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A45325	Qvakers principles quaking, or, Pretended light proved darkness, and perfections found to be greatest imperfections in an answer to a written paper, subscribed with the name of Thomas Holme, and scattered through the country about Liverpool and Lancashire / modestly propounded by Ralph Hall ...	Hall, Ralph.	1656 (1656)	Wing H423; ESTC R39227	32,660	37

unchangeable Priest-hood and if so they must needs of Divine right belong to the servants of Melchisedecks order but the Ministers of the Gospel are Servants of Melchisedecks order therefore to them of Divine right Tythes belong for Christ is a Priest nor after the Order of Aaron but after that unchangeable Order of Melchisedeck And methinks that pract●ce of Jacob Gen. 28. is full for this present purpose he was going about a weighty business in pursuance of a command received from Isaac his Father God is with him and in his journey appeareth to him in a Dream le ts him see a Ladder reaching from earth to Heaven upon which the Angels ascended and descended Jacobs eyes are opened and he cries out The Lord is in this place and I knew it not vers. 16. He is terrified at the Lords presence and saith How dreadful is this place it is none other but the House of God and the gate of Heaven vers. 17. And observing these things he vows a vow vers. 20. saying If the Lord will be with me and keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and rayment to put on so that I come again to my fathers house in peace then shall the Lord be my God and this stone which I have set up for a pillar mentioned before in vers 18. shall bee Gods House and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee It is clear to me from this Scripture that Jacob acknowledgeth a tenth part of his substance to be of Spiritual right due unto the Lords House and he enters into a vow to perform his duty herein And if it was a Spiritual right belonging to Gods House it must needs of Divine right belong to Gods Servants that waite upon the service of his house these servants not being servants to such a Priest-hood as was subject to change for Aarons Priest-hood was not then erected but servants to an unchangeable Priest-hood even after the Order of Melchisedeck which endeth not for Christ continues a Priest for ever after the same Order all along in these Scriptures held forth viz. the order of Melchisedeck See for this Heb. 7.16 17. who is made not after the Law of a carnal Commandement but after the power of an endless life for he testifieth Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedeck So then wee see it pleased the most wise God whose is the earth and the fulness thereof to appoint such a proportion as the tenth part both before the Law and under the Law and never after expresly to take it off Who art thou oh man that dare say it is an unmeet proportion unless thou wilt acknowledge thy self to be wiser than God But since the legal proportion is displeasing to some I desire those that are displeased therewith strictly to observe the charge of the Apostle Paul who was an Apostle to the Gentiles and I doubt not but all truly godly Ministers of the Gospel will be well satisfied the charge is this Let him that is taught in the Word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things Gal. 6.6 now Tythes are good things they are the fruits 〈◊〉 ●ne earth which fruits are called precious fruits Jam. 5.7 And in tru●h the Apostle gives not this charge without good cause for the Ministers are commanded to give themselves to study to approve themselves unto God Workmen that need not to bee ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth 2 Tim. 2.15 and their care ought to bee laid out for the Churches of God 2 Cor. 11.28 so as that it must needs follow they cannot lay out such care for their Temporal provision as others whose call is not so immediately to the Lords work as theirs is And it seems to me the good Lord of the house who careth for his 1 Pet. 5.7 took special care that they that minister in the Word and Doctrin should bee comfortably provided for without this care though I confess it was to Timothy that Paul writ when he affirmed that if any provide not for his own especially for them of his own house he hath denied the Faith and is worse than an Infidel 1 Tim. 5.8 18. that text formerly mentioned Deut. 14.22 Deut. 25.4 is again quoted by the Apostle as if he would again and again couple Law and Gospel together to speak one and the same thing in point of comfortable provision for the Ministers of the Gospel and argues it from good reason viz. The labourer is worthy of his hire and proves this Argument from our Saviours own words Mat. 10.10 And but once more with which I will conclude this Section I find our Saviour promising ample reward to any that shall put forth a charitable hand towards any of his Ministers in a case of being fallen into poverty Matth. 10.42 Whosoever shall give to drink a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a Disciple shall not lose his reward and at vers. 41. more pregnant to our present purpose He that receiveth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall receive a Prophets reward I may say on the contrary hee that shall take from a Prophet the right of a Prophet as he is a Prophet or he that shall refuse to give entertainment to a Prophet into his house or into his heart as a Prophet may expect a Prophets Curse and what that is you may see if you please to turn to Zech. 11.17 But you may perhaps say If this provision bee made for the M●nisters how should they fall into poverty and yet let me tell you such a thing once was and Gods great care put forth concerning it 2 King 4.1 c. the Prophet was dead and had left Wife and Children in debt but which is worth our observing rather than the Prophets debts shall be unpaid the Lord will work a Miracle viz. empty vessels shall be filled with Oyl and the Oyl shall be sold and the Prophets debts paid Thus we see Gods provision made for his Servants the Ministers cleared from the Word of God both out of the Old Testament and the New the Old sets out the proportion viz. the tenth part the New is silent as to the proportion but full for a comfortable furnishing of them with all good things his care is held forth for them to the working of a Miracle his promise made to any that shall receive them and minister to them though but in a Cup of cold water and if any yet out of a sinister end shall plead that it is not by all this clear that they ought to receive Tythes I have only one word more to say and so conclude Secondly It is not only clear by Scripture but the Law and customs of Nations hath made choyse of this proportion and of our Nation amongst the rest it hath been and still is established by the Laws of the Land and