47 VERSE+ The Triefthoocd ofChrift. AIMIII.P....10110111, [ 011.1.1 lesaworawasorm....... twors"*.w.at ding,unalterable, and eternall, and therefore the rights 1 thereunto bet longing are fuch too. Ifitobjeaed, why then did not Chrift in his lirete. ceive tithes ? I atifwer,firti, becaufe though hee were the fubflance, yet the (landing typical! priefihoodwas not abolithed till after his minitiery on earth was finned, for hispriefihood was not .c),nfummate till his fitting at theright handofGod: fecondly,becaufe he tooke upon him a voluntary poverty for efpeciall reafons belonging to the flue ofhis humiliation ' and to the difpenfation or mans Redemption, z Corinth. 8.9.. You will fay, now Chrifis pr:eithood is confummate, and beehimfelfe is in heaven, whither no tithes can bee fent ; therefore none, are due,becaufe he bath no typical! priefis in earth to re- prefent him. I anf.ver, though hee bee in heaven in his body,yethe is on earth in his ininifiery, and in thedif- penfation of the vertue ofhis facrifice ; and the Mini- acts of the Gorpell are in his Read, 2 coy. 5. ao. and ought to bee received as Chrift hmerelfe, Gel. 4. 14. fo then men arcnot by this exceed from rendering Gods dues unto him; firti, becaufe there is in refpe6t ofhim, whole facrifice we commemorate and thew forth to the people, duea reflificatienefhomage unto him; fecond- ly,becaufe in refpea ofus there is due aRewardofour la- bour, for the labourer is worthyof hishire : to lay all together in one view, in as much as all the types of Chria, as a Priea, have received tithesas due, and in as much as that right was not grounded upon any thing inor from themfelves, but upon their typic4I1dice, and fo did originally pertaine to the Principal!Priefl, whom they typified; and in as much as his perfon and office is etern411,and therefore fuch are all the annex4 and dues thereof; and in as much as hehath no where'difpenced with, or denied, or refilled, or revoked this right which from him as the principal) all his rypesever enjoyed. and latily,in as much as hee hath left to the Minifier of IS
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