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A67209	Anguis flagellatus, or, A switch for the snake being an answer to the third and last edition of The snake in the grass : wherein the author's injustice and falshood, both in quotation and story, are discover'd and obviated, and the truth doctrinally deliver'd by us, stated and maintained in opposition to his misrepresentation and perversion / by Joseph Wyeth ; to which is added a supplement, by George Whitehead.	Wyeth, Joseph, 1663-1731.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. Snake in the grass.	1699 (1699)	Wing W3757; ESTC R16372	333,418	578

it is not unfitly inquired c. I shall next Instance Peter Martyr of great Note in the Reformation who in his Common Places Clas 4. l. 13. De Magistratu § 18. says Primum debemus Intelligere Decimas olim pertinuisse ad Ceremonias idque tam in Melchisedech quam in Levitis i. e. First we ought to understand that Tythes did of old belong to Ceremonies and that as well in Melchisedec as in the Levites Then having shew'd how and wherein Tythes were Typical and having also declared that the Ministers now do not receive Tythes by the Ceremonial Law but upon a Moral Account as a Compensation for work he says Proinde Ministris sive persolvantur ex agris sive ex aedibus sive pecunia numerata sive in Decimis nil refert Modo non sordide sed honeste sustententur i. e. Therefore whether their Wages or Maintenance be paid out of the Feilds or out of the Houses or in ready Mony or in Tythes it is all one to the Ministers so they be maintained creditably not meanly To this he adds Retinent quidem alicubi Mercedes istae vetus nomen Decimarum in multis autem Locis non appellantur Decime sed Stipendia Salaria Et sane potius revera sunt Mercedes quae Laboribus Ministrorum debentur quam Decime i. e. In some Places those Wages retain the old Name of Tythes but in many Places they are not called Tythes but Stipends and Salaries And truly they are in reality rather Wages which are due for the Ministers Labours than Tythes Of all which this appears to be the Sum Peter Martyr tho' he thought Ministers Maintenance might be given them in that Proportion of a Tenth Yet he positively concludes Tythes as Tythes and in their own Nature to be a part of the Ceremonial Law abrogated by Christ. The third Witness from abroad which I shall bring is Zanchius Tom. 4. l. 1. c. 116. De Cultu Dei Externo Where distinguishing between the Quota and the Alliquota of Maintenance between Maintenance in General and Maintenance particularly by Tythes c. He says Considerari enim possunt omnes illae Leges de Primitiis Decimis Votis bifariam quoad Substantiam Accidentiam seu Circumstantias Ad Substantiam quod attinet ad nos etiam pertinent Nam summa finis illarum Legum haec erat ut Populus Gratitudinem suam erga Deum harum rerum Oblationibus declararet idque in utilitatem Ecclesiae Ministerii silicet Ecclesiastici Ministrorum Pauperum quemadmodum jam ex Legibus ipsis ostendimus Annon autem Lege Naturae jubeamur idem facere Ut Ministri sustententur sumptibus fidelium Ecclesiae demonstrat Apostolus non solum ex Lege Mosis sed etiam ex Lege Naturae Ut Viduae alantur Pauperes Perigrini passim Docetur in Novo etiam Testamento Nec minus liquet ex iisdem Libris conservandum esse totum Ministerium Ecclesiasticum Quomodo autem ista fiant Contributione bonorum sive sub nomine Primitiarum sive Decimarum sive Votorum sive alio nil refert Ergo ad Substantiam quod attinet finem harum Legum de Primitiis Decimis Votis illae Leges tanquam naturales at nos etiam pertinent i. e. All these Laws concerning First-Fruits Tythes and Vows may be considered in a twofold respect as to the Substance and as to the Accidents or Circumstances As far as concerns the Substance they belong to us also For the sum and end of those Laws was this That the People might declare their thankfulness to God by the offering of these things and that for the profit of the Church that is of the Ecclesiastical Ministry the Ministers and the Poor as we have now shewed out of the Laws themselves And are we not commanded by the Law of Nature to do the same That the Ministers should be sustain'd at the Costs of the Faithful Members of the Church the Apostle demonstrates not only from the Law of Moses but from the Law of Nature also that the Widows the Poor and the Strangers should be maintain'd is frequently Taught in the New Testament too And as clear it is from the same Books that the whole Ministry of the Church ought to be kept but how shall all this be done By a Contribution of Goods whether under the Name of First-Fruits or of Tythes or of Vows or under any other name it matters not Therefore as to what concerns the Substance and End of these Laws of First-Fruits Tythes and Vows those Laws as Natural belongs also to us Thus Zanchius who in all this pleads only from the Equity of the Law for a Sufficient Maintenance to the Ministers from the Faithful of the Church And of what Nature he accounts Tythes may be easily seen by his coupling them with First-Fruits and Vows which none I think doubt to have belong'd to the Ceremonial Law But if any shall yet suppose that he did not suppose Tythes to be part of the Ceremonial Law he puts it beyond doubt that he did so esteem them For he says At vero Circumstantiae considerentur illarum Legum Leges illae nihil ad nos ut qui Legibus Ceremonialibus Politiis istius Populi non Sumus Subjecti i. e. But if the Circumstances of of those Laws be considered those Laws do not at all belong to us who are not Subject to the Ceremonial and Political Laws of that People And treating further upon the same subject p. 485. he saith De Decimis etiam solvendis Mandatum certum est fuisse abrogatum per Christum i. e. Certain it is that the Law concerning the paying of Tythes also was abrogated by Christ. This with more to the same purpose the Inquiring Reader may find in him and which I omit not being willing to be too prolix And besides the Testimonies above cited I could also add from Oecolampadius on Ezek. 44. from Melancton De Libertate Christianae with others whose joynt Testimonies do overthrow the false and bold Assertion of this Snake who is so remarkably Eminent in a Confident Assurance as to say of Tythes They are no part of the Typical or Ceremonial Law And tho' to the knowing Reader it might seem superfluous to bring witnesses further to prove Tythes a part of the Ceremonial Law Yet I shall take leave to add one witness more if not for his Information in so known and received a Truth yet for the more full detecting of this our Adversary This Witness is the Snake against the Snake who in p. 267. says expresly They were part of the Offerings to God under the Law for which he cites Numb 18.24 as I have observ'd p. 403 404 405. Where they are indeed call'd an Offering and an Heave-Offering unto the Lord the words of that Textare But the Tythes of the Children of Israel which they offer an Heave-offering unto the Lord I have given to the Levites to inherit