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A85884	The divine right and original of the civill magistrate from God, (as it is drawn by the Apostle S. Paul in those words, Rom. 13.1. There is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God) illustrated and vindicated in a treatise (chiefly) upon that text. Wherein the procedure of political dominion from God, by his ordination; ... is endevored truly and plainly to be laid open. / Written for the service of that eminent truth, order, justice, and peace which the said text, in its genuine sense, holdeth forth, and supporteth: and for the dissolving of sundry important doubts, and mistakes about it. By Edward Gee minister of the Gospel at Eccleston in the county palatine of Lancaster.	Gee, Edward, 1613-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing G448; Thomason E1774_1; ESTC R202104	279,674	430

was in like manner very generall as to the ten Tribes the Text saith So every man of Israel went up from after David and followed Sheba Chap. 20.2 yet David during the rejection is reckoned as King still by the sacred Historian Verses 3 4. And there is yet another instance for this in David he is said to reign over Israel yea over all Israel forty yeares seven of which he reigned in Hebron and the other 33 in Jerusalem 2 Kings 2.11 1 Chr. 29.26 27. within which years there intervened not onely the space of time in which were the afore recounted interruptions by Absalom's and Shebah's rebellions but a fixed confinement of Davids actuall reign to the Tribe of Judah onely for the first seven years of the 40. in which he reigned in Hebron for so the Text plainly saith David was thirty yeares old when he began to reigne and he reigned forty years in Hebron he reigned over Judah seven yeares and sixe moneths and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three yeares over all Israel and Judah 2 Sam. 4.5 Of the means of this confinement of his actual reign for those seven yeares to that one Tribe the second and third Chapters of the second Book of Samuel will inform us to wit the wars betwixt the houses of David and Saul The same story will tell us that within those seven yeares which were the first part of Davids 40 yeares reign over Israel Ishbosheth was made King over all Israel and reigned two years see 2 Sam. 2.8 9 10 11. That Ishbosheth might well be said to be King and reign over all Israel de facto though he wanted the actuall obedience of Judah is easie to conceive and yeeld both because he had 11 Tribes of the twelve and for that the name of Israel is often put to signifie the ten Tribes in distinction from Judah and Benjamin much more may it be put for 11 Tribes including Benjamin as it plainly doth 2 Sam. 30.10 and 5.5 but that Israel and all Israel in the forecited places 1 Kings 2.11 1 Chron. 29.26 27. should be put for the Tribe of Judah onely and divided from all the other Tribes even then when the other 11 Tribes were in fact a dis-joyned and opposite Kingdome to it and that under the title of Israel I see not how it can st●nd The question then is how those Texts that reckon to David forty years reign over Israel can be reconci●'d to the other that allot to him seven of those 40 to reign over Judah only in Hebron and give Ishbosheth within that time a reigne over all Israel as a distinct Kingdome from Judah I think it can be no otherwise done then thus Ishbosheth was King and reigned de facto over and by actual predominate possession held from David the 11 Tribes whilst David enjoyed onely the Dominion of the Tribe of Judah but was de jure or in title and right King over all the rest which Ishbosheth detained and therefore David at that time not onely expected but justly waged warre upon Ishbosheth and his partakers for the recovery thereof and therein accordingly daily grew upon him and won upon them and upon this ground might well be that message of Abner to David saying whose is the Land acknowledging David the Proprietor where he was not the possessor 2 Sam. 3.12 Here then we have two competitory Kings mentioned as invested in the same territory at the same time not as joynt partners but each as claymer in toto in solid●m with this difference for we must not make a contradiction of it the one is invested with possession the other with the right the one is the occupant the other is the proprietor Now if we should bring both these Kings to this Text of the Apostle and aske which of them during those two yeares of Ishbosheth might be said in reference to the 11 Tribes to be the power in being of God ordained of God would not any considerate Reader answer not Ishbosheth but David not the possessor but the Proprietor And whereas both are said to have reigned not he that is onely said to reigne but he that is said to reigne and is likewise said to be chosen by God to it and entred possession by his special direction as it is said of David * 2 Sam. 5.2.2.2 Thus we have seen this one King and that he who in a style peculiar and above others is said to be the anointed of the God of Jacob yeelds us a treble instance of a power in being yet out of possession Next to David was Solomon yet when he as Davids immediate successor should be installed being thereunto assigned both by divine appointment and by his Father 1 Chron. 28.5 1 Kings 1.17 Adonijah his elder brother got the start of him in respect of possession and the said Adonijah not onely exalted himselfe saying I will be King but raised a very strong party yea obtained it seems a generall consent of the State and thereby got into actual seisure of the Kingdome There stood up for him and gave him admission to the Kingdome Joab the Generall of the Army Abiathar the Priest and all his brethren the Kings sons and all the m●● of Judah the Kings servants Whereupon Nathan the Prophet and Ba●hsheba tell David Adonijah doth reigne and himselfe said afterward The kingdome was mine and all Israel set their faces on me that I should reigne 1 King 1.5 6 7 9 11 18.25.2.15 Yet for for all this the Kingdome in right of succession upon the forementioned title was Solomons which Adonijah after confessed It was thine from the Lord 1 Kings 2.15 and therefore Adonijah's possession notwithstanding Nathan the Prophet moveth Bathsheba and they both together move David for Solomons investure and by his order Zadok Bendiah and Nathan with the Kings guard proclaim anoynt and inaugurate him in the Throne 1 King 1.32 33 38 The which if Adonijah had been the power because he was in possession and Solomon had not been the power because fore-stalled and kept from possession they could not lawfully have done but both they and Solomon yea and David also must have acquiesced in the duty of subjection to Adonijah according to the Rule of the Apostle in this place if to be understood as abovesaid Let us goe on to other examples ● Chr. 22.9 Ahaziah King of Judah being slain by Jehu the Text saith his house had no power to keep still the kingdome yet Joash his son and heire being left alive though he were powerlesse both in regard of his own childhood Athaliah's strong hand of usurpation over the Kingdome ceased not therefore to be King For whilst he lay hid with his Aunt in the house of the Lord and was not known abroad so much as to be being in common repute slaughtered amongst the rest of Ahaziah's sons and Athaliah reigned over the Land and when Jehoiadah the Priest and those of the Levites and people that were

being about to banish him from Millain Ambrose would not accept of the help of Maximus whose power he disallowed and gainsayed * Grot. de jure Belli lib. 1. cap. 4. sect 5. Another is of no long distance from our own time It is that of the Suffolk men who were zealous confessors of the Gospel and Protestant faith and were the first that joyned themselves to the Lady Mary after the death of King Edward the sixth and the advancement to the Crown of the Lady Jane The sum of the Story I shall give out of Mr. Fox and Mr. Speed in their own expressions King Edward did by his Testament or Letters Patent signed with his own hand and sealed with the great Seale saith the Letter of the Lords to the Lady Mary in the presence of the most part of the Nobles Counsellors Judges with divers other grave and sage Personages assenting and subscribing to the same appoint the Lady Jane to be Inheritrix unto the Crown of England To this order subscribed all the Kings Councell and the chiefe of the Nobility the Mayor and City of London and almost all the Judges and chiefe Lawyers of this Realm When King Edward was dead the Lady Jane was established in the Kingdome by the Nobles consent and was forthwith published Queen by Proclamation at London and in other Cities where was any great resort and was there so taken and named The Lord Maior of London sixe of the Aldermen and twelve Commoners Merchants being sent for by the Nobility take their Oaths for the Lady Jane and unto her obedience they promise to secure the City The Lords of the Councell write to the Lady Mary in answer to her Letter wherein she had required their owning and proclaiming her as Queen telling her that the Lady Jane is after the death of Edward the six●h invested and possessed with the just and right Title in the Imperiall Crown of this Realm c. The Lady Mary upon this Letter of refusall speedeth her secretly away far off from the City The Councell hearing of her sudden departure gather speedily a power of men appoint an Army and ●end forth the Duke of Northumberland with it Mary in the meane time tossed with much travail up and down c w th-drew her selfe into the quarters of Norfolk and Suffolk● and there gathering to her such ayd of the Commons as she might keepeth her selfe close for a space in Fremingham Castle To her first of all resorted the Suffolk-men who being alwayes forward in promoting the proceedings of the Gospell promised her their ayd so that she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her brother King Edward had before established c. Thus Mary being guarded by the power of the Gospe lers did vanquish the Duke and all those that came against her The Lords after this proclaimed for Queen the Lady Mary eldest daughter to King Henry the 8th and appointed by Parliament to succeed King Edward dying without issue The brief of this story as to our present scope is this Here we have the Lady Jane in possession of the Crown by her immediate Predecessors testament by proclamation and by the consent and actual reception of the Chieftains of the Land and having the first Military power on foot to uphold her therein And the Lady Ma●y claiming the Crown by vertue of lineall succ●ssion the Act of Parliament and the T●st●ment of King Henry the 8 h which laid the ground of her title antecedent to as well as more speciously to say no more here then any thing the other could challenge or be invested by And notwithstanding the said poss●ssion of the other the Suffolke Gospellers are the fi●st comers in to Mary and undertakers of her assistance for the vindication of her Title and the g●ining her possession of the Throne and this before she had any acknowledgment or reception of the Nobles or Commons or other ayd appearing for her 2. Another sort of examples may be of such as being Princes or communities have cast off or by Armes repulsed the domination of them who have had present command over them Scripture examples in this kinde I have given before * Chap. 8. Sect. 4. and shall therefore here but name them Such are those of Othniel Ehud Deborah and the rest of the Judges with the Israelites rising up against Chusanrishathaim Eglon Jabin and the other invaders and captivers of them respectively of which in the book of Judges In like manner were the wars of the same people for their liberty against the Philistines and the Syrian Kings in the times and under the conducts of Eli Samuel Saul and David in the stories of both the Books of Samuel and of the Kings of the same sort were the recuperative Armes of David and Jehoiada against Absalom Sheba and Athaliah in the said Books As also were the stirrings of the Kings and people of Judah from Solomon unto the time of their Babylonish captivity against the Kings of Israel Syria Assyria and other encroachers related in the second Book of Chronicles And such lastly were the conflicts of the Jewes under the Asmonean government against diverse of the Selencian Kings Of all these I will make particular narrative but of one that is that good King Hezekiah and of him but shortly thus 2 King 18.7 It is said That he rebelled against the King of Assyria and served him not Expositors observe the reason of these words to be The kingdome was left to Hezekiah by his father Ahaz in a subjection to Shalmantzar King of Assyria but he being no way bound to serve at his father did because he used his liberty and cast that yoke from him he is said to rebell Mr. Lightfoot Divines Annotat in loc and Mr. Lightfoot his Harmon of the old Test pag 117. observes further that not onely had Ahaz his father but himselfe reigned as an Homager to the Assyrian who subdued and deposed Ahaz and set up Hezekiah on the Th●one in his stead and that Hezekiah being thus under the Assyrian for a time he would beare it no longer c. A multitude of instances of this sort out of other stories are produceable Among others those of the Christian Princes and Nations on the Eastern confines of Christendome who bordering upon the Turkish Sultan have been by him subdued and held under and being in that condition have at several times attempted and sometimes prosperously effected a recovery from that subjection As for instance have done sundry Princes of Hungary of Macedon and of Greece and the State of Venice Amongst them the atchievements of George Castriot surnamed Scanderbeg in his regaining of the Countreys of Epirus and Albania from which his Father had been oured and himselfe was excluded by Amurath the sixth and of John Huniades the Vayvod of Transylvania under the shi●ld of whose valour and successe the Countreys of Moldavia and Valachia rose up for and recovered their freedome from