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A90879	A voice from heaven: or, A testimony against the remainders of Antichrist yet in England: and in particular, the court of tryers for approbation of ministers. / Born by Gualter Postlethwait, pastor to a Church of Christ in Lewes in Sussex.	Postlethwaite, Walter, d. 1671.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3022; Thomason E1498_3; ESTC R208640	39,391	112

13. that is a shrewd hint to their Jewishness for they have reference to and so imply a Temple Priest Sacrifices which have been revived by the Papists with this maintenance But yet farther either Tythes are paid by the light of Nature or Moral command or else by a Ceremonial precept For as for the Judicial Law it contains but appendices explications and functions of the Moral and Ceremonial Law and so I need not mention that in this dis-junction And also I know none that flie to another mean to prove that Tythes were not Ceremonial that may hurt this my Argument besides this of Natural light or Moral command I assume therefore Tythes are not paid by Natural light or Moral command Those instances of Abraham and Jacob paying Tythes before the Law of Moses are not sufficient to evidence so much Circumcision was not of Moses but of the fathers Joh. 7. 22. yet was it so incorporated into Moses Law that it did oblige a man to keep the whole Law Gal. 5. 3. Sacrifices also are as old as Cain and Abel Gen. 4. yet part of the Ceremonial Law and abolished by Christ Heb. 10. 8 9. 10. But the Assumption is manifest because no Law appointed in the Gospel is inconsistent with any Natural or Moral Law of God But the institution of our Saviour Luke 10. 7. urged by the Apostle 1 Cor. 9. 14. and explained Gal. 6. 6. will not stand with Tythes These are out of the seed of the land the fruit of the trees or of the herd of the flock Lev. 27. 30 31 32. Deut. 14. 22 23. The Gospel-maintenance is raised out of all good things that the person taught hath Tythes were paid the first Tenth to the Levites and they paid the tenth of the tenth to the Priest Neh. 10. 38. And those Levites that taught in the particular Synagogues paid to the Priests who administred in Jerusalem the Gospel-maintenance is to be paid by all that are taught I conclude therefore that Vide Hook Survey part 2. ch ● Tythes belong to the Ceremonial Law which to practise is to dig Christ out of his grave and a character of Antichrist 1 Joh. 4. 3. Neither will it avail for any to say that they take them not as Tythes for the Corinthians could not be so excused as to their eating things sacrificed unto Idols neither in the Idols temple nor otherwhere having taken it from the shambles if they eat with the offence of their brother And if they eat in the Idols temple it was not onely evil for the offence its sake but for it self as in which they committed idolatry and had fellowship with devils 1 Cor. 10. 14 c. notwithstanding they made no conscience of the Idol or the things offered to Idols but went to eat as to the civil feast of their friend vers 19. compared with chap. 8. 1 2 3. 4 5 6 7. When we joyn in the same action with others our different opinion will not save us from the guilt of it as the Apostle hints vers 20. These Tythes were sacrificed to Idols either directly whilst in honour of the Saint the Patron with them endowed the Temple that was consecrated unto him or her or interpretatively by worshipping God with other worship and setting up other things yea contrary things then what he hath appointed in his Church worshipping God in a Messiah to come and exchanging institution Gal. 6. 6. for Tythes And these are still fixed to the Temples of the Saints to whom Temples were built in every Parish and though they be not now looked upon so much as Temples of the Saints yet as Temples of God they are looked upon generally and the Service thought to be the better because performed there and this comes to the same pass since to worship God in a false maner is to worship a false Observant Saints see it to their grief and talk to one another of it god for God hath now no material Temple Neither hath there been any thing done by way of publike Act of the Nation against this Superstition received by tradition from our Fathers Upon which I could not meet with the Parish were it not that I come as a Prophet from Judah to Bethel to them to cry out against the altar there or upon the account of the Churches meeting not theirs primarily There is a thing like that eating things sacrificed to idols that the Church of Thyatira stands as Rev. 2. a bush in a my●y hole to warn us lest we fall into it And they that oppose it shall it may be fare the worse for it with the Nations but Christ will give them power over the Nations at last Let us not deceive our selves God will not be mocked All the Churches shall know that he searches the reins and the heart and will give to every one not according to his pretences but his workes Let us esteem our knowledge by humiliation and the love of God 1 Cor. 8. 1 2 3. whereby we submit unto him and are zealous of his glory and afraid of offending him not by the enticing words of mans wisdome God will acknowledge him that loves him and submits unto him though his brethren may hate him and cast him out for trembling at Isa 66. 5. his word through which he becomes in their eyes more nice then wise but he shall appear to his joy and they shall be ashamed Away I say with all appurtenances of a Parish-Church Let us not desire the Silver and Gold of the Idol lest we besnared and become an abomination like it and accursed like it Deut. 7. 25 26. Let us not be confident of our own strength how easie is it for us or at least our Children to be reduced to the former Popish Church-way when we have Cathedral and Parish-Churches Parsons Vicars Curates Church-wardens c. still continued people are apt upon such occasions to be taken with such things and to ask kow their Fathers or the Nation hath worshipped and this is a step to idolatry and forbidden of God Deut. 12. 30. that therefore would not have any of the reliques of the Canaanites idolatry survive them Oh that God would turn England into a Bochim weepers as 't is in the margin that we might become weepers for this That we have not yet abolished the memory of our Fathers superstition lest the Lord leave us to our enemies to be thorns in our sides and to their gods to be snares to our souls See that sad story Judg. 2. 1 2 3 4 5. meditate on it sadly we have been parallel to Israel in deliverances answerable to them in neglect of duties why should not we expect to be like them in the judgments that came on them If to this I should say Take away Episcopal Churches you would say it were needless but what then means the Cathedral Temples other things may be found 't is like if you search as God will viz. with candles