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A44790	The glory of the true church, discovered, as it was in its purity in the primitive time also, a manifestation how and when the apostacy came, and how long it hath continued in the Church of Rome, proved to be in it, because she differs in doctrin & practice from the Church of Christ in the Apostles dayes : published for this end, that people may be informed, and their understandings opened to discern of the times and seasons, and see the difference between the lambs wife and the mother of harlots / by one who desires that all may come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved, and walk in the light of the Lord, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1661 (1661)	Wing H3162; ESTC R38990	108,097	179

Mercland and Elsewolf King of Northumberland who made a Decree that the people of those two Kingdomes should pay tythes By this it may be seen chat tythes were not reckoned as due for many hundred years and indeed were never due in the second Covenant So these things that are so pleaded for by these hireling Priests of this last age which hath no better plea then antiquity for their tyths and forced hire may be convinced that antiquity without truth is nothing and yet the antiquity of the Churches in the primitive times condemns these practises so that let all Protestants deny these introduced institutions and the popes wages forced tythes and hire which is Antichristian A cloud of witnesses might be brought out of the antient Fathers who testified against them and diverse Martyrs as Walter Brute and John Wickliff who suffered Martyrs for testifying the truth against the Idolatry and superstitions of that age Selden in his History of Tythes saith that before the year 800 or there abouts there is not any general Law that yet remains in publick and is of credit which ordained any payment of tythes in the Western Church for the Eastern never any Law that hath been observed mentions them So in the first giving of tenths was by the perswasion of some of the Fathers formentioned for the poor and service of the Church and they were only the free offering or free gift of the people as almes which were brought into the Common Treasury first disposed of by Deacons for the service of the Church But they being found faulty it were ordered decreed in a Council that the Bishop or overseer should dispose of them to wit the offerings but they were not compellable who did not offer this or that part but were left free to do as they had freedom only exhorted and threatened with the judgments of God if they suffered the poor to lack or be in want The predecessors of the Protestants the Bohemians being descended from the Waldenses forementioned did professe that all Priests or Ministers ought to be poor and to be content with the free gift or what the people freely offered them So saith AEneas Silvius in his Bohemian History and it is one of John Wicklifs Articles for which he was censured viz. that tythes were a free gift as among Christians or only pure alms and that the Parishoners may for the ●ffence of their Curates detain and keep them back and bestow ●hem upon others at their own will and pleasure And this proposition aforesaid is maintained by John Husse in the said Book of Martyrs pag. 461. That the Clergy are not Lords and possessors of Tyths or other Ecclesiastical goods but only Stewards and after the necessity of the Clergy is once satisfied they ought to be transported to the poor At Geneva Tiths of all sorts are taken up for the use of the state and laid up in the publike Treasury Ambrose Bishop of Millain as zealous a man for Church Priviledges as we hardly read of the like Ambrose Epist. 3. s●ith If the Emperour have a mind to Church Lands he hath power to take them There is none of us interposeth the poor may sufficiently be maintained by popular Collections let them not create us envy by taking of those Lands let them take them away if they please It may be observed at this time that the Ministers were not maintained by setled Tythes like the Priests of our time but both they and the poor were relieved by Oblations of the people and by such Lands as were given by the Emperours to the severall Churches So it was upon this account that Ambr●se thus speaks And William Throp of whom I made mention being examined in the year 1407 being brought before Thomas Aurandel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Chanceller then of England gives a clear Testimony against tythes how that they were no Gospel maintenance In his Answer he saith in the new Law neither Christ nor his Apostles took tythes of the people nor Commanded the people to pay tythes neither to Priests nor Deacons and Christ and his Apostles Preached the Word of God to the people and lived of pure almes of the free gift But after Christs Assention when the Apostles had received the Holy Ghost they travelled with their hands and afterwards he saith Paul when he was full poor and needy Preached among the people He was not chargious unto them but with his hands he travelled not only to get his own Living but also to relieve others that were poor and needy And further he saith Tythes were given in the old Law to Levites and Priests but our Priests come not of L●vi but since Christ lived and his Apostles by pure alms or else by the travell of their hands At the which the Bishop said Gods curse have you and mine for this Teaching and further William saith those Priests that challinge to take Tythes dinies Christ come in the flesh unto which the Bishop said heard ye ever Lossel speak thus And further William saith that the covetousness and pride of the Priests destroys the vertue of the Priesthood and also stireth up Gods vengeance both upon Lords and Commons who suffer these Priests Charitably And the Arch-Bishop said Thou judgest every Priest proud that will not go a●ayed as thou dost By God I deem him to be more meek that goeth every day in his Scarlet Gown then thou in thy threed bare blew Gown An answer much like a Tything Priest but I refer the Reader to the whole Testimony of William Throp which is large in the Book of Martyrs David Pareus in his Comentary upon Gen. 28 2. 22. saith Tythes or tenths were freely arbitrary a man might give them a man might vow them or he might not as he pleased before the Law But under the Law they were commanded to be given to the Priests and Levites hence saith he our Clergy men infer if they were so of Old then they are so now But this doth not follow saith he they had a Divine Ceremonial right but that is now ceased they had Tythes as a Compensation of that lot they should otherwise have in Land ours not so ours have Towns Villages Mannors yea Countries and Provinces nor is there any end of their insatiable Covetousness and he concludes when the Leviticall Priesthood did cease then did the right of that Priesthood cease and the right of Tythes did revert to God as Governour and Soverain of the World Great and Large are the testimonies that might be given both out of ancient and modern Writers who were the clearest in their judgements in their age against Tythes how that they were no Gospel maintenance neither of Divine right do belong to any Ministry under the Gospel who professeth Christ come in the flesh What I have said in this particular might be sufficient seeing so large things by other pens have been declared But I am the more willing to instance divers Authors

began to enter in and Judaism among the Christians brought in by their leaders and from the opinions of these and other antient Fathers who took their ground from the Law Tythes Easter Penticost and other things came to be introduced and brought into the Church Yet notwithstanding the doctrine and hard threats of some of the great Bishops of that time It was not a General received doctrine that tythes ought to be paid till about the year 800. Neither was any thing by the then Church determined or ordained touching the quantity that should be given though no doubt in many places the offerings of the devouter sort tenths or a greater part of their increase were given according to Ambrose doctrine and others And then at this time the offerings or gifts to the Church were disposed of in this wise being received into a common treasury one fourth part to the Priests out of which every one had his portion another fourth part to the relief of the poor and sick and strangers A third to the building and repairing places of publick meeting And the fourth to the Bishop and generally the Bishop lived in some Monastry his Clergy with him from whence he sent them to preach in the Countries and Diocess and there they received such offrings as were made and brought them to the Treasury So that by the way the Reader may take notice that the Priest had no such a peculiar interest in that which was given But now they claim all their meeting places since called Churches was builded out of the gifts of people and the poor was relieved and the widow But now Tythes taken by force three or four sold and people compelled to build repair their houses or Temples by force and the poor the widdow hath no share nay hath not many poor been cast into prison and widows goods spoiled by the Priests of this generation how unsuitable these practices are unto the Apostle let all judge nay they are proud of the antient Fathers and their words but they will not so such as come near them in example in any thing that 's good So for shame you Protestans leave forcing of maintenances and forcing of your wages and forcing to repair your Houses of worship and do not tell us of Church Church and Antiquity when you are far enough off their practice though they were in a declining state in this age I have been speaking of And although divers of the Fathers and Bishops and Popes in this age did declare that Tythes were due and ought to be paid their ground only taken from Moses yet none of the first eight generall Councils did ever so much as ever mention the name of Tythes or declare them a duty The ninth general Council held at Latteren under Pope Calixtus the second 1119 mentions tythes but speaks only of such as had been given to the Church by special consecration for at that time people being led to believe that their Tythes ought to be given to the poor did dispose of them to the heads rulers of religious houses who keeps open hospitality for the poor and for strangers they were esteemed holy and good Treasures for the poor who took care of distribution of them as is testified by Cassian But the Councel held under Pope Alexander the third Anno 1180. Seeing much given to the poor little to the Priests made a Decree to restrain peoples freedom and indeed by this time much wickedness was crept into these houses as Histories relates There was no Law Cannon or Constitution of any General Council as yet sound that did command tythes or expresly supposed them a duty of common right before the Council of Lateren held in the year 1215 under Pope Innocent the third about which time the Popes power was grown great powerful But still the people had greater mind to give them to the poor then to the Priest and made Innocent complain cried out against those that gave their tythes and first fruits to the poor and not to the Priests as hainous offenders At a Council held at Lions under pope Gregory the 10 in the year 1274 it was constituted that it should not thenceforth be lawful for men to give their Tythes at their own pleasure as they had done before but to pay all to the Mother Church But the great Decree which speaks most plain and till then nothing was given forth which did constitute them but rather supposed them as by former right was made at the Council of Trent under Pope Pius the 4th about the year 1560. They commanded tythes to be paid under the penalties of excommunication about the year 800 900 1000 and after tythes were called the Lords goods the patrimony of the poor according to Ambrose Jerome Chrysostoms Doctrine only borrowed from the Jews So thus in short I have shown that Tythes were never reckoned as due to the Clergy for a thousand years but they did give them as they would how much they would that without compulsion till the hight of popery and the power of darkness spread over all And since forcing Constitutions have been made by Councils of Priests And so you who looks upon your selves to be Ministers of Christ and to follow the Doctrine of the Primitive times for shame cease from those things of taking Tythes and giving tythes which was ordained and Constituted in the mid-night of Popery when the power of God was lost which should have opened peoples hearts both to the poor and to the Ministry and then this false Church began to force and compel or else they could not have subsisted for the Doctrine had little influence upon peoples hearts About the year 600 or soon after Gregory the first then the pope of Rome sent over Augustin the Monk into England by whom Ethelbert King of Kent was converted as they call it but it was but to popery he and his Clergy long time after followed the example of former ages living in Common upon the Offerings of their convers those that received them joyned into societies according unto the primitive practice by Gregories order and that they should in tenderness to the Saxon Church that they should still imitate the primitive times that they might not make their Religion burthensome But afterwards having brought a great part of the Nation to their faith they began to preach up the old Romane Doctrine that Tythes ought to be paid and having taught people that pardon of sin was merited by good works and the torments of Hell be avoided by charity then it was no hard matter to perswade them to give their tenths and Lands but also their outward Riches and the Clergy had almost got a third part of the Land into their hand As concerning Laws and Canons for tythes among the Saxons in England it is reported that in the year 786 two Legates were sent from Pope Hadrian the first to Off a King of

in that which is spiritual in thy self through which the things of God are made manifest for with that I have unity and in that as thou livest and walkest I bid thee farewell F. H. The Principal Heads treated upon in this following Discourse 1. THe State of the Church from the manifestation of Christ in the flesh to the end of the Apostles briefly discovered 2. The entring in of the Apostacy and the declination from that purity and Doctrine Worship and practise downward unto this present age and time 3. The Reformed and separated Congregations called Parochial proved in the Apostacy compared with the Primitive times in Worship and Practise 4. A few words unto all how they may come out of the Apostacy to the true Church which is in God the Lambs wife 5. Concerning Baptizing or sprinkling Infants 6. Concerning the sign of the Crosse and ordaining of Parishes and Parochial Churches 7. Concerning swearing by the Gospel as it is called and kissing the Book and Bishopping of Children the first Authors shewn 8. Concerning Fasts and Feasts and Holy dayes their Institutions and founders in the Apostacy 9. Concerning Priests Vestures and Garments and Bells their Authors shewn which are practised amongst Christians as Apostolick Institutions 10. Concerning the Mattens and singing of Psalms by course in Musical tunes and supplications and short Prayers called Lettanies their Authors shewn 11. Conrerning the Passeover and the Lords Supper and the Ceremonies about it 12. Concerning Ministers and their Office under the Law and under the Gospel 13. Concerning the ten Persecutions under the Heathen Emperours and how diverse vain Traditions and Institutions got up among the Christians in those times and Constitution amongst the East and Western Churches after the Apostacy was entered in the first 300. and 400. years after Christ. 14. Of the decrees of the Church of Rome and Ordinances which are held as Apostolick Institutions 15. Concerning the general Councils since the Apostles dayes which belonged to the Church of Rome their Decrees not infallible but are contradicting one another 16. Concerning the worship of God and whether Kings and Rulers ought to compel in Spiritual things declared and some Scriptures cleared and divers objections answered about this thing 17. Concerning Oaths in the first Covenant and the Lawfulness thereof and the unlawfulness thereof discovered in the new Covenant in the Gospel times though the Apostates mingle the Ordinances of both together 18. Tythes in their first Institution unto whom they were due according to the Command of God declared And that Tythes are no way lawful to be received neither sought for by any who are Ministers of the new Covenant and the everlasting Gospel proved out of the Scripture and Antiquity 19. Respecting of Persons and Complemental bowings and worshipping one another and flattering Titles no good manners but are in the transgression and hath been antiently reproved and condemned 20. Universities and Schools of Natural Learning are of no use as to the making of Ministers of Christ in the Primitive times but a thing introduced and brought in in latter ages by the Apostates who had erred from the Spirit who then admired and set up natural Languages and Philosophy that thereby they might be furnished to make discourses speeches and Sermons to get money by and as they are holden up at this day are made an absolute Idol and as to their Practise it s generally known to be prophane and no way meet to advance the Church of Christ. CHAP. I. The State of the true Church from the manifestation of Christ in the flesh to the end of the Apostles dayes briefly discovered GOd according to his determinate will and everlasting Counsel in the fulness of time sent his onely begotten Son into the World to be the Light of the World and to be a Leader to the People and to be a Propitiation for the sins of the whole World Who obeyed the will of the Father in all things according as it was testified of him by Moses and the Prophets and as it was said by David concerning him in the volumn of thy Book it is written concerning me I come to do thy will O God Psal. 40. 7. And so he did as it was written of him he fulfilled all righteousness and ended all the Types and Figures and Shadows and Worship of the first Covenant as the Apostle testifieth of him Heb. 7. 12. The Law was changed and the Priest-hood changed in that they were but Figures and Shadows of Good things to come and in regard that they were faulty and did not make the comers thereunto perfect as pertaining to the conscience but the bringing in of a better hope did and the better Covenant to wit the Covenant of life and peace which the Prophets by the Spirit had testified of from Moses to Samuel and till John and John likewise bore Testimony of him who was the Lamb o God that took away the sins of the world Joh. 1. 29. 36. And now he being come ●o whom the Prophers testified who was not made by a carnal Commandment as was Aaron and the rest of the Priests under the Law but after the power of an endless life offered up himself once for all putting an end to all the offerings of the first Covenant for the perfecting them that are Sanctified Heb. 10. 14. Now he being come into the fulness of time manifest according to the Testimony of the Prophets he fulfilled all things which the Prophets Testified of him and his works did Testifie of him that he was the Son of God Now he declared the will of the Father and discoursed with them who were Doctors and Ministers of the first Covenant declaring unto them divers times and shewing unto them in divers places that the Kingdom of God was at hand and to be manifest in power and testified of himself and the Father also with him and his works declared the same that he was the everlasting high Priest which put an end to all the first Priest-hood Covenant and Ordinances thereof and he preached the word of the Kingdom and declared against them who sticked behind in the figures and types and shadows and did reprove them to wit the professors of the first Covenant who were searchers of the Scriptures and said you will not come unto me that you may have life I am the bread of Life that came down from above and came to fulfill the Law and all righteousness and to publish the word of Faith which did not make void the Law but establish it which was new And so he said while you have the ●ight believe in the Light that you may be children of the Light And this he spoke to the Pharisees which had the Law and the Prophets and were acting in the Types and Figures which were shadows of the thing it self but not the very thing but he preached the very thing The word of the Kingdom the word of power and the word of life and many

gained to it when as they commanded the Parishes to buy it and then sells it them again that the Priest must have an offering at Easter also a token of a piece of lead a token that they are at unity with the Priest or else they may not have their bread and wine again for which they paid before and this hath been called a great mystery CHAP. XII Concerning Ministers and their Office under the Law and the Gospel BEfore the Law was given forth there were divers did offer sacrifice and buidled Altars unto the Lord as Seth Abel Melchizedeck Abraham Isaac and Jacob who pere guiders and directers of People in the way of righteousness who instructed their Families in the fear of the Lord But after the Law was given forth Aaron and his Sons and they were to offer sacrifice according to the command of the Lord and to perform the worship that God had appointed For that time and age at the Tabernacle and Temple there was Levites who bore the Ark and looked to the vessels and pitched the Camp and div●● other services as singers and readers of the Law and Prophets on their Sabbath dayes and Porters and the like and all these petrained to the first Covenant and Priesthood which was to have an end both the Priesthood and the Law and the service thereof for it was but to continue till the substance came Now Christ being come the end of the Law for righteousness unto all that beleive made after the order of Melchizedeck and not by a carnal commandment he offered up himself once for all and became the Author of eternal Salvation unto them that believe put an end to the first Worship and Priest-hood Before he was offered up he chose Disciples unto him Twelve and also Seventy and endued them with Power and many did Believe through their words and they were not Men of great parts but as they were sitted by the Holy Ghost that gave them utterance and they were sent out not to Preach the Law but the Word of the Kingdom and many did Believe and grew and were confirmed in the Faith and after Christs Ascention the Holy Ghost was Poured forth upon them in a more ample manner and it did bring to their remembrance as Christ had foretold and they received great Gifts for the work of the Ministry some were Prophets some Apostles some Evangelists some Pastors some Teachers and all made Ministers by the Spirit for the work whereunto they were chosen and many were converted and did believe then they that had the Word of God to publish travelled as they were led and Moved by the Spirit to publish the glad tydings of the Gospel and when the Believers were many and many young in the Faith they ordained Overseers or Bishops or Elders who were sound in the Faith to watch over them that were begotten but mark they were approved men and Faithful and of blameless lives not given to covetousness neither did tirannize over them in rigour but were apt to teach and instruct in love and gentelness and they that had been Ancient Laborers in Gods Work did so who had received a Gift to Minister unto others and as to be helpers in the Work of the Gospel and all that were ordained were ordained by the Holy Ghost although its true they had the consent of the Brethren and the Church in that thing and there were also Deacons ordained which served to look to the Widows and for the Ministration of the Poor and these were faithful men and had also a gift Stephen was one full of the Holy Ghost and these were helps unto the Apostles also the●e were some Faithful Widows who were examples to younger men and to instruct them and to be patterns unto them and all was as a body knit together in love and served the Lord and strengthened one another in the faith and served one another in love and all these forementioned served the Lord freely and willingly and not for rewards and gifts and benefices and earthly things this was the state and glory of the Church in that time in short and these are the Ministers we read of in the Primitive times But since the Apostacy hath entered in and the Power hath been denied of Godliness there is such a numberless number of names crept in we never heard of then and so many offices and yet none of that work done which the Ministers of Christ did but certain new invented things brought in for worship and service and the power despised and men seeking offices and great titles and great benefits and great revenues and the heritage of God is laid waste and the earth become like a wildernesse unplanted with good and the sheep is scattered And so all may compare these ensuing names and off●es with the Apostles dayes and the primitive Church and see if they be alike First of all The Pope his holiness Christs Vicar universal Bishop Metropolitan Bishop Lord Cardinals which were but Priests at the first ordained to baptize the Heathen who came to Rome when the seat thereof began to be had in honour but now they are swelled big and become Princes and the only men to govern States also Monks of divers orders and Friars of divers orders Hieroms order of Austins order Gregorys order Carmalite Friars Cross or Crouchet Fryors of Dominicks order of S. Frances order Benets order and all of these orders sprung up and were ordained in the midnight of darkness within this four hundred years at the most as were easily proved and Trinity order and Brigandine order of Jesuites and Hermites and Anthonies order and Clunisencies order And Nuns sprung up First of one St. Clara one order then Brigidia a widow in the time of Urban the fifth in the year 1370. and all these kind of orders were distitute of the true order of the primitive Church and their service was appointed by them that ordained them and these practised the patched inventious that were given them for worship which hath not concord with the primitive Doctrine but borrowed from the Iews or Heathen And all these kind of Offices and Officers have been acting their parts this many years and led people into superstitious blindness and further from the Lord then ever But to come to the reformed Churches so called and there is so many Officers and names but few that do accord with the Apostles times either in name or nature As Metropolitan Bishops Arch-bishops Lord-bishops we heard not of Lord Timothy or Lord Titus Bishops before mentioned but to come on to other Orders Arch-deacons Deans and Chapters Prebends and these must attend on some old superstitious Buildings called Cathedrals or Ministers and there performs a service somewhat like the former these are injoyned their service like the Levites and Priests of old by turns and course as once in a month or two it may be and have a hundred or two hundred pounds in the year for the same and

and Princes may take warning by this King Richard not to fulfil the cruel and bloody desires of their Prelates And Chrysostome who was Bishop of Constantinople in commendation of whom much is said in the Ecclesiasticall histories he blameth them greatly that bringeth forth a book to swear upon charging Clerks that in no wise they constrain any body to swear whether they think a man swear true or false saying that it is a sin to swear well now I mentioned before it was an Emperor that commanded first that men should swear by it book this Chrysostom reproves so hereby it may be seen by these examples it is no new doctrine to deny all swearing and there hath been a people very many years in the Low Countries that have denied swearing in any matter therefore their yea and nay stand in Courts of judicature equal with an oath they being men generally of known integrity whose yea is yea and nay nay in all places and matters If they that despise Moses Law died without mercy of how much more sorer punishment suppose ye shal they be thought worthy of who treads underfoot the Son of God c. and disobey his commands teach others so to do they shall be shut out of the Kingdom of God have no part with the obedient who keeps Christs commands through temptations and sufferings and are not offended at them neither counts them grievous they only are happy and shal inherit everlasting life Likewise Jerome who was an antient Father and Teacher in the Church which all the Protestants owneth upon that place the 5 of Mat. and 37. ver 5 James 12 These are his words It was permitted under the law to the Jews as being tender and as it were infants that as they were to offer Sacrifices to God least they should Sacrifice to Idols so they might swear by God not that it was rightful so to do but because it was better to swear by the Lord then by false Gods devils but the great Evangelical sincerity and truth admits not of an oath since every true saying is equivolent thereunto In like manner doth Theophilact an antient Father of the Church whō the Protestants owns have often cited his doctrine for proof upon the place in controversy saith Learn hence that then under the law it was not evil for one to swear but since the coming of Christ it is evil as is circumcision in sum whatever is judaical for it may become a child to suck but not a man So that oaths pertained to the Jews who were under the changable Covenant the mutable Covenant which continued but for a time till the Seed Christ the oath of God was revealed and where he is revealed and witnessed all the Judaical Types and Figures and changeable Ordinances hath an end Likewise Ambrose upon the 118. Psalm he saith None doth swear a right but he that knows what he swears and the Lord hath sworn and will not repent upon Psalm 110 Ambrose saith let him then swear who cannot repent of his oath and a little after the said Ambrose saith do not imitate him in swearing whom we cannot imitate in fulfilling And indeed the principal solution given by him is swear not at all and the aforesaid Waldenses who condemned all maner of swearing as unlawful they made it their care to avoid swearing and lying and hereby they did give sufficient caution against all inconveniences which may come thereby as to government in general for where a testification or assertion is made without an oath is as sure as if it had been sworn to And Bishop Usher doth esteem that place of Matthew the fifth swear not at all to be a sufficient plea for the Waldenses against swearing And therefore they who have any esteem of the aforesaid Authors and of their doctrine must not condemn the Quakers as for novelties or for broachers of new Doctrine For Reynerius one of the popish inquisitions saith amongst all the sects which are or have been there is not any more pernitious to the Church meaning the Church of Rome then the Waldenses and that for three reasons 1. Because of their antiquity secondly because of their universality thirdly in that they did profess it no way lawful for a Christian to swear on any occasion which doctrine was contrary to the Church of Rome which made Rinerius Jansenius two papists so much envied the Walden ses in this thing about keeping the commands of Christ And yet notwithstanding all this cloud of witnesses both in primitive times after ages diverse who suffered as Martyrs did hold the same also the many testimonies of them who have died in the faith yet many are so wilful and so peevish and so envious against every thing which they cannot joyn unto as that they will brand this Doctrine for Novelty and Heresie Let such consider how they will condemn this doctrine and yet justifie Christs words and them which have been reckoned as Fathers and Marryrs and as Orthodox found in the faith by all except the Church of Rome who too much imitates the Jews yet are no Jews and they have been the chief criers up of oaths and swearing afterwards gives dispensations to them that breaks them and therefore all who reckons your selves as Christians keep to the doctrine of Christ and the doctrine of the Apostles who were followers of him and run not back to the Jews ordinances w●h continued but til the time of reformation and you that reckons your selves a● Protestants for shame leave off that Doctrine which hath been brought in by the Apostates who hath mingled things together without having respect either to time or age or people And so have run back to the Jews and brings those commands injunctions wch pertained to the Jews layes them as yokes upon the necks of Christians remember what the Apostle said to the Galathians concerning the works of the Law concerning Types and figures Gal. 1 2. If ye be circumeised Christ profits you nothing and an oath was a type as well as circumcision to the Jews and what if I say of all swearers who hath no better ground for so doing then the Jewish oaths which were types and testifie unto every one that he that takes an oath swears at all is bound to keep the whole Law Christ profits him nothing And so ler all people who fear the Lord and doth believe that they have received Christ in their hearts the end of the Law for Righteousness not turn back to the changeable Covenant again least he who is the everlasting Covenant say unto them who hath required these things at your hand and also raise up his swift witness to condemn them who transgresses his pure and holy and righteous commands and would compel others so to do CHAP. XVIII Tythes in their first institution unto whom they were due according to the Command of God declared and