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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85517	The grand catastrophe, or The change of government: being a vvord about the last turn of these times written in a letter to a friend, as an essay, either to give, or to receive satisfaction in the dispute of the last change. By one who takes leave to stile himself Johannes Cornubiensis.	Cornubiensis, Johannes.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1488; Thomason E726_12; ESTC R206800	14,042	17

and settlement may yet be the glory of his people Israel in both sending and setling amongst us his Judges and Counsellours till himselfe alone shal come to sit upon the Throne of his father David that by us as by a light may be seen what shal be the glory of the Jewes and so the final advantage of the Jew above the Gentile shal be much every way when they shal though last and after us enjoy their Judges as at first and their Counsellours as in the beginning in a beauty as farre exceeding us as that of Rachel the younger did that of Leah the elder and so they be the prime in beauty though we the first in birth or beginning of this Prophesie Fifthly in case these things be thus let us a little consider what is this Government of Judges and Counsellours which upon the change of Government we may expect and should acquiesce in as a mercy promised And here it must be promised as an indubitable conclusion That the government of Judges was but of one Person as chiefe Judge at one time The great space of time after the division of Canaan by Lot which is the Epocha from which the giving and governing of Judges is reckoned as Acts 13.19 20. compared with Judges 3.9 had its course in the succession of Judges one after another and in all that time there were never more then one Judge at a time The Government is expressed in the plurall of Judges by reason of their successive turnes one after the death of another and not because there should be or were many at once Consult the Book of the Judges and you will not in the least hesitate herein Othoniel Elon Deborah Gideon and the rest governed or judged by turnes during the time of their lives and not any two of them at one time This being cleare beyond contradiction consider we a little the use of the Judge at any time what it was for and upon which any came to that place and consider we the rule and power of a Judge so inabled Now as for his rise It is evident it was upon a Martiall or Military account he that was the deliverer was therefore and thereupon the Judge the person which providence raised up unto Israel in the time of any of their streights to deliver them out of the hand of their enemies was Eo nomine eademque ratione the Judge afterward during terme of life Jephtah therefore did upon these termes covenant to undertake the Office of being their Generall in Warre that he might be their Judge in peace Had not the people promised that and called God to witnesse as the seale and security of that Promise he had not gone forth either against the malignant Ammonites first of the male-contented Ephraimites afterward but being assured of being Judge after the warre he ingaged in the warre and according to the ingagement of the Elders unto him he judged or governed as chiefe sixe yeares afterward upon whose death Ibzan succeeded him in the Judicature of Israel and judged seven yeares even till he dyed Now albeit it appeares not by the sacred History what was the ground upon which the Judge for the time being was elected in time of peace for neither in the dayes of Elon who succeeded Ibzan nor of Abdaon who came to be Judge after Elon was there any vvars albeit I say therefore it appeare not what was the particular worth or merit eminency or desert for which the election in those times was made yet still it is evident that in times of warre and streights the valiant and succesful management of the affaires then was alway the ground which gave the rise and reason of the particular election unto the power and honour of the chief Judicature afterward Having passed thus farre in our inquiry let us now consider whether or no that during this government of Judges there was not also annexed unto it the Synedrian of the Elders and so at the same time there was the JVDGE and the COVNSELLOVRS as having an hand in and authority with the Judge to manage the government of Israel And there are besides many conjecturall evidences three things which may be of weight and sufficiency to attest and carry us to plenary beleife hereof 1 That no History either sacred or prophane doth or can make it appeare That from the first institution or foundation of the Synedrian which was by Moses there was not an abolition or dissolving of that power which they had and exercised in the Government of Israel Cunaeus is cleare and positive in this his words are Id concilium cum constitutum a Mose esset semper deinde sub judicibus regibusque pontificibus usque ad extremam Judaeae desolationem fuit mansitque c. neither have I as yet met with any Author of name or note indeed with none at all that ever denied this but that still during the time of Judges as afterwards there were also the Counsellours the seventy Elders who did alway manage the affaires of Government especiall in Civil things as in matters of Fact and fault between man and man throughout all the Tribes of Israel 2 The frequent mention of the Elders in the Booke of Judges is so obvious that it must be granted that even in that time the Elders were And that they were of power appeares cleare enough both by their calling of Jeptath to be Generall of their Forces and covenanting with him that he should be Judge upon his successe Judg. 11.9 10. And why should it be doubted or questioned whether or no this conjunction of Judges and Counsellours were together at Mizpeh at that time when as its constitution was but yet new and nothing appeares why it should be thought either to be altered or abrogated 3 The particular story of the Levite and his Concubine is of evidence enough by it self to constrain us to conclude that there were Counsellours in the times of the Judges To whom but to the Elders did he addresse himselfe Who but they did do him justice indeed in those days there was no Judge in Israel as there was not at some other times but yet it appeares then there were these Counsellours and a very strong argument it is that they were when and while there were Judges because they were when there were none In Jephtabs case they elected him Generall and constituted him Judge and now in the Levites case they heare his in jury and doe him Justice Besides had there been a Judge at that time in Israel its questionable whether or no the complaint should have been made to him unlesse the extraordinariness of the case had made him to take cognizance of it for in Civil affaires as one wel observes the Judges did but rarely appeare and when is was the occasion or affaire was weekly Upon all this it wil appeare That indeed the Government by Judges was mixed with the Synedrian of Elders and Judges and Counsellours were