Tithes remounted and advanced, by Martin Bown for Tho. Bates at the Maiden­head on Snow-hill, near Hol­borne, printed 1646. in 4 to. Animadversions on Mr. Seld. Hist. of Tithes, by Rich, Tollesley, printed by John Bill, 1619. in 4 to. The Disputes of Peter de Moulin with the Jesuites and other Papists in France, are too many to be brought into this Cata­logue, wherein I desire to be brief: as also those of D. Featly, our acute Countryman, both in England and in France. Fifthly, For the Bishops that ordained our Presbyters, they ordained them as Presbyters, or Ministers, for such they were before they were Bishops; and so being Presbyters or Mini­sters, those whom they ordained might well be true Presbyters and Ministers also. The ninth day the people shall go out of their dens, and go as they were mindlesse, and none speak to other.

Secondly, Some things they did as men ingenuously educated, and endowed with knowledge of Arts, and Tongues, and Hi­stonies, and so many who are in their Religion and Profession Popish, have written divers excellent Books and Discourses of all sorts. An answer to a Letter by Sam. Turner, concerning the Church and Revenue ther­of, printed 1647. in 4 to. From that year to 1590, Ant. Possev. Apparat. Sacer vol. 1. p. 480. Possevine gives a List of 21 Dispu­tations of several Popish Points, held in several Popish Universi­ties; but they were but such Disputations as Bellarmines at Rome, without a personal opponent; or if with one, not real and se­rious, but onely personated. First then, According to the religious Aphorism of [...]. Greg. Nazianz. Orat. 1. Tom. 1. p. 1. Na­zianzen, the work must begin with God, and end with God by prayers and praises, for he is the father of Lights, James 5.7. and can make dark things clear; and when he sets a light before men, he can open their eyes to see it, and bind their hearts to embrace it.The third partiality of Mr. O. appeareth in his Epistle to his Schismatical Sister-Churches, where he taketh upon him to make a long Paraphrase on the words of Ananias to Saul, Acts 22.18. but when Doctor Brian makes but a short one on the words of Peter, Acts 2.39. The promise is made to you and to your Children: saying, if the promise be made to believers and their children, the command must reach not only to them but to their children, as running thus, be baptized you and your children, for the promise is made to you and to your children. The twelfth day Stars shall fall from Heaven, and shall spread out raies of fire; on this day, it is said, that all the beasts shall come to the field howling, and shall not eat nor drink.

The Question of Tithes Revised, Arg. for the morali­ty of Tithing cleared, by Wil­liam Sclater DD. printed by John Legate, 1623. in 4 to. How he should be Learned who spends the most of his time as a Husbannman, unless, as Amos an Herdsman at Tekoa, he were divinely inspired, Amos 1.1. and cap. 17. ver. 14, 15. I cannot conceive: but if he be such a man as he taketh upon him to be, we may in his Name give answer to the Apostles que­stion, Who is sufficient for these things? 2 Cor. 2.16. Here is M. O. a man sufficient, and more than sufficient for the Ministry; for he can act the part of a laborious Husbandman six days to­gether, and on the seventh can perform the Office of a Spiri­tual Pastor to a Church or Congregation of Christians. And besides his Sermon-sufficiency, is so well furnisht with Polemi­cal Divinity, that he dare challenge our most learned Doctors to dispute with them in the greatest Assemblies; and if he may be allowed to report the passages of the Disputation, will baffle them in print into shameful silence, and leave them to be laugh­ed at. Such was his vapouring vanity in his Examination of Doctor Brians Reply, where having made a ridiculous Argu­ment in the Doctors Name, he exposeth it to this scornful que­stion, Spectatum admissirisum teneatis? Mr. O. his Ex­am. of Dr. Br. Reply, p. 61. This may fitly lead in the next note of him, which we may take for an effect of his Ignorance, that is, the Arrogancy of his Spirit.Notwithstanding the issues and effects of some Disputations have been more successful (besides those which were carried on by a Divine Power against Humane or Devillish malignity) as that of Octavius a Christian, with Cecilius an Heathen, set forth by Minutius Felix; whereof we have observed before, that some take that for a real story, some for a pious discourse com­posed by Minutius himself Dialogue-wise, under the borrowed names of Caecilium superstitiosis vanitatibus e­tiamnum in­haerentem di­sputatione gravissima ad veram religio­nem reforma­vit Octavius: sic Minutius Felix Conclus. Dialog. Tom. 9. Bibliothec. Patrum, col. 22. Octavius a Christian, and Cecilius an Heathen: the effect whereof, whether it were historicall, or poeticall, or moral, was such as was answerable to such convincing premises, viz. that Cecilius converted by Octavius from superstitious vanities, they parted with mutual congratulation, and Minutius thereby accounted himself Felix, y rejoycing with and for them both. Quod per sce­lus adeptus est; per luxuriam effundit. Cicer Orat. pro Q [...]. not their guilt, but his gaul and guile to make them odious, which yet with judicious Readers may produce a contrary effect; and the od [...]um he intends against them, may recoyl upon himself, for charging upon Oxthodox Ministers such notorious and extrava­gant untruths; of which Calling there are now more good and fewer bad (blessed be God) than ever they were in any Age: And therefore such excessive Revilings of them are not onely most unjust, but most unseasonable. Tithes examined and proved due to the Clergy by Divine Right, by George Carl­ton, for Clement Knight at the Lamb in Pauls Church-yard, 1611. in 4 to. Of so many parishes in divers Counties, the greatest part of the increase tithable, is taken up by the Title of Impro­priations, whereof the Incumbent Minister hath no part. Ob. But if Bishops, it is enough to discredit all they do, for saith Mr. O. (and therein he bewrayeth his gross ignorance a­gain) Mr. O. in Dis­pute. p. 30. the Devil ordained the Pope, the Pope the Bishops, and the Bishops you, to Doctor Brian; how can you be true Mini­sters by him that was none himselfe?