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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41745	Three sermons preached at the cathedral in Norwich, and a fourth at a parochial church in Norfolk humbly recommending I. True reformation of our selves, II. Pious reverence toward God and the King, III. Just abhorrence of usurping republicans, and, IV. Due affection to the monarchy / by John Graile ...	Graile, John.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1479; ESTC R38763	64,056	194

the Hand of Aaron And after the Death of Moses the Supreme Authority of the Jewish Nation was still in a single Person being committed by God either to the High Priest or to some Eminent Man whom he was pleased to raise up such as Joshuah and the several Judges For that the High Priest or the Judge when there was one in those days had the Soveraign Power invested in him is evident from that Command of God Deut. 17. 12. And the man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the Priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord viz. to the High Priest as the scope of the place plainly shews or unto the Judge even that man shal die and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel and all the People shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously Is not this as great an Authority as any Monarch in the World can desire thus to have all Persons obliged to acquiesce in his determinative Sentence and final Decree and to have a Power to punish all wilful and presumptuous disobedience with Death Josephus expresly calls their Judges Monarchs and Grotius supposeth them to have all things belonging to Kings except their pompous Train and external Grandeur Isti verò Judices planè similes erant Romanis Interregibus nisi quòd Satellitium Pompam Regiam non habebant ac propterea nec Vectigalia exigebant If it be objected That in those days as some Texts speak there was no King in Israel The meaning of those places is not that the Judges were not real Monarchs but that at some certain times there was no particular Judge who sat as their Supreme Dictator and exercised regal Authority among them as also that the High Priest whose Office it was to govern when there was no Judge was negligent and careless of the publick Affairs And the great Blessings of Kings and Monarchs may be understood even by the horrid Impieties and Disorders that happened in those Days when there was no King in Israel such as was the detestable Idolatry of Micha in making himself Gods and consecrating one of his Sons to be his Priest the Sacrilegious Theft of the Danites who stole Micha's Gods and his Priest too the monstrous wickedness of the Benjamites of Gibeah towards the travelling Levite and his Concubine the dire effusions of Blood in the Civil War that ensued the extinction of the whole Tribe of Benjamin except six hundred Men the Destruction of forty thousand Men of Israel and the allowed Rape of six hundred young Women against their wills without the consent of their Parents and contrary to a publick and solemn Oath These and no better than these were the unhappy concomitants and consequents of having no King in Israel that is to say of having no Supreme Ruler who exercised a Soveraign Power among them as the Judge and when there was no Judge the High Priest ordinarily did The last of their Judges was Samuel and when he had governed many years the Infirmities of his Age and the Iniquities of his Sons whom he placed over them gave them occasion to desire a King that they also might be like all the other Nations and that their King might go our before them and fight their Battels Hereupon the Soveraign Power was translated from Judges to Kings and so it still was lodged in the Hands of a single Person Neither had their Kings any more Power than their High Priests and Judges had For Samuel and his Predecessors had as ample Authority as any Soveraign Princes although they were not called Kings But now like all other Nations their Governour was not only a King by the Supremacy of his Power but had the very Name and Title with all the pompous Magnificence and Ensigns of Royalty But here in the History of the Jewish State we meet with a remarkable Passage which deserves to be the more considered because divers have thought it a great Objection against Kingly Government The sum of it is this That God was extreamly angry with the Israelites for desiring a King and proclaimed his Indignation by loud Thunder-claps and a violent tempestuous Rain in Wheat-Harvest which made them confess that they had added to all their Sins this evil in asking a King From whence some of our Republicans conclude That Regal Power and Authority is so far from being of Divine Appointment that it is such a humane Invention as is displeasing unto God To this I answer That although God was angry with them for asking a King it was not for this Reason because he hath any dislike of Kingly Government He was not offended at the Act it self of desiring a King which is in it self very innocent and may often be most just and necessary but he was displeased at the manner and circumstances of it In desiring a King they asked a good yea an excellent Thing and a great Blessing from Heaven But God was angry because they asked this good Thing with an ill mind and at a time when they ought not to have desired it For First It may be conceived that they asked a King out of the Pride of their Hearts They thought it a disparagement to be subject to a Judge who ●ived among them without any great Pomp or State And although his divinely inspired Wisdom and immediate direction from Heaven abundantly com●●ensated all the defects of External Magnificence they were unwilling to be under such a Governour but being ambitious of worldly Glory they would have such a Soveraign Prince as the other Nations had they would have a King to go out and in before them with all the visible Splendor of Royal Majesty Secondly Their desiring a King was accompanied with Infidelity and Distrust of Gods Providence and Protection For it was when they were in fear of an Invasion by Nahash King of Ammon And that it was this Diffidence of theirs rather than the Form of Kingly Government that God was displeased at is evident from Samuels Expostulation with them in which he briefly recounts Gods constant care for their Preservation in all their former Dangers and how by the Hands of Moses and Aaron and Jerubbaal and Jeptha and Samuel he had delivered them from all their Enemies on every side Thirdly They desired a King without any just Cause or legal Warrant or due Advice in a rash Tumultuous and Seditious manner at such a time when they had a Supreme Judge who was a Lawful Soveraign of Gods own Appointment Even in his Life and Reign they desired a King They had not the Patience to expect his natural Exit by Death but they would have this excellent Governour who deserved so well of their Nation Deposed and some other Advanced in his place God might therefore very justly be angry with them for rejecting so worthy and eminent a Person who was not only their rightful Prince but one who had Ruled with great Prudence

is thine Thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted above all Both Riches and Honour come of thee and thou reignest over all Theocracy or the Government of God himself is most perfectly and necessarily Monarchical which is a clear Indication of the supereminent Excellency of this Form of Government and that the happy Settlement and durable Establishment of a Nation may be most effectually promoted by it Secondly Monarchy is the Government which God hath chosen and appointed among the Children of Men for the good of humane Societies in Nations and Kingdoms As himself by Right of Creation and Conservation hath an immense Monarchy over all the World so he hath ordained finite and limited Monarchies in the several Regions of the Earth in each of which it pleased his Divine Providence always to set up one Deputy or Vicegerent who next and immediately under himself was Supreme Lord and Governor of all until at length Rebellions and Usurpations in some few of them violated the Order of God converted Monarchies into Popular States and advanced the Subjects above the Soveraign As it is in Gods Power alone to appoint Rulers and Magistrates and to confer an Authority to govern the World so his Wisdom is best able to judge what Form of Polity is most conducive to the Welfare of Mankind And therefore such sort of Governours and Governments as by his Providence have been most anciently and universally established ought by infinite Degrees to be preferred before any of the new Models which have been contrived and introduced by those Troublers of the World that are given to Change We justly value things according to their Original and their Antiquity Now if we would know the Original and the Antiquity of Monarchical Government we must look back as far as Adam and look up as high as God Monarchy began in Heaven and to make this lower World happy it was soon after established upon Earth Although the Empire of Nimrod be the first that is expresly mentioned in the Sacred Writings yet the first of Men was undoubtedly a Monarch who during the many hundred years he lived in the World was the only Soveraign under God and all his numerous Posterity were as much his Subjects as they were his Children being obliged by the Law of God and Nature to revere his irresistible Authority and to pay a dutiful Obedience to him After his Death his second Son Abel being slain and Cain the Eldest cursed by God for the Murder of him the Empire descended to Seth his third Son who as it is conceived established Religion and made Laws and Constitutions concerning Divine Worship For in his Days we read that Men began to call on the Name of the Lord After Seth Enosh his Son succeeded in the Government After Enosh the following Patriarchs And so long as the World was but one Nation and of one Language we may rationally suppose that they had but one King But at the Confusion of Languages each Division of People had their Head who undertook to conduct them to some convenient Region where they might dwell together and so he who was their Leader became their Prince as Heber was the King of the Hebrews From hence-forward there were various Kingdoms dispersed over the Face of the Earth which were both distinguished and protected from each other by the separate Rule and Government of their several Princes And such was the firm and stable Foundation which Monarchy had in all the former Ages of the World that the Earth knew no other Power for above three thousand years For the first Republick that History takes notice of was at Athens and it began as some say after the Expiration of the Reign of Eryxias which happened in the thirteenth Olympiad and neer the Year of the World 3275 or at the farthest after the Death of King Codrus who lived somewhat above an hundred years before and is said to be the last King of Athens by Justin and some others Afterwards Sparta Corinth Thebes and other Cities of Greece followed the Example of Athens But those little Common-Wealths were continually plagued either with intestine Broils or Foreign Wars and the Athenians in particular which were the first that changed their Government paid dearly for it when instead of one King they had thirty Tyrants reigning over them And at last when these quarrelsome States had almost ruined one another they were all made to submit to the Macedonian Empire and never suffered to erect that Form of Government again After these I have not read of any Republick of Note in the World besides the Roman until our few Modern Common-wealths were set up whose later Date is easily known Since then it was Monarchy under which the Nations of the world lived and flourished in a settled and uninterrupted course for so many thousand years it is not probable that the happy State of a Land should be so well prolonged under any sort of Popular Government which turbulent Innovations have introduced Thirdly As it is not to be doubted but Monarchy was anciently the Universal Government of the World set up by Divine Order and Approbation so it is particularly most clear and certain from Holy Scripture that it was of Gods own especial Designation and Appointment among his peculiar People the Children of Israel whom he had chosen above all other Nations to be the Objects of his singular Favour Their Government was Monarchical as soon as they became a Nation even from the time of their Deliverance out of the Egyptian Slavery and so it all along continued until after that the Son of God came down from Heaven to be their King their Nation was most justly destroyed for their horrid Impiety in rejecting and crucifying that Prince of Peace The first Governour God placed over them was Moses who was their Lawgiver and Judge and as real a Soveraign as ever raigned He was King in Jeshurun Deut. 33. 5. or according to some Versions King in Israel He was a King as the Learned Grotius saith upon the Place Non quidem Nomine Pompâ sed Jure regio His Power was Supreme Sacred and Inviolable his Will and Command uncontrolable and those that denied or disputed his Authority received the most exemplary Vengeance from Heaven that was ever inflicted upon the worst of Mankind He appointed indeed divers inferior Magistrates and Judges as Jethro advised him he chose able men out of all Israel and made them Heads over the People Rulers of Thousands Hundreds Fifties and Tens but the Supreme Power he wisely reserved in his own Hands and all the most difficult and weighty Causes were brought to him that they might be decided by his final and determinative Sentence from whence there was no Appeal Neither were any Sacred or Ecclesiastical matters exempted from his Regulation and Government The whole Aaronical Ministry which consisted in Typical Rites Ceremonies and Sacrifices was ordered and appointed by him although executed by