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death_n	aaron_n	fruitful_a	rod_n	18	3	9.9026	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28328	Gods soveraignity, His Sacred Majesties supremacy, the subjects duty asserted in a sermon, preached before His Majesties high commissioner, and the honourable Parliament of the kingdom of Scotland, at Edinburgh, the 31. of March, 1661 / by Mr. Hugh Blair ...	Blair, Hugh.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3126; ESTC R38836	30,104	23

to his people but then shall ye cry unto me 1 Sam. 8. 18. and indeed this is ●he sorrest of all appellations if just Or as that wittie man said à Caesare irato ad Caesarem placatum Therefore I find Moses the Supream Magistrate Exod. 4.16 7. 1. by the Lord himself called a god to Aaron first and then to Pharaoh to denotat his power over Aaron himself and the Tribe of Levi who are to be directed by him in the way of going about outy his power being supream both in Ecclesiasticos Rom. 13.1 Every soul si quis conatur excipere intendit decipere And in Ecclesiasticis ad extra ad intra as Uziah challenged and Saul no Christian Prince will claim right or ought to do so but in convocanda moderanda confirmanda sinodo power is given him but of this infra therefore is there so great ●if●e●ence betwixt the Rod of Aaron and the Rod of Moses when God called Moses to the Magist●acy Exod. 4. 3. he turned his Rod into a Serpent that stingeth unto death but when Aaron his dry stick only became fruitfull The Rod so laid in brought forth buds and blossomed blossoms and brought forth ripe Almonds Numb 17.8 The power of the Church is for edification not for destruction 2 Cor. 13.10 So there is the Embleme of the Supreme Magistrates power in the one Rod And the power of the Church in the other which is to make the dead dry withe●ing stock or soul fruitfull in every good word and work And a God he is to Pharaoh also to inflict be his authority sad and fatall judgements on the wicked and oppressours of his people and to denounce war against forraign Nations infesting them as the prerogative of these to whom he said dii est is Gods they are also because as it is not lawfull for any creature to search into the secrets which he hath not revealed there is a foolish wisdom saperc supra quod scriptum est to be wise above what is written so the●e is a wise ignorance in not prying too much into the Ark which the Bethshemites payed dear for as scrutator Majestatis opprimetur à gloria so it is never well with a State when they begin to dispute the prerogatives of a Prince or search them to the bottom here is abyssus magna the●e is some arcanae imperii not curiously to be searched into as who knoweth the power of his wrath P●al 90. so the wrath of a King is like the roaring of a Lyon P●ov 19.12 Cum numine ut igne nec distes nimiumve procul nimiumve propinques Be not righteous over much saith Solomon neither make thy self over wise why shouldest thou destroy thy self Eccl. 7.17 Now because dignity is ever attended with duty and the Lord never soweth liberally upon any soil but he expecteth a crop suteable Much being required of them to whom much is given Luk. 12.48 Let us see the Uses of this Doctrine and these shall be in 3. things 1. What these gods thus created by him ow to this great JEHOVAH giving them this prerogative 2. What we ow to God for them 3. What we ow to them in the Lord. 1. Of these gods thus authorized it is required that they be humble and thankfull to this their great and dreadfull Lord who hath thus exalted them therefore David saith 2. Sam. 7. 18 20. Who am I O Lord God and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto And is this the manner of men O Lord God 20. And what can David say more ●nto thec And O how he bles●eth the Lord as the Author of all his g●eatnesse 1 Chron. 29. 10,14 Let that of the Apostle be oft meditat upon quis te discrevit 1 Cor. 4.7 Who differenced thee And what hast thou which thou hast not received For of him and through him and for him are all things Rom. 11.36 2. Of them is required that they be like God having more lively characters of his Majestie grace goodnesse power justice and mercy g●aven on them in great letters He that rul●th among men must be just ruling in the fear of God And he shall be as the light of the morning c. 2 Sam. 23.3 4. O what manner of persons ought they to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse 2 Pet. 3.11 As in their plac●s above others so in their graces and gifts beyond othe●s being changed from glory to glory● into that same image as by the spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 that they may come as near as possible to the rem nominis as well as they have from him nomen rei 3. That their Courts and attendants study to be like these blessed Seraphims that are about the Throne of the King of kings and deorum Deum holinesse becometh thy house saith David and holinesse is suteable to their house therefo●e David thus exalted promiseth to walk uprightly in the midst of his house and that his eyes shall be unto the faithfull of the Land c. It is expedient that not only their more imme●iat attendants but that all these who are nearer to him and weigh the danger aright to shun all show of impiety and prophanity There is so nigh a relation betwixt these that are gods and the people over whom they are so that the sin of the one reacheth to the judgement of the other and the judgement of the one to the smart of both The King is as the Head the people as the Stomack is the Head be sick the Stomack is disaffected David sins the people die 2. Sam. 24.15 if the stomack be sick the head complains For the transgr●ssions of the people are many Princes Prov. 28. 2. both at once and successively and all evill Yea when the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel he moved Dauid against them to say Go number Israel 2 Sam. 24. 1. the very sins of the Princes have oft their rise from the sins of the people the dayes were when the sufferings of the Nations were charged mainly on the Kings Family but if we had viewed and weighed our selves aright what Tribe of all our Israel could have exeemed our selves from being accessory to these sad judgements wherewith we were nigh crushed But let me speak it confidently as every sin is a traitor to a mans own soul so every wicked man is a traitor to his King yea every one of his crying sins is powder and b●imstone hid in his pocket to blow up both his Soveraign and his State even Matchiavel himself could say that the giving of God his due is the cause of the prospering of any State● whatsoever Philosophers in their politicks distinguish betwixt bonus vir bonus cives yet true Theologie a●d Divinity from Scrip●ure asserts that as a good man let be a good Christian cannot be an evil subject the fear of God and of the King Prov. 24.21 being so in●eparably linked together so a lewd man cannot