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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40181	An exhortation to all that profess themselves Christians and say the scripture is their rule for their life doctrine and practice / by George Fox.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing F1816; ESTC R30369	10,101	20

enough in the time of the Law and old Covenant Now the Priests did not go and take this whole Nation the Eleaven Tribes and cast them into Prison and spoil their Goods and take Treble Damage of them you do not read they did so in the old Testament that any of the Patriarchs or any of the Prophets Kings Magistrates or Priests did cast any into Prison and there keep them until Death because they would not bring in their Tythes in the time of the Law according to the Law into the Store-house which if they did not do it they were cursed with a Curse as Malachy saith And if they did bring their Tythes into the Store house that there might be Meat enough for the Priests and Levites and Widows and Fatherless then the Lord opened the Windows of Heaven and poured out a Blessing upon them And did not this Law serve till the Seed Christ came who hath changed this Priesthood that was made by the Law and had a Commandment to take Tythes according to the Law which Commandment Christ hath disannulled and by the one offering up of himself once for all the Offerings hath put down the Priests that offered and their Offerings and Maintenance and hath taken away the first Covenant and established the second who became a Curse to take away the Curse and made under the Law to redeem us from under the Law of Works And were not Tythes and Offerings under the Law of Works Do this and Live if not they were Robbers and Curst And doth not Christ in his Gospel and new Covenant say Believe and be saved And Christ when he sent forth his Twelve and Seventy Disciples without a Bag or Staff said Freely you have Received Freely Give And therefore Christ putting down the Priesthood with his Offerings and other Ceremonies which the Law commanded and Tythes and Offerings which were his Maintenance or Salary and commanded under the old Covenant by the Law under the Penalty of a Curse where did ever Christ alter his Command or the Apostles go about to alter his Command which was Freely you have Received Freely Give in his new Covenant And where did ever Christ to his Apostles or his Apostles to others command or direct that they should take or demand Tythes or the peoples Tenths for preaching the Gospel as you called Christians have done since the Apostles dayes which say The Seripture is your Rule for your Life Doctrine and Practice Therefore shew us out of the Scripture of the new Testament where ever they did cast any into Prison for not giving them Tythes and Offerings as you have done and hale them into Courts Assizes and Sessions shew one Example in all the Scripture be not Angry at us because we search the Scriptures as those Noble Bereans did to see whether these things be so in the Scriptures of Truth which you preach up for Doctrine and Practice And because we cannot find them in the Scripture and follow you and uphold you in these things which you cannot prove by Scripture for your Doctrine and Practice therefore are you Angry and persecute us because we do not follow you in your Doctrine and Practice which we cannot find in Scripture that you have said is your Rule And why cannot the Curse of the old Covenant serve your turns but you must exceed the old Law to hale people before your Courts and cast them in to Prison and there keep some unto Death and spoil their Goods that cannot give you Tythes according to the old Law such who are the true Christians and Children of the new Covenant and are the faithful Witnesses of Jesus Christ who hath redeemed them from under the Law and hath taken away the Curse of the Law and now do not seek to be justified by the Works of the Law but by Faith in Christ Jesus I say why is not the Curse in the old Law sufficient for all the Priests and Bishops in Christendom if they will be Priests of the old Law and Teachers of the old Law and do the Works of the old Law of Moses which he that thinks to be justified by the Law is justified by that by which no Flesh shall be saved as the Apostle saith and is fallen from Grace And therefore if ye will have the Law of Commandments that commands Tythes to the Priests and their Offerings I say again Why is not the Curse sufficient for you to pour out your Curses upon the People which do not bring in their Tythes and Offerings not into the Priests Barn but into the Store-house as God commands and not for the Priests only but for the Widows and Fatherless also Surely your Curse should be sufficient and not to spoil their Goods and imprison them to Death too this is more than the Law commands in the old Covenant And is it not contrary to the Law of the old Covenant that the Priests and Levites that were to receive the Tythes for them to have any Lot of the Land And do not they that pay Tythes and Offerings to the Priests come under the Law and so under the Curse and so come from under the Blessing of the Gospel to under the Curse of the Law For is it not written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that is written in the Book of the Law to do them Gal. 3. But no man is justified by the Works of the Law in the sight of God it is evident For the Just shall live by his Faith And the Law is not of Faith And Christ hath redeemed us from under the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us that the Blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through Jesus Christ and that we might receive the Promise of the Spirit through Faith So in these your Practices though you say The Scripture is your Rule for your Life Doctrine and Practice but in this the Scripture of the new Testament is not your Rule for these things Let all the Children of the new Covenant and true Christians search the Scriptures according to the Practice of the noble Bereans and see whether the Scripture hath been your Rule in these your Practices and Doctrine in the new Covenant But if you did not cast any into Prison or spoil the Goods of such as did not pay you Tythes Offerings nor hale them before your Courts but only stood up and poured out your Curses upon such according to the Law that did not bring in your Tythes and Offerings into the Store-house according to the Law and that you had no other Portion in the Land but Tythes and Offerings c We do tell you that Christ hath ended the Law and hath redeemed us from under the Law and became a Curse and hath redeemed us out of the Curse of the Law and has ended that Priesthood with all his Ceremonies And Christ Jesus saith in his new Covenant Bless and Curse not and the