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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52540	The seditious principle viz. that the supreme power is inherent in the people, and that perpetually as in the proper subject (upon which the late lawlesse actings against the King were grounded, and from which the long thraldom and misery of the three nations did ensue) : examined and confuted / by John Novell...	Novell, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing N1421A; ESTC R31102	21,045	36

themselves must needs be principal under God in the governing of their own Civil Body and consequently all Government must of necessity be Democratical For even in a simple Democracy if any such be the whole people being utterly incapable of doing any Act of Government themselves in their universal Body must needs govern by some One or some few deputed and impowred by them If then in an ancient and lawful Monarchy the King or Monarch were but the peoples Minister or Deputy and only by them impowred Monarchy and Democracy were formally the self-same and no real or so much as formal difference between them which were manifestly false and contradictory Whosoever hath his Authority to govern from the people is the peoples Minister in governing themselves The Minister of God in governing the people is not the peoples Minister in governing themselves Therefore The Minister of God in governing the people hath not his Authority to govern from the people But consequently from God himself If this Minister of God were the peoples Minister then not only God but the people were principal in inflicting death which no Angel nor man but as Gods Minister only is any more capable of than of giving life God only is the Lord of life Therefore as the whole people cannot give to one man life so neither can the whole people have a just power to take it away None can justly destroy Gods image but God let the Cause be what it will And the power which the people have not they cannot give It is therefore God alone and not the people that gives to the Supreme Magistrate the Power to execute wrath and to punish with death IV. Judg. 7.20 The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon IN the whole Word of God there is neither mention nor intimation of any such thing as the Power of the Sword in or from the people But as here The Lord and Gideon so the Lord and the chief Magistrate such as Gideon was then made are only mentioned in Scripture to have any interest in that Power Whatsoever power is in the people is in them either principally or ministerially The power of the Sword is not in the people either of these wayes Therefore it is not at all in them The disjunction is undeniable The Minor is apparently true in respect of both for the principal power of the Sword can be in none but God and the Ministerial power of it can be in none but Gods Minister The Conclusion therefore is infallible The power of the Sword is not at all in the people And if this power be not in them which all political power doth either consist in or depend upon what other power can be where that of the Sword cannot Yet the Phanatick Spirit had of late taught many weak people to believe That the peoples Representative though really not that was the only Supreme Authority of the Nation as they commonly call'd the late Authours of our greatest evils But if what was phansied the peoples Representative by their own choice were the only Supreme and the only just Authority in every Nation and consequently the Kingly Office and Government in it self unjust and inconsistent with Liberty as all out Republican Zelots commonly asserted then all these consequences are inevitable viz. First That if Justice did everywhere obtain which God doth everywhere command that is If Gods own Will were done he must needs lose his own glory to be King of Kings for there would be never a King in all the World beside himself Secondly That God no less the Worlds immediate Governour than its Creatour having generally goven'd it ever since the Creation of it by the Monarchical which is really the same with the Paternal and Patriarchal power hath been all this while to seek how to govern it in the only just and good that is in the pure Democratical or simple Republican way or by Successions of Representatives or no man knowes what for which there hath never yet been one Example in the World Thirdly That all the good Kings of Israel as well as the bad and all those Kings and Queens over Christian Nations who God did promise should be nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers to his Church were and are all and every one of them even Queen Elizabeth among the rest wicked and unrighteous persons that is Tyrannical and unjust Invaders of the peoples Right and Subverters of their Native Liberty Fourthly That Gods promise in that particular must or of right ought to have been totally disappointed Fifthly That God himself was then the Authour of injustice and Tyranny when he sent his Prophets to anoint Saul and David and Solomon and Hazael and divers other Kings These and many other irrational and intolerable consequences must unavoidably follow if it were true That the peoples just Right and Liberty did only and formally consist in having the Supremacy of all Civil power in their own hands or at their disposal Another vulgar Errour consequent to the former was That the good of the people is not at all concerned in the Supremacy of power residing in the Prince and that the Kings Prerogative is to them no priviledge but in all a prejudice as they were senslesly made believe to publick Interest and Liberty The Kings Majesty in virtue of His Supremacy hath the Prerogative power as well of dissolving as of calling Parliaments If such a Parliament should come which God avert as should begin to do what the late long Parliament hath done the Nation would then scon learn to believe That the Kings Prerogative to dissolve such a Parliament would do them no harm The great end of Government and of the Supreme Kingly Prerogative and power is doubtless the general Welfare of the people Therefore most assuredly in such an anciently constituted Kingdom and after so many Lawes and Charters securing for ever the peoples Interest and Liberty no understanding man will now be made believe after the late horrid delusion That there is any ancient and legal Prerogative or power belonging to the King but is certainly though not visibly to all conducing directly to the general good and welfare of the people If the due Administration of Justice by the power of the Sword and of the Lawes of the Land against all wrong-doers and against all perturbators of the publick Peace in what place of capacity soever be for the general good of the whole people then assuredly the greater the Supreme Governers power and Prerogative is the greater is the whole peoples present safety and future security And for this cause it is that God hath given not another but his own Sword to his sole Vice-gerent the Supreme Magistrate The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon V. Numb 27.16 17 18 19. Let the Lord the God of the Spirits of all flesh set a man over the Congregation which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and

if our Saviour had never condemn'd this soul hypocrisy of spying motes in the eyes of others when huge beams are in their own But Observe the words that follow vers 6. And David said unto his men The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords Anointed to stretch forth my hand against him seeing he is the Anointed of the Lord. Here the people had all the Cause in the world if any cause could or can be to withdraw their Allegiance and to call home the Soveraign Power into their own hands if there had been any such thing to be done Saul their King was then a wicked man a Tyrant a Persecutor of holy David a man forsaken of God and evidently acted by the Devil Yet here we see no deposing much lesse murdering of him Nay David who was now in Sauls stead anointed King durst not here stretch forth his hand against him to imprison him or to do him any harme his heart quaked when he had but onely cut off the skirt of his Robe What would our new Polititians have done in the like case They would have looked upon the Opportunity as a Divine warranty to do the mischief and have told the world afterward That God put it into their hands and it was set upon their spirits and their prosperous successe in it was the good hand of God and the answer of prayers Three or four of the best of the new Rules of seeming Righteousness fitted for the justification of all their Lawlesse acting by that wicked Principle we here dispute against But here in the text we find all tendernesse shewed by David to Saul though God had put it into Davids hand and it was set by the Devil upon the spirits of Davids servants to destroy him And all this care which David took to stay his servants from rising against Saul was because Saul however then rejected of God remained still the Lords Anointed seeing he is the Anointed of the Lord. Now if Kings be the Lords Anointed and their special anointing be that by which they are formally made Kings then nothing can be more manifest than that they are made such immediately by God For the outward anointing of old was but a Ceremony the real and substantial unction by which Kings then were and now are formally constituted the Lords Anointed could be or can be no other but the formal Authority and supreme Power inherently vested in them And To signify the derivation of this from God immediately the outward unction was ever ministred by a special messenger immediately sent from God the people doing nothing in it nor knowing of it But since it is apparent that the Authority it self is the real anointing though the Ceremony be never had the King is thereby formally constituted the Lords Annointed Consequently all Christian Kings at this day are the Lords Anointed as well and as really as those that were anointed with outward oil by Prophets sent ro m God And this though manifest enough in it self is also proved by the example of Cyrus who though never anointed by a Prophet with outward oil was neverthelesse the Lords Anointed Isa 45.1 Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed to Cyrus c. He was the Lords Anointed as having the supreme authority of a King by which he was enabled to be a powerful deliverer of Gods people Much more then are all Christian Kings the Lords Anointed as having the same Kingly power by which they are enabled to be the nursing Fathers of the Church Whosoever are the Lords Anointed do receive their unction immediately from God All Kings are the Lords Anointed Therefore All Kings do receive their unction immediately from God The Minor is confirmed by as many clear Testimonies of holy Scripture as the most of those Divine Verities which we undoubtedly believe And it is evident in it self That in as much as those Kings that are recorded in Scripture to be the Lords Anointed were such in no other capacity but as they were Kings all Kings must needs be such by the known Rule Nor can the Major be doubted of since it is not at all or not only the outward but the inward and immaterial unction of Soveraign Authority by which Kings are really and formally the Lords Anointed and that which is inward and immaterial God only can be the immediate Giver and Creator of VIII 1 Sam. 8.4 5. WHEN the people of Israel desired a King they never so much as pretended to any Soveraign Authority in themselves which they would transfer in aliquem unum as is said and so set up a King of their own making If the people had had any such original power in themselves they were then in a two-fold disposition to make use of that without any more ado For first They were Gens Prophetica beside their natural Sagacity they were a Learned and Prophetick Nation and could not be ignorant of Jus naturate of any natural right and power they had of themselves to set up a King had there been any such Secondly They were in this very thing rebellious against the Lord and therefore not over-scrupulous of adventuring of themselves to set up a King if they had known themselves to have had original power of their own so to do But though they met with a strong Repulse by which they had occasion to plead their Right they never so much as mentioned any such Right or power of their own but they only went and made their Address to God That he would set a King over them and accordingly Behold said Samuel the Lord hath given you a King 1 Sam. 12.13 Whatsoever is incommunicably in God is not at all in men The Original and only Right of erecting a Monarchy and setting up a King is incommunicably in God Therefore It is not at all in men The Major is evident And the truth of the Minor also is clearly seen in that famous instance and in many other as in Gods anointing and setting up David afterwards by his own immediate Act to be King instead of Saul This he did not at second hand but immediately by his own without and before any Act of the people touching that Affair as appears 1 Sam. 16.1 c. especially ver 12 13. And this appears also by Gods giving without the consent of the people and before they knew it the Kingdom of the ten Tribes to Jeroboam 1 Kings 11.31 and ver 35. and ver 37. and also Chap. 12.24 Therefore though it be said that the people made David King 2 Sam. 2.4 and so Jeroboam 1 Kings 12.20 yet we see how apparent it is that those Kings had their Right from God without and before any consent or knowledge of the people IX Dan. 2.21 22. He changeth the times and the seasons He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings He giveth Wisdom to the Wise and Knowledge to them that know understanding He revealed deep and secret things He knoweth what is in