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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55293	Moses and Aaron, or, The ministers right and the magistrates duty vindicated from the exceptions made against both by Richard Kingsnoth, in a late book of his entitled, The true tything of the Gospel-ministers / by Daniel Pointel ...	Pointel, Daniel, d. 1674.	1657 (1657)	Wing P2741; ESTC R4455	113,893	137

wherein as such I may do nothing for Christ But leaving expostulations however most just let 's see upon what principles this power and duty stands To begin with the beginning we find Adam a King and Priest Melchizedech a King and a Priest the Priesthood annexed to the Primogeniture Hebr. 12.16 which made Esau a profane person in selling his birth-Right Regal and Sacerdotal power went together for many ages of the world All that while their Constitutions for the well ordering of Worship had the force of binding Laws if there were any such Constitutions as such there must be God then propagating his revealed truths through their hands by tradition not as now by Scripture I know him that he will Command Gen. 18.19 belongs to Abrahams Princely and Paternal power both in delivering down the Ordinances of Gods Worship as Laws to his Children and Servants And sure God did not joyn those two Offices in one person but that the Authority of the Prince might winne more awe from the then rude world then if meaner persons were employed in the Priestly Office Hitherto the whole power about holy things was in the Princes hand and this from the beginning a good Argument that with such Alterations as God was pleased to make at several times it is to continue to the end the Magistrate hath power in Gods holy things from the beginning it was so Matth. 19.8 Not but that the Offices were distinct though the person was the same and the Acts several and each deriving its functions immediately from God but being in one they joyned hands and mutually strengthned each other by their several Interests the Prince the Priest by all Actions of a Prince the Priest the Prince by all Actions of a Priest so it should be now they are in several hands and there is need both wayes we need not inquire which way most though it be easy to guesse So it was then and it is most unnatural to think it otherwise every Authority will do it utmost to preserve it self So they run in one Stream till they came to Moses then they divide and what is parted with at that division So much will be removed to other shoulders the rest abiding where it was the time and manner of doing this is found Lev. 8. where we find Moses the Magistrate executing the whole Priestly Office in the Consecration of Aaron and his Sons which Act was done by him as a Magistrate aswel as a Prophet for then the Magistrate devested himself of that power which had rested upon him from the beginning of the world till now and communicating to another Order the Government as to both duties growing now too heavy to rest in one hand through the multitude of those that were governed and the variety of Laws they were governed by and what is now parted with The exercise of the Priests function in all the duties of that place the intrinsecal power of that holy ministration but no more the extrinsecal power of ordering both the people and his Sons in matter of Worship commanding all to do their respective duties tithing encouraging c. Lev. 10.3 4 12 16. This Moses parted not with but exercised often afterwards as the Story represents it to us even quickly after the Consecration though he never offered up Sacrifices with his own hands more if any say these after-attempts of Moses ●ere meerly Prophetical and that the Princely power did not at all put forth it self in them he will say so gratis and without proof it appeares no more was devested the rest then was retained and when we see it put forth why should we doubt whither to referre it Moses Prophetical Spirit was not necessary to direct about what God had already revealed but about what was further to be received from God But this was a power anciently communicated long used yea in new injunctions from God the receiving and communicating them were Actions of the Office Prophetical but the binding people to the observance of them by a legal establishment is the Action of the Office Princely and its legislative power had by Moses indeed after a manner extraordinary but belonging to that power however Lawfully had and held of God And this difference is altogether the same in the Laws against Murder and Adultery Moses otherwise forbids them as a Prophet otherwise as a Prince and although my Neighbour unadvisedly limit civil Laws to things indifferent P. 11. yet I hope this upon second thoughts will not be stood upon And this reserved power of Moses does yet further appear a certain and perpetual branch of his Princely Government in that all succeeding Magistrates after him Judges and Kings had it and used it both those that were Prophetically inspired and those that were not the good ones to establish good things for the House of the Lord the evil ones to neglect Gods House and draw people to Idolatry the Priests never medling with this matter none but Jehoida appearing upon this Stage and he in a time of great distresse as by right his wife next of kindred to the crown the seed Royal being all destroyed in the Kings Minority as Guardian 2 Kin. 11.17 18. 2 Chro. 23.18 24.15 16. Tutor and Protector to the King in his Infant State yet even he for all his age Authority doing good in Israel both towards God and his House yea and towards the House of the King too yet the King grown up is under command even about the affaires of the Temple he was High Priest in hath matters put into his hands is called to account reproved 2 Kin. 12.4 7 8. and business otherwise ordered consents to all that 's done without any contradiction as in a thing belonging not to his office but to the Kings If this had been an encroachment no person so fit as Jehoiada no season so opportune as under a young King so highly obliged for his life and Crown to attempt the recovery of this power and restore it to its proper place he that had Authority and courage enough to keep in the Spirits of King Princes and People 2 Chro. 24.17 18. 2 Kin. 12.2 so strongly addicted to Idolatry all his dayes would not have likely failed in a meaner business that had belonged to his trust But this not the work of one King or two but of every one that was good no way disallowed in them by God but extoll'd and the best Reformers having this constant Character that they did that which was good in the sight of the Lord. And whereas there was but one of them that presumed to execute the Priests Office 2 Chro. 26.17 18. the Priests valiantly resisted him here they knew what was within the Kings Commission and what not seldom do men a whole rank Society of men Generation after Generation want courage to lay claim to and vindicate their just powers yea and God himself presently testifies his dislike

with other names and go on with their serpents vipers filthy beasts dogs and such names as these innocent meek ones please to give us the Magistrate in the mean time clapping all sides on the back only holding a sword between them to keep them asunder and who can expect but these two Seas should in time meet in one and that then words should be turned to blowes and we dealt with as those noysome creatures we are likened to are wont to be This they would doe becoming Papists though they were meeker then they are turn the lamb into a wolf and it wil devour flesh though it do not now And if we tolerate not the name of Popery it will be smally to our relief if we tolerate the thing names shed no blood Look to it therefore ye Magistrates supream and subordinate drive away those blood-sucking Leeches out of the Nation under what favour'd disguise soever you finde them Let not those frogs of Egypt creep into your Life-guard and Bed-chamber Papists have under every government shewed us where they intend to begin Let not Queen Esther think to escape when her fellow Jews are massacred But why should we be enemies to the liberty of mens consciences especially we that are so lately come out of bondage our selves what a tyranny is it to bereave men of that precious freedome which is purchased for them by the blood of Christ It is so indeed and if this be such a freedome as is purchased by Christs blood we have done and shall never speak more against mens enjoying the sweet benefit of it But did ever Christ purchase a freedom for us from those commands of men that require us to doe our duty did he do so to servants or children or wives that he should he thought to doe so to subjects 1 Pet. 2.15 There were such ignorant and malicious ones that thought so in the Apostles time too but Christian freedome was not to be abused so What does the grace of the Gospel intend to make us men of Belial lawless and without a yoke to believe what we list and doe and speak in matters of Religion what we list why not a freedome to murder adultery treason as well Is it not as likely that Christs blood should be shed for these as for blasphemy against his own person These are sad reasonings from men of wisedome the Lord in mercy answer them that men may once learn the truth of such maxims as these That it is mans greatest slavery to be free to sin That gevernment is in vain appointed if men may doe and speak what they please under it That there is a great difference between execution of justice and persecution That Christs blood was shed to make us free to good not free to evil That Christianity diminishes not the just rights of any lawful Superiour nor frees any from a due subjection to the powers over them as it finds in those things so it leaves Saints must be subject as well as other men That though God alone make Lawes to binde mens consciences yet men may guide mens consciences to the obedience of those Lawes and punish the disobeying person though they meddle not with his conscience That it will be no plea allowed at the day of God in matters of sin to say It was my Conscience And if it will not excuse the sinner from Hell he should not have had such a conscience much less ought it to be a plea in the day of man where the penalty is of a lower narure That it is far better to suffer for doing well then not to be restrained from doing ill That Magistrates should have consciences as well as subjects and if it be according to their conscience to be a terrour to evil doers I am sure it should be why may not they plead this freedome of conscience upon the same ground as evil doers plead it that they may goe unpunished If Magistrates omit a known duty they wound their conscience if the evil doer suppose the well doer suffer under the mistake of Magistrates his conscience is not presently wounded here who then should rather of the two be provided for That a Liberty to obey God without fear of man is a choise mercy not so a liberty to disobey God That when Magistrates lay more upon men in matters of Religion then God hath commanded there Liberty of Conscience is a Jewel but where they lay no more then things necessary not so When they can say truly It seemes good to the Holy Ghost no great harm if and to us follow no not from them That it is a more fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God then of a mortal man and that if we did judge our selves we should not be judged We know the Story The Mothers seasonable and sharp correcting her son might have prevented her unprofitable weeping for him when she saw him at the Gallows There●ore That the allowing every man to worship God peaceably in his own way becomes them onely that suppose every man may be saved in his own Religion living orderly according to the Rules of it and to such the Faith of Christ owes little If this were true it were better be for Mahomet for his Rules afford greater liberty then Christs do But we are as much Hereticks in their eyes as they are in ours It appears so indeed by the language they vouchsafe us But the question is not what either side is named but how justly The Prince is as much a Tyrant in the Assassinates eyes as he is a Traitor in the Princes Strange that we should not transfer the reason of these things as easily and with as little scruples to matters of God as we do to our own But such things are contrary to the light of nature things whereof we speak are only contrary to revealed light the light of Scripture There is a generation that reject this distinction I hope they will expect no benefit by it For others 't is much that the gatherer of sticks on the Sabbath day could not finde out this distinction to save himself from stoning with Have we not as good evidences for the New Testament-doctrine as they had for the old The Doctrine of the Gospel is revealed sufficiently to damn them that will not believe it and may not men be punished on earth for blaspheming it for want of a sufficient Revelation Take heed do not make God unrighteous who taketh vengeance It is as hard a matter to be assured of that Law of Nature No woman but one that it is of God as it is to be assured of that Law of Scripture No Mediatour but one that this is of God Let any man compare the Evidences for both and he will quickly see this is truth and yet the adultery of having two wives is justly punished with death What man can see so much of the Law of Nature written in his own heart as he may see