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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	aaron_n	levite_n	lord_n	51	3	2.9642	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81789	The Due right of tithes examined: in a letter from a gentleman to his friend, wherein is proved that Jesus Christ did not work as a carpenter, nor did ever command his Apostles or ministers to work for a livelihood: by way of answer to some passages in Mr. Fishers Baby-baptism. By an aged gentleman, who cannot long expect to have the comfort of ministers of their ministery.		1653 (1653)	Wing D2441; Thomason E714_16; ESTC R207243	7,019	13

THE DVE RIGHT OF TITHES EXAMINED In a LETTER from a Gentleman to his friend wherein is proved that Jesus Christ did not work as a Carpenter nor did ever command his Apostles or Ministers to work for a livelihood By way of answer to some passages in Mr. Fishers Baby-Baptism By an aged Gentleman who cannot long expect to have the comfort of Ministers or their Ministery Mal. 3.10 Bring ye all the Tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith saith the Lord of Hosts if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing London Printed for Thomas Pierrepont and are to be sold at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard 1654. A Copie of a Letter from a Friend LOving friend amongst the many thoughts which these times doth cause within me nothing doth so much tronble me as that the Adversary of mankinde who transformeth himself into an Angel of light thereby even to deceive the Elect of the Lord if it were possible who hath stirred up in my apprehension many men of parrs and gifts to set themselves against a setled and constant Ministery which God and Christ Jesus hath appointed and promised unto his Church and people for to teach them to observe and do all things whatsoever I have commanded you and said Lo I am with you alway even to the end of the world Matth. 28.20 And this hath lately been attempted by petitioning to the Supreme Power now in being for the taking away of all means and maintenance from those they call Ministers hoping thereby to destroy and put down that Calling which I am perswaded the Lord himself did first institute and ordain And will continue and uphold it even unto the end notwithstanding all their machinations and devices for I am given to understand they are confident that if they can prevail to have all the means taken from them whereby they may have a livelihood that the Ministery will fall of it self that then all gifted men may exercise themselves in their places at pleasure which being but duly considered of all such as truly fear the Lord though themselves at present do not what woful distractions and divisions will follow thereupon my heart even trembleth to think on for if once Maintenance and Encouragement be taken from the Ministery and every man suffered to teach what himself pleaseth and approveth of then may not men teach Atheisme Heathenism Turcism Judaisme Arrianisme Libertimsme Idol-worshipping what else mans corrupt and sensual wils may prompt them unto and vvill not thereby be a fair opportunity given vvith liberty for Jesuites and all Sectaries calling themselves gifted men for to draw Disciples after them and also thereby making men to be factious and causing divisions amongst the people causing thereby disturbances to arise whereby it may be feared but little peace will follow such courses For how can the Lord give a blessing to such disordered doings for God is not the Authour of confusion but of peace And the Lord never appointed but one order worship to his Church people at one time as the whole Scripture testifieth and that the Lord would have men to bestow in his service such temporal things as he had freely given unto them for their use and sustentation wherefore the Lord himself commanded and taught his people at the beginning even before he appointed a Ministery or Ministers for to offer Sacrifices unto him of those clean beasts and fruits of the earth which he had given unto them thereby to manifest themselves his servants and to shew forth their faith and obedience unto him their great Jehovah and Creatour as Gen. 4.3 4. and 8.20 Also Abraham Isaac Jacob and the rest of the Patriarchs offered Sacrifices to the Lord accordingly long before they became a Nation or Common-weal but after that they were multiplied grown by the blessing and promise of the Lord made unto Abraham that his posterity should be a great people and Nation which was accomplished in Egypt from whence the Lord brought and delivered them by his great and mighty power Now the Lord having brought them forth by the conduct of his faithful servant Moses from out of Egype to the Mount Sinai Exod. 19. And the Lord came down upon the Mount Sinai on the top of the Mount And the Lord called Moses up to the top of the Mount and Moses went up And unto Moses the Lord delivered his Law the ten Commandements which are to be kept by all people with the Ceremonial Law appertaining to the Jews And also appointed and commanded Moses to make a Tabernacle with all the utensils thereof and the manner of the Sacrifices and offerings which the people were to offer and to give out of their own proper goods and estates for the maintenance of the Tabernacle and also the Tithes with part of the offerings and fourty eight Cities with their Suburbs which the Lord gave and appointed for the Priests and Levites for the maintenance and subsistance of them and theirs Now if that order and Priesthood of Aaron which was to be abolished had such great maintenance then shall not that order of Ministers which our High Priest Christ Jesus hath set up and appointed over his Church and children have likewise means and subsistence provided for them and theirs in as great a measure they being Ministers under Jesus Christ of his Gospel which is far more glorious then that of the Law And therefore to be provided for as the Gospel teacheth notwithstanding the clamours and petitioning against it by divers who profess the fear of the Lord and seeming to be very forward promoters of the worship of God in the purity thereof but I fear their zeal is not according to knowledge but for their own ends and to set up themselves no nor yet the Gospel-way and let such men declare or shew from Scripture where ever Christ commanded that his Apostles Disciples or Ministers ought not or should not be provided for with means and mainteance if they can or that Christ ever appointed or commanded them to sustain themselves by their own labours or occupations or that Christ Jesus himself ever wrought as a Carpenter And let all such blinde zealous persons take notice what Christ Jesus himself said and did Matth. 4.18 19 20. and Mark 1.17 18. where Christ called Peter and Andrew and said unto them Follow me and I will make you fishers of men and they followed him And can those Zelotes finde in Scripture that ever after that they used the trade of fishing for the maintenance of themselves and theirs but followed their Ministeriall office or Calling Preaching and saying The Kingdome of Heaven is at hand And likewise will it not plainly appear to all men except wilfully blinde that the Apostles Ministers of Christ Jesus ought to be provided for by those to whom they preached as is evident by Christ Jesus his manner of sending