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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81692	A defence and vindication of the right of tithes, against sundry late scandalous pamphlets: shewing, the lawfullnesse of them, and the just remedy in law for them, as well in London as elsewhere. / Penned by a friend to the Church of England, and a lover of truth and peace.	A Friend to the Church of England, and a Lover of Truth and Peace.; Downame, John, d. 1652,; Nomophilos Philotolis.	1646 (1646)	Wing D2074; Thomason E339_7; ESTC R1318	21,705	42

for the quiet enjoyment of those endowments and against the alienation of them from the Church have rendered them famous for piety and vertue to all posterity And here in England about an hundred years before Lucius the first Christian King and first anointed in the world and divers more Kings of England long before the daies of superstition which I will not meddle with abhorring superstition as much as any followed the same patern and the first words of their Charters and grants began like that of Magna Charta Mag Ch● ch 1. Concessimus Deo Ecclesiae 2. The second ground is this That the Law of God penned by Moses concerning the paiment of Tithes to the Levites from whom were the Priesthood as to the letter of that Law as it refers to a precise tenth part of the fruits of the earth neither more nor lesse and the manner of the paiment of it in relation to the sacrifices of the old Law is meerly Ceremoniall and abrogated by Christ who being a living Sacrifice put an end to these dead ones under Moses but as to the equity of Tithes that a competent portion I doe not say quota pars a just tenth but quanta pars a fit maintenance should out of the fruits of the earth be allowed for the livelihood and support of the Evangelicall Priesthood under Christ which came in lieu of the Leviticall Priesthood under Moses it is morall and lasts to this day This I prove by the Law it self Numb 18.21 Behold I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance for their service which they serve even the service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation This was the reason of that Law now that kinde of Priesthood being changed and a better come in the room and such who serve at a better Tabernacle and at a better Altar being Christ himself for so he is called Heb. 13.10 and who offers a better Sacrifice to God then the Leviticall Priesthood even a Sacrifice of praise to God continually as the same Apostle speaks Heb. 13.15 It is great reason that these performing the same service in substance should partake of the same or like wages This is the very Argument of the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 9.13 14. Do not you know saith he that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers of the Altar even so hath the Lord ordained that those which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel This will better appear by comparing the Law of Tithes with other things under the Law which are now abrogated by the Gospel as to the Ceremony but as to the substance and morality remain to this day I will in stead of many give but two or three instances 1. The Law of the Sabbath by the fourth Commandment tied men to the observation of a seventh day which seventh day the Jews observed from the first day of the Creation this as to that day is now as much abrogated as the paiment of Tithes to the Levites there is no precept in all the new Testament for altering of that day to the first day of the week but only the constant custome of the Church ever since the time of Christ Is therefore the morality of the Sabbath gone God forbid Here might I take occasion to commend the Church of England above any reformed Church in the world for the holy observation of this day but I will not digresse And therefore I say as the morality of the Sabbath still continues as to give God one day in seven for his worship so I say the morality of the Law of Tithes as to a fit maintenance for Gods Ministers that attend the worship continues to this day in England and I hope ever will 2. The Law of Circumcision as to the cutting off of the fore-skin of the flesh in Infants is meerly Ceremoniall but yet the morality of it as to baptizing of Infants still continues and yet there is no precept in the Gospel for baptizing of Infants 3. The like instance is in the Paschall Lamb abrogated as to that Ceremony but still continues as to the celebration of the Lords Supper which comes in the room thereof from both which may be concluded strong inferences of reason for the continuance of Tithes in that sense I have expressed of them 3. The third ground is this that this way of maintenance of Church-men by Tithes is the most ancient and the most just way that can be named 1. For the first it is as old as Melchisedech Priest to the Ancient of daies and from the time of the Law and all the time of Christianity it hath continued a constant Church-maintenance thorowout Christendome till the Reformation of Religion in the daies of Luther and Calvin In those places of reformed Religion where the Reformation was orderly which are farre the greater number that kinde of maintenance continues to this day But where it was done by popular tumult and power of the Sword that kinde of maintenance was taken away and with it the very Churches themselves and the most part of their revenues 2. Secondly It is most just There were three principle reasons why Tithes were to be paid to the Levites of the Law The first in respect of their persons The second in regard of their work And the third in regard of their wages 1. For the first The Law is given in Numb 18.20 and Deut. 10.9 that Levi was not to have any inheritance in the Land like the other Tribes for that God was his part and inheritance and they were his and that they should wholly depend upon him not upon the gifts of men which he shewed in that he gave them their maintenance by the encrease of the fruits of the earth being an act of his immediate providence all the men in the world being not able to make the smallest herb of the field to grow And is not this the case of Levi under the Gospel Are not the Ministers under the Gospel truly and properly and very anciently called Clerus Domini the Lords portion or inheritance for these two reasons First As the Levites were separated from the rest of the Tribes for the Lords Sanctuary So are Ministers under the Gospel separated from all the people by Ordination from God in imposition of hands The Text for this is very plain Act. 13.1 2 3. For when at the Church of Antioch certain Prophets and teachers were met amongst whom was Barnabas and Saul afterward called Paul As these ministred to the Lord and fasted the holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them c. Here is the proper sense of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods lot or inheritance in that they are separated by the holy Ghost to God and to his service 2. As the Tithes which the Levites received out of