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A47743 An essay concerning the divine right of tythes by the author of The snake in the grass. Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722. 1700 (1700) Wing L1132; ESTC R11457 102,000 292

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it would be ill Borrowing of Money the Sixth Year But that is obviated Ver. 9 c. where it is again Commanded in these Words Beware that ther be not a Thought in thy wicked Heart saying The Seventh Year the Year of Release is at hand and thine Eye be Evil against thy Poor Brother and thou givest him Nought and he Cry unto the Lord against thee and it be Sin unto thee Thou shalt surely Give him and thine Heart shall not be Grieved when thou givest unto him Because that for this Thing the Lord thy God shall Bless thee in all thy Works and in all that thou puttest thine Hand unto For the Poor shall never cease out of the Land therefore I Command thee saying Thou shalt open thine Hand wide unto thy Brother to thy Poor and to thy Needy in the Land And Ver. 8. Thou shalt open thine Hand wide unto him and shalt surely Lend him sufficient for his Need in that which he wanteth 3. And no Vse was to be taken for any Money so Lent nor any Pledge taken for it or if taken to be Restor'd before the Going down of the Sun If the Man be Poor Deut. xxiv 12 13. thou shalt not sleep with his Pledge in any Case thou shalt Deliver him the Pledge again when the Sun goeth down If thy Brother be waxen Poor Levit. xxv 35 c. and fallen in Decay with thee then thou shalt Relieve him yea though he be a Stranger or a Sojourner that he may Live with thee Take thou no Vsury of him or Increase Thou shalt not give him thy Money upon Vsury nor lend him thy Victuals for Increase And the Sanction given to this Law is Ver. 36. Fear thy God They were to trust absolutely in God in His Blessing upon their Labours and therefore to Fear lest they should through any Act of Covetousness argue the least Distrust in Him or to think that such Acts of High Charity and Trust in God and His Blessing upon their Obedience to His Commands wou'd not yield them Greater Increase than their Vsury or any Humane Methods cou'd be Devised IV. As God Requir'd our absolute Dependence upon Him as to Necessaries of Life and Protection from our Enemies in the Instances before told so to shew further that it was not our own Endeavours to which we ow'd our Preservation He Reserv'd to Himself Great Portions of our Time to be Abstracted from all Worldly Business and Employ'd wholly in His Immediate Service and Worship 1. The Stated Hours of Prayer three times every Day Dan. vj. 10. Psal lv 17. The more Devout Extended it to Seven Times a Day Psal cxix 164. Then ther was a Morning and Evening-Sacrifice every Day 2. The WEEKLY Sabbath or every Seventh DAY 3. The Feast of WEEKS after Seven Weeks or Sabbaths Levit. xxiij 15. Deut. xvj 9. 4. The Feast of every Seventh MONTH which lasted for Seven Days together Levit xxiij 34 36. 5. Every Seventh YEAR before spoke of 6. The Jubile after Seven of the Sabbatical Years i. e. after 49 Years Here we have a Sabbath of Seven HOVRS DAYS WEEKS MONTHS YEARS and of seven times Seven Years All these Multiplications o● Sabbaths And besides all these ther were many other Feasts Levit. xxiij both Anniversary and Occasional which I stay not to Enumerate because I Hasten to my Design'd Scope that of Tythes As God requir'd a Weekly Seventh Part of our Time besides many other Monthly and Yearly Feasts and Fasts so has He for the same Reason to teach us to Trust and Depend upon Him for All that we have or expect Requir'd from us as will be shewn a Constant Tenth Part of our Substance as a Yearly Tribute besides many other Offerings Sacrifices Charities to the Poor and Occasional Expences which He did oblige us to in His Service for a Constant and daily Exercise of our Faith in Him Without which it wou'd Decay and at last Die as a Body without Daily Food It is said Rom. i. 17. that the Just do Live by Faith And that they Grow from Faith to Faith Which supposes a Daily Increase and Daily Nourishment Men cannot Live long upon one Meal though never so Plentiful And a Man is not said to Live upon a Dainty which he but seldom Tastes What a Man Lives upon is his Daily Food And the Just cou'd not be said to Live by Faith if they Exerted only now and then some one Heroical Act of Faith as Abraham's Sacrificing his Son and the like Nay they cou'd not shew such Extraordinary Strength of Faith upon some Particular Occasions if they did not Daily Feed upon it and Improve it Such Gigantick Faith Grows not all at once And the Spiritual as well as Bodily Activity is not Improv'd without Constant Exercise That is it which makes Perfect in Thoughts as well as Actions in Faith in Love in Every thing A Giant refresh'd with Wine shews Miracles of Strength But one Draught of Wine gave him not that Strength only stirr'd it up So upon some Great Emergencies our Faith is stirr'd up like Sampson to Rouse it self But we must learn to Fight before we come to the Battel If we have not a Habit of Faith we can never Exert Great Acts And Habits cannot be Acquir'd without often Repeated Acts. To this End were Tythes and Sabbaths Instituted to use u● to Frequent and Daily Acts of Faith And till we are well us'd to these we can never Rise to Higher Therefore we see how Necessary it is to Us to Improve these small Acts of our Faith and Trust in God For without Greater we shall hardly arrive at Heaven And for this Reason all this that I have said by way of Introduction has not been Unnecessary nor Foreign to the Subject in hand for when I consider that the Chief Argument against Tythes is thinking them too much to Give to God and proceeds from a Diffidence in Him and a Trusting to Second Means for our Wealth and Prosperity it was necessary to Prepare the Way by shewing how Great a Dependence God has all along Required from Us upon Himself and that our Wealth and Health and all even Worldly Prosperity is more to be attain'd by our Observance of His Commands than by our own Endeavours or Craft For that it is only His Blessing which maketh Increase and giveth Success to whatever Second Means All which was wonderfully Exemplify'd to Us in the Insensible Multiplication of a Few Loaves and Fishes by the Blessing of our Saviour to Feed many Thousands And it is such a Blessing of God upon our Honest Endeavours which gives us Increase and that in every thing in all and every Circumstance of our Lives though we Perceive it not but think foolishly that all is the Effect of our own Industry and Wit And we sacrifice to our Net as the Prophet speaks Habbak i. 16. to those Second Means by which our Portion is Fat and our