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A38780	The voice of the people for a king shewing the only way for the future settlement and peace of England, humbly presented to His Excellency the Lord General Monck / by Arise Evans.	Evans, Arise, b. 1607.; Albemarle, George Monck, Duke of, 1608-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3474; ESTC R27971	16,994	34

it was not so for God had ordained Eunuches to be his Ministers and when those orders of Eunuchs called the Sons of God Gen. 6. 2. broke their order and would no more part with their privy Members but take wives and are become worldings like other Lay-men for whom it is lawful so to doe Then evil encreased so that God repents that he had made man and drown'd the whole world except Noah a righteous person that foresaw it and was saved by obeying Gods command Gen. 6. and the Prophet Isaiah understanding this invites the order of Eunuches to the House of God again to be his Ministers Isa. 56. 4 5. and Christ himself also doth invite them Matth. 19. 12. and that in Matth. 24. 37 38 39. Luke 17. 26 27 18 29. It was not because the Lay-men did marry and give in marriage eat drink plant build which things are for lay-men to doe but for Ministers it is unlawful and destructive for themselves and Nation to build plant and to exceed in eating and drinking or to be worldly given for why they ought to be true Eunuches only for God's service as the Oxe is which minds not to propagate his own seed but his Masters seed Now the Protestant Priest will say I have the Scripture for my warrant to marry saith the Romish Priest I am sure thy marrying will be thy ruin thou hadst best come to me again saith Origen the the Eunuch Priest ye are both in the way to damnation for your Gates is wide but enter in at the strait gate as I did take your unruly member away from you and then you come into me I am sure we shall not have too many Priests and we shall be peaceable we shall care only for God his Church we shall leaven the world with our meekness which we nor they could not obtain while we had stones to move us to a cholerick nature we shall be as useful for to feed mens souls as the Oxen is for their bodies And you shall find that the strivings and quarrels of their Priests have been the cause of all the civil Wars in the world for the Priests war will at length prove a national quarrel and the reason why the Priests quarrel is because there is too many of them every one of them will be a Priest for lucres sake and he that is truly called of God will not refuse it if he cannot have it without he came in as aforesaid it 's the only way to try their calling whether it be of God or not of God and God saith that he will give Priests after his own mind and those must be Eunuches Kings found Eunuches to be the most fittest for their presence and service as you may read in the Scripture and yet in Forraign Countries Kings have them and what a glorious fine godly man was that Eunuch of great Authority under Candace Queen of the Ethiopians who as he was riding in his Chariot was reading the Scripture and how sweet was his nature that as soon as Philip showeth to him Jesus Christ he presently believeth and is Baptized Act. 8. from v. 25. to the end but contrarily how stubborn against Christ the Priests were you see through out the Gospel and what mischief then and all along they did to their Nation one Levite Priest for his Wife or Whores sake for she was but his Concubine sets all Israel to fight one against the other that it was Gods mercy to them they were not all consumed that bout Judg. 20. let this suffice now for this matter Now to conclude 1. The General as I said before being a single person must give us a law and he must frame it by Scripture rule and so the people of Roome gave advice when the King of England after his conversion sent to the Pope to know by what law he should govern the Pope answered him saying you have the Old and New Testament make you a law agreable to that 2. The General must be one that knoweth all the cases in the Nation usually tryed by law for Moses was learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians Act. 7. 22. he knew all their laws and controversies and so doth the Master of the Rolls our General know all the controversies of this Nation that is the Man to give law There must be a King to execute the said law else it will do no good for notwithstanding the Israelites had a good law they did not regard it when there was no King in Israel every one did what was right in his own Eyes Judg. 17. 6. and if you read from hence Judg. 17. to the end of that book you shall see what evil they did ye as bad as Sodom Judg. 19. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. and what wars was among them for it Judg. 20. and the reason is because they had no King and the said reason is cited three times to shew us the reason and truth of it Judg. 17. 6 18. and 1. 19. and 1. therefore it was time for Israel to ask a King and I speak it with reverence when the people asked a King it touched Samuels self interest and he looked upon it as a great affront therefore he is displeased because the people now would cast him out to have a King in his place and speaks bitter things to the people yet you see the peoples case was good for his sons who were made Judges whom he thought should Reign carried themselves base took bribes and perverted judgement and the Lord justifies the people and bids him hear them and the Lord by arguments perswadeth Samuel to be patient and not lay it so to heart yet self interest is so sweet that the good Prophet for all that labours to perswade the people not to have a King until they were at last so resolute that they refuse to hear Samuel and said Nay but there shall be a King over us FINIS