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A25459	Dualitas, or, A two-fold subject displayed and opened conducible to godliness and peace in order, I. Lex loquens, the honour and dignity of magistracy with the duties thereupon depending and reverence thereunto due, II. Duorum unitas, the agreement of magistracy and ministry, at the election of the honourable magistrates of Edinburgh and the opening of a diocesan synod of the reverend clergy there / by Will. Annand.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1674 (1674)	Wing A3217; ESTC R27190	51,279	83

Aaron in a surprize she being punished with Leprosie for persevering Aaron quickly repents or was at first Cool in the business and therefore is not plagued Every man is free to conjecture the cause of the complaint since it is mantled about and covered I am prone to think the two Ladys strove for place Miriam it may be was elder and so would not lose her place though Aaron the Elder Brother quite his It may be she was Fairer and more Stately but indeed me thinks says Miriam I being a prophetesse born within the Covenant of God should have place of a Midianitish Proselyte c. Yet whatever was the cause it was unluky and neither by Moses nor Aaron was the Campled for seven dayes Numb 12. 15. How closely could this to the shame of many of the Holy Order and Sacred Function be pressed whose base Inadvertence whose fetid and sordid behavior hath occasioned great bre●ches in our State and Church Authority by taking part with the home spoon quarrels of the other sex Our Miriams could do little excep● scold if Aarons did not joine with them But this is confusion that Aarons Sons should stir up Active Furious Superstitious Ignorant Woman to speak against Moses and Aaron and that in things relating to the Tabernacle Pudet hac Opprobria nobis c. And what a miserable hinderance this hath been to the Camp How Scandalous to our Religion I leave to my Elders Adding that our preaching work is a work Angels would account themselves honoured if authoriz'd unto But man who is more Masculine shall I say more Divine then a Daughter of Evah must stay his hand until he fight both against Moses and Aaron because of a Pick some Dame hath took against his Brother or his Brothers Wife Her Name had bitterness in it for its Mara and bitter was it here to Aaron It is 〈◊〉 Star of Wormwood in the Firmament of our Nation and so much the more bitter that this Example with her punishment doth not edifie Do not smile if I once more suggest what may be the ground of this Quarrel to pass other causes given as more unlike It might be Mose's wife went too too fine and Miriam thinks Moses should not lead the people with his hands only but also with his Wifs Petti-coat And may be Aaron concluds and assents She goeth too too light for one of her Age and Place Though I will not make Oath upon this sure we are to invert the story that the fine Cloaths of the High-Priests Relations I mean the Decency of any Habit in a Church Mans Familie is an Eye-sore to many Prophetesses in the Land And some Sons of Aaron closeth to the Motion and with mock-finger proves that a piece of good Cloath to pass Silk is too rich for a Church-man when the same Reformer will allow it upon a Trades-mans back But mark the progress of Sacriledge This Age hath found a way to cure the prodigality of the Church there being little left her but Cloaths and that to some few and these also many would have made Courser But let me assure all Aarons Sons that when the Coat is taken away Miriam and that other Saint will weare it on their own Backs And for all the Youngsters ranting for confirmation of his own Doctrine of Church-mens grave Cloathing he shall walk the streets in Querpo and court them in a Bare-coat or pray without a Cushon Experience of these things ought to make the Priest-hood wise and not to disturb the Flock or complain against Moses for such trifling And the shame and Horror committed in such Rapes upon Aaron ought to make us more warry in our Carriage Friendly in our Places Charitable to our Brethren more Gratefully towards GOD and more Loyally towards Moses by whose Authority the Priest is yet kept from being absolutely naked and more obediently towards Aaron The Corah like resisting of whom I mean Church Officers hinders the Camp more then all the Amalekits or Papists that are about us according to that Proverb of our Neighbour Nation Tell not me of the Turk Pope it is my Neig●bour does me wrong c. The Word of GOD is divided in two parts One is the Old Testament that is the Word of Promise The other is the New Testament that is the Word of Accomplishment These two agrees in one and holds forth Christ Moses and Aaron here leads the People These two agrees in one in God who led them by their hands And in the Unity of these the Felicity of the Flock consists being without these like Sheep without one shepherd scattered by some Faction or a dicontented Corah or a Miriam Therefore Charles the ninth of France in a Medal gave his Crown above two pillars intertwisted with this devise Pietate Justitiâ It 's Church and State upholds my Crown The Motto then or Devise of the Tables this day hung forth ought to be that of the beloved Disciple Let us love one another I say one another for you the people being the Flock are not to tempt your Shepherds your Wardens your Guids your Mose's your Aaron's your Magistrats and Ministers with grumbling though ye be led through the wilderness and want Bread and water Complain not of these two It is God not they that hath the Gift of Riches or of Poverty that can straiten and enlarge your Quarters Give you food convenient or no food or Make your Cup run over Yet for obtaining the best of his Blessings the favourable Cloud of his Presence to keep you from the Destroyer to preserve you from the Scorpion tongues of them that hate you And after all windings turnings changes and vicissitudes of Providence to arrive at the promised Land of future rest and glory The securest and most effectual mean is ●earing Moses and reverencing Aaron In that dreadful Conflagration at Rome in the dayes of Commodus when Templum pacis and the Vestal Fane were burned The Sacred Virgins brought till then unseen through the open holy street Pal●as or their Palladium into the Emperors Pallace That as its Divinity as they esteemed had secured Majesty So in distress Authority might succour its Divinity that both might live or die together Say the same of the Crown and Pulpit that the people may reverence both and each of these Honor and prove Thankful to the other This double Solemnity or Meeting of these two happy Constellations in the Orbe of your City a delightful sight by your praying to GOD for them and communing with GOD about them may be the Foundation of one years journey which may refresh you as the Flock was when led to Elim a City of Palm-trees to the number of threescore and ten The number of our Lords Disciples and where there was Twelve wells of water The number of the Tribes and of the Apostles that both by Law and Gospel by Justice and Peace you be much helpt forward in your way And for your selves look down R. H. and say to the Sons of Aaron in whose meeting you are concerned as Boaz to his R●ap●rs The Lord be with you And you R. R. Look up and say to Moses and his Elders In whose electing you have Interest with them again The Lord bless thee And I say to Both to All what the Levits said in the Temple The Lord that made the Heavens and the Earth Bless you all out of Zion Psal 134 3. FINIS At this time there was Elected for Magistrats Sir Andrew Ramsay Lord Provost Walter Borthwick Bailies Thomas Murray Robert Baird James Justice Francis Kinlo●h L. Dean of Guild James Currie L. Treasurer

they worshipped the true God t●g●ther Exod. 18. 11. One ground of the Conj●cture is from the double signification of the word Cohen sensing both a Priest as we read it Exod. 18. 1. and a Prince as it may be r●ad giving occasion to observe that what is before said so near of kin are these two that in the most Holy Tongue both a●e expressed by oneword and expr●ssion When Israel was in bondage there was no sacrifice the Egyptian● w●●shipping for gods what was otherwise to be offered up In which time the Elder Brother had the right though not the liberty of sacrificing But when to be brought forth the two Br●thers Aaron and Moses both L●vits and 〈…〉 therefore near unto GOD in that 〈…〉 is called to bring the people forth to hol●a F●ast in the wi●derness In which wild place an Order is made recalling the uncertain way of the fi●●tbo● and establi●shing for ever the Tribe of L●ve for the Tabernac●e service Num 3. 12. As so many Deacons Sub dea●ons 〈…〉 the uncle 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 and service as so many q●●sters or s●nging-men to prophesie on Harps and Organs and all under Aar●n and his Sons in all their Generations●and Successions for evermore When God wanted a fixed house for the service of his Name the Master thereof and after him the Elder Brother was Minister to the people And according as their abode was certain or uncertain so was the place of Sacrifice unsure or determined Abraham sacrificed here and there so did Jacob so did No●h so dib Job at his own house so did Moses in the wilderness command the young men that is the first-born of principal Families Exod. 24. 5 At which time for a solemn farewell there is a feast held bef●re the Lord the first-born being before holy to the Lord was now promiscuously to wait upon him no more throughout their Tribus JEHOVA here giving in all following Generations an everlasting discharge of ●hat Employ an● a ●hrea● if they presumed upon former custom so to approach for his glory at the drawing of the clo●th s● to speak was like devouring fire Exod. 24. 17. The old being removing a new Model of Church Government is ordained by Heaven Moses hath order for the Tabernacles Erection where the Lord will now reside not in the clo●d that marched formerly before the camp Exod. 25. 8. Aaron and his Sons must be consecrated Priests for ever to offer the dayly sacrifice with garments for glory and beauty The Dominion of the Camp being left to Moses But how is this prefaced even thus Take unto thee Aaron thy Brother and his sons ●ith him Exod. 28. 1. They that is Moses and Aaron being now to part and to part for ever in this affair of the Sanctuary that the one should not grumble the other not envy It is Take unto thee thy Brother well the House is builded Aaron to be short is consecrated so Moses finished the work Exod. 40. 33. a wor● which secluded himself from Sacrifice though a Levit and because a Levite is he to rejoyce that his Brethren hath the Honour and not another Tribe that work that gave his Elder Brother an Inheritance for ever of being the Lords Priest therefore in Brotherly Affection let him be thankful that his Elder Brother in this keeping his place as to be Priest yet that he a Younger Brother consecrated this Elder Brother for that High Office The Consecration making him in honour to be Elder then his Eldest Brother Gods Wisdom by this enterchanging Providence commanding a Brotherly Converse betwixt a Moses and an Aaron in future ages For now it is Moses and Aaron the one having the charge of the Camp and Tabernacle as to give Laws to both the other of the Tab●rnacle as to officiat therein according to these Laws and both brethren for a perpetual Cement of these great Honours in the House of GOD. We read of some to have wished to have seen Christ in the Flesh Paul in the Pulpit c. which many saw and were not much affected but to have seen these two Brothers at the foot of the Altar Moses in his Robes Aaron in his Garments To have heard that parting word from the first that commissioned the last All the Congregation drawing near standing before the Lord. I say to have seen this gathering and these words a●thorizing viz. Gounto the Altar c. Lev 9. 7. that is Go up to it and offer take infeftment of that for ever He ascending in his Priestly Garments Moses retiring or standing still having liberty now only to look up Aaron to go up I say again to have seen Aaron make his first step and first offering and first blessing the glo●y of the Lord appearing and all the people shouting was no doubt a ravishing sight to a native Egyptian this word Go unto the Altar parted Magistracy and Ministry for eve● which before had been together yet parted them not in the sense before mentioned but pleading for Unity they having shaken hands to and again sever'd hands for leading of the p●ople In testimony whereof GOD was consulted in Moses's Tent or in some small Structure without the Camp But now the Glory filled the great Tabernacle which we may call Moses's consulting Roome and Aarons work-house and after it the Temple the one in the midst of the Camp the other alm●st of the Land that the Priest to all extrems might be equally near for Counsel and Advice It may be fancied that when Gambrivius a King over the Germains about the time of Joseph invented the wearing of the Crown first for forming and creating a more Reverend and King-like awe in the hearts by the Eyes of his Subjects his first appearance in that Diadem was no question beautiful yet short no doubt of this High Priests Miter and the Glory of his appointed Robes by GOD. This is not spoake to ecclipse the Grandeur of that King but to difference Humane from Divine Institution and here again is good agre●ment the King his Crown the Priest his Miter GOD by Providence and Continuance allowing both for greater Glory to and for more servent Love between either II. Their Dearness Can it be imagined that ever any man hated his own honour that understood it was not the Priest hood precious think you to King Melchisedec And though Esau lost it yet he valu●d it so dearly that if blood or tears could have availed he h●d got it regained Now after Aaron is established our respects must be shown to love it not in general to have it For if Saul attempt to sacrifice it shal ruine him and if David think to bring up the Ark but by the Levits it shal displease the Lord 1 Chron. 15. 13. And when their orderly walking pleased him so dear were the Levit● to their King that David like a Levit is cloathed with a Linnen Ephod hereby honouring both himself and them in being a King-like-Levite in a beautiful Order which

are now by them constant in mischief called Turn-coats Let this mind you of that Proverb of the three great Travels and Labours in the world 1. Of a Woman in a Child-birth which is great 2. of a Magistrate for a Cities good which is greater 3. Of a Minister for his peoples Benefit this is the greatest in regard it may be most opposed by hands and tongues Yet go on R. R. and prosper many have laboured in Sword and Fire and would have others do so to eschew the Method such walked in and let me advise you and let none despise my youth to labour in your own Vineyeard It is a fine saying that there are three things necessary for a Preacher 1. Knowledge noted in the book sent to Ezekiel 2 Eloquence in the hote coal that purged Isaiah 3. ●olinesse of life in the hand sent to Jeremiah wanting Utterance he is an Insant Wanting Holiness he is a Devil whose great Employment is going too and froe making Division and stirring up medlers in other mens businesse for strife and debate Aarons Linnen garment by some Moralizing signified Purity his Breeches Chastity his Shoulder-pieces Strength the Purple in his Robe Patience the Scarlet Love the Blew Heavens Contemplation the Gold Wisdome with Discretion the Miter Devotion and his Plate Reverence to God his Bels and Pomgranats Prayer and good Works Now how unsuteable is such cloathing for the assisting at the making of a golden Calf How unfit is it in our Saviors eye to wash his Apostles feet a servile office with his upper Garment a Teachers Habit Let 's therefore follow our Father in these his Perfections leaving our vertue an Inheritance to our Posterity I mean his Sons I might urge our Savior whose name is writ upon his Thigh declaring he hath a posterity by lawful ordination begotten by himself whose White garments are not to be stained with the ink or soil of beastly conversation and whose Girdle is not to be loosed by following each fond principle or nice opinion neglecting the greater matters of the Law Let therefore your Priestly Office your Ministerial Habits mind you of your Pedigree and endeavor Sempiternally to minde your Sacerdotal Descent To come to fancy In Vtopia the Prince is said to be known in the Streets by nothing but by a little sheave of corn carried before him and the Bishop by a ●aper of wax Imagination concluding they ought to be known who are Guids and Lights to the people and this use except in our unhappy age we may deduce therefrom that as in the Kingdom of Israel their six Cities of Refuge sheltred 〈◊〉 from all ports yet three of them were poss●ssed by the Levits in the little spot beyond Jordan that the flo●k in the smalest Items of danger as knowing us their Shepherds afar off might run for Gospel Consolation assuring themselves thereof by venerable cloathing There were three famous men and worthy in the Congregation Moses and he had his Rod Aaron he 〈…〉 Samuel and he had his Coat clearing an expe●ienc● of s●me extern●l thing signifying their Office and Calling But who hath believed our Report for though in this we lift up our voice as a Trumpet we cannot perswade some otherwise resolved to confess this irregular That Church-men should not be Church-like and yet would be angry if the Bible were bound up in the fashion of a Song-book or a Pulpi made in the form of a Fiddle yet themselves walk as Ministrels that is not as Ministers in the Streets But to such who refuseth Aaron's I shall only wish them Adam's Girdle that a covering of Fig-leaves may conceal their shame that it be not exposed to the mockery of their Order and Office in others more true and faithful to their Colours For 3. His failing● giveth Caution It is not intended to pry into each Punctilio of escape whereof Aaron might be guilty leaving that Office to him who accuseth the Brethren And even Moses spake unadvisedly with his lips But I shall mention such as were more sc●ndalous and to which he was provoked 1. By Men. 2. B● Woman 1. By Men. This was occasioned by Moses absence and it was a beastly mistake for fearing the people he melted Mettal and framed a Golden Calf and gave to Moses a leaden excuse for so doing And I said said he Whosoever hath any Gold let them break it off and they gave it me then I cast it into the Fire and there came out this calf as if there had never come a graven Tool upon it but as the figured Calf had come by Chance by Miracle by he knew not which way Exod. 32. 24. Indeed the Churches weakness in Moses's absence when the Magistrat is not present hath many dangerous Symptoms of a Decay which should make both Moses diligent in attending his Charge and Aaron Couragious if Rebellion it self should divert a Magistrat it is never well with the Temple of Jerusalem when the Gates of the City are not watched not with the City when the way to the Temple mourns Make this Question in the worst of times Whom should the Priest of the moct High GOD please GOD or the People If GOD why then will he make a Golden Calf to please them if the People why do ye call your selves Gods Priests In short not desiring to rub old fores and being obliged to protest against future evils we have too many Calfs of the people made among us and therefore there is cause to fear the Wolves of the Evening for a punishment be commissioned to devour and destroy I have long ago half adored that Expression of a most Reverend Father when cast into the Furnace of popular fury in our late War in his own Funeral Sermon before Malice and the Axe had cut off his head Nor shall I worship the Imaginations which the people are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Jeroboam's Calfs in Dan and in Bethel c. But not to pursue the Metaphore in hardest Seasons let 's have recourse to Bethphage a Village of Priests signifying D●m●s Buc●ae Trumpeting to encourage each other and not be made to blush by frivolous because sensless Excuses from fear of the People For if we please Men we shal not be the Servants of Christ. But the second is more base because it was 2. By a Woman Miriam Moses's Sister fell quite out with Moses's Wife her Sister in Law and what in Gods Name had Aaron to do to interest himself in either except to agree them Yet this is somewhat Honourable that he is not the beginner of the plea For it is said Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman he had married not the Ethiopia in Africa but a Country bo●dering upon the Red-sea and the same which is called Midian It was an old fault if any and newly riped up by Miriam who being first named seemeth to have led on