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A77158	Tithes re-mounted and advanced by the VVord of God, for the ministers of the Gospell. Proving, that tithes are due to the ministers of the Gospell, as to the priests and Levites under the law. In answer to a late scandalous and seditious pamphlet intituled, The ordinance of tithes dismounted. Dedicated to the right honourable the Lord Mayor. / By Martin Bovvne. Imprimatur. John Dovvname.	Bowne, Martin.	1646 (1646)	Wing B3889; Thomason E341_3; ESTC R200895	11,819	21

for your souls as he that must give an account for you for you should not think that too much which your Pastour or Minister hath especially if they be diligent in doing good to the Church of God OBIECT But what do you speak of the Law of God for Priests and Levites to have Tithes it was a Ceremoniall Ordinance and it was abolished at the coming of Christ and therefore this doth make nothing for our Ministers of the Gospell to receive Tithes for private men are not to pay Tithes to the Ministers of the Gospell ANSW I answer It is false to say That payment of Tithes by private people and receiving of Tithes by the Ministers of the Gospell is a Ceremoniall Ordinance First Reasons for though the manner of Gods worship and service in the time of the Law was ceremoniall yet the maintenance of Gods worship and service is morall and lasteth for ever For Gods worship and service must and doth hold continually For though the Ordinances and maoner of the worship and service of God be changed at the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ yet the matter and substance of the worship and service of God is not changed but doth continue unto the end of the World And therefore the maintenance of the worship and service of God must of necessity continue as for conformation of this the Sacrament of the Lords Supper was then tipified and shaddowed by Melchizedeck King of Shalem who brought forth Bread and Wine and he was a Priest of the most high God therefore he blessed him saying Blessed art thou Abram of God most high possessor of Heaven and Earth and blessed be the most high God which hath delivered thine enemies into thine hand And Abram gave him tithe of all by these words it doth plainly appeare that Melchizedeck was not onely a figure of Jesus Christ but also a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ our alone Saviour and as Abram gave tithes unto Melchizedeck so ought the Successors of Abraham that professe the Gospel of our Saviour Jesus Christ to pay tithes unto the Ministers of the Gospel and so consequently unto our Saviour Jesus Christ For Melchizedeck was a figure of Jesus Christ and though our Saviour did not receive Tithes personally yet he did receive Tithes figuratively and this is to good purpose to prove Tithes to belong to the Ministers of the Gospel Heb. 7. 2. Tithes were payd before the Law and therefore they ought to be payd after the Law for we may perceive and see that howsoever the manner of the worship and service of God as before was altered yet the maintenance of Gods worship and service the tithes were then payd therefore to be considered 3. Abraham the Father of the faithfull did pay tithes unto Melchisedeck the figure of Christ and therefore those that will or are the children of the faithfull will pay tithes unto the Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ The adverse party doth object that this doth nothing satisfie us Object in the old Testament shew us out of the new Testament that ithes belong to the Ministers of Christ I answer First I will lay my ground on the old Testament and then conclude in the new Testament The Prophet Isaiah in his 66. chap. verse 19. prophesying of the calling of the Gentiles doth foreshew the propagation of the Gospel that they shall bring of all your Brethren for an Offering unto the Lord out of all Nations and verse 21. He saith and I will take of them for Priests and for Levites saith the Lord to wit of the Gentiles as it was verified in the time of the Apostles by Luke Timothy and Titus first and after to other sueceeding Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ The Prophet here doth give us to understand by these Words Priests and Levites to have relation unto the Priests and Levites unto whom God gave the tithes for an Inheritance spoken of before Numb 18. from the 21. verse to the end of the Chapter this Title I say Priests and Levites doth intimate unto us that as God gave the tithes for the maintenance of his worship and service unto the Priests and Levites the then ministeriall Instruments of the same his worship and service which was then but temporall and tipicall so he will much more continue the same maintenance of the Tithes unto Luke Timothy and Titus The Prophet Isaiahs Priests and Levites to the same men Luke Timothy and Titus our Christian Pastors Teachers and Ministers of the Gospel and to their successors for ever Againe the Apostle Saint Paul doth reason of the case very plainly 1 Cor. 9. and sheweth that he hath power to require maintenance as in the 6. vers I onely and Barnabas have we not power to forbeare working I marvile then with what face the Seperatists dare to speak so bouldly as they doe to say that Ministers ought to labour in some bodily or outward calling when the Apostle saith that it is in their power to forbear working at any handie Trade then in the 7. verse the Apostle further saith who goeth a warrfare at his one charge at any time giving us to understand that if Captaines and Souldiers do not go to warres at their owne charge then very well may Ministers forbeare their duty if they cannot have maintenance for he sheweth his reasons for it who planteth a vineyard and eateth not the fruite thereof or who feedeth a flock and eateth not the milk of the flock The Apostle doth reason from a twofold experience of mans own practice first in planting a vineyard secondly in feeding of a flock as if he should have said Is there any man that is so foolish as to plant a vineyard or feede a flock and not expect some benefit for his paines and charge I know your answer will be you will say no I my selfe would not take such paynes and lye on charge for nothing Then consider a Ministers friends are at great charge for keeping him at schoole and when he hath got learning to be at great cost for Bookes and to attaine to the Ministry and to bestow his paines with diligence in his study then to have little or nothing for his labor Is this equity can this stand with a good conscience let conscionable men judge but saith the carnall worldly man Ministers will speak well enough for their own profit The Apostle doth answer that cavill in 1 Cor. 9.8 say I these things as a man or saith not the Law the same also Deut. 25.4 Here the Apostle citeth the Law of God for the maintenance of Ministers of the Gospel and yet our Anabaptists our Antinomians our Brownists and Jndependents will not in any case heare of the Law of God truly either the Apostle or they must needs be in a fowle errout But they will not say the Apostle is in an errour therefore they are in an error for want of grace and Judgement Certainly if men would that