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A70760	Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world.; Bishop Overall's convocation book	Overall, John, 1560-1619.; Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing O607; ESTC R2082	200,463	346

own Sister Miriam for using some undutiful speeches against him was strucken by God with an exceeding great Leprosie and so odious was the murmuring of Korab Dathan and Abiram and their Confederates as the Lord caused the Earth to open and to swallow some of them quick and the Fire to consume the rest Joshua succeeding Moses the People professed their Subjection and Obedience unto him saying All that thou hast commanded us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go as we obeyed Moses in all things so will we obey thee Whosoever shall rebel against thy Commandment and will not obey thy Words in all that thou dost command him let him be put to death During the Reign of all the Judges though the People are noted for many great Enormities yet we do not find that they rebelled or shewed any great disobedience against them whom God had set over them to rule them except the particular murmuring and opposition of the Ephramites against Gideon and Jephtha at their first entrance upon conceit they had been contemned which opposition God punished with a great overthrow of them When the People had Kings according to the manner of other Nations to order and govern them their subjection was rather encreas'd than diminished according to Samuel's description of the King's Claim or manner of ruling which should reign over them To command not only over the Persons of his Subjects but also over their Goods which manner of ruling or dealing by any King without a just cause as it was Tyranny so to deny it when the necessity of the King and State did require it according to the Laws of the Kingdom was a great neglect of preserving the publick good and a high degree of disobedience Besides it is generally agreed upon that Obedience to Kings and civil Magistrates is prescribed to all Subjects in the Fifth Commandment where we are enjoyn'd to honour our Parents Whereby it followeth that subjection of Inferiours unto their Kings and Governours is grounded upon the very Law of Nature and consequently that the Sentences of Death awarded by God himself against such as shewed themselves disobedient and incorrigible to their Parents or cursed them or struck them were likewise due unto those who committed any such Offences against their Kings and Rulers being the Heads and Fathers of their Commonwealths and Kingdoms which is not only apparent by way of consequence but likewise by Example Practice and Precept as where Shimei is judged to die for cursing of David the Lord 's Anointed where David himself appointed by God to succeed King Saul would not be induced by any perswasions to lay violent hands upon his Master the King and where it is said Principi populi tui non maledices and again Ne maledicas Regi in corde tuo to which purpose more might be alledged CAN. XVI IF any Man therefore shall affirm that it was lawful in the Old Testament either for Children or Nephews to have been disobedient to their Fathers being their chief Governours from the Creation till Moses's time or afterward for the Children of Israel either under Moses Joshua the Iudges or their Kings to have been disobedient to them in their lawful Commandments or to have murmured or rebelled against them or that it was in those times more lawful unto Subjects for any cause whatsoever either to curse their Princes Kings or civil Governours or to bear Arms against them or to depose them from their Kingdoms or Principalities or to lay violent hands upon their Persons than it was in the said times lawful upon any occasion for Children either to have cursed their Parents or to have rebelled against them when they did reprove or correct them or to have withdrawn themselves from their subjection saying unto them they being private Men We will be no more your Children or you shall be no more our Fathers or bearing civil Authority over them we will depose you from your Government over us and will be no longer ruled by you or to have offered any violence unto them or to have beaten them and much less to have murthered them He doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XVII WHen God appointed Princes Judges and Kings to Reign over his people the manner usually was that they had notice of it thereby to conform themselves to obedience Moses and Aaron acquainted the Israelites with God's pleasure for their deliverance out of Egypt by their service agreeably to his Promise formerly made to Abraham and they chearfully and with great thankfullness submitted themselves to be ruled by them God having appointed Joshua to succeed Moses the same was signified by Moses to the Israelites and they willingly protested their obedience unto him Likewise no sooner did the Lord assign Judges to defend and govern them but presently they followed and obeyed them Upon the people's request Samuel having anointed Saul for their King when the same was made apparent to them either by casting of Lots or by answer from the Lord they shouted when they saw him and said God save the King King David being anointed by Samuel at God's appointment to succeed King Saul and after Saul's Death coming thereupon by God's direction to Hebron the Tribe of Judah presently anointed him again for their King and yielded themselves to be governed by him Seven years after all which time King David had Wars with Ishbosheth Saul's Son the rest of the Tribes came unto David and acknowledged that God had ordained him to be their Governour King David growing old and having appointed by God's direction his Son Solomon to be anointed King in his own Life time when the people knew that Zadok the Priest had so anointed him they forthwith upon the blowing of the Trumpets said all with one Voice God save King Solomon Afterwards also the like course was held upon the Death of every King to make his Successor known to the people Sometimes they were so addicted unto new Kings as they expected no further Circumstance but submitted themselves to their Government and sometimes it was held fit for the young Princes to imitate King David's Example by kind usage and loving words to knit more firmly their Subjects hearts unto them Placet eis CAN. XVII IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the callings of Moses of Aaron of Joshua of the Iudges of Saul of David of Solomon or of any other of the Kings of Judah elected and named by God himself or coming to their Kingdoms by Succession according as Jacob by the Spirit of Prophecy had foretold did receive any such virtue or strength from the people their said notice presence and applause as that without the same the said callings of God either by Name or by Succession had been insufficient or that if the people had withstood any of them so called by God as is aforesaid they

the Disorders and Idolatry in those days were ascribed by the Holy Ghost to the want of Judges Chief Rulers or Kings amongst them who should have reformed those Enormities not only in them but likewise in the Priests themselves if they did not their Duties especially in suppressing of Idolatry as they should have done CAN. XIII IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the Israelites fell not into many Evils and Disorders by being left destitute of a certain chief Governour after Joshua's Death or that when God raised up Iudges to rule and govern them the Peoples consent was necessary thereunto or that the said Iudges being once appointed by God to those places received their Authority in that behalf from the People or that the fact of the Sichemites may lawfully be imitated by any Christian People in so chusing to themselves a King or Iudge according to their own humours or that the want of Kings Princes and Rulers in any Country is not the Mother of disorder and confusion he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XIV IT is manifest in the Scriptures That Moses directed by the Spirit of God did foresee that the time should come when the Israelites being quietly setled in the Land of Canaan should be govern'd by Kings after the manner of other Nations And therefore Almighty God did set down by Moses's Pen the Duty of all Kings and the Rules whereby they ought to govern Jacob also being illuminated by the same holy Spirit did not only foretel that it would come to pass that the Tribe of Judah should bear the Scepter and that the Kingdom or Government of Judah should be held by Succession according to the manner of other Nations but likewise tha the said Scepter or Government should not be taken away from that Tribe until the coming of Christ And it seemeth that the People were not altogether ignorant of this foreseen alteration when finding divers wants and confusions amongst them after the Death of one Judge before God was pleased to appoint them another they first offer'd rashly to Gideon their Prince that his Children and Off-spring should succeed him in that Government And afterward being weary of depending upon God's pleasure and misliking the rule of Samuel's Sons they urged him undutifully and unseasonably that they might have a King to rule over them as other Nations had meaning thereby principally as we suppose that such their Kings might by Succession govern them so as one being dead they might still have another We say that they urged Samuel to this purpose undutifully and unseasonably and that thereupon Saul was appointed to be their King because otherwise if they had expected God's good pleasure and time and contented themselves with his care over them in raising up when he thought meet their Judges to govern them they should have found shortly after that the Prophecy of Jacob should have been fulfilled and that God would have given the Scepter of Judah into the hands of David and of his Posterity according to their desire CAN. XIV IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the People of Israel did not grievously sin in being weary of Gods immediate Election and appointment of their chief Governors or that the peoples preposterous hast did any way prejudice the Dignity and Authority of Saul's Regal Power or afterward of the Scepter of Judah or that the People then had in themselves any Authority to set up a King over them for then they would not have been so earnest with Samuel to make them a King or that after David's advancement to that Kingdom he was not as truly call'd thereunto by God himself as Aaron was to the Priesthood or that David's Posterity had not by God's Ordinance as rightful an Interest to succeed him in his said Kingdom as either Aaron's Sons had to succeed him in the Priesthood or Moses Joshua and the rest of the Iudges notwithstanding that God himself did chuse and named them particularly had in their Governments or that the People then had any more Authority to have withstood either David or any of his Posterity from being their King than they had to have expelled either Moses or Joshua or any of the rest of the Iudges whom God by name did appoint to govern them he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XV. IT is manifest in the Scriptures that the Kings in the Old Testament notwithstanding that they had their Kingdoms by Succession were as strictly bound to the observation of God's Laws in their Government as Moses Joshua or any other the Judges or Princes elected named and appointed by God himself They knew well as Jethro said that it was impossible for themselves to hear and decide all the Causes and Controversies that might happen in their Kingdoms and by Moses's Example were not ignorant that they might appoint and have Judges to govern under them not only in every Tribe but generally over all their Kingdom and therefore they did therein accordingly follow the Example of Moses being approved by God himself no ways either diminishing their Regal Authority or purposing to puff up their Subjects with a conceit of any their own Interest in the Government which they had not from or under them but thereby ordering their Kingdoms with such a temperate and Fatherly Moderation as was most agreeable for the Government of God's People CAN. XV. IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the Kings in the Old Testament were not bound as strictly to observe the Laws of God in their Governments as were Moses Joshua and the rest of the Iudges or that they had any greater liberty to do what they list than the others had or that they had no Authority by the Example of Moses and of all the rest of their Predecessors in their Princely Government to delegate and appoint such Iudges and Governours under them as the other Princes formerly under them had appointed or that because the said Kings did imitate the said Princes in appointing such Iudges to assist them in the Government of their Kingdoms therefore their Governments were to be judged rather Aristocratical than truly Monarchical he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XVI WHen God first ordained civil Magistrates and gave them Authority his meaning was that the People whom they were to govern should be subject unto them From the beginning of the World till Moses's time whilst the People of God that profess'd his true Worship were governed by that Authority which was Potestas Patria and in a sort Regia their Children and Nephews were bound by the Law of Nature to honour reverence and obey them God having raised up Moses to deliver the Children of Israel out of Egypt and to govern them afterward as their King or chief Ruler they promised that they would hear him and do those things which he in the Name of God should command them Being in the Wilderness his