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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

Exod. 4.14 15. then not to be religious men and to be no people then not to be Gods When Israel Gods people here were to be led out of Egypt Moses whom the very Heathen commend as a prudent and gallant man would not undertake this service alone wherefore for the facilitating the work God tels him Aaron the Levite his brother was comming to meet him and would be glad in his heart to see him They meet and kiss each other and both are commissioned by God to bring Israel out of Egypt Thou leddest thy people by the hand of Moses and Aaron And it 's here by the hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in manu in or by the hand in the singular not hands to intimate the unity and consistencie of these two persons and their functions distinct though not opposite together Moses and Aaron may be severall fingers and his may be the longest and yet they may well make up still one hand of Government Matth. 17.3 by the hand of Moses and Aaron There is no inconsistency 'twixt Moses and Aaron Magistracie and Ministerie There 's no jarring in the Mount 'twixt Moses the supreme Law-giver and Elijah the King-reproving Prophet Exod. 7.12 Revel 11.8 Moses his rod though it may devoure the rods of the Egyptian Sorcerers of Rome which is spiritually Egypt that draw people to the obedience of another supream Head yet not Aarons rod. Numb 17. 1 Cor. 4.21 And Aaron had a rod laid by the pot of Manna So had S. Paul Shall I come unto you with the rod The rod of information and correction are not inconsistent but subservient each to other Lightning should go before Thunder informe convince then think of punishing men Moses and Aaron we know were brethren and brethren naturally love one another and are helpfull each to other When Israel was intangled in the warre with Amaleck in the Wilderness Exod. 17.12 Moses's hands grew weary and heavy Aaron then held them up Had not Aaron helped Moses Moses had not held out nor Israel prevailed against their enemies They were led but still by the hand of Moses and Aaron Whether is it any hinderance to this so desirable and useful harmony that Aaron pleads a divine right for his office as Moses for his is it any wonder that brethren lay claim to the same Father Moses and Aaron are Brethren But to shew the weakness of this exception Are not all Magistrates by divine right as well as the Supream Does not the Apostle say There 's no power but of God Rom. 13.1 Beza in locum and Let every soul be subject to the higher powers The Apostle sayes not as Beza observes Let every soul be subject to the highest power but to the higher powers And inferiour Magistrates are higher powers in respect of the people as well as the Supream Will they therefore undermine the Supream or must the Supream Magistrate to shew his Supremacy over all perform all Offices in his own person Have not Masters a cleer divine right to rule their servants Parents to rule their children are they therefore inconsistent with the Supremacy of the civil Magistrate May they not with subordination and declared subjection mould up into one civil Politie Society and Government I have stuck a little in this in regard there are evil envious men who go up and down sowing the tares of division in the Nation betwixt Brethren even these two Moses and Aaron As if they were Cadmei fratres brethren that cannot stand together but must destroy one another surely there is no such antipathy as these men fearing their own shadow imagine 'twixt Magistracie and Ministery If so surely it would have appeared long ago in the government of Gods people but there 's no such complaint yea contrarily we have in this very text a thankful acknowledgement of Gods singular mercy in and by the government of both subscrib'd in the behalf of himself and all God's people by the undoubted Prophet Asaph Thou leddest amongst other special mercies thy people by the hand of Moses and Aaron And this leads me to the fourth particular the subjects of this divine Government Gods own people Thy people The people whom he chose out of all the Nations of the earth to be his peculiar people a people to whom he was not onely a God but a King for their Government was a Theocracy as Philo calls it The Lord was their Law-giver the Lord was their King as they acknowledge Esay 33.22 A people to whom he not only gave most excellent Laws without them to guide them for their Laws were all divine of Gods own framing but also his holy Spirit within to rule and govern them yea who enjoyed extraordinary manifestations of the Spirit in Dreams Visions and Revelations Vrim and Thummim Gods miraculous presence going before them and leading them by the Cloud by day and the Pillar of fire by night yet notwithstanding all this God would not leave even this people to their own private spirit and self-government but committed them to the guidance and publick direction of Moses and Aaron men subject to the same passions weaknesses and miscartiages with themselves Thou leddest thy people by the hand of Moses and Aaron By what hath been said honoured and beloved ye may easily discern the self-conceit or at least deceit of those who because they are as they say Gods people have his grace and Spirit within to teach and govern them despise all outward instruction or government as below them bitterly scorn and revile the Ministery both of Moses and Aaron For Moses the Law-giver they have the Law written in their hearts They need none of your outward dead killing letter They have the Spirit and no question the Spirit of God is as able to make a man on a sudden without study or meditation an accomplisht Lawyer Physician Husbandman c. as a Minister and makes in that manner in these dayes as many of one sort as another But for Aaron they are all Priests and why not Kings too as well as John of Leiden all Prophets taught of God and shall they be put to charges to be taught of men But such Anabaptistical fancies as these are sufficiently discover'd by the light of this Text to honest mindes that seek nothing but truth and the saving their souls not their tithes For we see here plainly that God setled this way of governing by Moses and Aaron ruling and teaching Elders over his own people it 's cleerly divine and dare any man think God setled a Government over his people tyrannical oppressive or prejudicial to their temporal or spiritual concernments yea though in those dayes the Canon or Rule of divine Writ not being fully compleated The true spirit of prophecie not that boorish apish sprite that scares Ranters and Quakers out of all sense and reason was more generally bestowed then now it is or need to be yet God would still