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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53100	The common interest of king and people shewing the original, antiquity and excellency of monarchy, compared with aristocracy and democracy, and particularly of our English monarchy, and that absolute, papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative, property and liberty / by John Nalson.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1677 (1677)	Wing N92; ESTC R10092	110,919	290

and Oracle of Anti-Monarchical Me● would perswade us Cal. Inst lib. 4. cap. 20. Sect. 8. being of God own appointment choice and establishment amongst his peculiar people the Tribes of Israel for whom it ough● not to be doubted but he would chuse the best amongst all the kinds of Government extant in the World LET us therefore hear the opinion of Moses as to the Antiquity of Kings and Monarchy and as once a greater than he said of him They who will not believe Moses and the Prophets would not believe though by a miracle one should rise from the dead to convince and confute them That Adam Noah and the rest of the Ancient propagators of Mankind were Kings and exercised Regal authority though his writings do not tell us yet we must conclude in regard that their posterity were bound to honour and obey them both by the Law of Nature Reason and the Divine Eternally Moral Law which did and do for ever command it But the first mention of a Monarch is Nimrod Gen. 10.10 who was a mighty Hunter before the Lord and the beginning of whose Kingdom was Babel Which Empire according to the computation of Chronology began about 130 years after the Deluge and is the first established Kingdom and Government that we meet with in the Sacred writings There is likewise mention made of the Egyptian Kingdom Gen. 12. another of the most ancient Monarchies In another place there is an account of a great action that happened Gen. 15. in which Nine Kings were concerned and the place of their Kingdoms as also in the same Chapter o● Melchizedeck King of Salem beside Abraham who as appears by his victory over them with an Army of hi● own Militia the Trained-bands 〈◊〉 Troops of his houshold was also a gre● King himself as the Children of He●● stile him My Lord thou art a mighty Prince amongst us Gen. 23. c. NOR is there any great doubt to be made but that at the confusion of La●guages he who undertook to lead a wa● a Company was their Prince and as afterwards they subdivided themselve● for more Room and convenience 〈◊〉 Pasturage for their Flocks and Herd● the Riches of those Ages still the pri●●cipal person of note undertook to co●duct them and was their King And the great increase of these as well as o●● the people of necessity obliged them as it did Lot and Abraham to part on● from another and to seek out for their convenience new Lands and unpeople● Regions and this seems to be the true Reason why in the early Ages of the World we find mention of so many little Kings that every considerable City in the small Continent of Canaan had its distinct King and Kingdom which did not a little contribute to the facility of their conquest by Joshua and the Israelites Josh 12. who is recorded to have subdued one and thirty of them in a few years AND that the Government of the people of Israel after their deliverance from the Egyptian slavery was Monarchical under Moses all the time of their Encampments and Decampments in the Wilderness is evident matter of fact as appears by that place where there is a description of their manner of Judicature And it came to pass Exod. 18.13 that on the morrow Moses sate to judge the People c. And though upon the wholsom advice of Jethro the Prince of Midian his Father-in-law he afterwards chose able men out of all Israel and made them Heads over the people Rulers of thousands hundreds fifties and tens yet the Supreme Power of Judging he reserved to himself for they Judged the people at all seasons in every small matter but the difficult causes they brought unto Moses for his determination as being the Supreme Governour both in Civil and Ecclesiastical affairs And that Moses did this not pro arbitrio dominandi libidine of his own Ambitious desire of Sovereignty but by Gods especial appointment he tell● them Hereby ye shall know that th● Lord hath sent me to do all these works Numb 16.28 an● that I have not done them of my own mind●● And that he was a great Prince amongst them is apparent from the Charge of those Rebels Corah Dathan and Ab●ram and their Accomplices who pretended that his design was not so much to Govern them and Conduct them 〈◊〉 the promised Land as to make himse●● absolute Is it a small thing say they that thou hast brought us up out of a La●● that floweth with Milk and Hony Vers 13. to k●● us in the Wilderness except thou make th● self altogether that is an absolute Tyrannical Prince over us The first Essay to a Democracy the Rebellion of Corah and his accomplices Here is the first Essay for a Republick or Democra●● that is upon any Record which was founded upon Rebellion against the Prince and the Priest and by consequence as he declared against God himself from whom they had that Authority The 250 who undertook i● seems to be the peoples Representatives who were all holy and the Lords people as they stiled themselves Numb 16. v. 41. and the murmuring Tribes thought them so though they paid dearly both for their mutiny and mistake but upon this pretence of sanctity and equality they were all as fit to Govern as Moses and to offer Incense as Aaron and why should they take so much upon them It is worth our observation how these Primitive Reformers make use of the same popular Charms with which our Modern Republicans their true successors in the Art of Wheedling a credulous Populace do now Act viz. The fair and taking pretensions of their own Sanctimony and the peoples Liberty of Conscience from the Tyranny of the Government by a single Person and the Priesthood How acceptable this their Mutinous design of a thorough Reformation in Church and State was to God Almighty Numb 16.35 the sequel of the Rebellion did declare for this strange Fire which they pretended to offer unto God but which in truth was the Wildfire of their own Brains with which they intended to sacrifice Government and Religion to their wicked Ambition brought down Fire from Heaven upon the 250 Cenfor-men and the very Earth upon which such Monsters of Mankind were unfit to live Numb 16.34 opened her mouth and gave them a new and terrible way of Sepulture making them Eternal Monuments of that confusion and vengeance which both Heaven and Earth conspire to take upon seditious Rebels I heartily wish that all our Anti-monarchical and Anti-hierarchical people would soberly consider of it left whilest they run on headlong in a seeming Religious despising of Dominion and speaking evil of Dignities Jude 11. they also perish in the gainsaying of Corah AFTER Moses succeeded Joshus in the same way of Regal though not Hereditary Government after him several Judges whom upon extraordinary occasions God raised up to Rule Govern and Deliver