The appearance of a minister of the Gospel in a law-court to sue for money supposed to be due to him for his ministerial services, even by promise or agreement, is spoken of with disgust.

Were it the understood rule that there could be no recovery by a minister even of his promised salary, would not that also tend in some degree to keep Hirelings out of the Church?
The pamphlet, it will be seen, is more outspoken and thoroughgoing than its forerunner.

It contains also more of those individual passages that represent Milton in his rough mood of sarcastic strength, though none of such beauty or eloquence as are to be found in his earlier pamphlets.

The following are characteristic:-- _Mr.Prynne's Defences of Tithes_:--"To heap such unconvincing citations as these in Religion, whereof the Scripture only is our rule, argues not much learning nor judgment, but the lost labour of much unprofitable reading.

And yet a late hot Querist for Tithes, whom ye may know, by his wits lying ever beside him in the margin, to be ever beside his wits in the text,--a fierce Reformer once, now rankled with a contrary heat,--would send us back, very reformedly indeed, to learn Reformation from Tyndarus and Rebuffas, two Canonical Promoters."[1] [Footnote 1: The reference is to Prynne's _Ten Considerable Queries concerning Tithes, &c., against the Petitioners and Petitions for their Total Abolition_: 1659.] _Marriages and Clerical Concern in the same_:--"As for Marriages, that ministers should meddle with them, as not sanctioned or legitimate without their celebration, I find no ground in Scripture either of precept or example.