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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45082	Of government and obedience as they stand directed and determined by Scripture and reason four books / by John Hall of Richmond.	Hall, John, of Richmond.	1654 (1654)	Wing H360; ESTC R8178	623,219	532

establisheth true policy is an apparent certain and accessible union of irresistable power Apparent and certain I say for else how shall littigant parties know where to make their addresses accessible it must be also both for the last appeals sake or what else it shall choose to act by it self otherwise it s being is in vain And thereupon union it must have in it self how else can it give to others For in this respect it must be as before said like the Center in a circle for there as the singleness of the Center makes the union and meeting of the circumference and consequently but one Circle so two Centers though never so like and neer yet having circumferences drawn from them will make two Circles And further as the Center gives being to the circumference so the circumference to it again for until this be drawn the center is but a point as untill the subjects be the King is but as another man And as until this Center be fixed whereby to measure equal distances on all hands it will remaine an uncertain round and not a Circle so in policy till the body of the people are fixed upon an unity as upon a Center they have no assurance of equal and certain proportions amongst themselves but as all lines are made of points so these individuals striving to make up this Circle without a Center or making two or more Centers they will in the latter case make two or more Circles or Common-weales and in the other as wanting a common and perfect rule or measure make it like an unequal round or circumference to consist of many irregularities and factions And then again as the Center of the earth hath in its union the vertue of the whole Globe insomuch as the desire of approach of massy bodies which we commonly call motion of gravity is directed to it and not to all or any part of the circumference besides so this union of property and power must first be united in one Center of Soveraignty that so the whole force and vigour resting now there like as one foot of the compass must fix and make the Center before the other can make the Circle subjects may be capable of an harmonious receit and direction from thence againe by the strait lines of attraction and entercourse which as it will prove neerest their journeys end namely the attaining political good called peace plenty so will it also keep them from justling or enterfering upon one another in their addresses and desires and thereby avoid political evil which is civil war For if any faction of the people should grow to that greatness and temerity as to disanul soveraign command then should soveraignty be no soveraignty nor political happiness at all attainable the measure or way thereunto being thus lost or uncertain no more then if the force of union or attraction should be greater or equal in any part of the earths circumference then in the Center it could still keep its round figure or indeed have any determinate figure at all but by this uncertain or unequal direction and addition of massy bodies some one part of the circumference unproportionably swelling the Center must alter also whereby for want of setled place in that element it should not be able to operate in due manner So in States and Kingdomes if they have not a common Center of desire and good or have not the same so definite and certain but that all or any parts of the people may take upon them according to their separate appetites to judge and determine of good and bad what equality or proportion can the whole have for this differing and doubtful application will not onely render it weak and disfigured but also one part destructive to another So that no government can be rightly called a Commonwealth or one Commonwealth where the supreme power and interest is not centred in one person For in Monarchy as there is a personal so is there a natural and necessary union when as in all Pollarchies there is still a natural and necessary division of persons and interest and only an accidental and contingent union occasioned by some foraign fear In which case they may be supposed for a time strengthened and united by way of Antiperistasis only Whereas the Monarch having an unity in himself must constantly remain so As we have a pertinent simile of this agreggation of power property c. in the Monarch in that vision of Nebuchadnezzar wherein himself as that great goodly tree is represented as the common author of protection and food for all sorts even so we have a plain direction to this unity from God himself For after that he had given command for making of Judges and Officers throughout all the tribes by whose number the people might be supplied with means of decision he then to unite and Center them saith If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgement between blood and blood between plea and plea and between stroak and stroak being matters of controversie within thy gates then shalt thou rise and get thee to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose and thou shalt come unto the Priests and Levits meaning for decision in matters of Religion and unto the Judge that shall be in those dayes and enquire and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgement and thou shalt do according to the sentence of judgement which they of that place which the Lord thy God shall choose shall shew thee and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee according to the sentence of law which they shall teach thee and according to the judgement which they shal tell thee thou shalt do thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee to the right hand or to the left and the man that will do presumptously and will not hearken unto the Priest that standeth to Minister before the Lord thy God or unto the Judge even that man shall dye and thou shalt put away evil from Israel and all the people shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously Here we finde an express and direct injunction to obey the supreme definitive sentence aswell as a promise to constitute one no pretence of our private judgements can warrant us to decline from their sentence to the right hand nor to the left Marke we not how many strong and urgent commands here are and how often pressed and repeated for maintenance of this Soveraigne united power in the person of one Judge For as all Israel was contained in the tribes and every tribe united in its own Fathers and Elders so for common unity and quieting their differences again amongst themselves being there called Blood and blood and between plea and plea one common and uncontroleable Judge is to be set up and obeyed from whose sentence they are not to depart under any pretence of law or equity to the contrary