Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	pay_v	priest_n	tithe_n	4,836	5	10.3389	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42712	The everlasting rule born witness unto, vvhich is to try all people that do profess God and Christ in words, or, I. A tender salutation to all people in what nation soever, and under what form soever, who do profess God and Christ in words ... II. Also an exhortation unto all people to come to that which will give them victory over sin and the devil ... III. A distinction between the ministers of Christ and the ministers of Antichrist ... / by a lover of truth and righteousness, who seeks the well-being of all mankind, William Gibson.	Gibson, William, 1629-1684.	1667 (1667)	Wing G682; ESTC R38756	64,130	72

at all for the Tythes were ordained for the Tribe of Levi Neh. 10.38 who were to serve in the Outward Temple who were the Outward Priesthood who had not any part in the division of the Land for the other Tribes had the Land divided amongst them Num. 18.20 22 c. to the end Chapter but the Tribe of Levi had no part of the Land but as I said before the Tythes was for to relieve them and not only them but the Strangers and Fatherless also that there might not be a Begger in Israel but this was before Christ the Everlasting High-Priest was made manifest as to the outward but when he was come and was offered up then Stephen a man full of Faith and full of the Power of God he lift up his voice in the Power of the Everlasting High-Priest and said God that made the World dwels not in Temples made with hands but the Temple-worshippers they were filled with wrath against him for his true Testimony and they stoned him to death And Paul in the Power of the Everlasting High-Priest he said unto the Saints Heb. 3.1 2 3 4 5 6. That their Bodies were the Temple of the Living God and when Paul writ unto the Hebrews he told them that the Priesthood being changed Heb. 7.12 to the end of the chapter there was also a necessity of the change of the Law So the Ministers of Christ in the Power of him the Everlasting High-Priest they preached down the outward Temple and its Worship and its Priests and all their Sacrifices which made nothing perfect Heb. 10 11 20 21 22. as pertaining to the Conscience and so the Priests and Temple and Tythes was but to continue till Christ was offered up and though they did uphold the outward Temple worship and its Priests and Tythes for some time after Christ was offered up and so slew Stephen and others for crying against it yet the Arm of the Lord God was against them and it brought them down and the Foundation of their Temple was pulled up and they were scattered up and down in many Nations and are so scattered unto this day according unto the Prophesie of Christ Jesus the Everlasting High-Priest Acts 7.47 48 49 50 59 60. And now unto all people I say 2 Sam. 7.5 6 12 13. 1 Kings 6.1 2. there was never any outward House or Temple that Gods Worship was limitted to but only that at Jerusalem which David prepared for and Solomon builded neither was there ever any command from God to pay Tythes unto any other Priests but only those who belonged to that Worship under the Law and the Command was but in force until Christ was Crucified without the Gate of Jerusalem Joh. 4.20 c. to ver 27. and that was many hundred years ago and the Scriptures of Truth which the Priests of England do call their Rule do prove what I have written concerning this thing And O ye Priests of England you have no command from God to take Tythes and therefore you have no right to Tythes and there is a People of a tender Conscience in this Nation whom you in scorn call Quakers God hath opened their Eyes and they see and know you have no right to Tythes and therefore in obedience unto Christ Jesus the Everlasting High-Priest 1 Cor. 3.16 17. who hath ended the outward Temple and outward Priests and Law and Tythes they have with-holden their own from you 2 Cor. 6.16 and durst not give you any Tythes for if they had then they had provoked the Lord God unto wrath against them and for this their tender obedience unto their God you have persecuted several of them your Neighbours unto death and thus you have brought innocent blood upon your selves for which you must drink deep of the Cup of Gods fierce Indignation Isa 49.25 26. and you do still continue your Cruelty in imprisoning the Bodies and spoiling the Goods of those your Neighbours and you have not yet repented of those your grievous Sins neither do you seek Repentance for those your grievous Sins for if you were sorrowfull for what you have done in those things which you have done then you would give over so doing but the most of you who have power given you by men you continue in your wicked works Phil. 3 18 19. and as the Apostle said Your Consciences are Seared as with a hot Iron and you have sold your selves Slaves unto Satan to do his work with greediness for his Servants your are to whom you obey and in those things you obey Satan for he was a Lyar and a Murtherer from the beginning and his Children and Servants are like him and these your wicked works which you have done it hath been for your Bellies which you make your god and though you have been professing the true God in words yet you have not known him for your hearts have been far from him and though you have talked of him with your Mouthes for Money yet in works you have denied him and so you have not loved the Lord God with all your hearts and so you could not love your Neighbours the People you call Quakers as you have loved your selves for if you had loved the Lord God with all your hearts then you would have loved your Neighbors as your selves for before any man or woman can come to love their Neighbours as themselves they must come to love the Lord God with all their hearts but you have loved your Bellies more then you have done either God or your Neigbours your Fruits do make it plainly manifest many thousands of Englands Inhabitants seeth it to be so therefore you are not Ruled by the holy Scriptures without you nor by the holy Spirit which is the Original of the Scriptures within you but you are unruly and the holy Spirit of God in your own Consciences and the holy Scriptures without you do bear witness against you and you stand judged and condemned before the Lord God and all just and holy men And Christ Jesus spake words which was written and is upon Record in the Holy Scriptures which you call your Rule he said unto the people Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do you even so unto them this is Christs Command and he saith If you love me keep my Commandments and if you did love him you would keep this his Command He that saith he knoweth or loveth God and keepeth not his Commandments is a Lyar 1 John 2.4 If any man say he loveth God and hateth his Brother he is a Lyar for he that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And this Commandment have we from him that he that loveth God loveth his Brother also 1 John 4.20.21 By this we know that we love the Children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments For this is the love of