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A25459	Dualitas, or, A two-fold subject displayed and opened conducible to godliness and peace in order, I. Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of magistracy with the duties thereupon depending and reverence thereunto due, II. Duorum unitas, the agreement of magistracy and ministry, at the election of the honourable magistrates of Edinburgh and the opening of a diocesan synod of the reverend clergy there / by Will. Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1674 (1674)	Wing A3217; ESTC R27190	51,279	83

them who will be most for your Cities Credit Wealth Godliness and Honour And your own Reputes in your going off and falling back in the Minds and Tongues of your Numerous Inhabitants who will immediatly be Curious to behold their New Mag●strates FINIS At this time there were Elected for MAGISTRATES Sir Andrew Ramsay Lord Provost Bailies William Reid James Davidson John Fullartoun George Drummond Robert Sandelands L. Dean of Gild. John Scot L. Thesaurer c. DUORUM UNITAS OR The Agreement of Magistracy and Ministry Preached at the Election of the Honourable Magistrats of Edinburgh October 2. 1666. And at the opening of a Diocesian Synod of the Reverend Clergy there PSAL. LXXVII Thou leddest thy people like a Flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron AMong the Diversity of Gifts which the Author of every Perfect Donation giveth unto Man it is eminently seen that Government of the World hath a principal part of his Wisdom and Liberality Communicating to this and that other Person Rich Endowments for that and this Affair Employ Trade or Calling for the beautifying that Corporation He in his providence is erecting Hence floweth that Impulse in youth yea in child-hood for Wo●k for Books for Speaking Writing for Armes for Arts we frequently do with wonderbehold But as all motions must have a fixed Axis to move upon and a Basis virtuating the utmost point so still hath GOD elected from that Mass of people them who have in their spirits been adopted even afar off for Regiment and Rule Some from the Womb being of so servile a Nature that the whole survey of their Life or Actings their highest principle is but a token of subjection Nature having made them of so knotty timber no education can form them to a capability of being Mercurial whether for Wisdom or Eloquence Whereas others are of so pure a grain that the beaming souls beyond their years are discov●ring somewhat predictive of Honour and Grandour R●mulus Romes First King and Founder when a poor Shepherd would sit and determine causes among his fellows they giving both Audience and Reverence to his Decisions We read that Phara●h once putting his Crown upon the head of his adopted Grand-son Moses when a Child his little armes pulled it away and his feet spurned at it in scorn ominous to that Egyptian Demonstration of his future not fearing the wrath of the King His killing the Egyptian and saving the Hebrew did prognostick deliverance of the Jews from bondage and by keeping of a Flock had thereby learned how to rule and govern Men being thereby actually fitted for that employ unto which from the Cradle he had been inclinable Yet as none is Eminent in all Abilities Moses was though excellent at Government whereof the Shepherds rod was the Ensign yet not in Elocution of which his stammering or slow-tongue is witness Exod. 4. 10. To help him therefore in his Government a Brother Eloquent and of a flourishing because of a fluent style is joyned to him as a Collegue that the one profound in judgement may ponder what is to be done the other in charming R●etorick may alu●e to perform what is deemed necessary in doing And it being very usual to express the facund and smooth guiding of the tongue by a hand Oratory perswading that is leading Her hearers to run in and rest upon that purpose She is pressing for or painting out The people are said to be led by the hands of MOSES and AARON Hence it is that the two Princes of Gods Israel diversified in Gifts are united in the End for leading Israel like a flock The great end was for obeying God for him did Moses eye in all his meditation and him did Aaron respect in all his elocution that he not they might get the Glory of their united Industry and powerful Atchiefments Whence it is not said that Moses and Aaron but that God led His People like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron His Head in Contrivance His lips in Utterance both as a Shepherds Rod or Commanders staffe inclining them or beckonning towards them to move in that Path wherein there was Profit Security and Honour We call it a Drove of Oxen a Herd of Deere a Rout of Wolfes but usually a Flock of sheep and so it is here not that the people were alwayes pe●ceable for they were sometimes as a Sounder of u●ruly swine but because they were governed and cared-for as Sheep and when straying as by the Dog of some Judgement were they again brought into a better order by the Hands that is by the Prudence Conduct and Wisedom of Moses and Aaron The First being a Noble Prince the other a Holy Prelate Sones of one Womb Crowned Consecrat for this Employ Literally here Morally for ever still and In perpetuum while time shal be no more God Governing His Church by the Hands that is by the Industry of Magistracy and Ministry I do not say the words divide themselves for I fear and hate Division here bet●ixt ●hose two but branch themselves forth betwixt Church and State And let us speak with all Humility of the one and Reverently of the other Beginning with the State For though Aaron be the Elder yet Moses is the greater Brother therefore it is Moses and Aaron Moses the fi●st Great Magistrate over Gods United People and in him there is a plat-form for all people loving union in the Choice of Magistrates giving Ab incunabulis from the Milk proper Doctrine for this day Right Honourable and Most Reverend in that 1. His Body speaketh Beauty 2. His Name sheweth Duty 3. His Endowments m●tives to pray for Equality 1. His Body speaketh Beauty This heightned the Parental Affections his Parents had for him stirring up compassion enliven'd by Faith exercised in care for saving of His life that He was a goodly Child Exod. 2. 2. concluding forcibly from Faith and Sense a Boy of such Vigourousness Comelinesse such infantile Man-hood was by Providence never designed for Food to Fishes such the Hebrew word Tob senseth the Goodnesse the Elegance the Shapelinesse of His F●ature The Comelinesse of His but new seen Aspect the Symetry and Proportion of His several parts the exact joyning of His several Limbs with the pleasure of His Lovely Stature to speak of Him as a Man his Parents foresaw He was born to Command and having its thought a particular Revelation of this their Son a general promise being too general for them to conclude a Deliverer from their family They laid him rather than cast him out in the Arms of Providence by Faith Heb. 11. 23. about the Kings Garden for Princely Education and Breeding suteable to the Harmonious content they took in beholding His divided Limbs Argueing for Understanding of a R●fulgent Soul when Experience should hold up the Hangings or withdraw the Curtains of Infancy a●d Childhood Suffer Moses to suck the Teat or Pap of his Mother a while or to rest in the Cradel rock'd by