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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	aaron_n	priest_n	priesthood_n	5,059	5	11.0586	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90244	The ordinance for tythes dismounted, from all Mosaicall, evangelicall, and true magesteriall right. By that valliant and most victorious champion, the great anti-clergy of our times, his superlative holyness, reverend young Martin Mar-Priest, sonne to old Martin the Metropolitane. Commended and presented to the petitioners of Hertford-shire, for their further encouragement, and for provocation of other counties to become petitionary with them against the unhallowed illegall exaction of tythes.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1645 (1645)	Wing O632; Thomason E313_27; ESTC R200481	33,415	43

this handfull of Venerable vermine must have the Tenth of the encrease of the whole Kingdome besides their Gleah-land Oblations c. Which betrayes their unsatiable Covesousnesse to take it and the grosse simplicity of the People to give it their Bene factors must be glad of brown bread and Pottage to feed their hungry bellies of leather Jackets or any thing to cover their nakedness and rejoyce and blesse God they can have it by their sore travell and pains by their industry and sweat of their browes they must cap and congue and these Almes-men this Leviticall Clergy deport themselves and live like Lords in Pompe Honour and Magnificence for who more honoured who more stately proud or delitious then they Oh MARTIN cannot forget the Germane Proverbe The covetousnesse of the Priests and the Mercy of God endure for ever But that we may the more cleerly discover their deceit wherewith they have bewitched the people under this Levittical Pretence let us a little further descant upon the Right of the Levite that every ordinary capacity may receive more full and ample satisfaction concerning the equity of their claine and that those counterfeit Levites our present Presbyters may cover their heads and hide their faces for shame Now for out further inquisition therein and inquiry thereof let us consider that though the Sonnes of Levi had a commandement to receive Tythes of the People according to the Law Heb. 7. 5. and though that commandement was onely for the Levites so that neither any other was to receive them from the People but the Levites nor the people to pay them to any other but to the Levites according to tho Law which both did designe their Tythes and bind them to their payment yet could their service for this rich Prerogative this large Revenue bring no perfection All Offerings Sacrifices and Services unto God for the sinnes of the People was committed to that Priesthood and administred by them and yet as touching the Conscience could not purify or ever take away sinnes therefore there was a necessity that one of another Tribe that should not be called after the Order of Aaron should arise otherwise there could never have been Salvation for it could not be by any thing that did at could proceed or was administred by the Tribe of Levi son could it what further need was there that another Priest should arise Heb. 7. 11. therefore the Priesthood and commandement there of was 〈…〉 lled for the weaknesse and unprofitablenesse thereof verss 8. and been of whom better things were spoken forgivenesse of sinnes and eternall life con●●●eth of another Tribe of whom no man gave attendance at the Altar ●ve● of the Tribe of Judah of which Moses spake nothing concerning the Priesthood No not so much as of a Tyth-pigge vers 13 14 a that thi● Man being come the Priesthood changeth and that changing there is made of necessity a change also of the Law These things premised the Levites therfore themselves have no longer Authority or Divine Right unto Tysbes according to the Law a period being put to their Office their Priest-hood ceasing and the Law according to which they received the wages of their Priesthood ceasing neither are the people longer bound to pay them by vertue of that command seeing both the Law which bound them to it and the Preisthood for which it was are both disannulled abrogated and ceased quite and a more excellent Ministery obtained established upon better Promises by one of whom Moses spake nothing of that Priesthood so that he being of another Order and of another Tribe being Mediatour of a better Covenant established upon better Promises neither Service nor any thing which pertained to that Tribe according to the Law where of Tythes was one can be transplanted and grafted into that Stock under destruction thereof for if we will have it to beare the fruit of the Levitticall Priesthood wee cannot be made perfect receiving the Promise of Eternall life Therefore to ascribe that which belonged to the Levitticall Priesthood to the Ministery of our Lord which sprang from Judah is to introduce and recall the Legall Sacrifices and Services to denie Christ destroy his Genealogie and disannull his Covenant for whatsoever appartained to the Priesthood was proper and essentiall to the Tribe of Levi so that whosoever did officiate therein or receive any thing belonging to the Office was one of that Tribe therefore to ascribe Tythes to this Order whereof Christ is is to make him of the Tribe and Order of Aaron and so destroyes his Mediatourship and denyes salvation by him for of his Order Moses spake nothing concerning the Priesthood now Tythes belonged and was ordained to the Priesthood which Priest-hood was not able to cleanse the Conscience from sinne and so not sufficient for salvation therefore not at all doe they belong unto his Priesthood or Mini●tery arising from another Tribe from whence commeth forgivenesse of sinnes and eternall life 4. If you will have Tythes you must have it of your owne brethren for verily they that were of the Sonnes of Levi who receive the Office of the Priesthood have a Commandement to take Tythes of the people according to the Law that is of their brethren c. Heb. 7. 5. Wherefore we of the Independant Congregations being not of your Members and so none of your brethren you have not any authority to demand or receive them of us the flock which you feed if you feed any is the stock of whose milke you must eat 1 Cor. 9. 7. Now we being not of your stock you must not thinke to eat of our milke but you must be content with the milke of your owne flock when you are our Pastors and wee your sheep you shall have the Tyth of our Milke but in the meane time MARTIN would advise you to be content with your owne 5. If you denie to receive Tythes as Levites and claime them as you are Priests then you must have no other then what was due to the Priests and in Deut. 18. 3. c. it is said and this shall be the Priests due from the People from them that offer a Sacrifice whether it be Oxe or Sheep and they shall give unto the Priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw c. and truly when MARTIN doth offer an Oxe or a Sheep hee will freely give you the shoulder the two Cheeks and the Maw and hee cares not greatly if you thinke that Oxe-cheekes are too course Diet for the Priests of our dayes to gratify your dainty diviner Pallates with the great Bagge with all its venerable appurtenances But though this were the Priests due yet for this were they to stay the Offering a worke too burcherly for Preists now adayes yea they were if there were any warre in the I and to goe against the enemy and blow an alaram with their Trumpets and this was an Ordinance for ever amongst the Priests throughout their Generations and

Objection Tythes were paid unto Melchesedec after whose Order was Christ our High-Priest for ever Therefore due unto the Evangelicall Order as well as to the Levitticall Solution If Tythes which Abraham paid unto Melchezedea were paid unto him as he was of that Everlasting Order it could be at the most but as he was Typically thereof for he was no more then Typicall himself shadowing out the Eternall High-Priest CHRIST JESUS for Christ was not that Melchezedec but after the similitude of that Melchesedec therefore if after that similitude that is after that shaddow or Type then Melchesedec's could not be the substance for the thing simulating cannot possibly be the thing simulated so that the Priesthood of CHRIST must needs be the substance of that shadow which Substance being come the shaddow with all its Appurtenances must vanish and be of no longer force So that whereas it is said Abraham paid Tythes unto Melchezedec it could be at most but unto a Typicall Priesthood unto a Priest-hood which was but the shaddow of good things to come and so and no otherwise was it due unto the Levitticall Priesthood all whose services were but Types and shaddows serving unto the example and shaddow of heavenly things and to such Ministers for such services was a commandement to receive TYTHES according to the Law Whereto Tythes were due and which had a Commandement to receive them therefore there is made of necessity a change also of the Law and mutter disannulling of the Commandemour going before which Commandement brought within its authority the imposition of TYTHES upon the People for the Text saith the sonnes of Levi who received the Priesthood had a Commandemens to take Tythes now the Commandement ceasing the equity of their Exaction must needs cease so that now they cannot by Levite or any other be challenged of Divine Right for the challenging them now by Divine Right is not onely a reduction to the Levitticall Priesthood but a denyall of this Jesus to be an High-Priest for ever after the Order of Melchesedec implying that the substance of that shaddow is not come for the paying of that which was proper to the similitude or Type sheweth that the similitude or Type is still in force and so the Substance not come for while the shaddow is in force there is no place for the Substance Therefore the Exaction of Tythes for the Minsteriall Function of this Everlasting Priesthood is an absolute deniall of Christ come in the flesh and of his everlasting Priesthood Further it may be considered concerning those Tythes unto Melchesedec that though they were paid to him and so to the Order whereof Christ should be our High-Priest forever yet they were a voluntary gift for Abraham had no Commandement from God to bind him precisely to that quantity though the equity of the gift might be granted yet a necessity of the quantity cannot be enforced though in equity for his own part he was bound to a gift for his owne discharge yet not of necessity to a Tenth as if hee might not have given more or lesse or that the other had a Commandement to receive it but the one lest at liberty to give and the other to receive for Melchezedec would not have received them which plainly proves he never 〈◊〉 them but that they were a voluntary Offering and for Voluntary Offerings we doe not deny for if any be pleased to give the Tenth of their endercase or more then the Tenth they may doe as it seemeth good in their eyes So that if from the gift of Abraham to Melebesedee you will enforce any thing unto that Order it can be but free-gift which we granted be due so that your Antiquity of Tythes to this Priesthood is vanished into the 〈◊〉 gift of the People and from thence you can onely 〈◊〉 That Abraham of his owne free-will gave the Tenth but not that the Tenth was ever commanded or exacted Thus if we grant you That Abrahams TYTHES at that time were given to that Order where of Christ is our High-Priest son ever yet you see in stead of gaining you have lost the vantage of your Antiquity and it is transacted to voluntary gift so that from thence you can never prove other then voluntary gift to be given to that Order But if we compare the place in Genes 14. with that of Hebr. 7. we shall find that those Tythes this Gift was no other then Melohezedec's proper goods which Abraham had rescued from Chederloamer For Heb. 7. 1. it is said For this Melchezedec King of Salem Priest of the Most High God who met Abraham returning from the slaughter c. From whence it is clues that he who went to meet Abraham afice his returne from the 〈◊〉 was Melchesedec and that it was the Priest of the most High God that met him and that this Priest was King of Salem So that he that went out to meet him and was this Priest and King must needs be this Melchesedec and in vers 1. 2. it is further said That to Melchezedec Abraham offered that tenth so that hee to whom Abraham offered his tenth was that Melchezedec and that Melchezedec was that Priest and that Priest was that King and that King he that went out to meet Abraham to whom Abraham gave a tenth of his Spoiles now these things premised and compared to the place in Genes 14. 9 10 11. Where it is said That Chederlaomer and the Kings with him conquered the King of 〈◊〉 and took all the goods of Sodome c. and vers 15 16. Abraham pursued them unto Hoba and brought back all the goods c. and vers 17. The King of Sodome went ora to meek him after his return from the slaughter c. and is fire He gave him Terter of all and vers 21 22 23. The King of Sodom said unto Abram Groe we the Parsons to wit the Captives and take the goods to the self and Abram sold to the King of Sodom I will not take from a thread even to a shot-faichet and that I will not take any thing that is thine c. From whence it is most evident That this King of Sodom that was thus plundered 〈◊〉 goods Abram rescared dire 〈◊〉 went out to meet Abram that this Melcheredde the Priest if the Most High God and that the goods that Abram gave has Melchezedec's under goods which 〈◊〉 had it then from him from Sodom 〈◊〉 Abram would not 〈◊〉 from in third 〈◊〉 sould other hee would not take any thing that was 〈◊〉 this it seems that Melchezedec's goods 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Tenth of Abrams spoiler and thus to this Melchezedec the Priest of the Most High GOD Abrahrn gave the Tythes of all So that here is a vast disproportion betwixt those Tythes and the Tythes which you exact for those were not the Tenthes of Abrahams encrease but onely a returne of Melchezedec's proper goods which example affordeth but a sandy foundation for your practise your