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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	aaron_n	clergy_n	tithe_n	24	3	12.0091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36185	The nature of the two testaments, or, The disposition of the will and estate of God to mankind for holiness and happiness by Jesus Christ ... in two volumes : the first volume, of the will of God : the second volume, of the estate of God / by Robert Dixon.	Dixon, Robert, d. 1688.	1676 (1676)	Wing D1748; ESTC R12215	658,778	672

part whom the Priest represented And this did even Abraham do so great a Man so great a Patriarch yea the Prince of Patriarchs the very Root and foundation of God's People Now he that receiveth Tithes is greater than he that give them as he that receiveth Tribute or Taxes is greater than he that paies them and he that receiveth Rents is greater than he that paies them This was the Dignity and Prerogative of the Title of Levi that all the other Tribes who though his Brethren yet were to pay Tithes of all to him and in special to the Priests of the Line of Aaron that came from him which Family only had right to the Priesthood Numb 3. and the rest of that Tribe did minister unto them in and about the Holy things of the Ark and Temple of the Lord. Numb 18. And first the People must give Tithes to the Levites Numb 18.21 then the Levites must give Tithes of their Tithes to the Priests Numb 18.28 which declares the Dignity of the Priests above the Levites as the Clergy receive Tithes of the People of England and then pay the Tithes of their Tithes to the King which shews the Dignity of the King above the Clergy SECTION III. 2. Melchisedec not of Aaron's Tribe And yet farther is demonstrated the Dignity of Melchisedec above the Levitical Priests in that Melchisedec came not from their Tribe nor from the stock of Aaron at all yet he received Tithes and that from Abraham too of whose Loyns Levi was So that Abraham himself became Tributary and therefore subject to Melchisedec which is Christ which is much more honour than for those only to pay Tribute who came from the loyns of Abraham Therefore the Levitical Priests have no cause to boast as that their Line alone had the Priviledge and Prerogative above the rest to take Tithe of the People seeing here is one here greater than they that takes Tithes of them themselves who were then in the loyns of their Father Abraham and yet he neither belongs to their Line nor accounts himself of their stock at all and is bold to Decimate even Abraham himself the Prince and Father of them and of their whole Nation SECTION IV. Abraham Blessed of Melchisedec Gen. 12.23 Secondly Abraham acknowledgeth himself subject to Melchisedec 2. By Receiving a Blessing from Melchisedec For he blessed him that had the Promises i. e. Melchisedec blessed him whom God had promised to Bless so eminently and comprehensively that in him and by him all the Nations of the Earth should be blessed A greater Blessing than this could not be and yet he that had this great Blessing was blessed of Melchisedec and therefore Inferior unto him What honour is this to Bless such a Man Surely a Greater than Abraham is here For without all contradiction the Less is blessed of the Greater Sacerdotal Blessing Every kind of Blessing cannot here be understood for even the least and meanest Persons may humbly wish and pray for a Blessing upon the greatest that are But this must be a Singular and Royal Sacerdotal Blessing which is of great Efficacy and Power and those that are blessed therewith shall be Blessed God seconds the Blessing of the Priest to whom he hath given Authority to Bless in his Name Thus we read Numb 6.27 that God commanded Aaron and his Sons to Bless the People and prescribed them a Form for that Blessing on this wise The Lord bless thee and keep thee The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee The Lord lift up his Countenance upon thee and give thee peace After all this the Lord professes there that He will second the Blessing and confirm it upon the People saying They shall put my Name upon the Children of Israel and I will bless them And elsewhere In Blessing I will bless And the Son of Syrach praies God to hear the Prayers of his Servants Eccles 36.17 according to the Blessing of Aaron over his People SECTION V. Levi paid Tithes to Melchisedec III. The Dignity of Melchisedec appears in that Melchisedec was Greater than Levi and Aaron Because Levi paid Tithes to Melchisedec For in tithing Abraham he tithed Levi who then was in Abraham's loyns and so Aaron so great a Priest as he was the Prince of Priests of whose Loyns the Priests were all descended payeth Tithes himself to a Greater Priest than he And as I may say Heb. 7.9 Levi also who receiveth Tithes paid Tithes in Abraham For when Melchisedec took Tithes of Abraham he tithed Levi also and all the Priests Abraham took not Tithes but Levi did and yet Melchisedec took Tithes of him Levi did not receive Tithes in his own Person because he was not then but in his Posterity neither did he give Tithes to Melchisedec in his own Person but in his Father's Person If at that time Levi had been a Person separated from Abraham and had enjoyed his Estate apart by himself then this act of Abraham in paying Tithes to Melchisedec had nothing concerned him but because Levi was then so united and joyned with Abraham that he was one Person with him lying conched in Abraham's Loyns so the Embrio in the Womb is part of the Mother therefore also he is justly accounted to have given Tithes to Melchisedec in or through Abraham his Father SECTION VI. Yet all the Actions of a Father's Will Actions of Fathers transmitted to Children with the regularities or irregularities thereof must not be transferred or imputed to be the Actions of the Childrens Will But only those Acts which properly concern the Augmentation or Diminution of the Father's estate which is of right to descend to his Children do as they descend from him by way of Inheritance still the Father or his enjoying what was his outwardly in Estate as they do inwardly in Flesh and Blood And the payment of Tithes is such an Action for as to a Tenth part it decreaseth the Father's Estate which therefore is properly but nine Parts of Ten For the Tithes are paid out of the Father's Goods though they are not his Goods but his to whom they are due which Goods of the Fathers are thus far already the Childrens in that the right of Inheritance of what is their Father's belongs unto the Children when their Father dies Who in the mean time are Lords though Servants even lesser Lords in Reversion to their Father's Estate when it falls For as the Son and Heir after his Father's Decease doth in a manner represent his Father's Person being Flesh of his Flesh and of his Form and Resemblance and by his Succession and Possession of all that was his Father's honour and Estate So likewise the Father before his Children spring from his Loyns and become distinct persons from himself having right to dispose of his Goods as their own doth in a manner also represent the Person of his Son and Heir and of the