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Author: Charles Leslie (M.A.)
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Author: Charles Leslie (M.A.)
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Author: Charles Leslie
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1700 edition. Excerpt: ... SECT. VI. 1 A Tenth Kequird before the Law j shewn in Abram, and Jacob. BUT now it Remains to be known whether this was a Particular Institution only to the Jews, under the Law.? Or whether it had a more Anr cient Rife? And how Ancient? That it was before the Law, it is Gen. xiv. Evident from the Example of Abram, 20' who Paid Tythes to Melchtfedec 5 ch. xxviij. and of Jacob, who Vow'd his Tythes 22-to God. I. But ther are Objections against these two Instances: i. As to MelchiAbram. sedec It is faid, That the Tenth Part which Abram gave to Melchissedec, was not any thing that was Due to Melchtfedec, nor given to him under the Notion of Tythe, nor to him as he was a PrieSl, but that it was only a Voluntary Boon, or Gratuity, which Abram gave to him; and that it might have been an Eighth, a Ninth, a Twelfth, a Fifteenth, or any other Part Abram had Pleas'd. An ftp. Anfa. All this Pretence is overthrown by what is faid in the vij Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where, Ver. 4. the Apostle argues the Greatness of Melchisedec above Abram, from Abram's Paying of Tythes to him. Now Consider Q faith the Text) how Great this Man was, unto wham even the Patriarch Abram gave the Tenth of the Spoils. But if it had been only a Gratuity or Free Gift from Abram, it woud have argu'd the Greatness of Abram above Melchisedec; for the Giver is Greater than the Receiver. But when any thing is paid as a Tribute, or a Rent Due, it argues the Greatness of the Receiver above that of the Payer, And therefore, unless Abram paid his Tythe to Melchlsedec as a Tribute Due to him, the Apojlle's Argument is so far from being Conclusive, that it operates quite Contrary to that Inference which the Apostle made from it, and Proves the Greatness of Abram above...
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Category : Tithes
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Author: Charles Leslie
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Category : Tithes
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Pages : 264
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Author: Charles Leslie
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Pages : 292
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Author: Sidney Webb
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Pages : 474
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Author: Charles Leslie
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Category : Christian stewardship
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Pages : 640
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