Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	circumcision_n	righteousness_n	seal_n	13,716	5	9.8320	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05097	Hierosulias mastix, or A scourge of sacriledge: in answer to a pamphleter calling himself Anthony Pearson, concerning The great case of tythes. Wherein many gross fallacies and untruths of the pamphleter are discovered and convinced. / By Joh. Reading, once a student in Magdalen Hall in Oxford.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing R447A; ESTC R182394	73,792	98

have but such as would Act with you and in your progress toward hell have ready their go up and prosper But you say we are Godly people yea and your Actions have prettily well declared you such unto the World 'T was godliness with you to spoile our goods to sequester and imprison us though we are silent these injuries cry at the gates of Heaven and posterity willl freely speak of this your pretended godliness Oh Sir but we ever held out the profession of reformation truly as those crested pictures which comming on shew Sainct but going off devil And what competent maintenance faithfull Ministers were like to have of such Professors but that of Ahabs allowance 1 King 22.27 Put this fellow in Prison and feed him with the bread of affliction and with the water of affliction here would be your competency for the Ministers of Christ 15. Tythes and Offerings as grounded on the Moral Law are due to those who serve about holy things of the Gospel for all except Atheists and Semiatheistical Antinomians confess that the moral Law doth now as strictly bind quoad vinculum as before Christ came into the World to take away the curse of the Law he took not away our duty therein commanded he did not in respect of our obedience dissolve one jot or tittle of the morality thereof If therefore the moral Law still binds men to pay Tythes it binds to pay them to Ministers whom God hath called and assigned to receive that his part reserved and appointed by him for their service in his publick worship and to none other Christ repeating the first Commandment of the moral Law enjoining our serving God saith Mat. 4.10 him only shalt thou serve which another Scripture expresseth honor the Lord with thy substance Prov. 8 9. and with the first fruits of all thy encrease The quotam partem whereof he determineth by Tythes which are therefore enjoined in the first precept in the moral Law Likewise in the fourth precept for sanctification of the Sabbath by Prayer hearing the Word c. And how shall they hear without a Preacher And how shall Ministers Preach without necessary means to keep them alive and to furnish them with accomodations necessary to the performance of their Ministerial charge which is to give attendance to reading c. that they may both save themselves and their hearers when they have not so much as means to preserve their lives and to supply them with food and raiment much less to buy books Likewise Tythes are commanded in the fifth precept for honouring of our Spiritual parents 1 Cor. 4.15 1 Tim. 5.17 Mal. 3. who are to be counted worthy of double honor that is relief and maintenance This is the first Commandment with promise which the Prophet toucheth when he speaks of Tythes and Offerings duly paid this cannot be in an imaginary competency but in that which God hath appointed a definite setled maintenance for those that serve him in his publick Worship which he never left in Law or Gospel to the will or courtesie of man Now other definite or setled means for Ministers maintenance he never appointed any Decimà certam partem desi nat Alens part 4. q. 2. m 2. but by Tythes Offerings and other like perquisites appertinent to those who served in the Tabernacle Temple or Church constituted therefore these must be their maintenance if any Lastly As Tythes are God's part reserved to himself and his assignes so are they commanded in the eighth Commandment which in the negative part saith Thou shalt not steal and God's Prophet sheweth that taking away or detention of Tythes is stealing and the Apostle Mal. 3. Rom. 2. that Sacriledg the worst thievery is found under the Gospel as it was also under the Law why saith he else Thou that abhorrest an Idol committest thou Sacriledg If there be nothing now sacred in the time of the Gospel as some prophane men affirm How unadvisedly did Paul ask that question concerning a thing which is not in being neither can be And if there be any thing amongst us sacred Are not those things such as God hath consecrated and hallowed And did he not Consecrate and set apart from common use Tythes for their maintenance whom he appointed to serve in his publick Worship Now the eighth precept in the negative part forbiddeth all taking away and detention of others right in the affirmative therefore it commands to yield give and preserve what thou canst every ones right so Tythes belong to the eighth precept and indeed the end of ordaining Tythes is evidently moral as in point of piety equity and gratitude as hath been noted and that to which all men of all ages in the World places and conditions are respectively bound as well under the Ghospel as the Law And Abraham and Jacob paying Tythes had the word of promise To Abraham and his seed in the faith whereof he was justified Rom. 4.9 10 11. before he had received Circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised So that the Gospel was preached before the giving of the Law by Moses to Abraham Gal. 3.8 Whence it appears that paying Tythes is a Gospel duty performed before their payment under the Law given on Sina and Abraham payed them before the Levitical Law determined them In which determination God did not infer any new thing or right of Tything into his Church but according to the necessity of the present state thereof so regulated and ordered Tythes for the Priests and Levites to govern the people by the Law which was their Schoolmaster to Christ who being come altered nothing of the morality of his Law although the changeable rites like outworn garments and beggerly rudiments Zeck 3.4 were then to be cast off as Joshuas filthy garments and other habits of sanctity and religious Gospel-worship to be put on with Christ the new Man the same body his Church Eph. 4. en ire in every part under the same sacred head Christ Jesus John 1. remaining the same the Law then was given by Moses Ministry but grace and truth by Christ who perfectly fullfilled all that which was prefigured in those Ceremonies And we read that Abel offered firistlings of his flock Qui credidit obtulit decimas Alens Part. 4. Ib. Alens Heb. 1.6 A naturae rationalis lege est ut D●us colatur honoretur Alens quo s and the fat thereof he of Adam's posterity was primus verè fidelis before the deluge after which and the growth of Idolatry the first we read of paying Tythes was Abraham the father of the faithfull Now God was to be Worshiped before and after the giving of the Law at all times and by all persons which the very Law of Nature dictated to reasonable men and God's Worship supposing his Ordinance by the Ministry of man could not be without Ministers to officiate neither could