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A11886	Sacrilege sacredly handled That is, according to Scripture onely. Diuided into two parts: 1. For the law. 2. For the Gospell. An appendix also added; answering some obiections mooued, namely, against this treatise: and some others, I finde in Ios. Scaligers Diatribe, and Ioh. Seldens Historie of tithes. For the vse of all churches in generall: but more especially for those of North-Britaine.	Sempill, James, Sir, 1566-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 22186; ESTC S117106	109,059	172

holding by a common and ciuill Law the Leuites by a peculiar and diuine Tithes were the Lords and resigned by him to Leui the Lord and Leui both must first be payed before Israel can lawfully enioy his So is Leui both the first and the freest tenant and such as held of Leui were alwayes thought to haue the better tenures though now all things go 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with him that is vpside downe Neither was this tenth giuen to Leui Leui not the tenth part of Israel because he was the tenth part of Israel as others dreame For the Tribes were twelue and of all was Leui the least by great ods But if men may so much altum sapere fauour that curiositie that fauoureth the veritie for one might deriue it better from a correspondencie to the ten Commandements a chiefe part of their charge as who should say teach ten to all and take a tenth of all so both are perpetuall and proportionall Leui then being neither the twelfth thirteenth nor § VII scarse sixtieth part of the people it is cleare Num. 1.46 compared with 3.39 the people were 603550. the Leuites but 22000. beside the oddes of age reckoned that that was not the cause of giuing him the tenth for then the sixtieth part should haue been but his A pitifull wonder it is to see such learned men alledge such reasons But what then was the true reason of this donation Obserue it Thousands of yeeres before the Law are Tithes giuen to the Lord betweene Abraham and Melchisedec Gen. 14.20 and 28.22 then vowed by Iaacob Hereupon more then an hundren yeeres after God intimateth to his people Leuit. 27.30 That all the tithes of that Land were his his already his long before not made his now What needed all this if God had onely respected the generall prouision for a tenth twelfth or thirteenth Tribe Might not Canaan haue been diuided in ten twelue or thirteene parts to the lesser Tribe the smaller portion as God appointed Num. 26.54 And might not Tithes also haue been delayed till that time But this thirteenth portion must be in the Lord after another maner then the Land of Canaan was the Lords What more care of Leui then of all the Tribes Then of Iuda whereof Christ himselfe came Yet obserue § VIII God giueth Leui first a calling before he giueth him a condition The Calling should bring on the Condition Numb 1.49.50 for Aaron and his sonnes were taken vp as Priests Exod. 28. Euen so is Leui made the Lords more peculiarly then the other Tribes All this while hath Leui no portion the first newes he heareth is he shall haue no portion among his Brethren onely I am his portion saith the Lord Num. 18.20 and in the next verse I haue giuen the sonnes of Leui all the tenth c. Then hee subioyneth what moued him so to doe For his seruice in the Tabernacle of the Congregation and therefore Leui hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren Deut. 10.8.9 So we see the only Calling brought on the condition Neh. 7.94 This rule was euer kept vnder the Law he that could not proue his pedegree to the Priest-hood hee was debarred holy maintenance It should go so vnder the Gospell too Hee that cannot giue euidence of an inward calling his Euangelicall pedegree should not bee permitted propter beneficium ambire officium That this was the true cause and right course in Leuies maintenance it is euident by this that he who committed Sacrilege offended God Primariò against the first Table hee that robbed any other Tribe offended but in the second Table he spoiled not God he was but a theefe the other a sacrilegious theefe Shall we cleare it also by the Gospell Rom. 2.21 c. Thou which teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe Thou which preachest A man should not steale doest thou steale Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery doest thou commit adultery Heere we see in these three points he opposeth one and the same sinne vnder one and the same names but then Thou that abhorrest Idols committest thou Sacrilege What a strange change is in this opposition heere of Idolatrie to Sacrilege Paul proueth Sacrilege to be Idolatrie thus All couetousnesse is Idolatrie Col. 3.5 Ephes 5.5 Whereupon wee iustly inferre this Ergo All Sacrilege is Idolatrie Sacrilege being a coueting of Gods owne goods must bee most Idolatrous So haue we sufficiently proued that Tithes in no respect are Ceremoniall and that Tithes and the Law were not twinnes of one time as we proued from Leuit. 27. But say they Leuitic smelleth also of the Law for this see Chap. 9. Secondly we shew before either Law was giuen or Leui gotten Tithes were Gods by contract from Iacob Leuies father To this they reply This was a Vow and Vowes also smell of the Law Whereof also Chap. 8.9 Thirdly Tithes were first of all the Lords by most lawfull and powerfull possession passed betweene Abraham and that Priest of the most high God Melchisedec Of whom with the Apostle wee haue many things to say which are hard to be vttered because men bee dull of hearing and that by reason they be too quick in Tithing And this for production of Gods rights wee goe now to examine the pieces And first that which was first viz. Our Possession CHAP. VI. Tithes at first giuen Really and Royally neuer matched with Laicks Some Obiections answered § I OVR first right then is our Possession It goeth thus Gen. 14.18 And Melchisedec King of Salem brought forthbread and wine and hee was a Priest of the most high God And he blessed Abraham saying Blessed art thou Abraham of the most high God Possessor of Heauen and Earth and blessed bee the most high God who hath deliuered thine enemies into thine hand And Abraham gaue him Tithe of all Heere is a naked-like Historie to conteine so great Mysteries relatiue to nothing before it foretelling nothing to follow it It may be that Moyses saw no more in it then he set downe but Interpretations are of God Gen. 40.8 Luke 7.28 Lib. 2. cap. 4. And The least in the Kingdome of God is greater then Iohn Baptist whereof afterwards Howsoeuer Patent and Possession all in one yet heere haue we our most ancient and authenticke Patent and Possession of our Inheritance Simul semel actione vnicâ Marke therefore the dignitie of the Action both in Substance and Circumstances and of that which floweth from it For all is Reall all is Royall Time Royall in two respects First Because it was many hundred yeeres before the law A time of freedome when as no precept did presse any partie to it Secondly The particular time of the action is described by Royall circumstances vers 17. viz. after that faithfull Abraham redeemed faithfull Lot by the ruine of foure Kings Place Royall vers 17. For our Charter is dated in the Valley of Shaueth which is the

Kings dale Rom. 4.13 Parties Royall Melchisedec a King and Abraham heire of the world Melchisedec a Priest of the most high God All p●sse on Royall points and Abraham Patriarch of all the Faithfull Witnesse Royall The King of Sodom vers 21. Recorder or Clerke Royall viz. Moyses Gouernour of all Gods people Reuiued by a Royall Prophet Dauid Psal 110.4 and re-established in the most Royall dayes of the Gospell Hebr. 7.1 c. May wee not iustly say heere then that Heauen and Earth entred a league When as the true Melchisedec Possessor of Heauen and Earth first King of Iustice then King of Peace blessed Abraham and all his seede the heires of the world When shall this bargaine haue an end On whose part shall it faile So long as Earth is inhabited and by Abrahams of-spring manured so long must God haue his Inheritance Tithes Two Lessons heere not to be neglected in the order § II of this Historie Melchisedec Iustice Peace Religion and Tithing goeth before King of Salem that is Iustice and Righteousnesse goe before Peace and both goe before Tithes that is without Peace no setled Religion Then Peace is the daughter of Iustice and Religion the Garland of Peace Wheresoeuer then the Iust God procureth vs Peace wee ought to settle Religion in all points peaceably And where the Power and Peace is greatest there should Religion be purest not Poorest For Religion once rent Peace is violated and Peace violated breaketh the rod of Iustice This course began heere Abraham our Patriarch and patterne with Melchisedec so soone as by Gods Iustice he was made peaceable from those Kings his enemies he heareth Melchisedec Gods Messenger reuerently he rendereth him his due Tithes thankfully which two points paint out to vs generally the substance of all Religion This before the Law This course kept Moses at Gods command giuing a Law that when they should by Gods Iustice become peaceable in Canaan they should then haue Religion peaceable onely one worship of one God and pay to his Officiars his inheritance Tithes And this course followed all the good Kings vnder the Law So wee would know why this course may not also hold after the Law For heere haue wee the Corner-stone of all our building viz. That how soone a Priest is named so soone are Tithes named for his maintenance So Tithes and Priest-hood in generall not Legall Priest-hood are twins of one time They are of Nature Reciprocate that is the one cannot be without the other whereupon these two things will follow Tithes and Seculars neuer matched First That no marriage can be betweene any Secular person and Tithes Secondly That so long as God hath Officiars of his worship on Earth so long must Tithes be their Inheritance § III Obiect Against all this is obiected That before this Historie of Melchisedec our first right the world was some two thousand yeeres old and all this while was God worshipped yet all this while not a word of Tithes And why may not the last age of the world worshippe God without Tithes as well as the first And so Tithes bee onely the Lords Inheritance during the Law that first and onely named them so Sol. Resp First heere is a double question One concerning Tithes another concerning their title Inheritance A generall answere for both all things beginning together The Decalogue came with the Law but must not end with it See part 2. cap. 7. ad fin are not bound to end together and touching the Law it holdeth but in things Ceremoniall for Quod Morale est Mortale non est reade lib. 2. cap. 7. Secondly concerning Tithes wee must marke two things First As they are the goods of men generally Secondly The precise number in quoto as they are a Tenth of their goods And so these first two thousand yeeres though the quota pars Tithes for the first two thousand yeeres was not nominatim defined yet Res ipsa were to the same end employed and so God still worshipped Otherwise wee may also conclude against all the other foure generall points of Diuine seruice viz. God was not for two thousand yeeres worshipped because no Priest named no times affixed no place designed and no speciall forme prescribed and so by a like consequence wee may liue after the Law without all these as before it But we say all fiue were then re ipsa though more confused according to the time The first-borne then discharged the Priests office and the best of all their goods serued them for Tithes Gen. 18.19 So Cain and Abel the Church being then as in her cradle were taught by Tradition before Law Lib. 2. cap. 7. ad fin or by the Law of Nature that whatsoeuer the Earth yeelded vnto them a part yea a chiefe part thereof was due to the Lords peculiar worshippe And so each of them brought out vnto the Lord according to his labours Their Labours euen at first went as large as did Church maintenance vnder the Law out of all the fruits of the ground from Cains tillage And of all the bestiall of the field from Abels pasturage Now he who can discerne in these two brothers the Priest from the Laick may as easily sequestrate their portions Morall and Ceremoniall heere went all in a manner confusedly Tithes then are in quoto precisely named as soone as the Officiar on whom they euer depend is precisely named and both long before the Law And so for Tithes Now touching this title How Tithes may bee held § IV Gods Inheritance during the first two thousand yeeres Haue Inheritance seeing the Law only calleth them so To this we answer It followeth not A thing is not that which it is because it is not named as it is As to say Abraham was no Priest because he is not called by the name of Priest for whosoeuer sacrificed as first borne were Priests It is vsuall in Scripture sometimes to name things peculiarly before they be indeed so as the wandring Tabernacle and the Stone which Iacob erected as a piller Gen. 28.20.21.22 1. Sam. 1.7.9 were both named House of God but were not so till Salomon built there the Temple And sometime againe things are in effect that which they beare no name of till long after as Melchisedec heere was a Priest of an Order but yet not named of an Order till Dauid rose and also Tithes or that which supplied their roome were not called Inheritance til the owne fit time Yet that same right which God had from al beginning in mens goods was euer in effect Gods Inheritance And as the Mysteries of saluation began to be more cleared as heere where God presented to Abraham a Priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so he maketh Abraham to offer his goods also Orderly calling them at first Tithes And againe at such times as the Land was to be diuided and Iustice had begotten perfect Peace and that the name of Inheritance could