I• wbof< band 1 This power hitheno,ever fince they came out of£gypt, and that G 0 ~ rhu Powcrms them for His people,untothis very day and place had Go n kept in His ownehop~ brf,re. as to Hun alone (ofright) properly belonging. For unto this very day and placan hs, Ch>p 9· v rs, people ofGon,asthey had affembled many times and oft;fo!t was ever(theyb \ e ' 0 '' l· very b!t words ofthela!l: Chapter, which fcrve fot an introduction to thefe of;t e cver,all their meetings and removing~ wereJby immediate warrant from Goo H~~~ fclfe. But hereno~,Go n no longer mtendmg,thus to warrant them fiill by fpeciall d•rcct10n from Hrsmvne felfe,bm to fet over thts power,once for all: HereHedoth • Exod.r9 •l· it. This is the primary palling 1t from Go n, and deriving it toMo(es, whowasth fir!l: that ever held it by force oftheLawwritten. For,to this place they came be The: time :tnd p!:tceofthe Gcammg. the found of Gods; and from this place they diilodged,by the found of c.Mofes~ Ttumpet. And it is a pointvcry.confidcrable; what day and place this was: for it appea– 'reth, they were yet at Suw, by the Iz• verfe : yer, atth,e ve!y Mount of G 0 n by the33· ofthu C~apter, even then, when this Commiffioncame forth: So that ;his power is as ancrent as theLaw. At no mher place, nor no orher time delivered then even the Law it felfe: when the two Tables were given, the two Trumpets were~ven: andMefts that was made k~epet ofboth the Tables, made likewife keeper of both theTmmpets; Both at Smaz; both at onenme: As rfthere were fome neere alliance berweene the !-awandAffernblies. Andfo there is : Ajfembliesbeing ever afpeciall meanes to rcvrvetheLaw (asoccafions ftrve)and to keepeit in life. As if rhe Law ir felfe therefore lacked yer fomething, and were nor perfect and full without them: So, till this Grant was paffed, they frayed frill at Sin4i, and fo fooneas ever this was plffed, they prefently removed. . Toentreatthen.ofthisPower. Thefrory-oftheBible would ferve ourrurneto fhcw us,\vho have had the exerc&ofir in their hands,from timetotime,ifchat were enough. But that is not enough. For, rhe errours firfi and la!l: about this point,from hence they feeme to grow,that men lookenor backe enough ;.have not an eyeto this, Mm~•9 4• 1 how it was in the beginning,by rhevery LawofGo.d.Beingtherefore tofearch fonhe Th" the ••;g<- Original!warrant, by which theAjfem6lies of God's peoplea~called, and kept: this ••UGmtol ,.. place ofNumbers is generally agreed to bc"ir: Tpar here, it is firfifound, and here itis firfr fou~aed; even in theLaw, the befi ground.for aFowerrhat may be• .In Lege qrtidfcriptttmeft i quomodo legis? (faith our 5 A vI o uR)Whati; written in the Law~ haw readeyouthere i as ifHeihould fay: Ifit be to be read there,it is we! : then mull ir needs be yeelded to :there is no excepting to it thcn,unle!te youwill ex-. ,.cept ro Law, and Law-giver, to Go o and all. Let ustbencometothisCommifion. • The points of it be three : Fir!l:, tws trumpets offilver, to be made our ofone J,~~;';;;~of wholepeece,both. Secondly, wirhthefetrumplfs,the Congregation.to he caUed, and the Campe reiiJoved. Thirdly, Ma{es to makethefeTrttmpets, and betng m.ade, to ufe them ro rhefe ends. Thefc three: 1 The Inftrument: • TheEnd, for whrch: l The ·rartic, to whom. · Now (to madhall thefe in their right order,) I. The end is to befirll: Sapiens Jemperincipit .<fine(faith the Philofopher.) A wife man begins ever at the end: for that (indeed) is Catt[d caufarttm (as Logic!< teaclwth us) the caufe ofall th~caufes;drc caufc chat fees them all on working, 2. Then nellr, the!"ftrument, whrch appf1eth this power ro this end. j. And fo lalt, the Agent, who Is to gmde the Infirumenr, and to whom both In!trument and Power is committed. . . _ I TheEnd, for which this PoriJtr is conveyed, is double; as rhefubjeClts dou· ble wheteonit harh his operation, 1 TheCampe, and the •Congreg•tron. On either oft'hefe,a fpeciall afl exercifed: toremove the Campc: ToGafftogether the Congrega-. tion : One for Warre, the orher for Peace. , . . . bid hat That ofrheCampe, hatb no longerufe, than wlule ttfs warre. GoD for f h lhouldbclon<>: nay, Go n forbid, it lhouldbeatall. The bell: removrngo .r/ Rom.u.u, Campe, is the ~emoving ofir quire and cleane away. But ifit be notpofoble, i~ ' 1 i' IJqt inus, to havepeue with aUmen, ifwarre mufi be, hcrcis order font. · :Bwr,t e;• · - ' ltl1g
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