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A25459	Dualitas, or, A two-fold subject displayed and opened conducible to godliness and peace in order, I. Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of magistracy with the duties thereupon depending and reverence thereunto due, II. Duorum unitas, the agreement of magistracy and ministry, at the election of the honourable magistrates of Edinburgh and the opening of a diocesan synod of the reverend clergy there / by Will. Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1674 (1674)	Wing A3217; ESTC R27190	51,279	83

when told their unfitnesse as being never taught Quid refert said he It 's all one for that since you have them Magistrates that were never taught the Art of Government There being such a necessity to punish and at the same breath an Expediency to be satisfied with Repentance in men of equal condition though it may be not of Humour Knowledge of the Constitution of the Sinner in the Politick Physician is as necessary as to the natural Mediciner Many Funerals are dishonourable to a Son of Hypocrates a Physician evidencing either his mistake by inadvertance that is of the Patients disease or ignorance of his Art in the nature of his Simples or Compounds A Magistrat to be alwayes lashing alwayes stocking burning showes he hath got judgement but by rote And is like that School-master that knows no way to instruct his Scholler but that Orbilian or Tyrannical way of scourging which indeed is one way but to be left as the last way and not to be gone into if any other way can do it Without much search and without going to the Root Fund and Bottom of a Cause without looking this way and that way that 's every way contrary to Moses a Judge may ●ill the Israelite 2 Exod. 2. 12. By killing the Egyptian striving with the Hebrew he shewed the first fruits of his Commission to save and free his Nation But beholding two Hebrews to strive together he processes the Delinquent and sifts the cause Wherefore smitest thou they Fellow seeing him do wrong in grave judgement differencing betwixt Persons and Crimes accordingly purposing to discern to Death or Admonition Besides if in place Fear and Dread for want of better knowledge be the great End of Advance when time wears out the Gown Hatred and Disdaine are the usual Events of such Promotions Love being the true bond of durable Benevolence which Love to God and Justice shal in a discerning head towards Man support ●is Dignity or if blasted with Mal-co●tents in the spring of the Resurrection of the Just their Honor sh●l recover puting on never-fading flourishes of Glory and Renown II. He had great Courage He feared not the wrath of the King having once shown publickly his commission but brought and led Israel out from among them Heb. 11. 27. So long as it was a Pocket deed he was cautious and hid in the sand the slaine Egyptian flying to Mid●an waiting a fairer opportunity that more Affiction might advise his Countrey-men to embrace his Mediation for Liberating them from Pharaoh's thraldom But when pronounced in the ears of the People and Pharaoh knew that God sent him as that King Richard he became a Cor de Lyon how low soever a man beareth his sail being once called upon by the great Admiral to come up hither and ply toward the coa●t of Authority and Power for battering down Forts and Citad●ls raised agai●st Heavens Dominon in the tongue heart and houses of the debauch'd he will and ought to bear up brav●ly sitting as on Mars hill God before them as so●e where the Athenians had their godd●ss on a c●shon cryi●g with Moses even the multitude dancing about the Gold●n Calf Who is on the Lords side let him come unto me Ex 32. 26. With the people Dulnesse is oft took for Circumspection Lasi●ess for Modesty Rashness for Courage and therefore Courage here is not to be understood M●rtial Law that a sm●l fault should reach to Death Draco like punishing each triffle with extre●m Rigor but here is only pressed a Heroicisme in finding out Ca●ses that the Rich oppresse not that the 〈◊〉 dash no● that the Modest lose not and that the Scorner triumph not and that the Sentenced threaten not and all in a noble passion in●ffeasive and irreproachful Boldness then shal God say with that She-Magistrat Deborah my heart is toward the Governours of Israel My heart is towards the Magistrats of Edinburgh Jud. 5. 9 I shal not altogether condemn Cotys a King in Thrace he might have good ground from the Constitution of his Subjects to ●ssert when once furious in passion being told it was not Kingly answered● this passion of mine keepeth all my subjects c●lm F●r oft coyness sharpaess not to say s●verity is good Search all Histories and there is but here a battel if any but such as were fought by Kings and Magistrats whether in Israel Greece Baby●on or Rome and their highest Honors flowed from their eminent hazarding themselves for their Countreys Honour such a time may this be and your Scarlet G●wn may but shadow Bloody Services your Sword comman●ed from its velvet sheath to lodge in the breast of a declared F●e the safety of your City may consist in casting over the W●ll the head of some traitorous Sheba there is valour to be regarded and valiantly to be debated for Figure● in that when any of the People sinned through Ignorance in Moses Law and it had come to his knowledge he was to bring a kid of the Goats or a Female without blemish Levit. 4 23. But when a Ruler had so done he was from the same flock to bring without a blemish a Male A Magistrat being to be of a Masculine spirit and nothing Femi●●ne to 〈◊〉 noticed by him even towards God How much more should he shew Virility even among m●n 3. He had great Prudence He discreetly fled when he saw his Brethren did disrespect him as one not designed to be a Deliverer of them where he stopped And this is chiefly to be pondered upon that a Magistrat is closely to heed his own Province if it be ordinarily bold or furious or by a particular malus Genius inclined to Lust Intemperance Craftinesse or Theft or Silly as the Inh●bitants of Silesia are said to be mostly Fools that by intuitive speculation a malady a Rupture may be foreseen and by abundance of Caution make his people beware of lewd attempts In this a Wise man differing from the Otherwise that the one beholds the performance of evil in its Causes the other never believes it untill it be done the People thinking generally no such thing was intended which they behold frustrate the Magistrat is to see it done in its occasion and one word of the Danger by disappointing opportunities of Mischief There are who finds in the vulgar no reason of their doing no spirit to discern touching what is to be done A Magistrat must walk Antipodes to such blind Bayards and reason to discern and dis●●rn to determine and after determining to be resolute What more the Coat Arm of Justice with an old Herauld bea●●th Azure charged with a pair of Ballances Argent the first Bl●w the other White which is by interpretation Charity Purity Chastity with discretion and vigilancy in Service to the Justitiary in weighing out the Imports of Business Challenges and Probations 4. He had great Holiness In this Moses was Exemplar early refusing to be called the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter Rejoycing in the Affliction of

and night unto him Luke 18. But Ha●k This Rule is not so head-strong as to run a Gallop before the cause be searched found and the truth of it be searched by the Law and sealed by its Signature God came down to try Sodom before he came to execution And speedily here stands in opposition both to rashness and dulness wherefore Alexander the Great was great in this that in hearing Causes he closed still one ear keeping that for the other Party that until both were heard the Complainer had but half his hearing When all Offices worthy of the Purple or Scarlet Robe are performed and the fire of Truth unquestionably falling upon the black Tinder of Impure actings to delay the execution of the Sentence is to be Grand-child to the Unjust Judge a tedious demurr being contrary to the institution of the Rule Or if there must be a delay it is Magistrate-craft and that belongs to your selves SECT II. The Rule by which Magistrates are to be chosen TO speak of the necessity of Magistrates and enforce it with discerning Arguments were equally to lose time as to evict at large the expediency of the Suns light and Moons brightness The custom of five days Rant and Liberty to Debauch given in Persia at the Interval of Kings and Rulers riotously opened the dullest understanding for serious Resolves perpetuating the Instalment of Judges for Justice and Judgement the first for punishing the Guilty the latter for acquitting the Innocent Such now being the condition of all places that for sin by wrath and through unpeaceableness by lust Israel Gods own Land the Temple his own House and Jerusalem his own City must have overseers under him or it shall perish yea Babel would be more confounded and Samaria more idolatrous had it not a Rule some way or other to order that confusion and preserve it from destruction to manage that Idolatry that as each one pleased it might not be his will-worship For 300. years Rome had not many yet some Laws and those chiefly relating to Martial Affairs but afterward the Athenian Tables were the Rules of Justice and the Ballance in which the due weight of Affairs were pondered Therefore Artaxerxes whose name carries in it both Strength and War having obtained peace knowing a Magistrat to be Atlas Civitatis the chief support of any Countrey without whom the Rabble of a Mercat could not avoid Tumult civiliz'd Nations having Aediles Cereales Overseers thereof ordained Ezrah which signifyeth Assistance or Help to Cull out such by name assigning them particular Jurisdictions as the Lot or Circuite of their Charge here one City and there many Villages And the Rule by which he was to choose them was according to the Law of his God Charitably conjecturing this to be done by him Ezrah choosed for Judges I. Able men 2. Fearers of God 3. Lovers of Truth 4. Haters of Covetousness Exod. 18. 21. 1. Men of Ability Whether you descend to the gifts of the Mind in Activity and Strength of Judgement or if you fix upon the Joynts of the Body in a Nimbleness for Action or whether you lodge within the House in a fair competent Estate and comely Affluence I care not for such things as these are to be understood according to the Port a Ruler is chosen for The want of any one of these diminishing from the splendor or casting some refuse upon a Judges Robe And the enjoying of all these is adequat to that harmless Pomp ought to be viewed by the eye-gazing● people for they being much taken by sight if somewhat more then ordinary be not perceived the Divine Institution of Authority as by some secret Magical Spel shall want its due Respect and Veneration Thus David was of a goodly Countenance and a comely Youth Saul hath been a man of a Noble Meen and Carriage And Davi● went on and grew great 2 Sam. 5. Above all things get this day Able that is Wise Rulers without which all Law all Reason from Law will be Mank and Lame For if there be not in the Officers Internal Principles of Active Prudence to Consult Determine Discuss and Dispatch Affai●s by strong Apprehension contingency of Events and Experimental Observation of past Occurrences both Error and Terror shall Invade the City 2. Men fearing God Why are Judges called gods But that the people may fear them and for the upholding of that same fear in themselves towards him whose name they bear For no sooner did Adam that great Magistrate receiving Homage of the Creatures they taking from him a name rebel from fearing the Lord but he stood in fear of himself and of a little cold Air of a small Serpent of a Fiery Angel c. The Majesty of Gods Word which he is still to eye● the Deformity of Vice which he is still to punish the Preservation of the City from the Judgements wickedness shall procure the Convulsions Shakings of the strongest founded Bodies which ungodliness shall cause we presume shall plead the fear of God being set up in the High Place of this Ancient and Honourable Metropolis before your voicing for the fearers of his Name to be voted for for retaining that old Epithet of your City and making it truly the Good Town Be it Sound Be it Fond what Interpreters of Dreams pretend is foreseen in them that a person Dreaming of being a Magistrate Ominats Care Vexation and Trouble I shall not Dispute this is sure that neither the Wealth Honour nor Glory Solomon brought Israel could after his Death secure him from the name of an Oppressour And that Poor Wise Man that defended his City was basely slighted by ingrate Citizens Eccles. 9. 15. Avouching that the true fear of God is the only sure Card that a Magistrate can expect to win either Honour that is lasting Peace that is inward or Comfort that is spiritual from Edward the 6. Englands Josiah gave in a Medal a Sphear surmounted with a Crown a right hand issuing from a Cloud holding the Glob fixed by a Chain with this Symbole Nil sine Deo God is all in all informing that whosoever have Government must reflect that Heaven hath the chief Regiment and if its Hand support not which Fear only keeps st●dfast he will suffer the Kingdom or City to fall into shivers as a broken Vessel not to be regarded be the Laws never so sharp and severe Piety in the Heart only sanctifying the Rod in the Hand of the Politick Father for amending his stubborn Son and removing guilt from the place by his due execution Gen. 20. 7. 3. Men loving Truth That is so to search and sift out the T●uth that from a heap of Dust they may seek until they find not accounting the Inquest burdensome one grain of solid Verity being worth much Incustry and sweat The love of Fire will make men seek for it from the Concussions of two Flints from two opposite and strong Fore-heads and fiery Contentions An exi●t Surveyer will fetch Sparks

Christ. If holiness consist in a right understanding of God and in a due worshipping of God Moses life is as a Myrrour he consulting for and desiring after more and mo●e Communion with and knowledge of the Glory of God an Enemy he was to all Idolatry and severe in punishing any Iniquity by Reproving by Correcting the Offender all which wrought a two fold effect 1. Care over the People 2. Prayer for the People he led Which the good King of France Clodoveus had in his eye who for a Honorarium on a solemn day gave in a Medal two er●cted elbowes and hands elevated toward Heaven supported by other two strong armes with this superscription Tu●issimus This giveth Security implying that F●●vent Supplications were preferable to all Industry to all Armes to all Knowledge for supposing the Possession of all these yet with Moses must the M●gistrat go to the Mount to make Attonement for the sins of the People even when the Malefactor is put to death and the deluded by him put to shame Exod. 32. 30. It is now ●easonable for we are come to Prayer t● turn Right Reverend from Moses Throne to Aarons Altar and behold his Employ in this affair of 〈…〉 of the People as a Flock But this would 〈◊〉 if alone 〈◊〉 of a dividing Nature and would speak two men whereas our Text only speaks of different Hands such is the Union of this Moses and that ●aron that they seem to be acted but by one Soul I mean the Spirit of Love that is of God performing one and the same Office as by a Right and Left hand A Left hand not in a Sinister sense but in an Inferior degree This shal be further understood if you consider 1. Their Nearness 2. Their Dearness 1. Their Nearness They were both Sons of one Parent both Children to Amrana and Jochbed Exod. 6. 20. only Aaron was the first-born being three years Moses's Elder Exod. 7. 7. Ministry and Magistracy for so a litle while it must be since it is Aaron and Moses Exod. 6. 26. Aaron being Senior and therefore Priest ought Brotherly to behave toward each other and we may conjure the greatest Governor the highest Ruler when contemning the Priest in the words of God to Moses Is not Aaron the Levit thy Brother Exod 4. 14. Not but that Moses was a L●vit too but Aaron is said to be the Levit not only for distinctions sake from others of that Name but futurely designing him as Levit for the Root of the Priest-hood for ever And so near hath been the Relation in all Countreys that they seldom parted by Law and if by violence it was mischievous They were united in Adam who was both King of the World and Priest of the ●ongregation His Commission for ruling is partly expressed Have thou Dominion and partly 〈…〉 Wife and Children being from him Authority for Pr●●st-hood is seen in that History ca● brought o● the f●uit of the ground an offering unto the Lord 〈…〉 Firstlings of his Flock where wh● c●n d●●bt but the F●ther of all was Sacrificer for all at the 〈◊〉 of the World as Noah afterward was at the be●inn●ng of the New his Sons and their Wives making up 〈◊〉 Corgregation here consisting of good and bad for here was a H●m And Adam's ●ons Wife and Daughters being all the Congregation there where bad and good appeared for there was a Cain If with the Historian there were two Tables of Stone upon which Adam writ Shall I say his Bible The Doctrine of the Creation Fall Redemption of the world for the Assembly I know not But sure there was a peculiar place the Co●gregation came too and to that place they brought their offerings and that place is also to be understood the presence of the Lord from which Cain fled Gen. 4. 16. The time would fail me to speak of that Mighty Prince Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob who were holy Priests and n●ble Rulers upon Earth and if Jo● was that Johab Ki●g of Fdom Gen. 36 this holds good that 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 are near other for th●t King was 〈◊〉 in the 〈…〉 his daily sacrifice Of 〈◊〉 we might say many thi●gs but let this 〈…〉 the other yea and of the spoil gotten in war so closely was his Priest-hood eyed Heb. 7. 6. This Solomon regarded so much that his Regal Titles are imperfect when sum'd up if I the Preacher was King of Israel in Jerusalem be ommitted Eccles. 1. 12. After the beginning of Time men multiplying in the World the first born the Elder Son after the Father was ex Virtute by priviledge of Birthright Priest to the Family and Master thereof Numb 3. 12. Hence Esau was called profane for selling his Birth-right thereby regarding not his Priest-hood for which chiefly the Birthright was then regarded or at least one great cause Gen. 25. 34. At the Erection so to speak of the Egyptian Principality and reducing it to a Kingdom it was made fundamental at the Instalment of Menes the first King to chuse alwayes one from among the Priests and if the Kingdom by conquest happened to fall into the hands of an Invader before he could be established he was necessitat to be consecrated Priest and then concluded Lawful when both King and Priest Their Nation being still upheld by Kings Priests Warriours and Tradesmen Priests first in Jury and afterward Kings were both ●nointed with Oyle by Moses by Samuel by Nathan c. that is by Prophets and Seers congruously enough for as Oyle they should hold and shine together being appointed to be uppermost and nearest God not mixing themselves with the Watery Unsteady and Fleety Multitude of the Earthling Worldly Vulgar with which if once incorporate both are diminished of their glory From this hath proceeded that some in Zeal some in Dispair some Kings for this and the other Cause hath laid down their Crowns and put on the Mi●er turning Church-men as still Royal how meanly soever they were attended and some Church-men have again been Elected Kings as still being in a holy Employment not destroying their Sacred Ordination Abbacyes being governed by Kings and Kingdoms ruled by Bishops so nearly are these two related Nay the most noble order of Knight-hood wants not a Bishop of its own Body He of Winchester in England ●eing ex Officio Prelate of the Ga●ter And Honi Soit Qut Mal. Y● pense it proceeds from evil to grudge now that the Sover●ign and Companions of the Order should have what its first Founder concluded it could not want viz. a Venerable Church-man to blesse the Royal Corporation for what hinders a Bishop from being among Knights and reckoned among th●m since a Courtier owneth Elijah to be and reckoneth him among Lords 1 King 18. There are pre●umptions that Jethro was both Priest and Prince in M●dian Exod. 2. 16. serving as Mel●hisedec at Salem the true God 〈◊〉 some mixture of Idolatry which by Instruction being winnowed off by Moses