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land_n	estate_n	heir_n	tenement_n	1,389	5	10.3962	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65843	A brief treatise on the truths behalf in discovery of falshoods which are dispersed abroad in two papers of Richard Baxters ... the one intituled One sheet for the ministry, the other A second sheet for the ministry, and he hath pretended the one against malignants among whom he hath numbred them called Quakers and uttered forth his envy in several lies and revilings against that people called Quakers, whose known integrity shall stand a witness against all such deceivers and revilers as he is proved to be perpetually ... / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1897; ESTC R26353	18,488	26

power and demonstration of the spirit And here he confesseth himself to be sometimes Lazy and before said be had scarse time to eat and drink R. Baxter see thy confusion What art thou in continual pain and yet lazy and yet hast thou scarse time to eat and drink thou may have time for both if thou preach by an hour-glasse for shame give over thy trade if it be so tedious to thee and yet thou art Lazy Now concerning Tithes and Ministers maintenance and some other things of concernment And where this said Priest would clear himself of covetousness and oppression he begins to plead for their taking tithes and his taking hire in these words The same Law of the Land that makes nine parts theirs doth make the tenth ours if we have no title to the tenth they have none to the rest we ask none of our people for a farthing they give it not to us it was never theirs when they buy or take Leases of their Land it is only the nine parts they pay for Answ. Here he hath neither cleared himself from covetousnesse oppression nor from lying and here he challenges as great an interest in the Tithes as a man hath in his heritage or possession which he hath by inheritance and they that profess themselves Ministers of Christ pleads now for Tithes by a Law of the Nation when their Gospel will not manage them in taking Tithes truly the Masse Priests or Papists might have brought as strong a proof for their receiving Tithes as this man brings and the manner of both their receiving of them is contrary to the Law of God and what a man hath a just right to by inheritance is according to the Law of God but so is not the Tithes due to priests now seeing that the second priesthood is come which abolished tithes among the rest of the figures And for people paying but for 9 parts of their estates or farmed lands Let people see this Priests deceit in this and bring their evidences or deeds of lands or leases against him for do they not mention that every part and parsel of a tenement or a living that 's sold is for the singular use of him or them that buyes it or for his or their heirs executors or assignes or every part and parcel of such a Tenement for the use of him that buyeth it or for the farmers use These and such like expressions are recorded in many legal evidences of the nation for farmes or livings without any exception for paying the priest tithes besides there is the husbandmans labour or his charges to labourers spended upon his living or Tenement and goods so that being considered in the tithes what the priest takes for tithes doth amount in many places to far more then the tenth of their estates if mens ground wanted labour it would lie waste that the priests would soon want tithes which were established by the Pope and upheld by Tyrants who could argue as strongly for them as this priest doth and therefore by this mans argument were the mass-priests to be upheld by them because they could plead for an interest in tithes and other things by a Law For shame you teachers in England if you be not popishly affected come out of their steps places and oppressions and if you ask not people for a farthing then why are so many of the people of God subpoened up to the Upper Bench and many have been imprisoned through your ungospel-like means and your envy and covetousness whereby the innocent suffers and the creation groans but the Lord will meet with you and pay you your wages for all your deceits one day And whereas this lying priest also would here accuse us to make people Thieves and to have them rob God and to prove his deceit he brings these scriptures Mal. 3. 8. Rom. 2. 22. Gen. 14. 20. Heb. 7. 6 9. Answer It s no marvel that this hireling hath here prefered an outward or national Law before the scriptures for the scriptures in this place will not at all manage his designe for tithes for as for that in Gen. 14 20. and Heb. 7. 6. 9. touching Melchizedecks receiving the tenths of the spoil of Abraham when Abraham was returned from the slaughter of the Kings which was before the Law was given it maketh nothing for the priests now receiving the tenths of mens estates labors and increases and Christ being a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec was not in order to Melchisedec's receiving the tenths of Abraham but in order to his Immortality and his being without desent without beginning of dayes or end of time And Christ did not give any command for his to take tithes and for that in Mal. 3. 8. in Malachies time the Covenant was with Levi and that was before Christ came in the flesh when they were to bring the Tithes unto the store-house that the Lord might have meat in his house for fatherless widowes and strangers which was according to his covenant and law to Levi so that then in the prophets time when they did not bring the Tithes to the store-house they robbed God and the priests had corrupted the covenant of Levi and violated the Law of God Mal. 2 2. 8. and 3. 8. so now seeing this priest counts the tithes or hire that they take to be of the Lords portion in page 14 and that if they have never so much that they devote it wholly to the Lord as he saith then I say where is their store-house or when do any of them bring the tithes to a store-house for the relief of fatherless widdowes and strangers seeing they bring that in Mal. 3. 8. for their taking tithes it may as well be said that they rob God Now if the first covenant and Levitical Law and priest-hood were to be preached up now as they were counted robbers of God in Mallachies time that brought not the tithes to the store-house But we conclude that that priesthood that took tithes is changed and of necessity the Law is changed and the commandment disanulled that gave tithes Heb. 7. and where this priest here would plead for tithes to be of divine institution by that in Mat 23. 23. here he would grosely blind the minds of people indeed and here he hath plainly brought a popish argument in effect and cited the Scriptures that the papists plead for tithes by as I have seen in an annotation of their adjoyned to that in Heb. 7. but let me tell both the papists and the priests of England that when Christ spoke that in Mat. 23. 23. that this was before he suffered on the cross whereto he nailed the hand writing of Ordinances and blotted it out Colos. 2. and he abolished in the flesh the Law of commandments contained in ordinances so that this priest and the rest that pleads for tithes to continue in that particular do deny Christ come in the flesh and are enemies to his cross