appropriator

[…] God is Love, and Christ is the Saviour of the World, and the Pharisaical Appropriators of Mercy and Salvation, do seldom know what spirit they are of.

And as for those Churches where all the Tythes both great & small are taken by the Appropriator, Wee ordaine that the Bishop of the Diocesse according to the Lawes of the Church shall allot out of the said appropriation, such maintenance to a sufficient Curate, as in equitie in his discretion shall seeme meete and competent.