406 The birth- Priviledge and Covenant- holineffe Ch.44 so What is le. gaily due. fruit thereof 3. In Shepherds ,k who feedeth ai flock, and eateth not of the milke of the flock ? All thefe live of their labours, Mi- nders who undergo equal' labours mutt live of theirs, Thirdly, he argues from the command of the Law, ver. 8, 9. Say I thefe things as a man ? or faith not. the Law the fame alfa ? For it is 'written in the Law of Mofes, thou (halt not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the corne. `both God take care for Oxen? Where two obfervations are cleave. I. The Law is of force to Chriftians; and 2. Minders mutt live on their Mit i(terial paires. Fourthly, he reafons from communicative juftíce,ver, a 1, If we have fawn unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we fh ill reap your carnall things? Whence three things are cleare, i. That the things of earth carry no proportion with the things of heaven. 2. By the Miniftery of the Word the things of heaven are confer - red. 3. When Minders conferre on their people the things of there is all equity that they íhould receive the things of earth. Fifthly, he argues from the proviGon made in the Law, ver. 13. Do ye not know, that they Which mintier about holy things, live of the things of the Temple ? tlnd they which Waite at the Altar, are partakers with the Altar ? If the Law judge it equal! for the Levites, to live on the paines that they take about holy things,then it is equal' that the Minìfters of the Gofpe! live of their paines, but the Law made fuch proviGon for the Levites, not with an hungry, narrow proportion,but in a liberali and honoura- ble way; See Donor Reynolds on Pfal, a to. pag. 478. Sixthly, he argues from Chri(ts inítitutionin a parallel way,.ver.vt4. Even fo bath the Lordordained,that they which preach the Go f el fbould live of the Gof el; whence we fee at large it is the minde of Chrift that this be not detained in cafe the Apoftie (as he (aies, i Car. 2, t4.) hath the minds of Chrift. For that which is legally due either by order oftheState,or a vo- luntary gift of any perfon, to that end it ought not to be alienated; There is equity in the thing (as we have heard at large) when au- thority (hall put upon it their iannion, it is a farther confirmati- on ; for a voluntary gift, in cafe manias may not revoke his own, none may alienate anothers; If it be a mans Te flament,no man dfa- Ilin,rlleth it, .Gal03. z.. The poore mutt enjoy that which by free gift is fatted upon them, fo a Corporation, and fo the Miniftery in like manner. To deftoy publike places (of neceffary and conve- nient
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