the express Image of his Substance Christ Jesus who was with him before the World began as I said before Well seeing that Christ ended them that had Tenths in the time of the Law and War and ended the War and Law by which they were made that took them and the Commandment that gave them to them and ends the War before the Law and is the end of all Wars who puts the fire and the sword in the earth and destroyes the destroyer that causeth Wars and brings peace on the earth and good Will towards men and his Ministers preacht the Gospel and the Kingdom of God which hath no end Mark the Kingodm of God there is more in that that followed Christ that they preacht and asked not for Tithes for Tenths of the earth that was Elected before the World began that was Redeemed out of the Ninths that witnessed the Kingdom of God that stands in Righteousness Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost and that sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus And you may read what they witnessed in the Hebrews among them that stuck in the Figures Priests Tithes and Offerings which told them that the one offering was offered up the end of their offerings and Priesthood both that could not continue because of death and Christ was come the end of all similitudes he remains a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedeck and the Priesthood was changed that took the Tithes and the Law was changed and the Commandment disannulled so when the Priesthood was changed and the Law changed that gave them and the Commandment disannulled and men come up out of the Ninths to the heavenly gift and did partake of the power of the World to come and yet these things was but as milk among Babes Before Christ was offered up they ought to pay Tithes but when he was offered up then they ought not the Commandment disannulled the Priesthood changed the Law changed also Was ended peace on earth and good will towards men Election known before the World began and men Redeemed to God from the earth who had been drove from God into the earth who had lost his Image by transgression and disobedience who is brought into the Image by the obedience of Christ who blots out the transgression and finisheth sin and reconciles for iniquity and brings in Everlasting Righteousness Mark Righteousness lasteth for ever that Redeems men out of the Ninths and ends the War in whom Melchizedeck the figure ends and liveth not in the Righteousness of the Law of works of the Priests that had the Tenths and Command that Commands the Tenths but lives in Christ and by him and under him who is the Treasure of Wisdom and Knowledge that ends the Command and Law and Priesthood and War and Figures and in him doth Melchizedeck end Christ who is the end of all things and here is the Saints life and the Churches head that the gates of Hell cannot prevail against who is the sum of all things that ends Ninths and Tenths And his Church is Redeemed out of the Ninths and reigns upon the earth and preaches the Gospel the Kingdome of God Mark Kingdom and preaches the Substance the end of the similitudes the end of the first Priesthood the Law is changed that he was made by and he also and the Command disannulled that gave him Tithes and here the peace on earth and the good will towards men is known for Christ is the Peace and Redeemer and now he is come to reign and doth reign among his Saints who ends all similitudes and likenesses and in him is no shadow nor turning nor winding nor variableness who is the Image of God glorified with the Father before the World began For since man went out of the Image of God and his Righteousness has been the Wars the first Priesthood and the Tenths in the War and the Tenths in the first Priesthood and Figures which Christ the Image of God ends the War and Priesthood and figures and similitudes and Tenths and brings men up into the Image of God and his Righteousness and Redeems people out of the Ninths and so to the end of the Tenths and Warre being come out of the fall up to God again where peace is redeemed out of the earth and reigns upon it and there is the end of that at present and so much for that at the present And Tenths was paid from the Principle of God within them for man transgressing the Principle of God within him was drove from God but when the Law came which went over all transgressors and transgressions answered the just Principle of God in every man the Tenths was offered up in the time of the War and Law from the Principle of God within and so is the Ninths from the Spirit of God within the power of God the Gospel and where life and immortality is come to light all is offered up to God And man come up out of the earth unto God from whom he has been drove And from the Principle of God within he did offer up the Tenths according to Law for death reigned man transgressing the Law of God within him when he fell went from the power The Devil went out of truth tempted man out of truth to sin and so to death and death reigned from Adam till Moses and so the Law came by Moses who saw the first transgression upon the earth and so the law was added because of transgression which is called the higher power higher then all evil doers to which power every soul must be subject And Moses saw the blessed state of the creatures before transgression before the Divel and man went out of truth and so man had the power within him before the transgression the power within him the law within him and so the law was added upon him called the law of works because of transgression and that served tell the seed came and Moses saw the Prophet of God he knew that the seed of the Woman should bruise the head of the Serpent Christ Jesus should destroy the Devil and his works the salvation of mankind And Moses the Prophet God gave him that wisdom to make the pattern the figure and Moses saw the time it should stand and before it was and the Prophet God should raise up like unto him whom the people should hear who should come to end it Now he that can read this and see this and hear this prophet which should end the pattern types figures and shadowes may read something and he that hath offered up the ninths of the earth and is come out of the ninths by Christ the substance redeemed out of the earth and witnesseth sin and transgression finished and the bond of iniquity broken and Christ reconciled to him and everlasting righteousnesse brought in he witnesseth the end of tenths and may speak something of what the tenths figured forth and offerings and Priests that witness the seed and is in the
AN ANSWER To Doctor Burgess his Book entituled A Case concerning of buying Bishop Lands which he spread before the Parliament Wherein he goes about to justifie that Tythes is the Ministers of the Gospels maintenance In which answer it is plainly shewed how that tenths was the maintenance of the Priests under the Law and for the relief of Widdowes strangers and fatherlesse and not the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel who was in Christ the power of God which brings people out of the Earth And how Tythes was set up by God in the time of the War and in the time of the Law since man was drove from God into the earth and the seed came into the earth And how that Christ by whom the World was made redeems men out of the Earth and ninths and ends tenths up to God who is the heir of all things who ends the war and the Law and brings peace on earth and good will towards all men Moreover it is here shewed how the Law served but until the seed came And that the Ministers of Christ did not run with a store-house to gather up tenths but they brought people out of the ninths of the earth and trode out the corn here the election was known before the World began It is also shewn how the Tythes that now are have been set up by the Papists the Apostates since the dayes of the Apostles and since the true Church fled into the Wildernesse Rev. 12. And this is to be delivered to each Parliament man to be read over and they may see that in it which they never saw before and for all people it may be profitable to read The strength of the Doctors arguing for Tythes answered according to the Scripture and overturned by G. F. London Printed for Tho. Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. Doctor BURGESS his Principles for Tithes pag. 7. FIrst That Tithes are the proper maintenance set out by God for the Ministers of the Gospel and cannot be alienated or taken away without sacriledge Secondly Tithes are due by Divine Right to Ministers of the Gospel Page 8. That all yearly Tithes of Cattel Fruit and of all things else are still due by Divine Right to Christ and by him are given to his servants the Ministers of the Gospel and may not be alienated his proof Numb 18.26 When ye take of the children of Israel the Tithâ—â— which I have given you from them for your inheritance c. Hence he chargeth with Sacriledge such as detaineth either of these from the Priests and Levites as robbers of the Lord of Tithes And Abraham paid Tithes to Melchizedeck the tenth of the spoil to the high Priest of God at least in Tipe for Christ himself is a Priest for ever after the same Order who hath the same Right to Tithes as Melchizedeck had Therefore all yearly Tithes are the proper standing maintenance set out by God for the Ministers of the Gospel in all setled well-grounded Christian Common Wealths which in the obedience to God made laws for the due payment of them for they still belong to Christ as his Inheritance and Portion payable to his Ministers by way of homage as Right from all his people And to put them to any other use is Sacriledge not onely in those who aliene or are strangers from them but also in them who possess and imploy them if they be not Ministers of Christ and preach not the Gospel or procure some other if themselves be sick or disabled to do it It being no other but robbing of Christ of what is his proper due and by God made Holy to himself page the ninth ANSWER FIrst All Tithes hath been since the fall since man was drove from God and hath been out of his Image he being drove from God into the earth so Tithes hath been set up since the beginning since man hath been in the earth First Abraham paid Tithes to Melchizedeck the King of Righteousness the Priest of the most High God out of the spoil when he came from the slaughter who met him with bread and water But it is not said that Melchizedeck took of the spoil of all Wars but once of Abraham and it is not said he took Tithes of Abrahams substance or of every mans substance nor of any other mans substance as I may so say Levi paid Tithes yet in the loyns of Abraham who afterwards received Tithes And Levi the Priest received Tithes in the land of Canaan and so the Priesthood made by the Command of God had a Command according to the Law of God to take Tithes of the people And there was Tithings out of Tithes and this was not given to Moses the chief Magistrate as the chief Magistrate now takes the Tenths of Tenths which the Pope was the first Author of and since them that denies the Pope which takes the Tenths of the Tenths Where did you read that the chief Prophet or chief King among the children of Israel did take them So then Tithes before the Law to Melchizedeck the similitude and figure of Christ in the time of the War from Abraham and Tithes in the time of the Law to the Priesthood made by the Law of God who had a Store-house to put it in for his services And the Widows Strangers and Fatherless did not want There was not a beggar amongst them they were all filled and satisfied And they that did not bring their Tithes they robbed God as Christ said to the Pharisees Ye pay Tiâ—he of Mint and Annis and Cummin these things ought ye to have done Mark to have done This was before Christ was offered up the Everlasting Priesthood he ended the Priesthood that took the Tithes and disannulled the Commandment that gave them and changed the Priesthood also that took them and is the end of all similitudes and figures Heb. 7. And in him Melchizedeck ends who took them in the time of the War and there is no figure in Christ which ends the War who brings peace on earth and good will towards men and ends the offerings and ends the Ninths and Tenths and Redeems man out of the earth out of Types figures and shadows and similitudes that he may live and see where he needs no figure shadow nor similitudes and Redeems man from under the Law and so out of the ninths as well as the Tenths And so who comes to Christ comes to Substance out of the earth out of the ninths as well as the Tenths and knowes the Election before the Foundation of the World was for the Tenths was offered up in the time of the figure and similitude in the time of the War in the time of the spoil the Tenths was offered up in the time of the Law of the increase of the earth and of the spoil before the Law But the time of the Gospel the time of Christ the Ninths is offered up by them that come into the power of God as
well as the Tenths and so man comes to be Redeemed from the earth up to God from whence he was driven and to reign upon the earth and made Kings and Priests and the War comes to be ended and figures and the Law comes to be ended Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness sake to every one that believes For Ninths and Tenths in the time of the War and in the time of the Law was in the times of the figures and since man hath been drove into the earth from God that God by his Law Commanded they should offer up the Tenths but who are Redeemed again out of the earth and come to Christ the Substance and is come up into the Image of God and is come into the Gospel which is the power of God comes out of the Ninths of the earth and offers up all and so comes up into Christ the Image of God the end of the Law the Heir of all things And so while the Priesthood was standing Levi who wâ—â— to receive Tythes before he was offered up and so they ought to pay him but when he was offered up it was finished so when he was offered up people were to come to the substance and to seek those things that are above and not the tenths in the war which Melchisedeck the figure received nor the tenths in the Law which the first priesthood received but must offer up the ninths and all to Christ who is the heir of all things him by whom the World was made glorified with the Father before the World began who redeems man out of the earth and so man comes to preach the Gospel the Word which was in the beginning and so comes into that which ends all things that is Christ who is the Heir of all things who redeems his Church and who are of his Church are of the Election which was before the World began And such as preacheth the Gospel the Kingdom of God was to go without bag that Christ sends forth and he never set up a law that they should take the Tenths for it was the Priesthood that was before Christ that took the tenths therefore read this what it signified that Christ sent forth his freely without bag his Ministers and the other Priests must have the Tenths made by the Law of God and had a commandment to take them and he sent out his freely and Melchisadeck had tenths in the time of the war but Christ who ends the Law ends the war and destroyes the Devil and his works which is the cause of all war and strife sends forth his Ministers freely reely you have received freely give again Now the Jews Law was standing when Christ sent forth his Ministers by which the Priesthood was made and the commandement was not dissanulled till Christ was offered up so Christ did never claim to the Jewes that Tythes was his inheritance for he who redeems man out of the earth is the heir of all things for Tythes was offered up in the time of the law war Melchizedeck and the law brings people to offer up the tenths and that was according to the principle of God in them But Christ brings them to offer up the ninths as wel as the tenths the ninths of the earth and so comes out of the earth quite to the substance Christ Jesus and such knowes the election before the world began Christ the heir of all things So he is not called the heir of tenths he is not called Melchizedeck neither is he called the first Priest-hood that took the Tythes but is called the substance of all Types figures shadowes and similitudes and is the heir of all things and ends the Priest-hood that had the tenths and is an everlasting Priest after the order of Melchizedeck who was glorified with the Father before the World began before the tenths was So he ends the figures and all figures and tenths and Tythes that redeemes people out of the ninths and so the Church of Christ which is his body of whom he is the head in whom he is in the midest who was in the beginning with the Father before the world began seeks not after the tenths who redeems out of the ninths who brings to the end of the law and end of the war and all types and figures and shadowes and similitudes to Christ the substance and such witnesse peace on earth and good will towards men and the Kingdom come which stands in joy and righteousnesse and peace in the Holy Ghost and his will is done in earth as it is in Heaven So till Christ was offered up Tythes was to be paid and they robbed God that did not pay Tythes while Tythes was kept back there was not meat in their house and so God kept back from them you keep back the tenths cannot I keep back the ninths and cause the earth not to give her increase so bring in your Tythes and see if I will not cause the windowes of Heaven to be opened and pour you forth a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it And the Tythes of the land was the Lords it was not to be given to Caesar it was not called Caesars the tenths was the Lords and he gave them back to the services for which he appointed them and this was the State when man was drove into the earth in the time of the law Now the ninths is the Lords as well as the tenths and all the spoil in the war is the Lords as well as the tenths to Melchideck the figure so in the time of Christ who ends the war all is offered up unto the Lord all the spoil the ninths the time of Christ the end of the law and Priest-hood that took the tenths the ninths is offered up and they come out of the ninths of the earth so to Christ the substance who redeems out of the ninths and such comes to reign upon the earth as I said before and be made kings and Priests And there is more to be spoken of these words hard to be uttered And Christ never told people they robbed him that did not bring him the tenths who was the everlasting Priest though the Jewes law was yet standing before he was offered up he spoiled principalities and powers and triumphed over them openly and put down Priest and its authority and tenths and its authority and brought people to the beginning out of the ninths to the Father and to fit with him in Heavenly places And the Church never told people that it was robbery if they did not give them tenths and Christs Ministers never said it was robbery though the Jewes law was standing when they went to preach freely without a bag when Christ the power of God sent them forth which power opened the hearts of people to give them that they should not want and they trod out the corn And the Jews law was standing and the Priests and tenths before Christ was offered
up and Christs Ministers and preachers of the Gospel never complained to the Jewes or went to the Jewes which had the Law of God and command of God which gave the tenths that they should by the commandment give them the tenths but they preached Christ freely by whom the world was made the wisdom of God the Saviour of the world that ends all types figures and shadowes and changeable things and other Priests and redeems out of the ninths to live in the word and power of God that lives and abides and endureth for ever which all things are upholden by by the word and power which gives every thing its being and encrease and meat in their due season And these preached Christ and followed him which was the substance and never looked down to the time of the war for tenths nor to the time of the law for tenths but preached him that was the end of the war and law and brought peace on earth and good will towards men and these sat in heavenly places with him and minded not earthly things but were Redeemed out of Ninths as well as Tenths and knew the Election before the World began and come into Paradice and to know Paradice and to know the Garden whence man was drove out of into the earth out of the Image of God out of the earth into the Image of God again and so in the Garden so do they follow Christ who lives in the Ninths of the earth or not Christ never claimed the Tenths in the time of the War nor in the time of the Law though Melchizedeck that figure and Priests had them but Christ is the end of all figures And the Jews Law was standing in the dayes of the flesh of Christ when he was upon the earth but when he was offered up it was finished who went to his Father where he was before the World began who saith follow me who is the Captain of Salvation The young man in the Gospel which had kept the Law he would offer up the Tenths but he must offer up the ninths that is a hard thing to sell his possession he is a rich man he would be willing to pay the Tenths well this is but a touch of what might be spoken concerning these things The Church of Christ which is the Election in Christ according to the foreknowledge of God before the World began which are Redeemed from the earth and reigns upon the earth as Kings and Priests that witness the end of the War and before War began and before the fall was in the Image of God in the Dominion over all the Creatures in the Wisdom of God in the Power of God and the end of the spoil and to the end of the Law and Priests that took the Tenths in the Law and witnesseth the disannulling of the Command and Priesthood both such be in Christ such be the Church and such doth not claim Tenths that be in Christ the Heir of all things mark that word that Redeems out of the Ninths for as I said before in the time of the Law and the War the figure like unto the Son of God was Tenths paid but in the time of the Gospel Ninths given up yea all is given up to the Lord and the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof And them that believe in Christ be in the Wisdom of God and so the Church never claims the Tenths which was in the time of the War or Law who are come into the Gospel the Power of God which ended the War and Redeemed from under Law and they never told people that they were robbers of Christ that did not pay him the Tenths and that it was his inheritance which was the first Priesthoods and Christ ends the first Priesthood which had the Tenths and ends the War and Redeems people out of the Ninths to himself who is the Heir of all things Glory to him for ever And so Tithes doth not belong to Caesar but to God and so doth Ninths too for since man was drove from God the Commandment was Thou shalt offer up the Tenths but as men shall come to be Redeemed from under the Law to God they come out of the Ninths of the earth and offer up all to God for the Law served until the seed came and so can say all is the Lords and comes out of the earth again and reigns upon it which is Gods foot-stool and Heaven his Throne so mark men being drove from God into the earth Ninths in the time of the Law and in the time of the War and the first Priesthood and Melchizedeck the similitude after that Order came Christ who Redeems men again to God out of the earth as he was drove from God into the earth fell from his Righteousness and Image by transgression and disobedience so by the obedience of Christ who is the Image of God is man again brought to God out of the earth so out of the Ninths and ends the first Priesthood that had the Tenths and the Law by which they were made and the Commandment disannulled that gave them and ends the War and the Tenths and the similitudes he who is after the order of Melchizedeck Priest of the most High God who yet liveth who ends in Christ who is the Heir of all things and many more things I have to speak which is as yet hard to be uttered to this And Levi paying Tithes in Abraham and Christ who came to end the Levitical Priesthood is yet a Parable to all but who believe in Christ who was before Abraham was or Melchizedeck took the Tenths of the spoil which was since the fall for Christ ends the War who is the Heir of all things Mark all things which is more then Tenths and takes all and reconciles all things in Heaven and all things in earth in one that destroyes the Devil and his works and his things and so doth not reconcile to those things the Devils things but destroyes him and his things and he that destroyes him and his things and works reconciles all things in one Things in Heaven and things in earth so doth not reconcile to uncleanness but destroyes that which causes it and so brings into Unity with God and one with another who is the Word and Power who is called the Sanctification and Justification and more is to be said in this which as yet is hard to be uttered So Tithes was due by Gods Law to his Priesthood which was made according to his Law which had a Command according to his Law to take them and Christ is the end of the Law to every one that believes and those that believe are his Church Marke here Whether those that are the Believers goes into the Tenths And whether or no they are come to Christ who Redeems out of the earth and so are come out of the Ninths of the earth to God through his Image Christ Jesus who is the brightness of his Glory and
waters and the waters are Peoples Nations Tongues and Multitudes as you may read in the Rev 17. and 18. chapters Now Mark Nations are waters and Peoples are waters and Tongues are waters Orthodox men which are called the Pillars of the Church she suffered them to live this false church this Whore which hath drunk the blood of the Martyrs Prophets and Saints so killed the true Ministers and so these are them that have set up their Schools and Colledges to to make Ministers and their Tenths since the dayes of the Apostles who was not of man nor by man but by the Will of God And again the Judgment of the great Whore should come this false church and the mystery babylon confounded and the Beast taken and false prophets and the old Dragon and cast into the lake of fire and the man child brought forth to Rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron and the Lamb and the Saints shall have the Victory and the Lambs Wife known again and the Everlasting Gospel preacht again to all Kindreds Tongues and Nations to all that dwell upon the earth What may the Tongues say have we not had the 〈◊〉 all this while and the Beast and the Dragon and 〈◊〉 prophets and the Beasts names several images and 〈◊〉 that is in the Nations who hath power over all Kindreds Tongues and Nations I say no. you that are inwardly ravened went forth from the Apostles into the World you went from the power and so from the Everlasting Gospel which must now be preached again to you and this is hard to be believed with the Tongues and false church the Whore as it was among the Jews at the first Going forth of the Gospel And so now the Gospel is going forth to all Kindreds Tongues and Nations and Life and Immortality is come and coming to light and the Everlasting Gospel preached again freely without a Bagg or Store-house for Tithes which the first Priesthood had And the thirst is risen in people and to that which they ravened from is people come and coming and the Lamb and the Saints shall have the Victory the Bride and the Lambs Wife is witnessed and shall be witnessed the True Church is known again he that was dead is alive and shall live for evermore So all these names and marks and horns and Images and several Crowns in the whole Christendom is among the inwardly raveners and how should they be otherwise when they ravened from the Spirit of God in which stands the Unity and Fellowship and Bond of Peace So they have set up Tithes which ravened from the Spirit of God from the Apostles they could not set them up among the Apostles but went forth from them into the World and set them up there and the old Mass-houses East and West which they call Temples or Church with a cross on the end of it they went from the Power of God the Cross of Christ whose bodies were not the Temples of God but the synagogues of Satan the Murtherer who has killed one another about Church and Ministry and prisoned till death for Tithes and haled before Courts and Sessions and Assizes the chief Magistrate in many places hath taken the Tenths of the Tenths which the Pope was the first Author of set up in the World by the beasts and Dragons power and the great Whore and false church when the True Church went into the Wilderness But as the true Church comes up again all these things are fathomed seen and felt over which hath got up since the dayes of the Apostles and this is but a touch of what might be spoken concerning these things And so Tithes hath been set up by the laws of men which they have invented since the dayes of the Apostles among them which went from the Apostles for the Apostles witnessed the end of the Law of God and Commands and Priesthood that took them as in the Hebrews 7th chap. And so these that have taken Tithes in the whole Christendom by the Law of men and invention hath not gone according to the Law of God for they were to have a Store-house and all the Widows Strangers and Fatherless were to be filled and eat that there might not be a begger among them and this provision the Law made when Tithes was the Lords the Tenths and he would make the Ninths serve Levi the Priest and give him enough and all Widowes Strangers and Fatherless for men was in the unreasonableness till the Law came in false measures and weights but Christ the end of the Law Redeems men out of the Ninths and the Law answers the reasonable Principle of God in every man which is Just Holy Good and Perfect so the Law goes over all and le ts see the first transgression and goes over all transgression and that is the Higher power to which the Soul must be subject whether in the hand of King or Supream and this is not like the Heathens Inventions or Statutes Now the Apostles witnessed the end of the Commandment that gave Tithes and the Law by which the Priesthood was made that took them Therefore they that went forth from the Apostles into the World set up Tithes where there is no Store-house for the Fatherless Widowes nor Strangers in the whole Christendom but Priest goes away with all and and it may be Pope or chief Magistrate has the Tenths of the Tenths and Widows and Strangers and Fatherless crying up and down the streets and Steeple-house doors for bread at the old Mass-House doors that it is a shame to see them Though men talk of the Gospel and of the provision of the Gospel yet they are not come to the provision of the Law that provided to them all in practice and life And what haling before Courts and casting into Prisons dayly by the Priests and Impropriators for Tithes And what cryes the people We must give you Tenths and we must be in the Ninths Are you Ministers of the Gospel and no Store-house to relieve the Widows Strangers and Fatherless that there might not be a begger amongst us And you cry you have a Law to give it you but cry the people it is not like the Law of God that Widows and Strangers might be filled as well as you you are them that went forth from the Apostles into the World from the Gospel and Law both of God The Apostles preached the Gospel and brought people out of the Ninths to offer up the Ninths and all to the Lord and so it shall be now as the false prophets Beast and Dragon is taken and the Judgement of the great Whore is come and the Everlasting Gospel preacht again to them that dwell upon the earth which was among the Apostles People shall come out of the Ninths of the earth not onely the Tenths but all to the Lord for the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof These that hath set up Tithes since the dayes of the Apostles are them that are
inwardly ravened that went from the Apostles into the World which now by the power of the Lord God are comprehended and fathomed So Tithes to Melchizedeck in the time of the War and Tithes in the time of the Law and all the Tithes of the land was the Lords and he would make the Tenths of the earth give the Priests Levites Strangers Widows and Fatherless enough and fill them that there should not be a Begger among them and the Ninths would give the other enough and those were offered up according to the Principle of God in people which answered the Law of God and the Commandment that commanded them Now Tithes since the dayes of the Apostles set up by them that went from them inwardly ravened hath been invented and not set up by the principle of God within So here is Priests and Impropriators Kings of the earth and Pope hath got them and Widows and Strangers and Fatherless starving abroad and yet these Priests will be called Ministers of the Gospel that takes Tenths and keeps people in the Ninths which they have invented and their mother the great Whore the false church and calls them a Gospel maintenance which are not like unto the Apostles but contrary to the Law and Gospel both and all people are nor blind that they cannot see For the tenths was offered up in the time of the war and law but the ninths comes to be offered up in the end of the war and law and types figures and shadowes by such as comes to the Kingdom of God for they that preach the Kingdom of God and the Gospel doth not take the tenths of the earth and this is but a touch of what might be spoken concerning these things And so Tythes is not the Ministers of the Gospels homage as thou Dr. saith in thy ninth page for Tythes is not the Ministers of the Gospels homage who brought people out of the ninths but it was the first Priest-hoods which Christ the second came to end and redeems out of the ninths up to God out of the earth for ninths and tenths hath been since man was drove from God into the earth but the tenths has bin the Popes homage and held up by his lawes in the whole Christendom provision for his Church since the dayes of the Apostles that the true Church went into the Wilderness and his Ministers and the inheritance that he hath given to his Teachers that hath got the Sheeps cloathing that went forth from the Apostles inwardly ravened and set up first by his law and persecute people if they would not give them and put them into prison till death and hale them before Courts which is not the work of the Ministers of the Gospel as thou may read in the Acts and Epistles And thou sayest in the same page that to imploy Tythes to any other use then to maintain Ministers of the Gospel is sacriledge for they are due by God and holy to himself so to give them to any other then Ministers of the Gospel or to such as set Ministers to preach because they are fick themselves and cannot preach it is sacriledge to put them to any other use So then thou hast made all the impropriators robbers and the Pope and all the chief Magistrates and Kings that take the tenths robbers and the great men that takes the Tythes robbers now I say they have no more due to them then the Ministers nor they then them but is quite contrary to the Ministery of the Gospel to keep people in the ninths that they might have the tenths and having no store-house for them that all the strangers fatherless and widowes might be filled as well as the Priests Deut. 14 and Mal. 3. But if you had store-houses and did fill all the Fatherlesse and widowes in the whole Christendome yet we which are Ministers of the Gospel must deny you and the first Priest-hood that took them we that are one with the Apostles that brings people out of the ninths that they may be redeemed out of the earth up to God for since men was drove into the earth from God was tenths set up by the command of God which Christ the Saviour of the World redeemes up to God again out of the earth for tenths was a figure in the time of the law and Christ who was made under the law redeemes from under the law ends the law and the figures and the war and brings people to reign upon the earth and such be elect before the World was made of his Church of his body he is the head Now Tythes which been invented by the inwardly raveners that went out from the Apostles by the beast false Prophets and false Church since the true Church went into the Wildernesse and since the true Ministers hath been slain by the Beast and their blood drunk by the whore and so deceit spread over all nations and as the Apostles was to go with truth into all Nation so the beast false Prophets and great whore and old dragon taken and cast into the lake of fire and their flesh burnt and the everlasting Gospel shall go forth again to all nations tongues and people to all that dwell upon the earth and so truth shall spread it self over again So mind these three states and what age you are in that you may decern the time and seasons which be in the Fathers hand how that people shall come out of the ninths and tenths which has been invented by them that were inwardly raveners that went forth from the Apostles and how that people are comming to that which they ravened from whereby the power of God the Gospel is felt and life and immortality is come to light and the thirst is risen among people who shall have the waters of life freely and the marriage of the Lamb the Church is known again the manchild is brought forth to rule all nations with a rod of Iron for they have been waters and tongues and multitudes and that which has been called the original among the inwardly raveners the tongues but not called so by John nor any of the Apostles For all the earth was of one language before Babel and Pilate set the languages over Christ and Luke doth not call that the original for Pilate did not know the Scripture and the Beast and the whore hath been upon the tongues which hath killed the Saints and John in the Revevelations did not call that the Original for John saw well that tongues were waters But they had the Original which was killed by the beast and the whore and this hath been the language since the beast whore and dragon hath reigned and the true Church hath been in the Wildernesse and the true Ministers killed but I shall tell you in the beginning was the word before beast false Prophets dragon great whore Pilate and Babylon was and Abides when they all end when they are not so that I declare unto you that which was