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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07397	The vickers challenge claiming a maintainance as due by proofes out of the gospell : wherein is manifested, that there is a competencie due unto them / by Ios. Meene, vicker.	Meene, Joshua.	1640 (1640)	STC 17780.5; ESTC S2818	46,566	86

Persians are anciently written of unchangeable for ever untill the same God himselfe doth repeale them who at first ratified them Whiles his divine Service endureth the tiths which are appropriate to him and thereunto deputed by him must likewise keepe their course of continuance Surely they which vainely suppose that his soveraigne statutes may be dealt with like a nose of wax or a leaden rule namely altered and wrested according to covetous mens corrupt humours shall verily finde him at length to breaks them with a rod of iron and to dash them in pieces like a potters vessell Psam 2. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth c. Secondly concerning the Posteriour continuation of the right of tiths under the Gospell that may be entreated of in this twofold manner namely either by divine constitution or else by humane consecration First touching the continuation of the right of the tiths under the Gospell by divine constitution It is enough Gualter writeth to know that the duties payable of old in this kinde ought to be transferred unto the Church of the New Testament For although the Leviticall Priesthood be abolished and legall sacrifices have ceased yet notwithstanding the ministery of the Gospell still remaineth and therefore the meanes of their living must in no wise be diminished Some of the learned have alledged in this sense our Saviour Christs answere Matthew 22. When as the deceitfull Pharisees sought so subtilly to circumvent him Render saith he to Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods Caesar must receive his tribute according to the image superscribed upon the coine God must receive his claime according to the purport of his Law in that case provided Wee reade in the 23. Chapter of the same Evangelist how our Lord Iesus reproving the hypocrisie of the Scribes and Pharisees for making a goodly shew of an upright conscience in their tithing even of the smallest particulars when as they omitted the weightier matters of the Law loe he doth thus at last conclude These ought yee to have done and not to leave the other undone Saint Augustine Chrysostome with sundry famous Authours besides expound this instance to our purpose I mervaile then how a great many miserable Earth-wormes most vainely imagine to mount up aloft into the heaven of blisse comming very farre short of the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees in this case when as our Saviour saith except your righteousnesse shall exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees yee shall in no wise enter into the Kingdome of heaven Neither is their cavill of any sufficient force how the alledged place onely concerned the Israelites under the Levite Priesthood Because as the Lord Bishop Andrewes observeth whereas other Pharisaicall scrupulosities premised in the chapter meet with a brand of abrogation this still remaineth with a mark of approbation Neither dare I suppose that the interest of the Lord solemnely established in the old Testament doth thus sodamely expire in the New unlesse his owne selfe had signified unto us a resignation of his right It is written Matthew 11. Verily I say unto you among them that are borne of women there hath not risen a greater then John the Baptist notwithstanding hee that is least in the Kingdome of heaven is greater then hee Meaning that for so much as Iohn Baptist was next unto Christ in time above all the Prophets which ever lived before him his happinesse went therefore beyond them in that high respect for he saw what they desired to see and saw not Because also he was of a more worthy calling for hee might be reported to have pointed out Christ with the finger of a fuller discovery which others could not descry but onely afarre off Thus likewise those men which succeeded John in this sacred Ministery namely the Apostle and their successours to the end of the world are happier in a higher degree and of a more excellent calling then Iohn the Baptist because living in the resplendent season of the much gloriouser illumination of the Gospell Doctor Downham examining the particulars of the Levites profits affirmeth how they amounted to a far greater measure for the maintenance of that small tribe then all the Bishoprickes Benefices Colledgelands or whatsoever other Ecclesiasticall emoluments doe yet remaine yea although the Index expurgatorius of sacrilegious inquisition had not with that extreme tyranny invaded and over-runne them Why should then the Evangelicall Sunne so marveilously surmounting the glimmering Moone shine of the Law in the sweet of saving knowledge suffer so missebe-seeming an eclipse in the most disproportionable meanes of Ministerial maintenance not rather exceed the other in necessary abundance as it doth in notable brightnesse If the ministration of condemnation be glorious much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glory 2 Corinthians 3. when as the Minister of the Gospell hath succeeded the Levite in the Ministery and is the Minister of a better Testament what cause can bee then conceived but that he ought also to succeed him in the stipend or allowance Quatis ratio spraecepti tale praeceptum the Civilians tell us it is right that the Law should not expire as long as the reason of it remaineth Moreover reason equity and sacred Scripture requite that the worthier wages belong to the worthier Calling Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth c. Further observe how the 13. and 14. verses of this Chapter as likewise Galatians 6. will if well considered that the decree touching tiths in the old Testament is not dissolved in the new but still continued and the practise of the former a president for the latter For that same maintenance which the Apostle Saint Paul in those places maketh mention of is most aptly expounded by Scripture to be the tenth part And though the manner of portion in them places seeme in some mens sight left undetermined yet if wee may explaine Scripture by Scripture as indeede such a mutuall intercourse should bee betweene the old and new Testament then doubtlesse the cleare phrases of the one may easily declare the obscurer speech of the other And so by the context of holy writ the tenth will soone come to bee discovered and Gods ordinance there repeated by the Apostle be preserved inviolable and carnall conceits without warrant be discarded and this divine Law endure in force and vigour Thou shalt not muzzle c. The seventh Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes seemeth a strong champion in this case Now consider how great this man was unto whom even the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoiles And verily they that are of the sonnes of Levi who receive the Office of the Priesthood have a commandement to take tiths of the people according to the Law that is of their brethren though they came out of the loines of Abraham But he whose descent is not counted from them received tiths of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises And