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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

the Lord promised to be and was with him as he was with Moses and the people obeyed him as they did Moses I dare say and affirm that no King of England ever did assume nor any would hereafter desire a larger extent of Authority over Subjects then Joshuah had and exercised over Israel After Joshua succeed the Judges who all of them exercised the authority although they wanted the title of Kings yet one of the Sons of Gideon Abimelech born of a Concubine had both the power and title of a King and was a Tyrant yet was he none to whom and in whom the promise of blessednesse was made which was not accomplished till Davids time Adde to this that the Glory of Israel was never compleat but under Kingly Government no nor till the promised Kingly stock came Before they were sold now to this heathen King now to that oppressed burdened and afflicted yea and in the time of Saul the Philistins oppressed Israel sorely insomuch that you shall finde Saul with a slender Army and them following him trembling on the other hand the insulting Philistims reproaching them when they saw any of them to appear These Hebrews come out of their holes into which they were crept to hide themselves Untill David the Chosen of the Lord comes to sit upon the throne and to have the Kingdom established unto him over all Israel as well as Judah then he fights the Battles of the Lord and God gives him Victory on every side untill the name of Jacob became famous among the Nations And it is worth observation that after the death of Joshua and the Elders who out-lived Joshuah who had seen Gods great works no Ruler being then in Chief the Children of Israel ask counsel of God who shall go up first to battell and God gives answer Judah shall go up first Now the Sanedrim or Common-wealth of Israel had a time to be tryed how good a Government that was yet then you shall finde the Children of Israel making peace with the Nations about them contrary to the express command of God by Moses and Joshua severely injoyned and often reiterated Then comes the Angel with that sad message which made them lift up their voyce and weep so remarkably that the place from it took the name of Bochim or place of weeping Then was that praevarication of Israel not to be expiated but by reiterated and tedious servitudes under Heathen neighbouring Princes whom they forbore to extirpate according to the Command of God Then comes the time of which the Holy Ghost testifies that there was no King in Israel and every one did that which was right in his own eyes This was the Interstitium of Government that of the bare Sanedrim or Seventy Elders being reputed by God as none at all in which the Levites Concubine was with unheard of brutish inhumanity ravished to death which barbarous abominable action was revenged with almost the whole extirpation of one great Tribe in Israel to wit Benjamin forty thousand stout men being lost in two preceding Battels on the part of the Eleven other Tribes and after this the Jabesh-Gileadites utterly cut off all the males to wit and married women because they were Anathematized by a Solemn Vow of the Congregation for not appearing before the Lord in Mizpeh in revenge of this detestable Rape upon the Tribe of Benjamin By which it is evident that the Government of Moses Joshua and the Judges was accounted by God as Kingship and the want thereof is by Divine inspiration reputed as a total defect of Government There was no King in Israel therefore every man did what was good in his own eyes Yet at that time it is evident by the same sacred authority that there were Elders of the Congregation otherwise called the Chief of the Tribes who consulted upon this act of those of Gibeah committed against the Levite upon his Concubine and who upon the Benjamites appearing armed to defend the fact mannaged the Warre against the whole Tribe who devoted to destruction by a solemn Curse in Mizpeh what City Town or Family soever should not appear to revenge this wickednesse Who repented after that a Tribe should come so neer to perishing out of Israel Who advised a way to the Benjamites how to supply them that survived that great overthrow and massacre of their Brethren with Wives having before given an Oath with a Curse to all the people upon whosoever should give a wife to a Benjamite A man would think that here were Government good enough if a Republican Government were worth estimation But notwithstanding it is testified that no King being in Israel every man did what was good in his own eyes The miseries brought upon Israel during the Interval between Joshua and the Judges Sampson and Samuel were so great and overwhelming that David a great Warrior and with whom God was spent his whole Reign in fighting the Lords Battels and making up those defects and amending such faults which were committed during the space that there was no King in Israel who therefore being as the Holy Ghost styled him a man of bloud was put off from building the Temple of the Lord although it was in his heart and God accepted therein his good intentions but this work was reserved to Solomon his Son and Successor a King of Peace and blessed with Plenty and all manner of Prosperity and so Chists Type in whose dayes Jerusalem was the renown of all the Nations round about who payd Tribute to Solomon and counted it their glory and happiness to be his Friends and Allies Adde to this that during the Reigne of David Jerusalem first came to be subject to Israel being formerly in the possession of the Jebusites which was the only place chosen by God the Lord of Heaven and Earth out of all the Earth to put his name there here was Zion the holy place out of which the Lord vouchsafed to distill his blessing First upon his chosen people and by their means upon all that fear him in all Nations making no difference After David comes Solomon mighty in power and extent of dominion for the bordering Nations were his tributaries to the great River yea and beyond it splendid in magnificence abounding in Riches incomparable for Wisdome yet blessed with Peace he builds a Temple for the Lord of Hosts and a place for the God of Jacob to dwell in who sitting in the high and holy Heavens and whom the Heavens of Heavens cannot contain yet vouchsafed to dwell between the Cherubims which Solomon had made according to the pattern given to him from himself Of this performance God himself testyfieth that from the day that Israel came out of Aegypt he had no house to dwell in but was content to dwell in Tabernacles in which being made according to the pattern shewed by God to Moses in the Mount were put the Arke with other holy things belonging to Gods worship and so continued till Solomons

Father of many Nations and his seed should be innumerable like the stars of Heaven or the sand upon the Sea-shore but at last and upon the change of hi●●ame he assures him that Kings should come out of him not only that his seed should be many his posterity innumerable but as an addition of happinesse they should be advanced to the Majesty of a great and mighty Kingdome all which was fulfilled in Gods due time With what face Mr. Milton can you brand that estate with the base titles of Slavery Bondage Vassalage and Servileness which God added unto Abraham as a corollary of temporall blessings faecundity even to innumerablenesse as the Starres of Heaven or as the sand upon the Sea-shore he had promised him before yet still he remained Abraham but when he ads this to his former blessings that his posterity should flourish into a Magnificent Kingdome then he alters his name into Abraham Whose other Sonne Ishmael when Abraham groaned out his desires to the Lord Oh that Ishmael may live before thee God answers him likewise concerning him Of him will I make a great Nation I will multiply him exceedingly and for an addition or rather fulness of his earthly blessings Twelve Princes shall he beget So concerning Esau the brother of Jacob from whom sprang the blessed seed the Scripture mentioning his temporall felicity for Isaack had blessed him also with the fatness of the earth records what Dukes sprang out of his Loyns and what Kings reigned over Edom before any King reigned over Israel Which makes it evident that Kingly Government is the most honourable majesticall Government and argues a greater portion of Gods blessing powred forth upon the Nation that injoyes it then where any other inferior and more Contemptible Government is had It is a poor Sophisme that you use Sir that God gave Israel a King in wrath and imputed it a sin to them that they asked one if it be certain that God had before blessed Abraham with the promise of Kings to come out of his loyns and the Government of the seed of Jacob was to be by a Scepter and this to spring out of Judah and the King of Kings God for ever blessed was to be cloathed with humane flesh from one that lineally descended of King David and his Grandfathers to be a continual succession of Kings It argued only that they asked unseasonably and in unbelief for whoever believes makes not haste but patiently waits the accomplishment of Gods Promises in his time they asked also upon a wrong principle and for a wrong end not to have the blessed Promise of God accomplished but to be like other Nations Nor did they consider that then God was their King Samuel ruling over them and judging them who was known from Dan unto Beersheba to be a Prophet of the Lord and to have frequent Dialogues with his Maker This was their sin and God to convince them of it gave them their desire a King in his wrath whom he after took away in his displeasure 'T is strange that God should make his Covenant with David even an everlasting Covenant which was so inviolable that sooner should the Covenant of the Day and of the Night be broken then it had he adjudged Kingship a Government not so well-pleasing to him as that of a Common-wealth Yet at that time and before the Sanedrim or grand Counsell of the Seventy Elders were in being neverthelesse of none of them nor of any of the Priests though the order of Aaron was Sacred and Noble would Christ vouchsafe to come but only of the Kingly stock of the house of Judah Two of whom David and Salomon were immediate Types of him and Prophets Divinely inspired Certainly Mr. Milton this will argue something for Kingship or Kingly Government But to proceed orderly in what I intend I shall recapitulate some things and then proceed through the whole History of Gods People the Jews urging what may be necessary to my present purpose and this very briefly afterwards I shall come to the times that have been since Christ and shall take notice of some instances both modern and ancient which have been delivered us by Historians concerning other places especially Republicks or Common-wealths First let us begin with Abraham the Father of the Faithfull the first to whom the promises which in his seed were extended to all Nations were made This Abraham was a great Prince as was acknowledged by the Sons of Heth so great that when the five Kings of Sedom Gomorrah Admah Zeboim and Zoar were overcome by the four Kings who came against them and Lot among the rest was taken Prisoner he with his Confederates Aner Eshcol and Mamre went out gave them battle overcame them and rescued Lot This Abraham was so absolute a Monarch that God testified of him I know that he will command his Family and his Children after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgement See here absolute command and absolute subjection without tyranny on one band or Vassallage on the other The same power descended from him to Isaac and successively to Jacob and by him being Divinely directed it was intayled upon Judah and his Offspring over all their brethren untill the coming of Shiloh which Promise was accomplisht with the blessing thereof in the Anoynting of David especially when he was confirmed King over all Judah and Jerusalem During which interval of time for the space of four hundred and thirty years they were Sojourners and in Bondage in Egypt But when the time of deliverance came God sent them a Captain and a Redeemer even Moses who was a Prince in Jeshuron or Israel concerning whom God said That Aaron should be unto him as a Mouth and he should be unto the people as or in the stead of God What was this but a KING or Chief Ruler or Judge as Stephen expounds it in the Acts This Moses saith he whom they refused saying Who made thee a Judge or Ruler over us the same did God send to be a Ruler and Deliverer He under God immediately conducted gave Lawes to yea he judged and determined Controversies between them And when the Seventy were chosen by the advice of Jethro Moses Father-in-law it was for his case that he might not be worn out by sitting all day to judge between them to hear and determine their Controversies with a Reserve still or an Alwayes provided as our Lawes have it that the greater and more difficult and weighty matters be brought unto Moses by which it appears that he under God was their Supreme Judge Captain Leader and Conducter After Moses death Joshua succeds him of whom first it is testified that the Spirit of Moses rested upon him that is he was the Peoples Chief Captain and Judge though the Sanedrim still continued for that remained an Ordinance in Israel till the coming of the Messiah although perhaps with some variation yea it is further added that

Nation and made us their servants for Ever But especially because of his performances we have already had the taste and in a great measure fruition but the good to be reaped from your Honourable Consultations is yet in expectation to you therefore I addresse my self as an humble Suitor and yet Confident Petitioner but to his Excellency thanks is already due for a large portion of benefits which we have received of him in this kinde To which I may adde that this being written and intended to be published before your Session Reason and Order call for it that I should in the first place addresse my self to the Power in being especially of whose good we have so largely tasted and next to the Power which is in Expectation shortly after My Addresse Right Honourable and Worthy Patriots to you is to intreat you not because I in the least doubt your own most ready inclination thereto to set your selves seriously to the healing of our breaches Yea I know you will do it however it will not be amisse nor I hope interpreted peremptorinesse for me your faithfull Honourer to submit a few Considerations to your most judicious censure first inviting to a settlement upon our Ancient Basis and only firm Foundation not barely Kingly Government but our most Virtuous King Charles the Second to whom God grant a long and prosperous Reign whose Restitution I hope and pray for and doubt nothing Right Honourable Senators but by your means to see accomplished But Secondly giving your Honours the groun●s why I wish it may be effected and brought to passe as soon as possible I shall after conclude this Discourse humbly begging that the great God of Heaven would give you wisedome and courage that He who sitteth among the Gods may sit among you directing and guiding you in the ready way to settle these Nations in firm peace that Religion may be countenanced and flourish our Rights as Men and Christians asserted vindicated and preserved to the glory of God and the comfort of all that fear him in all three Kingdomes This Right Honourable Lords and Gentlemen can be no way brought about but by restoring the true Heir to his Inheritance all other wayes or means are but only suggestions of the Adversaries of the Nations happinesse who would continue things in unsettlement on purpose only to secure and indemnifie themselves from deserved justice Consider I beseech you how many prejects have been contrived towards our Settlement upon different Foundations which all proved sandy and so the Building thereon raysed though cemented with Bloud and Rapine soon fell and we were ever put after each Change upon greater straits and left in worse confusion then we suffered before So that the change of our Medicaments and Physicians in order to the Recovery of this sick State hath been far worse than our Disease it self the one causing us to languish in unsettlement the other accelerating our Destruction and threatning our utter Ruine Which must needs be attributed to the Justice of God who hath forsaken us because we forsook him He hath seen and beheld all the guilt under which this Nation lyes and if for two Transgressions and for three the Holy and Righteous God would not turn away the punishment of severall Nations what shall be done to us for seven crying Sins yea rather for seven times seven Abominations How have Rebellion and Treason Perjury Persidiousnesse and Murther Hypocrisie and Sacriledge besides all sorts of Heresies profanenesse beastlinesse unmercifulnesse cruelty and oppression reigned in these Nations and raged as if in contempt of Heaven How hath bloud touched bloud How have the Rumpers and after them the Vsurping Protector filled London and the whole Land with Innocent Bloud the cry of which is come up to Heaven and there calls aloud for Vengeance But now at last God in unspeakable mercy hath seemed to return to us and as a Father doth offer in love to embrace us to him be the praise In answer of whose so great tenders of favour and future blessing give me leave Honorable and Worthy Patriots to grone forth my most affectionate desires before your Wisdoms The cause of our long continued Calamities hath been and is unquestionably a spirit of ungratefullnesse toward a signally gracious God and a spirit of Rebellion toward his Vicegerent on Earth the KING also a spirit of profanenesse in contemning his Worship and Service together with the Ministers and Dispensers of the same This wicked ungodly spirit like a fertile although accursed Root hath brought forth numerous branches of such crying sins which at this day are to be found among us and formerly have been practised and remain yet unrepented for Now most Worthy Senators it behoves you seriously solemnly and industriously to endeavour a Nationall amendment of these Nationall Abominations Nor is it enough to bewaile the guilt but by amendment and restitution we must endeavour to wipe away the blot and expunge the stain contracted The Villany committe● against the Father and his Off-spring w●o was the Father of these Nations was committed upon a Na●all pretense and therefore it behoves it should be Ntiona●ly disclaimed In that act God was highly provoked by Oaths Vowes and Covenants not more sacredly made and solemnly taken and entred into but as perjuriously broken in the face of the Sun yet the perjury justified and defended under the Cloak and pretense of Religion Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum My Lords and Gentlemen you are the Successors of that Parliament and many of you the very persons that sate therein It behoves you now to testifie openly and effectually against this treacherous perfidious perjury which ended in bloud or else you will be found Justifiers of the same Gods wrath is not to be appeased without hearty contrition and repentance of these sins for time past and an amendment for future which Amendment must be answerable unto that praevarication wherewith God was and is provoked else the Plaister will be too narrow for the Sore Consider my Lords and Gentlemen our fault in all its branches Ingratefulnesse towards an● perjury against God Apostasie from our Religious profession to the toleration of all Heresies and Blasphemies and perfidiousnesse unto Rebellion from with contempt and rejection of our Liege King and his Posterity contrary to Duty Oaths and Protestations this must be adaequately repented of and satisfaction reparation and restitution made to parties injured if ever we expect Gods return to us in mercy and not a Visitation in judgement For with Majesty many thousands were injured in the highest degree to whom if at least justice be not done for the future and an acknowledgement of and taking shame for what is past where reparation cannot be made God without a miracle can and no doubt will make use of these to be the Executors of his Vengeance and fierce displeasure against this Nation who then would be not only here and there bespotted but over head and ears