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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	aaron_n	abraham_n	priesthood_n	24	3	9.8591	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02833	An aduertiseme[nt] to the subjects of Scotland of the fearfull dangers threatned to Christian states; and namely, to Great Britane, by the ambition of Spayne: with a contemplation, of the truest meanes, to oppose it. Also, diverse other treatises, touching the present estate of the kingdome of Scotland; verie necessarie to bee knowne, and considered, in this tyme: called, The first blast of the trumpet. Written by Peter Hay, of Naughton, in North-Britane.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1627 (1627)	STC 12971; ESTC S118431	133,365	164

them into Money goe to the place thou shalt bestow the Money for whatsoever thy soule lusteth after Oxe Sheepe wine or strong Drink●● thou shalt eat rejoyce before the Lord thou thy Familie thou shalt not forsake the Levite within thy gates nor the Strāger nor the Widow nor the Fatherlesse Al which things do smell a Ceremoniall Institution as we alleadge wherevpon there be great learned Disputes agitate by diverse of our Countrey-men amongst all which all that can be said for Tenths it seemeth to me that the truest Light is to bee drawne from the Practise of Abraham by which it appeareth they were Evangelicall before they were Mosaicall If long before the Ceremoniall or Writtē Law Abraham payed Tythes to Melchisedec how can we hold Tenths to be Ceremoniall albeit we had not that cleare Explication therof by S. Paul Heb. 7 where in the person of Melchisedec he proveth the Excellencie of Christ's Priesthood aboue that of Aaron He proveth Melchis to be a Priest frō two things from the Discharge of his Office He blessed Abraham and from that which was annexed to his Office He tythed Abrahum If any would object that Abraham did offer to him those Tenthes not of bound duetie but out of his private Charitie or from a Custome that was vsed before him or from the Light of Nature only wherof I shal speak somewhat herafter that were to annull the Proofe of Melchis his Priesthood set downe by th' Apostle yea it were to change the Text because the Actiue word is in the person of Melchis and not of Abrah For it is not said that Abr. tythed himselfe but that Melchis ty●hed Abrah Melchis decimavit Abrah And the Greeke word Vers. 6. of that Chap. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doeth import no lesse how-so-ever the English Translation is received Next again that by Melchis th' Apostle vnderstandeth Christ it is evident when he saith of Him Vers. 8. Here men die that do receiue Tythes meaning the Levi●s but there He receiveth them of whom it is written that He liveth which is vndoubtedly spoken of Christ for so are the words Vers 13. 14. He of whom these things are written pertayneth to another Tribe whereof no man serveth at the Altar for it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Iudah Farther it is plaine that the Priesthood there spoken of is an eternall Priesthood Thou art a Priest for ever according to the Order of Melchis Whervpō it must follow that Tythes being the Due of an Eternal Priesthood must also themselues be eternall Abraham saw my day and did rejoyce saith CHRIST And I put the Case this Poynt were not so cleare as it is vvee might find another Ground wherby we should see our selues tyed to this Burden of Tythes Evangelicallie and that is by the Devoting of them done by Christian Princes People and States vvho wee may thinke before the Church I suppose could challenge them by anie Warrand haue beene moved to giue vnto her a Warrand by that same Spirit that moved Abraham manie Years before the Law was given out for Tenthes Constantine the Great and Charlemayne did begin this Plantation of the Church Rents Authoritie and Priviledges and others everie-where did follow them Then we know vvhat is the Nature of thinges once devoted to GOD Levit. 27. Vers. 28. No devoted thing that a Man shall devote to the LORD both of Man and Beast and of the Possession of his Fielde shall bee redeemed Everie devoted thing is holie vnto the LORD And Levit. 5. Vers. 15. If a Soule doe sinne through Ignorance in the holie thinges of the LORD hee shall make a mendes in the holie thing and shall adde a fift part there-vnto The Popes them selues haue acknowledged their Possession of Tythes to bee aliene from the Practise or Pleading of the Primitiue Church and that their Titles therevnto haue flowed from the onlie Devotion and Donation of Christian Kings as may bee seene in Can. futuram Ecclesiam cap. videntes 12. Q. 1. vvhich Bellarmine doeth stand to Tom. 1. contra 5. lib. 1. cap. 25. And we may try it to bee so by the Entrie of the Christian Fayth in Scotland Anno 203. King Donald the first did procure by his Ambassadour sent to Pope Victor the cōming of some Priests into this Kingdome for receiving of him his Familie Nobilitie to the Church by Baptisme where there is no Mention of anie Title pretended or anie Sute made by the sayd Pope for Tythes But vvhole foure Ages thereafter to wit Anno 578 our King Convallus vvithout Challenge or Requisition frō the Pope hee of him selfe did authorize the Terrour and Force of Excommunication established to the Church the Tenthes of Scotland Edixit ut decimas omnium terrae nascentium cuncti in Sacerdotū horrea deferrent by vvhich it appeareth that everie Man then had his owne Tythes Farther hee gaue to the Priests Mansions and Dwelling places neare to the Churches Praedium in Templi vicinia ubi secretus à vnlgo habitaret Withall two thinges are to bee vnderstood First that a great part of those Rentes were employed to the ritch deco●ing of Church Fabrickes Christi Templa valde ornari voluit Secondlie that before then there were multitudes of Religious people in Scotland that Age of the Occidentall World being as it were an Influence or Inundation of Pietie and Zeale to GODS Glorie for the Historie telleth that he sent to Yreland for that renowned Abbot Sanctus Columba by whose Advyce Contraxit Monachos spars●s ad id tempus soliv●g●s inunum indeque per Caeno●ia quae Convalli pietas struxer at distribut●s 〈◊〉 vitanon vulgatae observationis instituit Where the Author to let vs see how the Devoting of Tythes and Foundation of Monasticke places vvent alwayes together hee maketh Mention of the Benedictine Order their Frequencie in Scotland before then manie Abbayes erected for them where it is most worthie Observation his Iudgement of the Revenewes and Ritches of the Church Plurima inter nostrates celeberrima su●t hujus ordinis Caenobla hactenus viris pietate clarissimis habitata virtute fortassis insigniori majorique veneratione apud posteros perseveratura si ad otium luxum Regum munificentia tanta sagina ea non oner asset that is to say There were then in Scotland manie famous Abbayes of the Benedictine Order hitherto inhabited by Men of singular Pietie and wherein the Sinceritie of Religious Vertue might haue 〈◊〉 flowrishing recommendable to all Posteritie if the too great Bountie of Princes did not over-bardē them with the Fatnesse of Ydle-seat and Ri●●hes By this doing of Conva●● I say it seemeth that the Church hath gotten a sufficient Warrand to our Tythes by Positiu● Christian Lawes albeit vve should repyne at the Warrand●s brought out of the Gospell And even the most Learned of the Protestant syde doe holde it the surest Title of the