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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	enter_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,630	5	11.0710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18051	Vindiciæ decimarum. Of tithes, a plea for the ius divinum. Drawne from the text, by Iohn Carter diacon	Carter, John, diacon.	1640 (1640)	STC 4694; ESTC S118338	41,058	56

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} and a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} we come From Melchizodec then unto us for the continuance of tithes we inferre the Quar● being enjoyned his taske this the why in dis Even so hath the Lord ordained that they should live who Preach the Gospell e {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In matter of maintenance the Apostle does not bring in any new strange unheard of thing he innovates nothing at all with a new egge of his owne addling hee does not present the Corinthians but the old practise upon former precept to be continued that it is ordain'd this he preacheth The power that he had f to eate and to drinke it was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Even so as that of Levies who g to take tithes had a commandement Touching those then who sub evangelio officiate for him Of whom it is witnessed that c. Aarons portion why their pay ye have the Quare the stile of the now Law warrants it to be according to the Law afore {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to be no other than even so Thus looke which way you please to the subjection due to Melchizedec or to the maintenance owed to Aaron to hoc fac or to Crede hoc to the h Law of Faith or to the Law of workes to the rule by which ye are justifyed or to the line by which ye are sanctifye of these take which ye will and of the Priests life the now dispensers of these rents how they authorized to be the takers up ye will easily discerne Or if either of these plea's the now Priests should let goe yet in the Text a hold they have impregnable when out of all danger of assault is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the Priest the life Of a right then unto these dues i {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} those who unto you are the stewards of the mysteries of God of a title unto tenths these they can nere faile unlesse our Text faile keepe then to this and keepe up tithes when this assures you of an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} there where tithes are ever to be received for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} there in the Priesthood of the Gospell {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} There he receiveth them of whom it is witnessed that he liveth And here to our discourse a period it might be put but that other things are yet behind needfull to be observed As first 1. All this while by the Text what 's received and what 's payed it is but tithes than a tenth 't is no more Therefore as if this portion were too exceeding or that in the requiring of these we went beyond our commission that ye may not repine or what we write with a head hung downe entertaine we are further to acquaint you and as the troth is deliver it that to the Now Priests of the Gospell k tithes to be the least of that which justly they may clame but a very pittance of that greater summe in which ye all stand engaged Indeed if we looke at Scriptum est and jus strictum in respect of a part determined than a meere a bare tenth no more can be chaleng'd but if the worth of that we bring were it possible to value it how little then of that great deale ye owe would a tenth prov for consider thus much tithes the Christians gave who were afore the Law and those who were under the Law payed tithes all which had the Priest that lives in a promise onely and in a figure so much as this they imparted and all upon the beleife that he was to come now that he is come and l in giving of himselfe hath freely given all things unto us to be return'd than the wonted tenth whether there be no more judge ye In this matter to your selves I doe appeale does not Nature teach that the better ye are used the deeper ye are obliged and such as is the fare such should be the pay and that a more abounding crop should follow a more plenteous sowing and that we should receive in according to that we have laid out Bethinke your selves in the brest within have ye not a thing that to this beares witnesse But to keepe to Scripture for the legall Priests then if first fruits and tithes and what not were due to those whose m Service stood in ordinances that were carnall and all that they did tended no further than n {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to the purifying of the flesh if of such the Ministery had so ample an endowment then to him o whose blood from dead workes is able to purge the conscience that ye may serve the living God to him I say in his now Priests can a tenth be a taxe so intolerable p {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} If under the Old Testament such doings there were as these then much more should there not be under the New This quantity of Levies order to set out the excellenty it was apppointed whose Worke was but the q ministration of death and to those of our rule whose is the ministration of the spirit to us than a tenth shall there be due no more Our Priesthood then as it is r Natura praestantius dignitate eminentius ita usu fructuosius As in its nature that of Aarons it doth farre surmount and in its exercise being farre more fruitfull and in that we of the Gospell come loaded to our people with better commodities and farre more precious than those of the Law this being so in your offering to us your reverence how should it exceed that of Israel how outstrip that Quis pudor est Christianos qui debent majora non solvere paria Oh the fhame that Christians who owe more should nere be found to returne so much What shall we say Did not the Scribes and Pharisees pay tithes of all that they possest Now s Except your righteousnesse shall exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharises from What followes God defend but except your righteousnesse c. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Deceive not your selves of these miscreants the righteousnesse how doth yours t exceed if in that ye are ever peccant wherein they were never guilty u Qnomodo superabis eum cui non aequaris In this duty if these yee doe not aequall that ye goe beyond such when will be the time that it may be found Of the Scribes and Pharises ye are yet to learne these though too bad yet to teach you truely to 〈◊〉 it wondrous and Sufficient of your profession is not this the blot that to Scribes and Pharises ye should be to go to Schoole Now then