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A34082	The right of tythes asserted & proved, from divine institution, primitive practice, voluntary donations, and positive laws with a just vindication of that sacred maintenance from the cavils of Thomas Elwood, in his pretended answer to the friendly conference.	Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.	1677 (1677)	Wing C5488; ESTC R39378	85,062	252

which wait at the Altar i. e. the Jewish Priests are partakers with the Altar i. e. in the Sacrifices and Oblations Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. ix 13 14. Which words Even so do manifest that Christ hath in the main and for the essential part made like Provision for Gospel-Ministers as God the Father did for the Jewish Priesthood Thirdly This was also a Pattern for the Devout Christians of old and did intimate to them that they should not do less for their Ministers than would afford them an honourable Maintenance Wherein Origen speaks my sense fully (r) Orig. in Num. Hom. 2. Our Lord saith in the Gospel speaking of Tything Mint c. These things ought ye to have done If you reply He said this to the Pharisees not to his Disciples then hear what he saith to his Disciples Except your Righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. v. Therefore that which he would have done by the Pharisees more abundantly would he have it done by his Disciples Now how doth my Righteousness exceed that of the Pharisees if they durst not taste of the Fruits of the Earth before they had separated the Priests and Levites parts and I do devour the Fruits of the Earth so that the Priest knows not of it the Levite is a stranger to it and Gods Altar receives nothing Fourthly The Substance of that which was required then is due still not by vertue of that Law but because there is an inherent Equity in the thing And this is Origen's meaning in the aforesaid place when he saith Therefore I think it necessary that this Law of Paying Tythes of the Fruits of the Earth and some others should stand in force according to the Letter And so we must interpret S. Hierom when he saith That which we have said of Tythes and First-fruits which were once given by the People to the Priests and Levites you must understand also of the Christian People to whom it is commanded not onely to give Tythes but to sell all (ſ) Hieron in Mal. 3. That is so much of the Command as was moral so much as was grounded upon Eternal Reason ought to stand God is eternally Lord of the World and must alwaies be worshipped and alwaies have Ministers and these must alwaies be maintained out of their Masters Portion When the Levitical Priesthood failed there must be another and a better and therefore we may claim Tythes as God's Due and as his Ministers Portion as they were declared to be both before the Levitical Law and under it and yet need not claim them by the Levitical Law as it is Ceremonial And now I hope T. E. must confess that your second Position viz. That Tythes are not purely Ceremonial is made good also since I have shewed they were grounded on the Law of Nature and Primitive Revelation relying on an Internal Rectitude in the thing it self and an Eternal Reason of it and were paid by those Patriarchs who lived long before the Ceremonial Law by vertue of the preceding Declarations of the Divine Right unto them T is true all things done by the Patriarchs were not Eternal Duties because all things they did relyed not on these Principles which the Payment of Thythes rely upon Circumcision was not grounded on the Law of Nature nor imposed for any Eternal Reason or Internal Rectitude in the thing Bloody Sacrifices were also purely Types of Christ to come and therefore these were purely Ceremonial and cease when that Law ceaseth But Tythes as to the main were not such and therefore remain in force still I might add That the Prophets who are not wont to reprove the People for omission of things purely Ceremonial declaim against the Jews for detaining their Tythes see Mal. iii. 10. And Nehemiah calls his care in this a Good Deed desiring God to remember him for it Nehem. xiii 14. Nor are Tythes in all the New Testament reckon'd up among things purely Ceremonial or declared to be repealed as Circumcision Sacrifices Washing Jewish Difference of Meats and Jewish Feasts c. are These are repealed by Name but so are not Tythes as being a thing that never were purely Ceremonial I conclude that part of our Substance being due to God by the Natural and Divine Law and the Inspired Patriarchs being taught by Revelation That the Tenth was this part and the Priests of God were his Receivers God himself having approv'd also this payment by a renew'd claim and an express Assignation of his Right under the Levitical Law to the Priests for the time being and the same God having the same Right still to his part and the same occasion to use it for the maintenance of his Ministers at this Day Hence I suppose it will follow That unless an express repeal can be shewed the Gospel Ministers in God's Name may justly claim Tythes as due to God and them still and that by a Divine Right too which I will now more fully prove § 9. Having found sure footing for the Divine Right of Tythes thus far we will now go on with T. E. to consider the third Period of time viz. Vnder the Gospel And first we will begin with what the Quaker grants pag. 284. viz. That a Maintenance in general to the Ministers of the Gospel is Just Reasonable and established by a Divine Authority Let him but stand to this Grant and then it will follow That the Ministers of the Gospel may claim a Maintenance in general Jure Divino For that Maintenance which is established by Divine Authority is due Jure Divino And why then should not that Maintenance still be so Due which God directed before the Law approved under the Law and never repealed after the Law If the Divine Authority hath established a Maintenance that supposeth it was such a Maintenance as was due before according to T. E. p. 318. Now before the Gospel times the Maintenance paid to Gods Ministers before the Law and under it was Tythes The Priesthood of Melchisedec and of Levi both were so maintained And therefore if a new maintenance was as T. E. speaks created it might be somewhat else But if a Maintenance be establisted methinks it should be Tythes But to proceed The places which you produced out of the New Testament for this Establishment were 1 Cor. ix and Gal. vi 6. Now our Quaker as if he did already repent of his Concession strives to pervert these Texts by two Limitations First The Apostle speaks not so much saith he what the Maintenance is as who they are from whom it is to be received viz. Such as receive their Ministry such as believe them to be true Ministers such as are taught by them This is a notorious falshood for in the former place viz. 1 Cor. ix S. Paul is all along speaking of the Ministers