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A77137	A defence and justification of ministers maintence by tythes. And of infant-baptism, humane learning, and the sword of the magistrate; which some Anabaptists falsely call four sandy pillars, and popish foundations of our ministry and churches. In which tythes are proved to be due by divine right to the ministers of the gospel. All common objections answered, and divers cases of conscience humbly proposed: with a light to clear them. / In a reply to a paper sent by some Anabaptists to Immanuel Bourne, late pastor of the church in Asheover in the county of Derby: now preacher to the congregation at Waltham in the county of Leicester. With a short answer to Anthony Peirson's great case of tythes, &c.	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3851; Thomason E1907_1	92,679	184

Saviour in this place also approveth of the payment of Tythes not a word of prohibition or cessation but an approbation of the payment of Tythes as the peoples duty in those days Had he declared that Tythes should no more be paid after his time certainly it would have pleased many a carnal hearer at that time as the hopes of that prohibition or cessation it is to be feared would please too many carnal hearted prophane or spiritually and Antichristianly deluded and seduced souls in these days who would remove both Ministers and their just Maintenance if it did lie within their power But you have not a word from Christ of cessation or taking away of Tythes from the Priests of those times or from the Ministers of the Gospel in succeeding ages 3. The third place in which Tythes are spoken of is that of the same Evangelist Luke 18.11 12. Two men went out into the Temple to pray the one a Pharisee the other a publican the Pharisee gloried in his performances God I thank thee that I am not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this publican I fast twice in the week and give Tythes of all that I possess The Publican humble in his own eyes O God be merciful to me a sinner Our Saviour doth not condemn the Pharisee for his giving of his Tythes of all he did possess but for that he trusted in his own righteousness as you may see evidently manifest in the end why Christ did speak the Parable Luke 18.9 He spake this Parable unto certain that trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others So that you see here is not a word of our Saviour against Tythes or the payment of Tythes in his time nor a word of prohibition that his Ministers in the New Testament should not receive Tythes yea rather Christ approveth the payment of Tythes as part of the Pharisees righteousness which they ought not to leave undone and he tells his Disciples that exccept their righteousnss do exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven Matth 5.20 Origen in Mat. From which Origen in his time prosseth the payment of Tythes in the Gospel as a duty The fourth and last place in the New Testament where tythes are spoken of is that of the Apostle Heb. 7. in which Chapter tythes are mentioned six or seven several times and in none of these are Tythes condemned by the Spirit of God in the Apostles but rather approved and declared to continue even to the worlds end as Christ's right and special part for maintenance of his service who is a Priest not after the order of Aaron for a time but a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec To give you a clear light to see this truth read the Chapter and you shall finde that the Apostle in the three first verses rehearseth the History recorded in Genesis of Melchisedec and Abraham First Melchisedec described by his Offices 1. A King or King of Salem vers 1. Interpreted first King of Righteousness secondly King of Salem that is King of Peace vers 1 2. 2. A Priest of the most high God yea made like the Son of God abiding a Priest continually vers 2. 3. He describeth Melchisedec by his Actions First he met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the Kings Secondly He blessed him 2. Again he describeth Abraham by his owning of Melchisedec as a Priest of the most high God giving him the tenth of all as Gods portion the Tythe due to God To whom Abraham gave the tenth part of all vers 2. 3. He sets forth the greatness of Melchisedec above the Patriark Abraham First Because Abraham gave him the tenth Now consider how great this man was to whom even the Fatriark Abrahm gave the tenth of the Spoils De summitatibus rerum Of the tops of things vers 4. So our Translators render it But the Greek is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de praecipuis c. the Greek signifies of the tops of the heaps of the very best things which may be of other things as well as of the spoils Secondly because Melchisedec blessed him for the less is blessed of the greater saith the Apostle vers 7. 4. The Apostle compareth the Priesthood of Melchisedec and Aarons ●iesthood together and proveth the superexcellency of Melchisedec's Priesthood above Aaron's and this by divers arguments taken from Tythes or their divers grounds manner and order of their taking of Tythes as you may read in the fift and sixt verses and the verses following For first vers 5. he affirmes that they that are of the sons of Levi who receive the office of the Priesthood they have a commandment to receive Tythes of the people according to the Law or by vertue of that law yea of their brethren though they came out of the loyns of Abraham But verse the sixth He that is Melchisedec Heb. 7.6 whose descent is not counted from them received Tythes of Abraham great Grandfather of Levi who had the Priestood and blessed him that had the promises Therefore Melchisedec's Priesthood is far more excellent then the Priesthood of Aaron or Levi because he received Tythes not by vertue of the Levitical Law but by a higher and far more antient right even by a right from God himself as Gods High Priest more antient then Levi by far as your may read Gen. 14.20 Abraham Great-Grandfather of Levi paid Tythes to Melchisedec the Priest of the most high God four hundred years before Levi's Priesthood was appointed Secondly Heb. 7.8 Verse the eighth the Apostle proveth this by another Argument Heb. 7.8 Here men that dye saith he receive Tythes that is herein in the Priests of Aaron and Levies order they who are mortal receive Tythes they and their Priesthood are mortal and so their receiving of Tythes it mortal as dying like themselves and their order of Priesthood is dead and gone and their tything dead as Levies Priesthood ended But here Melchisedec that Priest of the most high God and his order receive tythes of whom it is witnessed that he liveth for verse 3. Melchisedec is said to have neither beginning of days nor end of life and so he liveth to receive tythes while the world lasted not in himself but in Christ whom he typified and who is a High Priest after the order of Melchisedec and so to receive Tythes as Melchisedec did not from any right from Levi or the Levitical Law but in his own right from God his Father who made him heir of all Heb. 1.2 Thirdly Melchisedec's Priesthood was more excellent then Aaron's or Levi's because Levi who received tythes paid tythes in Abraham to Melchisedec for he was yet in the loyns of his Father his Grandfather Abraham when Melchisedec met him as the Apostle declareth Heb. 7.9 10. Vers 9 10. But we read not that Melchisedec paid tythes at