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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25459	Dualitas, or, A two-fold subject displayed and opened conducible to godliness and peace in order, I. Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of magistracy with the duties thereupon depending and reverence thereunto due, II. Duorum unitas, the agreement of magistracy and ministry, at the election of the honourable magistrates of Edinburgh and the opening of a diocesan synod of the reverend clergy there / by Will. Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1674 (1674)	Wing A3217; ESTC R27190	51,279	83

he himself had tansgressed before therefore the Lord made a Breach then and now a Covenant for peace Is not Aaron the Levite thy Brother said the Lord to Moses Behold he cometh forth to meet thee and when he seeth thee He will be glad in his heart And when he met him he kissed him Exod. 4. 14. And where shal love be if not in these two titles Thou shalt be to him in stead of GOD and He shal be to thee in stead of a Mouth that is Moses shal be to Aarona King and Aaron to Moses a Lord Chancellour Ex. 4. 16. Will not God love his Priest and shall not the Priest love his God Call him Lucifer among the Sons of the Church that exalteth himself above or equal to any who are called gods let that Minister be ashamed of his Office that sayes not in this sense Let GOD live let Magistracy flourish and that God again blush at his Deity that will not have respect unto his Priest his Preacher for he having as Moses an impediment in his speech hath given him as Aaron the Minister for an Orator without whom his lisping his stammering Tongue shall in the Tricks Beh●viour Jears and Mocks of the Vain of the more Serious be dismissed without State Reverence and Respect We have no certain Record how or by what accident Moses had his slowness of Speech which he urged for an excuse against going to Pharaoh Exod. 4. 10. But that reason seems too ridiculous which some Rabbins teach that Pharaoh putting his Crown on the Child Moses his head who spurning it away was by his Magicians advised to dest●oy him that Ominating he should prove the overthrow of the Kingdom but his Daughter pleading Innocence and Childishness Pharaoh for a tryal b●ought a Golden Apple and one of Hote Iron this last the Child putting to his Mouth had the Nerves of his Tongue drawn in It is certain that he had an impedim●nt 〈◊〉 his Speaking and so his want of Elocution is supplied by the Oratory and Fluency of Aaron as Moses was so all M●gistrats are shal be found of no perswading u●terance to dispat●h the Almighties affairs until as Colleagues they have their Preachers in their hand So deare were these two Levites Moses and Aaron that Moses getting a Commission from GOD to go to Pharaoh and that Commission sealed in Cast down thy Rod c. told the Miracle and shewed all to Aaron who as High Chancellour to King Moses eloquently delivers Moses mind to the people and works the wonders before them Exod. 4. 30 Each of them endearing other so much that both might be respected by the p●ople who seeing this might say Moses could not want his Aaron nor Aaron his Moses m●re then a Man could want the power of Conception and that Conception want a Tongue for Expression the One readily aiding the Imperfections of the other Moses's st●pping in his spe●ch being not heeded because he ha● the Power to rule Aarons's asisting to Moses not exposing him to Contempt because he had the utterance both for this end of leading forth the people In the matters concerning the Lord and also of the King they of Levies Tribe were Overseers 1. Chron. 26. 30. The Priest and the Judge in matters of Blood stroak and stroak plea and plea God thought it uncomely not to have his Priest advised with as well as the Judge and a threatning upon him who neglected the Sentence given by the Priest Deut. 17. 8. Equally as that of the Judge It is not good if David want his Abiathar And Zadock will be● nay must be at Solomons Coronation shall I call it Unction It being proper usual for the Priest to crown the Prince When can Aaron want his Moses and again when can Moses want his Aaron that is the King his Priest I mean never never nay not at Death for before Aaron died Moses by Command stripped Aaron of his Garments the Badge of his Priesthood and put them upon Eleazer his Son And Aaron died Numb 20. 28 Moses and Eleazar his Nephew now his Priest c●me down from the Mount a vacuum in the Priesthood to God to a Godly Moses being even for an i●stant hated And mark it such whose boldness or who●● sloathfulness can come down to that is converse with the people to rule the Tabernacle without a Son of Aaron though he should talk with God shall have Sauls event when he attempted to ●ffer a burnt-offering whereon his Ruine fearfully was bottomed Samuel assuring him he had done fo●lishly for but for that his Kingdom had been established for ever all other evils ●alling upon him flowed from that attempt made upon the Priestly Function 1 Sam. 13. Though he pleaded a nec●ssity and was truly in an amazing strait 1 Sam. 13. 13. Samuel being absent and the Philistins present Victory over all Adversaries is not many miles distant when the Sword of the Lord a●d of Gideon enters the field together yea this freed the Kingdom from Tyrrany when Jehojadah the High Priest was married to Jehoshabeath King I●h●tam● Daughter whose Heir and Prince All others being slain was s●cured in the ●ouse of the Lord by his Uncle the P●●●st 〈◊〉 a c●●veni●nt time ●thalia was slain with the Sword and h●w p●e●ty a sight and P●ognostick of future good to any but Traitors wer● it to see that which th●n was s●en viz. The King by a pillar of the house of the Lord and the Priests round about him and the people rejoycing to see both 2 King 11. 19. This will enhance the Dearne●s when you may re●●em●er that ordinarily the Jews keeped within their T●i●es yet here for l●ve Levi marries with the house of David and not far for d●arness again the Kings of Judah had thei● Palace so near the House of the Lord and Temple t●at there was b●t a st●p or a court betwixt them And how seemly was it to see th● Pr●phet the great Preacher Isai●h preach in the Cou●t being by the Hebrews Grandchild to King ●m Zia and to have behold him advising Figs for the recovery of Hezekia who according to the same Teachers was both his King and Son in Law marrying his Daughter Hephzib● s●mewhat is in this also that Churches are oft in Records called Basilica i. e. the Palaces of Kings And the great Hermes of Egypt was called Trismegistus i. e. ter Maximus thrice great being the greatest Philosopher Priest and King of his Age and spake about if not before the time of Moses Aaron of the Trinity of a three-fold world of a three-fold Knowledge c. Queen Elizabeth in a progress rejoyced exceedingly to meet some Country Justices of the Peace each one having his Minister with him concluding tha● Co●ntry well governed But that of Scotlands Crown by Fames Trumpet should be known to all the world that in our late Rebellion from Dunnotter Castle then besiedged by the English the Wife of Mr. Granger M●nister of Kineffe secured b●th

bless thee O Habitation of Justice that is to you R. H. Your Council-house Your Session-house and M●untain of Holiness that is R. R. Our Churches and Our Pulpits Jer. 31. 23. Peace shall be far from us What is that Mans Name and what is his Sons Name that ever defaced the Church by pulling out but one stone and not either his Eyes blinded with the dust thereof or his Arm crushed with the violence of the pluck Where liveth he and where was he born that ever weighed the Sacred Anchor of the Churches Authority and at the same time kept the Ship of the State from being driven by contrary Tydes to his own Amazement Disgrace or Ruine And again where is that Priest or how came he to prosper that joyned in a Conspiracy against his David and the High-way to the Temple did not mourn For if once the Guard of Love and Reverence be forced from the Hearts of Subjects from their Princes it 's not our Gowns that can give protection to our Bibles and on the other hand Zerubbabel must have and must not want his Josua Hag. 1. This R. H. is not to compel you to respect your own Ministry your care for us and love to us being highly Eminent and Honorable To requite which and fit all to conformable behaviour to their Magistrats Let us R. R. eye our Father Aaron and in him we have every thing adviseable 1. His Name giving Instruction 2. His Office Direction 3. His failings Caution 1. His Name offers Instruction It was said Nabal is his Name and Folly is with him we say Aaron is his Name and Learning is with him Some will have it from the Hebrew Aron to signifie an Ark or Chest such an one as he himself kept the Law in and brought it out thence to teach it to the people Some from Haron signifieing to cast or throw Darts which Morally a Preacher doth pierceing both the Ears and Hearts of the Teached his Hearers Some from Har a Mountain it is all one This we learn that a Son of Aaron should Immoveably be fixed upon his Calling having his Breast full of the Law that his peoples Hearts may be touched as pricked while he openeth to them the Scriptures Indeed the faithful Shepherd will in choice consider what pastorage to lead his Flock unto to call up dead heresies to improve not understood Texts or dark and seemingly to us disjoynted Scriptures as the manner was in our late conspiracy between Ruben and Corah in their Rebellion as the shutting up of the Gates of Abel against King Davids Army as Davids flying up and down with an ●rmy from Saul for he never fought him and heating them into Treason apparent from Uzzahs being opposed and thrust from the Temple when a Leper Is to make a half penny-Box of their bosom to contain some shreds rather then a chest to contain the whole Volumn of the Law Magistrats are said to be Heads and the Ministry to be the Eyes of the Church And if her Eyes choose not the good old and true way of obedience to Higher Powers without which no Subjection unto GOD of love to all men they may in time be blood-shot And I could wish that our Clergy study and pray to be free of that infirmity it being the Nefarium Crimen of some that hath been before us A Son of Aaron is a Steward in the Palace of one greater then Moses yet under Moses and if Food wholesome be not presented he himself shall be infected with the common if not a worse disease I will not grate your Ears with Controversies but it 's clearer then Interest can cloud that if Abiathar prove disloyal he may be removed from the Altar The Key of the Wine-cellers taken from him that offers bitter water is such a piece of Justice as must be in a Kingdom or it shall rave upon the bed of Feavers and Distempers And some more mad therein fly in the face of that unworthy Trustee making him sick by smiting What event our late Rebellious Teaching had in Murther Adultery Swearing Drunkenness and all kind of Ryot what contempt of the Gospel and of Gospel Ministry that is themselves I leave to the iniquity of their own Fasts and Causes of Humiliation they observed God seeming to●take revenge upon the Pulpit for its treacherous extravagancies in those dayes of Lying Conspiracy and Rebellion But then Brethren shall we not be ashamed when we have respect to all GODS Commandments then and not before Shall we be truely of the House of Aaron and Blessed of the People There are some things in the Law such as G●nealogies these are wearisome unlesse modestly and without heat they be handled they are profitlesse too There are some things like Law or given out as Law such as old wives fables minched Scriptures such things as are in no Sacred Ark but purely treasured up by old Fabulous Tradition such passages as are neither commended nor disaproved in holy Writ Rome maketh use of ridiculous fancies of Visions and Miracles and some noticed so much that doubtful act of shutting the gates of Abel upon Joab that they preached therefrom absolute field Disloyalty Neither of these we understand yet this we do that Aaron first sacrificed for himself then for the People lifting up his hand the first day of his Priest-hood Blessing the Congregation Levit. 9. 22. This that we understand let us do letting the f●ble lye at the old wifs door where we found it and Genealogie in Gods Record when it comes to contention untill he clear it and not presse the shutting up of Abels gates until it be approved 2. His Office giveth Direction He was appointed 1. To instruct the People from God 2. To mediat for the People with God After Abirams conspiracy Moses commanded Aaron to offer Incense which he did standing betwixt the Living and the dead and the Plague was stayed Numb 16. 48. The like yet should his Sons do saying spare thy People O Lord and give not they Heritage to spoil and again That the Covenant with Levi of Life and Peace might turn away many from their iniquity that the people seeking the Law from their mouth might not stumble out of the way Mal. 2. 6. In this Office observe 1. His Station 2. His Modesty 3. His Apparrel 1. His Station He was by birth Moses Elder and so his Superior but when Priest Moses goeth foremost Aaron peaceably coming behind being content to sit in any Chair high or low armed or not which God setteth in for him He is the Chief Church-man and is under Authority receiveth orders from Moses delivering these again to Priests inferior unto himself The Method God hath established in his Camp or his Church had never been Terrible as an Army w●th Banners And who so is for a parity with Corah and Abiram may molest the Church but themselves shal perish inevitably Jud. II. And those Countrys wherein Imparity is setled if it can be

setled mark it 1. If Moses be not too much slighted 2. Observe if the Church be very beautiful 3. If the Manners of the people be of a taking Behaviour for walking not successively not in that orderly March under Moses and Aaron as instituted here in Gods first National Church The Cedars of the Church were never alike high No●h's Ark was of three stories Gen. 6. 16. and David had a chief Musician yea let 's see that Church in Scripture that had a Parity and it shal be from that we have already called a disjoynted or not understood Text Imparity being in the whole body of Holy History so visible as it self And notwithstanding of that frivolous distinction Diotrophes maketh angry because he hath not the Preheminence that there was no Apostle over an Apostle nor Disciple over a D●sciple nor Pastor over a Pastor yet was Christ over the first the second was over the third the third was over a fourth that is the Deacon At our Lords Ascension the Apostles indeed had none over them nor needed they 1. Having the infallible Spirit to direct them for keeping rank 2. Being to scatter for converting of the Nations and therefore Superior to Disciples and Pastors and therefore the Reply is eas●e since there was Imparity established there needed no Imparity to be established The Romanes had of old their Pontifices Majores their Minor●s Pontifices So had the Jews so had the old Christians and these new Rabbys of Parity were known over their ●r●thren to be greatest Ad●rers of Imparity being bound by Prudence and Necessity to uphold Imparity to defend their Parity If not 〈…〉 co●founded them at first as it did at last Why 〈…〉 first it confounded the Authority of their Royal Moses and because of that themselves could be in no good order To prevent Insurrection again let Moses be under God Aaron under Moses Levits under Aaron or the Glory of our Israel shal depart by the breaking in of the plague of War to the destruction of Moses and all the Princes and all our Tribes for what is Aaron that you murmur against him 2. His Modesty is graceful Not only content with his portion but took Reproofs without passion Eloquent though he was with admirable Meekness yea to the silencing of Moses to see a Gospel Incendiary to hear a Factious Preacher raile at Moses or at his Father in Law to his face is a thing we have heard of and read of but an action to be accursed favouring not of that Compassion and Tenderness with which to the basest of the people publick reproofs are to be applied Withal Luther advised a Minister to forbear taking three dogs after him to the pulpit viz. Pride Avarice and Contention let me add they are so farr unfit to run after him to Church that they are not worthy to be suffered lick a dish in his kitchine and therfore improper for a Synod or a Chapter-house John the Baptist's Reproof to Herod and Nathans censuring of David was by some James`s and John`s in their thundering spirits made use of for upbrading Kings in publick before their people for geting the privacy of both the parable of the one and incest of the other Neither did Micajah go forbid the Army to follow Achab nor John the Souldiers to be commanded by Herod nor went Nathan to the people proclaiming David's Adultery But pardon this Digression we are to speak of the Sons of Aaron not of Abiram 3. His Apparel I shal neither here act the Jew nor the Superstitious for as no holinesse is to be placed in Apparel so let no prophaneness be pitched upon because of a Coat Yet there is Let Ignora●ce Wilf●lness or Malice say wh●● they will something in a Church-mans habit And though in the Mystery Aarons Habits typified Christ yet in the History it represented the High-Priest to be himself Let us first see his Breast-plate and it is of Judgement Ex. 28. 15. putting it one when he was to consult with GOD and in it there is an order a comely Quadrat teaching us judiciously to keep our ranks The four-squardness thereof signifying the Satability and Firmnesse we should observe in that Higher in that Lower place we are set Pride was anciently painted with three Crowns each having a proper Device the first Transcendo I am most excellent the next was Non obedio I will not be commanded the third was Perturbo I will Fight But the Sons of Aaron must remember and vail their Bonn●ts And do as the Lord commanded them by the hands of Moses Levit. 8. 36. This may minde us of their Coats and Girdles wherewith they were girded which the Lord commanded in his service they were to use the one being Decency in Cloathing and Unity the other signified Readiness and Promptnesse for Action Do not imagine it to be curious if I speak of Clerical habits fit to indicat a Church-man and such may teach us who of late years denyed in this sense their Coat and could hardly be known for Church-men even when preaching from somewhat that was seen heard and done Providence or Guilt not giving them the heart to wear that upon their back which they denyed in their Sermons being Sons of Thunder and Lightning And as touching the Girdle it was discernable the signification of it being fixedness promptness worn by Aarons Sons for Truth and about their Loins for chastity and as Knowledge grew by the appearance of Christ it came up higher towards the Heart for Love where Christ wore it himself Rev. 1. 13. I say for the Girdle the laying of it aside was but a presage of thrusting from them the vertue it signified running hither and thither never fixing upon one thing save in pulling down at which work in place of a Girdle they moraly wore somewhat that caused Sweat I might say a Bloody Sweat contrary to Law Ezek. 44. 18. I know Inconstancy is laid to the charge of some of the Sons of Corah because forsooth being once insnared by Ruben's policy to get the Government Corah's Ambition to get the Priesthood freed themselves afterward by leaving the Rebels before they were swallowed or as soon as they could and therefore admitted again to serve in the Temple with their Coats and Girdles ●o accuse such is equally rational as to accuse a Jew Paul for becoming a Jew Christian or a beguiled Man accepting a Counter for a piece of true Gold afterward returneth it for a Trick or those simple hearted Israelites who for a time followed Absolom and then returned to their Allegiance again In the mean time these Complainers were the greatest Changers and Changelings in their Age with this difference perhaps that whereas some changed from good to ill and some from indifferency to naught Their change was from good to ill from ill to worse and so held on untill Providence made their Folly to appear to such who went on in changing with them who confessing their Errour