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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

he himself had tansgressed before therefore the Lord made a Breach then and now a Covenant for peace Is not Aaron the Levite thy Brother said the Lord to Moses Behold he cometh forth to meet thee and when he seeth thee He will be glad in his heart And when he met him he kissed him Exod. 4. 14. And where shal love be if not in these two titles Thou shalt be to him in stead of GOD and He shal be to thee in stead of a Mouth that is Moses shal be to Aarona King and Aaron to Moses a Lord Chancellour Ex. 4. 16. Will not God love his Priest and shall not the Priest love his God Call him Lucifer among the Sons of the Church that exalteth himself above or equal to any who are called gods let that Minister be ashamed of his Office that sayes not in this sense Let GOD live let Magistracy flourish and that God again blush at his Deity that will not have respect unto his Priest his Preacher for he having as Moses an impediment in his speech hath given him as Aaron the Minister for an Orator without whom his lisping his stammering Tongue shall in the Tricks Beh●viour Jears and Mocks of the Vain of the more Serious be dismissed without State Reverence and Respect We have no certain Record how or by what accident Moses had his slowness of Speech which he urged for an excuse against going to Pharaoh Exod. 4. 10. But that reason seems too ridiculous which some Rabbins teach that Pharaoh putting his Crown on the Child Moses his head who spurning it away was by his Magicians advised to dest●oy him that Ominating he should prove the overthrow of the Kingdom but his Daughter pleading Innocence and Childishness Pharaoh for a tryal b●ought a Golden Apple and one of Hote Iron this last the Child putting to his Mouth had the Nerves of his Tongue drawn in It is certain that he had an impedim●nt 〈◊〉 his Speaking and so his want of Elocution is supplied by the Oratory and Fluency of Aaron as Moses was so all M●gistrats are shal be found of no perswading u●terance to dispat●h the Almighties affairs until as Colleagues they have their Preachers in their hand So deare were these two Levites Moses and Aaron that Moses getting a Commission from GOD to go to Pharaoh and that Commission sealed in Cast down thy Rod c. told the Miracle and shewed all to Aaron who as High Chancellour to King Moses eloquently delivers Moses mind to the people and works the wonders before them Exod. 4. 30 Each of them endearing other so much that both might be respected by the p●ople who seeing this might say Moses could not want his Aaron nor Aaron his Moses m●re then a Man could want the power of Conception and that Conception want a Tongue for Expression the One readily aiding the Imperfections of the other Moses's st●pping in his spe●ch being not heeded because he ha● the Power to rule Aarons's asisting to Moses not exposing him to Contempt because he had the utterance both for this end of leading forth the people In the matters concerning the Lord and also of the King they of Levies Tribe were Overseers 1. Chron. 26. 30. The Priest and the Judge in matters of Blood stroak and stroak plea and plea God thought it uncomely not to have his Priest advised with as well as the Judge and a threatning upon him who neglected the Sentence given by the Priest Deut. 17. 8. Equally as that of the Judge It is not good if David want his Abiathar And Zadock will be● nay must be at Solomons Coronation shall I call it Unction It being proper usual for the Priest to crown the Prince When can Aaron want his Moses and again when can Moses want his Aaron that is the King his Priest I mean never never nay not at Death for before Aaron died Moses by Command stripped Aaron of his Garments the Badge of his Priesthood and put them upon Eleazer his Son And Aaron died Numb 20. 28 Moses and Eleazar his Nephew now his Priest c●me down from the Mount a vacuum in the Priesthood to God to a Godly Moses being even for an i●stant hated And mark it such whose boldness or who●● sloathfulness can come down to that is converse with the people to rule the Tabernacle without a Son of Aaron though he should talk with God shall have Sauls event when he attempted to ●ffer a burnt-offering whereon his Ruine fearfully was bottomed Samuel assuring him he had done fo●lishly for but for that his Kingdom had been established for ever all other evils ●alling upon him flowed from that attempt made upon the Priestly Function 1 Sam. 13. Though he pleaded a nec●ssity and was truly in an amazing strait 1 Sam. 13. 13. Samuel being absent and the Philistins present Victory over all Adversaries is not many miles distant when the Sword of the Lord a●d of Gideon enters the field together yea this freed the Kingdom from Tyrrany when Jehojadah the High Priest was married to Jehoshabeath King I●h●tam● Daughter whose Heir and Prince All others being slain was s●cured in the ●ouse of the Lord by his Uncle the P●●●st 〈◊〉 a c●●veni●nt time ●thalia was slain with the Sword and h●w p●e●ty a sight and P●ognostick of future good to any but Traitors wer● it to see that which th●n was s●en viz. The King by a pillar of the house of the Lord and the Priests round about him and the people rejoycing to see both 2 King 11. 19. This will enhance the Dearne●s when you may re●●em●er that ordinarily the Jews keeped within their T●i●es yet here for l●ve Levi marries with the house of David and not far for d●arness again the Kings of Judah had thei● Palace so near the House of the Lord and Temple t●at there was b●t a st●p or a court betwixt them And how seemly was it to see th● Pr●phet the great Preacher Isai●h preach in the Cou●t being by the Hebrews Grandchild to King ●m Zia and to have behold him advising Figs for the recovery of Hezekia who according to the same Teachers was both his King and Son in Law marrying his Daughter Hephzib● s●mewhat is in this also that Churches are oft in Records called Basilica i. e. the Palaces of Kings And the great Hermes of Egypt was called Trismegistus i. e. ter Maximus thrice great being the greatest Philosopher Priest and King of his Age and spake about if not before the time of Moses Aaron of the Trinity of a three-fold world of a three-fold Knowledge c. Queen Elizabeth in a progress rejoyced exceedingly to meet some Country Justices of the Peace each one having his Minister with him concluding tha● Co●ntry well governed But that of Scotlands Crown by Fames Trumpet should be known to all the world that in our late Rebellion from Dunnotter Castle then besiedged by the English the Wife of Mr. Granger M●nister of Kineffe secured b●th

it the Scepter and the Sword under her husbands Pulpit He and She now and then taki●g them up to secure them from rust and though gre●t summs by Proclamation were offered for discovery yet was th● Pulpit its Sanctuary untill again it was brought in calmer times before the Throne in Parliament Of which single though National Act let the pulpit of Kineffe boast and again let the Crown glory that no Money no Sword but a Pulpit secured that Ancient that Noble that unravished Crown from the head not only of an Usurper but of a Stranger who was not of the house nor heir of Scotland O ● had our Pulpit● of late so far reg●rded themselves as to have remembred this their interest in the Court and to its Master the Ene●y had not casten up so high a Tr●nch about both to the batt●ring defacing and d●stroying of both But that God had left us a remenant as a naile in a sure place they had become as dung Our King Our Princes being and reckoned among the Gentiles Lam. 29. Our Taberna●le took away and our Priests despised v. 6. c. How much better the old and sober Egyptians whose King in the morning being to repair to the Temple and Sacrifice after his Offering the chief Prelate told the People what vertues were in the King what Religion toward the gods and after other such like Doctrine all went about their affairs and why not For what could hinder prosperity and peace when Kings respected Church-men and Church-men honoured Kings and both in sig●t of the People R. B. Let me say in the words of our Master to that Question about Neighbour-hood lest we fall amongst Theeves go and do ye likewise Luk. 10. 37. remembering that in Rebellion Zadok ●nd all the Levites chused to follow David both in Person and in Counsel 2 Sam. 15. 29. These two are not only lovely in their lives but in their deaths they are not divided for look after the Monuments of Judahs Princes see the Sepulchres of the Sons of David and you shal see in the throng a Son of Aaron a Divine chapla●nizing in Death to those dead Hero's as if these goodly Worthies were not honoured sufficiently by their curious Dormitories untill the dust of a Priest graced their sleep they served the same God Jehojadah did they did much good to the Kingdom so did Jehojadah they died as he so did he as they they lye in state and lamented by the people so does he and so was he keeping the Churches priviledge always being near the King 2 Ch. 24. 16. whereas one King Jehojakim is cast forth with the burial of an Ass● for despising the Lords Priests c●v●a●ing all against disrespecting of the Lords House wherein by both Honour unto both is to be upheld or both will be contemned At Augustine the Monkes first coming to England the King of Kent the first Christian King Ethelbert gave him liberty to build o● repair Houses for Christian Worship in process of time being made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He and the King He the first Christian King in the world He the first Arch-bishop of B●itain lived so in Honor and Love and Plenty together that a●ter leave given the Bishop builded a Monastry yet called Augustins for a burial-place to the Kings and for the Arch-bishops of that See Let none look with an evil eye upon this n●ar●esse but rather thank the Arch-bishop for untill his time and untill this Act the Kings themselves had no care for nor had that is read of any certain burial place but afterward had walled about with the Reverend Clergy forming a greater awe in those who presumed to tread the ground where their Civil and Spiritual Guides lay by mutual consent for question not the Kings pleasure therein he giving it as it is in the Charter D●o in horem S. Petri aliquam partem Terrae juris mei c. And being a Royal Sepulchre a Reverend Channel ground Ex authoritate s●il Apostolica hinc ad aeternam-glor●am resuscit and a c. whence their bodies might arise together to that heavenly glory whereunto they by their Bishops were exhorted all this about Ann● Dom. 6●0 It is evident that God thus marshalling Moses and Aaron in their several Offices had c●re to protect the we●kest side with strongest Walls and Barrs for since Aaron the Elder Brother ha● the Sword took out of his h●●d●y D●cree and in stead thereof ge●ting a S●crifi●ing knife yet observe it that knife is put into his hand by a 〈◊〉 statu●e and to the house of Aaron wh●reas Moses Sword able in a great measure to defend it self is left in the hand of Providence to fi●d out th●s and that Josu●h th●s and that Sampson this and that Sam●●l The unce●tainty whereof creats genuinly a Reveren●e to the certain and constant Priest-hood the only great secure way the Sword hath a Moses hath even now to keep it self long in his and his Sons hands for its honourable bearing As is visible all the dayes of Moses Joshuah and the Judges where so●etimes in an Extraordinary way the Judge is Priest but at the Unction of the Son of Jesse the Regal P●wer being se●led in a Familie and Thrones of Judgeme●t set for the house of David Psal. 122. then it was Blesse the Lord O House of Isra●l Bless the Lord O house of Aaron Bless the Lord O hous● of Levi Psal. 139. These runing by Law assunder yet together I mean David and Aaron near each other smiling and j●yning hands together both having the same enemies the same smiles of Providence they march parallel together untill again as at the first they meet in the first begotten of the Father in that Son of David Jesus Christ both King and Priest unto his Church and by Birth-right and Blood that is in respect of his Humane Nature allieed both to Moses and Aaron being a Branch of the two great Houses of Judah and Levi. The Holy Virgin Mary being of the House of David and her godly Cousin Elizabeth of the Levitical Tribe Thence it cometh that who o despiseth one of those Loyal Levits and rebelleth against any of these true Princes are proclaimed Enemies to both Families united in the Corner-stone of our blessed Saviour Upon which account it is that Rebells and Traitours usually pretend both good to Church and State to be thought good Christians and also true Subjects Be wise therefore O Kings Be instructed ye Judges of the Earth Take not too much upon you ye Sons of Levi 〈◊〉 Judges when ascending the Judgement Seat become like Melchisedet having neither Father nor Mother by Impartiality and let all Aarons Sons as true L●vits in the case of the Golden Calf become like the Sons of that Priest their Grand-father Saying to their Fathers and their Mothers I have not seen them when countenancing Rebellion Deut. 33. 9. For unless your Children use this Speech in the Land Cities of our Judah The Lord