102Ofthe Right andPower - Congregation, when it is ljfembled, will be the more foundly advifed, And h it commech to paife, chacchere ever hath, antievC'r will be, great ufeof catlin ereby {embltes, 'g I.Ah • Efpec;,Uy for Let me adde yet orie thing further, to bring it home to our felves. There. . B tlus bnd of people under heaven m!ly better fpeake for the ufe ofAffimblies, thanwe: Ther 15 na ,.,.,.,_ 1· h d'd A n. l · · h r: ewas f.ltc ali•d•dc no_nmg t ~t 1 our nce..ours ne ~rztamu more _urr (1aithTacitma ofthem) wf~nvat;d•ffi· thlng that turned them to greater prejudJce, than th1s one, That theymet not ho. ~:;};~~:':.,P" conflt!ted_not in common: buc every man ran~ courfe by him(~lfe ofhis owne h~a~ q•}mq..Odio And, tillSwasthegreatell: advantage the Romane had of them : they were not r,' r :::;.;.n:,~·; •. wife,as to know, what good there was in publikeconventions. Therefore, greatu~ ;...ad P"'"'· · of Ajfemblzes; may we fay of all others. fl•d•>Mommu· Now ifthey be needful! for theCampe, and for the Congregation as it is a c 1 · 'fl "'P"""""" b d' I d b · b I dd 1 r fi r ' VI c,.,.,,,u. o 1e; ou t not, ut. may a e, a 10, every way as aeed ull,or theCongregation Jtad•m fing•li properly fo called (thatls)theChtmh b, The Chur&b hach her Wamstofighc: Th · P"'"'"'·"'"· · Ch11rch harh her Lawes to make. c; verftvmciJ'J!... . /i h . . '"'· Ju v"a Warru, w1th here res :w erem expenence teacheth us, it ism~tter ofleffediffi-' A-'K)c· a culcieeo raze agood Fort, than to call downe a flrong imAginAtion. and more eafieea • J.r ,/,~'c~Zrcb. drive out ofthe field a good armie ofmen, than to chafe out of m~ns mindes a heap~ of fond opinions, having once taken head._ Now, herelie~ have ever beene befr put toll.tghtby the chnrchcs af!embltes (chat IS) Cormcels, as rtwerebythe <.Armies of nevita c••• Goo's Angels (as E11{ebiuo calleththem:) yea, itiswdlknowne,fomeherefies p,.,;•iJ!ib.;. could never be through!y mafrered or conquered, but fo. cap. 6 . Then for thecharchuLAwes( which we call Canens andRula)made to rdlraine br redrelfe abures, they have a!wayes likewife beene made at her AJ!em61ies in Coun– cels, and not elfe-where. So that, as requilite are Alfemblies fortheCongregatio11, in this fenfe,as in any other. By this then that bath beene f-aid,it appeareth,chat Go o's J:actibi here is no more than ne_eds; -but that meet it is, the Trumpets beputtoma~ king. And fo I paife over to theInjlruments, which is the fecond parr. :1 Aifembling (wefaid)is reduced tomotion. M'otion is a worke ofpower. Power rnilrummts. is executed organice (that is) by Inftr~~ment: So, an JnHrumeJJt we mull: have,where-: withall to ilirre up, or eo begin this Motion, rtumpttt. I That Inftr~~mtntto be theTrumpet, It is the found that Go n Himfelfemade choyce of, to ufe at the publiihing or proclaimingHis .Law, and thefame found Hee will have cominued;and ufed{li!J, for AJ!emblies,whichare (as hath beene.faid) fpe– cialljitpportcrs of His Law. An? the very [~meH_e will u!'e too, at the !aft when ::; cor.rs.1•· He will take account ofthe keepmg or breakmg of1t; whtch lhall be done, IntubJ novifimJ, by the found of the lafl Trnmpe. AndHe holden on, or continueth one and che fame Inftmment, to Chew, it is one and the fame Fower, that concinuech ll_il~: That; whether anAngel!blow it, as at S11W; or whether _0l1ofes, as ever after ;1t IS onefound even Gon's found, Go ..'svoice,wehearemboth. 1 'two; . i Tl;ey arc to betwaine, forthe two Ajfcmblies, that_follow in the next Verfesi. Either, ofthe whole Tribes Coagmenwive : or ofthe chrefe andchoyc~perfons of them onely, Rtprefentative. And forthetrvoTAhles, alfo. For, even thls¥ery mo– neth, theftrHday,they are ufed to a Civi/lcnd: thetenthday to a Holy, fortheday of Expit~tion .· 0 f which this lateer belonged! to the firft; that former, to the fecond Table. · . 3 They :tretd be offilver: (not to feeke after fpeculations) onely, for the .Me~ or /ilv!,, t 11 1ls fake, which hath the lhrillell andclearefi found of all others. . d h 4 They are to be of one whg/epeeceboth ofthem, not ofnvo dlverCe • an t ar or ... t,irt mull needs havea meaning: it cannot be fornoching. For,unleiferr _were fol Corn~ P"''· meaning, what skilled it elfe, though they had bce~e made of rwo leverall P~tes: b~t only to fl1ew,that both AJ!embliesarennimJllru,both ofone andthe faJ?e nght•, as theTr11mpets are wrought, and beaten out, bothofoneentirepeece ofBulhon. _ 3 But it will be to fmall purpofe, to fiaod much upon the Inftrnment: I make way therefore to the third point : how they ihall be befiowed, who ihall hdave 1 thc ea mg
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