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Q. 156. It seems then that the Anabaptist••∣call conceipt is most false, that all things are com∣mon; and yet we cannot say this is ours, and that is yours, Give us this day our dayly bread?

A. Yea, for first, the Law says thou shalt not steale, Exod. 20. 15. Secondly, the Lord says we must worke, and earne and eate our owne bread, 2 Thess. 3. 12. Thirdly, the scripture speaks of ten proprieties, a good Bishop rules wel his own house, 1 Tim. 3. 4. Iohn tooke Mary into his own house, John. 19. 27. Fourthly, the action of buy∣ing and selling does also prove it, Christ bid his Disciples to buy meat, Iohn. 4. 8. Fiftly, the Gos∣pell relates divers rich men, if there were a com∣munity, no one should be richer then another, Ioseph of Arimathea was rich, Math. 27. 57. the

Eunuch was rich, Act. 8. 27. Paul does not ad∣vise rich men to make all away they have, but not to trust in their riches, 1 Tim. 6. 17. Sixth∣ly, the duty of being liberall supposes a proprieity; for then is a man liberall, when he gives bounti∣fully of his owne, 2 Cor. 9. 6. when one beggeth of us, and we let him have, we are said to give. Math. 5. 42. First, because so is Gods institution at the, first. Act. 16. 27. & a division of goods and inheritance, is Gods Ordinance, Deut. 32. 8. Secondly, so is Gods providence, he maketh rich as poore, Prover. 22. 2. Thirdly, it is not mans sinne, when he counts his goods his owne, or his house his owne, Symon had a house of his owne, Act. 10. 6. Mary a house of her owne, Act. 12. 12. Philip had a house of his owne, Act. 21. 8. It is true, first, we are all one in Christ, in regard of spirituall life but not in civill life, Gal. 3. 28. for some are Masters and some ser∣vants, Eph. 6. 5. some rich some poore, Math. 26. 11. Secondly, there must be a communion of charity, but not such a communion, as is con∣trary to all propriety, Heb. 13. 16. nay this kind of communion supposeth a propriety, Prov. 5. 16, 17. Thirdly, the Gospell commands a readinesse to forsake all that we have, when we are called, but not always an actuall forsaking of all, Luke. 14. 33. Fourthly, the Church may stand in need of a community of goods, Act. 2. 44. and that all goods should be common, Act. 4. 32. and yet that doth suppose, first, that our goods are our own, and in our owne power to make common, Act. 5. 4. Secondly, nor a necessity, but a freenesse of giving, 2 Cor. 9. 7. Thirdly, it was only by ac∣cident,

in regard of the multitudes of poore Be∣lievers, Luke 12. 33.