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A67328 Tythes no Gospel-ministers maintenance proved in a seasonable answer to the arguments of Mr. John Crawford, minister of High-Holden in Kent. By Thomas Wall. Wall, Thomas. 1681 (1681) Wing W489; ESTC R218128 7,539 9

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TYTHES no Gospel-Ministers Maintenance PROVED In a seasonable Answer to the Arguments of Mr. John Crawford Minister of High-Holden in Kent by THOMAS WALL AS touching Tythes great hath been the Controversie by writing and suffering both of the Martyrs of this Nation and others of God's faithful Servants against the payment of the same because it was an Heave-Offering in the Ceremonial Law and so a shadow abolished by the death of Christ as saith the Apostle The Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change of the Law Heb. 7. 12. That one may admire men that profess themselves Teachers of the Gospel should stumble at so plain a Doctrine therefore I could not keep silence for many Reasons First to shew this Clerk of Holden the vanity of his Arguments Secondly because that many who pretend separation from the National Church do pay Tythes to the great dishonour of the Lord Christ who say by their works that Christ was not a faithful nor perfect Lawgiver to his Church who appointed a Ministry differing from the Ceremonial Law and not a Maintenance Thirdly to stop the mouthes of false Teachers who subvert whole Houses teaching things they ought not for filthy lucre sake Tit. 1. 11. And lastly to fulfil my Promise that if he wrote he should have an Answer And the reason wherefore I have put it in Print is That if my weak Labours do no good to heal the miry places that be given to salt which saith the Lord shall not be healed See Ezek. 47. 11. Jer. 51. 9. Isa 57. 20. it may by the blessing of God do good to the Elect to strengthen their Faith against this Jewish and Popish innovasion of Tythes And before I come to answer Mr. Crawfords Arguments for Tythes I think for the more clear discovery of the unlawfulness of the payment of them in the dayes of the Gospel to insert four things First the manner of the payment of Tythes by the Children of Israel in the Land of Canaan 2dly What the Payer and Receiver of Tythes were by the Law enjoyned to perform upon pain of the Curse written Gal. 3. 10. Deut. 27. 26. 3dly What Tythes figured in the dayes of the Gospel 4thly That they are abolished by the Death of Christ c. First The manner of the payment of Tythes was The Children of Israel gave the Tenth of the encrease of their Land to the Levites which was offered as an heave-offering to the Lord for the service of the Tabernacle Numb 18. 21 24. 2dly Out of which Tyth the Levites were to offer the tenth part an heave-offering to the Lord given to Aaron the High-Priest Numb 18. 26 28. 3dly After the Children of Israel had given the first Tyth to the Levites they separated a second Tyth which they are before the Lord in the place which the Lord had chosen to put his Name there Deut. 14. 23. 4thly This they did the first and second year and in the third year it was given to the Levites and to the Poor as it is written At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the Tythe of thine encrease the same year and shalt lay it up within thy gates for the Levites the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widow to eat and be satisfied Deut. 14. 28 29. And in the fourth and fifth years it was eaten again by the owners at Jerusalem And in the sixth year it was given to the Poor and the seventh year was a Rest and a Sabbath to the Land then all things were common Exod. 23. 10 11. First The Payer and Receiver of Tythes were bound to keep the whole Law as it is written by our Apostle the true Expounder of the Law For as many as are of the works of the Law are under the Curse for it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them See and reade diligently Gal. 3. 9 10 11 12 13. compared with Deut. 26. 26. And the paying of Tythes was and is a work of the Ceremonial Law which Christ hath redeemed his People from as ver 12 13. Himself being the end of that Law for Righteousness to all that believe in him Rom. 10. 4. 2dly As Tythes were an heave-offering so they were a figure and shadow as all other Offerings were and so ended in Christ as saith the Scriptures Sacrifice and Offerings thou wouldest not but a Body hast thou prepared me See Heb. 10. 5. compared with Psal 40. 6 7. For the Law having a shadow of good things to come but the Body is of Christ Col. 2. 17. Thus by the day-break of the Gospel the shadows are gone Cant. 2. 17. compared with Luke 1. 78 79. 3dly Know this all you that pay and receive Tythes that if one Heave-offering in the Law be payable in the time of the Gospel then are all the Heave-offerings in the Law for there were many Reade Exod. 29. 27 28. Lev. 7. 14 32. Numb 15. 19 20 21. Deut. 12. 11. Again If any pay Tythes that believe they ought not against their own consciences and in their Congregations approve of the Doctrine taught against it yet for fear of the loss of their Goods or Imprisonment do secretly pay the same let them remember the doctrine of Christ Fear not them that can kill the body and after that have no more that they can do but I will forewarn you whom you shall fear Fear Him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell yea I say unto you Fear Him Luke 12. 4 5. And turn not to the beggarly Elements and bondage of the Law Gal. 4. 3. and refuse the Liberty that Christ hath purchased at so dear a rate Gal. 5. 1. 4thly Tyth being an Heave-offering figured the Elect the good Seed and Children of the Kingdom called out of the World by the Call of the Gospel and gathered to Christ's Sheep-fold and Kingdom Mat. 13. 38. Rom. 8. 28 29 30. Eph. 1. 4 5. John 15. 16. 10. 16. Luke 12. 32. as was prophesied by Isaiah In it shall be a Tenth and it shall return the holy Seed shall be the substance thereof Isa 6. 13. Saints by calling 1 Cor. 1. 2. Ezra 9. 2. Mal. 2. 15. 1 Pet. 1. 15. As living Sacrifices holy and acceptable in the service of God Rom. 12. 1. 15. 16. being likewise no less than the first-fruits of God's Creation reserved and chosen to his use in his Church and Kingdom Heb. 12. 23. Rev. 14. 4. Jam. 1. 18. Jer. 2. 3. In the next place I shall answer Mr. Crawford's Arguments which he brings for the Sacrificing-Priests portion even Tythes which he so much coveteth after which is That which is commanded by a lawful Law ought to be obeyed But so are the Tythes Therefore ought to be paid The Minor was proved by the conformity of the Law to the Law of God Gal. 6. 6. Ans What you