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