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A65892	The true ministers living of the Gospel, distinguished from the false ministers living upon tithes and forced maintenance. With a word of reproof (preceding the distinction) to the ministers of the nation, whose kingdom is already shaken and divided against itself. And the iniquity and antichristianism of that ministry which is upheld by forced maintenance, briefly discovered according to the scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In a brief reply to a book stiled, An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries, by John Bewick, who calls himself a minister of the Gospel, and rector of the parish church of Stanhop in Weredale in the county of Durham.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Bewick, John, d. 1671. An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1968	12,994	17

THE True Ministers Living of the GOSPEL Distinguished from the False Ministers Living upon Tithes and forced MAINTENANCE With a Word of Reproof preceding the distinction to the Ministers of the Nation whose Kingdom is already shaken and divided against it self And the Iniquity and Antichristianism of that Ministry which is upheld by forced Maintenance briefly discovered according to the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament In a brief Reply to a Book stiled An Answer to a Quakers seventeen Heads of Quaeries by John Bewick who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel and Rector of the Parish Church of Stanhop in Weredale in the County of Durham Ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the wooll ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the flock the diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which was broken neither have ye brought again that which was driven away neither have ye sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled over them Ezek. 34. 3. 4. London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. A Word to the said Iohn Bewick and the rest of his Brethren the hireling Priests who are in his way VVHither are you now run for a refuge and defence for your Tithes and set maintenance doth all your old grounds fail you that formerly you have pleaded are you driven out of Scriptures of Christ and his Apostles out of all the Law of God there and out of Law of Nations and Countreys and would you now fly to Melchisedek for help what is there no scripture command that will own you in your yearly stipends and are you afraid of mens Laws failing you and are you now fled from all your former pleas and think you to find help from Melchisedek did you not formerly plead Divine Right and told us by Scriptures you would prove it and then being driven out of all commands or examples in Scriptures then you pleaded the custome of the Countrey and National Law and by that in Olivers time you took mens goods and cast them into prison and made havock and spoil abundantly and then many of you would not plead scripture at all but by custome and humane Law you would have it and dare you no longer depend upon that and dare you now think Melchisedek will stand you in stead or own you in your work and trading any more then the Prophets and Apostles what are ye of the Order of Melchisedek now who but a while ago must needs plead the order of Levi and then when that order and your manners will not stand together then you pleaded the order of the Nations and now thou S. B. in thy book would make people believe that you are after the order of Melchisedek and that Tithes was yours before they were given to Levi and that he had them but for a time by a special command till you came and then you were to come up after the order of Melchisedek and so you must now enjoy them for ever c. But now you must be tried in the light whether you be of that order or no as well as you have been tryed with the order of Levi And if you be found of his order then we will grant you to have right to his maintenance if you will be but content with it for we must needs think it meet that Children should inherit the right of their Father so if you be Melchisedeks children you will do his works which was to relieve the weary Souldier with his own bread and wine so you may expect his reward if they be free to give it you as Abram was of his spoiles For we never read that it was the order of Melchisedeck to ravine about after outward things nor sued people for hire nor spoiled their estates nor cast them into prison nor any way sought after gifts or rewards nor do we read that he ever required or received any yearly tythes of any people or Parish either ●●eaves beasts swine fowls or the like which was to relieve their families from any creature but as he was the Priest of the most high God not called nor made of men so he was maintained by him and not by men and he was like to him that called him a bountiful man ready to give ready to blesse and to relieve others in their way as appears in what he did to Abram and his Army in the way he met them with bread and wine and gave them freely and asked them nothing again and so he received freely tythes of Abrams spoiles but never can any of you prove that he had the tythes of Abrams Estate stock or tillage nor ever demanded or sued or took by force any part of any mans goods upon any pretence whatsoever So here is Melchisedecks order if you be of it and his children then you will own it and it will own you and we shall own it also in you And in this order we find him who was of that Priest-hood Christ Jesus a Priest for ever after his order who to us is an example for ever and all that walk contrary we deny who said it 's more blessed to give then to receive who was bountifull in feeding others but for himself he had not where to lay his head this was after the order of Melchisedeck and all his are after him for ever and therefore none of his Ministers did ever require any thing for themselves but what was free not coveting any mans gold money or apparel nor ever in the least did mention tythes to themselves or make any yearly bargain about carnal things whatsoever but preached freely and received freely or nothing And this in Scriptures we find to be the order of Melchisedeck and the order of Christ and of his Apostles if you can receive it But on the contrary when we see a sort of men who never heard Gods voice running and enquiring who can get the greatest yearly stipend Tythes or augmentation and tearing peoples bodies and estates if they get it not according to the havock that hath been made by the Priests of this Nation in these late yeares this was never the order of Melchisedeck Christ or his Apostles nor the order of Aaron neither who had a law for Tythes but the order of Eli's sons who was sons of Belial who knew not the Lord And therefore sent their servants to take it by force as now hath been done to the spoiling of many families So you are found further from the order of Melchisedeck Christ and his Apostles then from the order of Levi as far as the Priest-hood and ministration of Christ exceeds in bounty and freenesse the ministration of Moses so far are you come short in your orders and manners in this covetous practise after earthly things And you are seen to be after the order of those

the life thereof and their godly innocent lives so wronged as to be presented as men of such manners and behaviour So let them alone and their holy words and godly innocent lives abuse them not by taking them into your mouths so as to represent them to be men of your order or behaviour And Melchisedeck and Christ cause not their names to be evill thought on by making people believe them to be fathers or authors of such spoil and bondage to poor people or of the true gospel being so chargeable this is charged upon you all as you will answer him in his day when he comes in all his holy ones whom wicked men have belyed and in the mean time be ashamed of your comparing your selves with them and confounded in your abuse of the holy Scriptures and of holy mens lives for the light is come from on high and guile is found in your mouths and earthlinesse in your minds And you that call your carnal maintenance of tythes and augmentations the golden oyl as thou dost in thy book are seen in the light of God to be wholly ignorant of the true annointing which should give you sight in your selves and so cannot lead others out of the world And it 's no wonder that you so oppose the true light your lamp must needs be darknesse when earthly things is your oyl your gold must needs be drosse and your prize below the mark of election and corruption carries the draught in your ballance whose golden oyl is earthly things you are seen to be the men who have in you the false measure and bag of deceitful weights how is the holy one prized in you how is the invisible disallowed and how have you put the price upon carnal things whose gold is become drosse and corruption counted gold are you the lights of these dayes and Honour and Glory and Blessing Revel. 5. 12. so that they might as well have scoft at the Angels of God who spake these words as at us and have said that the Power that reaches to the seed is Christ and then Christ is worthy to receive Christ as also they have done in like manner in their scorn in page 63. wherein they have shewed their gross ignorance of the several manifestations of Christ the seed in his People who are of the seed of Abraham which Christ took upon him to redeem his own and to bring to his own Power and promise which he receives of the Father And our saying that this Seed which is Christ where he suffers and is burthened in man by corruption there he desires to be free from the burthen of sin does not argue as falsely as these men infer that it cannot be said of the Seed of God that in it is no sin for Christ hath suffered by mens sins and been pressed with them and born them Amos 2. 13. Ezek. 6. 9. and yet in him is no sin and if these men were not past feeling they might feel how the Spirit of the just in them they have often grieved burthened and afflicted by their own sins and yet in that Spirit there is no sin but in them who resist it J. Horn and Thomas Moor say their Christ by that his death once suffered and in his Resurrection in that his Body c hath overcome Death and the Devil slain the enmity and taken out of the way all that was contrary to them redeemed them from the Curse of the Law I Answer Herein have they stollen the Saints words which they are out of the like of for if the enmity were taken out of the way Sin would not be their natural heritage as they have pleaded for it and they would not have uttered so many lies and falsehoods as they have done for one of which I. Horne hath craved forgivness and if all that 's contrary to them be taken out of their way then its evident that sin and the Nations pollutions are not contrary to them for they have confessed themselves too much to have a share in them and that they are abusers of the Truth And to that 1 Iohn 4. 17. as he is so are we in this World I. H. and T. M. give their meaning and say as Christ is unknown despised hated persecuted in his Doctrine and judged by any of the World so are we Answ. In this have they apparently lyed for Christ was persecuted to Death of the World but so are not I. Horne nor T. Moor neither are they unknown of the World as Christ was for Christ was never known to Preach in a Steeplehouse by an Hour-glass for Tyths or so much in the Year in Leiw of them like the Parish Priests and Deceivers who are out of the steps of the true Ministers who walked after Christs example not after the hireling Priests example who Preach for hire and gifts and reward as these men do And rather than I. Horne will freely suffer by the World as Christ did take heed that he fall not to the Common-prayer-book And to our calling I. Horne a Priest he sayes if we mean he is a Priest of the order of Aaron a Levitical Priest we say evidently false Answ. If he be not a Priest of the order of Aaron then he plainly appears to be a false Priest seeing that in Page 70. he hath pleaded for his taking Tyths as neither repugnant to Gods Law nor Mans as also his practises therein he instances that the Priests had their several Subburbs and Quarters when as they that had these were of the Levitical Priesthood Numb. 35. Which Priesthood I. Horne hath plainly denyed himself to be one of and yet pleads for Tyths which pertained to that Priesthood which Christ ended and disanulled the commandment which gave the Tyths Heb. 7. So what hypocrisie is this I. H. in who claimes a right to Tyths as both being according to the Law of God and Man and yet upon that account denies to be called Priest when as the Law of God calls them Priests that took Tyths and does not the Law of Man the like And does not the Book of Common-Prayer call them Priests So that upon this account may I. Horne be called a false Priest he claiming a right to Tyths as by the Law of God when as the service of the Tabernacle for which they were given to the Prists of Levie he is out of Numb. 18. As also he is guilty of the false Priests practises who Preached for hire and divined for money Mica 3. 11. I. H. and T. Moor the elder and the younger say that the false Apostles it seems by what the Apostles writes of them 2 Cor. 11. 12. they use to boast of their free Preaching and in Page 71. They say that the false Apostles were never the better for their Paeaching freely but the worse Answ. Herein have they plainly perverted that of 2 Cor. 11. 12. for there is no speech of the false Apostles Preaching freely see the malice and