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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11886	Sacrilege sacredly handled That is, according to Scripture onely. Diuided into two parts: 1. For the law. 2. For the Gospell. An appendix also added; answering some obiections mooued, namely, against this treatise: and some others, I finde in Ios. Scaligers Diatribe, and Ioh. Seldens Historie of tithes. For the vse of all churches in generall: but more especially for those of North-Britaine.	Sempill, James, Sir, 1566-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 22186; ESTC S117106	109,059	172

changed both Priesthood and Law not from what it was at first in that Typicall action betweene Melchisedec and Abraham but from what it was vnder the Law the other he renued and reuiued The Law then followeth the Priest-hood and therefore the Iudicials are no Iudges of things Sacerdotal and Sacred Such Priest-hood then such Law A Temporall and Ceremoniall Priest-hood Temporall and Ceremoniall Lawes pro rata such was the Priest-hood and Law Leuiticall in many things meerely Ceremoniall and so gone for euer in all things Temporall and so in some things reuiued renued and restored in that first perpetuall and Euangelicall Priest-hood of Melchisedec Aeterna aeternis aptanda is a receiued Maxime Ceremoniall then and Iudiciall are gone There rests but Morall and so if the enumeration of the three Lawes be sufficient and the remotion of the two true it followeth Tithes must be Morall But to Morallize yet a little more with them What shall this Morall be some will haue it all one with Naturall that Character in our hearts as if the Decalogue were but a second edition of this Morall or Naturall Law We may safely yet we neede not yeeld to all this For take him in his true Etymon and Morall will be but whatsoeuer concerneth Manners Now euery particular point of good Manners hath not a perfect Character printed in our fallen hearts Else what say we to Polygamie so long of olde tollerated so much yet and in so many parts held for no sinne What say wee to Pauls Concupiscence which he sayes he had not knowne but by the Law Rom. 7.7 Then Morall and Naturall are not wholly one And was it not a very Morall and Mannerly duetie from Abraham to Christ to pay Tithes for the maintenance of Gods Ministerie How then it came to be not Morall or vnmannerly with Christ let Schoole-men Canonists Ciuilians Common-Lawyers Et quot quot Sacri sacra fame laborant giue good reason for it and I am satisfied Morall then in that tripartite diuision of Lawes is much better ascribed to whatsoeuer thing is brought vnder a perpetuall Law of God neuer after to be abrogated although the perfect Character of it be not imprinted in our corrupt Nature Let vs say then of Tithes We had not knowne them but by the Law as Paul said of Concupiscence yet let them haue the like continuance as that of Concupiscence else giue vs a Legall limit of the Law of Tithes from Scripture But if Law should faile what say you to Melchisedecs Priest-hood and Abrahams practise Dauids Prophecie and Pauls application all these were of Grace and the Promises not of the Law Thus farre for Morall Now let vs consider of this Character by Nature in our hearts they talke so much of It is Naturall say they that the labourer haue his wages the Ministerie a Maintenance but the quota is not of Nature but Positiue Law Ergo An eleuenth ninth or lesse or more part may be assigned as well as a Tenth I answere It is most true that Nature is most liuely instructed with the Generals of all things and the more shee draweth ad Indiuidua the more erronious shee proueth And touching this point of Commutatiue Iustice it is so Naturall that the very beasts yea sauage beasts haue acknowledged it by true Retribution But is it not also a Character of our Nature to draw all Wages to their quota or is there any doing in Nature till this be done Then where Nature so bendeth and cannot binde of it selfe whatsoeuer may or hath power to settle Nature in these particulers must be for euer the onely stay of Nature and Nature neuer trusted to it selfe afterwards more then at first To the point then All Wages are due by a Wager to a Waged Wagers and Waged heere are either God with his Creatures or his Creatures among themselues Creatures in this case haue no power ouer the quota but ex mutuo pacto and so Nature can neuer define it for all and euer but must vary after all Circumstances But betweene God and his Creatures as our question now standeth God onely hath power of all Who shall serue How they shall serue For what they shall serue The quota is first Gods Leuit. 27. who dare refuse it Not Abraham not Israel not Abrahams seed Then God giueth this quota to his Ministerie Melchisedec Leui who dare except These be the true Positiue Lawes enlightning and rectifying our darke and crooked Nature to which we must euer either cleaue or shew where our Nature hath preuailed against them and how wee haue brought the Creator vnder mutuum pactum with his Creatures No he Wageth whom he will for his Wine-yard He giueth the Penny the quota for his wages he that came first to work excepted but proudly and idly against him that came last A penny for all a Tenth for all It is not at our option Though France Spaine Italy Germany the whole world make any other Positiue Lawes they make but so many Lawlesse Positions Such Histories cast but humane mists ouer Diuine Mysteries if we trust too much to them Againe although by Order of Nature as Schooles speake the Generall of Wages goeth before the quota yet in Scripture Method and point of Time there you shall finde the very quota as soone if not sooner then Maintenance in generall Our first is still that of Abraham Tithe of all heere is the onely quota Our second is Iacobs Vow Tithe of all againe the very quota Our third is the succeeding Lawes all the Tithe of the Land is the Lords Leuit. 27.30 Againe I haue giuen Leui all the Tenth in Israel for his Inheritance Is there any thing heere but the quota first the quota and still the quota But this quota say those Clerkes as Selden relates it being but a iudiciall Law M. Seld. ib. pag. 158. proceedeth now in the Gospell by Ecclesiastique Doctrine and only per vim exemplarem or by imitation of the Iewish state ordered by the Almightie and not per vim obligatiuam or any continuing force of it vnder the Gospell And that the Church was not bound to this part but freely might as well haue ordained the payment of a Ninth or Eleuenth according to various opportunitie First we haue said and I hope proued already That the Law of Tithes was no Iudiciall Law Secondly tho●e Diuines doe vs great wrong that take no notice of Tithes but as they goe out by that Law peculiar to the Iewish state excluding both that most excellent perpetua l and Euangelicall Type of Tithing in Melchisedec and Abraham reuiued and confirmed by Paul now to the Gospell and also that euer-binding Verbe of Iacob for Tithes Of All both which were the grounds of the Law but braunches of no written Law if not of Nature Moral diuine instinct and Tradition from a Principio Our Vis Exemplaris then should be deriued from our owne peculiar Examples A Priest-hood and Tithing before that