4-78 ThePriellhoodofChrill. (11OsawlING VERSE+. looke in the next place to theProportion oftheir main- tenance. One would thinke thatthe fortieth part of the people could require but the fortiethpart of the main- tenance inproportion. But fira theyhad the Tenth ofall the increase offeed, and fruit , and great and (mall cat- . tell, Levu'. 27 3o. Secondly, they hadfortie eight cities with fuburbs for gardens and for cattell , Numb. 3 5.2. Which cities were next to the bet/ , and in many tribes the bell ofall ; in had , Hebron , in Benjamin, Gibeon, both Roiall Cities, fo that thole Cities with about a mile fuburb to every oneofthem can come to little leffe than the wealth ofone tribe alone,inthat little countrie, which from Dan to Beerfheba was but about a hun- dred and fixtiemiles long. Thirdly, theyhad all thefirfl fruitsofcleane and uncleane beafis , Moab. t8.1 3. Of the fruitsofthe earthand the fleece ofthe fheepe,Dext. 18.4. Nehem.lo.35. ofmen to bee redeemed, mum. 8.15.Fourthly,themateOferings ,the finne offerings, the trefpaffe offerings, the heave offerings, and thewave offerings, were all theirs , Numb.18.9,t 0,11 . Fifthly, they had all votes andvoluntary oblations, and confe- crations , and every hallowed thing , Numb. 18.8,9 Sixthly, excepting the Holocauli they had either the fhoulder, or the breati or the skinne, or fomethingof every Sacrifice which wasoffered,Num6.18.18.Lev.7 Dent.18.3. Seventhly,the males were toappeare three times a yeare before theLord,and they were notto come emptyhanded, Exod.23.15.77 . Lattly, unto them did belong many recompencesofinjurie,which was the refli- tution of the principall , and a filth part , Now put the Tithes, the Cities,and thefeotherconfiant rcvenews together, and the Priefis and Levites , who were but about a quarteras many as one tribe, had yet about three times the revenewsof one tribe. But to leave this Argument. Let us confider what the Apofile faith ; let him that is taught in thewordcommit nicate
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