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death_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	5,115	5	10.1244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64076	Tyranny no magistracy, or A modest and compendious enquirie into the nature, and boundaries of that ordinance of magistracy With an essay to demonstrate it's specifick distinction from tyranny. By an enemy to tyranny and lover of true magistracy.	Enemy to tyranny and lover of true magistracy.	1687 (1687)	Wing T3571; ESTC R220725	21,607	28

thus The word of God and reason do expresly command and allow that a Magistrate should have suitable qualifications for the office as in Deutr. 17. from ver 15. there the qualifications of a King are held forth and commanded I shall only mention one of those which is this that he should not be a stranger born which does clearly import that he should not be of a strange Religion for the reason why the Lord did lay such strict commands upon his people not to marry with strangers was not but that they had the bodies of men and women as good as they but that they were of a strange Religion and might draw them away to Idolatry and seeing the word of God does expresly command these qualifications as necessar and essential certainly reason does command and allow that a people should have a respect to the glory of God their own good and safety and accordingly make non King but such as have these necessar and essentiall qualifications but that hereditory title which many do boast of does allow and essentially make him a King whether he have these qualifications or not though he should be born a monster and not a man a mad man and not a sober man a fool and an ideot and not a wise man a stranger and of a strange Religion and not a native nor of the Religion of the Land yea though he were given to all manner of wickedness yet he is said to be a born King and accordingly the Lords anointed wich is altogether inconsistant with the word of God and reason But that we may give satisfaction more fully to all persons concerning this matter let us inquire yet a little further into the nature of this hereditory title who it is that gives this title and what it is they can give I know that some of the vil'd of the earth who would flatter Princes and cheat the people out of their rights and liberties do plainly say that it is God only gives it and that all Kings have their right and power only and immediatly from God and so are accomptable to non but God. I would gladly know where those Kings got these ladders by which they went up to Heaven to get those rights devolved upon them and their Families or if there be such a thing recorded in Scripture that such and such men should by an hereditory title Reign as Kings on the earth and in such and such parts of the world or if this right of reigning must only and immediatly flow from the people There is nothing more certain than that it is the gift of the people if it be not the effect of conquest which is already spoke to and excluded And therefore we shall next consider what a people can give and what the extent of this hereditory title can be And it must be understood that a people can give no more then they have to give which is that if they be persons so and so qualified for the office then they shall be preferred before others to such an office but if a people should absolutely say and determine that such a race and Family should be their born Kings that were to take Gods power unto them for it is not in their power to bring such a thing to pass in respect of these many natural accidents that are in the way yea it were the very way to make themselves slaves and to bring that curse upon them that is there threatned in Hos 8. ver 3 4. and accordingly to forfeit Gods protection So that the extent of this hereditory title being only a promise in the people that such a race shall succeed to such an office being qualified for the same it must of necessity follow that the people must be Judges of this matter for no forraign power can determine therein the people being only and immediatly concerned therein Let us now go to the case of Saul and David and there we find though Saul had Gods absolute promise for it from the mouth of the Prophete for non can make an absolute promise of this nature but God only and that also the Prophete did confirme the same unto him by anointing him with oyle and telling him whome and what he shoud meet with by the way yet all this did not make him King for this was only a secret act of the Prophete whereby he did make known Gods minde and promise unto him for when Saul was made King the people were gathered together for that purpose and presented before the Lord by their trybes and by their thousands and when Saul was taken by lot he was lying hidde amongst the stuffe being it seemes affrayed and doubtfull whether he should be chosen King or not as you shall find in 1 Sam. 10. ver 20 21 23. And accordinly David though he had the Lords promise in the same manner yet he was not really King for many years after until the death of Saul and he was first made King of Judah and did Reign seven years and six moneths before he was made King over Israel until all the tribes went to him in Horeb and David made a League with them and then they anointed him King over Israel Now seeing we finde clearly the Lords promise which was absolute was not that which did really make them Kings far less doth the lame promise of the people do it which we have made manifest already may come to nothing I know some do alleadge that there was an hereditory right settled upon the house of David but we finde that it was only a secret promise of God to David upon conditions that if he and his family should keep Gods Covenant then the Lord in his providence would so order it that there should not be one of the family wanting to sit upon the Throne and this promise was not made to David simply as he was a King for then it should rather have bin made to the house of Saul because he was before him for God did bless him with severall blessings that no King on earth can pretend to as his being a Prophete and Christs coming out of his race Yea that Prophecy and blessing of Jacob to his Children in the 49. of Genesis ver 10. The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come was fulfilled in the person of David and his house as vve shall finde by Davids ovvn vvords in 1 Chron 28. ver 4. Howbeit the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my Fathers to be King over Israel for ever for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler and of the house of Judah the house of my father and amongst the sons of my father he liked me to make me King over all Israel c. I knovv some do alleadge this hereditory title to be the absolute promise and gift of the people and therefore becomes as really the right and property of that race

both were destroyed and the curse of God did lye heavily upon the Kingdome for his sake so that much blood was shed till that David was put in full possession of that which was his Just and proper right And although Davids heart did smite him so that he could not kill him in the cave from these reasons following First That God honour'd him makeing him King and that he was not as yet formally divested of the power Secondly That he was his Father in Law. Thirdly He vvas a brave man as appeares from that commendation David gives him after his death that his bovv did never return empty Fourthly The braveness of Davids spirit yet David vvanted not a purpose to have done it in Battel as vve may finde from these vvords some one day or other he shall fall in Battel And it could be for no other end that David did keep so many in armes vvith him for if he had looked upon him to have bin the Just and lavvfull Magistrate it had bin usurpation and Rebellion in him to have accepted of that right vvhich the Prophete had given him And as for Zedekiah he did not so formally breake to the people as he and they vvent alongst together in Apostacy and defection from God as is clear from that Scripture Jerem. 38. ver 5 24 25. vvhen the Princes besought that Jeremiah's life might be taken Then Zedekiah the King sayd behold he is in your hand for the King is not he that can do any thing against you and yet vve finde that the Lord declared him to have no right to Reign as in that Scripture Ezek. 21. ver 25 26 27. And thou profane wicked Prince of Israel whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end 26. Thus sayeth the Lord God remove the Diademe and take off the Crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high 2. I will overturn overturn overturn and it shall be no more till he come whose right it is and I will give it him As also vvhen they vvere delivered into the hands of Nebuchadnezar they vvere commanded to renounce all alleadgeance in Zedekiah and to take protection from Nebuchadnezar as prisoners of War and so submit to him in all things lavvfull as their Magistrate for a time untill God should deliver them out of his hand Haveing novv in some measure held forth and discovered vvhat it is that makes a Just and lavvfull Magistrate and continues him such and thereby discovered vvhat it is that makes a Tyrant It remains novv to be spoken to vvhether a people are obliedged to svveare and keep alleadgeance and do the same duty to a Tyrant that they are to a Just and lavvfull Magistrate That it is the duty of a people to svveare and keep alleadgeance to a Just and lavvfull Magistrate is not in the least to be questioned for thereby a Magistrate is in a capacity to do the duty of a Just and lavvfull Magistrate to his people and vvithout it he is not but to svveare Alleadgeance to a Tyrant is most vvicked and sinfull For Just and lavvfull Magistrates are ordinances of God for his Glory and the good of the people as the true and reall Ministers of God for the peoples good but Tyrants and oppressours are only raised up by the Lord for Judgements and plagues to a people for their disobedience to God. For God never gave a right to Tyrants and oppressours to govern his people but ordained them for a peoples punishment according to that povver that the Divell has for he has a povver both to tempt to sin and also the punish for sin Although God has him allvvayes restrained as to both such is the povver of Tyrants and oppressours for as they are plagues and Judgements against these parts of the vvorld vvhere they have povver by robbing them of their rights and priviledges so are they also by tempting people to sin against God to vvhich assertion the Christian vvorld this day may give their vvitness as in Brittain Ireland France and other parts of the vvorld not only have they bin robbed of their rights and priviledges but all manner of vvays used to make them sin against God. And as it is a great and Rebellious sin against God to enter in any Compact or Covenant vvith the Divell to mantain and keep up him in his vvicked povver so it is the very same to enter in any Compact or Covenant vvith Tyrants and oppressours to mantain and keep them up in their vvicked povver for thereby Satans Kingdome is mantained and kept up vvhich I prove thus such as do svveare to mantain and keep up those vvho do mantain and keep up Satans Kingdome do svveare to mantain and keep up Satans Kingdome but such as do svveare to mantain and keep up Tyrants and oppressours do svveare to mantain and keep up those vvho do mantain and keep up Satans Kingdome Ergo they do svveare to mantain and keep up Satans Kingdome for as Hell and Divells are immediately opposite and contradictory to Heaven and those holy Spirits vvhich are there so Tyranny and oppression Tyrants and oppressours are the same opposite and contradictory to the true ordinance and Ministers of God here on earth and it does most natively follovv that vvhatever vvickedness they do commit or innocent blood they shed their concurrance is not vvanting thereto and that they are guilty thereof vvhich I prove thus such as do mantain and keep up a Tyrant and an oppressour in a vvicked and tyrannicall povver are guilty of all his vvickednesses Tyranny and bloodshed but such as do svveare Alleadgeance to a Tyrant and an oppressour are thereby obliedged to mantain and keep him up in that vvicked and tyrannicall povver Ergo they are guilty of all his vvickedness Tyranny and bloodshed yea if it vvere in their povver by a good vvish or prayer to God or other indeavour to do good to the interest of God thy can not give it or do it for so long as they stand under that Alleadgeance in the doing of any of these things they commit perjury I knovv some do object and say that vvicked Magistrates yea Tyrants and oppressours are raised up by the Lord as plagues and Judgements against a people for their sines and therefore they are obliedged patiently to bear the same from Gods hand vvithout useing any resistance vvhatsomever and accordingly to pray to God for those Tyrants that the Government may be blessed to them That they are raised up by the Lord as plagues and Judgements against a people for their sins as also that a people are obliedged patiently to endure and bear the same tovvards God no vvays freteing at the dispensation of God therein knovving it be the Just and reall effects and fruits of sin as also to pray for them is not in the least to be questioned but that a people should stupidly lye under the same vvithout useing any indeavour to remove