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Englands satisfaction in eight queries; concerning the true place, office, and power of a king, according to Gods word.
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ENGLANDS SATISFACTION IN EIGHT QVERIES Concerning the true place Office and power of a KING according to GODS Word A KING as he is the Lords Anoynted over his GODS Judgemēts upon his people for asking of a King people Israel 1 Sam. 8.11 12 13 14 15 16 17. will take your sonnes and your daughters to serve him He will take your fields vineyards and your olive-yards even the best of them from you and give them to his servants He will take the tenth of your seed and of your vine-yards from you and give them to his Officers and to his servants and he will take your men-servants and your maid-servants and your goodliest young men and your Asses and put them to his worke He will take the tenth of your sheepe and yee shall be his servants 1. Quest Is it lawfull for Kings to doe as Samuel from the Lord told the people Saul would doe Answ No for Samuel at the establishing of Saul 1 Sam. 10. 25. told Saul and all the people the dutie of a King as it is written Deut. 17.16 17 18 19 20. and wrote it in a Booke and laid it up before the Lord as a witnesse betwixt King and people so that all that the Lord doth command is lawfull to be done and it is a sinne not to doe it and all that the Lord doth forbid is unlawfull to be done and it is a sinne to doe it The Lord in the 8th of the 1 Sam. doth not command Kings to take from one and to give to another and to doe their own wills therefore it is not lawfull for Kings to exercise this regall power but the Lord saith that they will doe so and so which is not a sufficient warrant for Kings to doe so and so because the Lord in his Law of the dutie of a King hath expresly forbidden the same Deut. 17 18 19 20. And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his Kingdome that he write him The dutie of a King a copie of this Law in a Booke and it shall be with him and he shall reade therein all the dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his God that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren to the right hand or to the left Therefore it is unlawfull for Kings to exercise this regall power King David though a man after Gods owne heart because he by vertue of this regall power would have Barshebah the wise of Vriah to be his wife and caused Ioab to put Vriah in the forefront that he might fall by the sword for which Nathan the Prophet told David 2 Sam. 12. 9. Thou hast killed Uriah with the sword and hast taken his wife to be thy wife and hast slaine him with the sword of the Children of Ammon Vers 10. Therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house It made good David by the experience of evill the sight and knowledge of evill and repentance for evill say at his latter end 2 Sam. 23. 3. He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the feare of the Lord. Rehoboam thinking by this regall power he might doe what he would over and with his Subjects refused the good and milde Counsell of his grave and wise Elders and tooke the rough and evill Counsell of his young Counsell 1 King 12. 3. which lost him ten of his twelve Tribes Ahab by this regall power thought he might take away Naboths Vineyard and so followed the wicked Counsell of Idolatrous Iezabel his wife and put Naboth to death for which the Lord saith by Eliah the Prophet 1 Kings 21 19. 21 22. In the place where the dogs licked the bloud of Naboth shall dogs lick thy bloud even thine And I will take away thy posteritie and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the sonne of Nebat therefore it is utterly unlawfull to use this regall power 2. Quest If it be unlawfull for Kings to take from and to give unto and to doe what they please why did or doth the Lord in the 1 Sam. 8. 17. command the people to yeeld obedience and serve their Kings according to such demands commands will and pleasure Answ For two reasons first in respect of the Lord himselfe because he was King of Israel and had that regall power and prerogative Royall to doe his owne will with man as the Potter with the clay who being able and did with a mightie hand and stretched-out-arme bring Israel out of Aegypt from the crueltie of Pharoah through the red Sea and in the Wildernesse caused the stony Rocks to yeeld them water to drinke giving them Manna Angels food and sent them Quailes to eate and gave them the Land of Canaan houses they builded not Vineyards Orchards and gardens they planted not and cast out seven Nations greater then they before them even a Land flowing with milke and honey Notwithstanding all which Israel would have a Man King as had the Nations 1 Sam. 8. 5. At which Samuel was displeased but the Lord said unto Samuel ver 7. heare the voyce of the people for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected mee that I should not reigne over them therefore testifie vers 9 unto them and shew them the manner of the King being but a man what evill inclinations he will be of that shall reigne over you to take from one unjustly and give it to another that hath no right to the same unequally to demand of and command over and from you according to his own corrupt lusts as it is vers 11 12 13 14 15 16. And when these things shall come upon you vers 18. yee shall cry because of your man King whom you have chosen you but the Lord will not heare you at that day therefore bethinke your selves O Israel because you will forsake the Lord to reigne over you as formerly and will have a man to be your King to sit in the Lords throne of Majestie for in all these things ver 17. yee shall be his servants in obeying of him without redresse whose answer is ver 19. Nay but there shall be a King over us Chap. 10. 18 19. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I brought Israel out of Aegypt and delivered you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all Kings that troubled you but you have this day cast away your God who onely delivered you out of all your adversities and tribulations And out of Chap. 12.12 the hands of Nahash King of the Children of Ammon when the Lord your God was your King yet yee said A King shall reigne over us Know O Israel vers 3 4 5. you and your King beare record Whose Oxe have I taken or whose Asse have I taken or whom have I done wrong to or whom have I hurt or of whose hands have I received any bribe and I will