The PriefihoodofChrift. pramarropanwarm.o. cepts andcommandsof the Gofpell. God is not lea minclefull of Miniflers under the Gofpell, than ofthofe isonmder the Law. Now then ,if you will not beleeve that a liberall maintenance is now by God allottedunto us, looke what he did allot to them; firff, looke upon theproportionoftheir perform, and then upon the proper- tiolt of theirmaintenance: for their perfons it would not be hard to prove that the Tribe of Levi, though the thirteenth part of the people in regard of their civill di- vifion, were not yet the fortieth part of the people. Looke into the numbring of them, and compare Nem. 1.46. with Ntirob.3, 3 9. The other Tribes were num- bred from twentie yeeres old and upward,all that were able to beare armes,whichwas to theage offifty yeeres, as lorepbxe reports ; for at that age they were fuppofed tobeutilityiceable for warre; and yet thus their num- ber amounted to cute hundred and three thoufand five hundred and fiftie men able to goe to warre. The Le- ' vites on theother fide werenumbrecl from One moneth oldand upward, and yet the whole film= amounted but to twentie two thoufand. Now conjeolure the number of thofe in the other Tribes who were under twentie yeeresofage,andwho were too old for warlike fervice to be but halfe as many as the reft, yet the whole number ofthe Tribes reckoned from their infancie up- ward will amount at the lealI to nine hundred two thoufand men. Ofwhich number,the numberof theLe vites is Pia theone and fortieth part. After we finde that they increafed to a rnighde number more,' Chron.33.3. but the whole people increafed accordingly, for the tribe of Judah which was before but feventie foure thoufand,was then fivehundred thoufand, and in hhe- fhapheti time eleven hundred thoufand at leafi, 2 Sam. 2+ 2 Chron.7 well then, the Levites werebut the for- tiethpart ofthe people (not fomuch) fo that that Tribe was but airnofi aquarteras numerous as therefl. Now 1 looke 477 VE R S E 4. Vid. Seldens Tevitw of bis. Hillory,Cap .24
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