ThJtpowtr to continue 3fccr Jl•fi•· Ofthe Rfght ttm!Power them; fo none toonme them being made, but c..Mofes. And what would wee have more to lhew us, Cu]114 funt TNb~, whofe the Trumpets be; or whofc is the right of caUing LAjfemblies ? It is c..Mofts's certainely, and he by vertue of thefe fund feized ofir. · . . ' s Tf! g~eyet further: llut ~vas ~otall this_to M ifes, for his time onely; and as it begunmhlm;fototakeend With h1m~Was ltnot one.ofthefe fame Privilegia Per– fo»alia,qtl~nop trahunturin exrmplum; A priviledge peculiar to him;and fo no prefic · dent to be made ofit~ No: forifyo~ looke but_a litdeforward(totheVIll. rerfe following)there you f?all fee,thatth1s Power wluch Go ·n hereconveyeth; this Law ofthefllver trumpets, IS aLaw to !4[1 for e11er; even throughout all theirgenerations notthat generation only. Andt~erci~ greatreafonit lhouldbefo; that feeingth~ . vfe lhould never ceafe, thePor:erhkewtfelh~uld n~ver determine. · Y oft , r«mcd Being then not to dctermme, but to commue, lt muft defcend to thofe that hold ~~;~:~::reua- Mofes's place•I demand then,what place did Mofes hold~ Sure it is,thatAaronwas ·· · now theHigh Prie11,annointed and fully invefted in all the rights ofit, cverfinccthe eighth~hapter ofthe !aft Booke. MDfes.had in hi;n now, no orher Right, but that of theChtcfe M&gijlrate. Thereforel as m that R1ght (and no other) he received and held rhem: So, he was madeCu11os utriuftfr TAbu!~ : So, he is madeCuf11sutriu[que Tub.l. But who can tell us better than he himfelfe, inwhat right he heldthem.~ He dothit in the third VerfeofDeut. XXXIII. (reade it which way you will :) Eratilf Iifhrune.Re~, e<r,inrdlifimoRex, or,in ReilitNdine Rex!or,inretlo Regis,_dtlm cot~greg•:et Prtnctpes pop11lt, & TrtbNO Ifr~t~l: All ~om~ to this ;that, though mfrrict pro– pnery offpeech, c..Mofeswereno Kmg, yet 1!1 this, he was in retlitudi~~t Rex, or in rec1o Regis, (that is) in this, had(~s we fay) ]IH Regale,that he might and did alfemble the Tribes and chiefcmcnof tl'leTribes, at hispleafure. Herein he was,Rex iM rec1itudine. Forthiswas-reflitudo Regir, A powerRegall. And foitwasholden Gco.f i.H·~ inAlgypt beforec..Mofes, even in the Law of Nature : that without Phar~o, no man might lift up handor foot in aU the La»d of A'-gypt (fuppofe, to no publike or princi• pall motion:) And fo hath it beene holden in all Nations, as a fpeciall Powerbe· longing toDomlnio11. Which maketh it feeme firange, that thofe men, which in no caufe are fo fervent as when they plead, that Church-men lhoul'd not "'"'"~'"• that is,h,we Dominion; doe yet hold this Power, which hath ever beene reputedmoft pro~ per to Dominion, lhould belong to none, but to them onely. Our SAv 1 ouJI:. ilmn.ao.l6. CIf a 1 s 'f's ros aatem nonfie, may(Iam lure) befaid to them herein a truerfenfe,' than as they commonlyufe to apply it. · The ebit{e ~- To conclude thenthis point,lfNofes as in the right ofchiefeN AgijlrAteheld this r.;~;~~~;o .!•<- power, it was from him to defcend to the chiefeMagifirates after him over the peo– • ' • pie of Gon , and they to fucceed him,asin his place,foin this righr,it being by Gon Himfelfefet!ed inMofesand annexed to his place, legeperpetuA., by an eftate indefei– zible,by a perpetuall Law, throughout all their generations. Therefore ever after by Go n's expreffc order, from yeare toyeare, every yeare on thejirft day of the fe· · 'fienth moneth, were theyblowenbyMofes firfr, and after by them that held his plac~, and the Feafr oftheTrumpets folemnely holden; and to pur them in minde ofthe be· nefit thereby comming to them, fo withal! to keepe alive and frelh frill in the kno_w– ledge ofall, that this power belonged to their place, that fo none.mightever beJg·, norant, to whomit did of right appertaine, to ;a// Ajfemblies. . A•;,., AlrcmAnd how then lhall Aaron'sAlfemblies be called ~ with what TrumJtf, they ~ ~~'.''how CA/- GodHimfelfe hath provided forthat in thex.ver.following,thar with no othenhaR thefe.(There is in all theLaw, no order for callingan Affembly, to what end, or for Vcr{ClO, what caufe foevcr,but this,and only this: No order for making any third Trllmpet ·:. Vnder rhefetwo therefore all are comprized.) This order thereGodtaketh, that Ml– fes!hall permit Aaron's fonnes to have the ufc ofthefe trumpets. But the u(~, not the Numb.j ' · 1 · prdpertj. They mu!l: takechemfromMifes, as (in the XXXI. chapter ofthisBooke) Phineu cloth :But Erunt tihi (God's ownewords,Erunttibi)mullllillbe remembte<!: His they bee; for all that : tMofes theowner frill; theright remaine$ in him : the1r · foundmg
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