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Jewish Sanhedrim The Providence of God in the different way of Apostolical Ordination NOW in these several ways of Ordination there is a most remarkable Sect. 5 Providence of God For wheras States and Princes in receiving of Religion are not at any point so jealous as of an incroachment upon their Power the first way of Apostolical Ordination destroys Monarchical Power the last wholly excludes the Power of the People and the second has a mixture which may be receiv'd by a Commonwealth or by a Monarchy But where it is receiv'd by a Commonwealth the imposition of hands coms to little and where it is receiv'd by a Monarchy the Election of the People coms to nothing as may be farther consider'd in the original and progress of the Conge d' Elire THE ways of Ordination or of Church Government lying thus in Scripture the not receiving of the Christian Religion is not that wherof any State or Prince thro the whole world can be any ways excusable The Conclusion Shewing that neither GOD nor CHRIST or the APOSTLES ever instituted any Government Ecclesiastical or Civil upon any other Principles than those only of Human Prudence Vses of this Book TO sum up this second Book in the Uses that may be made of it Sect. 1 Certain it is of the Greec and Roman Storys that he who has not som good Idea or Notion of the Government to which they relate cannot rightly understand them If the like holds as to the Scripture Story som light may be contributed to it by this Book Again if som gifted Men happening to read it should chance to be of the same judgment it is an Argument for acquir'd Learning in that for the means of acquir'd Learning and in the means of acquir'd Learning for Universitys For how little soever this performance be had it not bin the fashion with the English Gentry in the breeding of their Sons to give them a smack of the University I should not have don so much The present use of this Book BUT letting these pass If there were Commonwealths or Governments Sect. 2 exercising Soverain Power by the Senat and the People before that of Israel as namely Gibeon If the inferior Orders and Courts in Israel as those instituted by MOSES after the advice of JETHRO a Heathen were transcrib'd out of another Government tho Heathen as namely that of Midian If the order of the Church introduc'd by CHRIST in his twelve Apostles and his seventy Disciples were after the pattern of Israel namely in the twelve Princes of the Tribes and the seventy Elders If there were three distinct ways of Ordination introduc'd by the Apostles one exactly according to the Ballot of Israel as namely in the Ordination of MATTHIAS another exactly according to the way of the Jewish Sanhedrim or Synagog as namely that of TIMOTHY and a third compos'd of these two as namely that of the Deacons Then is it a clear and undeniable result of the whole That neither GOD nor CHRIST Book II or the APOSTLES ever instituted any Government Ecclesiastical or Civil upon any other Principles than those only of Human Prudence Sect. 3 The Consequence of this Vse AN Observation of such consequence as where it has bin rightly consider'd there the truth of Religion and of Government once planted have taken root and flourish'd and where it has not bin rightly heeded there has Religion or the pretence of it bin the hook and the line and the State the prey of Impostors and false Prophets as was shewn in the hypocritical Pharises for ever stigmatiz'd by the word of Truth AND for Might let her be never so much exalted in her self let her Sword be never so dreadfully brandish'd the Government not founded upon Reason a Creature of God and the Creature of God whose undoubted right in this part is by himself undeniably avow'd and asserted is a Weapon fram'd against God and no Weapon fram'd against God shall prosper Sect. 4 A transition to the next Book THE Principles of Human Prudence and in them the Art of Lawgiving being shewn in the first Book and vindicated throout the whole course of Scripture by this second I com in the third to shew a Model of Government fram'd according to the Art thus shewn and the Principles thus vindicated THE THIRD BOOK CONTAINING A MODEL OF Popular Government Practically propos'd according to Reason confirm'd by the Scripture and agreable to the present Balance or State of Property in England The PREFACE Containing a Model of Popular Government propos'd Notionally THERE is between the Discourses of such as are commonly call'd Natural Philosophers and those of Anatomists a large difference the former are facil the latter difficult Philosophers discoursing of Elements for example that the Body of Man consists of Fire Air Earth and Water are easily both understood and credited seeing by common Experience we find the Body of Man returns to the Earth from whence it was taken A like Entertainment may befal Elements of Government as in the first of these Books they are stated But the fearful and wonderful making the admirable structure and great variety of the parts of man's Body in which the Discourses of Anatomists are altogether conversant are understood by so few that I may say they are not understood by any Certain it is that the delivery of a Model of Government which either must be of no effect or imbrace all those Muscles Nerves Arterys and Bones which are necessary to any Function of a well order'd Commonwealth is no less than political Anatomy If you com short of this your Discourse is altogether ineffectual if you com home you are not understood you may perhaps be call'd a learned Author but you are obscure and your Doctrin is impracticable Had I only suffer'd in this and not the People I should long since have left them to their humor but seeing it is they that suffer by it and not my self I will be yet Book III more a fool or they shall be yet wiser Now coms into my head what I saw long since upon an Italian Stage while the Spectators wanted Hoops for their sides A Country fellow came with an Apple in his hand to which in a strange variety of faces his Teeth were undoubtedly threaten'd when enter'd a young Anatomist brimful of his last Lesson who stopping in good time the hand of this same Country fellow would by no means suffer him to go on with so great an Enterprize till he had first nam'd and describ'd to him all the Bones Nerves and Muscles which are naturally necessary to that motion at which the good man being with admiration plainly chopfallen coms me in a third who snatching away the Apple devour'd it in the presence of them both If the People in this case wherof I am speaking were naturally so well furnish'd I had here learn'd enough to have kept silence but their eating in the political way of absolute necessity requires the

the King that faithfully judges the Poor his Throne shall be establish'd for ever much more the Commonwealth seeing that equality which is the necessary dissolution of Monarchy is the Generation the very Life and Soul of a Commonwealth And now if ever I may be excusable seeing my assertion that the Throne of a Commonwealth may be establish'd for ever is consonant to the holy Scriptures THE Balance of a Commonwealth that is equal is of such a nature that whatever falls into her Empire must fall equally and if the whole Earth falls into your Scales it must fall equally and so you may be a greater People and yet not swerve from your Principles one hair Nay you will be so far from that that you must bring the world in such a case to your Balance even to the Balance of Justice But hearken my Lords are we on Earth do we see the Sun or are we visiting those shady places which are feign'd by the Poets Continuò auditae voces vagitus ingens These Gothic Empires that are yet in the world were at the first tho they had legs of their own but a heavy and unweildy burden but their Foundations being now broken the Iron of them enters even into the Souls of the Opprest and hear the voice of their Comforters My Father hath chastis'd you with Whips but I will chastise you with Scorpions Hearken I say if thy Brother crys to thee in affliction wilt thou not hear him This is a Commonwealth of the Fabric that has an open ear and a public concern she is not made for her self only but given as a Magistrat of God to Mankind for the vindication of common Right and the Law of Nature Wherfore says CICERO of the like that of the Romans * * Nos magis Patronatum orbis terrarum suscepimus quam Imperium We have rather undertaken the Patronage than the Empire of the World If you not regarding this Example like som other Nations that are upon the point to smart for it shall having attain'd to your own Liberty bear the Sword of your common Magistracy in vain sit still and fold your Arms or which is worse let out the Blood of your People to Tyrants to be shed in the defence of their Yokes like Water and so not only turn the Grace of God into wantonness but his Justice into Wormwood I say if you do thus you are not now making a Commonwealth but heaping coals of fire upon your own heads A Commonwealth of this make is a Minister of God upon Earth to the end that the World may be govern'd with Righteousness For which cause that I may com at length to our present business the Orders last rehears'd are buds of Empire such as with the blessing of God may spread the Arms of your Commonwealth like a holy Asylum to the distress'd World and give the Earth her Sabbath of years or rest from her Labors under the shadow of your Wings It is upon this point where the Writings of MACCHIAVEL having for the rest excel'd all other Authors com as far to excel themselves COMMONWEALTHS says he have had three ways of propagating Disc B. 2. C. 4. themselves one after the manner of Monarchys by imposing the Yoke which was the way of Athens and towards the latter times of Lacedemon another by equal Leagues which is the way of Switzerland I shall add of Holland tho since his time a third by inequal Leagues which to the shame of the World was never practis'd nay nor so much as seen or minded by any other Common-wealth but that only of Rome They will each of them either for caution or imitation be worthy to be well weigh'd which is the proper work of this place Athens and Lacedemon have bin the occasion of great scandal to the world in two or at least one of two regards the first their Emulation which involv'd Greece in perpetual Wars the second their way of Propagation which by imposing Yokes upon others was plainly contradictory to their own Principles FOR the first Governments be they of what kind soever if they be planted too close are like Trees that impatient in their growth to have it hinder'd eat out one another It was not unknown to these in speculation or if you read the story of AGESILAUS in action that either of them with thirty thousand men might have master'd the East and certainly if the one had not stood in the others light ALEXANDER had com too late to that end which was the means and would be if they were to live again of ruin at least to one of them wherfore with any man that understands the nature of Government this is excusable So it was between Oceana and Marpesia so it is between France and Spain tho less excusable and so it ever will be in the like cases But to com to the second occasion of Scandal by them given which was in the way of their propagation it is not excusable for they brought their Confederats under bondage by which means Athens gave occasion of the Peloponnesian War the wound of which she dy'd stinking when Lacedemon taking the fame Infection from her Carcase soon follow'd WHERFORE my Lords let these be warnings to you not to make that Liberty which God has given you a snare to others in practising this kind of inlargement of your selves THE second way of Propagation or Inlargement us'd by Commonwealths is that of Switzerland and Holland equal Leagues This tho it be not otherwise mischievous is useless to the World and dangerous to themselves useless to the World for as the former Governments were Storks these are Blocks have no sense of Honor or concern in the Sufferings of others But as the Aetolians a State of the like Fabric were reproach'd by PHILIP of Macedon to prostitute themselves by letting out their Arms to the Lusts of others while they leave their own Liberty barren and without legitimat issue so I do not defame these People the Switzer for Valor has no Superior the Hollander for Industry no equal but themselves in the mean time shall so much the less excuse their Governments seeing that to the Switz it is well enough known that the Ensigns of his Commonwealth have no other Motto than in te converte manus and that of the Hollander tho he sweats more Gold than the Spaniard digs lets him languish in debt for she her self lives upon charity These are dangerous to themselves precarious Governments such as do not command but beg their Bread from Province to Province in Coats that being patch'd up of all colors are in effect of none That their Cantons and Provinces are so many Arrows is good but they are so many Bows too which is naught LIKE to these was the Commonwealth of the antient Tuscans hung together like Bobbins without a hand to weave with them therfore easily overcom by the Romans tho at that time for number a far less