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<HEAD>THE CASE OF <HI>James Haviland,</HI> Of the I&s;le of <HI>Purbeck,</HI> in the County of <HI>Dor&s;ert,</HI> pre|&s;ented to the view of every Impartial Reader; But more particularly to the Inhabitants of the I&s;le and County afore&s;aid.</HEAD>
<P><HI>GEORGE KING,</HI> Rector of <HI>Langton-Matravers;</HI> and <HI>James Parkins,</HI> Rector of <HI>Corf-Ca&s;tle</HI> in the I&s;le and County afore&s;aid, who call them&s;elves Mini&s;ters of the Peaceable Go&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; have contrary to the terms of that Go&s;pel and contrary to the Practice of all the Apo&s;tolick Mini&s;ters recorded in the New-Te&s;ta|ment, proceeded again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>James Haviland,</HI> for the Claims which they &s;everally had upon him for Tythes.</P>
<P>That their Practice is contrary to the terms of the Go&s;pel, will be&s;t appear by &s;etting down the Terms of it as they are recorded by the Evangeli&s;t, <HI>Luk.</HI> 2.14. <HI>Glory to God in the Highe&s;t, and on Earth Peace, Good-Will to Men.</HI> The&s;e two <HI>Rectors</HI> pretend to be Mini&s;ters of this Go&s;pel, and do yet compel Maintenance, and from &s;uch who Contientiou&s;ly refu&s;e to pay them, they have in a cruel manner endeavoured their Ruin, as in the pre&s;ent In&s;tance of <HI>James Haviland,</HI> who&s;e Hou&s;hold-Goods, Linnen and Wearing Apparel they have &s;eized to many times the value of the Tythe which they demanded; yet not con|tent with that; they did &s;eize and carry away two <HI>Bibles,</HI> which tho' they call it the <HI>Only Rule of Faith</HI> and <HI>Manners,</HI> they did deprive the Man of that, and expo&s;e the <HI>Rule</HI> it &s;elf to be Sold to Feed their Bellies.</P>
<P>But this their Doings as they are not agreeable to the Nature of the Go&s;pel, &s;o neither are they agreeable to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Apo&s;tles and Primitive <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> who did Preach Freely the Go&s;pel of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> according to our Saviour's command to his Di&s;ciples, <HI>Matth.</HI> 10.8. <HI>Freely ye have received, freely give.</HI> And the Apo&s;tle te&s;tified he did <HI>keep him&s;elf from being burden&s;ome, by Labour, working with his Hands,</HI> 2 Cor. 11.9. 1 Cor. 4.12. Tho' its not to be expected that the&s;e Rectors will be inclin'd to follow the Apo&s;tles Example, becau&s;e they cannot in truth &s;ay they became Mini&s;ters in the &s;ame manner which he did, when he &s;ays, <HI>I was made a Mini&s;ter according to the Gift of the Grace of God, given unto me by the effectual working of his Power,</HI> Ephe&s;. 3.7. Tho' after th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> manner it is that the Mini&s;ters of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> now do, and ever did receive their Mini&s;try.</P>
<P>Surely it behoveth the People to con&s;ider how di&s;agreeable the&s;e two <HI>Rectors</HI> are in their Mini&s;try and Practice to the true Mini&s;ters of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> who never did as the&s;e do, Vio|lently take away the Goods of tho&s;e they do not Preach to. In this their Practice they are condemned even by <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> the Monk, and tho&s;e that came with him, according to the Te&s;timony of <HI>Bede,</HI> the Church Hi&s;torian, who &s;aith, lib. 1. cap. 25. <HI>At ubi &s;ibi datam,</HI> &amp;c. <Q>They entred, where Man&s;ions were given them, and began to imitate the Apo&s;tolick Life of the <HI>Primitive Church,</HI> in continual Prayers, Watchings, and Fa&s;tings, Preaching the Word of Life to whom they could, rejecting, as Strangers, the things of this World, receiving from THOSE whom they taught, tho&s;e things ONLY which were Nece&s;&s;ary to &s;u|&s;tain them; and in all things lived according to the Doctrine they taught, ready to Suffer, or al&s;o to Dye, in te&s;timony to the Truth which they Preached.</Q></P>
<P>This was about the Year 600, and tho' there were many great Corruptions entred the Church at that time, yet in this particular of the Maintenance of Mini&s;ters, &s;he wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o happy as <HI>Bed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> &s;ays, as to imitate the Apo&s;tolick Life of the Primitive Church.</P>
<P>It is not to be doubted, but that the <HI>Primitive Chri&s;tians</HI> in the Apo&s;tolick Times, did when there was occa&s;ion, very willingly admini&s;ter to the nece&s;&s;ity of the Mini&s;try: And it cannot fail that any Man who is called to be a Mini&s;ter of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> as <HI>Paul</HI> was, but tho&s;e to whom he preacheth, will chearfully &s;upply his Wants. But not to urge th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;ingle In&s;tance only from <HI>Bede,</HI> it may be &s;hewn they were &s;o far from making any pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to their Prie&s;ts who did not hear them, that they would not receive Alms from any wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> were not in their Communion: The In&s;tance is this, there was a Synod celebrated in <HI>Ireland</HI> about the Years 450, or 456, by <HI>Patritius, I&s;&s;ervin, Auxilius,</HI> and others, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the Canons of which Synod, as given by <HI>Henry Spellman,</HI> the 12. &amp; 13. are,
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<ITEM>13. <HI>Eleemo&s;ynam &agrave; Gentibus offerendam in Eccle&s;iam recipi non licet.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Spellman. Concilia, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Orbis Britannici Tom. primus. <HI>p.</HI> 52.</P>
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<P>But &s;ince there is at this Day &s;uch very great alteration, That The&s;e <HI>Rectors</HI> who pre|tend to be <HI>Chri&s;t's</HI> Mini&s;ters, do like tho&s;e the Prophet mentions, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> 3.5. <HI>He that putteth not into their Mouths, they even pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">pare War against him.</HI></P>
<P>They might <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">et, one would have thought, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> within &s;ome Bounds of M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">de&s;ty: For if their de&s;ign had only and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> gotten from <HI>James Haviland,</HI> what was their pretended d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e for Preaching, the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> hath made provi&s;ion, that it may be very &s;peedily, and with much le&s;s charge obtain'd. But throwing a&s;ide all Mode&s;ty, and common Humanity, the&s;e <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word">,</HI> have neglected that way of procedure, that they might of &s;et purpo&s;e and de&s;ign, ruin the Man and his Family; of which intent they have given full proof, as may be &s;een by the under-written Inventory of Goods which they &s;eized, carried away, and &s;old, amounting by e&s;tima|tion to 50 <HI>l.</HI> Which is a Sum many-fold the value of the Tythe demanded.</P>
<P><HI>James Haviland</HI> of <HI>Corf-Ca&s;tle,</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Purbeck,</HI> and County of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">or&s;et,</HI> was pro|&s;ecuted upon the Statute of Treble Damages, by <HI>George King,</HI> Rector of the Pari&s;h of <HI>Langton-Matravers;</HI> and al&s;o by <HI>James Parkins,</HI> Rector of <HI>Cor&s; Ca&s;tle</HI> afore&s;aid, in a Suit of Tythes, and the Jury finding for each of them to the value of Forty Shillings, for which Judgment and Execution is awarded each of them Seventeen Pounds. And on the third, fourth and fifth Days of the &s;econd Month, 1700. <HI>Walter Frampt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n, John Riges, Gervis Cro&s;s,</HI> and Prie&s;t <HI>Parkins</HI>'s Servant <HI>Lawrence Simonds,</HI> took and carried away from him the &s;aid <HI>James Haviland,</HI> the particular Goods following, by e&s;timation amounting to the value afore&s;aid.</P>
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<ITEM>Fir&s;t, Two BIBLES.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Twenty one Yards and half of Blue Linne, or Dowle&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirteen Yards of Broad Dowle&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirty One Yards of Narrow Dowle&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two Feather-Beds.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Four Feather-Bol&s;ters, one Flock Bol&s;ter, and one Du&s;t-Bol&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Four Feather-Pillows.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two Ruggs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Six Sheets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nine Bed-Blankets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three Bed-Coverlets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three Canvas Bol&s;ter-Clothes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two Table-Cloths.</ITEM>
<ITEM><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">oats; two great or top Coats; and two Hou&s;e body Coats; four pair of Breeches.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Bra&s;s Warming-pan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two Pewter Platters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One pair of Boots.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two great Bra&s;s Kettles, and one &s;mall Bra&s;s Kettle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Bell-Mettle Pot.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Bra&s;s Pot.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One great new Towel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One great new Trendle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two new Half Hog&s;heads.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eight Joint-Stools.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Six Leather-Chairs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One large Table-Board with its Frame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Oak Table-Board of eight Foot long without a Frame: One other long Table-Board with its Frame: And one Round Table-Board with its Frame.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Poudering-Tub.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Five Deal-Boards.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One pair of Tongs, and one Fire-pan.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Four Beer-Ve&s;&s;els.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Steel-Quern, or Hand-Mill, for to grind Mault.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two Winnowing-Sheets.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Four Sacks, and two Two-Bu&s;hel Bags.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three Pecks and half of Wheat.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Peck and half of Beans.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Four Sives to winnow Corn withal.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Two Ru&s;h-bottom Chairs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Ax.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirteen pound of Bacon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"></ITEM>
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<ITEM>One Coffer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Pillion, and one Pannel, with Foot|&s;tool and Girts.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Brewing-Fat, or Vate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One new Strap-Rope.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Box.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One great new Oak Pre&s;s or Wardrobe to lay and hang Cloaths in.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One &s;tanding Bed&s;tead with the Cord and Mat.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Half-head Bed&s;tead, with the Cord and Mat.</ITEM>
<ITEM>About Four Load of Cleft Wood, and other great Wood.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Pocket-Knife which co&s;t 2 <HI>s.</HI> 6 <HI>d.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>One Pocket-Handkerchief; and one Hol|land Cap that was in &s;ome or one of the Pockets of the Clothes.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. Sowle,</HI> in <HI>White-Hart-Court</HI> in <HI>Grace-church-&s;treet;</HI> and at the Sign of the <HI>Bible</HI> in <HI>Leadenhall-&s;treet,</HI> by <HI>Leadenhall-Market,</HI> 1700.</P>
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