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A76498 An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of queries, containing in them seventy-seven questions. Wherein sundry scriptures out of the prophets and apostles are cleared: the maintenance of ministers by tithes is by scripture fullly [sic] vindicated: several cases of conscience are resolved: several points of Christian religion are confirmed; parochial churches, and the practises of some things in these our English churches are throughly justified: the Grand Antichrist with the heretical antichrists are decyphered and parallelled. By John Bewick minister of the Gospel, and rector of the parish church of Stanhop in Weredale in the county of Durham. Bewick, John, d. 1671. 1660 (1660) Wing B2191; Thomason E1038_1; ESTC R207858 143,317 191

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seed the land on which he then did lie and that in his blessed seed which is Christ all the families of the earth should be blessed Gen. 28. 13 14 15. and that he would keep and preserve him in all places whether he went and that he would not leave him untill he had done that which he had spoken to him of Whereupon Jacob vowed to pay unto God the tenth of all as soon as the Lord should give him an estate out of which these tenths might arise for he had when he vowed nothing we read of save a little oyle which he poured on the top of a pillar and his staffe with which Gen. 28. 18 Gen. 3● 10 Gen. 28. 20. 21 22. as a poor traveller he passed over Jordan As this vow of Jacob is a large testimony that he then had in him very plentiful large and cheerful resolutions to pay tythes so it doth fully notifie that he had took into him an advised consideration of the special grounds for which they are at all times to be paid unto God namely they are to be alwayes paid as an acknowledgement that God is the Soveraigne Lord over all people and that he is the blesser of them bestowing on them temporal blessings from the dew of heaven and the increase of the earth and spiritual and eternal blessings from Christ the blessed seed and that he is the Keeper and Preserver of them in all places and the Provider for them of meat and rayment and the Setler of them in their habitations in peace Jacob vowed thus to do what was but his duty to do that when he should come through Gods enabling him to perform it he might the more heedfully discharge it as being to him as to all men a duty and somewhat more even a vowed duty or a duty requiring from him so much more carefulnesse as he was pleased by his own choice to single it especially out to be by him upon solemn vow and special ingagement the more religiously observed and performed 3. Paying of tythes is a standing thing to be done after Abrahams time because the Hebrews were commanded by God to pay them and that before the Levitical Priesthood was instituted Thou shall not delay to offer the first or fulnesse Exo. 22. 29 of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquor c. that is thou shall not delay to pay the tythe of these Certainly if the slack or a deferring of paying these be a sin then the not paying them at all is a sin with a witness even an high rebellion against a known Commandment 4. The Lord hath made a Law which he never yet repealed whereby it is evident that paying of tythes is a standing thing to be done after Abrahams time The Law is this Thou shall truly tyth all the increase of the seed that the field bringeth forth yeare by yeare So long then as there shall be in the Deut. 14. 22 world fields which yeelds increase the owners of them are bound to pay yearly the tythe of their increase truly without any fraud unto them whom God hath appointed should be his Ministers to dispense unto his people holy things according to the Apostles words Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple 1 Cor. 9 12 14. and they which wait at the Altar are partakers of the Altar even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel It is hence very evident that though that manner of worship and service is changed which was performed by them who were Ministers at the Temple and at the Altar yet the maintenance which these had is continued and to be continued unto those who are to transact that publick worship and service of God which the Gospel appoints Therefore the Ministers of the Gospel are not to live of the peoples allowance but of the things belonging to the Gospel which is the tythe established by a Law which was never yet repealed and which by Christs Ordinance is yet further confirmed for as much as it entailes for ever on his Evangelical Ministerial servants the things of this Gospel which are the tythes and which were formerly setled on his Levitical servants during the continuance of their service for him And let not cavillers hereafter clamour against this proofe for tythes as taken from the Law seeing the Apostle in proving the equity of Ministers maintenance calls on us to consider the very voice of the Law enjoyning it Say I saith he 1 Cor. 9. 8 9 10. these things as a man or saith not the Law the same also For it is written in the Law of Moses thou shall not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the corne or saith he it altogether for our sakes for our sakes no doubt it is written that he that ploweth shall plow in hope and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope And again in declaring after what manner the setled maintenance of Christs Evangelical Ministerial servants should arise he asks us if we do not know namely according as the book of the Law hath penned it how the Levitical Ministerial servants of God had their maintenance arise and intimates plainly that the Lord hath ordained that in like manner the Preachers of the Gospel should live or have their maintenance And againe writing concerning the ample maintenance which the laborious Ministers of the word were to have he cites for proof of it the forementioned place out of the Law as if he 2 Tim. 3. 17 18. would have us to understand that the limiting Ministers and curbing them from enjoyment of their full maintenance is against the Law it is a muzzeling the Oxe that treadeth out the corne and that their having maintenance by tythes is but what the Law appoints and the Gospel ordaines and that they who will but allow them a charitable and not an honourable maintenance are transgressors against the Law which forbids the muzzeling of the Oxe that treadeth out the corne They then who in the time of the Gospel will in no case hearken to the Law of God whether the New Testament directs us for the finding out the decision of this and some other particular points must acknowledge that either the Apostle who sends us to consider what the Law saith was therefore in a foul errour which none who are true Christians dare do or that themselves who deny to heare what the Law saith are in the errour for want of grace and judgement and that out of pride and Covetousnesse they will not believe the New Testament which tell us that the Law hath determined it From what I have said I do punctually answer thee and say that this paying of tythes is a standing thing to be done after Abrahams time 7. Thou asks Is the Sonne of God become the end of all similitudes and likenesses Answ All similitudes