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death_n	david_n	king_n	son_n	5,341	5	5.7345	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66454	An answer to sundry matters contain'd in Mr. Hunt's postscript to his argument for the bishops right in judging capital causes in Parliament ... whereunto is added a query to be put to the scrupulous and dissenting brotherhood : with an advertisement how usurpers of the crown ought to be dealt with / by Wa. Williams of the Middle Temple, a barrister at law.	Williams, Walter, of the Middle Temple.	1683 (1683)	Wing W2773A; ESTC R7863	19,108	36

's no Proviso that the people should alter the Succession that was to be done by none but God himself or by his special Command a clear instance whereof soon happened for when David was Bed-ridden as it were and every day expected Death Adonijah one of Davids Sons by the Mother of Absolom Exalted himself saying I will be King 1st of the 1st of Kings and prepared him Chariots and Horses and Fifty men to run before him and made great Feasts at which the people and Captains of the Hosts cryed God save King Adonijah yet God and old David said Solomon should be King and was so wherein is observable this thing further that God who foreknew without doubt that Solomon in his latter days would set up Idolatry yet he did not punish him beforehand he did not pronounce the sentence against him that the Kingdom should be rended from him nor was there any Bill of Exclusion against him until he had actually committed the Offence which Offence was not only that himself privately had Committed Idolatry but that he had also publickly encouraged the people thereunto by setting up high places to sacrifice to Kemosh and Moloch as appeareth in the Eleventh of the First of Kings and pray note further when this sentence came to be Executed and ten Tribes were given to Jereboam there was not a blow struck on either side from whence you may take notice by the by that God did not require the assistance of Rebellion or Seditious scriblers to effect those works and it cannot be said that Gods Arm is shortned now more than at other times I conceive Gods Example is as obliging as his Precepts and that if we imitate him we shall never do amiss it is therefore Argument sufficient that Monarchy yea Hereditary Monarchy is most agreeable to his will of any Government whatsoever because he Established it himself amongst his own peculiar people and since he did so and so frequently commanded Obedience to it I wonder how any man can say that Hereditary Monarchy is not of Divine Institution or having said so can suppose he should be believed and methinks you your self seem diffident that there would not be much credit given to your Hypothesis and therefore you make Provision as well as you can against the universal approbation and embracing of that sort of Government and would endeavour to make the World believe it was a Government peculiar to the Jews only for you say page the 36. That the Jews form of Government ought with less Reason to be the rule of all Kingly Governours because it was a Government chosen by themselves than the Laws of the Jews ought to be the Laws of all Nations which they are not These are the words of the Postscript I have already shewed that you were mistaken in affirming that the Monarchical Government of the Jews was of their own choosing for it was of Gods choosing and as to your intimating that the Laws of the Jews ought not to be the Laws of all Nations there you ought to have distinguished for though the Law of not eating Swines flesh was only peculiar to those people in respect of the Climate they lived in for that it inclined the Inhabitants of that Countrey to Leprosie and therefore was never intended to be an universal Law and the Ceremonial Law of the Jews is now out of doors because it consisted of Types of Christ coming who is now come and therefore the Types of his coming are useless yet the Moral Law of God the Ten Commandements which were Laws to the Jews ought to be Laws all the World over and are so taken and they are Everlasting and Immutable as well as universal Laws but there is no Rational consequence in your Argument if I should admit that all the Laws of the Jews had been peculiar to themselves only for though their Laws might not be Laws for all the World to follow yet Gods method in enforcing the Jews to obedience to these Laws might upon good reason be thought a good precedent to be followed to enforce obedience to other Laws There is a great difference between Laws and Government though you seem to make the same Rule for both for Laws are Rules for men to walk by and Government is the exercise of the means and methods to enforce men to walk by those Rules and though some Laws of one Countrey may not be convenient for another yet the means and method to enforce obedience to those Laws which are best are the best the Ore in all Countreys is not alike good but that which is the Universal best way of refining it is so whether the refining be in England or Scotland so that if the Jews were best Governed according to their Laws by an Hereditary Monarchy I can see no reason why the English should not be best Govern'd according to their Laws by an Hereditary Monarchy also It is not only God's example in governing the particular people the Jews but they are his general Precepts that intimate his good liking of Monarchy all the World over for fear God and honour the King are general and universal Commands not limited nor restrained to any particular Place or People and they have so close a Connexion and are plac'd so near together that it seems to imply as much as that if you fear God you will honour the King and that God requires the one from us as well as the other many places of Holy Writ requires our obedience to Kings as Supream and to Governours under them but I find not a tittle that requires obedience to any other sort of Government where there is not a King I find no approbation of such as the Kingless Keepers of the Liberty of England or other place Hogen-Mogen States of the United Provinces Burgo-Masters of Venice or Geneva or such like such Governments seem to be quite out of Gods care or regard and therefore not to be regarded by good men nor to be look'd upon to be of Divine Institution having neither Divine Precept nor Example to Countenance them But though I take Monarchy to be Hereditary by Divine Appointment yet I cannot believe that any man of common sense unless it be such an enemy as sowed Tares in the Wheat or some false friend that will affirm that by Divine Right and Institution a King may Tyrannize over his Subjects or impose unreasonable and unjust things upon them for Law but I humbly conceive Kings are obliged to observe the Laws of God and Nature and are bound truly and it is their duty to govern according to those Laws and the Laws Rightfully made by themselves and Predecessors which are not contrary to the Laws of God as you may see in the forementioned 17. of Deut. and very plentifully in Scripture elsewhere but if a King breaks any of those Laws he is not punishable by his Subjects but God assumes that to himself and it is sufficient punishment for it is a