Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	act_n	call_v	43	3	3.5969	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26195	The arraignment of rebellion, or, The irresistibility of sovereign powers vindicated and maintain'd in a reply to a letter / by John Aucher ...	Aucher, John, 1619-1701.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4191; ESTC R14611	67,159	122

him by name in this authority over us Whilst it remained was it not our own was it not in our own power But to go back and withdraw our Allegiance after vows to make enquiry what is Moses and Aaron that we murmur against them Our murmurings and so our disobedience and Rebellions are not against them but against the Lord. Nay to shew that this mediate or more remote way as we call it of our own choice and Election is yet after our choice is made as truely God's act ratified and confirm'd by him as if he had done it immediately and by himself it does in some degrees and Species of it lawfully make null and is preferr'd by God before that authority which he brings us under without our selves Thus the obedience we owe to the authority of our Parents whom we are brought under merely and immediately by God and where he does wholly chuse for us yet ceases and gives way to the duty between the Husband and his Wife which is of our own Election For this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother and cleave to his Wife And by this resemblance of the case between a man and his Wife we shall be able more explicitly to reconcile and unite the mediate and immediate way of God in placing of Rulers over us God did marry Adam and Eve together immediately and by himself Of the rib made he a Woman says the Text and he brought her unto the Man But to others there is a liberty and freedom given them not to marry necessarily this or that man this or that woman but at their own choice and liking But now when they have made their choice determin'd and tyed up this their former liberty in the Marriage-knot God himself has done it and it is even the marriage of this particular man and woman as truely and verily God's act as if He had done it and not Man immediately by himself For so says our Saviour even of these so married Quos Deus conjunxit c. Whom God has joyn'd together so as to be sacred and inseparable therefore but by God himself till death us do part let not man put asunder Now God may be said to marry the King and the children of Israel together as Adam and Eve immediately and by himself by an open and profess'd revelation from Heaven But the rest of the world he has left at liberty as to be married to this or that man so to be govern'd not necessarily by this or that authority this or that King and Family but at their own choice and election But when this choice is once made and determin'd when the People have elected this Man for their King plac'd him as their head and Supreme by sacred Oaths of Allegiance in the presence of God to tye and assure themselves for ever in subjection to him as the Woman to her Husband in the holy estate of Matrimony Vox populi est vox Dei 'T is then as verily God's act as if he had by a voice from Heaven sent a Prophet to anoint this man King over this People The people have no more to doe he is then sacred and unalterable Whom God hath joyn'd together let not man put asunder But now when the People who are one Body as the Woman but yet Corpus fluidum a successive body as we call a River the same river to day as yesterday though there be not one drop of the same water in the Chanel to day which we saw yesterday So the same People though one Generation passeth and another cometh when they I say for the better security of their own times and to provide likewise for this Succession do elect and swear Fealty to the King and his Heirs after him and lawfull Successours Those his Heirs in their several ages and Successions must needs be thought by virtue of this first Election to have the same right and authority conferr'd upon them by God as irreversibly and indispensably as to the people as He who was first plac'd in Supremacy over them Whom God has joyn'd together has the same force here as formerly And as at or by the death onely of every particular King they are freed and at liberty from this particular King as the Woman at the death of her Husband so they cannot be absolv'd from the Succession but by the death and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the whole royal Line and who were of right to succeed Saul was anointed indeed King over Israel onely in his own Person But when God settles it upon David and his seed after him as with us to the King and his Heirs 't is very observable they were not anointed afresh in their several Successions as they need not with us any New and particular election of the people but the Ointment upon the head ran down upon the beard and went down to the skirts of his clothing and so the hem of this royal robe the very farthermost in the Succession has God's anointing viz. the People's lawfull Election upon him Which they cannot reverse though to take place onely as David's actual personal anointing did not prefer him to the Crown till the death of Saul when by the death of those before him it rightly and regularly descends upon him For so the anointing the King with Oil was but an Emblematical ceremony of placing that Person so anointed in Supremacy above the rest from that peculiar quality in Oil to be uppermost and Supreme in all mixtures and therefore the Lord 's anointed in the Old Testament is call'd the Supreme in the New Whether to the King as Supreme 1 Pet. 2.13 which is done viva vice or in words at length in the peoples election And therefore to chuse and to anoint a King or Synonoma's or words of the same signification So in Jotham's parable Judg. 9.8 When the Trees went forth to chuse a King they went forth it is said to anoint a king over them And in the 15 th verse If in truth ye anoint me king over you i. e. make me your King v. 16. And then the anointing Oil was holy as we may reade in several places to shew that the King's Person was by this anointing become sacred His sacred Majesty as we us'd to say not to be prophan'd therefore by rude or common usage Touch not mine Anointed And Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord 's Anointed and be guiltless In brief God's method in setting up a King was anciently by sending a Prophet with commission to pour Oil upon the head of that Person whom he designed for that Honour Now the People is that Prophet God's sending the Prophet with commission to anoint such a Person is his opening a fair lawfull way and inclining the hearts of the people to the Election of this Person and the peoples voices and suffrages pour'd upon him in the Election is the very holy Oil upon his head whereby he is made Sacred