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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09055	The historie of tithes, or, Tithes vindicated to the presbyters of the Gospel begunne in a visitation sermon, whereunto are added the substance of divers other sermons and treatises, being thought fit by good authority to be published, and is necesary both for clergy and laity : in the which is expressed the true use of the Sabbath without controversie / by B.P.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1637 (1637)	STC 19347.5; ESTC S4405	26,409	40

with him c. the LORD shall bee his GOD which I thinke they will not denie to bee a morall dutie even here then is evidence enough that morall duties may be vowed that they may be vowed conditionally And if morall duties may not be vowed why doe the people of the Jewes enter into a covenant and sweare unto the LORD GOD of their fathers to seeke him with all their heart and with all their soule 2 Chron. 15.12 13 14. Why doth David bind himselfe by an oath to keep Gods righteous judgements I have sworne and will performe it that I will keepe thy righteous judgements Psal 119.106 Thus out of the mouth and deeds of two witnesses beyond all exception Abraham and Jacob may this truth bee established that Tithes were held Gods right and his Priests in the law of Nature before ever the law written The perswasion whereof was by the law of Nature so ingraven in mens hearts the practice of it in all possibilitie so dispersed from Noah amongst all people that as Festus faith (d) Decima quaque veteres diis suis offere●●nt the old people offered all kinde of Tithes to their gods as Cyrus overcomming the Lydians offered all to Jupiter (e) Herodot Clie and Bacchus overcomming the Scythians offered to him also (f) Te memorant Gange totoque oriente subacto Primitias magno seposuisse Iovt. Ovid. l. 3. Fastcrum They say when thou hadst Ganges and the East o'rethrowne Thou set'st apart for Jove the first fruits as his owne And the ancient Romanes did vow Tithes to Hercules (g) Macrob. Sat. lib. 3. ca. 24. yea the very barbarous Sabeans and Ethiopians sold not their spices to the Merchants before their Priests had laid out their tenth for their gods (h) Decimas de● sacerdotes capiunt nec antè mercarilicet Plin. nat hist li. 12. ca. 14. Thus have I examined and cleered the first point I come now to the second which is that they are now due to GOD and those that serve him in the Gospell of his Sonne since the abolishing of the Law of Ordinances And here the great Cardinall and the Popish Champions who when the doore must bee set open to unwritten traditions can denie the Scripture to be full enough without traditions to containe expressely the whole doctrine either concerning faith or manners and that therefore traditions are requisite (i) Scriptura non continet expressè totam doctrinam sive de fide sive de moribus c. Bellarm. li. 4. de verb. dei c. 3. nay can with the like affection of pietie and reverence receive and honour unwritten traditions as all the bookes of the (k) Traditiones non scriptas pari pietatis affectu reverentia suscipere venerari ac omnes libros tam veteris quam novi Testamenti Concil Trid. Sess 4. Old and New Testament doe now call for an expresse precept in the new Law specifying Tithes to bee the Ministers maintenance an expresse precept it is not enough to have it in sense but we must have it in words to have it by sound consequence and collection but wee must have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word for word and yet Gregory Nazianzen saith that those things which are gathered out of the Scriptures are alike to those things which are written expressely (l) Perinde sunt ea qua ex Scripturis colliguntur atque ea qua sorthuntur If I can then deduce it by good consequence out of the New Testament it shall be enough though it be not written in totidem verbis syllabis When the Apostle then mentioneth living of the Gospel and that ever so as they which wait at the Altar are partakers of the Altar 1 Cor. 9.13 13. when he urgeth communicating to our teachers in all our goods Gal. 6.6 wee may not here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 collatis testimoniis demonstrare as Beza interpreteth it Act 9.22 by comparing testimonies of Scripture by laying one place to another shew that this living of the Gospell this communicating in all our goods should bee now by the tenth as being a course held before the Law and under the Law unlesse man will be wiser than his Maker and devise a new way of living for them of communicating to them leaving the old which GOD had settled from the beginning of the world And what shall become of that double honour double maintenance which the Elders that rule well are worthie of 1 Tim. 5.17 if the portion of the Presbyters under the Gospell come short of the portion of the Priesthood under the Law for so to understand honour the next verse there giveth us light for the Scripture saith The labourer is worthy of his reward and accordingly Saint Hierome expoundeth honour to be maintenance and understandeth by maintenance Tithes adding also What we have said concerning Tithes which heretofore were given by the people to the Priests and Levites understand it also concerning the people of the Church (m) Quod de decimis diximus quaolim dabantur à populo Sacerdetibus Le vitis in Ecclesiae quoque papulis intelligito May we not finde here as good evidence in these testimonies for Tithes as any where in the New Testament for the perpetuall and unchangeable observation of the seventh day cried up with more than a Jewish rigour by many not zealous according to discretion (n) See their absurd positions in Rogers preface to Articles of Relig. for the baptizing of infants and many other truths which are not expressed in the very letter and so many words but foundly and justly gathered out of the sense and purpose of the holy Scripture And what thinke wee of the Apostles reasoning Heb. 7 6 7 8 9. when he proveth Melchisedechs Priesthood and so Christs which is all one greater than the Leviticall first because in Abraham Levi paid Tithes to Melchisedeck and so to Christ Secondly because Melchisedeck is a Tith taker that liveth still and Levi is a Tith-taker that dieth Doe not these consectaries follow and flow from it First that if Levi paid Tithes in Abraham then they are originally no Leviticall ceremonies howsoever under the Law they were specially assigned to him for that is a crossing of the Leviticall ordinances which injoyne that Tithes should bee paid to Levi. Secondly if before the Law Tithes were paid unto Christ in Melchisedeck then hee receiveth them of whom it is witnessed that hee liveth vers 8. why should they not likewise be paid unto Christ in his Presbyters after that law is abolished now they must live of the Gospel and being in his stead 1 Cor. 5.20 are fittest to bee his receivers Thirdly if other things wherein Melchisedeck the type and Christ the antitype agree and are brought to prove his eternall Priesthood are ever true of him as that he is King of righteousnes King of peace that he is without father or mother without descent having