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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

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 CHVRCHES IN generall but more especially for those of North-Britaine DEVTER 33.11 Blesse O LORD Leuies substance and accept the works of his hande Smite thorow the Loynes of them that rise against him and them that hate him that they rise not againe Nec partis studiis agimur sed sumpsimus arma Sacrilegis ●●●●ca viri● TO THE MOST NOBLE AND TRVLY SACRED Prince Defender of Christs Faith and Nourish-father of his Church IAMES by his grace of great Brittaine France and Ireland King SEE gracious Soueraigne See how many and great reasons both from the Argument and the Author do draw this Treatise to your Sacred hands From the Argument A Sacred and high subiect requireth a Sacred and sound Iudgement The Churches Sacred patrimonie a Kingly Sacred patrocinie And Sacrilege a proud and insolent sin a Sacred and powerfull scepter to suppresse it All which are only and most eminent in your most Sacred Maiestie SKILL WILL and POVVER From the Author This seemeth to require a Sacred pen-man too True And though I be not of the Tribe of Leui yet I hope of the tents of Sem how Simple soeuer Yea behold what interest I haue also in our Sacred Dauid Euen deuoted to his seruice by my parents before I was Thereafter named in and after his Maiesties owne name before himselfe could know it yet after knowledge confirmed And in his H. Court almost euer since both nursed and schooled And so is our Dauid the King of my birth the Master of my seruice the father of my name framer of my nature and the Gamaliel of my education at whose feet no at whose elbow and from whose mouth I confesse I haue suckt the best of whatsoeuer may bee thought good in me his iust right therefore and my chiefest glorie Becommeth it not well then SIR where the Soueraigne proueth a Salomon his Courtiers proue Nehemiahs though sparingly here compared When He is Pater Ecclesiae and Episcopus aulae by authoritie proclaiming and by practise prouoking vnto vertue they to shunne both ignorance and silence Truly it goeth neuer better then when the Church Courteth it and the Court Churcheth it for Moses and Aaron were brothers But to our purpose SIR When I consider how God hath made you not onely our Prince but euen our princely Patriarke our IACOB deliuering you from so many Esaues as he did Jacob bringing you home againe after your marriage as hee did Jacob and also setling you in your Canaan more than hee did to Iacob and againe seeing your Maiestie performes Jacobs vowes to God viz. Defending his faith building his houses but chiefly this Of all that thou shalt giue me I will giue the tenth vnto thee I had bin too to vnworthily by your Maiestie named Jacob if I should not with my sword in the one hand and penne in the other both Court it and Church it that is build vp with our Royall IACOB the breaches of Ierusalem But the breach SIR is great not only in Lime and Stone but in the liuely Stones of Gods worke the Leuits themselues Their Tithes are abstracted themselues distracted and so the Gospell contracted and confined 2. Thes 3.1 that it Runneth not as it should Your Commons pay Tithes your Leuites lacke Tithes your Lords and Laicks haue been bathed in blood about Tithes Your poore labourers may say with the true Israelites Deut. 26.13 J haue brought the hallowed thing out of mine house but they cannot say on And J haue also giuen it vnto the Leuites Why Because there commeth a kind of Pirat Ships with Acts of Parliament in their flags and carrie all away Your SKIL knoweth this SIR best of any your WIL wisheth it were mended and God hath giuen you POVVER to performe it All three are promised in your BASILICON DORON to your Sonne Lib. 2. and according to that promise are all three in some measure begun already by your selfe in annulling in a part that Vile Act of * Whereby Tithes were annexed to the Crowne Annexation Vile your Mastie hath most truly termed it for it hath made Vile your Leuites and so the Word vile in their mouthes Your Maiestie hath annulled it so farre as concerneth Bishops Let it and all the rest also fall as concerne the Leuites Since you haue setled your Aarons in their Ierusalems Neh. 10.37 Let not their brethren begge as they doe in the cities of their trauels they are all of one Priesthood all of one Prince You haue annulled Annexations Reuerse * By which Tithes are erected in Tēporall Lordships to the Subiect Erections Your Bishops can enforme SKIL your Commons all attend and call vpon your WILL and of all Estates enough ready to second your POVVER I graunt your Maiestie hath to doe with many Achans but what are they to the rest of Jsrael hauing God and Moses on their side Let them appeare at the dores of their tents and shew Quo iure Achan stole his and theirs will be found little better A Parliament say they but this treatise by Gods grace shall proue that long before there was either King or Parliament in Jsrael Tithes were taken vp for Gods perpetuall worship and so can neuer come vnder the power of Prince or Parliament further than by their Lawes to enforce the payment of them according to Gods Law So all is but stealth or robberie for Nemo potest plus iuris in alium transferre quàm ipse habet The Parliament then neuer hauing power to dispose of them The possessors must be in malà fide A Parliament maimed of the chiefest member in a Kings younger age hath forfeited Christ and may not another Parliament perfect in all the members in a Kings full and perfect age rectified by knowledge again restore Christ In that Parliament Leui the chiefest member and whom only the cause concerned was not called so God was vnconsulted Christ his Sonne forfeited his Church spoyled the King cousened the Commons oppressed was not this a vile Act One Parliament more then SIR for Christs sake it may be some wil parle for Christ Leui will pleade for himselfe he will shew the Law he dare now say Nolumus Much more might be said SIR though nothing more then your Maiestie knoweth It suffiseth me a poore yet a trustie Souldier once to haue cried Courage to his King and Captaine in the day of danger and I beseech God that as many may admire your Maiestie for working it as shall enuie me for writing it But all must rest vpon your Highnesse more ripe and Royall resolutions wherein and in all the courses of your Long-wished life I shall euer pray for all such

Tithing of them Pauls meaning to the Hebr. for that time was not come as is said they were poore new conuerted Christians euen those for whom Paul had gathered that collection in Achaia Asia and Rom● Paul onely as is said would draw them from Leui to Christ and that in the power and prerogatiue of Melchisedec in all things belonging to Leuies Priest-hood specially Blessing and Tithing They knew Tithes were due but not due to Christ this Paul teacheth them Let euery Christian ballance these arguments in the scales of an vpright conscience fixed and setled on the word of God and accordingly dispose of his affections § VIII Behold then lastly how fitly all things are matched in those types Comparison of Melchisedec Aaron and Christ and their veritie Christ Grace is ioyned to Eternitie and Law Bondage brought to an end Melchisedec Christs first freest and most perfect Priestly type and kingly too met Abraham freely without law and before Law and as a King fed him as a Priest blessed him all in freedome Abraham againe in whose loynes we were all then both fedde and blessed like a thankefull soule met also freely the free graces of God in Melchisedec likewise before Law And so Christ our true Melchisedec not commanded litle expected least of all deserued freely meeteth Abraham and all his seede ever feeding blessing to saluation and therefore must all we the seede of Abrahams flesh and faith returne to him 2 Cor 5.19.20 and to those in whom he hath put the Ministerie of reconciliation Tithes freely not as Legally coacted And this for Grace and Eternitie Now betweene Melchisedec and Christ interuened another solemne and great high Priest also Aaron But how quite after an other order and manner long after both Melchisedec and Abraham all in bonds called commanded his very sacrifices brought by force to the Altar nothing freely And so Abrahams posteritie ga●e him the like meeting Tithes by force of law Bondage and bonds on both sides Grace then beginneth and Grace endeth The Law coupled Melchisedec to Christ The Law goeth betweene as a bond coupling Grace to Grace Melchisedec to Christ And so Melchisedec as Gods Priest and Christs type with the Ministerie of Christs Gospel make vp both but one poynt in the Office-worke of our saluation Euen as an Euening and a Morning Gen. 1.5 made vp but one day in the Creation Christ was but as in dawning then he shineth now In Melchisedec he put the Word of benediction in his Ministerie he hath put the Word of Reconciliation Melchisedec typed Euerlasting promises in Christ his Ministry preach euerlasting performances in Christ Now glad promises and glad tydings of their performances are but one and therefore their maintenance iustly one Tithes Inheritance Leui a linke of the same chaine also a Priest of the same worke in effect though different in forme a Remembrancer for supporting the weaknes of those dayes interuening betweene the promises and the performances typing and foretelling by numbers of rites thousands of times Christs comming in their carnal sacrifices till they poynted him out as by a fingerly demonstration whom our Ministerie now Preach in a heauenly contemplation The dores of Faith in those dayes were much their Eyes Hic est and so trust●es Thomas must first put his finger in his side and then beleeue The dores of faith in our true Melchisedecs dayes are most our eares by hearing and so euen Abraham beleeued hic erit and it was imputed to him for Righteousnesse And he sawe the day of the Lord and reioyced But wee Hic fuit and therefore Blessed are they that haue not seene and yet beleeue So the generall end of all is one and the generall Inheritance for all still one Leui was vnder the Law as a tenent at will remoueable Melchisedec Christs Ministery as Freeholders Oaken-tenants Diuersitie of Orders made not diuersitie of Inheritance Tithes and Priest-hood came and goe together not Tithes and Leuies Priest-hood and therefore must not end till all Priest-hood end for Melchisedec yet liueth a Priest and taketh Tithes See part 1. c. 6. To that question then made part 1 cap. 6. Why the last § IX age of the world may not serue God without Tithes as the first two thousand yeeres did Order once setled must neuer be left The answere is euident We must neuer fall backe from Order to Confusion nor from Substance to Ceremonies This were to go backe againe from Canaan to the Flesh-pots of Aegypt from Heauen to Hel. Why may we not serue God without the Tables of the Law as they did two thousand yeeres They had the Image of that Law by nature and partly doubtlesse by Tradition so were they both by Law of Nature and Tradition prepared to a Tithing as fell out betweene Melchisedec and Abraham The first age was a time of confusion the people had no rest Deut. 12.8 c. and so small order but being once past Iordan they must not doe as of before Now are we past all the Bondages in Christ and must not go back againe to the Bound-Ages of the world Otherwise we inuert the whole method both of Creation and Redemption Creation began from darkenesse to light Euening and Morning made a day Redemption from falling to rising from beggerly rudiments of the Law to the rich reuelations of the Gospel from perishing types to eternall Verities And the Gospel againe in it selfe still growing Heb. 5.13.14 from milke for babes to strong meat for men of age We must euer grow neuer decrease Therefore Christ the first Author of Grace and perfection of all grace hath not cast all againe in the Chaos of Confusion Then seeing Nature at first freely doted The right of Tithes concluded Grace ensuing distinctly defined Iacob instructed in grace solemnely vowed Law succeeding strictly commaunded the Gospel reuiuing hath by reasons ●enued the Primitiue Churches by practise restored Tithes for Gods worship Let vs euer hold that Tithes are onely the true Inheritance of the Church flowing immediatly from God to his Ministerie in all ages as wee defined them part 1. cap. 1. The summe then of all the proofe from the Circumstance of time is Whatsoeuer is due to an eternall Priest is perpetuall by due Tithes were and are due to Melchisedec an Eternall Priest Ergo Tithes are perpetually due And by Consequent this Priest being the High-Priest of the Gospell Tithes are due to the Gospell CHAP. VIII The time of Melchisedecs first Tithing Foure doubts in his posterities Tithing To whom from whom whereof and for what vses Tithes are to be taken and imployed And if Princes may Tithe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what TITHES thus setled as the Churches true Inheritance § I these doubts rest to be resolued How long Melchisedec Tithed First in Melchisedec and Abraham our Fundators Secondly in their succeeding posteritie In Melchisedec touching the time and continuing of his Tithing