Kingdome of Heaven Upon which account they are now stiled Heirs of the Kingdom and shall hereafter inherit possesse this Kingdom receive the Crowns wear the Royal Robes sit upon the Thrones provided for them in it How then have the Enchanters of Rome Spain France so far infatuated your understandings blinded your Judgements intoxecated your Brains perverted your Wills corrupted your Affections seared your Consciences engaged your unrulie Passions as notwithstanding all this to make you Bedlam madde against all Kings Kingship Kingdoms Crowns Scepters Thrones Principaliteâ— and Kingly power as to a abhor and engage against both the things themselves and their verie names yea to extirpate them root and branch against his expresse Evangelical precepts word and practise of all his Saints in either Testament to dote upon such a strange Vtopian Common-wealth and new Freestate the verie names whereof much lesse the things you find not once in Scripture in your sense and never yet read of in the militant or triumphant Church of Christ. Let Mr. Prynne a little expostulate the case with you not as a Lawyer but as a Christian. Do you indeed believe the Scripture to be the very will and word of the Great King the Soveraign Lord and Iudge of all the Earth and of Jesus Christ the King of Kings the Lord of Lords and King of Saints which you are bound in Conscience under pain of eternal damnation to believe and obey If not proclaim it as loâ—d to the world with your Voyces as you do by your Sworde Actions and then all will know you in your Native colours to be no Saints but real Atheists and all reasonings with you will be in vain But having better perswasions of you That you believe the Scripture to be the only rule of your Consciences Iudgements Lives both as Souldiers and Christians Then answer clearlie to these interrogations The Lord of Hosts himself most peremptorilie and preciselie commands you To fear God honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 Rom. 13.7 Yea to fear the Lord and the King coupling both these together as unseperable and not to meddle with those who are given to change Prov. 24.21 How can how dare you then dishonour vilifie reproach destroy both your natural Kings and Kingship too without the least fear at all of God or the King and change them into a New Republican Conventicle He commands you to subject your selves to the King as Supream both by the Ordinance of God and man and that for the Lords sake and avoiding scandal to Religion 1 Pet. 2.12 13. To be subject to the Higher Powers and amongst them more especiallie to Kings and Principalities and that not only for fear of wrath but for Conscience sake for these Reasons clearlie expressed Because they are of God and ordained by God Because they are the Ministers of God for your good Because they are Gods Avengers to punish you if you disobey resist or do evil Because they who resist them resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13.1 to 8. Tit. 3.1 2. VVith what face heart confidence conscience then can or dare you not onlie not submit subject your selves to but exalt yonâ— selves above against your lawfull Soveraign Kings and Higher powers so far as not onlie to reâ—ist but destroy their Persons Powers Kingships Principalities themselves though Gods own Ordinance and that out of pretended Zeal and Conscience too and hope to receive a Crown on Earth or in Heaven for it when as God himself denounceth Damnation to you for your verie unwarrantable resistance of them alone and much more for their destruction God requires you to make Prayers Supplications Intercessions and giving of thanks first of all FOR KINGS that YOU may live a peaceable and quiet life under them in all Godliness and honestie for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour To make prayers to the God of Heaven FOR THE LIFE OF THE KING AND OF THE KINGS SONS Ezra 6.12 13. To prâ—y with all the primitive Church and Saints of God Psal. 72.1 Give the King thy Judgement O God and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Son How can how darâ— you then not onlie neglect these Duties but prohibit condemn punish them as no lesse than High Treason in others and not onlie fight but curse revile pray against the King and the Kings Sons too and take away their lives livelihoods instead of praying for them reputing it both your godlynesse honesty yea a Duty acceptable and well pleasing unto God Hear Heavens and tremble O Earth at this great impietie God commands you Eccles. 8.2 To keep the Kings Commandement and that in regard of the Oath of God And dare you against all your Oaths of Fealty Homage Supremacy Allegiance Protestation League Covenant printed Declarations and your own Propositions 1 August 1647. That the Kings Person and Royal issue may be restored to a condition of safety honor and freedom in this Nation without diminution of their personal Rights both abjure eradicate King Kingship and the Royal Posterity that you may no more keep nor obey anie of their Superior Commands and prefer the Commands of anie undutifull Army-Officers raised onlie to defend the King and Parliament from all force and violences before both their Ordinances Proclamations Commissions Votes to both their ruines God injoyns you not to Curse the King no not in your thoughts not to revile or speak evil of the Ruler of your People Eccles. 10.20 Exod. 22.28 Acts 23.5 Tit. 3 2. And can you like those wicked Idolators Isay 8.21 Curse your King and your God and look upward and like those unjust carnal bruitish Beasts made to be destroyed and reserved to the day of Iudgement to be punished despise Dominion speak evil of Dignities Kings Kingship 2 Pet. 2.9 to 14. Jude 8 9 10. for which the â—ospel it self denounceth Woe unto you perishing in the gain-saying of Core Jude 11. that you shall utterly perish in your own Corruption and receive the reward of unrighteousnesse 2 Pet. 2.12 13. Christ himself more than once enjoyns you in the â—ospel To render to Caesar the things that are Caesars to wit all his Dues Tributes Custom Fear Honor Mat. 22.17 21. Mar. 12.16 17. Lu. 20.22 24 25. Rom. 13.7 how can or dare you then wrongfully forciblie take away and detain from your rightfull King Caesar not onlie all these his Dues and Crown-lands too but his verie Crown life to boot instead of making restitution of them to his Son when he came to demand the fruits of his Fathers Vineyard do and say with those wicked Husbandmen in the Gospel Mat. 21.38 39. Lu. 20.14 this is the Heir come let us kill him and the Inheritance shall be ours and cast him out of the Vineyard O remember the sad doom which Christ himself and all his Auditors have denounced against you for it
Captainâ— of thousands or hundreds nor yet of Souldiers or Armed men but of mean Fisher-men and others altogether averse from war commanding them in expresse terms to take neither Gold Silver nor Brasse in their purses nor scrip nor two coats nor yet Staves much lesse Sword Pikes Horses Pistols nor any thing else belonging to a Souldier no offensive or defensive Arms at the most but a single walking staffe like Travellers to help support them Yea Christ expresly resolves That his Ministers are and must be no Fighters no Strikers nor Strives much lesse than professed Warriers Iohn 18.36 1 Tim. 3.3 2 Tim. 2.24 They have no Sword but that of the Spirit and their Mouth the word of God and fight with it only against mens Sins Lusts not Persons Eph. 6.17 Heb. 4.12 Rev. 19.15 21. Yea when Peter once did but draw his Sword to defend King Jesus against the Souldiers who came with Swords and Staves to apprehend him he said unto him Mat. 26.52 Put up thy Sword again into its place for they that take the sword shall perish with the sword Nay the state of the Gospel is so inconsistent with Souldiers Arms War That upon the sincere profession of it God requires the Professors thereof to beat their Swords into Plowshares and their Spears into Pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation Neither shall they learn VVar any more but to live in peace with all men and keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Isay. 4. Mich. 4.3 Luke 2.14 1 Cor. 7.15 c. 14.53 Gal. 5.22 2 Cor. 13.11 Eph. 4.3 Col. 3.15 2 Thes. 3.16 Heb. 12.14 Never was the Kingdom Gospel Church of Jesus Christ promoted advanced in any Age or place by war Swordmen but many Churches have been utterly destroyed extirpated depraved corrupted none ever edified planted enlarged much lesse reformed by them Our present armie-Armie-Saints and new Military-Apostles by their fighting praying preaching fasting instead of promoting the Gospel Protestant Religion and Church of England have almost totally subverted them by broaching countenancing protecting all sorts of Heresies Blasphemies Sects Schisms Errors Opinions Religions setting up new Conventicles of Sectaries Seducers in all places opposing slighting traducing the very Church Doctrine Ministry of England the very Function Ordination of Ministers by decrying detaining their Tithes and former maintenance as litigious Jewish Antichristian by swallowing up all the Lands Revenues of Bishops Deans Chapters Arch-Deacons and a great part of our Ministers maintenance by sequestrations and monthly Contributions to maintain their Army Evangelists now ready to swallow up the remainder that is left and continuing in a body for that purpose by the very Jesuites instigation who not only professedly teach in their publick University at Madrid the Art of War by Land and Sea the making of Guns Gunpowder fireworks all manner of Military Engines of which they read Lectures as most agreeable to the Name Profession of their Martial Father Ignatius as Alphonsus Vargas a Spanish Priest records but boast That the General of the Iesuites can bring into the Field more Souldiers of his own order in a shorter time than any Christian King whatsoever and likewise expresly affirm That their Gopsel and Religion is to be propagated set up the Heretiques and Evangelical Sectaries who resist them refuted extirpated abolished with Fire Armies Sword and War in England elsewhere as Iacobus Cruciger Rector of the Iesuites at Lansperg in his explication of the Rules of their Order Paulus Windeck De extirpandis Heresibus Antid 10 11. p. 404 412 480. Thuanus Hist. l. 65. p. 238. l. 66. p. 299. Franciscus Verona Apol. pro Iohanne Castle par 5. c. 13. Hospinian Hist. Jesuitica l. 4. p. 212 213 214. Hasenmullerus Hist. Jesuit c. 1. Spec. Jesuiticum p. 61. unanimously attest O then discern at last whose Gospel Kingdom you are now propagating by your Army Arms and Westminster Conventicle not Iesus Christs but the very Jesuites his greatest Underminers Many of you especially Millinaries and Fifth Monarchy-men pretend that Jesus Christ is now comming to reign personally on Earth a thousand years and that you shall all reign together as Ioynt-Kings with or Vice-royes under him But the setting up of a New Republick and Aristocracy is wholly inconsistent with this Kingdom and Monarchy of Christ you now expect which suites only with a Temporal King and Kingdom How this Opinion will accord with Christs own description of it John 18. 16. My Kingdom is not of this World or Pauls Rom. 14.17 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink nor yet Arms and Armies but Righteousnesse and Peace and Ioy in the Holy Ghost which Souldiers Armies usually destroy not produce or propagate let those who maintain it consider When Mr. Prynne was kept close Prisoner in Pendennis Castle by Iohn Bradshaws and our New Republicans illegal warrant in July 1651. some four dayes after his imprisonment there divers Officers and Souldiers of the Garrison who had long debated every day for sundry Months before their present expected personal reign of Christ on Earth repaired to him to know his Opinion concerning it as he was taking fresh Air in the Bowling-Alley standing in a ring about him Upon which he first demanded their Opinions of it when they had all fully uttered their Conceits in the Affirmative with much confidence M. Pryn briefly answered That now they had beheaded one of our Kings and almost conquered another and our 3. Kingdoms they thought talked of nothing but being all Kings themselves and of reigning personally on Earth cheek by joll with Christ himself as his Fellow-Kings no Earthly King being fit to be a Companion for such transcendent sublimated Saints as they thought themselves But they were all most grosly mistaken for that very Text of Rev. 20.4 5. which he read out of one of their Bibles whereon they principally grounded their Opinions and Reign was pointblank against them And I saw the Souls OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED not of them who took off their own Christian Protestant Kings and Nobles Heads for the Witnesse of Iesus and the word of God and which had not worshipped the Beast nor his Image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads nor in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years is it not added on the Earth and Chap. 22.5 rather proves their reign to be in the New Ierusalem in Heaven But the rest of the dead who were not thus beheaded lived not again much lesse then reigned with Christ till the thousand years were past By which it is most apparent That if Christ shall reign personally on Earth for a thousand years as they all conceived and that this time was now at hand yet not one of them should or possibly could reign with him if this Text be Vmpire For the words are most positive that none else shall thus reign with Iesus Chrisâ— a thousand years but
only the souls of those who were beheaded for the testimony of Iesus Christ c. It bâ—ing expresly averred in the affirmative then in the Negative But the rest of the Dead lived not till the thousand years were past Upon which account the late King and other Protestants whose Heads they had cut off and those Godly Christians they had slain murdered in the Wars and perchance himself and others who had lost their Ears Liberties Estates and were shut up close Prisoners for the Testimony of Iesus Christ and had not worshipped but opposed the Beast of Rome his Image Superstitions innovations Proceedings against the late King Parliament Religion nor received the mark of the Beast in their Foreheads or hands might peradventure reign with Christ a thousand years But as for themselves and other Army Saints who made it their businesse and reputed it their honour Saintship to cut off the Heads of their own Christian Kings Nobles Brethren to destroy Kingdoms Parliaments their Privileges secure imprison close imprison their Members worshipping the very beast and his Image and visibly receiving his mark in their Foreheads hands by these their Jesuitical practises keeping up an Army and Iron-Sword still drawn amongst us to the great oppressing undoing of their Native Country of purpose to keep off the wooden Crosse of Iesus Christ which he expresly enjoyned them with self-denying Spirits to take up daily and follow him and that other Crosse their own Consciences tell them these perfideous treacherous practises of theirs justly demerit they could have no ground at all from this or anie other Text to reign with Christ in his Heavenly or earthly Kingdom out of which these their seditious unrighteous and bloody practises did eternally exclude them as the 10 14 15. verses of this very Chapter Rev. 22.11 15. 1 Cor. 6.8 9 10. Gal. 5.20 21. resolve Therefore if ever they desired or expected thus to reign with Christ they must all presently repent of these their former Exorbitances put off their Swords from their sides take up Christs daily crosse lay down their own heads upon the Block and then willingly chearfully lose them not for their Treasons and Rebellions but for the Testimony of Iesus Christ and the word of God and opposition of their former treasonable Plots of the Beast of Rome then they might expect to reign with him otherwise they had no hopes by the resolution of this Text and that parallel'd place 2 Tim. 2.11.12 which excellently explains it If we be dead with Christ we shall also live with him If we suffer we shall also reign with him If we deny by him by refusing to suffer with or for him he will also deny us With which words these formerly confident Swordmen were so non-plussed that they had not one word to reply and gave over all future discourses of this subject ever since being as unwilling to lose their Souldiers pay or Heads for the testimony of Christ as the young man in the Gospel was To sell all he had and give it the poor to gain eternal life and Treasures in Heaven Lastly consider That as it is the highest glory excellency of God himself the greatest comfort felicity security of his Church Saints that he is the living God stedfast for ever Dan. 6.26 That he is the Lord and changeth not Mal. 3.6 That with him is no variablenesse or shadow of change James 1.17 That he is the same immutable God for ever from everlasting to everlasting That his Counsels thoughts of heart purposes truth faithfulnesse commands loving-kindnesse Covenant stand fast firm unalterable to all generations for ever and ever Psal. 33 11. Psalm 90.1 2. Psalm 100.5 Psal. 02.16 17. Lam. 5.19 Hebr. 8.13 Psal. 110.4 So it is the most transcendent Honour Dignity Glory of God the Fathers and Jesus Christs Kingship Kingdom and the chief consolation exultation Beatitude of their Subjects and chosen Saints That the Lord is and fitteth King for ever That he is an everlasting King which reigns and shall reign for ever and ever that his Kingdom Dominion Throne are all everlasting established and enduring for evermore for ever and ever throughout all Generations that they cannot be moved and shall have no end Psalm 10.16 Psal. 29.10 Psal. 92.8 Psal. 45.6 Psal. 145.13 Psal. 146.10 Isay. 9.7 Dan. 4.3 34. c. 7.14 27. Jer. 10.10 Mar. 4.7 Lu. 1.32 33.2 Pet. 1.11 Rev. 11.15 Hebr. 12.28 Lam. 5.19 So also it is the praise honour glory of all Nations Churches People Kingdoms Governments aud every particular person both as a man Christian Counsellour or publick Minister of State to be constant stedfast fixed resolute immoveble and unchangeable in their Oaths Religion Worship Faith Principles Counsels resolutions courses when true just honest upright sincere commendable and in their Kingly publick Government evidenced by its Antiquitie the experiences of many successive generations to be beneficial safe just profitable honorable for the gegeneralitie of the people and firmlie established by Laws Oaths Covenants prescription with all other civil and sacred ratifications as is most apparent by Josh. 24.15 16. to 28. Psal. 15 4.1 Chron. 28.7 8 9. Prov. 24.21 Psal. 57.7 Psal. 46.1 2 3. Ps. 27.1 3. Jer. 2.11 Rom. 8.35 36 36 37 38 39. 1 Cor. 15.58 cap. 7.37 Heb. 6.18 19. Col. 2.5 6 7. 2 Thess. 2.17 c. 3.3 Eph. 6.13 14. Col. 1.23 Acts 20.24 c. 21.13 14. Rom. 13 1 2 3. 1 Pet. 2.13 14 15. Tit. 3.1 2 Chron. 13.5 6. c. 11.13 14 15 16 17. c. 23.1 2 3 4 c. c. 26.1 c. 33.24 25. 2. Sam. 7.13 20 29. 1 Chron. 17.13 14 22. to 28. c. 22.10 2 Chron. 9.8 c. 21.7 Ez. 37.45 Prov. 29.14 worthy special observation But it is the sinne shame reproach infamy dishonor ruin of any Nation Church people kingdom State Counsel person to be addicted to changes unstable variable unconstant fickle mutable tossed to and fro backward and forward upward and downward this way and that way like children fools reeds Vanes weathercocks empty clouds wandring stars the restless sea and its waves tossed and turned about with every wind and storme like wild asses dromedaries traversing their wayes or whorish women gadding about to change their lovers wayes and doting upon every Novelty or New lover they meet with as Gen. 49.4 Ps. 78.8 9 10. to 40. Ezech. 16.25 to 60. Jer. 2.11 to 37. Pro. 7.11.12 Jam. 1.6.8 Hab. 1.14 15. Pro. 24. 21 22. Isay 24.5 Ps. 106.20 Mat. 11.7 Rom. 1.23.25 Acts 28.6 2 Pet. 2.1 2 14. to 22. c. 3.17 2 Tim. 3.6 7. Eph. 4.14 Jude 6 12 13 16 24. resolve Why then are yon alwayes ringing the changes in our Churches Kingdoms Parliaments Government Religion modelling unmodelling chopping changing altering building them up and pulling them down again from day to day against all Oathes Vowes Covenants Laws Establishments Policy Prudence Justice Safety Settlement by which you become the highest transgressors Gal. 2.18 Is this to shew your selves Saints men
you again with hereditarie Kings and Kingship which you have so rashly brutishly perfidiously abjured out of meer self-ends and interests having not the least syllable in Scripture to justifie either the forcible bloudie manner of erecting new modelling your Illegitimate Commonwealth or your adopting it in the place of our old Kingdom and Kingship First of all consider that as Jesus Christ himself is a King by birth and inheritance Mat. 2.2 Lu. 1.32 33. So it is also his supremest royallest Title Attribute in the very Gospel that hee is King Lord of Kings Lord of Lords the Prince of the Kings of the Earth and the head of all Principalities and Powers Now the abolishing of Kings kingship Princes Lords divests Jesus Christ himself of these his most royal Titles and Soveraigntie Because he is thus stiled only in relation to earthly Kings Princes Lords who rule and reign over Kingdoms Nations by for through under him as his Ministers Officers Viceroyes Deputies and are appointed commissioned accountable to judged removed by him alone as subordinate Kings were by the Emperors Kings of Babylon Assyria Parthia and our Edgar who were stiled King of Kings because Kings were Subjects to them held their Crowns by from and under them and did homage to them as their Subjects as you may read at large in Mr. Seldens Titles of Honour part 1. ch 3. sect 2. and Dan 2.21 37 38.47 c. 17.25 many of these Kings losing this Title of King of Kings when their subordinate Kings and kingdomes revolted ceased or escheated into their own hands In relation to these Titles of Christ it is expresly prophecied Ps. 72.10.11 The KINGS of Tarshish and OF THE ISLES shall bring presents principally intended verified of this our Island of Great Britain which had the first Christian King we read of in all the world Lucius the first Christian Queen Helena the first and most glorious Christian Emperor Consiantine the Great the first Christian King who opposed abolished the Popes Supremacie Henrie the 8. the first Protestant King who by publike Acts of Parliament abolished both the Pope and Poperie and established the reformed Protestant Religion the first Protestant Queen who did the like to wit King Edward the 6. and Queen Elizabeth and more devout pious Kings Queens martyred for religion canonized for SAINTS and reputed such in the Churches of Christ and Kalendars of Saints than anie other Kingdom or Countrie in the world how great or populous soever as our own and forein Histories record to our immortal Honor. It then follows the Kings of Sheba Seba shall offer gifts yea ALL KINGS shall fall down before him in way of adoration by their president and leading example all Nations under them shall serve him How can how dare you then abolish Kings Kingship Lords especially in our Island without committing the highest Treason not only against our Kings and Lords but the Lord Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Since REGNUM ANGLIAE EST REGNUM DEI IPSE SIBI REGES PROVIDEBIT as our Historians inform us And can you resist his power with all your armed forces are you stronger than he when he shall enter into judgment with you for depriving him of these Titles 2ly Consider It is Gods special promise covenant made to Abraham the Father of the Faithfull Gen 17.6 I will make thee exceeding fruitful I will make Nations of thee Kings shall come out of thee And his extraordinarie blessing on Sara v 16. I will bless her she shall be a Mother of Nations Kings of People shall be of her 3ly It was Iudah his blessing Prerogative Gen. 49.8.10 Thy Fathers children shall bow down before thee The Scepter shall not depart from Iudah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come 4ly When Balaam prophecied of the happiness prosperity of Israel he useth these as the highest expressions thereof Num. 23.21 c. 24.7 The shout of a KING is among them and his KING shall be higher than Agag and his Kingdoms shall be exalted 5ly It is recorded by the Spirit of God 2 Sam 5.12 David perceived that the Lord had established him King over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israels sake And when God after he made him King over them had promised by the mouth of the Prophet Nathan 2 Sam 7.10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them as before time under their Iudges How did God effect this promise but by establishing an hereditarie kingdom amongst them in David during his life whom he caused to rest from all his Enemies round about And when thy dayes be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels and will establish his Kingdom And thine House and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee and thy Throne shall be established for ever Ver 11 12 16. How much holy David was transported yea ravished with this News from heaven and with what enlargement of Spirit he blessed God for and prayed for the accomplishment of it as the greatest blessing and confirmation of his people Israel by God himself v 23 24 and the highest honor blessing to his own house you may read to the end of the Chapter Thus again amplified by him in his Speech to his Princes to his Captains of thousands of hundreds Officers and other mighty men 1 Chron 28.4 to 10. The Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my Father to be King over Israel for ever and he hath chosen Iudah to be Ruler of the house of Iudah the house of my Father and among the sons of my Father he liked me to make me King over all Israel and of all my sons he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the Throne of the Kingdom of the Lord over Israel And he said unto me I will be his Father Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever if he be constant to doe my commandements and my judgements as at this day Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lord and in she audience of our God keep and seek for all the commandements of the Lord your God that you may possess this good Land and leave it for an Inheritance for your children after you for ever An hereditarie Kingdom being the chiefest means and blessing under God to preserve the inheritances not only of the Princes Nobles and mightie men but even of Colonels Captaines and Souldiers themselves in Gods and Davids computation who lost all they had by forsaking their lawful Hereditarie Kings and were carried into captivitie 6ly The accomplishment of this Promise to David his seed was reputed an
entred into an Oath and Covenant That the Kings Son should reign as the Lord hath said of the House of David Upon which they presently brought out the Kings Son Crowned and anointed him their King and said God save the King Which Athaliah the Vsurper hearing run out to the people and cryed Treason treason upon which Iehojadah the Priest commanded the Captains of the Host presently to seize upon her and cary her out of the Temple and slay all that should follow her whereupon they laid hands on her and carried her forth and slew her After which Iehojadah made a Covenant between the King and the people that they should be the Lords people and all the Captains Governors Nobles and people of the Land brought down the Kings Son from the House of the Lord to the Kings House and set the King upon the Throne of the kingdom And all the people of the Land rejoyced and the City was quiet after that they had slain Athaliah with the Sword 2 Kings 11.4 c. 2 Chron. 23. This Ioash being afterwards slain by the conspiracy of his Servants against him Amaziah his Son reigned in his stead by hereditarie Succession who when he was established in the kingdoÌ„ slew his Servants that had slain the King his Father but not their Children according to the Law of Moses After this Ammon the Son of Manasses succeeding his father worshipping his Idols following his Sinnes and trespassing more and more without humbling himself his Servants conspired against him and slew him in his own House But the People of the Land slew all that had conspired against King Ammon and made Josiah his Son King in his stead not disinherited him for his Fathers and Grand-Fathers crying Sinnes as the only means ordained by God for their safety peace and settlement Which sacred Presidents of Gods own registring and his peculiar peoples making in obedience to his Commands for our imitation in like cases are a more real sacred means to our present peace safety establishment than any the Army-Saints Sectaries Iesuites and Westminster Conclave can prescribe and the Parliament Statute of 27 Eliz. c. 1. have declared enacted it to be legal as well as scriptural 11ly When God himself promised restitution from Captivity and resettlement re-establishment to his people he doth it by promising the restitution of their lawfull hereditary King and kingdom to them and the re-uniting of their kingdoms formerly divided by rebellion against and revolt from the House of David and hereditary Royal line into one Mich. 2 13. c. 48. Their King shall pass before them and the Lord on the head of them even the first Dominion the Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem Zech. 9.9 c. Rejoyce greatly O Daughter of Zion behold thy King cometh unto thee be is just and having Salvation c. and his Dominion shall be from Sea to Sea and to the end of the Earth Isaiah 32.1 2. Behold a King shall reign in Righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in Iudgement And he shall be as a hiding place from the wind and a Covert from the Tempest as Rivers of Water in a dry place as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land Ezech. 37.22 24. And I will make them one Nation in the Land upon the Mountain of Israel and one King shall be King to them all and they shall be no more two Nations neither shall they be divided into two Kingdoms any more And David my Servant shall be KING over them they shall all have one Shepheard over them they shall also walk in my Judgements and keep my Statutes and do them And they shall dwell in the Land that I have given to Iacob my Servant even they and their Children and their Childrens Children FOR EVER and my Servant David shall be their Prince for ever Which is likewise repeated and amplyfied Ezech. 39.23 24. Zeph. 3.13 14. Jer. 23.4 5. c. 33.14 15 16. Which Texts though mistically meant of our King and Saviour Jesus Christ hereditary Son of David according to the flesh sitting upon his Fathers Throne and ruling for ever over his mystical Kingdom and Church as is evident by comparing them with Isay 9. 6 7 8. Dan. 7.27 Lu. 1.32 33. yet since King David Solomon and other pious Kings of Israel and their hereditary kingdom were types of our Spiritual King Iesus and of his everlasting spiritual kingdom And Christ Jesus under the very Title Name Notion of an hereditary King alone not of an Optimacy Oligarchy Popularity Democracy or elective King is thus prophesied to be a Saviour Redeemer Restorer Establisher Preserver Defender of his captivated oppressed inthralled dissipated divided unreformed Subjects Kingdom Church People and his perpetual preseâ—â— with and reign over them is made the only ground of the restauration unity felicity prosperity safety perpetuity of his kingdom and people as David Solomon and other good Kings of Israel were to their Subjects during their successive Reigns and seeing Christs mistical Church and Saints are alwaies thus stiled his Kingdom a Kingdom but never a Free-State or Common-wealth at least but once Eph. 2.12 the only Text throughout the whole Bible where this word is mentioned in any kind and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom but as the very same thing with it as our Kingdom in some Statutes in stiled a Common-wealth as being the excellentest honourablest durablest freest happiest of all other forms of Republick under which general name it is comprised It thence infallibly follows that an hereditary Kingship kingdome is the best happiest durablest securest honourablest desireablest of all other Governments whatsoever being the verie Government of Jesus Christ himself who according to the flesh was born King of the Iews and sits upon the Throne of David his Father Mat. 2.2 Lu. 1.32 33. and was not chosen King by his Saints like an Elective King but elected them to be his Subjects as he expreslie resolves Iohn 15.16 1 Pet. 1 2.9 Rev. 17.14 And that the restitution of this our antient Kingly Government not of a new Jesuitical Spanish Outlandish Republick is the true and only way to our restauration redemption peace settlement safetie and future prosperity as the Parliament and most excellent preamble of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 22. worthy perusal resolves Wherin after many long intestine civil wars for the Title succession of the Crown and Soveraigntie of our Realm The Nobles and Commons assembled in Parliament calling to mind That the unity peace and wealth of this Realm and the Succession and Inheritance of the Subjects in the same most specially and principally above all worldly things let our Republicans and Westminster Juncto observe it well consisteth and resteth in the certainty and surety of the procreation and posterity of the Kings Highness in whose most Royal person at this present time is no manner of doubt nor question as the Statutes of 1 Iac. c. 1