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The idea of the lavv charactered from Moses to King Charles. Whereunto is added the idea of government and tyranny. / By John Herdon Gent. Philonomos.
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Heydon, John, b. 1629.
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1660
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Wing H1671; Thomason E1916_2; ESTC R210015
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raised up to be Lawgivers to their charge Though in process of time the Nations that were at first under the Government of good Angels by their lewdness and disobedience might make themselves obnoxious to the power and delusion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tyrannical devile But this is but a digression that which I would briefly have intimated is how Lawes were received and how Politickly they are now used And that the great Lawgiver of the Jews was a man instructed of God himself to Prudence and true Policy 8. And therefore I make account if we will but with diligence search we may surely finde the Footsteps of unsophisticate Policy in all the Passages of the whole Pentateuch And here in the very entrance it will offer it self unto our view where Moses shews himself such as that noble spirit Plato desires all Governers of Commonwealths should be who has in his Epistle to Dion and his friends foretold That mankinde will never cease to be miserable till such time as either true and Right Philosophers rule in the Common-wealth or those that do rule apply themselves to true and sound Philosophy And what is Moses his Bereshith but a fair invitation thereto it comprehendeth at least the whole Fabrick of Nature and conspicuous Furniture of the visible world As if he dare appeal unto the whole Assembly of Gods Creation to the voice of the great Universe if what he propounds to his people over whom God hath set him be not righteous and true And that by acting according to his Precepts they would but approve themselves Cosmopolitas True Citizens of the world and Loyal Servants of God and Secretaries of nature It is Mr. Thomas Heydon his Interpretation upon the place which how true it is in Moses vailed I will not here dispute That it is most true in Moses unvailed Christ our Lord is true without all Dispute and Controversie And whosoever follows him followes a Law justified by God and the whole Creature they speaking in several Dialects the minde of their Maker It is a truth and life that is the safety of all Nations and the earnest expectation of the ends of the earth Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever whose Dominion and Law neither time nor place doth exclude as you shall finde anon But to return to Moses 9. The Lawes and Ordinances which he gave to the Israelites were given by him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. as Statutes received from God And therefore the great Argument and Incitement to Obedience should lie in this first and highest Lawgiver God himself the great Jehovah whose wisdome power and goodness could not better be set out then by ascribing the Creation of the whole visible World unto him So that for his power he might be feared admired for his prudence and finally for his goodness be loved adored and Deified That as he was truly in himself the most High God so he should be acknowledged of the people to be so 10. For certainly there is nothing that doth so win away nay ravish or carry captive the mindes of poor Mankinde as Bounty and Munificence all men loving themselves most affectionately and most of all the meanest and basest spirits whose soules are so far from being a little rais'd and releas'd from themselves that they do impotently and impetuously cleave and cling to their dear carkases hence have they out of the strong relish and favour of the pleasures and conveniences thereof made no scruple of honouring them for Gods who have by their Industry or by good Planets produced any thing that might conduce for the improvement of the happiness and comefort of the body And thus Moses received his Lawes from God Josuah from Moses c. 11. Now Christ teacheth us other Lawes as for example when the Pharisees came to him and asked Is it lawfull for a man to put away his Wife tempting him And he answered and said unto them What did Moses command you 12. And they said Moses suffer'd to write a Bill of Divorcement and and to put her away 13. And Jesus answered and said unto them For the hardness of your hearts Moses wrote this Precept 14. But From the begining of the Creation God made them male and female 15. For this cause shall a man leave his Father and his Mother and shall cleave unto his wife 16. And they twain shall be one flesh 17. What therefore God hath joyned together let no man put asunder Mark 10. 18. Wherefore dare any of you having a Matter against another go to Law before the unjust and not before the Saints 19. Do ye not know that the Saints shall judg the World And if the Saints shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judg the smallest matters 20. Know ye not that we shall judg Angels How much more things that partain to this life Brother goeth to Law with brother and that before the Unbelievers 21. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to Law one with another Why do ye not rather take wrong Why do not you rather suffer your selves to be defrauded 22. Nay you do wrong and defraud and that your brethren But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 23. Wherefore then serveth the Law It was given because of Transgressions till the seed should come to whome the Promise was made and it was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator 24. Wherefore the Law was our School-Master to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by Faith Gal. 3. 25. Now let every Soul be subject unto the Higher Powers for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God 26. Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God And they that resist receive to themselves Damnation 27. For rulers are not a terrour to good works but to the evil Will ye then be afraid of the Power Do that which is good and you shall have praise of the same 28. For they are the Ministers of God to you for good But if you do that which is evil be afraid for they bear not the sword in vain for they are the Ministers of God and Revengers to execute wrath upon him that doth evil 29. Wherefore ye must needs be Subjects not only for wrath but also for conscience sake 30. For this cause pay you Tribute also For they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing 31. Render therefore to all their Dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custome to whom Custome is due Fear to whom fear Honor to whom honor 32. Owe no man any thing but to love one another For they that love one another have fulfilled the Law 33. For this Thou shalt not commit Adultery thou shalt not Kill thou shalt not Steal thou shalt not bear
THE IDEA OF THE LAVV CHARACTERED From Moses to King Charles Whereunto is added The IDEA of GOVERNMENT AND TYRANNY By John Heydon Gent. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. The whole Law is like to a Living Creature whose body is the literal sense but the Soul the more inward and hidden meaning covered under the sense of the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Soli Deo Laus Potentia London Printed for the Author and are to be sold in St. Dunstans-Church-yard in Fleet-shreet 1660. Vera et viua Effigies Johunis Heydon Equitis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nat 1629 Die 4 Sept 10 P. M. Gaudet patientia duris T. Cross Sculpsit To the Right Worshipfull RALPH GARDENER Esquire Justice of the Peace and Counsellor of Estate to the supreme Authority of England John Heydon wisheth External Internal and Eternal Happiness Much Honoured c. MY blushing disabilities have presumed to salute you unprovided of any other Ornament then sincere Loyalty devoted to you in this condition I can say nothing of you but what all men know such is the greatness of year Renowned Fame such is the greatness of your vertues and splendor of Learning and frequent making of Acts and giving of Laws with solid Prudence and Elegant readiness of Speaking and Writing Knowledg of many things Constant in Religion Assisting the Poor in their Just Causes and delivering the Imprisoned out of the hands of blood-thirsty Creditours And these are the Commendable conditions with which you are endowed beyond the common custom of others I say nothing of those Ancient Monuments of your eminent Nobility the Treasure of your Riches both old and new the Largeness of your Spirit in Armes with the Excellency whereof you excel together with the comely form and strength of the body Though all these be very great yet I esteem you farr greater then all these for those your Heroick and superillustrious vertues by which you truly have caused that by how much the more any one is Learned and loves vertue so much the more he may desire to insinuate himself into your favour whence I also am resolv'd that your favour shall be obtained by me but after the manner of the People of Italy i. e. not without a Present which custom of saluting Princes and men of honour is indeed derived from Plato Aristotle and the Ancient Greecists unto these very times and still we see it observed And when I hear of certain Learned men to furnish you with fair and great presents of their Learning least I only should be a Neglector of your Worship I durst not apply my self with empty hands to your greatness Now being thought full amongst the secrets of Nature which I have laid up choicely and closely in my study with my other Curiosities Behold The Idea of the Law presently offered it self as I attempted to Character it when I followed the Practise of an Atturney in the Upper-Bench at Westminster c. And now the Revolutions of Troublesome Tyrants and my own Misfortunes being almost past I presently made hast as it were to pay my vows to present it to your Worship to compleat Truly I was perswaded that I could give nothing more acceptable to you then a Method of this Nature which none have I dare say hitherto attempted to restore Yet it is not writ to you because it is worthy of you but that it might make a way open for me to gain your favour I beseech you if it may be let it be excused by you I shall be devoutly yours If this part of Law shall by the Authority of your greatness come into Knowledg envy being chased away by the power of your Worthiness there remain the memory of it to me as the Fruit of a good Conscience And so you shall know that I shall all my Life be Your most Affectionate Friend and Servant John Heydon Aprill 27. 1660. To the Truly Noble by all Titles WILLIAM WILD Esquire Sarjeant of Law Recorder of London and one of the Members of Parliament All Happiness be wished Serene c. COncerning the Choyce of the Subject matter of my present Pains It is the first of this race that ever was dedicated to any person and had I not thought it the best It should have been taught a less ambition then to chuse such a Princely Patron I shall say no more then that the sole inducement thereto was his singular learning in the Law and Gospel the former of which is so conspicuous to the world that it is universally acknowledged of all and for the latter there is none that can be ignorant thereof who hath ever had the happiness though but in a small measure of his own free and intimate Converse As for my own part I cannot but publickly profess I never read of any more wise and vertuous and so truly and becomingly Religious and where the right Knowledg of the Laws of God given to man bears the enlightned mind so even that it is as far from doing any wrong as Justice it self And my present labours cannot find better welcome or more judicious acceptance with any then with such as these for such free and unprejudiced spirits will neither antiquate Truth for the oldness of the Notion nor slight her for looking so young or bearing the face of Novelty He alone above other men of honour hath made goodness his Friend as well as greatness his Companion Besides there are none that can be better assured of the sincerity and efficacy of my present design which is appointed to run through the midst of the Laws of God and men for as many as are not meer sons of the Letter know very well how much the more inward and mysterious meaning of the Idea of the Law makes for the reverence of the holy Scripture Wherefore my design being so pious as it proves I could do nothing more fit then to make choyce of so true a lover of the piety of the Law as your self for a Patron of my present labours especially you being so well able to do the most proper office of a Patron to defend the Idea of the Laws and Statutes of England that is here presented to you and to make up out of your rich treasury of Learning what my penury could not reach to or inadvertency may have omitted And truly if I may not hope this from you I know not whence to expect it for I do not know where to meet with any so universally and fully accomplished in the Law and Gospel and indeed in all parts of the choycest kind of Learning any one of which acquisitions is enough to fill if not swell an ordinary man with great conceit and pride when as it is your sole priviledg to have them all and yet not to take upon you nor to be any thing more Imperious or Censorious of others then they ought to be who know the least These were the true considerations that direct me in