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A90832	The vindication of Christ and his ordinances from the corrupt and false glosses made thereon by the subtil and deceivers of these times. By Christopher Pooly, minister of the word at great Missingham, in Norfolk.	Pooly, Christopher, 1575 or 6-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing P2860; Thomason E682_1; ESTC R206797	181,996	208

in grace and in his wisdom and goodness thereby to govern his Church and people upon Earth for his own worship honor and their good peace comfort society and safety the which whosoever doth neglect omit and despise doth manifest himself to be none of Gods chosen people none of the chosen of Christ Whosoever professeth himself to be a subject to an earthly King or Governor and despiseth to submit in performance to his wholesom Laws and Ordinances dissembleth and is in truth no Subject to the King or Governor So it is with him that professeth himself to be a Christian if he refuseth and despiseth to submit in performance to the most wholesom Laws of Jesus Christ for the Government of his Church upon Earth before men he is no Christian but an Hypocrite Q. We finde it clear in the holy Scripture that God anointed called and sent before himself his Son Jesus Christ to three Offices for the government of his Church upon Earth of a King a Priest and a Prophet and he did execute the same Offices by himself in manifestation being upon Earth in his Church and hath ever and will execute the same by his instruments upon Earth for the government Isai 9. 6 is ever upon his shoulders He is a Priest for ever And we find in his visible Church he called and sent Moses his Minister and Instrument Exod. 24. 1 9 before men and appointed him to call and send Aaron and his sons and others before men and he called and sent Samuel and he appointed Samuel to call and send Saul and David Elijah to call Elisha in his room and so as it pleased the Lord it appeared in the rest of the Instrumen●s of his Offices And having called and sent his Apostles himself as the Apostle saith He gave this to some to be Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Eph 4. 11 Teachers for the gathering together of the Saints for the work of the Ministry and for the edifying of the body of Christ And saith As the Father sent me so send I you As the Father sent me to call Joh. 20 21 you and send you so send I you to call and send others and this was not for a time in these his Offices of continuance but for ever upon Earth so long as his Church is upon Earth So the Apostles called and sent Timothy and Titus and others and advised them to call and 1 Tim 3. 2 c. Tit. 1 5 c. send others not rashly but advisedly And so hath been the continued calling and sending of Pastors and Teachers in the Churches of Christ upon Earth ever sithence Now what is to be thought of those which contemn and despise this Ordinance of God and his Christ which despise his Ordinance of calling and sending his instruments called and sent by such his Ministers and instruments as were so called and sent for the government of his Church upon Earth which despise such Pastors and Ministers so called and sent their Ministry of the Word and Sacraments their long teaching and feeding of Gods people with his Law for government and his Gospel for everlasting comfort by the performance of Jesus Christ for them And which call and send themselves or are called and sent by others which were not called or sent by such as were called and sent according to Christs Ordinance to feed and teach Gods people by his Law and Gospel as they profess A. I take it the sentence of these is plainly held forth and denounced by Christ himself and his Apostles and of Moses long before that and the Prophets The Apostle saith He that despiseth Moses Law dyeth without mercy under two or three witnesses and Heb. 10 28 29 of how much sorer punishment shall he be worthy which trampleth under foot the Son of God and counteth the blood of the Testament an unholy thing and doth despite to the Spirit of Grace And to those that call themselves or are called by others not called according to Christs Ordinance Christ saith He that climbeth up to the sheepfold another way is a thief and a robber Joh. 10. 1 And Moses telleth us that Korah Dathan and Abiram with great congregations which they had gathered against him and Aaron the called and sent of Christ for his Ministers and Instruments to execute his Offices as he pleased in his Church but especially against Aaron which was called and sent by Moses according to the Lords appointment and ordinance saying that they and all the congregation were holy that the Lord Christ by his Spirit was amongst them all and therefore they took too much upon them to be special and onely Ministers and Instruments of Christ in those his Offices That they and the rest had holiness and calling by the Spirit of Christ to execute especially the Office of Aaron as well and fully as he upon whom ●oon after this judgment fell The Earth opened and swallowed up Korah Dathan and Abiram with all their families and all Numb 16 32 the men that were with Korah and all their goods No man saith the Apostle taketh this honor upon him but he Heb. 5. 4 that is called as Aaron was And again How shall they preach except they be sent Certain the Apostle meaneth sent according to Ro● 10 15 the Ordinance of Christ And the Prophet speaking of them that held forth themselves to speak great things by the Revelation of the Spirit and of the people that did adhere unto such adviseth to go to the Law and the Testimony Isai 8. 16 19. 2● for tryal of such If ●saith he they speak not according to this Word it is because they have no light in them If they speak without such calling as is according to this word of th Law and Testimonies approved and if they speak not as is approved in the Law and Testimony it is because there is no light in them they are false Prophets Obj. I hear some say Bishops and Presbyters which were called called many lewd persons ungifted to be Teachers and Ministers A. Jesus Christ called ●udas to be an Apostle a Teacher and Minister which was as evil as any man therefore it is possible that those which are called may call lewd and un●ifred persons this doth not take away the Ordinance of Christs calling nei●her did Q. Doth that Law of Christ first manifested and exbounded by Moses as Christ appointed to Gods chosen people the visible Church of Israel continue in force to all the visible Churches of Christ in the World for the Government of Christs Universal Church in every particular Nation A. In Moses exposition of that Law by Christs appointment to that Church there were many Sacrifices Ceremonies and Figures constituted which had relation unto Christ to come in the flesh and to perform the work of his coming before men and thereupon many Judgments to that Nation peculiar which as they had

might not be chargeable to the Churches without any certainty of maintenance A. First I say for Elimozinary maintenance of called and sent Ministers of Christs Law and Gospel there is no witness or president in the Scriptures It agreeth not to the honor of the Ministry of the Gospel that the Ministers thereof should be beggars of their maintenance we know alms and beggars and relatives and the Holy Ghost noteth in Scriptures that begging is a mark of unrighteousness and reprobation for David saith I never saw the righteous forsaken See Psal 109. 10 Psa 37. 25 Luk. 16. 3 nor their seed begging their bread Therefore the ascription of Elimozinary and begging maintenance to the Office of the instrumental honorable Ministry of Jesus Christ is antichristian and dishonorable to Jesus Christ Secondly Although we finde in the Scriptures that Priests and Prophets being Ministers of our God sometime were put upon arbitrary maintenance or miraculous in times of persecution and the Apostles his Ministers were put upon like arbitrary and miraculous maintenance according to the wisdom and good pleasure of our God in the alteration and change of the Levitical Priesthood and in the beginning of Christs gathering of Believers of Christ come in the flesh and his performing of all before men to mans salvation according to the Scriptures and in the persecutions of adversaries in those times yet all these did not destroy the Law and and Ordinance of Christ setled and established for certainty of the maintenance of his Ministry continuing in the moral and equity of that first established Law for the Government of his Church upon Earth in the continuance of the world to the end thereof in all Nations where and as he pleaseth as in the moral and equity is most fit And is not the righteous Law of Christ and the Ministry thereof as it was established by Christ to the Church of Israel as useful and necessary to the Church of Christ in all Nations in the moral and equity thereof for Government as it was to Israel Is it not as useful and necessary to Believers of Christ come in the flesh and that he hath performed all to mans salvation before men as it was to Believers that Christ should come in the flesh and perform all to mans salvation before men And is the glory and honor of the maintenance of the ministration of the glorious Law of Christ abated and demolished in the ministration of the moral and equity thereof accompanyed with the exceeding shining and glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ come in the flesh and that he hath performed all before men undertaken of him for the salvation of man to their everlasting comfort according to the Scriptures Certainly the righteous Laws of our God and Lord Christ which he first manifested written in Tables of stone to his Church of Israel for the Government of his Church in all Nations in the moral and equity thereof for worship to God for righteousness peace society safety and comfort among men themselves notwithstanding all or any eclipses through alrerations changes persecutions thereof by the providential wisdom of God therein before men is useful and needful still Certainly the need and use of the Law of Christ is as much now in the moral and equity thereof to Believers of Christ come for government c. as it was then in any way to Believers of Christ to come Certainly the Ministry and Ministers thereof in the moral and equity thereof for Government c. in all Nations of Believers of Christ come c. are as useful and needful still yea as glorious and honorable as ever they were and more glorious and honorable then before the Gospel the glad tydings therewith of Christ come in the flesh and to have performed all before men to mans salvation And certainly the certainty of maintenance appointed layd out and established by Christ himself to the Ministry and Ministers of that visible National Church of Israel in his incomprehensible wisdom as besitting useful necessary and requisite is still and shall be to the end of the world sitting useful necessary and requisite to the Ministry and Ministers of Christs perpetual honorable Law for his Government in the moral and equity thereof to his visible Church in all Nations of the World where the Chuch of Christ is National as it was in Israel and Iudea And this maintenance now to exceed that of the Ministry of the Law to that Nation by the addition of the glorious ministration of the Gospel the work of Jesus Christ come in the flesh and to have performed all before men for mans salvation And certainly the maintenance of the Ministry of the Law of Christ for Government of his Church of Israel layd on t and established there and then in the incontroulable wisdom of the Son of God our Christ and Lawgiver for the certainty of the maintenance thereof by Tythes and Offerings and the rest The same Law Government Ministry and Ministers in the moral and equity thereof remaining and continuing to all Nations to the end of the World where the Church of Christ is gathered in like manner nationally and visibly the same maintenance by Tythes and Offerings is still and shall be to the end of the world in the wisdom of Christ besitting useful necessary and requisit there There being in all Nations the matter of Tythes and Offerings remaining and in being at least to answer the moral and equity of the Law and Ordinance of Christ And the acutest wisdom of corrupt man in laying out maintenance of the Ministry and Ministers of the Law and Gospel of Jesus by other certain arbitrary or Elimozinary maintenance as have been by corrupt man corruptly propounded is but foolishness with God as the Apostle speaketh And certainly Gods people that are led by the Spirit of Christ will submit to the manifested wisdom of Christ for the Government of his Church in all Nations and the maintenance thereof layd out by Christ And I must forced by Religion add this further for the evidence of the wisdom of Christ manifested to men in laying out and establishing by Law and Ordinance Tythes and Offerings for certainty of the maintenance of the Ministry and Ministers of his Law and Gospel in all Nations where his Church is gathered Nationally and visibly That Christ did not lay out these as of that which was mans but of that which was Gods which was his own and not mans own therefore in the Law are called the Lords Offerings the Exod. 35. 21 Lev. 21. 21 Mal. 3. 8 9 Offerings of the Lord. And the Prophet called Tythes the Lords Ye have robbed me saith the Lord in Tythes and Offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole Nation c. David saith The Earth is the Lords and all that therein is c. But Tythes and Offerings are at the Lords appointment in his Psal 24. 1 Law and Ordinance in a special manner in a special reservation to himself for his homage worship and service according to

his own disposition in the Government of his Church upon Earth We read in the Testament of our God that Cain and Abel being the two first-born of woman mentioned did bring of their fruits for an offering to the Lord sure it is that they did not this of their own corrupted humane invention but from some Law and command that they had from our God either only written in their hearts or other ways manifested to them and in obedience to the same For our God sheweth through the whole Scripture that he rejecteth all sacrifire offring service done by corrupt mans invention as in that of Saul 1 Sam. 15 9 c. in sparing the fat and best things for offering to the Lord in his own invention And Cain dissembling in his obedience was also rejected of the Lord and his offering because he did not bring to the Lord of the best of his fruits as Abel did according to Gods Law and command to them ●nd we read it mentioned in Scriptures That Abram gave Tythes of all to Melchisedec the Priest of the most high God Gen. 14 20. Surely this was not done of Abrams own invention but in obedience to the Law and Ordinance of God either onely written in his heart or by some manifested command of our God otherwise unto him Abram would not tempt God with his own Inventions But this is clear from hence that our God and Lord Christ howsoever the Godhead suffereth and permitteth to man the use of that upon Earth yet reserved to himself from the beginning the Tythes of all and the Offerings at his appointment for homage worship and service to himself in the government of his Church and people And this is most clear in that that when his National first Church of Israel was setled he then by his Law written in Tables of stone in great manifestation and glory did establish his Tythes and Offerings expresly to be to the maintenance of the Ministry of his Law given and of his Ministers appointed for the service of the Tabernacle and Numb 18. 6 7 8 c. Sanctuary Alteration change and persecution made sometime a stay of the manifestation of the Ordinance of our God and the Lord Christ before men but his Ordinance remained still God made the Sun to rule and govern the day and the Moon to rule and govern the night by his perpetual Ordinance and of all thereto belonging The Sun and the Moon are sometime in the Eclipse sometime the Moon changeth before men and the Sun and the Moon go down in appearance to men yet the Sun and the Moon remain still to govern the day and night and shall do as long as the day and night remain Even so the Law of our God Christ being ordained and made by him for the government of his Church his Ministry Ministers and maintenance thereto useful and necessarily belonging in the moral and equity of his Law are as useful and necessary for the government of his Church upon Earth as long as his Church remain as the Sun and Moon are useful and necessary to govern the day and night and shall continue non obstante Obj. But it is the certain maintenance of the Ministry of Christs Law and Gospel by Tythes and Offerings that trouble the dissembling professors of themselves to be of Christs Church now upon Earth Tythes and Offerings are a wearisom burthen to them for they say that they see no reason but themselves should have the tenth part as well as they have the nine parts A. Ala●s these do not know and consider that the Earth is the Lords and all that therein is as David affirmeth and that they Psal 24 1. have their life and maintenance thereof only by the Lords sufferance permission and patience in the nine parts of that of the Earth as the Rom. 9. 22 Apostle sheweth And that the Lord hath reserved to himself and his disposition the tenth part of all in the Earth man to have no property in the Earth but at the Lords disposition and therefore the Offerings he reserved he sometimes appointed them or what of them he pleased to be burnt and sacrificed to him by fire And this was from the beginning of the generation of man and continued and not onely to figure the sacrifice of Christ but to shew his will and power in reserving to himself that he pleased to be disposed of as he pleased in the government of his Church for his worship and honor in the moral and equity of his perpetual Law c. in all Nations where his Church is Nationally established And this was that which troubled the Hypocrites in the Church of Israel they were weary of bringing their Ty●hes and Offering to the Lord at the Lord disposition Ye said saith the Prophet behold it is a weariness and ye Mal. 1. 13 14 have snuffed at it saith the Lord of hoasts and have offered that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus you offered an offering should I accept this of your hand saith the Lord But cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing Will a man spoyl his gods yet you have spoyled or robbed me in Tythes and Offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole Nation Mal. 3. 8 9 Thus we see this wearisomness this snuffing at the burthen of Tythes and Offerings which our God and Christ reserved to himself to be at his disposition in the government of his Church upon Earth from the beginning to the end for homage worship and honor and the rest to the good of men And also the robbing of the same by cursed Hypocrites seeking in the same their own gain and honor among men is no new thing no new attempt but as it was then so it is now But I wish all to consider of the words of the Apostles of Christ speaking in the times the change and in the times of persecution If we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things And again Let him that is 1 Cor. 9. 11 Gal. 6. 6. taught in the Word make him that teacheth him partaker of all his goods And again Wo be unto them for they have followed the way of Cain and are cast away by the deceit of Balaams wages and perish Jude 11. in the gainsaying of Corah The way of Cain was we know that although he had the commandment of God to bring the best of his fruits for Tythe or Offering to the Lord yet for gain to himself did rob God of the best and like a dissembler brought of the worst or such as were not worth the acceptance The deceit of Balaams wages whereby he was cast away was for that he knew the