Then will I set my face against that man and his family and will cut him off and all that go a whoring after him I will set my face against that soul c. II. Deut. 27.15 Cursed is that man that puts any graven or molten image in a secret place IV. On the idols Deut. 7.5 Destroy their altars and break down their images their groves shall ye cut down and burn their graven images with fire Numb 33.52 ye shall destroy all their pictures and molten images and pluck down their high places Numb 32.52 and quite pluck down all their high places V. Judgement is on the places of idol-worship Deut. 12.2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations ye shall possess served their gods upon the high mountains and hills and under every green tree Vers 3. Ye shall overthrow their altars break their pillars and burn their groves with fire ye shall throw down the graven images of their gods Judg. 6.25 2 King 32. 2 Chron. 23.17 VI. Judgements is one the names of the false gods Deut. 7.25 Ye shall destroy the names of them out of that place Zech. 13.2 the same shall be done in time to come VII Judgement is on the idols of gold and silver Deut. 7.25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire Then shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it to thee lest thou be snared therein for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God Vers 26. Thou shalt not bring in an abomination into thy house lest thou be an accursed thing like it but shalt utterly detest it and abhor it for it is an accursed thing Vide Joshua 6.18 and Chapter 7.1 15 21. to the end of the Chapter Observations 1. That metals were to be melted with fire stone glass and such-like fragil things were to be broken with the hammer to powder 2. What work hath God to do yet for us were we once joyned by covenant to the Lord names of moneths dayes of the week and those places we call Churches Altars the names of idols false gods c. are daily and hourely in our mouths as in our swearing by the Mass VIII Judgement It defiles a land 1. How this nation by worshipping of idols in the time of Antichrist hath profaned that Scripture is the covenant is clear and in regard he is a jealous God he is no less jealous of our apostatizing then of our fathers especially seeing we have done hitherto the work of the Lord negligently not making our covenant in a right way taking him to be our God but not in his laws to judge and rule over us 2. He visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children you may see without a speedy covenanting with God according to his will what provocation there remaines for God whose hand is yet stretched out to destroy us we having been as idolatrous superstitious and profane a people as any in the world O England remember the bloodshed for the idol of the Mass and its worship and that by Statutes and Acts of Parliament together with the other six bloody Articles made by King and Parliament in the time of Henry the eighth 3. It may be said as those in Jonah 3.9 Who can tell whether the Lord will turn and repent so if the King had made this covenant and set up this law this had been the way for to have restored him but it was hid from his eyes I beseech you O ye Parliament of England be admonished do this great thing that the Lord lay not you aside also and if ye hinder herein see what a command God hath given against all hinderances Esa 57.14 Cast ye up cast ye up prepare the way take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people God hath of late taken up many that were stumbling-b ocks among your selves since ye sate and will spare none that indeed is so this day to his peoples freedom and deliverance And that the judicial law ought to be set up among us as well as the Jews clearly was signified in this that the law was to be one as well to the stranger as to those home-born which should not have been if God had intended it only to have been a law to Jews and nor the Gentiles also there being the same ground for equity justice and for fellowship with God with one as with the other with God there being no respect of persons Levit. 24.10.22 Numb 15.29 33 31. Deut. 1.16 5.14 Objections made by Sir H. V. Object 1. To restore the rule of the law is to Judaize Resp 1. To rule by our own law is to heathenize 2. Having Gods law and yet to rule by that is much worse 3. We now Judaize by making void the law of God by our Traditions 4. To Judaize is properly to continue in Gods worship some ceremony Christ by his death hath put an end unto 1. The law judicial hath nothing ceremonial in it 2. Christ put not an end to it but established it 3. The Law was not made for the Jew only but All and said indefinitely to be made for transgressors thereof of all Nations 1 Tim 1 9 10. 2. Object We look for a better kinde of rule from Christ 1. Resp As there shall never be another Gospel so shall there never be another law God having shut up all 2. As there cannot be a Gospel more full of grace so nor can there be a law more full of justice and righteousness 3. How can we expect that from God which neither by himself his Son nor Prophets in all the book of God was never promised no not by one word 4. If it were supposed a better law for goverment of the republike might be given as can never be Quere 1. Whether we might receive it without warrant expresly given by God whiles we have that of Gods which he gave himself 2. If be that gave it be not accursed as he that should give another Gospel 1 Gal. 4.1 9. 5. Whether it be not exceedingly to derogate from God to esteem of any rule like or above his It s objected by some That the Jews had several Synedries viz. the sevnty and twenty three Resp From Isa 1.26 God will restore councellors as at the beginning not councels that is but one and the Synedrie is but one Mat. 5.22 and not Synedries so that the Jews in setting up more then one Synedrie did a postatize from the rule Command the Third Exod. 20.7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord the God in vaine c. Statute DEut. 6.13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him and shalt swear by his name Levit. 19.12 Ye shall not swear by my name falsly nor profane the name of thy God Jer. 5.7 thy children swear by them are no gods Judgements I. Hosea 4. vers 2.3 on a land For oaths the land mourneth II. On a family Dan. 3.29 He
by bearing Gods more then by bearing our own Gods law will make an 〈◊〉 among men 4. This objection agrees with that of God Ephraim is an heifer unaccustomed to the yoke and so would for a while kick against the pricks 5. That our evil nation will best bear our own laws â—â—â—â—es not that the laws therefore are Gods but against them that they are therefore evil 6. We are not to consider what our Nation will bear but what they should bear which is the law and yoak of God and not men Object Others say Something may be diminished from the sentence of the Law but nothing may be added Resolv The one is expresly forbid as well the other by the word and Law of God Deut. 4.2 Josua 23.6 Others will say This is to be under Moses not Jesus Christ and to revive the Law again 1. The Law was never destroyed that is the Judicial and Moral though the Ceremonial be for Christ came not to destroy the Law but to establish it which thou wouldst have destroyed 2. As in in the time of Moses there was Moses rule in the Jews Commonweal and Aarons in the Temple and these were distinct so now 2. The like form we still retain in our Church and State-government the State-government ought to be that of Moses and that because God he gave no other and Christ saith he destroyed not that the Church government now is changed from that of Aarons in Priesthood Ministry Administrations and Rule so that now it is Moses and Christ before Moses and Aaron ruled 3. Those under Christ are so far from being without law as that the law is more excellently opened and taught in a more spiritual way then Moses taught or the people under Moses could bear This is cleared Mat. 5.27 Ye have heard it hath been said to those of old That is those first in Moses time covenanted with God in the law by Moses Thou shalt not commit Adultery vers 28. But I that is Christ say unto you He that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her in his heart 1. Hence under Christ in the Gospel-estate God is said to Judge the secrets of men according to the Gospel Rom. 2.16 2. God by the law under Moses judgeth the acts of the outward man done in the flesh against the law and sets downe the judgement and punishment thereof 3. Heace Paul 1 Tim. 5.27 The sins of some are open before-hand and go before to Judgement under Moses others follow after under the judgement of Christ Question is Whether law of God be not as absolutely necessary to rule and govern men in the civil Estate as in the other of the Ecclesiastick 2. Whether it be not as unlawful to set up a law contrary to God in the one as in the other 3. Whether it be not the proper authority of God to give laws to men in the one as well as the other Moses and the law set men on doing Christ on doing and because we cannot do the law therefore to believe assuring us that in that we shall receive the promise and be freed from the curse of the law likewise 1. Note This Christ manifests that Judgement of external acts against the law of Moses was left to Moses Luk. 12 13 14. the man that came to have the inheritance divided to Christ had this answer Who made me a Judge or a Divider 2 In the woman taken in the act of Adultery Ioh. 8.3 4 56. Christ he would not accuse nor condemne her for now when Shilo was come the Scepter was departed Again the woman was dismissed not absolved because there was no accnsers Object Some say there is not the like severity used under the Gospel as under the law in judgement against sin Resp This was the first ground of the Manichean Heresie for in making difference between the proceedings of Justice under the Law and the Gospel against sin you lay a foundation for the setting forth of two Gods one severe the other merciful 2. The Gospel doth not mitigate but aggravate sin and consequently punishment 3. Christ did not destroy the law nor mitigate the punishment to any unbeliever of what is set down in the law nay if a believer fall into these sins and he suffer in the body it is that his soul may be saved in the day of the Lord. The incestuous person was not put to death the Church having not that power Note The preventing grace of God keeps the believer from the sin that is unto death Joh. 15.17 4. If it be mitigated men should do well to shew from the mouth of God in what it was mitigated to whom and whether to all or some sinne onely and why not to all as well as some and whether it be in the command or in the statute or the punishment or in all and how it can be in any one of these and not in all and each of them or how this can be under the Gospel and not be by Christ and how he 1. establisheth the law 2. and doth not destroy it in part more then many Iota's or tittles though not in whole 5. If it be strictly examined there is more severity then Gods law alloweth of in some of our now laws and in some less in which both there is injustice committed according to the measure we deâ—â—â—â— from the law of God either to the right hand or to the left 6. It is to be observed that the Judges designed to hear difficult causes which were not clear to the other Judges were not to give senteace of their owne they were to do it according to the sentence of the law Deut. 17.11 which shews clearly this that where the law is not expresly declared concerning a case in hand that it may be is unusal among men there 1. That case is to be referred to these Judges 2. These Judges must judge according to the sentence of the law though not in some yet in facts of the like nature with that 3. They were to shew the sentence out of the law and to teach it them if they understood it not 4. Then and not untill then they were to put the sentence in execution 5. If upon all this the man should presumptuously refuse to hearken and obey and say he was not to do it the man was to be put to death 6. This course was not to be taken but onely then and in that case when it was not clearly resolved in the word to all Applic. Is this To those which say many cases are not set downe in the word nor can it be a rule to judge by Resp It is granted yet is there provision made to remedy that by the Judges aforesaid Object How is the law perfect then Resp The Judges shall find the thing sentenced in the law though not under that name in some sin of the same kinde from which they must not decline the law like the Vrim
was not made with the Nation or people of the Jews by Moses Jer. 7.22 23 24. Josh 8. ult 2 Cor. 3.14.15 2. There was a new covenant in which not Moses but Christ is the Mediator which is a better covenant having not the law written in tables of stone but in the heart Heb. 8.10 which had better promises vers 6. and Christ said to be a Priest of good things to come which was only made with believers in the Lord Jesus Christ in whom the law is kept only and indeed in shadow of which God after covenanting with him in the Mosaical covenant he gave Aarons Priesthood from Exod. 25. to the end Note As a Nation cannot subsist without rule and government in any order nor be without food and raiment nor continue or remaine if God curse them and bless them not so it is necessary for these that a National Covenant be made with God by us for the binding our selves to God to keep his commandments Statutes and Judgements and is as necessary for us as ever it was for the Jews by which God becomes engagedly the God of a Nation and they again his people and not nationally as before for by the new covenant God is not the God of a nation but of believers onely in a nation joyned to Christ in the way of the Gospel Object The New covenant implyes God hath made the first Old and that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish Heb. 8.13 Resp As Christ and Moses destroyed not one another nor the Gospel destroyes not the law so nor doth one covenant destroy another nor is the first covenant old but to those only that are in the second in which the first is as it were swallowed up or received into But to those that are onely under the first To them the first is so as if there were not a second and those under the second are so under that as if the first were not Note Men are to be first under the first or Sinai and thence come to Sion Heb. 12.18 22. and so Moses is a Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ Gal. 4.24 Rom. 9.4 Heb. 9.15 12.18 24. Illust As in the beginning of the goverment of the Jews Commonweal there was a rule set up for Judgement among the people called judicial laws to govern them by in which was the Kingly goverment of God and the law called the Royal and there was likewise the Levitical Law which appertained to the service of the tabernal in which Christs Priesthood was set out in things appertaining to God for the people which distinct estates are in a kind reserved among us this day in the Church and State As in Moses and Aaron so now should it be Moses and Christ But the Romans conquering Judea according to the prophecie Gen. 49.10 they put down their rule and government that they could put no man to death Judgement was now altered into the customs of the heathens and there ever since it hath continued and no nation in the world ever since taking God or God taking them to be his people as of old though lately we in a wrong way seemed to do it for at the renewing of the covenant the law and the statutes and judgements were only read and the people ingaging themselves to keep them a never did any Gospel-Church do any such thing nor shall ever do it nor were they the Church-paterns Antichrists mark is set down to be 2 Thes 2.8 one that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 without law that is he exerciseth not the law of God 〈…〉 up the covenant of the law but brings all the world and 〈…〉 to one estate which if he had not done or if we do not do we shall finde the one is as necessary among men in the world as the other in the Church And hence Antichrists workings are called the mystery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of lawlesness by whom the laws administrations are destroyed Object If we have this covenant we must have circumcision Resp The Apostle clears it Gal. 3.17 The covenant that was confirmed in circumcision before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty yeers after cannot disannul Now this covenant I speak of is distinguished from that by Moses thus Deut. 5.3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers but with us in Horeb even us who are all of us alive this day John 7.22 Moses gave you you circumcision not because it is of Moses but of the fathers Quest If this covenant be not sufficient to make men capable of baptism and whether men were not circumcised by this Resp Men were not circumcised by this but that other covenant spoke of Deut. 5.3 and was long before this 2. Baptism belongs to the second not first covenant in which God becomes our God not by doing but believing not by works but grace not in Moses but Christ Object The Apostles required not this in their time Resp 2 Pet. 3.13 They looked for a New Earth that is a restoration of that administration of the law to be but not untill the fall of Antichrists rule and government being of the fourth Monarchy 2. The law was for the worlds government that that they did concerned the Church and the new covenant onely and not the world 2 Chron. 15.12 13 14 15 Nehem. 8.1 2 3 4. Note Both covenants are necessary when they may be had and without the covenants is no promise Eph. 2.12 the heathens were Aliens from the civil estate of Israel Beza and strangers from the covenant of promise speaking of them both And thus it is with us this day Of Judges Note The Lord hath promised he will restore Judges as at the first Isa 1.26 and in them judgement and it was the great wrath of God that they were taken away out of the middest of the people Amos 2.3 and would it not be a mercy if this people might have them that never had them as at the first The first were of Gods institution and best those of other forms since of men and far worse O let our Judges be as at the first Moses the first of Judges by Jethro's advice Exod. 18.16 dissolved Monarchy in rule laying it down for his own and the peoples ease God consenting thereunto gave the people laws to be governed and Judges to govern them by who are described to the people Exod. 18.22 that they chuse not amiss who in the beginning of the government and after were chosen of the people Deut. 1.13 16.18 for which service men may be easily fitted in that the law was daily read in the Synagogues which was expounded by the Prophets and wise men sent of God to them which cannot be done in our law it was the Sabbath-work and service of God to teach it daily in publike and private and shall this law be thus laid aside neglected and not studied for the bramble-rule of the world and was subverted 1
that the son of thy handmaid and stranger be refreshed Numb 28.25 Jer. 17.21 Carry no burden Levit. 23.3 It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all their dwellings Exod. 16.29 Let no man go out of his place on the Sabbath Vers 26. Ye shall finde no manna thereon Deut. 31.16 The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual continue untill Christ came and carnal ceremonies were put to an end Rom. 4.11 3. God in Horeb makes a covenant with all the people Deut. 5.2 3. and in Exod. 31.16 The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout all their congregations for a perpetual covenant it is a signe between me and the children of Israel for ever Exod. 34.27 Objected This seems to hold out three covenants and the Scripture holds out but two Answ That Abraham had is the same with ours and hence is Abraham called the father of the faithful onely the administrations thereof differs now from what it had then 1. This covenant of the Law continuing the signe thereof must also continue Ezek. 20.20 My Sabbath as distinct from the Lords day 2. The Scriptures call after Christs resurrection the seventh-dayes-Sabbath Sabbath as well as the first if rightly translated 3. The Apostles met with the Jews and taught them that day usually 4. No Scripture shews the abolishing thereof 5. It is necessary those under that covenant should have a day and time to serve God in as those under the new 6. The Sabbath of the new must not be to those under the old covenant nor the Sabbath of the old to those under the new Mat. 9.17 Men put not new wine into old bottles nor peece an old garment with a new peece of cloth 7. In the estate of the Church all things are become new but then it is only with such as are of the Church with others not of the Church they are so under the old covenant as if there had never been any new Mark saith the Apostle what the law saith it saith to them that are under the law Rom. 3.13 so that those under the Law are commanded to work six dayes and rest the seventh only 8. Thus not an iota or tittle of the law perisheth the morality of the seventh-day-Sabbath is continued and yet no Judaizing in the thing for this was no part of the ceremonial law the ground of the seventh day being from the creation but of the ceremonies from the redemption of Christ 9. Thus Christ destroyes not the law but establisheth it Jesus Christ not taking unbelievers from being under the law in which estate they were and subjection thereunto 10. God will judge them by the law that are under the law Now the law requires them that are under it to keep the seventh day Sabbath Rom. 2.12 and those that are risen with Christ and marryed to him are under the Gospel and Gospel-day this truth shines forth clearly Rom. 7.1 2 3 4. where untill the woman is married to Christ shee is under her first husband Moses 11. The one hath a rest with God and beast and creatures by Moses the other hath a rest with God and Christ and angels souls of just men made perfect on mount Sion Heb. 12. Note Moses and Christ are two and do not destroy each other Christ onely perfects Moses the covenants are two the Sabbaths two the states two one of the world the other of the Church one under the law the other under the Gospel which estates are not to be confounded or made one Hence Col. 2.16 Let no man judge you in respect of the Sabbath dayes 1. Keeping the seventh day Sabbath while unbelievers 2. Being received by the Church and now observe the first and work on the seventh whereas before he wrought on the first and sanctified the seventh justly brings men to be judged and questioned for so doing among men not knowing the truth and the will of God therein A strange confusion in the world for some time there was if we may believe Socrates who saith the Church of Rome observed onely the first day Sabbath and all other Churches the seventh See into what division the loss of truth had brought the then world into and ever since in this darkness arose out of the bottomless-pit Rev. 9.3 hath the world been shut up 3. He that is under the law-day Sabbath is to be punished according to its law if he observe it not and he that is under the Gospel-Sabbath is to be proceeded against according to the way of the Gospel by those several powers set up of God in them Object God requires but one day of seven this is two Resp One day is but observed for those observe the first are not bound to observe the seventh and those bound to observe the seventh are not bound to observe the first Object Some would then be buying selling merchandizing on both dayes and no day observed which would be very gross confusion Resp This confusion in the Apostles dayes if you call it so and the Apostle never tearmed it such at all but saith Let no man judge you much more let no man condemne you in respect of Sabbath dayes Col. 2. 2. By this means the Apostles gathered the Jews and Judaizing Gentiles teaching in the Synagogues on the seventh and after in the Churches on the first 3. By this as the Jews held a preparation to their Sabbath so now is the seventh dayes Sabbath a preparation to the first 4. There is no sin where is no law Moses gave no command to those under the law to observe the first day Christ gave no command to those under grace to observe the seventh day Sabbath 5. Anrichrist could never have made the Church and the world one but by destroying those ordinances that separated them and making them one in Church-ordinances it was easie to perswade the world to be one with the Church but not the Church with the world Quest is If the law-estate can be restored and not the seventh dayes Sabbath 2. Whether men untill they are Evangelically called thence are not of and under that estate in respect of their visible estate and condition in the world Gal. 4.1 Object The Apostles gathered many from Paganisme and never were under the law at all Resp The legal external administration was in a manner abolished 2. Those were gathered were under it spiritually and inwardly before they were gathered 4. If God effectually called them to be under the second the first was waxen old to them then only and not before Object Who shall be Ministers of this administration seeing Aarons priesthood dyeth Resp Aaron was not the Minister of this this was ministred in the Synagogues Aaron ministred in the temple onely 2. The Scribes or Lawyers which were not Levites or Priests they read the law in Synagogues and are said to sit in Moses not Aarons chaire Mat. 23.2 3. In the
dayes rest Vers 5. In this againe of an other rest which is a dayes rest as the seventh day was is clear from vers 7. and the 8. Verse 9. This other day is called Sabbatismos a sabbatisme which is proper onely to the Church or people of God Vers 10. This Sabbath-rest men must strive to enter into in the other all men are compelled in this none but believers in the Kingdome of God injoy into which men are bid to strive to enter Object Here they are said to enter into this sabbatisme which is proper to the state of heaven to be entred into Resp Believers in Christ are said to enter into or be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the law to Christ or one in law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Christ 1 Cor. 9.21 Object Mark 2.28 Luke 6.5 Christ is said to be Lord of the Sabbath and in what was he so but in putting an end to it Resp That Scripture saith not so and is contrary to many express Scriptures where Christ saith A tittle of the law shall not perish and the Scripture is falsly rendered the word is The Lord is Son of man and of the Sabbath because made of woman and made under the law Gal. 4.4 Command the Fifth Exod. 20.12 Honour thy father and thy mother c. Statute LEvit 19.3 Ye shall fear every man his father and mother Vers 32. Ye shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man Mark 7.10 Gen. 22.6 Isaac submitteth to his father to dye Luke 2.51 and thus Jesus Christ the Rechabites obedience Jer. 35. and Gods blessing them Judgements Gen. 9.25 26. Noah curseth Cham with bondage and blesseth Japhet Deut. 27.16 Cursed be he setteth lightly by his father or mother Levit. 20.9 Every one that curseth his father or mother shall surely be put to death his blood shall be upon him Exod. 21.17 Exod. 21.15 He that smiteth his father or mother shall surely be put to death Numb 12.14 If her father had spit in her face should she not have been ashamed seven dayes which was a thing of contempt as in Deut. 25.9 and it may be either for disobeying or contemning of him Mark 7.10 The Gospel confirms it Who curseth father or mother let him dye the death Prov. 30.17 The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out Statute Deut. 4.9 Forget not the things thine eyes have seen c. but teach them thy sons and thy sons sons Vers 10. Especially the day thou stoodest before the Lord in Horeb Vers 13. and he declared to you his covenant which he commanded you to performe even the ten commandments Deut. 6.7 Thou shalt teach them diligently thy children and shalt talk of them when thon sittest in thy house when thou walkest by the way when thou lyest down and when thou risest up Judgement Deut. 21.18 If a man have a stubborn and a rebellious son that will not obey the voice of his father or his mother and that when they have chastened him he will not hearken unto them Vers 19. Then shall his father and mother lay hold of him and bring him out to the Elders of his City and the gate of his place Vers 20. They shall say to the Elders of his City This our son is stubborn and rebellious and will not hear our voice he is a drunkard and a glutton Verse 21. All the men of his City shall stone him with stones that he dye so shalt thou put away evil from amongst you Appl. Why is so much rebellion against parents is not because the law of God is silent this being executed all England would hear and fear 2. Is there another way besides this to put away evil from among us appointed of God Note God saith So shalt thou put away evil and no other way 3. Or is not the Law of God just the judgement true and righteous that it is not set up amongst us or will it ever be well with us or ours until it be set up Statute Parents marriage of their children It was to be confined to such as were in convenant Deut. 7.6 Exod. 34.16 Thou shalt not take of their daughters to thy sons and their daughters go a whoring after their Gods and make thy sons go a whoring after their Gods Deut. 7.3 Thou shalt not make marriages with those nations God will destroy thy daughter shalt thou not give his son nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy son The reason whereof is rendred vers 4. Appl. As men under the law were not to match with those nations were not under the law so men under grace were not at liberty to match with any but such as were in Christ 1 Cor. 7.39 2. Were we under the law this would condemne all marriage with idolaters more strongly then the work of the law in us hath done Numb 25.6 1 Kings 21.25 1 Kings 11. from 1. to verse 9. 3. See here the authority God hath given to men under the law over their childrens marriage they are said to give and take Esau took a daughter of Canaan Jacob obeyed his mother and married Labans daughter Exod. 21.9 If a man betroth his maid-servant to his son he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters Note Betrothing was the fathers work in which he gave his daughter or took the daughter of some other to his son to wife 2. The Magistrate or Elders are not to approve of marriage made with any out of covenant It is to be considered that God under this word Father doth comprehend the Magistrate and obedience and honour hence due to him 1. Because all authority and rule was first in the father Gen. 38.24 2. It came from him to the one Judge Moses 3. To Judges in every City who had laws from God to judge the people by in which administration only 1 Sam. 12.12 the Lord God was said to be their King And now againe when this law is the rule of judgement to the nation then is the Lord Christ said to raigne which shall be a thousand yeers God having committed all judgement and authority to the Son Mat. 28.18 Rev. 20.6 and who would not strive to set up Christs rule Note As Judges were of God before Kings so if Kings be put down ye must return to Judges again God setting up but these two wayes of rule and God himself ruling in that of Judges and therefore best nor doth God rule by Judges as distinct from Kings unless they be set up as in the beginning to rule by the laws of God 4. The government came from Judges to Kings in which the people were said in their asking for a King to have committed great wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Sam. 12.17 yea and God himself said herein they had rejected him and not Samuel that he should not raigne over them I beseech you what the