The poor mechanick's plea against the rich clergy's oppression. Shewing tithes are no gospel-minister's maintenance. In a brief and plain method how that tithes (as now paid) are both inconsistent with the dispensation of the law and dispensation of the gospel. Also how they were brought into the church many hundred years after Christ and testified against by several antient Christians and martyrs. With several sober reasons against the payment of them
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Title: The poor mechanick's plea against the rich clergy's oppression. Shewing tithes are no gospel-minister's maintenance. In a brief and plain method how that tithes (as now paid) are both inconsistent with the dispensation of the law and dispensation of the gospel. Also how they were brought into the church many hundred years after Christ and testified against by several antient Christians and martyrs. With several sober reasons against the payment of them
Classmark: Leeds Friends' Old Library 1124
Creator(s): Bockett, John (1658?-1715)
Publisher: Printed and sold by T. Sowle
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1699
Language: English
Size and medium: 52 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/428521
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012807089705181
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Preface signed: J. Bockett.
Indexed in: Wing B3388; Smith I, 287.
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Bound with 12 other publications in a volume lettered "Pamphlets". Volume contents: 1. Penn, W. and Coole, B.: A testimony to the truth of God, 1699. -- 2. Whitehead, G.: A just enquiry into the libeller's abuse, 1693. -- 3. Whitehead, G.: The contemned [sic] Quaker and his Christian religion, 1692. -- 4. Bockett, J.: The poor mechanicks plea, 1699. -- 5. Field, J.: Wing-clipping no crime, 1696. -- 6. Crisp, S.: An epistle to Friends, 1710. -- 7. Webster, J.: The saints guide, 1699. -- 8. Bockett, J.: A backbiter's tongue destructive to religion, 1714. -- 9. Cross, P.: Some tender advice of a sober youth, 1704. -- 10. Coole, B.: Religion and reason united, 1699. -- 11. Field, J.: An answer to a catechism against Quakerism, 1693. -- 12. Penn, W.: A last censure of Francis Bugg's address, 1699. -- 13. Penington, J.: Certain certificates received from America, 1695
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