the like, that they might not bee chargeable to any of their disciples. Together with some quotations out of Mr. Selden, a Member of the House of Commons, his History of Tythes, for the writing whereof he was much troubled by the Episcopall tythmongers of those times, from whom the Presbyterian church-publicans of these days, have learnt to persecute with far greater violence, all such as doe but speak against their Gospel-taxations, ...
Author:	Selden, John, 1584-1654
Note:	[London : s.n.], Printed in the hopefull-yeare both of civill and Christian liberty, 1646

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Subject:	Tithes
Subject:	Great Britain -- Church history
Subject:	Selden, John, 1584-1654 -- Historie of tithes
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