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A70760	Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world.; Bishop Overall's convocation book	Overall, John, 1560-1619.; Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing O607; ESTC R2082	200,463	346

had not thereby sinned and unjustly opposed themselves against God or that the Kingdom of Judah by God's Ordinance going by Succession when one King was dead his Heir was not in Right their King however by some Athaliah he might be hindred from enjoying it or that the people were not bound without any further circumstance upon sufficient notice of their former King's Death to have obey'd his Heir Apparent as their lawful King he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XVIII ALthough we doubt not but that the Priests and Levites in the Old Testament were reckon'd amongst the rest of such as were subject to their Princes Judges and Kings yet we have thought it fit to make the same more apparent by some particulars Aaron the chief Priest and the rest of the Levites after that Aaron was possest of the high Priesthood were at Moses's direction all the time that he lived and when he the said Aaron had in some sort forgotten his duty to Moses in joining with his Sister undutifully against him he found his offence therein and did humbly submit himself in this sort to him Alas my Lord I beseech thee lay not this sin upon us which we have foolishly committed It is likewise manifest in the Book of Joshua that Eleazer who succeeded Aaron with the rest of the Priests and Levites under him dispos'd of themselves and of their service as Joshua their Prince and Governour did command them And how obedient and humble both the Priests and the Levites and the Prophets themselves were to their Kings the Examples of Zadok Jehojadah Azariah Helchiah Nathan and divers others do declare they submitted themselves to their directions and when they came into their presence made Obeysance before them upon their Faces to the ground Likewise having Offices distributed and assigned severally unto them by sundry Kings they executed the same in the service of the Temple accordingly And as while they did their duties they were cherished so upon any notorious offence committed by them they were censur'd and punished Solomon deposed Abiathar from the High Priesthood and placed Zadok in his room And Josiah likewise thrust all the Priests from the Altar of the Lord in Hierusalem who had burnt Incense in the high places Placet eis CAN. XVIII IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the Priests in the Old Testament were not as rightly and properly subjects to the civil Governours as the rest of the people or that when they any ways offended they might not be punished as lawfully by them as any others he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XIX AS we have said of the people that when the Kings of Judah were to succeed one another their Duty was to come together with joy and gladness to receive them for their Kings as sent unto them as from God himself and accordingly to submit themselves unto their Authority and Government so at such times the Priests for the most part besides their general duties as Subjects had some further service to be then by them perform'd the parts of which service are all of them manifest in the advancement of King Solomon to the Royal Throne of his Father King David where the Priests by King David's direction did give thanks to God and prayed for King Solomon they offered the peoples Sacrifices of Praise and Thanksgiving to God for their new King and Zadok the High Priest did himself anoint him Howbeit this their service thus by them perform'd did neither give to King Solomon any Right or Title to succeed his Father nor to themselves any priviledge or exemption from their subjection and Obedience unto him Abiathar the High Priest did anoint Adoniah to have succeeded King David and no Duty of likelyhood was omitted which was to be done in such a solemn action but thereby Adoniah received nothing but a badge of Treason against the King his Father which he carried with him to his Grave and Zadok the High Priest notwithstanding that he had anointed King Solomon was afterward as much subject and as dutiful unto him as he had been before unto his Father King David Nay the greater the services are of any persons to their Soveraigns the greater is and so ought to be their subjection and obedience unto them CAN. XIX IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that Adoniah was ever lawfully King of the Israelites because Abiathar the High Priest had anointed him or that King Solomon received from Zadok or from the holy Oyl which he poured upon his Head any Interest to his Fathers Kingly Seat which he had not before by the Ordinance of God and his Fathers appointment or that Abiathar might not justly have been condemn'd for a Traytor in that he anointed Adoniah as is aforesaid the Right of the Kingdom being then in King David and in him by God's appointment to be disposed of and bestow'd upon his younger Son Solomon or that it had not been a traiterous offence in Zadok if being commanded thereupon by King David to anoint King Solomon he should have refused so to have done or that either Zadok or any other Priest who afterward according to their duties anointed the Kings of Judah were thereby more exempted from their subjection and obedience unto them than were the rest of the people by their joy and applause when their Kings were newly advanced to their Kingdoms he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XX. AS it is apparent in the Scriptures that the Israelites generally as well the Priests as the People were equally bound as Subjects personally to honour reverence and obey their Kings So is it there also as manifest that the Authority of their Soveraigns over them did not only extend to civil Causes but in like manner to Causes Ecclesiastical For as it was then the duty of Parents so by the Law of Nature was it of good Kings and Civil Magistrates to bring up their Children and Subjects in the true service and worship of God as having a care committed unto them not only of their Bodies but likewise of their Souls In which respect the chief charge that all Subjects and inferiour Persons of what condition soever should diligently observe the said Law of Nature being the very same in substance that God writing with his own Finger gave unto Moses and stiled by the name of his Ten Commandments was principally imposed upon Kings and civil Rulers They were to provide that their Subjects had no other God but him who made Heaven and Earth that they made to themselves no graven Images nor bow'd down to them nor worship'd them that they did carefully meet at certain times to serve honour and magnifie the Name of God and that they might not be negligent in the observing of the rest of his Commandments And albeit through the sin of our first Parents both Kings and Subjects were become unable so to perform these their Duties of Piety

were inspired by the Holy Ghost did leave this Doctrine so jointly taught to be dispensed with afterward by any Pope his Vicar led by what Spirit is easy to be discern'd being so far different from the Holy Ghost which spake as is aforesaid by the said Apostles or that it is not a most wicked and detestable assertion for any Man to affirm That the Apostles in commanding such obedience to the Ethnick Princes then did not truly mean as their plain words do import but had some mental Reservations whereby the same might be alter'd as occasion should serve or that the Apostles at that time if they had found the Christians of sufficient force for Number Provision and Furniture of Warlike Engines to have deposed those Pagan Princes that were then both Enemies and Persecutors of all that believed in Christ would no doubt have moved and authorized them to have made War against such their Princes and absolved them from performing any longer that Obedience which they as Men temporizing had in their Writings prescribed unto them or that when afterward Christians were grown able for number and strength to have opposed themselves by force against their Emperours being wicked and Persecutors they might lawfully so have done for any thing that is in the New Testament to the contrary or that these and such like Expositions of the meaning of the holy Apostles when they writ so plainly and directly are not very impious and blasphemous as tending not only to the utter discredit of them and their Writings but likewise to the indelible stain and dishonour of the whole Scriptures in that they were written by no other Persons of any greater Authority than were the Apostles nor by the Inspiration and direction of any other Spirit He doth greatly Erre CAP. VI. The Sum of the Chapter following That our Saviour Christ after his Resurrection and Ascension did not in Effect alter the Form of Ecclesiastical Government amongst the Jews the essential parts of the Priesthood under the Law otherwise than as the said Priesthood was typical and had the Execution of Levitical Ceremonies annexed unto it being instituted and appointed by God to continue not for a time but until the End of the World WE have deduced in our former Book the joint Descent of the State as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal from the Beginning of the World unto the Incarnation of our Saviour Christ Since whose Birth seeing we have found no alteration in the Temporal Government of the World either while Christ lived here upon the Earth or during the time of his Apostles assuredly we shall not find that the alteration which upon Christ's Death fell out in the Church was so great as some have imagined For as our Saviour Christ according unto his Divine Nature having created all the World was the sole Monarch of it and did govern the same visibly by Kings and Soveraign Princes his Vicegerents upon Earth so he in the same Divine Nature being the Son of God and foreseeing the Fall of Man and how thereby all his Posterity should become the Children of Wrath did of his infinite Mercy undertake to be their Redeemer and presently after the Transgression of Adam Eve put that his Office in practice Whereby as he was Agnus occisus ab origine Mundi he not only began the Erection of that one Church selected people and Society of Believers which eversince hath been and so shall continue his blessed Spouse for ever but also took upon him thenceforward and for ever to be the sole Head and Monarch of it ruling and governing the same visibly by such Priests and Ministers under him as in his heavenly Wisdom he thought fit to appoint and as we have more at large expressed in our said former Book Especially when he settled amongst the Jews a more exact and eminent Form of Ecclesiastical Government than before that time he had done In the which his so exact a Form he first did separate the civil Government from the Ecclesiastical as they were both jointly exercised by one Person restraining the Priesthood for a time unto the Tribe of Levi and the civil Government unto temporal Princes and shortly after more particularly unto the Tribe of Judah Concerning the Priesthood thus limited we need to say little because the Order and Subordination of it is so plainly set down in the Scriptures Aaron and his Sons after him by succession had the first Place and were appointed to exercise the Office of Highpriests and under their soveraign Princes and temporal Governours as we have shewed in our said first Book cap. 18. did bear the chief sway in matters appertaining to God Next unto Aaron there were 24. Priests of an inferiour Degree that were termed Principes Sacerdotum that governed the third sort of Priests allotted unto their several Charges and this third sort also had the rest of the Levites at their direction In like manner these Levites neither wanted their chief Rulers to order them according as the said third sort of Priests did command which Rulers were termed Principes Levitarum in number 24. Nor their Assistants the Gabionites otherwise called Nethinaei to help them in the Execution of their baser Offices Of this notable Form of Ecclesiastical Government it may be truly said in our Judgments That the same being of God's own framing it is to be esteem'd the best and most perfect Form of Church-Government that ever was or can be devised and that Form also is best to be approved and upheld which doth most resemble it and cometh nearest unto it We said upon a fit Occasion That by the Death of our Saviour Christ the Church-Government then amongst the Jews was greatly altered and therefore do think it very convenient in this place more fully therein to set down our meaning It is very true that before the Death of Christ the outward Service of God did much consist in Figures Shadows and Sacrifices the Levitical Priesthood itself as it was to Aaron and his Stock and in some other Respects being only a Type of our High Priest Jesus Christ But afterward when by his Passion upon the Cross he had fulfilled All that was signified by the said Figures Shadows and Sacrifices and had likewise not only abolished them but freed the Tribe of Levi of the charge of the Priesthood and removed the High Priesthood as it was typical from the said Priestly Tribe unto the Regal Tribe of Judah the same being now setled in himself our only High Priest according to the Order not of Aaron but of Melchizedech He hath by that his Translation of the Priesthood freed his Church from the Ceremonial Law which contained in it little but Patterns Shadows and Figures of that one Sacrifice offer'd by him upon the Cross which doth sanctifie all the faithful and purge their Consciences from dead works to serve the living God Nevertheless in this so great an alteration although all the said Figures