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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65892	The true ministers living of the Gospel, distinguished from the false ministers living upon tithes and forced maintenance. With a word of reproof (preceding the distinction) to the ministers of the nation, whose kingdom is already shaken and divided against itself. And the iniquity and antichristianism of that ministry which is upheld by forced maintenance, briefly discovered according to the scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In a brief reply to a book stiled, An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries, by John Bewick, who calls himself a minister of the Gospel, and rector of the parish church of Stanhop in Weredale in the county of Durham.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Bewick, John, d. 1671. An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1968	12,994	17

THE True Ministers Living of the GOSPEL Distinguished from the False Ministers Living upon Tithes and forced MAINTENANCE With a Word of Reproof preceding the distinction to the Ministers of the Nation whose Kingdom is already shaken and divided against it self And the Iniquity and Antichristianism of that Ministry which is upheld by forced Maintenance briefly discovered according to the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament In a brief Reply to a Book stiled An Answer to a Quakers seventeen Heads of Quaeries by John Bewick who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel and Rector of the Parish Church of Stanhop in Weredale in the County of Durham Ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the wooll ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the flock the diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which was broken neither have ye brought again that which was driven away neither have ye sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled over them Ezek. 34. 3. 4. London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. A Word to the said Iohn Bewick and the rest of his Brethren the hireling Priests who are in his way VVHither are you now run for a refuge and defence for your Tithes and set maintenance doth all your old grounds fail you that formerly you have pleaded are you driven out of Scriptures of Christ and his Apostles out of all the Law of God there and out of Law of Nations and Countreys and would you now fly to Melchisedek for help what is there no scripture command that will own you in your yearly stipends and are you afraid of mens Laws failing you and are you now fled from all your former pleas and think you to find help from Melchisedek did you not formerly plead Divine Right and told us by Scriptures you would prove it and then being driven out of all commands or examples in Scriptures then you pleaded the custome of the Countrey and National Law and by that in Olivers time you took mens goods and cast them into prison and made havock and spoil abundantly and then many of you would not plead scripture at all but by custome and humane Law you would have it and dare you no longer depend upon that and dare you now think Melchisedek will stand you in stead or own you in your work and trading any more then the Prophets and Apostles what are ye of the Order of Melchisedek now who but a while ago must needs plead the order of Levi and then when that order and your manners will not stand together then you pleaded the order of the Nations and now thou S. B. in thy book would make people believe that you are after the order of Melchisedek and that Tithes was yours before they were given to Levi and that he had them but for a time by a special command till you came and then you were to come up after the order of Melchisedek and so you must now enjoy them for ever c. But now you must be tried in the light whether you be of that order or no as well as you have been tryed with the order of Levi And if you be found of his order then we will grant you to have right to his maintenance if you will be but content with it for we must needs think it meet that Children should inherit the right of their Father so if you be Melchisedeks children you will do his works which was to relieve the weary Souldier with his own bread and wine so you may expect his reward if they be free to give it you as Abram was of his spoiles For we never read that it was the order of Melchisedeck to ravine about after outward things nor sued people for hire nor spoiled their estates nor cast them into prison nor any way sought after gifts or rewards nor do we read that he ever required or received any yearly tythes of any people or Parish either ●●eaves beasts swine fowls or the like which was to relieve their families from any creature but as he was the Priest of the most high God not called nor made of men so he was maintained by him and not by men and he was like to him that called him a bountiful man ready to give ready to blesse and to relieve others in their way as appears in what he did to Abram and his Army in the way he met them with bread and wine and gave them freely and asked them nothing again and so he received freely tythes of Abrams spoiles but never can any of you prove that he had the tythes of Abrams Estate stock or tillage nor ever demanded or sued or took by force any part of any mans goods upon any pretence whatsoever So here is Melchisedecks order if you be of it and his children then you will own it and it will own you and we shall own it also in you And in this order we find him who was of that Priest-hood Christ Jesus a Priest for ever after his order who to us is an example for ever and all that walk contrary we deny who said it 's more blessed to give then to receive who was bountifull in feeding others but for himself he had not where to lay his head this was after the order of Melchisedeck and all his are after him for ever and therefore none of his Ministers did ever require any thing for themselves but what was free not coveting any mans gold money or apparel nor ever in the least did mention tythes to themselves or make any yearly bargain about carnal things whatsoever but preached freely and received freely or nothing And this in Scriptures we find to be the order of Melchisedeck and the order of Christ and of his Apostles if you can receive it But on the contrary when we see a sort of men who never heard Gods voice running and enquiring who can get the greatest yearly stipend Tythes or augmentation and tearing peoples bodies and estates if they get it not according to the havock that hath been made by the Priests of this Nation in these late yeares this was never the order of Melchisedeck Christ or his Apostles nor the order of Aaron neither who had a law for Tythes but the order of Eli's sons who was sons of Belial who knew not the Lord And therefore sent their servants to take it by force as now hath been done to the spoiling of many families So you are found further from the order of Melchisedeck Christ and his Apostles then from the order of Levi as far as the Priest-hood and ministration of Christ exceeds in bounty and freenesse the ministration of Moses so far are you come short in your orders and manners in this covetous practise after earthly things And you are seen to be after the order of those