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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
A60480	The doctrine of the Church of England, concerning the Lord's Day, or Sunday-Sabbath as it is laid down in the liturgy, catechism, and book of homilies, vindicated from the vulgar errours of modern writers, and settled upon the only proper and sure basis of God's precept to Adam, and patriarchal practice, where an essay is laid down to prove, that the patriarchal Sabbath instituted, Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the patriarchs before the Mosaick Law, and re-inforc'd in the fourth precept of the Decalogue, was the same day of the VVeek, viz. Sunday, which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the creation of the world by the redemption of mankind.	Smith, John, Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester.	1683 (1683)	Wing S4110; ESTC R3081	78,815	242

there as our English Translation seems to limit it but also Preach or call to the Audience in the Name of the Lord for both the Heb. and Septuag lead to that sense Vocavit in Nomine Domini he Called or Preach't in the Name of the Lord that is he profest the true Worship of God So Maluenda Predicavit de Nomine Jehovae he Preach't of the Name of God So Piscator and Ainsworth Charah Clamare to call to God is to Pray to call to Men is to Preach saith Ainsworth and from Charah seems to be derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Preach or Proclaim Hence Jacob promised that at his return that should be to him the House of God that is there he would worship God as the Cald. Paraphrase and Ainsworth explain that Text. Briefly how could Jacob so readily have hit upon this name House of God if there had not been such things in being as Houses of God It is further observable here as Ainsworth notes that such separate Places were stiled the Presence of God and that it was from the Presence of God in this sense that Cain was thrust and Satan went out Job 2. SECT II. That the Patriarchal Church had Publick Ministers separated by calling to officiate in these Publick Places dedicated to Divine Worship with publick allowance of Tithes for their Maintenance is manifest 1. From Abraham's paying Tithes to Melchisedeck the Priest of the High God who blessed him Gen. 14. 18. 2. From Jacob's Vow to give God at his return the Tenth of all that God should give him Gen. 28. 22. for he was Priest himself to his own Family and therefore must have been both the Paymaster and Receiver of the Vowed Tithes and what would this have been but a plain mocking of God under a splendid shew of Devotion except he had in his Eye an order of Priests of the High God to pay them unto whose Office it was to Serve at the Altar and whose Priviledge it was to live of the Altar That is a wild conceit of Oleaster that he either meant to consume the Tithes in Sacrifice or that his Posterity should pay them to the Priests in the time of the Law This last is ridiculous for how could Jacob's Posterity so many Generations after pay the Tithe of what God had blest Jacob with and the first is not much better for the distinction of Beast and Fowl into Clean and Vnclean could have no other ground before the Flood seeing all were prohibited as to Man's Eating till after the Flood but God's commanding some kinds of them to be offered in Sacrifice and prohibiting other kinds which declaration of God's Will was so manifest to the Patriarchs before the Flood as Noah knew every particular kind both of Clean and Vnclean and therefore took to him into the Ark of the Clean by Sevens of the Unclean by Pairs Gen. 7. 2. and Sacrificed of every Clean Beast and Clean Fowl at his coming out of the Ark Chap. 8. 20. It had been therefore an abomination to God for Jacob to have offered the Vnclean in Sacrifice Now it is apparent that God gave him Unclean as well as Clean if he himself hath given a true Inventory of his Goods for he not only sends his Brother Esau word that he had Asses but sends him a Present of twenty She-Asses Gen. 32. 5 15. And Chap. 30. 42. we find Camels and Asses that God had blessed him with yea that in his whole Flock he had not one that he would own for his but confest it stollen from Laban that was not spotted and speckled c. Gen. 30. 33. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the Goats and brown among the Sheep shall be accounted stollen with me The Tithe of these being all Vnclean Jacob could not offer in Sacrifice it remains therefore that he paid them to the Priests of the High God And such Priests could not be wanting in the time of Jacob for we find them in being many hundreds of years after and yet before the giving of the Law witness Jethro Moses's Father in Law who was Priest of Midian Exod. 3. 1. and a Priest of the High God to whom he offered a Burnt-Offering and Sacrifices inviting Aaron and the Elders to eat Bread with him before the Lord Exod. 18. 12. Where before the Lord can signifie nothing else but in the Place appointed for Divine Worship Moses being now incamp't at the Mount of God so called from the House of God there Erected for the Worship of God the Tabernacle not being yet Built 3. That the Patriarchal Church had such Priests who had Publick Maintenance may be also proved from Gen. 47. 22. The Priests Lands were not sold in the Famine but they had Portions allowed them out of the Kings Store-houses Potiphara Joseph's Father in Law was one of those Priests and had for his Province On that is Heliopolis Gen. 41. 45. and was probably a Worshipper of the True God seeing it is hard to conceive that so Religious a Man as Joseph would have married his Daughter if he had been an Idolater considering how dear such unequal Matches of the Sons of God to the Daughters of Men had cost the Old World which Joseph could not be ignorant of and how careful his Great Grandfather Abraham and Grandfather Isaac were to provide Wives for their Sons out of Religious Families Yea if Joseph was the Egyptian Ox their most Antient and Chief Deity as the most Learned conceive Egypt was not so overwhelmed with Idolatry at this time but that there might be many Priests and Servants of the True God therein For that Pharaoh who took Sarah into his House seems to have had a Religions Sense of the True God by his Expostulating with Abraham Gen. 12. 18. And which is most strange Abimelech King of Gerar the Metropolis of Palestine in the Tribe of Simeon in the very heart of those seven Nations whose Sins were ripe so long before others seems in his Discourse with Abraham touching Sarah to give great proof of the Uprightness of his heart towards God and did understand the benefit of Intercession made for him by the Prayer of a Prophet for otherwise God would not have urged him by that argument to restore Sarah to Abraham Now how could he have understood that if the distinction of Prophets by Calling and the Custome of Persons separate by Calling to put up Prayers for the People had not been in use in his Kingdom which he therefore stiles a Righteous Nation because the Fear of God that is the True Worship of God saith Grotius was there contrary to Abraham's uncharitable and rash Censure Gen. 20. 9 10. Nay from this instance of the King of Gerar and his People it is more than probable that the King of Egypt forementioned and his People were at that time the Worshippers of the True God And though perhaps part of the Aegyptian Priests were in that degenerate