A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson.

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A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson.
Author
Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for Benjamin Clark ...,
1680.
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Clergy -- Appointment, call, and election.
Pastoral theology.
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The Contents of the ensuing Treatise.

  • OF the Divine Call into the Ministry, Cap. 1.
  • Of a Humane Call into the Ministry, Cap. 2.
  • Of the Original of Bishops in Gospel Dayes, and of the Identity of Bishops and Elders in the Primitive Age, Cap. 3.
  • Of the Work of the Ministry of Christ, and of Antichrist. Cap. 4.
  • Of the Wages of the Ministers of Christ, being Free and Voluntary; and of the Coercive, Compulsive Maintenance of the Ministers of Antichrist, Cap. 5.
  • Of the Rise of First Fruits in Christian-Churches, Cap. 6.
  • Of the Rise of Mortuaries, Cap. 7.
  • Of the Statute against Mortmain, Cap. 8.
  • Of Exemptions from the Payment of Tythes, Cap.9.
  • Of Franke Almoigne, Cap. 10.
  • Of Peter-Pence, Reek-Penny, &c. Cap. 11.
  • Of Tythe in Lay-mens Hands, Impropriators, Cap. 12.
  • The Clergies Patriarchal Claim to Tythes, Cap. 13.
  • The Clergies Mosaical Claim to Tythes, Cap. 14.
  • The Clergies Evangelical Claim to Tythes, Cap. 15.
  • Tythes a Mosaical Shadow, Cap. 16.
  • The Clergies Human Claim to Tythes considered; as also the Testimo∣nies of several, eminent in the Church in their respective Ages, a∣gainst the Exaction thereof in Gospel Dayes, Cap. 17.
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