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A88586	The main points of church-government and discipline; plainly and modestly handled by way of question and answer. Very useful to such as either want money to buy, or leasure to read larger tracts.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1649 (1649)	Wing L3167; Thomason E1182_11; ESTC R208163	25,577	63

and whatsoever house field person beast c. was by a singular vow given to the Lord which was to be valued by the Priest himself v Lev. 27. 2 3 4. 5 8 9 10 c. and all these duties were brought in to the Priest without charge or trouble they had not only the full tenth of all kind of encrease but also such an imposition layd upon all kind of grain as came to more then a sixth part of the crop it self w Goodwin 〈◊〉 Aaron 1. 6. c. 2 3. and those Cities and Lands descended from them to their posterity from generation to generation as also did their Tythes and offerings 3. Suppose Jesus Christ being a Member of the Jewish Church did not demand the Tythes then due by Gods Law to the Levitical Priests x Mat. 23. 23 Heb 7. 5 Suppose also the Apostles being by their office to travel abroad did not receive Tythes no more then the Levites did receive them in their travel but were sometimes forbidden to take so much as a scrip y Mat. 10. 10. though at other times allowed it z Luc. 22. 35 36. and enjoyned to live at the charges of the faithful * Mat. 10. 10 11 and though Paul and Barnabas did sometimes work with their hands that they might not be chargeable a 1 Cor. 9. 6. yet Paul doth expresly affirm that Tythes were not Aaronical or proper to the Levitical Priests but on the contrary proves the greatness of Melchizede●'s Priesthood by his blessing Abraham and tything him b Heb. 7. 2 4 5 7. the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c verse 6. implyes requiring Tythes as well as receiving them and thereupon he asserts our Saviour to be a Priest after the order of Melchizedec d v. 15 16 17 and therefore Christ must needs have power to tythe the people as well as to bless them or else he comes not up to the type or figure he therefore that saith Tythes are Ceremonial must shew wherein the Ceremony doth consist and upon what Scripture he grounds his opinion and answer Paul's argument or else he is to be esteemed a deluder of the people supposing that gain is godliness e 1 Tim. 6 5 4. The Ministry of the New Testament being far more honorable f 2 Cor 3. 6 7 c. laborious and studious then the Levitical Priesthood and the Ministers of the Gospel being to live of the Gospel g 1 Cor. 9. 13 14 they have an evil eye that grudg the Ministers of the Gospel so much means proportionably as the Priests had under the Law that judg 100. l. per annum or more little enough for a Factor but enough or too much for a Minister A principio non fuit sic for Beleevers had all things common h Acts 432 and so far they were from grudging the tenth part of their encrease that they sold their Lands and laid the prizes of them at the Apostles feet i v. 34 35. and afterwards by one means or other Ministers had in persecuting times much more ought they to have in peaceable and prosperous times not only competent but honorable maintenance k 1 Tim 5 17 18 for themselves their wives and children l 1 Cor. 9 4 5 6 1 Tim. 3 4 5. 5 8 and to keep hospitality m Tit. 1. 8 and all this without entangling themselves in the affairs of this life n 2 Tim. 2. 4 As for the Tythes with relation to this Kingdom omitting how far the Law of nature one of the fundamentals of our Laws did teach them the Gentiles it is unquestionable that they in some Parishes at least are the Ministers right by as good Law as the 9. parts are the peoples and it is as illegal for the people to with-hold their tenth's as if the Minister should besides his tenth's take away one or more of their 9. parts and it is perillous to a State that private men should prefer their judgment of meum tuum of right and wrong before the publick judgment of the Law and Courts of the Kingdom and may be as destructive to Nobility Gentry and others in the Kingdom to have the hedg of the Law broken down as it is to the Ministry sundry persons some whereof are in power and place being as inclinable to defraud them also of the Tythes and to introduce equality and community in the Common-wealth as in the Church 2. This Law of Tythes was not an imposition on the people as some falsly suggest but a voluntary donation not of the people though if they that were then owners of the land and had power to alienate them in whole or in part and did so that is a sufficient bar against those in whose hands they now are which have no title but what they hold from and under them and can justly claim no more then was transmitted by them but of the King who then having all the Lands in England in demesne did give the tenth part of his own Lands or as some call it the tenth part of his Kingdom to the Church and were consented unto and have been since payd as a rent-charge on the Land before the Subject either Lord or Tenant had any thing at all to do in the said Lands and therefore whether or no the Scripture doth prescribe the particular way of Ministers maintenance in Corn a seventh eighth ninth tenth or eleventh part more or less or in moneys yearly quarterly monethly weekly payd by Tax or Contribution or in Lands or in some or all of these it is not much material For though suppose before they gave it it was in their own power which was the case of Ananias and Sapphirah o Act. 5. 4 yet the Tythes being so given it is grievous sin to alienate them from their general end For first it is sacriledg to devour that which is holy or devoted to the service of God and the Church p Prov 20 25 Levit. 27. 28 30 though this sacriledg be committed upon pretence of Reformation and hatred of Idols q Rom. 2 22 Secondly it is a disanulling of the testament of men r Gal. 3. 15 when it is confirmed not only by the Doners or Testators but by several Acts of Parliament Magna Cha●●a and late Ordinances Thirdly it wilfully incurs those direful Execrations which were usually pronounced against all such Church-robbers and in some places where Tythes are unjustly withheld from the Ministers God himself doth as it were tythe their corn and take away at least the tenth part of it that they see they are no gainers by this unjust course And these things are spoken for the satisfaction not of the covetous whereof there is little hope but of the conscientious and not for any benefit of the Author whose means for his own particular would be much greater if no Tythes at all were payd then now

12. draw-net s Math. 13. 47 and the like are to be understood of the Universall Visible Church which is further in Scripture described to be Organicall t 1 Cor. 12 14 c. Rom. 12. 4 to 9. Ephes 4 4. with 11 12. Quest 6. But we read of Churches v Gal 1. 2. 1 Cor. 14 34. Acts 9. 31. in the plurall number of many Churches in the New Testament and therefore there is not onely one Church Ans These are the particular Churches I spake of of the same name and nature with the whole as the Sea is but one w Psa 95. 5 yet the severall parts of it washing severall shoars are called Seas x Psa 24 2 the dry Land but one y Gen. 1. 10 yet being possest by severall Nations under several climates divided by hills rivers and other boundaries is called Lands a Gen. 10 31 as Labans flocks having all one owner and probably all one mark are called one flock b Gen. 30. 31 32 36 38. 33. 13 as the free men of Rome where ever born or bred make but one Corporation c Act. 22. 3 with 28 hence the Church of Ephesus though a compleat particular Church is not called the whole City or houshold of God but fellow Citizens with the Saints viz. of other Churches and of the houshold As the Jewish Church was but one yet in regard of their Sabbath-convocations in their Synagogues d Lev. 23. 1 2 3 for hearing the Word read e Act. 15. 21 and preached f Act. 13. 14 15 16 for prayer g Act. 16. 13 for Rule and Government h Act. 13. 15. Joh 12 42. 9. 34. 16. 1 2 was called Congregations Churches i Psa 26. 12. 68 26. 74 4 8 As the Antichristian Churches of Italy Spain Germany are but one Where k Rev. 17 5. 18. 2 3. 19. 2 under one head the Pope so the Christian Churches of England Scotland Holland c. which have their Fathers name written in their foreheads l Rev. 14. 1 are but one woman m Rev. 12. 1 the one is the army under the Dragon the other under Michael n Rev. 12 7 and as a whole Army is oft times in the Originall Language of Scripture called a Church o 1 Sam. 17. 47 Ezek. 16 40. Jer. 50 9 and the severall Regiments and Companies are called Churches p Eze 26 7 so particular Churches and Antichristian conventions are as the severall Brigades Regiments or Companie of those two Armies Hence also the Church of God is called Army and Armies q Cant. 6 10 13 Vineyard and Vineyards r Cant. 7 12 8 11 12 Garden and Gardens s Cant. 6 2 as well as Church and Churches Quest 7. What sorts of Elders hath God appointed in his Church Answ Two sorts extraordinary as the Apostles t 1 Pet 5 1 2 Joh. v. 1 and ordinary as Pastors and Teachers v Acts 20 17 28. Tit. 1 5 The Apostles were to Teach and Rule not onely Churches but Pastors and Ministers also being men of an higher order w 1 Cor. 12 28. Eph. 4 11 immediatly called of God x Gal. 1 1 infallible in their doctrine y Gal. 1 7 8. 5 2 endowed with extraordinary gifts z Acts 2 1 2. 8 17 18 saw Christ in the flesh a Act. 1 21 1 Cor. 9 1 were injoyned ordinarily to travel abroad to plant Churches b Math. 28 19 might act authoritatively in any Church without a call or consent of men and might shake the dust off their feet against such Ministers or others as did not receive them c Math. 10 14 their commission was irrepealable the limits they agreed on were large d Gal 2 9 But a Minister is not of an higher order nor hath power over his fellow Ministers nor hath an immediate irrepealable Call not infallible nor in these times extraordinarily gifted hath not seen Jesus Christ in the flesh cannot exercise pastoral authority in an ordinary or occasional way without a call and consent of persons interested And lastly Pastors and Teachers are by succession to continue in the Church to the end of the world e Ephes 4 11 12 Rev. 12 6 11 2 3 whereas Apostleship continued in one age only for though Matthias was substituted in the room of Judas f Act. 1 25 yet none was substituted in the room of James g Act. 12 2 or of any other Apostle Quest 8. In what Church hath God set these Elders Answ In the Universal Church primarily h 1 Cor. 12 28. Eph. 4 11. Ro 12 and in particular Churches secundarily i Act. 13 1 Division of the Church into particular Congregations and fixing particular Elders to them is no further of divine institution then order and edification did first occasion and do still require it should be so as the whole Tribe of Levi sed all the Jews in common for ought we know while they were together Afterwards it may be the four Families of Levites as Aaron Cohath Gershon Metari did take more special charge of those Tribes that quartered on the same side of the Tabernacle that they did k Num. 2 3 10 18 25. with Numb 3 38 10 18 25 Sec Ainsworth in Num. 2 and then there was some division made and yet after that a further division was made when the Tribes of Israel came to be fixed in their several divisions and the Levites also were scattered and fixed amongst them for the better instruction of the people and had their maintenance by Lands and Tythes where they lived So the Apostles notwithstanding their general commission l Math. 28 19 20 Mar. 16 did feet the Church in common while there was but one particular Church and afterwards when Churches were multiplyed did for edification and orders sake agree upon a division of themselves m Gal. 2 9 though they were not very precise in observing it Peter preaching sometimes to the Gentiles and Paul to the Jews and had their several places ordinarily to officiate in n 2 Cor. 10 13 14 15 16 yea some probably think that they did disperse themselves into twelve parts of the world and the Greek text o Act. 1. 25 may if you put the comma after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fully bear this sense that Mathias might be sent that circuit which Judas had he not fallen should have gone and in likelyhood it was from this agreement that James notwithstanding his Apostolik commission was as general as the comission of the other Apostles did not travel abroad as the other did but stayd at Jerusalem as also some other Apostles after their travels betook themselves to residence in some one place as if they had been the fixed Pastors of those places respectively Those Apostles that travelled abroad did carry Ministers