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sense_n	church_n	faith_n	true_a	7,319	5	5.4231	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95748	Noli me tangere, or, A thing to be thought on. Scilicet, vox carnis sacræ clamantis ab altare ad aquilam sacrilegam, noli me tangere, ne te perdam.	Udall, Ephraim, d. 1647.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing U12; Thomason E133_4	22,793	48

would not believe it more than many of our people at this present yet God tells them They had robbed him in Tythes and Offerings A thing which Heathens would not doe to their Idolls Will a man spoyle his god saith the Lord that is Hee will not Yet yee have spoyled mee in Tithes and Offerings saith the Lord of Hosts that hath an Host to avenge himselfe at pleasure on the most mighty Sacrilegers for hee is stronger than the Hills or Mountaines of Robbers Adde unto all this That it will make it the more sinfull in that it shall bee committed by a Law which should bee enacted for the prevention of sinne and not for the commission Psal 94. Shall the Throne of iniquitie have fellowship with thee that frameth mischief by a Law Shall not the people thus fall under the judgements which God hath threatned to them that walke after unrighteous Ordinances and the Law-givers themselves bee branded as Jeroboam was that they make the people sinne The Lord threatens the people thus Thou shalt sow much Mich. 6.15 but thou shalt not reap thou shalt tread the Olives but thou shalt not anoynt thee with the Oyle and sweet Wine but shalt not drinke Wine Verse 16. now see the reason of this threatning For the Statutes of Omri are kept and all the workes of the house of Ahab and yee walke in their Counsells that I should make thee a desolation and the inhabitants an hissing And see the issue and danger of their naughty Lawes as the Prophet Hosea sets it forth more fully in the Law-makers themselves Hos 5.10 The Princes of Iudah are like them that remoove the Bounds id est The Land-markes to encroach on others Lands therefore I will poure out my wrath upon them like water Verse 11. And in the people They are oppressed and broken in judgment because they willingly walked after the Commandement therefore I will bee to Ephraim a moth and to the house of Iudah like rottennesse And for any thing wee know the sweeping away of Tithes and Things consecrated heretofore although by a Law have brought some of the common pressures and calamities for which there are such perplexed thoughts of heart or at least have made our miseries the more heavy and grievous from the hand of God However certainely it is a thing inconsistent with Reason That Things Consecrated to Gods service in the intention of the Donor although with some Errour about the Service should bee taken altogether away from God and alienated to any private usage and personall service of men uncapable of attendance on any holy imployment And it is a thing sencelesse That any Lay-man should have the Tithes the onely maintenance appoynted by GOD to Levi while his Tabernacle stood for his service thereabouts and after to Christ in his Ministers for their labour in his service as long as Christ doth live which is for ever Heb 7.8 where one difference betwixt the Leviticall Priests and Christ is placed in this That they under the Tabernacle take Tithes that dyed But here hee taketh them of whom it is said He liveth for ever Of which Text this is the meaning That Tithes are not a Leviticall and mutable maintenance but the eternall maintenance of Gods service used before the Law when the Priesthood was in the Father of the Family for the provision of Sacrifices Gen. 28 20. according to the intent of Jacobs vow stated on not first invented for Levie during Levies Service But when the body came which was Christ and Levi with all his typicall service was to be abolished then ceased not the Tythes in right though in practice by reason of the Paganisme of Princes in whose Dominions the Christian Faith sprang up they were not payd in the Church but were transferred to Christ and his Servants and Ministers to bee their Maintenance as long as Christ should live which is for ever This seemes to mee the true sence of the place And indeed it is a sencelesse thing to thinke That God hath left the Ministers of his Gospell whose service is more honourable than that of Levi both for cleare Revelation of Christ and also for labour and paines 2 Cor 3.9 for the Levites were but Butchers to the Ministers of the Gospell 1 Tim. 4.13 5 16. 1 Tim. 5.17 1 Tim. 4.2 and their labour was bodily that tended to preservation of their health in which they continued notwithstanding but from five and twentie yeares to fiftie But ours is mentall and verball and never at an end That God I say should leave these Ministers to the mercy and charity of men to bee provided for by the Almes and charitable Benevolence of the ill-disposed people of the last times whom hee fore-saw so to love their pride pleasures and lusts that they would rake and scrape by hooke and crooke not onely one from another but from his Heavenly Majesty also although the Lawes of former generations had as firmely estated and established him in his possession as the Lawes of Man with the Curses and Imprecations of those that endowed God Almightie could possibly estate and give an interest unto him And the rather if we consider that hee foreknew that even many that would professe Religion in an exacter way than others would yet pretend his Ministers should have a competency as Sir Thomas Seymor before mentioned did to Henrie the eighth which when it should come to their Standard would bee a base unworthy Salary able onely to preserve a Minister alive in a thousand wants while hee doth live and to leave his Wife and Children to begge after his disease And the Lord fore-knew the ungodly Reason would bee pretended viz. That Riches in the Clergie are not suteable to the simplicity of Christ and his Apostles A plausible thing with foolish people That since Christ dyed on the Crosse never think a Minister in his Element unlesse hee bee in prison or on the pillory But alas was the povertie of Christ and his Apostles any part of their simplicitie Because our Saviour that was Heire to the Crowne which was usurped by Herod was kept from it must a Minister that hath an inheritance be put by it and it be given to another because it is more agreeable to the simplicity of Christ who was so dealt withall I had thought our case living under Christian Kings and Lawes had been different from the case of Christ that came to be a man of nothing by voluntarie subjection to worke out our Redemption and neither to teach us to become begging Friers nor you to become cruell persecuters and crafty and bloudy Herods And I did think and do think That there is no thing necessary concerning the simplicity of Christ and his Apostles but binds every common Christian to the verie Kings and Princes as well as the Ministers of Christ neither doe I see any thing in the Scriptures to the contrarie nor in