Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	altar_n	offer_v	60	3	6.4438	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56170	A gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness and continuance fo the antient setled maintenance and tenths of the ministers of the Gospel in two parts, proving that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance ... that the present opposition against tithes ... / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3972; ESTC R33924	270,085	347

Injunctions and to be earnest and zealous in it as the two last recited examples of King Hezekiah and Nehemiah evidence And this was so far from being an unjust oppressive action and grievance to the people as some now term it that it is recorded by God himself for their Honour and others imitation yea so well-pleasing unto God that Nehemiah clozeth up the history of his acting in this kind with this memorable addresse and prayer to God himself Neh. 13.14 Remember me O my God concerning this and wipe not out the good déeds that I have done for the House of my God and for the Offices thereof And will not God remember their ill Deeds in wrath and vengeance who shall do the contrary to what he and King Hezekiah acted in robbing God and his Ministers of their Tithes and setled dues St. Hierom with others affirm That the Israelites had four sorts of Tithes 1. That which the people paid to the Levites being the Tenth of every thing that was food for man not so much as Herbs excepted and whatever received increase from the earth 2. That which the Levites paid to the Priests being the full tenth of their Tithes 3. That which they received for expences in their solemn feasts when they went to the Tabernacle or Temple whereof the Owner and his family were to eat in those Feasts as well as the Levite Deut. 4.26 27. ch 12.17 18. 4. The third years Tithes which were then laid up for the Levites and likewise for the stranger the fatherlesse the poor widdow within their gates in the Husbandmans own Barns and Store-houses and not then carried to Jerusalem as the other Tithes were Deut. 14.28 29. ch 26.12 13. Their first and second Tithes every year as they affirm amounted to 19. in the hundred So as the Husbandmans clear Lay-Chattel the Tithes first deducted came but to eighty one bushels of Corn or eighty one Pipes or Tuns of Wine or Oyl in every hundred which considering the costs the Husbandman was at in threshing and fanning the Corn barrelling up the Wine and Oyl and carrying them to Jerusalem and the Priests treasuries at their own costs amounted to double the Tithes we pay now and more besides the first fruits paid out of them in kind before the Tithes their Free-will Offerings Sacrifices Oblations and other charges of Gods worship prescribed by the Levitical law together with half a shekel every poll for the service of the Tabernacle Exod. 30.12 13 14. yet the Israelites were obliged by God to pay all these Tithes which all the godly amongst them chearfully did without murmuring notwithstanding every seventh year amongst them was Sabbatical and free from tillage and the voluntary fruits of the earth then growing were to be for the poor and the beasts of the field were to eat the rest Exod. 23.10 11. Lev. 25.3 c. What would our Anabaptists Quakers and tithe-oppugners have said and done had they been born Israelites under the law and clogged with so many Tithes and expences who now grumble at and refuse to pay half so much Tithes as they constantly did though they pay no first-fruits Sacrifices and other costly Oblations of several sorts to God as the Israelites did besides all these Tithes I fear their covetous Sacrilegious hard hearts would have induced them to cast off not only Gods Priests and Levites as now many of them do our Ministers as superfluous creatures but even all Gods chargeable Ordinances and Levitical forms of worship as intollerable grievances oppressions yea renounced God himself to save their purses and turned Atheists out-right Let them therefore reform this their Sacrilegious tithe-detaining practices and opinions lest whiles they pretend to avoid Judaism they prove worse than the very Jews themselves yea worse than the very Jewish Pharisees the worst of Jewes who paid tithes even of Rue Annis Mint Cumin all other Herbs and of all they had Mat. 23.23 Luke 11.42 cap. 18.12 Whose righteousness all Christians righteousness must exceed by Christs own verdict else they shall never enter into the kingdom of heaven Mat. 5.20 Nay worse than the very Idolatrous Jewes under Jeroboam and his successors who paid their Tithes duely even to the base Idolatrous Priests at Bethel and Gilgal who waited on the Service of the golden Calves and brought all the Oblations to their very Calves which God reserved to his Priests Levites and himself as is evident by Amos 4.4 5. Come ye to Bethel and transgresse at Gilgal multiply transgression and bring your Sacrifices every morning and your Tithes after thrée years and offer a Sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven and proclaim and publish the free offerings for this liketh you O ye children of Israel saith the Lord of Hosts Let those Pharisees idolatrous Jews and Israelites practice then shame all our Anabaptists Quakers Soldiers Sectaries and other Tith-oppugners now lest they rise up in judgement and condemn them at the last day These forementioned Cities Suburbs Houses Glebes Tithes thus setled on the Priests and Levites for their Habitation maintenance and reward of their Ministerial Function had nothing properly typical or Ceremonial in them and being assigned to them by God himself only for their necessary Habitation and competent Livelihood may and ought to be continued and imitated in a fitting proportion under the Gospel for the Habitation maintenance livelihood reward of the Preachers of the Gospel who are to live by the Gospel as well as they did by the Temple and Altar 1 Cor. 9.13 14. 3. There was another supplemental maintenance besides these Glebes and Tithes prescribed by God in the Levitical law for the Priests which was properly Ceremonial Levitical and quite abolished with that Priesthood by Christs death and that was the Priests share out of every meat-Offering made of fine flower oyl and frankincense unto the Lord by the people a small part whereof the Priests were to offer up to God upon the Altar and the remnant which was left was to be Aarons and his sons with the breast and right shoulder of every Peace-Offering offered by the people called the Wave-breast and the heave-shoulder given by God to the Priest who offered the bloud and fat of the Peace-offering at the Altar together with the skin of every burnt-offering Levit 2.3 10. chap. 7.6 to 11. and 28 to 38. Exod 29.26 27 28. chap. 9.21 Numb 6.19 20. And from them that offered a Sacrifice whether it were Ox or Sheep this was the Priests DVE likewise from the people they were to give unto the Priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw by Gods special appointment Deut 18.3 Ezech 44.29 30. which Fee Eli the high Priests Sons exceeding and exacting more than was due by violence it exceedingly provoked God made men to abhor the Sacrifice of the Lord and proved the ruine of Eli and his Family 1 Sam 2.12 to the end These Dues and Fees of the Priests serving onely at the Altar

that they most affect yea farr lesse troublesom to more convenient for our Ministers Persons families and necessary Cattel than bare stipends which must enforce them to run to Markets to buy all their Corn and other provisions both for their Houshold Horses Cattel at the dearest rates So if this Maintenance by Tithes be once abolished either before any other competent Maintenance setled in its steed lesse grievous and inconvenient than Tithes which all wise men in the world will never be able to invent much lesse to establish as things now are setled or Ministers left wholy to an arbitrary unconstrained Benevolence without any limited Proportion or means to recover it if detained as some now petition This expected proposed unconstrained Maintenance would in verity and reality signify just Nothing and be no Maintenance at all in the Petitioners own sence and intention as appears by John Cannes forecited passages and the very words of their Petitions since they refuse to pay them their very Tithes yet due by Law and never freely contributed one penny to them for their Ministry which they revile disclaim as Antichristian Wherefore if any New-fangled Politicians resolve to settle such a new Maintenance only insteed of the old for the peoples pretended Ease let them first establish settle an arbitrary Excise Custome uncoercive voluntary Impost and monthly Contribution as this on the people for Maintenance of the Army and Navy not so simply necessary as the Ministry for our real welfare without any compulsory means to recover it if not freely rendred till the next harvest come and see what a competent Maintenance that will be for the Souldiers and Seamen and provide that all Tenants for the year ensuing shall render only what Rents they please to the State their Landlords Lessees who shall have no power to distrain sue or enter upon any of them in case they deny to pay their Rents and trie what a certain Annual Revenue this whimsy will produce to the States and Land-Lords purses Or else give over this Jesuitical Anabaptistical devised new Maintenance for our Ministers as a Stratagem only to starve their bodies and their Peoples souls without any more Debates concerning Tithes to gratify such malicious Projectors and offend all Godly people through the Nation who deem this old way of Maintenance of Gods own Prescription farr better lesse inconvenient in all respects than this arbitrary or any other new-fangled way of these or other mens invention 5ly That although God by his divine Providence is able to support the faithfull Ministers of the Gospel though totally stripped naked of all their Glebes Tithes antient Maintenance through the unrighteousnesse or malice of ungodly men as he did the Apostles and his Ministers in all ages in times of Persecution yet let all such who have or shall have a hand in such a Sacrilegious design consider 1. That they shall be as bitter Enemies to and Persecutors of the Ministers of Christ amongst us in and by this very Project as Julian the Apostate Christian was to Gods faithfull Ministers in the primitive Times when he took away their Preferments Glebes and Church Revenues as the High Commissioners and Prelates were of late to all those godly Puritan Ministers whom they deprived of their Benefices for Non-conformity to their Ceremonies and no real Crime deserving such an inhuman Censure depriving them of their Livelyhoods 2ly That they shall hereby draw a great Scandal upon our very Religion it self Church Nation render them odious Sacrilegious to all foreign Churches Nations gratify rejoyce the hearts of the Pope Jesuites Papists and other professed Enemies of our Religion accomplish their Designs against our Church and Ministers exceedingly sad the hearts and grieve the righteous souls of all Gods faithfull Saints amongst us of all Protestant Churches in Foreign parts and draw this just Censure on themselves 2 Pet. 2.14 15. An heart they have exercised with covetous practices cursed Children which have forsaken the right way and are gon astray following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse These are wells without water Clouds carried with a Tempest to whom is reserved the mist of darknesse for ever 3ly That although God should miraculously preserve a faithfull able Ministry and his true Religion still amongst us through the bounty and charity of other well affected Christians yet they have done their uttermost endeavours to destroy them and the peoples souls with them both for the present and succeeding ages 4ly That this unrighteous violent act will in all probability bring in a world of Confusion Atheism Schisms Heresies Divisions Contentions Blasphemies disorders amongst us in all places a famine of the sincere preaching of Gods word a neglect and contempt of Learning and Piety a dilapidation Spoliation of all or most Parish Churches Chapels a confusion of the bounds of all Parishes and Parochial Congregations and bring all those Calamities on our Nation as it did upon the Israelites when Jeroboam thrust out the Priests and Levites from their Glebes Suburbs Ministry thus registred 2 Chron. 15.3 5 6. Now for a long season Israel was without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law as some would have us now And in those days mark the consequence there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great veration upon all the Inhabitants of the Country And Nation was destroyed of Nation and Citie of Citie for God did vex them withall Adversity In which condition they continued till King Asa and the people renued repaired the decayed Altar House and worship of the Lord Gathered all the people to Jerusalem to worship God and enter into a Solemn Covenant and Oath to serve the Lord God of their Fathers with all their hearts and with all their soul And that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death whether small or great man or woman Offred Sacrifices to the Lord of the Spoyl they had taken from the Enemy 700. Oxen and 7000. Shéep and brought into the house of God the things that his Father had dedicated and himself had dedicated Silver and Gold and Vessels formerly taken thence and then there was no more war in divers years v. 8. to the end of the Chapter And probably our Wars Taxes Vexations will never end till we give over our late irreligious Sacrilegious Rapines Church Robberies and do the like as this pious King and his people here did 5ly That this discouraging robbing abusing despising mocking misusing of Gods Messengers Prophets sent amongst us and of all his and their words against our wicked Atheistical Sacrilegious Rapines is the High way to provoke the wrath of God to rise against us till there be no remedy yea to bring in a powerfull Foreign Nation upon us to pillage waste destroy enslave our whole Nation extirpate us out of the Land of our Nativity and