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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28328	Gods soveraignity, His Sacred Majesties supremacy, the subjects duty asserted in a sermon, preached before His Majesties high commissioner, and the honourable Parliament of the kingdom of Scotland, at Edinburgh, the 31. of March, 1661 / by Mr. Hugh Blair ...	Blair, Hugh.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3126; ESTC R38836	30,104	23

no hand as author or fautor in any treacherous rising up against the suppream Magistrate He who hath said By me Princes reign hath said By me all traitors shall perish 1 Sam. 10.27 Doth not Scripture design those as the Sons of Belial who slighted even Saul in his Government Cuchi say The enemies of my Lord the King and all that rise up against Thee to do Thee hurt be as that young man is 2 Sam 18. 32. When Absolon was exemplarly lifted up as a perk to make all awarre le●t they should split themselves and all on that same rock of Rebellion Those Judges Rulers Magistrats must be so convocat together that they make up a lawfull Congregation and that in three 1 Many they must be of one mind so far as is possible Jerusalem is not builded but as a citty that is compact together III Psal. v. 3. Many where there is no counsel the people perish but in the multitude of Counselours there is safety Pro. 11 14. where there is no Counsel the People perish but in the multitude of Counsellours there is safety Ps 11. 14. Powers dispersed may do some good but united much more yea these things which are of publict concernment can only be wel done by powers gathered together both for consultation and action that Polititian Tacitus observed it as the cause of the old Brittons ruine Raro in communi ●onsultant dum singuli pugnant universi vincuntur The Lord is building up Israel when he gathereth in one the out casts of Israel then he healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up all their wounds O that ye may be so this day of one mind and Judgement not knit together as Sampsons Foxes Jug 15.4 as those cursed enemies of Sacred Mona●chy were quod dulcis odor lucri qualibet ex re and that Odor was Faetor even of Rebellion did keep together but perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same Judgement 1 Cor 1.10 So the promise holds out where two or three 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hearts vows one then whatsoever ye ask shal be given In that first famous meeting of the Christian Church they were gathered together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 2. 1. For the divisions of Reuben great sobs of heart Jug 5. 15. As the spirit natural is not infused into the body till it be justly o●ganiz'd and a●l the members united So the Holy Spi●it fitting you for Your stations is not to be expected injoyed by those who are sweetly dwelling together Ps. 133. 1. There the Lord commandeth the blessing whose Tabernacle is in Salem Ps 76.2 Be war lest that fire be kindled among you which was betwixt Abimelech and the men of Shechem Judg. 9. ●27 2. They must be convo●at together by the Authority of the Supream and lawfull Magistrat only they may not alwayes conveen at their own pleasur Parliamēts are the same to the politick body which Physick is to the body natural What more hastens Death then continued and dayly using of Physick if this become our dayly food the poor Patient lives miserably There was a Parliament in these Nations which sat so long that they caused distempers and diseases in stead of curing them But when lawfully thus called they may not refuse to come Numb 16 2. 12. Corah refused to come when called by Moses you know what come of it and how Scripture speaks of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 woe unto them c. inde 11. 3. They may not come together when not called al 's dangerous when Demetrius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tumultuously gathers his c●afts-men together no small trouble is in that con●used meeting a cry for two hours together Great is Diana c. Yea most not knowing wherefore they come together but the wise Clerk dissipats them with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a hurly burly meeting it is not a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as heir except gathered be Archisynagogues Acts 19. 23. 41. And such was the meeting of the children of Is●ael against Moses when they were ●eady to stone him Ex. 17. 2. 7. This is conjuratio not congregatio who thus are Scripturally called child●en of Meribah contention for contending with Moses and of Massah because they thus tempted the Lord. The war●and then for meeting must be from the supream Magistrat whether it be Ecclesiastik or Civil in a Christian and constitute Church in Ecclesia constituta Christiana because the Supream Magistrat is custos utriusque tabulae God put both the Tables thus into Moses hand twise Charles the Great had written on his sword decem Preceptorum custos Carolus Charles the keeper of the ten Commandements and he who is custos utriusque tabulae is by that same Lord appointed to be custos utriusque tubae the keeper o● both the trumpets therefore Numb 10.1,2 The Lord spake to Moses saying Make thee two trumpets of silver and they shall be to thee for the calling of the Assembly and for the journeying of the Camp both for peace and for war for the sons of Aaron and for congregating the children of Israel Church and State this was a statute in Israel for ever if this be not his Royal Preregative who is the Supream Magistrat he beareth the Sword in vain if any may meet for things of a publick concernment in reference to any of the Tables without him Not Moses only but Joshua his successor did both convocat and dissolve the meeting of the 12. Tribes even for the renewing of the Covenant of God betwixt him and his people Josh. 24.1.28 Thus in after ages even when Kingly power was established David himself did both for the establishing a place for the Ark and for setling the Office●s of the Church in their courses for the Tabernacle 1 Chron. 15.4 16. 43. So it continued in Solomons dayes 2 Chron. 5. 2. 5. So Asah 2 Chron. 15. 13. Jehoshaphat thus established Judges from City to City throughout all Israel see 2 Chr. 17.78 19. 5 8. And for a Fast 2 Chr. 20.3 So in Hezekiahs dayes who expresly convocat them the Levits came according to the Commandement of the King for the businesse o● the Lord see the Margen to cleanse the house of the Lord 2 Chr. 29. 15. Yet were all the●e Kings approven of God no Prophet crying out against this though Isaiah lifted up his voice like a Trumpet to show Israel their sin yet none of them protested aganist this or appealed from it After the captivity Nehemiah Zernbbabel did so also Neh. 7.13 So were all these famous Counsels in the Primitive times convocat that of Nice wherein 318. Bishops did sit totius orbis lumina by Constantine the great none for grace vertue holinesse valour for Christ comparable to them some whereof as Paphuntius had lost one of his eyes for Christ and some of them did suffer thereafter So that of Constantinople 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that at Ephesus that at Chalcedon be