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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84018	English liberty and property asserted in pursuance of the statute laws of this common-wealth. Discovering Israels sin in chusing a king, by several questions humbly propounded to the grave senators at Westminster. And to all others, who have the power of this nation in their hands.		1657 (1657)	Wing E3095; Thomason E905_2; ESTC R207439	3,672	8

ENGLISH Liberty and Property Asserted In pursuance of the Statute Laws of this Common-wealth Discovering Israels Sin in chusing a KING BY SEVERAL QUESTIONS humbly propounded to the grave Senators at WESTMINSTER And to all others who have the Power of this Nation in their hands That which is highly esteemed amongst men is an abomination in the sight of God Luk. 16.15 I gave thee a King in my anger and took him away in my wrath Hos 13.11 Take heed what yee do for yee judge not for man but for the Lord 2 Chron. 19.6 Now let them put away their Whoredomes and the carkasses of their Kings far from mee and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever Ezek. 43.9 march LONDON Printed for Livewell Chapman at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1657. English Liberty and Property Asserted Qu. 1 WHether any King can possibly at any time bee chosen with greater consent and approbation of the people than was the first King of Israel Saul for it is said 1 Sam. 10.24 That all the people shouted and said God save the King and chap. 11.15 That Saul and all the People of Israel rejoyced greatly Qu. 2 Whether notwithstanding the said free election and universal approbation the Lord did not from Heaven manifest this choice to bee a horrible wickedness in his sight by sending thunder and rain in wheat harvest 1 Sam. 12.17 And did not the People acknowledge as much saying vers 19. wee have added to all our sinnes this evill to ask us a King Qu. 3 Whether Gods severe punishment of Saul in rending the kingdome from him for one sinfull act which man would take to bee an act of mercy at first sight in sparing Agag and zeal in preserving the fatlings for sacrifice doth not evidently declare Gods indignation against King-ship 1 Sam. 15.23 Qu. 4 Whether did not the Lord reckon with the People of Israel for their Kingly Government and for this their great sinne of making themselves rather Beasts than men by submitting the reason of the whole Nation to one man when hee destroyed seventy thousand of them by the Pestilence in three days for Davids one sinne of numbring the people 2 Sam. 24.15 the Heathen could say delirant reges plectuntur Achivi Qu. 5 Whether the Lord by permitting Salomon the wisest of the meer sonnes of men to become a Fool by leaving the true God who had twice appeared to him and turning aside to Idols and going after the abominations of the Heathens 1 Kin. 11.5 did not point as it were with the finger at this beastly folly of Israel in advancing one man to so great a height as to put him above man and to make him a King that so they might even fall down and worship the great Idol which they had set up Qu. 6. Whether though the People of Israell had thus rejected the Lord in setting up a King upon the revolting of the Ten Tribes from Rehoboam when they cryed what portion have wee in David to your Tents O Israel because he hearkned not to the counsel of the old men 1 King 12.8 having all this time well smarted for their folly and the Government of Kingship proving very burdensome and tyrannical as appears 1 King 12.9 10 doth the Lord either blame or condemn the said ten Tribes for their defection or in any kind testifye his displeasure against them nay doth hee not plainly justify them therein by sending Shemaiah the Prophet to their brethren that would have gone out to warre against them saying Yee shall not go up to sight against your brethren return every man to his own house for this thing is from mee saith the Lord 1 King 12.24 Qu. 7. Whether is it not probable that the Lord would give as good Kings to his own peculiar people whom hee loved as the apple of his eye as to any other people whatsoever and yet what horrid murders and cruel bloodshed were there continually among the said Kings of Israel to obtain the Crown and how were the people vexed with warres continually by reason of those cursed Kings and how few of the said Kings have dyed in their beds like other men See the books of the Kings and Chronicles Qu. 8. Whether doth not the Office of King-ship in the very nature and being thereof tend directly by advancing prerogative to the enslaving of the people by whom it is establisht and by magnifying its own power and grandeur perpetually to prey upon the peoples liberty and property according to the description given thereof 1 Sam. 8. from 11. to 19. v. It being as diametrically opposite to the Peoples Liberty as darkness is to light Prerogative and Freedome being like two ballances when one is up the other is down and hath not the experience of all ages in other Nations and in our own very lately given sad and bleeding testimonies to the truth hereof Qu. 9. Whether would it not make the heart and bowels of any Christian to yern tremble and bleed within him to consider how the poor people of Israel were punished from time to time for the wickednesse of their Kings insomuch as it is said 2 King 14.26 The Lord saw the affliction of Israel that it was very bitter and have not war and the plague been as it were entailed upon our own Nation on the account of Kingship from Generation to Generation and doth not the mercy of God in freeing the great City and Nation both from the one and the other since Kingship was abolished give clear testimony hereunto Que. 10 Whether did not judgement and justice run down like a might stream whilst the people of Israel in a free Commonwealth were under the government of their good Moses Joshuas and Samuels but when they would have Kings like the Heathens round about them were not men made offenders for a word though it were the Word of the Lord to the imprisoning of their persons witnesse the Prophet Jeremy c. Jer. 32.3 And many others nay were they not causelesly stript of their lives and properties through the base lusts of their Kings though some of them good ones do wee not finde Naboth 1 King 21. in a solemn way of fasting had his life taken away that so his Vineyard might bee obtained by King Ahab and Uriah with many others lost their lives most trecherously that so the Adultery with Bathsheba his wife might bee covered and concealed from the people though it could not from the Lord 2 Sam. 11. and 12. ch And for the pride of Hezekiahs heart were not the children of Israel carried captive into Babylon 2 King 20.17 18. And did not the Lord for the wickednesse of Manasseh bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whoever should hear thereof both his ears should tingle 2 Kings 21.12 Que. 11 Whether doth it not appear as clear as the Sun at noon-day from the Scriptures already quoted that God did never institute or approve the office of a King or