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.
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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.
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Sempill, James, Sir, 1566-1625.
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London :: Printed by William Iones, for Edmund Weauer, and are to be sold at his shop at the great north-doore of Saint Pauls,
1619.
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Scaliger, Joseph Juste, -- 1540-1609, -- De decimis diatriba -- Early works to 1800.
Selden, John, -- 1584-1654. -- Historie of tithes -- Early works to 1800.
Tithes -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11886.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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§. II. Against the second Syllogisme.
HE that taketh Tithes and liueth, is a perpetuall Priest. Melchisedec taketh Tithes and liueth. Ergo, &c.]
Obiect. The Argument seemeth not so, but thus: Hee that li∣ueth is greater then hee that dyeth. Thus in effect, Both Priests, Melchisedec and Aaron, but who greatest? He that liueth, He that tooke, He that blessed. Both Priests, is taken pro confesso, or pro∣ued by Dauids testimony; not by taking of Tithes.
Answ. Seeing our point heere is of onely Time, and that you yeeld, He that liueth is the greater Priest then hee that is dead, giuing the prerogatiue to the time present: Why place you the prerogatiue of Tithing and Blessing vpon the preterit time a∣gaine? For in bonis, praesentiae quaeque semper optima: So God cal∣leth himselfe, I am, still; though he both was, and shall be. E∣uen so, though it be true, that Melchisedec decimauit, Tithed, Blessed in the preterit, yet that momentary praeterite in that one
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onely Tithing, can haue no prerogatiue, ouer Aarons Present, and two thousand yeeres standing: and how shall he be a grea∣ter Priest that Tooke, then he that Taketh? seeing you make him that Liueth greater then he that Dyeth? these cannot both hold. Neither can you imagine how to make him a Priest for euer, by this text, vnlesse he performe for euer, such points as are in this text recorded proper to his Priest-hood: and these are onely Blessing and Tithing. To diuide these, I thinke verily it goeth against all the course of these texts. But I still submit my selfe, and more of this afterwards. And albeit Dauids Prophecie pro∣ued him a Priest yet Paul heere proueth euen the performance of that Prophecie, from two proprieties of all Priest-hood, Blessing and Tithing; competent to no Calling, but Priesthood, and so, Reciproke with all Priest-hood, else, how should wee more haue applied that Prophecie, then Moyses Historie, Gen. 14. if Paul had been silent?
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