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, ...

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Selden, John, 1584-1654.

Series:

Thomason Tracts ; 52:E.3192.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes.

Selden, John.

Tithes--Early works to 1800.

Tithes.

Church history.

Great Britain--Church history--17th century--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 22 pages, 2 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Certaine briefe observations concerning the institution and paying of tythes

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], Printed in the hopefull-yeare both of civill and Christian liberty, 1646.

Notes:

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan 27 London 1645"; the second 6 in imprint date crossed out.

The final leaf is blank.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Thomason Tracts ; 52:E.319[2]). s1977 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) T1307B.

Thomason E.319[2].

Related Work:

Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes.

OCLC:

61374052