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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45087	The true cavalier examined by his principles and found not guilty of schism or sedition	Hall, John, of Richmond.	1656 (1656)	Wing H361; ESTC R8537	103,240	144

of expedition the Trumpets may need to be blown sometimes suddenly sooner then divers can well meet and agree upon it too Partly avoiding of distraction The two Trumpets may be blown two divers ways if they be in two hands and so shall the Trumpet give an uncertain sound 1 Cor. 14 8 and how shall the Congregation know whither to assemble Nay a worse matter yet then all that so may we have Assembly against Assembly and rather then so better no Assembly at all Therefore as God would have them both made of one piece so will be have them both made over to one person for Tibi implieth one Who is that one It is to Moses God speaketh to him is this Tibi directed Him doth God nominate and of his person make choice first to make these Trumpets no man to make no man to have the hammering of any Trumpet but he And there is no question but for Aaron and his sons the Priests they are to call the Levites to call the people together to their Assemblies How shall they warn them together unless they make a Trumpet too But if there be any question about this Gods proceeding here will put all out of question For to whom giveth he this charge Not to Aaron is this spoken but to Moses Aaron receiveth no charge to make any Trumpet never a fac tibi to him neither in this nor in any other place To Moses is this charge given And to Moses not Make thee one one for secular affairs that they would allow him but fac tibi duas Make thee two make both Well the makeing is not it One may make and another may have Sic vos non vobis You know the old Verse When they be made and done then who shall owe them It is expressed that too Et er●nt tibi They shall be for thee They shall be not one for thee and another for Aaron but Erunt tibi They shall be both for thee th●y sh●ll be both thine A third if they can find they may claim to that But both these are for Moses We have then the delivery of them to Moses to make which is a kind of Seisin or a Ceremony investing him with the right of them We have beside plain words to lead their possession and those words operative Erunt tibi That as none to make them so none to own them being made but Moses And what would we have more to shew us Cujus sunt tubae whose the Trumpets be or who●e is the right of calling Assemblies It is Moses certainly and he by vertue of these stands seised of it To go yet further But was not all this to Moses for his time only and as it begun in him so to take end with him Was it not one of the same privilegia personalia quae non trahuntur in exemplum A priviledg peculiar to him and so ●o precedent to be made of it No for if you look a little forward to the 8. verse following there you shall see that this power which God here conveyeth this Law of the Silver-trumpet is a Law to last for ever even throughout all their gene a●ions not that generation only And there is great reason it should be so that seeing the use should never cease the power likewise should never determine Being then not to determine but to continue it must descend to those that hold Moses place I demand then what place did Moses hold Sure it is that Aaron was now the High Priest anointed and fully invested in all the rights of it ever si●ce the eight Chapter of the last Book Moses had in him now no other right but that of the chie Magistrate Therefore as in that ●●ght and no other he received and held them So he was made Custos utriusque Tabulae So he was made Custos utriusque Tubae But who can tell us better then he himself in what right he held them He doth it in the third verse of Deut. 33. read it which way you will Frat in Jesh●une Rex or in rectissimo Rex or in rectitudine Rex or in recto Regis dum congregaret Principes populi Tribus Israel All come to this that though in strict propriety of speech Moses were no King yet in this he was in rectitudine Rex or in recto Regis that is in this had as we say jus Regale that he might and did assemble the Tribes and chief men of the Tribes at his pleasure Herein he was Rex in certitudine for this was rectitudo Regis a power Regal And so it was held in Egypt before Moses even in the Law of Nature that without Pharaoh no man might lift up hand or foot in all the Land of Egypt suppose to no publique or principal motion And so hath it been holden in all Nations as a special power belonging to dominion Which maketh it seem strange that those men which in no cause are so fervent as when they plead that Church-men should not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is have dominion do yet hold this power which hath ever been reputed most proper to dominion should belong to none but to them only Our Saviour Christs Vos autem non sic may I am sure be said to them here in a truer sense then as they commonly use to apply ●● To conclude then this point If Moses as in the right ●f chief Magistrate held this power it was from him to de●●end ●● the chief Magistrates after him over the people of God and they to succeed him as in his place so in this right it being by God himself setled in Moses and annexed to his place lege perpetuâ by an Estate indefeisible by a perpetual Law throughout all their generations Therefore ever after by Gods express order from year to year every year on the first day of the seventh moneth were they blown by Moses first and after by them that held his place and the ●east of the Trumpets solemnly holden as to put them in mind of the benefit thereby coming to them so withall to keep alive and fresh still in the knowledg of all that this power belonged to their place that so none might ever be ignorant to whom it did of right appertain to call Assemblies And how then shall Aarons Assemblies be called with what Trumpet they God himself hath provided for that in the tenth verse following that with no other then these There is in all the Law no order for calling an Assembly to what end or for what cause soever but this and only this no order for making any third Trumpet under these two therefore all are comprised This order there God taketh that Moses shall permit Aarons sons to have the use of these Trumpets but the use not the property They must take them from Moses as in the 31. Chapter of this Book Phineas doth But Erunt tibi Gods own words Erunt tibi must still be remembred His they be for all that

Pharisees by whom divine things indeed were lesse because other things were more divinely esteemed of then reason would The Superstition that riseth voluntary and by degrees which are hardly discerned mingleth it self with the Rites even of every divine service done to the onely true God must be considered of as a creeping and incroaching evill an evill the beginnings whereof are commonly harmlesse So that it proveth onely then to be an evill when some farther accident doth grow unto it or it self come unto further growth for in the Church of God sometimes it cometh to passe as in over-battle grounds the fertile disposition whereof is good yet because it exceedeth due proportion it bringeth forth abundantly through too much ranknesse things lesse profitable whereby that which principally it should yeeld being either prevented in place or defrauded of nourishment faileth This if so large a discourse were necessary might be exemplified by heaps of Rites and Customes now superstitious in the greatest part of the Christian world which in their first originall beginnings when the strength of vertuous devout or charitable affection bloomed them no man could justly have condemned them as evill whereby it is still plain that things good and profitable in their first institution and setled upon good advice and great authority may by a succeeding age and Church be found prejudiciall and that then that Church hath power to take away and abolish that which the other did institute 27. And again much to the same purpose and in answer to such as think things once well and solemnly established cannot be altered he saith l. 4. fol. 165. True it is that neither Councels nor Customes be they never so ancient and so general can let the Church from taking away that thing which is hurtful to be retained Where things have been instituted which being convenient and good at the first do afterward in processe of time wax otherwise we make no doubt but they may be altered yea though Councels or Customes General have received them And therefore it is but a needless kind of opposition which they make who thus dispute If in those things which are not expressed in the Scripture that is to be observed of the Church which is the custome of the people of God and decree of our Forefathers then how can these things at any time be varied which heretofore have been once ordained in such sort Whereto we say that things so ordained are to be kept howbeit not necessarily any longer then till there grow any urgent cause to ordain the contrary For there is not any positive Law of men whether it be general or particular received by former expresse consent as in Councels or by secret approbation as in Customs it cometh to passe but the same may be taken away if occasion serve Even as we all know that many things kept generally heretofore are now in like sort generally unkept and abolished every where By which we may further finde that as it is the duty of the Members of any Church to conform to such Rights and Orders as the Authority thereof shall institute and set up so also can no plea of former establishment whether by Councels or Customes warrant their opposition or inconformity if the Church under which they live shall think fit to abrogate them when they find urgent cause to the contrary No he accounts it but a needless kinde of opposition to urge in these disputes the custome of the people of God or the decree of our Fore-fathers as if for the necessary continuance of Peace and Order there were not the same degree of respect due to a succeeding Church by her present children as was given to the former Church and such as were our Forefathers therein Can we fancie that the establishment we doe now approve might be made in place of what the Church preceding it had made before and yet think the Church under which we live cannot do the like in disanulling some things made by the Church preceding us 28. But now if all this while it should be allowed that this power should be in the Church yet what and if some mens greater affection and interest cast towards other persons then those that had the present managing of Religious affairs might make them conjecture that rather they then these ought in these things to be obeyed and what and if they might withall doubt that him they called the Civill Magistrate should have power to order affairs of the Church as head thereof we will therefore set down what he farther inferreth fol. 567. The Lord God of Israel hath given the kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and his sons by a Covenant of Salt And Job 56. 8. bringing in that place of Cant. 8. 11. Solomon had a Vineyard in Baalhamon he gave the Vineyard unto keepers every one bringing for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver c. He saith it is true this is meant of the Mystical Head set over the body which is not seen but as Christ hath reserved the mystical administration of the Church invisible to himself so hath he committed the mystical government of Congregations visible to the Sons of David by the same Covenant whose Sons they are in governing of the flock of Christ whomsoever the Holy Ghost hath set over them to go before them and lead them in their several pastures one in this Congregation another in that As it is written Take heed to your selves and to all the flock whereof the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood And presently after to shew who he means by those Overseers he saith The Pope hath fawned upon the Kings and Princes of the earth and by spiritual couzenage hath made them sell their lawful Authorities and Jurisdictions for titles of Catholicus Christianissimus Defensor fidei and such like And again fol. 569. complaining of the unnatural usage of some towards their Mother that were natural children of this Church under a misguided conceit that Obedience was not due to the then Queen Elizabeth but to another he saith That by this means the bowels of the child may be made the mothers grave and that it hath caused no small number of our brethen to forsake their native Country and with all disloyalty to cast off the yoke of their allegiance to our dread Soveraign whom God in mercy hath set over them for whose safeguard if they carried not the hearts of Tygers in the bosomes of men they would think the dearest blood in their bodies well spent and presently after he reckons up the faults charged by the Popish party upon them and for which they stood excommunicated as if they had been no Church nor part thereof Viz. That the Queen had quite abolished prayers within her Realm that we not only have no assemblies unto the Lord for Prayers but to hold a Common School for sin and flattery