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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63923	Two sermons the first preached upon January the 29, 1687/8, upon occasion of Her Majesties happy conception : the second, June the 17th, 1688, upon the birth of the prince / by John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1688 (1688)	Wing T3320; ESTC R10476	14,023	38

do either Secondly It is plain by the Text that he was an Idolater and therefore had no reason to expect any such extraordinary Assistances from Above as should acquaint him with the secret Designs of God's Providence in the Administration and Government of the World. Thirdly The only way of oracular Responses to be met with among the Jews was by the Urim and Thummim which was peculiar to the High Priest alone and never in any one Instance communicated or vouchsafed to any other but him Fourthly He might consider the seeming Fairness and Justice of their Cause they going only to retreive their own and to recover again into their own Possession what their Ancestors had formerly enjoyed Fifthly and lastly It may very well be supposed that he was afraid to give a dissatisfactory Answer to so many armed Men lest they should say to him as Agamemnon did to Chalcas in Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as Ahab did concerning the Prophet Micajah I hate him for he doth not prophesie Good concerning me but Evil. So that I think upon the whole Matter it is abundantly manifest that the Strength of the Men of Laish being very much weakned and impaired by Civil Broils for want of good Laws to settle the Bounds and Measures of Obligation and Magistrates to punish the Refractory and Disobedient whatever present Accommodation there might be patched up among them by mutual dread of one another and mutual Experience of so many Ills as Lawless and Arbitrary Courses had occasioned and whatever Ease and Security they might promise themselves from abroad not having heard of any Enemy for so long a time yet they became an easie Prey from both of these Causes together to this unexpected and surprising Party of the Children of Dan. To all which it is still farther to be added that a dissolute and licentious People season'd and habituated in exorbitant Courses though they may in time be sensible of the great and public Detriment that accrues from them and be perswaded by that means to think of a Regulation for the Redress of such grievous Mischiefs and Abuses yet they scarce know how to give Obedience to those Laws which they are convinced to be so necessary for them but find a certain awkwardness and unaptness in themselves to be confin'd within any compass of Duty like untaught Heifers that never felt the Yoak or Colts that never yet were back'd or Horses not sufficiently inured to their Paces or their Harness And as it would be very difficult in this Case and for a while impracticable to reduce the People into such a State of Obedience as is necessary to the Peace and Security of every Common-wealth so it would be much more so to find a fit Governor to preside over them because Government requires a steady Resolution and a consummate Wisdom neither of which are requisite to Obedience only the Subject is in general to understand First the Wholsomeness of Obedience for the Conservation of Peace and for the uniting a Nation in one common Band against all foreign Opposers And Secondly The Duty that is incumbent upon him upon account of both of these Considerations to resign up himself chearfully to the Supream Power for the Common Good of himself and of his Country Government requires a Courage that is not to be daunted by every sturdy Pretender to Liberty of Action nor every bold Censurer of the Conduct of Affairs and the Administration of his Betters at the Helm let his Pretences be as specious as they will it requires a Wisdom that looks far backwards into the good and bad Successes of past Times and into the Reasons upon which they severally depended a Wisdom that looks forward and pries with Wariness and deep Deliberation into the natural Issues and Results of Things and a Wisdom that is consummate by Experience in the Management of Affairs by which a Facility and Dexterity of Action and of Counsel is acquired as well as by reflection upon the Occurrences of former Times and Speculation into Humane Nature without which no Governour can sufficiently discharge himself of the great Trust that is reposed in him Now in this Case of a dissolute and broken People whose Necks of a long time had no felt the Yoak as it would require much greater Wisdom and Experience to pilot and conduct a shattered Vessel through Passions and Prejudices not easily to be conquered or charmed into Obedience and which like Rocks and Shelves not taken notice of by any Sea-chart like moving Sands without any Buoys to discover them would every moment endanger the Ship-wrack of the State than to govern an establish'd and orderly Society that hath been inured to Laws and sensible of the great Advantages accruing by them so it would be much harder to find a Person fit for such a weighty Charge in a Government that needs it most then in a setled and well regulated State where half those Abilities would serve the turn Besides that the Competition of Pretenders to the Supream Power and the several Factions aiding and abetting either the one or the other would create new Strife instead of composing the old and after all a wise Man though unanimously chosen would scarce accept so dangerous a Charge wherein he would be more likely to make himself a Victim to the variable Humors of a giddy Multitude impatient of Subjection and unaccustomed to Restraint and disdaining to be controuled and check'd by him that was so lately their Equal than to preserve his Country by his Wisdom and Courage from its impending Ruine and Desolation No wonder therefore if the Men of Laish being without any Government or Laws and being probably at variance among themselves and being surprised of a suddain by an unexpected Assault and their Security adding new Horror to the Surprise and contributing in so great a Proportion to their Ruine they were for all and every of these Reasons an easie Prey to the Fury of their Enemies and fell a tame Sacrifice to the Revenge of the Danites But without reasoning so nicely upon an imperfect account wherein so much is of necessity to be supplied by conjecture the next Chapter will afford us a more express Description of the horrid Calamities to which Anarchy is Exposed for there we have first the Story of the Levite and his Concubine or rather Wife for she is accused of being false to his Bed. And his Concubine saith the Text play'd the Whore against him and went away from him unto her Fathers House to Bethlehem Judah and was there four whole Months Now Adultery was Death in both Parties by the Law of Moses nay the Guilt of this horrid Crime was understood to lye at the Door of the Congregation and was threatned to be avenged upon the People themselves if they did not expiate it by the Death of the Offenders Deut. 2● 22. If a Man be found lying with a Woman married to an Husband then they shall both of them