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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

they worshipped the true God t●g●ther Exod. 18. 11. One ground of the Conj●cture is from the double signification of the word Cohen sensing both a Priest as we read it Exod. 18. 1. and a Prince as it may be r●ad giving occasion to observe that what is before said so near of kin are these two that in the most Holy Tongue both a●e expressed by oneword and expr●ssion When Israel was in bondage there was no sacrifice the Egyptian● w●●shipping for gods what was otherwise to be offered up In which time the Elder Brother had the right though not the liberty of sacrificing But when to be brought forth the two Br●thers Aaron and Moses both L●vits and 〈…〉 therefore near unto GOD in that 〈…〉 is called to bring the people forth to hol●a F●ast in the wi●derness In which wild place an Order is made recalling the uncertain way of the fi●●tbo● and establi●shing for ever the Tribe of L●ve for the Tabernac●e service Num 3. 12. As so many Deacons Sub dea●ons 〈…〉 the uncle 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 and service as so many q●●sters or s●nging-men to prophesie on Harps and Organs and all under Aar●n and his Sons in all their Generations●and Successions for evermore When God wanted a fixed house for the service of his Name the Master thereof and after him the Elder Brother was Minister to the people And according as their abode was certain or uncertain so was the place of Sacrifice unsure or determined Abraham sacrificed here and there so did Jacob so did No●h so dib Job at his own house so did Moses in the wilderness command the young men that is the first-born of principal Families Exod. 24. 5 At which time for a solemn farewell there is a feast held bef●re the Lord the first-born being before holy to the Lord was now promiscuously to wait upon him no more throughout their Tribus JEHOVA here giving in all following Generations an everlasting discharge of ●hat Employ an● a ●hrea● if they presumed upon former custom so to approach for his glory at the drawing of the clo●th s● to speak was like devouring fire Exod. 24. 17. The old being removing a new Model of Church Government is ordained by Heaven Moses hath order for the Tabernacles Erection where the Lord will now reside not in the clo●d that marched formerly before the camp Exod. 25. 8. Aaron and his Sons must be consecrated Priests for ever to offer the dayly sacrifice with garments for glory and beauty The Dominion of the Camp being left to Moses But how is this prefaced even thus Take unto thee Aaron thy Brother and his sons ●ith him Exod. 28. 1. They that is Moses and Aaron being now to part and to part for ever in this affair of the Sanctuary that the one should not grumble the other not envy It is Take unto thee thy Brother well the House is builded Aaron to be short is consecrated so Moses finished the work Exod. 40. 33. a wor● which secluded himself from Sacrifice though a Levit and because a Levite is he to rejoyce that his Brethren hath the Honour and not another Tribe that work that gave his Elder Brother an Inheritance for ever of being the Lords Priest therefore in Brotherly Affection let him be thankful that his Elder Brother in this keeping his place as to be Priest yet that he a Younger Brother consecrated this Elder Brother for that High Office The Consecration making him in honour to be Elder then his Eldest Brother Gods Wisdom by this enterchanging Providence commanding a Brotherly Converse betwixt a Moses and an Aaron in future ages For now it is Moses and Aaron the one having the charge of the Camp and Tabernacle as to give Laws to both the other of the Tab●rnacle as to officiat therein according to these Laws and both brethren for a perpetual Cement of these great Honours in the House of GOD. We read of some to have wished to have seen Christ in the Flesh Paul in the Pulpit c. which many saw and were not much affected but to have seen these two Brothers at the foot of the Altar Moses in his Robes Aaron in his Garments To have heard that parting word from the first that commissioned the last All the Congregation drawing near standing before the Lord. I say to have seen this gathering and these words a●thorizing viz. Gounto the Altar c. Lev 9. 7. that is Go up to it and offer take infeftment of that for ever He ascending in his Priestly Garments Moses retiring or standing still having liberty now only to look up Aaron to go up I say again to have seen Aaron make his first step and first offering and first blessing the glo●y of the Lord appearing and all the people shouting was no doubt a ravishing sight to a native Egyptian this word Go unto the Altar parted Magistracy and Ministry for eve● which before had been together yet parted them not in the sense before mentioned but pleading for Unity they having shaken hands to and again sever'd hands for leading of the p●ople In testimony whereof GOD was consulted in Moses's Tent or in some small Structure without the Camp But now the Glory filled the great Tabernacle which we may call Moses's consulting Roome and Aarons work-house and after it the Temple the one in the midst of the Camp the other alm●st of the Land that the Priest to all extrems might be equally near for Counsel and Advice It may be fancied that when Gambrivius a King over the Germains about the time of Joseph invented the wearing of the Crown first for forming and creating a more Reverend and King-like awe in the hearts by the Eyes of his Subjects his first appearance in that Diadem was no question beautiful yet short no doubt of this High Priests Miter and the Glory of his appointed Robes by GOD. This is not spoake to ecclipse the Grandeur of that King but to difference Humane from Divine Institution and here again is good agre●ment the King his Crown the Priest his Miter GOD by Providence and Continuance allowing both for greater Glory to and for more servent Love between either II. Their Dearness Can it be imagined that ever any man hated his own honour that understood it was not the Priest hood precious think you to King Melchisedec And though Esau lost it yet he valu●d it so dearly that if blood or tears could have availed he h●d got it regained Now after Aaron is established our respects must be shown to love it not in general to have it For if Saul attempt to sacrifice it shal ruine him and if David think to bring up the Ark but by the Levits it shal displease the Lord 1 Chron. 15. 13. And when their orderly walking pleased him so dear were the Levit● to their King that David like a Levit is cloathed with a Linnen Ephod hereby honouring both himself and them in being a King-like-Levite in a beautiful Order which

it the Scepter and the Sword under her husbands Pulpit He and She now and then taki●g them up to secure them from rust and though gre●t summs by Proclamation were offered for discovery yet was th● Pulpit its Sanctuary untill again it was brought in calmer times before the Throne in Parliament Of which single though National Act let the pulpit of Kineffe boast and again let the Crown glory that no Money no Sword but a Pulpit secured that Ancient that Noble that unravished Crown from the head not only of an Usurper but of a Stranger who was not of the house nor heir of Scotland O ● had our Pulpit● of late so far reg●rded themselves as to have remembred this their interest in the Court and to its Master the Ene●y had not casten up so high a Tr●nch about both to the batt●ring defacing and d●stroying of both But that God had left us a remenant as a naile in a sure place they had become as dung Our King Our Princes being and reckoned among the Gentiles Lam. 29. Our Taberna●le took away and our Priests despised v. 6. c. How much better the old and sober Egyptians whose King in the morning being to repair to the Temple and Sacrifice after his Offering the chief Prelate told the People what vertues were in the King what Religion toward the gods and after other such like Doctrine all went about their affairs and why not For what could hinder prosperity and peace when Kings respected Church-men and Church-men honoured Kings and both in sig●t of the People R. B. Let me say in the words of our Master to that Question about Neighbour-hood lest we fall amongst Theeves go and do ye likewise Luk. 10. 37. remembering that in Rebellion Zadok ●nd all the Levites chused to follow David both in Person and in Counsel 2 Sam. 15. 29. These two are not only lovely in their lives but in their deaths they are not divided for look after the Monuments of Judahs Princes see the Sepulchres of the Sons of David and you shal see in the throng a Son of Aaron a Divine chapla●nizing in Death to those dead Hero's as if these goodly Worthies were not honoured sufficiently by their curious Dormitories untill the dust of a Priest graced their sleep they served the same God Jehojadah did they did much good to the Kingdom so did Jehojadah they died as he so did he as they they lye in state and lamented by the people so does he and so was he keeping the Churches priviledge always being near the King 2 Ch. 24. 16. whereas one King Jehojakim is cast forth with the burial of an Ass● for despising the Lords Priests c●v●a●ing all against disrespecting of the Lords House wherein by both Honour unto both is to be upheld or both will be contemned At Augustine the Monkes first coming to England the King of Kent the first Christian King Ethelbert gave him liberty to build o● repair Houses for Christian Worship in process of time being made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury He and the King He the first Christian King in the world He the first Arch-bishop of B●itain lived so in Honor and Love and Plenty together that a●ter leave given the Bishop builded a Monastry yet called Augustins for a burial-place to the Kings and for the Arch-bishops of that See Let none look with an evil eye upon this n●ar●esse but rather thank the Arch-bishop for untill his time and untill this Act the Kings themselves had no care for nor had that is read of any certain burial place but afterward had walled about with the Reverend Clergy forming a greater awe in those who presumed to tread the ground where their Civil and Spiritual Guides lay by mutual consent for question not the Kings pleasure therein he giving it as it is in the Charter D●o in horem S. Petri aliquam partem Terrae juris mei c. And being a Royal Sepulchre a Reverend Channel ground Ex authoritate s●il Apostolica hinc ad aeternam-glor●am resuscit and a c. whence their bodies might arise together to that heavenly glory whereunto they by their Bishops were exhorted all this about Ann● Dom. 6●0 It is evident that God thus marshalling Moses and Aaron in their several Offices had c●re to protect the we●kest side with strongest Walls and Barrs for since Aaron the Elder Brother ha● the Sword took out of his h●●d●y D●cree and in stead thereof ge●ting a S●crifi●ing knife yet observe it that knife is put into his hand by a 〈◊〉 statu●e and to the house of Aaron wh●reas Moses Sword able in a great measure to defend it self is left in the hand of Providence to fi●d out th●s and that Josu●h th●s and that Sampson this and that Sam●●l The unce●tainty whereof creats genuinly a Reveren●e to the certain and constant Priest-hood the only great secure way the Sword hath a Moses hath even now to keep it self long in his and his Sons hands for its honourable bearing As is visible all the dayes of Moses Joshuah and the Judges where so●etimes in an Extraordinary way the Judge is Priest but at the Unction of the Son of Jesse the Regal P●wer being se●led in a Familie and Thrones of Judgeme●t set for the house of David Psal. 122. then it was Blesse the Lord O House of Isra●l Bless the Lord O house of Aaron Bless the Lord O hous● of Levi Psal. 139. These runing by Law assunder yet together I mean David and Aaron near each other smiling and j●yning hands together both having the same enemies the same smiles of Providence they march parallel together untill again as at the first they meet in the first begotten of the Father in that Son of David Jesus Christ both King and Priest unto his Church and by Birth-right and Blood that is in respect of his Humane Nature allieed both to Moses and Aaron being a Branch of the two great Houses of Judah and Levi. The Holy Virgin Mary being of the House of David and her godly Cousin Elizabeth of the Levitical Tribe Thence it cometh that who o despiseth one of those Loyal Levits and rebelleth against any of these true Princes are proclaimed Enemies to both Families united in the Corner-stone of our blessed Saviour Upon which account it is that Rebells and Traitours usually pretend both good to Church and State to be thought good Christians and also true Subjects Be wise therefore O Kings Be instructed ye Judges of the Earth Take not too much upon you ye Sons of Levi 〈◊〉 Judges when ascending the Judgement Seat become like Melchisedet having neither Father nor Mother by Impartiality and let all Aarons Sons as true L●vits in the case of the Golden Calf become like the Sons of that Priest their Grand-father Saying to their Fathers and their Mothers I have not seen them when countenancing Rebellion Deut. 33. 9. For unless your Children use this Speech in the Land Cities of our Judah The Lord

them who will be most for your Cities Credit Wealth Godliness and Honour And your own Reputes in your going off and falling back in the Minds and Tongues of your Numerous Inhabitants who will immediatly be Curious to behold their New Mag●strates FINIS At this time there were Elected for MAGISTRATES Sir Andrew Ramsay Lord Provost Bailies William Reid James Davidson John Fullartoun George Drummond Robert Sandelands L. Dean of Gild. John Scot L. Thesaurer c. DUORUM UNITAS OR The Agreement of Magistracy and Ministry Preached at the Election of the Honourable Magistrats of Edinburgh October 2. 1666. And at the opening of a Diocesian Synod of the Reverend Clergy there PSAL. LXXVII Thou leddest thy people like a Flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron AMong the Diversity of Gifts which the Author of every Perfect Donation giveth unto Man it is eminently seen that Government of the World hath a principal part of his Wisdom and Liberality Communicating to this and that other Person Rich Endowments for that and this Affair Employ Trade or Calling for the beautifying that Corporation He in his providence is erecting Hence floweth that Impulse in youth yea in child-hood for Wo●k for Books for Speaking Writing for Armes for Arts we frequently do with wonderbehold But as all motions must have a fixed Axis to move upon and a Basis virtuating the utmost point so still hath GOD elected from that Mass of people them who have in their spirits been adopted even afar off for Regiment and Rule Some from the Womb being of so servile a Nature that the whole survey of their Life or Actings their highest principle is but a token of subjection Nature having made them of so knotty timber no education can form them to a capability of being Mercurial whether for Wisdom or Eloquence Whereas others are of so pure a grain that the beaming souls beyond their years are discov●ring somewhat predictive of Honour and Grandour R●mulus Romes First King and Founder when a poor Shepherd would sit and determine causes among his fellows they giving both Audience and Reverence to his Decisions We read that Phara●h once putting his Crown upon the head of his adopted Grand-son Moses when a Child his little armes pulled it away and his feet spurned at it in scorn ominous to that Egyptian Demonstration of his future not fearing the wrath of the King His killing the Egyptian and saving the Hebrew did prognostick deliverance of the Jews from bondage and by keeping of a Flock had thereby learned how to rule and govern Men being thereby actually fitted for that employ unto which from the Cradle he had been inclinable Yet as none is Eminent in all Abilities Moses was though excellent at Government whereof the Shepherds rod was the Ensign yet not in Elocution of which his stammering or slow-tongue is witness Exod. 4. 10. To help him therefore in his Government a Brother Eloquent and of a flourishing because of a fluent style is joyned to him as a Collegue that the one profound in judgement may ponder what is to be done the other in charming R●etorick may alu●e to perform what is deemed necessary in doing And it being very usual to express the facund and smooth guiding of the tongue by a hand Oratory perswading that is leading Her hearers to run in and rest upon that purpose She is pressing for or painting out The people are said to be led by the hands of MOSES and AARON Hence it is that the two Princes of Gods Israel diversified in Gifts are united in the End for leading Israel like a flock The great end was for obeying God for him did Moses eye in all his meditation and him did Aaron respect in all his elocution that he not they might get the Glory of their united Industry and powerful Atchiefments Whence it is not said that Moses and Aaron but that God led His People like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron His Head in Contrivance His lips in Utterance both as a Shepherds Rod or Commanders staffe inclining them or beckonning towards them to move in that Path wherein there was Profit Security and Honour We call it a Drove of Oxen a Herd of Deere a Rout of Wolfes but usually a Flock of sheep and so it is here not that the people were alwayes pe●ceable for they were sometimes as a Sounder of u●ruly swine but because they were governed and cared-for as Sheep and when straying as by the Dog of some Judgement were they again brought into a better order by the Hands that is by the Prudence Conduct and Wisedom of Moses and Aaron The First being a Noble Prince the other a Holy Prelate Sones of one Womb Crowned Consecrat for this Employ Literally here Morally for ever still and In perpetuum while time shal be no more God Governing His Church by the Hands that is by the Industry of Magistracy and Ministry I do not say the words divide themselves for I fear and hate Division here bet●ixt ●hose two but branch themselves forth betwixt Church and State And let us speak with all Humility of the one and Reverently of the other Beginning with the State For though Aaron be the Elder yet Moses is the greater Brother therefore it is Moses and Aaron Moses the fi●st Great Magistrate over Gods United People and in him there is a plat-form for all people loving union in the Choice of Magistrates giving Ab incunabulis from the Milk proper Doctrine for this day Right Honourable and Most Reverend in that 1. His Body speaketh Beauty 2. His Name sheweth Duty 3. His Endowments m●tives to pray for Equality 1. His Body speaketh Beauty This heightned the Parental Affections his Parents had for him stirring up compassion enliven'd by Faith exercised in care for saving of His life that He was a goodly Child Exod. 2. 2. concluding forcibly from Faith and Sense a Boy of such Vigourousness Comelinesse such infantile Man-hood was by Providence never designed for Food to Fishes such the Hebrew word Tob senseth the Goodnesse the Elegance the Shapelinesse of His F●ature The Comelinesse of His but new seen Aspect the Symetry and Proportion of His several parts the exact joyning of His several Limbs with the pleasure of His Lovely Stature to speak of Him as a Man his Parents foresaw He was born to Command and having its thought a particular Revelation of this their Son a general promise being too general for them to conclude a Deliverer from their family They laid him rather than cast him out in the Arms of Providence by Faith Heb. 11. 23. about the Kings Garden for Princely Education and Breeding suteable to the Harmonious content they took in beholding His divided Limbs Argueing for Understanding of a R●fulgent Soul when Experience should hold up the Hangings or withdraw the Curtains of Infancy a●d Childhood Suffer Moses to suck the Teat or Pap of his Mother a while or to rest in the Cradel rock'd by