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A39297 An account of tythes in general Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713. 1700 (1700) Wing E611A; ESTC R36220 8,805 15

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AN ACCOUNT OF TYTHES In GENERAL THE only Command from God that we read of in Holy Scripture for the Payment of Tythes was given by Moses to the People of Israel in the time of the Levitical Law Then God first reserved to himself the Tythe of the Land of Canaan Lev. 27. 30. Which he did for this Reason that intending to take the Tribe of Levi more peculiarly into his Service as he did Numb 3. 6. in stead of or in exchange for all the First born of Israel ver 12 13 and 45. and Chap. 8. ver 18. Having before reserved and appropriated the First born to himself Exod. 13. 2. he might bestow those Tythes on the Levites for and towards the Maintenance of that whole Tribe as a Reward for their Service in the Tabernacle of the Congregation Numb 18. 21 31. and in lieu of and Compensation for their Part or Share of and in the Land of Canaan which thereupon they were expresly cut off from ver 20 23 24. 2. Now although it was grounded on a Principle of Moral Justice and Equity that the Levites thus engaged in a continual Attendance on a publick Service and shut out from their Share in the Inheritance of the promised Land should receive a sufficient Maintenance from them for whom they performed that Service and who enjoyed their Part of the Land Yet the ascertaining of the Quota of that Maintenance to the exact Proportion of a Tenth Part of the Increase of the Land was not grounded on moral Justice but had it's Dependance on the Ceremonial Law adapted and limited to the Polity of that Dispensation and People only And that it might not be extended beyond it's appointed Time and Bounds it pleased the Divine Wisdom to subject it to such Ceremonial Circumstances as plainly rank it amongst those carnal Ordinances Rites or Ceremonies which were imposed but till the Time of Reformation spoken of Heb. 9. 10. For as God appointed the Levites to be offered for a Wave-Offering by Moses in the Name and on the Behalf of the Children of Israel when he said to Moses Thou shalt bring the Levites to the Tabernacle of the Congregation and thou shalt gather the whole Assembly of the Children of Israel together And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the Children of Israel shall put their Hands upon the Levites And Aaron shall offer in the Margin Wave the Levites before the Lord for an Offering in the Margin Wave-Offering of the Children of Israel that they may execute the Service of the Lord Numb 8. 9 10 11. So the Tythes which were assigned for the Maintenance of the Levites were to be first offered by the People as an Heave-Offering unto the Lord. The Tythes of the Children of Israel which they offer as an Heave-Offering unto the Lord I have given to the Levites c. Numb 18. 24. And even the Tythe of those Tythes which the Levites were to yield unto the Priests were to be offered by the Levites as an Heave Offering to the Lord before the Priests might have them Thus speak unto the Levites said God to Moses and say unto them When ye take of the Children of Israel the Tythe which I have given you from them for your Inheritance Then ye shall offer up an Heave-Offering of it for the Lord even a Tenth Part of the Tythe And this your Heave-Offering shall be reckoned unto you as though it were the Corn of the threshing Floor c. Thus ye also shall offer an Heave Offering unto the Lord of all your Tythes which ye receive of the Children of Israel And ye shall give there of the Lord 's Heave-Offering to Aaron the Priest ver 26 27 28. This makes it evident beyond doubting that the Tythes which were given by the People to the Levites and by the Levites to the Priests under the Law had their Dependance on the Ceremonial Law as that Priesthood had and were to stand no longer than that Law and that Priesthood stood Which was but till Shiloh came and by the Offering of himself once for all had put an End to all the shadowy Offerings under that Law 3. This the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews did so well understand that he positively declared that the Levitical Priesthood being changed there was made of Necessity a Change also of the Law of that Law by which that Priesthood and the Maintenance of it had stood See Heb. 7. 12. And 't is also evident from Scripture and Primitive Antiquity that neither the Apostles themselves nor for some Ages after them any of the Christians did meddle with or at all concern themselves about Tythes but let them totally fall as they did the other abrogated Part viz. Offerings c. and of the Ceremonial Law of Moses 4. But after that the Mystery of Iniquity which in the Apostles time began to work 2 Thes. 2. 7. had wrought to that Degree amongst some Christians and had drawn them so far from the Purity and Simplicity of the Gospel as to form and model the Church in many things by and according to the Iewish Pattern amongst other Ceremonial Parts of the Iewish Religion which had been abolished by the Coming and Death of Christ Tythes were preached up again about the latter End of the fourth Century and beginning of the fifth by some at first under the Notion of Alms and Charity because Part of the Tythee under the Levitical Law were appointed for th Maintenance of the Fatherless the Widow and the Stranger Deut. 14. 28 29. And by others as then still due by the Mosaic Law which had required them to be paid to the Livetical Priesthood Which Plea afterwards Corruptions increasing in the Church and in those especially who were called the Church-Men or Clergy more and more prevailing the Payment of Tythes was re introduced as due by those Levitical Laws which had been given to the Israelites of old And upon that Bottom Tythes have stood been claimed and the Claim defended unto this Day 5. Now not only he that thus claims and receives Tythes but he that consents to and complies with such Claim by paying Tythes thus brought in and thus claimed doth thereby implicitly and vertually at least deny that Christ has put an End to the Ceremonial Law of Moses and consequently that he is come and hath suffered in his Flesh for Mankind And that this may appear as plain as is possible I shall draw the Matter into an Argument thus To uphold any thing as still in Force which was to be taken away and cease at and by the Death of Christ is to deny that Christ is come and hath fuffered in his Flesh for Mankind But to receive or pay Tythes now is to uphold a Thing as still in Force which was to be taken away and cease at and by the Death of Christ Therefore to receive or pay Tythes now is to deny that Christ is come and hath suffered in