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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

charge of the City only yet afterwards his Dominion extended to an hundreth miles about it exercising his Prefectory Prepositorship or Provostry for so I may call it according to the Idiome of the word as doing as going as speaking before the people for example for conduct for caveat that nothing should be done wickedly undertaken rashly or uttered indiscreetly against the b●nefit of that Body under inspection So Samuel was Magist●atus that is Magnus Magistratus shinely brightly being truely feared and highly approved of the people 1 Sam. 12. 3. It was said by a great man that nothing was more difficult then to govern well and such as are apt but to the contemplation how much more they that are called to the exercise of Magistracy shall find it more then ceremonious to be a Ruler For conform to Artaxerxes the end of that call is for 1. Judging 2. Teaching 3. Punishing of the people of which in order 1. Judging insinuating clearness of understanding This word Judices or Judges is from Jus dicere speaking audibly what the Law inwardly hath conceived his eye directing diving into the most dark recesses of a Statute for clearing up the iniquity or innocency of a cau●e depending before his Bench or standing at his Bar not torturing or stretching the joynts the●eof upon the Rock of subtilty but wisely to respect the meaning and ultimat scope of the appointed rule which is never to oppress What Sinews and Arteries are unto the Natural Body forming for upright walking that Judgement is to the Politick Bulk of a Society moving for discerning betwixt the clean and the unclean in Ezekiels style c. 44. Ocularly as it were pointing at their several natures for imbracing the one and spurning at the other and to discern between good and bad in Solomons wish 1 King 3. Dogmatically by an authoritative sentence unto which in that critical case of the Harlots an eager and sharp prying into the Law of Nature dissipated all foggy complaints solidly discovered the true Mother by an unusual command of dividing the child procuring a reverend fear unto his own Regal person all inferring from this acute discovery that there was no bemisting of his unde●standing For compleating of mans judgement or perfecting of justice Philosophers required these three things 1. Memory 2. Intelligence 3. Observation of providence and if we can remember the import of these it will much irradiat our understandings for giving Judgement in any case For 1. Memory is a repository for storing up Registers of former or past actings that as from a Bank they may be provided for ex tempore assaults Or again that Justice be not perverted when at last it may be casu●lly impeded but executed So Gamaliel secured the lives of the Apostles against the Councils resolution Acts 5. from calling to mind the unprosperous insurrections of Theudas and Judas So David at last executed judgement on Joab and Shimei proving at length too strong for any son of Belial 1 Kings 2. And Cesar's not reading the Letter that discovered his own intended murther by a miscreant crew of Conspirators given him before he went to the Senate may compel a Magistrate in tumults into a sagacious inspection of any informatory Epistle given in his approach to Court or Council or in earnest in the most serene tranquility of the calmest debate That check the oppressed yet loyal Machetas gave Philip of Macedon passing through inadvertence an unjust sentence may cause a Justitiary to have both his eyes open in deciding Causes It was this beholding the King drowsie and more then half asleep while the Pleaders pleaded condemned him in a certain sum upon which Machetas with a loud voice appealed from him this enraged and throughly awaked the King demanding to whom To your self Sir said he when you are perfectly awake This made the ingenuous Prince blush who hearing the Cause attentively again gave true judgement himself paying to the other Party the debt he had unjustly ordered the Appealer to discharge The same Prince in a hurry being complained unto by a poor oppressed Woman told her He was not at leasure she boldly enough replyed Then be not at leasure to be King The shamefac'd Worthy first gave her justice and frequently after that heard all complaints himself The remembrance of which and such other passages how competently as to the memory would they qualifie a Judge The 2. Intelligence is a pondering upon and searching as far as possible into the nature and circumstance of things present and before them the Complainers Grievance and the Plaintiffs Replyes being not alwayes writ in Text Hand craft and cousenage will dim the Letters and to make them appear fine they will it may be by the Parties be drawn forth in small Characters To this how excellent is a quick and piercing eye to know each Comma for keeping sense and right reading from the breath eye countenance of the most audacious arrive at the full Point or period of exact sentence and may triumph in the conquest over falshood yea perhaps preventing perjury Besides this darkness the unusualness of the case may jumble a Judge if not more then ordinary ready to apprehend what to do I have oft wondered at that Sentence of the Areopagi before whom a Lady was accused for killing her Husband and Son who had dispatched a Son of hers by a former Husband here there was cause to condemn and some cause to have compassion in securing life in deep meditation they ordered the Woman and her Accuser to appear before them some hundreds of years after that declaring thereby they would not absolve nor could not condemn leaving the case to the determination of the gods the Law of the true God not being known and the poor Madam tempted to such a passion by so treacherous a deed Magistrates are Heads and excessively fatal will it prove to the least Precinct to be moved by an eyeless that is a Headless Head success not being so betrothed to each blind man as she was to that famous Bohemian Zisca who fought several Battels with one eye and some with never a one yet still conquered the Papal Armies But also observe his victories proceeded from the bright Lamp of his beaming understanding or rather Sun of clear Judgement upon the information of the Enemies Array the Eye of the Body being but the Casement through which the vivacious Soul emits her light And a wise man will be wise in a dark Room and see clearly what to do though his eye-lids be closed A disjoynted Pilot will not secure a Vessel and a rash inadvertent and inconsiderat person Nature her self hath made unapt for a Judges Employ Pharaoh will have men of activity set over his Cattel Gen. 47. not Sir Dull-man who can neither judge of the Weather nor Pasture nor condition nor case of the Beast And finding Joseph discreet and wise he made him Ruler over all his House Solomon craved wisdom to go in and out

them who will be most for your Cities Credit Wealth Godliness and Honour And your own Reputes in your going off and falling back in the Minds and Tongues of your Numerous Inhabitants who will immediatly be Curious to behold their New Mag●strates FINIS At this time there were Elected for MAGISTRATES Sir Andrew Ramsay Lord Provost Bailies William Reid James Davidson John Fullartoun George Drummond Robert Sandelands L. Dean of Gild. John Scot L. Thesaurer c. DUORUM UNITAS OR The Agreement of Magistracy and Ministry Preached at the Election of the Honourable Magistrats of Edinburgh October 2. 1666. And at the opening of a Diocesian Synod of the Reverend Clergy there PSAL. LXXVII Thou leddest thy people like a Flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron AMong the Diversity of Gifts which the Author of every Perfect Donation giveth unto Man it is eminently seen that Government of the World hath a principal part of his Wisdom and Liberality Communicating to this and that other Person Rich Endowments for that and this Affair Employ Trade or Calling for the beautifying that Corporation He in his providence is erecting Hence floweth that Impulse in youth yea in child-hood for Wo●k for Books for Speaking Writing for Armes for Arts we frequently do with wonderbehold But as all motions must have a fixed Axis to move upon and a Basis virtuating the utmost point so still hath GOD elected from that Mass of people them who have in their spirits been adopted even afar off for Regiment and Rule Some from the Womb being of so servile a Nature that the whole survey of their Life or Actings their highest principle is but a token of subjection Nature having made them of so knotty timber no education can form them to a capability of being Mercurial whether for Wisdom or Eloquence Whereas others are of so pure a grain that the beaming souls beyond their years are discov●ring somewhat predictive of Honour and Grandour R●mulus Romes First King and Founder when a poor Shepherd would sit and determine causes among his fellows they giving both Audience and Reverence to his Decisions We read that Phara●h once putting his Crown upon the head of his adopted Grand-son Moses when a Child his little armes pulled it away and his feet spurned at it in scorn ominous to that Egyptian Demonstration of his future not fearing the wrath of the King His killing the Egyptian and saving the Hebrew did prognostick deliverance of the Jews from bondage and by keeping of a Flock had thereby learned how to rule and govern Men being thereby actually fitted for that employ unto which from the Cradle he had been inclinable Yet as none is Eminent in all Abilities Moses was though excellent at Government whereof the Shepherds rod was the Ensign yet not in Elocution of which his stammering or slow-tongue is witness Exod. 4. 10. To help him therefore in his Government a Brother Eloquent and of a flourishing because of a fluent style is joyned to him as a Collegue that the one profound in judgement may ponder what is to be done the other in charming R●etorick may alu●e to perform what is deemed necessary in doing And it being very usual to express the facund and smooth guiding of the tongue by a hand Oratory perswading that is leading Her hearers to run in and rest upon that purpose She is pressing for or painting out The people are said to be led by the hands of MOSES and AARON Hence it is that the two Princes of Gods Israel diversified in Gifts are united in the End for leading Israel like a flock The great end was for obeying God for him did Moses eye in all his meditation and him did Aaron respect in all his elocution that he not they might get the Glory of their united Industry and powerful Atchiefments Whence it is not said that Moses and Aaron but that God led His People like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron His Head in Contrivance His lips in Utterance both as a Shepherds Rod or Commanders staffe inclining them or beckonning towards them to move in that Path wherein there was Profit Security and Honour We call it a Drove of Oxen a Herd of Deere a Rout of Wolfes but usually a Flock of sheep and so it is here not that the people were alwayes pe●ceable for they were sometimes as a Sounder of u●ruly swine but because they were governed and cared-for as Sheep and when straying as by the Dog of some Judgement were they again brought into a better order by the Hands that is by the Prudence Conduct and Wisedom of Moses and Aaron The First being a Noble Prince the other a Holy Prelate Sones of one Womb Crowned Consecrat for this Employ Literally here Morally for ever still and In perpetuum while time shal be no more God Governing His Church by the Hands that is by the Industry of Magistracy and Ministry I do not say the words divide themselves for I fear and hate Division here bet●ixt ●hose two but branch themselves forth betwixt Church and State And let us speak with all Humility of the one and Reverently of the other Beginning with the State For though Aaron be the Elder yet Moses is the greater Brother therefore it is Moses and Aaron Moses the fi●st Great Magistrate over Gods United People and in him there is a plat-form for all people loving union in the Choice of Magistrates giving Ab incunabulis from the Milk proper Doctrine for this day Right Honourable and Most Reverend in that 1. His Body speaketh Beauty 2. His Name sheweth Duty 3. His Endowments m●tives to pray for Equality 1. His Body speaketh Beauty This heightned the Parental Affections his Parents had for him stirring up compassion enliven'd by Faith exercised in care for saving of His life that He was a goodly Child Exod. 2. 2. concluding forcibly from Faith and Sense a Boy of such Vigourousness Comelinesse such infantile Man-hood was by Providence never designed for Food to Fishes such the Hebrew word Tob senseth the Goodnesse the Elegance the Shapelinesse of His F●ature The Comelinesse of His but new seen Aspect the Symetry and Proportion of His several parts the exact joyning of His several Limbs with the pleasure of His Lovely Stature to speak of Him as a Man his Parents foresaw He was born to Command and having its thought a particular Revelation of this their Son a general promise being too general for them to conclude a Deliverer from their family They laid him rather than cast him out in the Arms of Providence by Faith Heb. 11. 23. about the Kings Garden for Princely Education and Breeding suteable to the Harmonious content they took in beholding His divided Limbs Argueing for Understanding of a R●fulgent Soul when Experience should hold up the Hangings or withdraw the Curtains of Infancy a●d Childhood Suffer Moses to suck the Teat or Pap of his Mother a while or to rest in the Cradel rock'd by

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

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