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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67209	Anguis flagellatus, or, A switch for the snake being an answer to the third and last edition of The snake in the grass : wherein the author's injustice and falshood, both in quotation and story, are discover'd and obviated, and the truth doctrinally deliver'd by us, stated and maintained in opposition to his misrepresentation and perversion / by Joseph Wyeth ; to which is added a supplement, by George Whitehead.	Wyeth, Joseph, 1663-1731.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. Snake in the grass.	1699 (1699)	Wing W3757; ESTC R16372	333,418	578

Tythes as being due to that Order of Priesthood That Tythes were due to Melchisedec or to the Order of his Priesthood is gratis Dictum a begging of the Question which I deny the Snake to prove That the Evangelical Priesthood is after the order of Melchisedec is a false Notion deny'd and disprov'd by some of great Note in the Church of England I instance for the present Andrew Willet in his Synopsis of Popery fifth General Controversy p. 315. where writing against the Popish Priests who claim'd by this same Plea which the Snake now claims says It is great Blasphemy to say that every Popish Priest is after the order of Melchisedec And that none may think he says this only of Popish Priests because they are Popish he afterwards adds The Scripture maketh this difference between the Priesthood of Aaron and the Priesthood of Melchisedec that the Priests of the Law were many because they were taken away by Death But Christ 's Priesthood is Eternal he Dyeth not Heb. 7.23 But if there should be many Priests after Melchisedec 's Order there should herein be no difference at all Wherefore seeing Melchisedec's Priesthood only resteth in Christ and is not translated to any other c. Thus far he which plainly shews that he excludes all Priests even the Gospel Ministers from being of the Order of Melchisedec which he confines to Christ only and herein he hath the Warrant of Heb. 7.24 Where the Apostle speaking of the Priesthood of Christ after the order of Melchisedec saith But this Man because he endureth ever hath a Priesthood which cannot pass from one to another To the same purpose Edw. Reynolds Bishop of Norwich in his Works printed 1658. p. 528. speaking of the Priesthood of Christ and shewing that the Popish Priests who as well as the Priests in the Reformation pretend to the Evangelical Priesthood were not after the order of Melchisedec saith thus The Priesthood of Melchisedec as Type and of Christ as the Substance was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Priesthood which could not pass unto any other either as Successor or Vicar to one or the other and it was only by Divine and Immediate Vnction But the Papists make themselves Priests by Humane and Ecclesiastical Ordination Thus he And if the Snake follow his own Principle viz. That a Bishop be to be follow'd as Christ's Vicegerent I see not how he will avoid throwing away his idle and false notion That the Evangelical Priesthood is after the order of Melchisedec because the Priests of England are made such by Humane and Ecclesiastical Ordination Thus Reader by the Testimony of two Eminent Doctors of the Church of England one of them a Bishop is refuted his bold but groundless Assertion that the Evangelical Priesthood is after the order of Melchisedec and consequently his Claim to Tythes as due to that order does of necessity fall to the Ground with it Ibid. p. 267. Nor is Melchisedec 's Tything of Abraham mentioned as the beginning or first rise of Tythes but it is told only occasionally and as a thing well known and received in those early Ages How proves the Snake that it is not there mentioned as the beginning of Tythes or that it was then well known and received since this of Gen. 24.18 is the first mention of Tythes in the Bible But it may here be observed that tho' the Snake would place himself and the rest of the Priesthood Blasphemously as Dr. Willet aforequoted stiles it to be Priests after the order of Melchisedec yet he would have Tythes given them after the order of Aaron Why else would he by a little piece of Priest-craft persuade us that these Scriptures Numb 18.24 Deut. 18.1 and Levit. 27.32 33. which appointed the Ty●he to Aaron's Priesthood are now payable to his falsly pretended Evangelical Priesthood after the order of Melchisedec But further if we should suppose according to his Blasphemous as before observ'd pretence that the Evangelical Priesthood were after the order of Melchisedec and that Tythes were payable to them after the order of Aaron which is most absurd and ridiculous to believe let us a little see how the payment of Tythes at that day quadrate with the Exaction of Tythes in this For the better clearing of which I will set down those four Texts which the Snake quotes but gives not the words because that would have done him Disservice as we shall see anon for this purpose The first Numb 18.24 But the Tythes of the Children of Israel which they offer as an heave-Offering unto the Lord I have given to the Levites to Inherit Therefore I have said unto them among the Children of Israel they shall have no Inheritance The second is Deut. 18.1 The Priests and the Levites and all the Tribe of Levi shall have no part nor Inheritance with Israel They shall eat the Offerings of the Lord made by Fire and his Inheritance The third and fourth are Levit. 27.32 33. And concerning the Tithe of the Herd or of the Flock even of whatsoever passed under the Rod the Tenth shall be Holy unto the Lord. He shall not search whether it be good or bad neither shall he change it at all then both it and the change thereof shall be Holy it shall not be redeem'd From these Texts of Scripture it appears First that the Tythes were Ceremonial in that they were not given to the Levites till they were first offered as an Heave-offering unto the Lord. Secondly The Priests and Levites who had a portion of the Tythes for their use after they had been so offered as an Heave-Offering had not that portion only for their Service in the Tabernacle c. but because Among the Children of Israel God said they shall have no Inheritance And when thus by a particular Command of God concerning them they were cut off from their portion of Land a twelfth among the Tribes it pleased God to appoint them a Tenth for that their Deprivation But then it is also further to be considered that Tythes were of two sorts 1 st those of every Year Deut. 14.23 24 25 26. of these every one that paid them was also to eat his share ver 23. Thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall chuse to place his Name there the Tythe of thy Corn of thy Wine and of thine Oil c. And if by reason of distance from the Tabernacle or Temple the Person paying his Tythes cou'd not bring them in kind he was then at Liberty to turn it into Money ver 25. and bestow that Money ver 26. for whatsoever his soul lusteth after for Oxen or for Sheep or for Wine or for strong drink And thou shalt eat thereof before the Lord thy God and thou shalt rejoice thou and thine Houshold This for the Tythes of every Year Then Secondly There was those of every Third Year and they were not only given to the Levite but also to the Stranger