an English Independent minister and theological writer, known for his Theological Dictionary.
In the Christian Church The Levitical law having been entirely superseded by the introduction of the Christian dispensation in which nothing is ordained respecting tithes the divine right by which they were raised necessarily ceased Nothing whatever is said in reference to them in the New Testament though the principle is there distinctly recognized and enforced that the ministers of the Gospel should be liberally maintained by those among whom they labour Nor do we find any mention made of them in the earliest and purest ajies of the Church It was not till the fourth and fifth centuries after Christianity had been desecrated by its being forced into a state alliance that we find the tithe system introduced and carried into effect The tithes however
