Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	command_v	day_n	sabbath_n	10,415	5	9.9260	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10796	The reuenue of the Gospel is tythes, due to the ministerie of the word, by that word. Written by Foulke Robartes Batchelour of Diuinitie	Robartes, Foulke, 1580?-1650.	1613 (1613)	STC 21069; ESTC S115987	99,848	152

we may expound Scripture by Scripture then it will appeare that the word tenth is here to be supplyed for that was the part and no other which God assigned to the ministerie of his worship He who shall thus expound it shal haue the tenure of the Scripture to auouch his interpretation but whosoeuer shall expound it otherwise either he expoundeth not at all or at least he but giueth his own b●re gesse without ground If thou saiest he must giue a part that is he must giue something this if it be not obscurum per obscurius certenly it is not ignotum perno●●us for I must aske thee againe what is that something And so if any shal oppose against the euidence of the aforenamed simily and say that it onely importeth equitie but setteth not down any particular forme or determinate quantitie I answer that there must be a particular determination Carlet tyth cap 4. before any thing be done Will any man now say as some whom we mentioned in the second chapter haue said that euerie man shall giue what himselfe shall please Surely the worldly man would smile in his sleeue to see his elbow vnderlaid with such a cushion it is a pleasing doctrine and gently claweth flesh and blood but where is the ground of this construction Doth any Scripture teach vs to appoint God to stand to mans curtesie without so much as any lawe to reprooue them by when they become negligent Is this any other but an humane conceit without warrant Will any man in his right wits let out his ground to a tenant to pay meerely what the tenant himselfe pleaseth No sure He that is a Lord will haue this priuiledge to impose a rent vpon his owne ground Many Lords haue beene bountifull to well deseruing tenants 〈…〉 p. 6● nants and haue accepted of a verie easie rent yet they haue determined it by their owne mouthes though they haue made it neuer so small euen so Almightie God who giueth to euery man all that bee inioyeth as a tenant at will hath made the rent to bee small indeede when it is but the tenth yet he hath not left it to the curtesie of his tenant but as he sheweth his bountie in making the rent easie so he sheweth soueraigntie in naming the rent at his pleasure and making it certen If any shall expound this part to be at the determination of the magistrate this is againe a humane coniecture and howsoeuer it may seeme to nestle in the rocke and to strengthen it selfe with great authoritie hauing betaken it selfe to shrowd vnder the wing of the Magistrate yet we shall easily retriue it from that couert without the least offensiue touch to the vttermost hemme of the Magistrates garment We most gladly acknowledge the Magistrate that he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods liuely image Gods owne lawfull Menand surrogate yea no lesse then a God on earth Psal 82. who beeing godly assumeth to himselfe as he is allowed by God authoritie and power to make lawes to order men but not to stint Almightie God in any of his required duties The godly Magistrate doth prouide that God may receiue what he hath required but doth not appoint him what he shall require God himselfe hath set downe his owne worship and himselfe hath particularized the speciall parts thereof That which is his own worship he referreth not to mans invention And as it stādeth with gods worship so doth it also with gods impost rent or tribute it is his owne he hath imposed it his owne selfe and hath not left it at mans appointment Obiect But it may be obiected The Magistrate may make lawes concerning the worship of God commanding or forbidding as he seeth cause for order and comelinesse as what part of time what place what manner of vestiments he will haue for diuers religious exercises why then may not the Magistrate haue as much to doe with Gods tribute as with his worship Resp I answer that he hath fully as much to doe with the one as with the other vz. in those things which circumstantially concerne either of them and where the word of God also is silent leauing things so to the Magistrates discretion But as for the substance of those things which the Lord God requireth for his owne no man may either diminish or alter Obiect Numbers weights and measures are circumstances and therefore because they are circumstances they should seeme to be referred to the discretion of the Magistrate to increase or lessen them as cause may require Answ Hee that in matter of payments permitteth number weight and measure to the pleasure of the payer hath bound him to nothing Secondly all circumstances are not in the power of the Magistrate to appoint but onely such circumstances as the word of God hath not particularly determined for circumstances set downe or appointed by God may not be altered without his leaue God doth not say concerning the time which is a circumstance of his worship You shall set apart for my worship and seruice some time as you shall see cause or as the Magistrate shall appoint but he saith peremptorily and precisely Remember that thou keepe holy the seauenth day which number of Seauen may not be deminished altered it is from the Seauenth to a Scauenth the number still retayned and that little alteration which was made proceeding from the direction of the spirit of God for it beganne when Christ himselfe was vpon the earth and continued in the time of the Apostles So where God doth not onely say indefinitely honour the Lord with thy riches but also determineth the tenth part for his own speciall due it is not in the power of any man to enforce the D. 〈◊〉 v. v●ew of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 law pag 163. 164. diminishing of this number The Christian Magistrate may appoint dayes besides the Saboath and command solemne worship vnto God vpon the same dayes as occasion of humiliation by prayer and fasting or of tryumphing by praise and feasting may require but with this caueat First that man appoint no day vnder the name of the Lords seauenth and Saboath day Secondly that no day of mans appointment doe cause the Sabaoth to be quenched and put down but that the saboath doe still hold his owne course notwithstanding the dedicating of other dayes besides Euen so also the Magistrate may as occasion requireth cause some thing else besides the tythes to be dedicated vnto the seruice of the Lord and maintenance of his ministerie but with the like caueat First that man appoint nothing in this case by the name of Gods tyth or of that tribute which God himselfe hath determinatiuely inioyned Secondly that no share of mans appointing doe smoother or drowne the tythes but that the tythes be still duely paid what addition or supplie soeuer besides is caused That God hath required the tenth that is plaine but Carlet tyth cap. 1. where or when did he euer giue any man