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A52086 A sermon of simony & sacriledge by Edward Marston. Marston, Edward. 1699 (1699) Wing M814; ESTC R26803 14,579 26

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as good as his Word Prove him if he will not open the windows of Heaven and pour us out a Blessing without measure Prove him if he will not prosper the Nine Parts Ten times more than before Prove him if He will not send a Learn'd and Pious Ministry into this Land such as shall be able to stand in the Gap against an Adversary when Learned Pious and Othordox Divines shall receive Encouragement from the Altar Prove him if we be honouring him in Soul and Body and Goods He will not honour us with a Flourishing Gospel to feed our Souls with Health and Peace To preserve our Bodies with Health and Prosperity to our Lives end so far as shall advantage our Souls and Bodies to Eternal Life Which God grant unto us for his Son's sake Jesus Christ the Righteous to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons and one Eternal Everliving and only wise God be Glory Praise and Power and Thanksgiving now and for ever Amen POSTSCRIPT from that Excellent Book called The Snake in the Grass OUR Priests says Thorpe the Quaker came not of the Lineage of Levi but of the Lineage of Judah to which Judah no Tithes were promis'd to be given Thus Thorpe as the Quakers have Quoted him But now who told Thorpe or the Quakers that our Priests came of the Lineage of Judah Are they Jews What fulsome stuff is this But our Saviour was of Judah What then He was not a Priest after the Order of Judah of which Tribe Moses spake nothing concerning Priesthood Heb 7.14 But He was a Priest after the Order of Melchisedec Heb. 5.6 And Tithes were paid to Melchisedec long before Levi who paid Tithes to Melchisedec being yet in the Loins of his Father Abraham Heb. 7.10 Now the Evangelical Priesthood is after the Order of Melchisedec And therefore they claim Tithes as being due to that Order of Priesthood So that all their Arguments as to the Law and Levitical Priesthood being superseded operate nothing against Priests of a Superior and more excellent Priesthood And there being as Ancient mention of Tithes as there is of Priesthood in the World I have no manner of doubt but they are as Ancient as Presthood it self that is as Adam From whom descended the Knowledge of Tithes as of Sacrifices and of Priesthood which are all the Relatives the one being the Maintenance the other the Office of the Priesthood and therefore the one must be as ancient as the other And they were all alike receiv'd by the Heathen World by an immemorial Tradition from the Beginning without knowing of their beginning as they knew not their own Origination nor of the World of Marriage and other positive Institutions which by an Universal Tradition had been convey'd down to them God reserved the Tenth part of our Substance as the Seventh of our Time to be paid as a Tribute and acknowledgement to him from whom we receive all And therefore the Payment of Tithes is a part of God's Worship The Priests being made the Receivers because we cannot pay them to God immediately is but a secondary Consideration They were part of the Offerings to God under the Law Numbers 18.24 They are called his Inheritance Deut. 18.1 not as then Instituted but then given to the Levites Nor is Melchisedec's Tithing of Abraham mention'd as the beginning or first rise of Tithes but 't is told occasionally and as a thing well known and receiv'd even in those early Days And being part of the Worship of God Holy unto the Lord Levit. 27.32 33. they were not Alienable or to be chang'd with any thing else The Priests could no more excuse Men from the Payment of their Tithes for they were paid to God than they could commute any of the other Offerings or Sacrifices upon the pretence that they were given to the Priests for their maintenance No Man says That the People did offer Sacrifices to the Priest tho' the Priests did live of their Sacrifices neither are Tithes offer'd to Priests but to God tho' they are paid to the Priests and receiv'd by the Priests from the Hands of the People as other Offerings to the Lord were Therefore the Substraction of the Tithes as of other Offerings is call'd a Robbing not of the Priests but of God Mal. 3.8 'T is invading what God hath reserv'd peculiar to himself that we may not touch it of all the other Trees of the Garden we may freely Eat And this is the same Sacriledge as to tast of the forbidden Fruit. That was the first Sin It was Sacriledge And I am not afraid to say that all are guilty of it who have seiz'd upon the Tithes of God and pay them not to his Priests And that this Sin will not be forgiven without a severe Repentance and Restitution How far extream Ignorance occasion'd by the Torrent of the Times will Excuse I will not now dispute But I 'me sure wilful affected Ignorance occasion'd by Negligence or Covetousness will not And let this be added to all that I have said That several Kings of England who had then the sole Right and Property in all the Lands of England have anew Dedicated by particular Vows as Jacob Gen. 28.22 all the whole Tithes of all the Lands of England to God and Sign'd Charters and Grants of the same and rendred them upon their Knees at the Altar of God in presence and with the approbation of the Lords and Estates of the Land with heavy Curses and Imprecations upon themselves or any of their Successours who should Recal the same or Incroach in any part upon the said Tithes of God and upon all who should receive such Grants from them or assit them in such Sacriledge And the same has been Confirm'd by several Acts of Parliament Now if a Man cannot violate his own Vow how can he annul that of another Especially where his Vow was only for the Payment of what God had before Reserv'd to himself I will not launch out any farther upon this Subject only tell the Quakers That it was the Fryers and School-men who first set up the Notion of Tithes being Elemosynary against their own Canonists only on purpose to leave the People at Liberty to bestow their Tithes upon the Regulars and to maintain the Sacrilegious Impropriations which the Pope had made of the Tithes of the secular Clergy to endow their Monasteries Which King Henry the 8th instead of Restoring did yet the more Sacrilegiously Impropriate to the Laity FINIS