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Show Of'titheJ, CHAP. II I. Of'tithet. WE .are here to enqui~e : Firft , what thingt . tn general were tttheabl~ ·: secondly h?w many l{jnd ofTitheJ there were: 1 htrdly, the. ft11Je when each fort of titheJ began to be tithe able. Firft, their yearly encreafe was either Cattel,.fruitJ aVid. si.~tin. of the treeJ, or fruitJ oft~e land.; of (a) all ! hefe they A.m~m.c de de~ · payed tithe1, even to mint, ao1fe, and cumtne> Theft ctmfl. thing1 thet ought not to lea·ve rt11done ~L1t. 23.2 3" • Secondly )thefortJ of tithes payed out of the fruus, ·both of the trees and the land, by the Husbandman, were two, payd in this manner: When the Har:vefi: had been ended, and all gathered, then the Hufc . bandm~n laid a fide his gfl'eal Thernm.<t , otherwife called the jitjl-fruitr of hk tbrefhing floor, of which it hath been fpoken in the chapter oft he fir:Ji fruits. This being done, then out of the_ remainder he paid a tenth p4rt unto the Levitcs,and thts they terme_d(b) Mag11a· Jher rifchon, thefirfl tit~e, 'l'ob. 1. 7• Thts ~as alwars . paid in kind, and as 1t feemeth to me) It was not ·c Decfm~ pri. brough~ up to ]eru[aleiiJ by the husbandman, ( c ~ o· .,,neuffilrio thers thtnk otherwife) but payed unto the Levrtes ~~"'' 7Hofono ip• in the {everal Cities ot tillage, Neh. IC.37· out of this foaut tJWI vt• h . 'd h '· th cario Hi11ofo. fir fl tithe t e I, evztes pat a tenf por~ton unto c ·lJma1depor- Priefi1; this they termed (d) Magnajher min hammag' 81!"~' eAr ant.. ...a,n'er the tithe o~-'the Tithes, Noh. I 0.38. and Decima r:ttrn. mama ,6o 'J'J ' 'J · . . dt decimit. fancl'itat11m-,the tithe of holy things 'I 2 chron.3 1.6. thts 4JlO 1wyo the Levites brought up to the houfe of God, Neh.Io· '1Wl'On 3 8. When the LeviteJ had pa~d this tent_h por~i?n .unto the trie(/J, tnen the Levttes and theu Farn~hes • m1ght · Ll B. ot their Tithe1 •. 'J 2 2 s ruight eat the remattldtr of the fit a tithe in nay ' place, even out of Jeruj{l/om, NNm.I8.jz. This fit1l tithe being p~id, the H·u~bandman :-Pai·d out of that which remained afecond ti~he; tbi!the ~usbandrnan migh~ pay iu kind if he pleaf(d , or 1fhe would~ be ~1ght hy \vay of coa,matation pay the worth thereof In money ; bt1t when he payed in money, he adCied a fifrh part; fo that what in kind wa~ ten in tht hundered,that changed into money was tJ'f'el vein the hundr-ed. This the Husbandman bro~1ght up un~o ]er11jalelll, and made a kind of Love·.feaft therewith, unro which he invited the ·Priefl.r and I.e· viles, only eV&ry t·hird 1ear he carried it not ro ]trH· · falt11J) ~~~~ Jfrtnl it at ho»Jef»ilhin hh cwn g~rte1, upon the levtle 1 )the fa I her le-{i :.the wid~s ~~the poor 'JDeut. t 4· J 8.. (a) They reckoned theJr thud year from the 1 Noft1 K~tft~a. , Sabbaticttljtttr, on which the Land refied: {o that trall tiedtti .. ' ·· the firft and Eecond Tithe was payed by the Hnsbaod. j1ftcll1tdo .. mao, the jlrfl, ftc-tmd,fonrthandfifthre~J after the 0 • 199 ' Sabh4tic•l ,Jear: but upon t.he third and fixth years only, the firft Tithe was paid to the Levit-e1 and the fecond w~s_fpent at home. Hence in refp~tt of the Rjnds, thls.rs called (b) MHgnajher fcbeni, the fe• b "JW ,Wl'O cond tithe, Tohit. 1. 7. in refpect it was paid to the · poor e.very third year t it i! cal!ed (c) Mttg1111fter c ·'JJ) ,wvo gnani, ~r.~xolu.J.J'~, the poor ma11s litho, and (d) ll-ltt·· ~ g~tajherfchclifchi~ thelhirdtithe, Tob. 1.1. On thofe ~ U:~0 )'ears on which it was carried up to jerlljalem, it w, .w ought of nectffity to be_~ten within the Conrt q ·the Temple ~ ,Deut. 14 .. 26. and by the third tithe we are to underfiand the po~r maN-J tithe on the third ;ettr, which year i~ termed a ;ear oftithes; Deut. 6.1 2. They Jikcwife tithed their cattel. Of their hRIIot~.r, ~O'Ihei,r jbeeplttn.el all that p11jfod H!lder.the rod,the tenih . Gg WM |