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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42389	Moses and Aaron brethren, or, The excellencie, necessity, consistencie, and vsefulnesse of magistracy and ministery under the Gospel opened in a sermon preached at the assizes held at Darby the eighth of March, MDCLIII / by Samuel Gardiner ... published not for contention, but satisfaction.	Gardiner, Samuel, 1619 or 20-1686.	1653 (1653)	Wing G247; ESTC R30401	15,886	26

punishments of wise laws and sometimes upon trespass impounded Psal 119. last And men have their errours too I have gone astray like a sheep that 's lost says the Kingly Prophet The far greater part of men are born not to rule but to obey to be led and directed by others seeing they have not a sufficiency of reason and understanding much less of grace and honesty to carry themselves inoffensively toward God and man The people of Israel Gods own people never strayed farther from all Piety and Justice then when every man was left to his own government and self-direction doing what was good in his own eyes As we may see in the story of the Levite and his Concubine and such times usually make bold with the Levite recorded in the last Chapter of Judges and the last Verse Government a singular mercy in respect of direction that 's the first 2 In the Shepherds leading his sheep as there 's direction so provision Praeit ut prosit he goes before them but it 's to feed them he leads them but it s to green pastures and cleer still waters Psal 23.2 Government a singular mercy in respect of provision in regard it provides for all takes care of all even of the poore of infants and out-casts that else would perish it regulates trade it forbids Monopolies ingrossures depopulating inclosures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aristotle wrote to Alexander Psal 50 1. Divúm Pater that so all may live in imployment Governours and Magistrates the powers mentioned Rom. 13.1 as they are ordained of God so it 's in bonum for good to be not flagella ira Dei the plagues and scourges but rather provisores to provide for the people committed to their care To be like God whom they represent optimi as well as maximi best as well as greatest and first best and then greatest The hunger-starv'd Aegyptians run to Pharach and he sends them to Joseph and what would they have done if they had not had a Joseph to provide for them 2 Kings 6 26. The woman in the siege of Samaria cryed out to the King Help my Lord ô King Hence the Heathen placed the Images of their Magistrates by their spring-heads which refresh all comers Caussinus H●ero Gen. 20. Haurite ex me tanquam ex Nilo vestro Vespasian to the Egyptians in Sueton. Patres Conscripti 1 Tim. 5.8 the poorest and meanest The King of Gerar is styl'd Abimelech that is My father the King and the Roman Senators were usually styl'd Fathers Now it belongs to Fathers as to guide and govern so to provide for their family Government as it 's a direction of all so it 's intended by God as a provision for all and therefore in it's own nature a singular blessing to all 3 In the Shepherds leading as there 's direction and provision so protection as he guides and feeds so he defends his flock To this purpose he has his staff and chiefly his Dog not to worry weak sheep but abigere lupos to drive away the Wolves and beasts of prey from the fold Otherwise he 's a hireling one that cares not for the sheep but the wooll Tondere non tueri Government a singular mercy for as it directs men where they are apt to erre provides for such as are most exposed to want so it protects all in what they enjoy Pluck up the hedge of Government and all things are common No man has any thing which another may not say is his if so be he have the longer sword Magistrates are therefore styled the shields of the earth Psal 47.9 The shield is a weapon of defence not offence it keeps off blows it interposes it self twixt harm and the body Codrus in Just The Fabii and Decii in Florus 2 Tim. 3.1 2. All stories divine and humane are full of the names of such as have sacrificed themselves to certain death for the safety of the Common-wealth But alas we are fallen into the very dregs of time men are lovers of themselves and that 's a signe of perillous times yea a cause The King of Tyre is called an anointed covering Cherub from the tender protection he gave his people quasisub alis Ezck. 28.18 as it were under his wing Magistrates when worthy of their place and calling are Angeli Custodes Guardian Angels of the places they presule over like the Cherubims that covered the Arke the Law and the Testimony from prophane irreverence Exod. 37.9 or like those Cherubims in Paradise that with the flaming sword of Justice defend the lives and possessions of their people in peace and security And is not this my beloved a singular mercy have ye so soon forgot lawless and plundering times Feare lest a worse thing happen unto you Doubtless to be deprived of the benefit of good Laws and the protection of Government is nothing else then with Nebuchadnezar to be driven to live amongst beasts of if amongst men under the curse and trembling of Cain that omnis homo lictor every one that meets us will slay us Government then a singular mercy in respect of protection Let there be none amongst us then that may deserve the brand of Saint Peter 2 Pet. 2.10 Jude 8. and Saint Jude set on some in their days so ancient is the mistake of true Christian liberty They despise dominion and speak evil of dignitie presumptuous and self-will'd persons Legibus servire libertas Cicero Aquinas Yenophon Cyrus We should be most ungrateful to God and men for so excellent a blessing if we should look upon all Government as tyranny and slavery on just Laws as bolts and shackles It 's true liberty to obey good Lawes For good Lawes are nothing but recta ratio right reason and he 's a beast or a bedlam that will not be rul'd by reason The Persians taught their children the knowledge of Laws assoon as of Letters And the Cretians and Agathyrsi were so in love with their Laws Concentu quodam Musico Aelian Var. hist Deut. 32. that they taught them their children in Songs with Musick An imitation possibly of Gods own prescription who taught his people the sum of his Laws in a Song Saint Paul gives order that Prayers and not onely Prayers but Thanksgivings also should be offered up to God for all in authority 1 Tim. 2.1 that under them we may live a peaceable life if that we may surely much rather when we do or may if we please And great reason thanks should be offered up to God in this behalf in regard Deus nobis haec otia fecit God is the principal authour of this mercy whosoever be the instruments Thou leddest though by the hand of Moses and Aaron God was the Shepherd of Israel Psal 80.1 that led Joseph like a flock even he that sits between the Cherubims Thou leddest sayes Isaiah thy people with thy glorious arm by the right hand of