A discourse concerning the maintenance due to those that preach the Gospel

2. Our famous New-England Hooker, observes that Gal. 6.6. is a clear Scripture against the way of Maintenance by Tithes. There is an Acumen in his reasonings. His ^(x)words are these. I conclude, 1. That this way of raising Maintenance appointed in the Gospel, is far differing from that way of Tithing in the Law; nay, to be tied Precisely to follow the one cannot stand with the other: for this is raised out of all good things, the Person that is taught has: but the Tithes in the old Testament, were out of the Seed of the Land, the Fruit of the Trees, or of the Herd of the Flock, Lev. 27.30, 31, 32. Deut. 14.22, 23. 2. This Maintenance is to be paid by all that are taught. But the Levites were to receive the first Tenth, & to Pay the Tenth of the Tenth to the Priest, Neh. 10.38. So that if the Patrons of Tithing look at the command ⟨p. 52⟩given to the Jew as a Moral Law, they must conform themselves precisely to the Prescript Form thereof. Ergo the Ministers must have a Tenth of a Tenth, and from them happily who were never taught by them. As the Levites who taught in the particular Synagogues, paid to the Priests who administered at Jerusalem. And hence it follows that the way of Tithing in the Old Testament was not a Natural or Moral Law. For no Law appointed in the Gospel is inconsistent with any Natural or Moral Law of God, which this is. Thus Mr. Hooker.

2. Our famous New-England Hooker, observes that Gal. 6.6. is a clear Scripture against the way of Maintenance by Tithes. There is an Acumen in his reasonings. His ^(x)words are these. I conclude, 1. That this way of raising Maintenance appointed in the Gospel, is far differing from that way of Tithing in the Law; nay, to be tyed Precisely to follow the one cannot stand with the other: for this is raised out of all good things, the Person that is taught has: but the Tithes in the old Testament, were out of the Seed of the Land, the Fruit of the Trees, or of the Herd of the Flock,