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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

the Lord promised to be and was with him as he was with Moses and the people obeyed him as they did Moses I dare say and affirm that no King of England ever did assume nor any would hereafter desire a larger extent of Authority over Subjects then Joshuah had and exercised over Israel After Joshua succeed the Judges who all of them exercised the authority although they wanted the title of Kings yet one of the Sons of Gideon Abimelech born of a Concubine had both the power and title of a King and was a Tyrant yet was he none to whom and in whom the promise of blessednesse was made which was not accomplished till Davids time Adde to this that the Glory of Israel was never compleat but under Kingly Government no nor till the promised Kingly stock came Before they were sold now to this heathen King now to that oppressed burdened and afflicted yea and in the time of Saul the Philistins oppressed Israel sorely insomuch that you shall finde Saul with a slender Army and them following him trembling on the other hand the insulting Philistims reproaching them when they saw any of them to appear These Hebrews come out of their holes into which they were crept to hide themselves Untill David the Chosen of the Lord comes to sit upon the throne and to have the Kingdom established unto him over all Israel as well as Judah then he fights the Battles of the Lord and God gives him Victory on every side untill the name of Jacob became famous among the Nations And it is worth observation that after the death of Joshua and the Elders who out-lived Joshuah who had seen Gods great works no Ruler being then in Chief the Children of Israel ask counsel of God who shall go up first to battell and God gives answer Judah shall go up first Now the Sanedrim or Common-wealth of Israel had a time to be tryed how good a Government that was yet then you shall finde the Children of Israel making peace with the Nations about them contrary to the express command of God by Moses and Joshua severely injoyned and often reiterated Then comes the Angel with that sad message which made them lift up their voyce and weep so remarkably that the place from it took the name of Bochim or place of weeping Then was that praevarication of Israel not to be expiated but by reiterated and tedious servitudes under Heathen neighbouring Princes whom they forbore to extirpate according to the Command of God Then comes the time of which the Holy Ghost testifies that there was no King in Israel and every one did that which was right in his own eyes This was the Interstitium of Government that of the bare Sanedrim or Seventy Elders being reputed by God as none at all in which the Levites Concubine was with unheard of brutish inhumanity ravished to death which barbarous abominable action was revenged with almost the whole extirpation of one great Tribe in Israel to wit Benjamin forty thousand stout men being lost in two preceding Battels on the part of the Eleven other Tribes and after this the Jabesh-Gileadites utterly cut off all the males to wit and married women because they were Anathematized by a Solemn Vow of the Congregation for not appearing before the Lord in Mizpeh in revenge of this detestable Rape upon the Tribe of Benjamin By which it is evident that the Government of Moses Joshua and the Judges was accounted by God as Kingship and the want thereof is by Divine inspiration reputed as a total defect of Government There was no King in Israel therefore every man did what was good in his own eyes Yet at that time it is evident by the same sacred authority that there were Elders of the Congregation otherwise called the Chief of the Tribes who consulted upon this act of those of Gibeah committed against the Levite upon his Concubine and who upon the Benjamites appearing armed to defend the fact mannaged the Warre against the whole Tribe who devoted to destruction by a solemn Curse in Mizpeh what City Town or Family soever should not appear to revenge this wickednesse Who repented after that a Tribe should come so neer to perishing out of Israel Who advised a way to the Benjamites how to supply them that survived that great overthrow and massacre of their Brethren with Wives having before given an Oath with a Curse to all the people upon whosoever should give a wife to a Benjamite A man would think that here were Government good enough if a Republican Government were worth estimation But notwithstanding it is testified that no King being in Israel every man did what was good in his own eyes The miseries brought upon Israel during the Interval between Joshua and the Judges Sampson and Samuel were so great and overwhelming that David a great Warrior and with whom God was spent his whole Reign in fighting the Lords Battels and making up those defects and amending such faults which were committed during the space that there was no King in Israel who therefore being as the Holy Ghost styled him a man of bloud was put off from building the Temple of the Lord although it was in his heart and God accepted therein his good intentions but this work was reserved to Solomon his Son and Successor a King of Peace and blessed with Plenty and all manner of Prosperity and so Chists Type in whose dayes Jerusalem was the renown of all the Nations round about who payd Tribute to Solomon and counted it their glory and happiness to be his Friends and Allies Adde to this that during the Reigne of David Jerusalem first came to be subject to Israel being formerly in the possession of the Jebusites which was the only place chosen by God the Lord of Heaven and Earth out of all the Earth to put his name there here was Zion the holy place out of which the Lord vouchsafed to distill his blessing First upon his chosen people and by their means upon all that fear him in all Nations making no difference After David comes Solomon mighty in power and extent of dominion for the bordering Nations were his tributaries to the great River yea and beyond it splendid in magnificence abounding in Riches incomparable for Wisdome yet blessed with Peace he builds a Temple for the Lord of Hosts and a place for the God of Jacob to dwell in who sitting in the high and holy Heavens and whom the Heavens of Heavens cannot contain yet vouchsafed to dwell between the Cherubims which Solomon had made according to the pattern given to him from himself Of this performance God himself testyfieth that from the day that Israel came out of Aegypt he had no house to dwell in but was content to dwell in Tabernacles in which being made according to the pattern shewed by God to Moses in the Mount were put the Arke with other holy things belonging to Gods worship and so continued till Solomons

same persons might not be adjudge fit to possess them but of this only by the way however this is a lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation The people of England as they had Liberties which were their birthright and precious to them so also had the King as one of the Nation for his being King and so Supreme although it added much to him beyond other men yet it abridged him of nothing that was his as a man It was right the King should have Liberty in his Confirmation of what the Peers and Commons presented to him for his Royall ascent or else they might if ever both estates could agree at their pleasure dethrone him or limit or alter his successors or what not injurious to him as a man but much more as a King So likewise the Nobles of the Land how should they be represented Barely to be chosen among the Commoners If so what inconvenience of necessity must thence arise and how absurd it would be a shallow discretion might easily apprehend for first they exceeding for the Generallity the Commons in estate would be much more popular and so if they could be courted so farre out of their honour as to accept of popular elections what Parliament could we expect but the majority of them would be Nobles and by this means they which in our present constitution are only revisers and approvers of the Laws would soon become the Law-framers and Enactors Or if you should imagine that few only of them would be chosen as of late two of the house of Peers were Rumpers what inequality and absurdity would there be when a small Borough shall elect two Burgesses and he who is Lord perhaps of twenty or more Burroughs and the chief man in three or four Counties as to estate shall only be represented by his own single voice and some not at all What siding and factions this must necessarily produce Our Government then Mr Milton needed none of your Art to mend it no more then the Law of Marriage needed your Divinity to explain and limit it and as by the latter you gained little credit among the Ladyes or such prudent sober men who made a Conscience of their Vow in Marriage so the former is lesse acceptable to true loyall breasts and will be exibilated by the vulgar when once the fury of our former madness is a little allayed T was strange that you could imagine no subordinate ingagement to a single person but what is accompanyed with Vassalage when it is certain in faith that among the three persons Christ the Sonne and the Holy Spirit who are God blessed for evermore are both Subordinately related as Persons to the Father and yet there is that blessed freedome and Liberty that among them is unity But we will come to humane Governments for concerning them will lye the question In society the first subordination is aeconomical of children to Parents and for to provide the better for a mans family and to carry on things more comfortably comes in another relation of servant and Master Now although the Man and Wife be head of the family yet not separately but unitedly and the Wife her self is suborainate being above all the rest only inferiour to her husband although in some cases equall This state of society admits no Democrasie nay it is accounted a misery for a servant to have more then one Master insomuch that Christ saith it is impossible to serve two masters and addes for a reason that he will hate that one and love the other he will cleave to the one and despise the other It was the Complaint of Cyrus in the Comaedy that he did not know who nor how many were his Masters and though he be brought in as a slave yet this he laments as aggravating his bondage Here Mr Milton may observe divers subordinations to one and yet no bondage but all make up on free family and live in peace and Love and plenty together The Wife is subject to her husband one to one yet no Vassal unlesse Mr Miltons doctrine of divorce may be admitted that he may turn her off as soone or as oft as his wayward spirit can find no delight in her The Children are subject to their Parents yet no slaves and although they ow obedience to both yet their father is in the family chief and he makes and usually executes all Lawes in his family nevertheless no tyranny can be charged upon the Father nor Vassalage imputed to the Sonnes The Master and Servant is another relation the Servant bound by his own Consent and to be at the Masters command in lawful and possible things yet would scorne the title of a slave or Vassal What need I instance in other societies of Schools of Learning where one Pedagogue is found the best expedient though he have Vshers under him so in Colledges one Chancellour over an Vniversity one Rector or President over a Hall or Colledge so in a Ship one Master over a Company one Captain over a Regiment one Collonel over an Army one Generall and yet no slavery nor Vassalage But to come nearer in a family where are perhaps many Sonnes and Daughters and a multitude of Servants upon the death of the Father doth not the supremacy as I may call it or chief rule descend to the first born both by light of Nature and divine Commandement Surely Mr Milton never studied the dignity and authority of the r●ght of Primogeniture and that by Natures Law and divine Institution upon the score of sleighting and selling whereof Esau gained the title of prophane and was rejected nor having once despised his birth-right could he get the blessing afterward though he sought it with tears But old Isaack subjected him to his brother Jacob that he should serve him and bow down to him and yet was he no slave Nor were the Sonnes of Jacob who were twelve and his Grandsonnes then a numerous multitude Slaves though all subjected to Judah the first-born by divine praeheminence and old Jacobs appointment Ruben having by his incontinency in defiling his own Fathers bed forfeited that priviledge which was next to death which he deserved therefore a heavy matchlesse punishment One would thing that if ever a Republique had been necessary and usefull now it was when twelve Brethren all living and fatherlesse had under them a multitude of Sonnes and Daughters Grand-children Servants and handmaids yet then one Judah is appointed Law-giver to them all and so confirmed untill the coming of Shiloh to whom the gathering of the Nations should be And this is not a Boorish way of a Dwindling Common-wealth But the Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver in the singular number mark that from between his feet c. Yea was not this part of the promise of God to Abraham when his name was changed unto Abraham That Kings should come out of his Loynes Before he had blessed him with fruitfulnesse that he should be the

Father of many Nations and his seed should be innumerable like the stars of Heaven or the sand upon the Sea-shore but at last and upon the change of hi●●ame he assures him that Kings should come out of him not only that his seed should be many his posterity innumerable but as an addition of happinesse they should be advanced to the Majesty of a great and mighty Kingdome all which was fulfilled in Gods due time With what face Mr. Milton can you brand that estate with the base titles of Slavery Bondage Vassalage and Servileness which God added unto Abraham as a corollary of temporall blessings faecundity even to innumerablenesse as the Starres of Heaven or as the sand upon the Sea-shore he had promised him before yet still he remained Abraham but when he ads this to his former blessings that his posterity should flourish into a Magnificent Kingdome then he alters his name into Abraham Whose other Sonne Ishmael when Abraham groaned out his desires to the Lord Oh that Ishmael may live before thee God answers him likewise concerning him Of him will I make a great Nation I will multiply him exceedingly and for an addition or rather fulness of his earthly blessings Twelve Princes shall he beget So concerning Esau the brother of Jacob from whom sprang the blessed seed the Scripture mentioning his temporall felicity for Isaack had blessed him also with the fatness of the earth records what Dukes sprang out of his Loyns and what Kings reigned over Edom before any King reigned over Israel Which makes it evident that Kingly Government is the most honourable majesticall Government and argues a greater portion of Gods blessing powred forth upon the Nation that injoyes it then where any other inferior and more Contemptible Government is had It is a poor Sophisme that you use Sir that God gave Israel a King in wrath and imputed it a sin to them that they asked one if it be certain that God had before blessed Abraham with the promise of Kings to come out of his loyns and the Government of the seed of Jacob was to be by a Scepter and this to spring out of Judah and the King of Kings God for ever blessed was to be cloathed with humane flesh from one that lineally descended of King David and his Grandfathers to be a continual succession of Kings It argued only that they asked unseasonably and in unbelief for whoever believes makes not haste but patiently waits the accomplishment of Gods Promises in his time they asked also upon a wrong principle and for a wrong end not to have the blessed Promise of God accomplished but to be like other Nations Nor did they consider that then God was their King Samuel ruling over them and judging them who was known from Dan unto Beersheba to be a Prophet of the Lord and to have frequent Dialogues with his Maker This was their sin and God to convince them of it gave them their desire a King in his wrath whom he after took away in his displeasure 'T is strange that God should make his Covenant with David even an everlasting Covenant which was so inviolable that sooner should the Covenant of the Day and of the Night be broken then it had he adjudged Kingship a Government not so well-pleasing to him as that of a Common-wealth Yet at that time and before the Sanedrim or grand Counsell of the Seventy Elders were in being neverthelesse of none of them nor of any of the Priests though the order of Aaron was Sacred and Noble would Christ vouchsafe to come but only of the Kingly stock of the house of Judah Two of whom David and Salomon were immediate Types of him and Prophets Divinely inspired Certainly Mr. Milton this will argue something for Kingship or Kingly Government But to proceed orderly in what I intend I shall recapitulate some things and then proceed through the whole History of Gods People the Jews urging what may be necessary to my present purpose and this very briefly afterwards I shall come to the times that have been since Christ and shall take notice of some instances both modern and ancient which have been delivered us by Historians concerning other places especially Republicks or Common-wealths First let us begin with Abraham the Father of the Faithfull the first to whom the promises which in his seed were extended to all Nations were made This Abraham was a great Prince as was acknowledged by the Sons of Heth so great that when the five Kings of Sedom Gomorrah Admah Zeboim and Zoar were overcome by the four Kings who came against them and Lot among the rest was taken Prisoner he with his Confederates Aner Eshcol and Mamre went out gave them battle overcame them and rescued Lot This Abraham was so absolute a Monarch that God testified of him I know that he will command his Family and his Children after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgement See here absolute command and absolute subjection without tyranny on one band or Vassallage on the other The same power descended from him to Isaac and successively to Jacob and by him being Divinely directed it was intayled upon Judah and his Offspring over all their brethren untill the coming of Shiloh which Promise was accomplisht with the blessing thereof in the Anoynting of David especially when he was confirmed King over all Judah and Jerusalem During which interval of time for the space of four hundred and thirty years they were Sojourners and in Bondage in Egypt But when the time of deliverance came God sent them a Captain and a Redeemer even Moses who was a Prince in Jeshuron or Israel concerning whom God said That Aaron should be unto him as a Mouth and he should be unto the people as or in the stead of God What was this but a KING or Chief Ruler or Judge as Stephen expounds it in the Acts This Moses saith he whom they refused saying Who made thee a Judge or Ruler over us the same did God send to be a Ruler and Deliverer He under God immediately conducted gave Lawes to yea he judged and determined Controversies between them And when the Seventy were chosen by the advice of Jethro Moses Father-in-law it was for his case that he might not be worn out by sitting all day to judge between them to hear and determine their Controversies with a Reserve still or an Alwayes provided as our Lawes have it that the greater and more difficult and weighty matters be brought unto Moses by which it appears that he under God was their Supreme Judge Captain Leader and Conducter After Moses death Joshua succeds him of whom first it is testified that the Spirit of Moses rested upon him that is he was the Peoples Chief Captain and Judge though the Sanedrim still continued for that remained an Ordinance in Israel till the coming of the Messiah although perhaps with some variation yea it is further added that