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Englands satisfaction in eight queries; concerning the true place, office, and power of a king, according to Gods word.
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restore it saith Samuel Then they said thou hast done us no wrong nor hurt us neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand Then Samuel said the Lord and your Anointed is witnesse this day that yee have found nought in my hands And they answered he is witnes so the Lord in his anger Hosea 13. 11. gave them a King who was no blessing but a curse unto them as will appeare Secondly In respect of man because Israel would have a man to be their King and forsake the Lord their God peremptorily notwithstanding all before mentioned Israel must know that a mortall man one of their brethren to be exalted to the dignitie of the Lords throne of Majestie unto which belongs such a regall power and royall prerogative that was not fit for any sinfull mortall man because the wayes power and wisdome of man cannot as the Lord exercise such a power but either on the right hand or on the left they will transgresse against God or man in disobeying the Commandement of the Lord and this is the cause of the Lords anger and therefore for a punishment Israel must although their Kings should will unlawfull things 1 Sam. 8. 17. yeeld in obedience and serve their Kings accordingly and therefore the Lord Chap. 12.17 sent them in judgement even in wheat harvest such a thunder and raine to convince and to shew them their great wickednesse in asking of a King that ver 19. all the people said unto Samuel Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God they durst not say our God that wee dye not for we have sinned in asking us a King Chap. 8. 20. to judge us and goe out before us and fight our battles the first whereof was against the Philistims where Saul Chap. 13. 12. was bold to offer a burnt offering for which Samuel vers 13 14. told Saul thou hast done foolishly for because thou hast not kept the Commandement of the Lord thy God thy Kingdome shall not continue for the Lord hath sought him a man after his owne heart and the Lord hath commanded him to governe his people Another battell against the Amalekites Chapt. 15. 9. who against the Commandement of the Lord spared Agag and the best things of the Amalekites for which Samuel told Saul vers 22 23. Obedience is better then sacrifice and to heare the Word of the Lord better then the fat of Rammes that rebellion is as the sinne of witch-craft and stubbornnesse as iniquitie and idolatry because thou hast rejected the Word of the Lord he hath rejected thee from being King ver 28. The Lord hath rent the Kingdome of Israel from thee this day and given it to thy neighbour that is better then thou therefore Kings though Anointed of the Lord and sit in the Lords throne may not exercise this regall power to doe their owne wills against the Commandements of the Lord no not by duties of burnt offering or sacrifice even Kings are to be as subject to the Commandement of the Lord as well as other men none may doe evill for good to come of it for with the Lord there is no respect of persons and Kings must know as they are but men That Pro. 28. 15. as a roaring Lyon and a hungry Beare so is a wicked Ruler over the poore people therefore thus saith the Lord Ezek. 45. 9. Let it suffice you O Princes of Israel leave off crueltie and oppression and execute Judgement and Justice and take away your exactions from my people Thus saith the Lord Jere. 21. 12. O house of David execute Judgement in the morning and doe not delay and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor Chap. 22. 2 3. O King of Judah that sittest in the throne of David execute yee judgement and righteousnesse And Pro. 25. 5. Take away the wicked Counsellors from the King and his throne shall be established in righteousnesse for Chap. 29. 14. A King that Judgeth the poore in truth according to Gods Word his throne shall be established for ever for Chap. 22. 23. The Lord will defend his cause and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them Chap. 19. 21. Many devices are in a mans heart but the counsell of the Lord standeth Chap. 14. 26. In the feare of the Lord is an assured strength and his Children shall have hope therefore know O Kings Princes and Rulers that Chap. 21.30 there is no wisdome neither understanding nor counsell against the Lord who saith Mat. 5. 3. Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of heaven Luke 6. 20. Blessed be yee poore for yours is the kingdome of God that feare the Lord and unto salvation beleeve in Jesus Christ for Mat. 11. 5. The poore receive the Gospel Luke 4 18 19. The spirit of the Lord is upon me that I should preach the Gospel to the poore and heale the broken-hearted and preach deliverance to the captives and set at libertie them that are bruised and preach the acceptable yeare of the Lord. And Isa 61. 3. To give unto them beautie for ashes the oyle of joy for mourning the garment of gladnesse for the spirit of heavinesse that they may be called trees of righteousnesse the planting of the Lord. Jer. 22. 2 3. O King of Iudah vex not the stranger the fatherlesse nor the widdow doe no violence nor shed innocent bloud in this place where such of the Lords dwell although Kings thinke they have a regall power to doe their owne wills they are mistaken 3. Quest What is the true and onely right place office and power of a King according to the Word of God Answ First the true and onely right place of a King is from amongst above and over all the people alone to sit in the Lords throne of Majestie Secondly The true and onely right office of a King is Rom. 13. 4. to be the Minister of God for the wealth or good of the people over whom he is set doing the will according unto the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances of him in whose throne he sits vers 1. Let every soule be subject to the higher power for there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordeined of God therefore Kings are not to make any Statute Law or Ordinance destructive or contradictory unto them that were made by God before he made any King so that even Kings are to be as subject to the Lord as men to Kings and so as one intrusted by God as the Lords Vicegerent or Lievtenant over the Lords people betwixt God and man to see and looke unto it that God may be honoured glorified and served by himselfe and all the people and to see and looke to and preserve the people from all enemies perils and dangers both from abroad and at home Thirdly The true and onely right power of a King is as the Minister of God Rom. 13 4. to beare the sword of Justice to take vengeance on or execute
Justice upon all evill doers and vers 3. to praise honour and encourage all such as doe well and also Exod. 18. 16. to judge of and decide matters in difference betwixt man and man according to the Lawes and Ordinances of the Lord and provide and appointing vers 21. men of courage fearing God dealing truely and hating covetousnesse such shalt thou make Deut. 16. 18 19. Judges and Officers and they shall Judge the people with righteous Judgement not wresting the Law nor respect any person neither take a bribe knowing that the Lord is King of Kings and Judge of all the world who is the searcher of the heart and tryer of the reines and discovereth the thoughts of mans heart 4. Quest Was there no difference between the Kings of Israels powers and the Kings of the Nations powers and the Subjects of both Answ Yes for the people of Israel were within the Covenant and promise of Jesus Christ unto whom the Lord gave his Lawes Statutes and Ordinances both Morall and Ceremoniall unto whom also was given Priests Levites and Prophets to administer unto them and to teach and direct them and Judges to guide and lead them and the great God of heaven and earth to be their King to save defend and deliver them therefore the Kingdome and Crowne of Israel was the Gods of Israel and so of a greater and higher power and majestie then any other Kingdome of the earth for the Kings thereof were by the immediate appointing and anoynting of the Lord and unto whom with their Crowne the Lord gave or of right unto the throne of that dignitie did belong a regall power and royall prerogative of selfe-will and pleasure which made them cry out and say Nehemiah 9. 36 37. Behold the Land that thou gavest unto our Fathers to eate the fruit thereof and the good things thereof behold we are servants in it this day indeed it yeeldeth much increase but it is unto our Kings whom thou hast set over us who because of our sinnes in asking a King have dominion over our bodies to command them and over our estates to take away them at their pleasure so that this promise or gift little availeth us so that the Kings of Israel had a regall power over their Subjects to demand and command according to their owne wills and pleasures in respect of the peoples charge of obedience The Subjects of Israel because of their sinnes against the Lord in asking of a King must submit 1 Sam. 8. 3. and be his servants without any redresse 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. Submit your selves unto all manner of Ordinance of man for the Lords sake both to the King as superiour and to governours sent for the punishment of evill doers Rom. 13. 1. Let every soule be subject to the higher powers and when they suffered they had no other meanes but to say Nehe. 9. 37. Wee are in great distresse The Kings of the Nations came out of the loynes of cursed Ham Gen. 9. 25. A servant of servants shalt thou be unto thy Brethren whose Grand-sonne Nimrod Chap. 10. 8. began to be a mightie man in the earth ver 10. The beginning of his Kingdome was Babel whose very name signifieth a rebell or wicked one and Canonized for a Proverbe ver 9. Wherefore it is said even as Nimrod the mightie Hunter before the Lord who was neither appointed nor anointed of the Lord. The second generations of Kings of the Nations was out of the loynes of Esau whom God hated in the wombe Gen. 36. 31. And these are the Kings that reigned in the Land of Edom before there reigned any King over the Children of Israel who was chosen by Election vers 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 The Kings of the Nations were out of the Lords Covenant and so had nothing to doe with the Lords mercies or promises but were used as the Lords instruments of wrath whom the Lord regarded not for good because they served him not nor knew the Lord by his Word Ioshuah 8. 29. tooke the King of Aie and hanged him on a tree and cast his carkasse downe at the entring of the gate of the Citie and laid thereon a heape of stones Chap. 10. 23. The King of Jerusalem the King of Hebron the King of Jarmuth the King of Lachish the King of Eglon vers 24. Ioshuah said to his Captaines come and put your feet upon the neckes of these Kings ver 26. and Ioshuah slew them and hanged them on five trees Chap. 12. 24. Ioshuah slew one and thirty Kings of the Nations whose manner of reigne was according to the custome of their Countreys and their power was by man and therefore all destroyed by the power of God so the power the honour and dignitie of the Kings of the Nations was not from the Lord as was the Kings of Israel therefore not worthy to be compared with the Kings of Israel therefore the Kings of the Nations cannot plead any right to this regall power from the Lord by his Word for the Kings of the Nations were ordained by and ruled over the Nations before the dayes of the Prophet Samuel they were not obedient unto the Commandements of the Lord and therefore have no right to the promises of the Lord. 5. Quest Now what difference is there betwixt the power of the Kings of Israel under the Morall and Ceremoniall Law and the power of the Kings of England under the Morall Law and the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Subjects of both Answ The Kingdome and Crowne of Israel was the Gods of Israel who in Judgement to the people for their sinnes gave the same to Saul and confirmed it upon David and to his seede 1 King 8. 25. There shall not faile thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel So that the inheritance of the Crowne of Israel was established upon David for Bathsheba said 1 King 1. 20. My Lord O King the eyes of all Israel are upon thee that thou shouldst tell them who shall sit on the throne of my Lord the King after him saith David ver 34. let Zadock the Priest and Nathan the Prophet anoynt Solomon King over Israel and blow with the Trumpet and say GOD save King Solomon The Lord never gave any Kingdome nor Crowne neither did the Lord appoint or anoynt any Kings save onely of Israel and Judah The Kings of England were not at their beginning appointed nor anoynted as were the Kings of Israel but were by the Nation ordeined as Kings over this Nation according to the custome of this Nation which is before they will admit the Crowne to him they doe intend he must by Covenant and Oath imposed upon him yeeld them their rights and priviledges and that he will rule them according to the Customes and Lawes of the Land and then they graunt unto him the Crowne for his owne life so that power that hath power to impose an Oath before a Graunt hath power to