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The originall of the dominion of princes, founded upon Gods soveraignty over the whole earth, or, The kingly prerogative, instituted by God, and proved from the holy scriptures to be jure divino by R.W. ...
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herein and particularly the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of several of their Princes who in aftertimes proved to be all the GODS they knew of 19. But now alas the World is run upon the other Extreme so far from making of false GODS that they will despoile the true GOD. Those whom he appointed to be Ruled wil Rule The People whom GOD made to be the Material Object of Dominion Passive make themselves Active to be Efficients of that which GOD made before hand to make them Subject unto Efficients said I Alas Destroyers of that which GOD intended for their Preservation Their Preservation which being an Act no lesse Divine then that of their Creation they are no more able to performe to themselves then they were when they were nothing to Create themselves and may as well endeavour to appoint them new GODS as to appoint GOD new Deputies who onely hath Power to appoint those who shall Execute his Power and onely hath Title to give them Lawes for the Execution of that Power which is onely His and whose care is not the Least for that which is on Earth the Greatest 20. These his Lawes his own Reports most justly and truly will Expound The first of my Particulars shall be the Case of Moses and Aaron the first that appeared with GODS Authorities by his Commission diverted from the First-born CHAP. V. The Contents A Recapitulation of what had been formerly proved Kingship while we are on Earth Superior to Priesthood Exod. 4. 16. Expounded The Name of Elohim communicated hath relation to Inferiors Angel to Superiors The High Priest honoured with the Appellation of Elohim Exod. 22. 28. Expounded by Act. 23. 5. The acknowledgement of Constantine thereupon And the judgment of St Cyprian All Kings indifferently dignified with the Name of Elohim Inferior Magistrates receive both Title and Power from their Kings Unction an evidence of Divine Power Christ himself not Anointed but in the Persons of his Predecessors and Successors Korah's Rebellion and Doom How far it did go and doth reach Aarons Priesthood not Dead but Changed 1. FRom what is before set down appears that all Power is Gods especially the Power of Dominion it being his Prerogative Royal in which all Powers of the same Alloy Originally are and from which all that are Legal are by his Grant upon Record dispensed That no Titles thereunto can be sufficient without Gods particular Donation which way that is already passed by that God who is not double-tongued I have proved Also by the largenesse of his Patent whose very immediate Power the King hath That that must be Divine which is by man unquestionable which cannot be made unjust though unjustly used unto which man must submit though it be unjustly used That in the Beginning both the High Powers Regal and Sacerdotal descended not by Virtue or Election but by Right of Primogeniture which Descent the Spirit of GOD cals Mishpat or the General and Just Law The meane of Conveighance to be further manifested hereafter I pointed at to wit the Likenesse of Elohim and his Image and the different Proportions of their Communication Also the signification of the words Shuk and Mashal in which by the Law of God as the Apostle calls it attested in the unalterable Gospel both the said Powers were decyphered and mine Interpretation asserted That in the Epitome both of the Church and Kingdome to wit Family other Forms of Government are intolerable much more in that wherein the Glory of Gods Image is more highly concerned That both the Powers abovesaid are Gods and not Mans by the Impression which they make upon the Soule which upon Earth hath neither Father nor Lord but descendeth immediately from the Breath of God to whose sole Regiment it appertaineth and can receive Lawes from none but Him 2. I proceed to this Name of Power to wit Elohim which also is untakable by any without Gods Donation without his operative word Amar Elohim hath said they are Elohim then forthwith so said so done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they to whom he imparteth it are to be honoured as taken in into the communion of Elohim for the distribution of Gods Justice amongst other men who were virtually Created by God under this Name of Elohim 3. My first Record shall be as I said of Moses and Aaron When Reuben was abdicated from the Benefit and Privilege of this universal Law by God the absolute Father of Mankind who onely hath no Superior to Account unto for this Disherison inspiring to this end his Father Jacob and the Dividing and Scattering of Simeon and Levi in Jacob and Israel was by the same unquestionable Justice decreed yet so that Levi for Causes not apparent was designed for both the Privileges for a while but to the Priesthood for ever God first resolves the Regal Power to Moses to shew that he will have that esteemed the greater by the said Firstnesse and afterwards the Sacerdotal to Aaron who was the elder Brother to signifie that indeed the Priesthood is of the Elder House but while we are here on Earth where that is not first which is Spiritual but that which is Natural where Dominion was not designed for GODS Likenesse but for his Image as shall be proved it is to be in subjection to the more proper Power in as much as it is Earth and not Heaven where as yet we enjoy an unfixed abode 3. Therefore Exod. 4. 16. Thou to wit Moses shalt be to him to wit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aaron Elohim or GOD. And in the beginning of the Verse He to wit Aaron shall be thine Angel unto the People which is expressed Exod 7. 1. See I have made thee Elohim or GOD unto Pharaoh and Aaron thy Brother shall be thine Angel or Prophet That the holy Angels are dignified with this Name of Elohim though not absolutely yet relatively is plain by the attestation of Saint Paul Heb. 1. 16. And let all the Angels of GOD worship him Which words have relation to that of Psal 97. 7. Worship him Col-Elohim all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that are called by this Name of Elohim or GODS which as concerning the Rational Angels is as much as to say Performe your Reasonable Service to him who is the Original Elohim you Spirits who are under him adopted into that Name of Power as Administrators of his Power and Justice over those above whom you are by him designed 4. Yet so that whosoever is so named or compared to an Angel with reference to those who have GODS Power above them is notwithstanding Elohim to all those whom GOD hath constituted under him As the woman though Created after the Image of GOD also in respect of and comparatively to her Husband hath not the honour of being the Image of Elohim but must be in subjection as unto him Ephes 5. 22. and is likened to the Angels in that she exerciseth Authority onely by her Husbands Commission as 1 Cor.
much upon you to Moses and Aaron Their colour was Independency they need no Governors but GOD. Their Words are Ver. 3. Seeing all the Congregation every one of them are Holy and the Lord is amongst them Wherefore then lift you up your selves against the Congregation of the Lord Moses sees further into them that Korah's aime was at a Presbytery or certain Priesthood which he as Superintendent would Marshall And therefore replyes Ver. 10. Seeke you without being called of GOD as was Aaron the Priests Office also And Ver. 9. Seemeth it a small thing to you that the GOD of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel to take you to himselfe to doe the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the Congregation to minister unto them He hath also taken thee to him and all thy Brethren the sons of Levi with thee and seek you the Priests Office also For the which cause both thou and all thy Company are gathered together against the Lord and what is Aaron that you murmur against him And let it be observed that all this was done after Aaron had made the golden Calf which Korah durst not Object nor against Moses his Marriage against the Law 18. From whence appears that GOD Almighty is violated of which he is sensible eveu unto Jealousie when any Power of his Constitution is touched but for Alteration and however the People may be easily deluded to beleeve that Changing is bettering yet GOD justly abhors the putting of this dishonour upon his Wisdome That GOD was the Author of the Distinction of Clergy and Laity is assured from hence and shall be made more manifest when I come to speake of the Likenesse of GOD. And that he was the distinguisher of the Power of Order and the Power of Jurisdiction first between the Priest and the Levite secondly between the Priests and the Chiefe Priests thirdly between the High Priest and the Chiefe Priests Answerable whereunto unto which Perpetuity was Promised and Sworn to as shall be proved Chap. 8. was the Priesthood of the unalterable Evangelical Covenant Constituted By and From Christ and his Apostles in the Primitive Church 19. Now when Dominion is any where Established as shall be made more cleare hereafter according to the Heavenly Platforme which is copied out in GODS Word as mans perpetual Rule man ought to tremble at each thought against it as they did who ran away when the Earth in this Story opened her mouth GODS Approbation being to be presumed to be no Iesse inviolable where his direction is followed then if himselfe for the Constituting of Regal Power had come amongst us whose Precept and Example are come into the severall Kingdomes of the one Catholique Church For Saint Jude hath told us that they doe no better now then Korah did at that time who ever doe against the present Powers what ever they shall doe against us And the Power that then was supreme to wit of the Heathen Roman Emperour had not the Circumstantials of that which was conferred upon Moses and David in whose Person our Christian Kings were more perfectly Established then himselfe as shall be proved Chap. 8. 20. But to give the Narrative of their whole apparent guilt Moses sent Verse 12. to call unto him and Aaron their Competitors they resuse with Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us out of a Land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the Wildernesse Except thou make thy selfe Lord and Ruler over us also Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men We will not come up We see here no act of Hostility we hear onely words and they are here Recorded that the like upon the like perill should never more be presumed See what followes Elohim was constrained to stir up agaome his Almightinesse for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 swallowing up of those open Sepulchres which himself reassuming his old word Bara cals Creation Verse 30. But if the Lord Create a new Creation and the Earth open her mouth and swallow them up and they goe down alive into Sheol then you shall understand that these men however they pretend to clash onely against us have violated the Lord. 21. And certainly the Government Established amongst us hath as certainly GOD for the Author of it as he was of this under Moses and Aaron and no lesse certainly they who with no lesse violence impugne the present Constitution of GOD shall if they persist therein with no lesse seriousnesse be punished then Korah was if later then heavier For no man can thinke it probable that if Korah had had another Korah to have entered the same Lists before him this Korah would have been his Second in this Quarrell And most assuredly we may conceive that the greatnesse of our warning which Korah wanted must Aggravate the greatnesse of our sinne who would not take warning by him And they that adventure to go further in the same way that he went must looke to fall deeper into the same Pit then he fell GOD grant that they who pretend to Clear all eyes doe not indeed put out ours 22. For my part in the sincerity of a charitable soule I say it I do not see how any man can distinguish any who go on that way into any hopes of comfort while they so doe but that amongst Professors of Christianity Resistance of and Rebellion against the lawfull Prince and Priest are far more flagitious then was that against Moses and Aaron For that their Power although extraordinarily given yet when given it was ordinary it being the Divine Power of the same GOD for the same ends with ours Thus in Aaron the same Power that was in him was afterwards in Eledzar and is at the least no lesse in the Christian Priest 2 Cor. 3. 10. For even that which was made glorious viz. the ministration of Death Ver. 7. and the Ministration of Condemnation Ver. 9. had no Glory in this relation by reason or with relation to of the Glory viz. of the ministration of the Spirit Ver. 8. that excelleth For if that which is done away was glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious So in Moses the Power of Dominion was no lesse in Joshua then in him and indeed larger in the Jewish Kings then either whose Patent is exceeded rather then otherwise in the Commission of Christian Kings as shall be proved Chap. 8. 23. Now since the dreadfull Condemnation of Korah doth indeed reach down unto these dayes and since those Powers which are Divine though Executed by mortall men are themselves immortall And since the Application of GODS everlasting Name of Elohim and his adding thereunto of his great Seale of Unction to both the Orders Regal and Sacerdotal doth attest the everlastingnesse of both the Powers though the Persons die And since they were both before the Law which might Conclude them no partakers of the Lawes reputed frailty but that