Sermons on Deuteronomy
6. If a Levite come out of any of the Cities of all Israel where he is a sojourner, and come with all the desire of his soul to the place which the Lord your GOD shall have chose:
7. Let him minster in the name of the Lord his God, as all the rest of your brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the face of the Lord.
8. They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which they have of the sale of their fathers goods.
Mention has been made heretofore of the right that God reserved to the Priests, and to all that tribe of Levy: and it is not for naught that mention is made thereof again here. For on the one side, it was more than needful that the Priests should be put in mind of their duties, that knowing the honor which God had done them, they should give themselves the more faithfully and cheerfully to the serving of him: and also that the rest of the tribes might know, that sit it had pleased
God to choose the sons of Levy, it behaved that dignity to remain to them, & no man was to bear them any spite for it. For in very deed we see how there were that did rise up against them, and God was fain by miracle to warrant that priesthood which e had established, and namely; in making Aarons rod to bud and blossom, then which he willed to be kept for an everlasting memorial. It seemed to others that Moses would have advanced them in respect that they were of his own kindred, for he himself was of the tribe of Levy. And because he ordered that priesthood in the same tribe, they murmured at it, thinking that Moses had dealt altogether upon fleshly affection: but