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A45618	The Oceana of James Harrington and his other works, som [sic] wherof are now first publish'd from his own manuscripts : the whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an exact account of his life prefix'd / by John Toland.	Harrington, James, 1611-1677.; Toland, John, 1670-1722.	1700 (1700)	Wing H816; ESTC R9111	672,852	605

Chirothesia or Imposition of Hands but take heed of that Divines will not allow the Chirothesia to be an Act of the People but in this proceding the whole people acted in the Ordination of the Levits wherfore the Levits also were ordain'd by the Chirotonia Consent Vote or Suffrage of the whole People imply'd in this action But for the Ordination of Priests and Levits whatever it was it is not to the present purpose Divines deriving not theirs from Priests and Levits but from Dukes Generals and Magistrats from that of JOSHUA and of the Sanhedrim always provided that this were of the same nature with the former that is by the Chirothesia or Imposition of Hands and not by the Chirotonia of the People However the Ordination of the Exod. 29 Magistracy was certainly Political and so in this deduction they themselves confess that their Ordination also is a Political Constitution yet wheras MOSES is commanded by God to bring AARON and his Numb 8. Sons to the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation and having wash'd them there to adorn them with the Priestly Robes with the Miter and to anoint them wheras he is commanded the Children of Israel having first laid their Hands upon the Levits to cleanse them and offer them for an Offering Divines of the Hierarchy and the Presbytery tho it be otherwise with WALLAEUS and such as acknowlege Popular Government give the Congregation or Consent of the People for nothing and put the whole Ordination of the Priests and Levits upon the washing and cleansing or other Ceremonys of Consecration as if to put the Ordination of SAUL upon the Ceremony of anointing by SAMUEL tho perform'd by the immediat Command of God were not absolutely contradictory to Scripture and to the known Law of Israel which speaking of the People expresly says One from among thy Brethren shalt thou set King over thee Book II upon which place says PHILO Most wise MOSES never intended that Philo de inst principiis the Royal Dignity should be acquir'd by lot but chose rather that the Kings should be elected by the Chirotonia or Suffrage of the whole People The Congregations of the People assembl'd upon this as upon other public affairs and requir'd a sign or confirmation from God forasmuch as by his will Man is to the rest of Nature what the Face is to the Body Wherto agrees that of the Heathens Os homini sublime dedit Coelumque tueri jussit and their Divinations upon the like occasions by Intrals none of which were ever understood as destructive of the liberty of the People or of the freedom of their Chirotonia WHERE SOLOMON is made King and ZADOCK Priest by the People tho the Ceremony of anointing was doubtless perform'd and perhaps by the Prophet NATHAN it is wholly omitted in the place as not worth the speaking of The opinion that the Ordination of the Priests and Levits lay in the Ceremonys of their Consecration is every whit as sober and agreable to reason as if a man should hold the Kings of England to have bin made by the Unction of the Bishops Israel from the institution of MOSES to the Monarchy was a Democracy or Popular Government in Popular Government the Consent of the People is the Power of the People and both the Priests and Levits were ordain'd by the Consent of the People of Israel TO bring these things to the Citys in the perambulation of the Apostles which by the former Chapter I have prov'd to have bin Ditm. c. 10. Popular Governments it is acknowleg'd by GROTIUS to the Citys of Asia not only that they us'd the Chirotonia but in the strictest sense of the word that is to give their Suffrage by the holding up of Hands And that they had the liberty of their Religion the choice of their Magistrats both Civil and Ecclesiastical in their Ecclesi● or Congregations has bin also undeniably evidenc'd whence it must needs follow that there were Citys in Asia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chirotonizing or ordaining them Elders that is Magistrats and Priests in every Congregation with Reverence be it spoken long before CHRIST was in the flesh or the Apostles any of them were born Wherfore to sum up what in this Chapter I conceive to be sufficiently prov'd I may boldly conclude That the Chirotonia derives from popular Constitution and that there was a way of Ordination by the Chirotonia CHAP. IV. The deduction of the Chirothesia from Monarchical or Aristocratical Government and of the second way of Ordination from the Chirothesia In which is contain'd the Commonwealth of the Jews as it stood after the Captivity WHAT pleases the Prince says JUSTINIAN has the force of a Law seeing the People in his Creation have devolv'd their whole Power upon his Person which is with the most But when Popular Government is chang'd into Monarchical either the whole Power of the People or a great part of it must of necessity accrue to the King Hence says SAMUEL he will appoint him Captains over Thousands Chap. 4 and Captains over Fiftys in which words perhaps is intimated the Judges of the inferior Courts or Jethronian Prefectures so that hereby 1 Sam. 8. 12. SAMUEL tells the People they shall no more have the Election of their Rulers but the King will have it who it may be chang'd the nature of som of these Magistracys or added others for when DAVID came to reign over all Israel JOAB was over the Host his 2 Sam. 8. 15. Strategus or General JEHOSHAPHAT was Recorder ZADOC and ABIMELEC were the Priests SERAIAH was the Scribe and BENAIAH was over the Pelethits and the Cherethits that is was Captain of his Regiments of Guard call'd perhaps by these names as those of ROMULUS were call'd Celeres But it should seem that few or none of these Officers were elected by the Chirotonia that is by the People but by the Prince which kind of Election as will be shewn anon may be call'd Chirothesia For the deduction of this kind of Ordination or Election we shall do well to hearken first to Dr. HAMMOND who in his Query or Discourse concerning Ordination §. 10. by the Imposition of Hands puts it thus To lift up the Hands was a Ceremony in Prayer and accordingly to lay hands on any differing Exod. 17. 11. no otherwise from lifting up than by the determining that Action to a peculiar Object the Person that was pray'd for was generally among the Jews a Ceremony of benediction us'd first by the Father to the Children in bestowing the Blessing upon them and with that the succession to som part of his Estate or Inheritance as appears in JACOB'S blessing the Children of JOSEPH he stretch'd out his right hand and laid it upon EPHRAIM'S Gen. 48. 14. head and his left hand on MANASSES and so he bless'd c. From thence it was accommodated among them to the communicating of any part of Power to others