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A76788	Endevors aiming at the glory of God, that peace & truth may meet together: wherein is contained the excellency, benefit, and necessity of good government and governors: a loving reply to Mr William Prynnes speech made to the House of Commons, and afterwards published. Some matters are propounded to the consideration of the ministry; and also to particular (and to all) opinions. The first, purest, best and most blessed form and manner of government, prescribed by God, (and recorded in Gods sacred word;) together with the way of entrance, or Gods calling of persons to places of chief government, the great consequence thereof. Wherein is shewed, that government by succession, from the father to the son, was none of Gods institution, in the first and purest times. And also the government by Judges is plainly proved to be the best form of government, being Gods immediate direction, most blessed and approved for Gods glory, and for a peoples greatest good, comfort, and safety. / By John Blackleach.	Blackleach, John.	1650 (1650)	Wing B3074; Thomason E590_5; ESTC R206330	147,760	171

of Delinquency the Reason I intend is Because that such eminent persons are usually compassed about with such giant-like assistants that although it be evident in Scripture that the People have right in divers cases to depose and to punish offenders yet they dare not they cannot at their pleasure they may possibly by woful experience come to see they are mistaken in the man and they may cry out by reason of their afflictions but how to remedy them they cannot tell for want of power Woful experience we have now had of this whereby we may easily discern how hard a matter it is to remove a King or Governor though never so apparently a Delinquent let us be warned and enquire of God who shall govern us so shall we be sure we shall not err But to return we may further observe in the same leaf that Mr. Prynne doth acknowledg That this way and these prescriptions were such as he had no warrant for neither from the sacred Scriptures nor from any other president recorded in humane Records Fol. 37. his words are these None of our Ancestors ever demanded or enjoyed the like nor no other Kingdom whatsoever since the Creation c. I will not contradict his Testimony in these his expressions In this I fully agree that the sacred Scriptures the unerring Rule of Truth is so far from retaining such a president as that the Scriptures Testimonies are evident copious and eminent in the direct opposition Consider what Mr Prynne further speaketh in his Speech fol. 39. his words are these These great Officers and Judges having now no dependance at all upon the King who can neither place nor displace any of them And a little further he adds these words As the King hath entrusted you with c. so hath he entrusted you with his Conscience and Courts of Equity too c. This was a rare matter for a King or Supream Judg to entrust another man with his Conscience and more with his Courts of Judicature A little further he addeth fol. 40. That never any Parliament in England claimed or enjoyed such matters as these c. I do verily believe a great part of the former I hear some use very bitter expressions against new opinions and against some that are not so indeed But let the godly Reader unpartially consider That these matters are new Opinions indeed such as neither Scripture nor humane Records can produce by his own confession And further note That these are not new Opinions about circumstantial matters but they do much concern Gods Glory Kings Governors Peoples future security Are not these Opinions Capital If Errors they are great ones I shall but touch one Use I make of this and desire all that are godly to consider namely That it is good to be humble meek and lowly for God saith That he will teach the humble and instruct the meek Jam. 3.17 That Wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated Vers 14. But if there be bitter envying and strife in our hearts rejoyce not for this Wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual and devillish Vers 18. The fruits of Righteousness is sown in Peace of them that love Peace Many in these times cry out against Opinions that never knew nor seriously examined their own hearts First It is good to examine our own hearts where we shall easily see much ignorance much pride much evil In many things we sin all Jam. 3.2 Now this benefit we shall have thereby that we shall be the more merciful in censuring others There is a generation aboundeth now that will be wiser then those Governors that God hath set over us And do exclaim against our Governors for their remissness in that they do not at once root out all Errors But consider thou that dost thus may not thy lot fall amongst the number of those Hereticks against whom thou art so fierce Could we wait and perswade our Governors in meekness of wisdom for Reformation of things amiss then we should sooner prevail because God would go along with us Mr Prynne is very hot at some times in censuring and delivering other mens opinions over to the Sword of the Christian Magistrate I could advise him to take heed that he be not too quick-sighted to spy to condemn and persecute other men for their opinions I advise and counsel him and my own heart to be slow to wrath slow to censure others Let us set the staff at our own doors for we know not how soon it may come to our own turn to be in error James 3. That wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable c. Mr Prynne was in a great Error in labouring to take from the King as a King any power rightfully due God helped the Army and the remaining part of the Parliament I do believe to discern the way that God had appointed to remedy those evils in such a way as he himself had appointed Consider we well of two things in this Mr Prynne's Speech First he saith That the King should be deprived of all Right and Power in the nomination of Governors Against this the Scripture is directly in opposition for in the first and purest time Moses had that authority to appoint or at the least to approve of the Officers under or inferior to him Read and observe the place Exod. 18.24 And Moses chose men of courage out of all Israel and made them Heads over the People and they judged the People at all seasons David he appointed the Officers of the Army as namely Joab the Captain of the Host and others and we may read That the Kings placed and displaced many put to death and pardoned many I cannot be large in proving such evident matters I shall have occasion in the Sequel to treat more of these matters Such as will have Kings against Gods will they may here see that verified that Samuel speaketh of namely That they shall cry out by reason of their afflictions but God will not here them It is many years since the days of Samuel and the people have been much corrupted and oppressed by evil Kings which no doubt the people discerned plainly but none durst none could help themselves And had not God stirred up these worthy men men that to posterities to come shall be recorded for their courage and faithfulness in helping the Lord against the mighty in delivering the people out of that Egyptian Bondage Consider a word dear Countrymen under Kings we bestowed time and cost to instruct our children in the ways of godliness Suppose the King then being should dye or some Idolaters poyson or make him away and set up his Son who they see is inclining to Idolatry in his stead what then followeth Answ Then all our labour is lost or else our children shall be persecuted and slain for not forsaking their former principles and this cometh often to be the affliction

are not indeed true Shepherds but Wolves and Foxes and shall we love them so well that we shall take them by succession and not enquire of God who shall be the man thirdly if we are yet more negligent so that when they appeare to be as they too often prove Wolves in sheepes clothing yet do we observe Gods Lawes which layeth such open to punishment The reason seemeth to me to be evident that caused the People from time to time to use such paines and diligence to obtaine from former Kings grants that the Kings should not oppresse or tyrannize over the People or their consents to severall such Acts in Parliament was it not because the Law of God was kept in obscurity the time fore determined by God was not then accomplished who or where was the man that durst or did so far adventure to declare the Law of God in that particular namely that Kings were subject to the Law of God according to the true latitude of it for had the Law of God bin fully plainely and clearely opened the People might easily have seene that they had had lesse neede of such promises because the Law of God is a more strong a more cleare and shining light then all the Lawes of man whatsoever And was not this the very grounds why it came to passe that notwithstanding all the grants that the People could obtaine from former Kings they proved too weake to hold down their loftinesse Witnesse queene Mary did not she and many others breake the Lawes of God and draw the poore people to Idolatry and take away the lives of the poore servants of God notwithstanding all the Charters that the People had obtained in former Ages Was it not because the People were kept partly in feare of their great overtopping power and partly by reason they were kept in ignorance that the Kings and great men of the earth were equally without respect of persons subject to the Law of God and most especially because Gods time fore-determined for the Reformation of government not being fully compleated the People did not see nor cleave stedfastly to Gods prescriptions to the way God in his word appointed for the calling of governors but on the contrary the People were carelesse and negligent in the matter of governors they made too light account of governors not throughly seeing it to be of any great concernment and did not God so withdraw his good Spirit of illumination from the People that he denied them wisdome power or opportunities to punish offending governors Dearely beloved suffer this truth of God to be fully and freely opened and I believe we shall not neede to feare to set up one as chiefe And this likewise will be beneficiall to us for by this means we shall not have so much bloudshed for to obtaine Crownes and Kingdom●● I pray you further to consider that if a people should set up government composed of many heads or many members making or head or chiefe having all equall authority in the steede or for the want of one chiefe governor and if this should be their places their power and actings constantly to judge and determine the affaires of a Common-wealth this must needs be considered that they likewise are subject to erre yea are they not often times more subject to err and to break Gods Lawes Now in such cases of delinquency must not there be left a way open to punish them which must be some other invention and will it not follow thus ad infinitum multiply what numbers you will Consider o● the benefit that a People get by having one chiefe governor from this example suppose there were a hundred thousand Men in a Campe● and suppose that there were one hundred Generalls over every thousand of Men one Generall and suppose that every one of these Generalls had an equall authority and not any one to command in chiefe Consider would the Campe be in greater security because their Cheiftaines or Generalls were many no one commanding in chiefe above the rest No verily but in much more danger thereby not only in regard of a common enemy but also in danger of emulation and strife amongst themselves And suppose further that these Generalls should agree that no act should be done by any one of these Generalls that should be valid and of force without the consent of the rest would it not follow that the People thereby should be more burdened because when they had a matter they could not have it ended without the consent of the whole would not their matters be longer in agitation and obtained with greater charge and difficulty and it would be a great danger trouble and burden not to be borne to the Generalls themselves let us therefore be exhorted to follow Gods wisdome in this matter I doubt not but that a Parliament or Assemblie of Elders may be of eminent use and benefit to the People especially in such times as these till matters be fully ended and setled and after they may assemble and meete to that end that Gods Commandements may be observed by all and to question and punish any governor for the breach of Gods Lawes because God approveth and blesseth two or three that meete together in his Name to do Gods worke but is not the constant Government of the Common-wealth to be put into the hands of one Man and must not he have so much power as Ioshua had and other good Iudges of Israel the more we strengthen the authority of a good governor the more it is for Gods glory and for our comfort and safety Consider another instance if a Merchant or a great Tradesman had many people to deal with all by reason whereof he hath occasion to imploy 20 or 40 men under him to dispatch businesse these are not to the intent that they shall constantly act in every businesse for then if they had all equall authority no one commanding in chief they would one hinder another and businesse would go more slowly forward Therefore the end why he calleth or taketh more men to helpe him it is to the end that they may at once tend upon and dispatch severall occasions and also these are all of them to be subject to the Masters order and all the rest orderly to be subject one to another Thus did God ordain one Moses chief governor to whom God committed the government which did nearly resemble Gods government in Heaven but through Mans weakenesse not being able to act like God therefore God permitted Moses to ordain other Rulers inferior to himself and those were distributed amongst the People over thousands and hundreds and fifties and tenns Whereby it appeareth that the end was not that all those rulers should act in the judgement of the same causes that Moses acted in Neither were any of those governors much lesse were they all to have equall authority with Moses This did further appear by the authority that all the Iudges of Israel had

both of the Father and of the Child Oh that God would open our hearts to be wise Well by my consent these Noble Acts of these worthies of the Lord shall be recorded in Capital Letters that the Posterity following may praise God for them that they have been a means to restore Judges as at the first and Councellors as at the beginning I do not dive much into the Laws of man because as my time will not suffer me so likewise my intent is to have recourse to the Original the Will of God revealed in the Scriptures For this I doubt not but that all other Laws are or ought to be derived from Gods Laws those being both the Root and Fountain from whence they do spring and also the Pattern and Rule to square them by and to try the Equity of them their bounds and limits I labour with the best abilities that God doth afford to me that I may not decline from Gods Laws either to the right or to the left hand and that I may neither add nor deminish from these Rules prescribed by God I see that divers men look so much to other Rules and Inventions that they forget or turn aside from Gods Testimonies Fol. 39. Touching the other part M. Prynne saith That the King hath intrusted others with his Conscience c. I conceive it is one great part of the duty of a superior Judge to have a chief influence and an especial part in the determination of the most weighty matters of the State Therefore I do conceive that where any shall depart with this chief part of his work and trust and put it wholy out of his own power it may truly be said of them That they likewise do part with their conscience too namely with their good conscience It is evident that when Moses for the ease of himself and of the people did appoint other Judges or Officers Yet the most weighty and difficult cases he judged them himself as appeareth in these words Exod. 18.26 But they brought the hard causes to Moses for they judged all small matters themselves This is clear That both the judges and afterwards the Kings did judg the most weighty affaires of the State Therefore it seemeth to me to be evident that it is sinful to take that power from Governors that God alloweth to them And this I conceive is so far from securing the Peoples Peace That contrarily it bringeth heavy burthens and unavoidable inconveniences as God willing shall after be shewed Untempered morter will hardly well and strongly cleave together I shall now proceed to shew in what respects M. Prynnes endeavours were too weak to bind the King had he been restored to his Throne which is the second Thing propounded Solomon saith Prov. 20.2 That the fear of a King is like to the roaring of a Lion That is it is terrible and Prov. 30.31 We may see that even the godly oft-times out of fear do consent to do those things which they ought not to do When David desired to number the People his Officers desired him so far as they durst that he would desist from it 2 Sam. 24.4 Notwithstanding the Kings word prevailed against Joab and against the Captains of the Host c. Consider I pray you That in case that the late King had been restored to his Throne would not many have subjected to his Commands would not many have sought his favour Solomon knew that experimentally Prov. 29.26 Many do seek the face of the Ruler To my apprehension it is very evident That considering how strong a party for number personable men fitted with many outward appearances very likely to prevail and so they must needs have prevailed had God been on their side I say considering what great numbers did appear and attempt with all their strength and skill to the end that they might have raised the King into his Throne by force against the wills and without the consent of the Parliament without the consent and against the force of the Army and of the People without any Articles and Agreement And considering further That these Attempts were then made when the King was in adversity when he had no authority or means to recompence them And considering further That these Attempts were made in such a time as there were some armed Forces in some measure ready to oppose and punish them To my apprehension it is very evident That had the King so far prevailed to have gained his Throne again he was likely to have had many more helpes when he had so many advantages more For many of the Parliament it is more then probable would have taken his party many of the people that before were afraid to help him would now have flocked in to strengthen him many that were fled out of the Land would have returned many that would have helped him for the hope reward Neighbor Nations in all probability would have complyed with him and many more helps which now I cannot reckon of up The Army his opposites they were to be disbanded Who now would or durst have spoken against his proceedings It is more then probable that in short time the godly must have counted that a mercy if they could have fled into a corner yea many of those which then and now were and are so much forward to have restored him to his Authority which formerly he had had even these likewise should have tasted of the cup of his indignation who knoweth not the danger of a reconciled enemy especially against whom they had so many ways offended and more especially when he had had power and they dejected It is likely that the Army those especially as had been most eminent and most faithful to the State should have drunk deep of the cup of his indignation but God helped them to see and to prevent this in which we may see except we will shut our eyes Digitus Dei the very finger of God against all opposition For had they sate still having a lawful power in their hands as I conceive they had to help themselves till they had been destroyed we might have lamented over them Thus dyed Abner as a fool dyeth His feet were not made fast in the stocks neither were his hands bound with fetters of brass Consider these things you that fear God judg righteous judgment might not our children yet unborn have had just cause to have bewailed their fathers folly Do we or can any man endowed with reason think if we will speak and plainly declare our hearts that the King would ever have been so confined as Mr Prynnes Speech importeth No doubtless these bonds were too weak to bind Sampson because they reached not that place wherein his strength lay Consider but this in the next Point which is the third point propounded namely this That these Propositions reached not the seat of his strength the essence or being of his strength lay to my apprehension in these two considerable places

namely in his Throne in his Power that by vertue of that place was belonging to him his strength lay in his inward affections there is the second place lay his strength For the first I have spoken already it armed him with sufficient Power to oppose his opposers and to suppress them And touching the second namely his inward affections this was the next security to the People in both these Mr Prynnes Arguments do fail and lose the end propounded namely our security For touching the first his Arguments they tended to bring the King into his Throne where had he been setled we should have found by experience to our cost that Kings are of too great Power to be put into and kept in such fetters long or often And touching the second namely his Heart of that we have had much experience for if we look to the fruits a sure rule to discern the heart where actions are apparent there we may plainly see that his heart was carryed away from us to our adversaries for proof of this I desire that we may look back to his favouring Idolatry and Idolaters and prophane persons and his suppressing and discountenancing the most faithful Ministers and People Was it not for these and such like matters that the whole Kingdom in a manner did forsake and oppose him at the first And did it not evidently appear afterwards during the War all along that his helpers and his Favorites were Papists and I believe many little better then Atheists and most prophane persons insomuch that they distinguished or differenced themselves from them that feared God by titles and carriages suitable to their prophane hearts Have we forgotten the horrible Blasphemies damnable swearing prophane cursing a note which the Holy Ghost giveth as a property of Gods enemies Rom. 3.14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness destruction and calamity are in their ways and the way of peace they have not known the fear of God is not before their eyes c. Have we forgotten their whoring plundering their perfideous dealings their fine designs their bloody cruelties Beloved Friends these sins were not committed in corners in secret but in the sight of the Sun And were not many or most of their principal Leaders leading men to give them patterns in sinning I would advise our Royalists now to take heed what they do for it is very evident that to this day a great part to speak with as much moderation as I may of those that are so bitterly against the Army and Parliament declare too evidently That there is too little fear of God before their eyes but much blasphemous swearing much cursing much hatred against them that fear God I am a witness of this to my sorrow They that party that cry out most especially against the diversity of Opinions but in the mean time many of them agree in one joynt Opinion witness their fruits namely this That they will cast off Gods yoke his Commandments They will be so far from doing the good will of God that they hate him that they perceive hath respect to Gods Laws I hope there are many that fear God that through weakness seem to side with that party but let them beware for if that party could prevail they should finde a strong party against themselves Well if I should be silent and the stones they tread on should hold their peace yet the most high God seeth these things who is a God jealous of his honor and will not hold such wicked guiltless Dear Friends I call God to record That with grief I rehearse these matters neither do I do it out of hatred to that party but aiming at Gods glory their true good and conversion Consider dear Friends Do not those intelligences and correspondences which the King held all along with Papists Idolaters with those bloody Murtherers in Ireland who filled their shoes with the blood of so many thousands in Ireland and that in a time of Peace as if it had been in a time of War Do not these declare That the late King his heart was not right with the Lord Can any man shut his eyes so close to hide these things from his sight Note further what the King granted and Mr Prynne layeth down as a sure foundation to build a sort upon against the revival of Bishops In his Speech he saith That the King consents to put down corrupt Bishops and their appurtenances c. but with this clause That he will still allow of Apostolical Bishops He saith The King contendeth for no other now but their power of Ordination onely Who is so blinde now that doth not see the Kings heart in this lowest time of his dejection Now for us to hope That our power shall prevail more then the King his power in case he had been again received as a King I do conceive our hope should have been built upon the sand Consider we further That suppose that the Kings heart was most cordial for the Papists of which there was just cause of suspition if we consider of all the premisses together then we may easily gather That a Dispensation from the Pope would take away all these bonds Moreover let us but consider That in case the late King had been restored if his heart had not been firm he should not have wanted enough men that would have perswaded him that these ties or cords with which he was bound were forced upon him in his afflictions and that God had afforded to Kings other and more power And that it should be a sin in him not to break such unlawful Covenants forced upon him And like it is That the King would have readily consented Then should they that had been actors in making those acts been accounted vilde and sinners and no doubt but that they should quickly have tasted of the cup of his displeasure 4. Lastly Consider That in case that these obligations could have prevailed yet what comfort or benefit should the Common-wealth have received thereby Ans 1. We should have had the maintenance of a titulary King and his Company to have provided for Secondly We should have had continual emulation and jealousies between the King and the Subject or Parliament who must have kept some armed Force for their defence For can we conceive That the King and his Favorers would ever have taken it well and quietly to have been thus deprived of those things that they would have conceived to have belonged to all his predecessors always and that no Record from the Creation neither divine nor humane could give a president for Thirdly Do we think this would have brooked if the Parliament must in a full Body consisting of Lords and Commons have given their direction and consent to so many State-matters from time to time Then it seemeth to me that it would have unavoydably followed That the Parliament must have sitten continually or at the least very often From which or upon which I do not see

Magistracy Supported because I believe God hath not called me to that work I shall leave the consideration of it to those that God hath appointed to judg The Cases that will come to be tryed in this kind or of this nature are many and differ much according to the Objects and Circumstances and cannot wholy be so determined but that much must be left to the wisdom of the Governors Concerning the death of the late deposed King Mr John Goodwin hath learnedly tryed and determined the justness thereof to my best understanding to whom I should refer the Reader only a word or two I conceive may not be impertinently spoken concerning that matter The first thing that I propound to consideration is this namely Whether that at and before his Tryal for his Life his Judgment and Execution he was properly a King or was deposed from being a King so that in that condition may we not look upon him as one that had been King but for such just cause deposed that to the equity thereof both the Houses of Parliament together with the Army and the Common-wealth consented and were actors therein and consented thereto Doth not this evidently appear if we consider that the Parliament formerly many and several times by publique writing declared That the King was so far a Delinquent that they were forced to disclaim his former authority and to take up Arms against him In the prosecution of Justice they subdued the late King and his party Now in this condition the King remained not being restored to his former Kingship which being considered will it not appear That those that gave sentence against him and those that brought him to his Tryal and did cause Justice to be executed upon him did not take away the life of a King but of one that had been King and hoped so to have been again Secondly I do propound to consideration Whether it be not lawful to desert and to depose Kings and to bring them to punishment for the breach of the Laws of the most high God This I believe appeareth plainly if we first consider That both King and People are all Gods Subjects God is the King of Kings God saith That one Law shall be to all Exod. 12.49 It is to be considered what God gave Joshua in charge Iosh 1.8 Let not this Book of the Law depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night that then mayst observe and do according to all things that is written therein To this very purpose God speaketh the same matter as the duty of Kings Deut. 17.18 And when he shall sit upon the Throne of his Kingdom then shall he write him this Law repeated in a Book Vers 19. And he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God Vers 20. That he may prolong his days in his Kingdom c. From these places it appeareth That both Ioshua and the Kings were to be subject to Gods Law otherwise God would have left them to their liberties but contrarily God doth directly impose upon them the diligent observation of all his Laws 2. We may note That the breach of Gods Laws were punishable in Kings plainly implyed in these words That it may go well that his days in his Kingdom may be prolonged By this we may plainly see That on the contrary if a King do neglect and transgress Gods Commands then his days in his Kingdom may be shortned The end wherefore God doth expresly charge them to regard the Law importeth plainly that it was to that end that it might be their Rule and Bounds And so likewise if by diligent need to Gods Laws the days of Kings may be prolonged then on the contrary for the neglecting and much more for the grievous breach of Gods Laws their days may be shortned To this purpose we may read That although Ioshua were a man that was placed as Governor over Israel by God himself and although he were so eminent a man for piety a man that had long and constantly walked in the ways of God of whose godliness the people had had long experience yet observe what the people answered to Ioshua in point of their obedience recorded Josh 1.16 Then they answered Joshua saying All that thou hast commanded us we will do c. Vers 17. As we obeyed Moses in all things so will we obey thee only the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses Hence we may observe in these words Only the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses is plainly implyed a conditional subjection in the people as if the people should have said We desire to be excused in case that we do see it appear by those fruits that thou bringest forth that God is departed from thee and that thou forsakest those paths in which God hath commanded us to walk and hath commanded thee to observe in such cases we will be free we do not promise to be obedient to thee This is a plain conditional engagement implyed plainly in those words Only the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses There is no King Emperor or Governor whatsoever but they are included all of them within the Rule of Gods Law that is to be the Rule and Guide of all their Actions the Bounds thereof they may not pass by turning aside either to the right or to the left hand nor by adding to the Commandments of God nor by taking any thing from Gods Commandments Moses was a notable excellent and eminent Example to Governors he observed Gods Laws willingly and circumspectly so did Joshua and all those Judges that were chosen immediately by God Thus David did endeavor to walk in Gods ways and some of the Kings of Israel although they lay under great temptations being lifted up so high in the opinions of the people these all acknowledged the Law of God to be their Rule their Guide and their Bounds For the breach of this Law old Eli was punished with temporal death although in his own person he were circumspect and obedient yet because that he suffered Gods Laws to be violated by his own sons God is so provoked that he taketh away his sons by the sword and the father by an untimely death an eminent pattern for Governors to look upon Governors are leading men their example is more prevalent then others they do more hurt then others by their evil examples therefore great men shall be greatly tormented God spared not Kings that broke and violated his Law Saul though he was chosen to his place by God immediately and therefore was anointed with oyl after an extraordinary manner yet when he went beyond the Bounds of Gods Commandments though it were in offering Sacrifice a matter good in it self yet because it was more then God commanded God cast him out of his place for it If we add to Gods Will revealed in his Word we sin or