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The originall of the dominion of princes, founded upon Gods soveraignty over the whole earth, or, The kingly prerogative, instituted by God, and proved from the holy scriptures to be jure divino by R.W. ...
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much upon you to Moses and Aaron Their colour was Independency they need no Governors but GOD. Their Words are Ver. 3. Seeing all the Congregation every one of them are Holy and the Lord is amongst them Wherefore then lift you up your selves against the Congregation of the Lord Moses sees further into them that Korah's aime was at a Presbytery or certain Priesthood which he as Superintendent would Marshall And therefore replyes Ver. 10. Seeke you without being called of GOD as was Aaron the Priests Office also And Ver. 9. Seemeth it a small thing to you that the GOD of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel to take you to himselfe to doe the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the Congregation to minister unto them He hath also taken thee to him and all thy Brethren the sons of Levi with thee and seek you the Priests Office also For the which cause both thou and all thy Company are gathered together against the Lord and what is Aaron that you murmur against him And let it be observed that all this was done after Aaron had made the golden Calf which Korah durst not Object nor against Moses his Marriage against the Law 18. From whence appears that GOD Almighty is violated of which he is sensible eveu unto Jealousie when any Power of his Constitution is touched but for Alteration and however the People may be easily deluded to beleeve that Changing is bettering yet GOD justly abhors the putting of this dishonour upon his Wisdome That GOD was the Author of the Distinction of Clergy and Laity is assured from hence and shall be made more manifest when I come to speake of the Likenesse of GOD. And that he was the distinguisher of the Power of Order and the Power of Jurisdiction first between the Priest and the Levite secondly between the Priests and the Chiefe Priests thirdly between the High Priest and the Chiefe Priests Answerable whereunto unto which Perpetuity was Promised and Sworn to as shall be proved Chap. 8. was the Priesthood of the unalterable Evangelical Covenant Constituted By and From Christ and his Apostles in the Primitive Church 19. Now when Dominion is any where Established as shall be made more cleare hereafter according to the Heavenly Platforme which is copied out in GODS Word as mans perpetual Rule man ought to tremble at each thought against it as they did who ran away when the Earth in this Story opened her mouth GODS Approbation being to be presumed to be no Iesse inviolable where his direction is followed then if himselfe for the Constituting of Regal Power had come amongst us whose Precept and Example are come into the severall Kingdomes of the one Catholique Church For Saint Jude hath told us that they doe no better now then Korah did at that time who ever doe against the present Powers what ever they shall doe against us And the Power that then was supreme to wit of the Heathen Roman Emperour had not the Circumstantials of that which was conferred upon Moses and David in whose Person our Christian Kings were more perfectly Established then himselfe as shall be proved Chap. 8. 20. But to give the Narrative of their whole apparent guilt Moses sent Verse 12. to call unto him and Aaron their Competitors they resuse with Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us out of a Land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the Wildernesse Except thou make thy selfe Lord and Ruler over us also Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men We will not come up We see here no act of Hostility we hear onely words and they are here Recorded that the like upon the like perill should never more be presumed See what followes Elohim was constrained to stir up agaome his Almightinesse for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 swallowing up of those open Sepulchres which himself reassuming his old word Bara cals Creation Verse 30. But if the Lord Create a new Creation and the Earth open her mouth and swallow them up and they goe down alive into Sheol then you shall understand that these men however they pretend to clash onely against us have violated the Lord. 21. And certainly the Government Established amongst us hath as certainly GOD for the Author of it as he was of this under Moses and Aaron and no lesse certainly they who with no lesse violence impugne the present Constitution of GOD shall if they persist therein with no lesse seriousnesse be punished then Korah was if later then heavier For no man can thinke it probable that if Korah had had another Korah to have entered the same Lists before him this Korah would have been his Second in this Quarrell And most assuredly we may conceive that the greatnesse of our warning which Korah wanted must Aggravate the greatnesse of our sinne who would not take warning by him And they that adventure to go further in the same way that he went must looke to fall deeper into the same Pit then he fell GOD grant that they who pretend to Clear all eyes doe not indeed put out ours 22. For my part in the sincerity of a charitable soule I say it I do not see how any man can distinguish any who go on that way into any hopes of comfort while they so doe but that amongst Professors of Christianity Resistance of and Rebellion against the lawfull Prince and Priest are far more flagitious then was that against Moses and Aaron For that their Power although extraordinarily given yet when given it was ordinary it being the Divine Power of the same GOD for the same ends with ours Thus in Aaron the same Power that was in him was afterwards in Eledzar and is at the least no lesse in the Christian Priest 2 Cor. 3. 10. For even that which was made glorious viz. the ministration of Death Ver. 7. and the Ministration of Condemnation Ver. 9. had no Glory in this relation by reason or with relation to of the Glory viz. of the ministration of the Spirit Ver. 8. that excelleth For if that which is done away was glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious So in Moses the Power of Dominion was no lesse in Joshua then in him and indeed larger in the Jewish Kings then either whose Patent is exceeded rather then otherwise in the Commission of Christian Kings as shall be proved Chap. 8. 23. Now since the dreadfull Condemnation of Korah doth indeed reach down unto these dayes and since those Powers which are Divine though Executed by mortall men are themselves immortall And since the Application of GODS everlasting Name of Elohim and his adding thereunto of his great Seale of Unction to both the Orders Regal and Sacerdotal doth attest the everlastingnesse of both the Powers though the Persons die And since they were both before the Law which might Conclude them no partakers of the Lawes reputed frailty but that
is unclouded irradiated and invigorated that which was before from the beginning more obscurely under Elohim As Christ having taken our nature upon him is more expresly though not more justly King of all that was by him the Word created And that the hands of Subjects are with severer penalties now tyed up from Resistance of that Power which is and was GODS and from the beginning As the King doth not create me new Right to mine Estate when he declares for it and threatens further Mulcts upon the Invaders thereof nor when he maketh a Covenant of Grace with me that he will not take such Forfeitures hereafter as my Tenure hath been formerly liable unto which I conceive to be the Difference between the Kings of the Gentiles of the former Israel and of Christians 3. Now that which was every where in Scripture foreshewed to be done Gloriously was no where promised to be done Sodainly concerning the Kings of the Gentiles acknowledgement of their Commissions from Christ but the contrary was foretold in sundry places Particularly as hath beene shewed it was foreprophesied of Psal 2. that they should struggle for a remarkable time To break his Bonds and cast his Cords from them and in the meane time which we read effected in our and their Stories in the manifold and prodigious deaths of the Opposers That they should be bruised with a rod of Iron and broken in pieces like a Potters vessell However there should be no Interregnum of Christ He should be set upon his Throne in Tsijon And that in the fulnesse of the time of the Gentiles their Kings should understand their Judges be endisciplinated and bring in for the setting up of Christs the Glory and Riches of their Thrones and Scepters And this was according to the Analogy of GODS Acts amongst his former People who for a long time were destitute of their promised Glory in a Temporall King All this as it was foretold in sundry Prophesies so was it prefigured in divers Types of Ishak of Jacob of David c. concerning which in the proper place there shall be full and just proof made when I come to handle that part of the Lords Prayer Thy Kingdome come Now I addresse my selfe to my ninth Chapter 4. Wherein I would not be so understood whilest I assert the Donation and Election of GOD himselfe for such Princes as we find every where established and rooted in their Soveraignties as if my soule abhorred not with a most perfect hatred all Usurpations and Usurpers whether by violent or fraudulent Intrusion however they may prosper like a green Bay-tree for a long time and as if I meant by a subtle assentatory connivence that he who hath the stronger Sword might have also the Title and Nomination of the strong GOD when his Law of Nature hath apparently or undoubtedly designed his Deputy This is my Profession that unto such a one being by him called thereunto we all owe our whole Livelihoods and the last drop of our Blouds for the assertion of him who thus is the true Father of our Countrey and who alone can assert unto us Title from his and our GOD in the Estates which under Him we justly hold in the Land which the Lord our God hath given us And so I proceed CHAP. IX The Contents The Law of Nature and its Proviso in this particular Controversie This the proper Act of That onely subject to the God of Nature Princes Rights from these better then other mens God the sole Elector of Kings when the People seeme most to chuse them Foure Maximes in this behalfe The cause of the preferring of Solomon before his elder Brother expressed and justified to be so by Gods semblable Acts in Ishmael and Esau not reprobated Solomon's Throne demolishable as he was King of the Jewes not demolishable in the Typified Gentiles Solomon not the Type of Christ but of Christian Kings David was the Type of Christ The materiall Temples of God ought to be the solicitous care of Solomon's Successors Gods not dwelling in Temples made with hands how to be understood Christs zeale for what Temples The Kings Throne Gods Why we uncover and bow before the Chaire of State Regall Power above mans Limitations or Censures 1. THe briefe remainder will rather be Commentary then Text. The maine of the businesse is transacted and proved The Power and Thrones of the due Kingdome of Christ is for ever setled upon Christian Princes and that according to the generall Law of Nature or Nations as was petitioned for and ratified 1 Sam. 8. amongst the former Israel of GOD. Of which Law the one Headship of one Body is a capitall part and upon the solution of Individuals to the frailty of Nature the Proviso of this Law is the immediate descent of this Headship by Primogeniture to avoid the unnaturalnesse of Non-Headship and to prevent the monstrousnesse of many Heads if the Law of Nature had not thus provided against innate arrogance in every man desirous rather to create himselfe an Head then to continue that inferior part which the GOD of Nature made him these mischiefs had been inevitable 2. That this was of the Law of Nature from before the giving of the Positive Law of GOD is expresly attested as hath been shewed in the Word of GOD Deut. 21. 17. For the Right of the First-born Is his The word for Right 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being Mishpat signifying onely in its Secondary sense Right derived by Law but in its Primary Law deriving Right So that the meaning must be by the first of Lawes to wit the Law of Nature for no other can be meant this Prerogative is already his 3. Now as all other Lawes are continually but only subject to him that gives them their Esse Formale their full and last perfection of being Lawes so this Law of Nature is onely liable to his Power who is the GOD of Nature who will not give his Power to any to use unjustly and cannot be dispensed with but by that Power which is Divine From whence it is evident whose Power even in the Family the Father thereof holdeth in whose behalfe GOD hath declared that though in Thest this Law be indispensable yet that in Hypothest to wit in case of Rebellion Ver. 18 it may be altered and the younger Son preferred And in this reserved case it cannot be done but by that Power which is Divine which GOD hath entrusted of his owne unto him who beares the Image of GOD for that Family otherwise the collective body of his Brethren nor of the Wife Children and Servants can despoile him of that interest which he hath by the Law of Nature And himselfe must be sure that he can approve the cause of this extraordinary Act before the Throne of him by whose Power he doth it That it be not done out of Hatred to the disinherited or Fancy to the preferred but for that which is indeed Rebellion as is there to be