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No King but Jesus, or, The Walls of tyrannie razed and the foundations of unjust monarchy discovered to the view of all that desire to see it wherein is undeniably proved that no king is the Lords anointed but Jesus ... / by Henry Haggar.
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Haggar, Henry.
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of them that oppressed you and you have rejected your God who himself saved you out of all your adversities and tribulations and you have said to him Nay but give us a king Chap. 10.17 18 19. Surely I might now take up the complaint of Moses against them Deut. 32.6 O foolish people and unwise do ye thus requite the Lord Is he not thy Father that bought thee hath he not made thee and established thee Remember the days of old consider the yeers of many generations ask thy father and he will shew thee thy elders and they will tell thee c. I desire to apply it to England Dear Country-men consider it in time before you provoke the Lord to anger Hath not God himself now of late years done as great things for us Hath not he by his immediate hand delivered us out of all our troubles and out of the hands of all that hate us so as they do not rule over us Consider the condition the Nation hath been in within these few yeers and how the Lord hath remembred us in our low condition and changed it and beyond all expectation hath given us Peace and Plenty in stead of War and Famine in our Land Consider how he hath prospered all things under the hands of this present Authority both at home and abroad and all that rise up against them are confounded and brought to nothing and that by weak means which shews the immediate hand of God amongst us Let us therefore take heed that we do not requite the Lord evil for good like a foolish and unwise people by desiring a King to satisfie our own lust pride and vain-glory for the Lord is now our King and will be if we do not reject him and cast him off by chusing a Man in his stead to reign over us judge us and fight our battels And to that end let us again consider what a great wickedness it was in the people of Israel and how mightily the Lord was displeased with them for asking a King See 1 Sam. 12.16 17 18 19. in these words Now therefore stand still and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes Is it not wheat-harvest to day I will call unto the Lord saith Samuel and he shall send thunder and rain that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the sight of God in asking a king So Samuel called unto the Lord and the Lord sent thunder and rain and the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel And all the people said to Samuel Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not for we have added to all our sins this evil to ask us a king And his answer was vers. 23 24 25. God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you But I will teach you the good and right way which is onely to fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your hearts and consider what great things he hath done for you But if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your king And thus we have considered from the beginning to the end what great sin and abominable wickedness it was for the people of God to chuse any other King but himself to rule over them judge them and fight their battels And it is considered to that end that we the people of England professing our selves to be the people of God in our generation amongst whom also the immediate hand of God hath been lifted up and his arm made bare for us I say that we run not headlong into such sin and wickedness as to ask us a king when the Lord hath taken away our King in his anger and is become our King himself Let us remember from what principle it did arise and from what root it did spring that a Man should be chosen King and bear the name of King over the people of God it was from the pride and corruption of their own hearts and of all their wickedness and sins that they had committed there was none like this that they should ask another King and reject God as is formerly proved by these Scriptures 1 Sam. 8.4 5 6 7 8 9. Vers 19 20. Chap. 10.17 18 19. Chap. 12.16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. Therefore he gave them a King in his anger and took him away again in his wrath Hos. 13.11 And seeing they would have a King the Lord would have him of his own chusing and therefore he chose David his servant a man after his own heart and took him from the sheep-folds from following the ewes great with young he brought him forth to feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance Psal. 78.70 71. But I am afraid that if the Lord should now take a young shepherd from following the ewes great with young and set him over us to be our King even those that so much desire a King would be as much displeased then as they are now What shall the Lord do to please these people He must not reign over them himself although he have all power in heaven and earth in his hands and their own lives also but they reject him saying Nay but give us a king and he must not chuse a man after his own heart for them but he must be a man after their own corrupted hearts And who is that Truely one of the Blood Royal one that is by descent come out of the loyns of the Lords Anointed as they apprehend Therefore seeing it is such a hard thing to please these people that God himself cannot please them except he should let them walk in their own ways and give them up to their own hearts lusts as he did the Nations in times past which he destroyed Why then should I or any man under heaven think to please them by speaking the truth Yet notwithstanding I will perform my duty at this time to my country-men and acquaintance according to the flesh and would gladly make use of the talent or mite which God hath given me for their profit and his glory Therefore I shall speak a few words to these two things so stumbled at amongst men viz. the Royal Blood and the Lords Anointed It may be if these stumbling-blocks were taken away men would walk more uprightly and in less danger And first I shall speak of the Royal Blood I would gladly learn of any man from whence the Royal Blood came first Not that I deny that there is Royal blood or persons noble and honourable and to be honoured more then others but my question is How they came so whether by Generation or Exaltation If by generation and so must continue then I shall easily prove that all the men in the world are of the Royal blood and so have all right to be Kings and Princes one as well as another if that give them right And if