Of Calling Ass u.thi ts; together as they can: They have noMofes, no trumpet to call ~he.m. the times of Ph~raoh andNero arc rh~n their patte:rne. But, 1f1t be fo happy asto finde the dayes ofpeacc,MII[ts and Conjllmiin'e are parrernesfo~ the dayes ofpeace :they have aMb– fes rhert: from that time forward they mufi glVe care tothe Trurr,tpet. In a word, none can feek to havethe Congreg4tton [o cdUed(as beforeConflantme) bur they mufi fecrctly, and by irrt~litation conteife, they are aperfecuted'Cht~rch,as that then was; .without aMofes, Without aConftantme. The rimes then before Conft~ntim, are no bar, no kind ofimpeachmenr to con-" fl11ntine's, no morethan the times in .&gypt were toMofes's right. And indeed no more they were: for, ConjiAntineandhis Succeifcirs had them, and held them till a thoufand yeares after CH 11. I • T, and then one of them (by what !tleanes we all know)was let goe byrhem,orgottcliaway from them: Itwasrhengottenaway and carried to Jl.ome. But that getting hath hitherto beene holden a plaine uji~rpi11g; and an ufurpldg (not upo;tthe Congregation, but) uponPrinces and their Right; and that they, in their ownc wrong, fulfered it to be wrung from them. And why ~ Becaufe not ro A4ron, burro Mofes it was faid, Et mmt tibi. I. To draw to an end,ir was then gotten away, andwith fomeadde it was_reco- fob,;"'~'''"' vered notlong llnce: and what~ !hall weriow let it goe; arid dcfiroy fo foone that cberr..,pm, which fo lately we built againc ~ You may plcafe to remember, there was not long fince a Clergy in place, thatwas wholly adoppojittem, and would never have yeelded to reforme ought: Nothing they would doe,and(in eye of law) without rhem, nothitJgcould then be done; they had encroached the power ofAjfemblinginto their owne hands. Howthen~ how lhall we doe for an A{fembty? ThenErunt tibi, was a good Text iic rtmit needs be meant of'the' frirJCe: "he had this<Power, iind to Him ot right it b~longed. This was then g 0oq J:)ivinity (and what Write~ is,th~re,bi1a.~t of thofe times, but it may be turned to, inhim~) And was it good Divinity then, and is it now no longerfo ~ Was the King but!icenfed for awhile, to hold this power, till ariother Clergy w~re in ; and mufi he then be deprived ofit againc ~ Was it then Now foui!~i ufurpedfrom Ptinces; and are now Princes ufurpers ofit themfelves ~ And is this to i>cgom~ · all the difference irt the matter ofAjfembties, andc4/!ingofthem : that therejhufi be away. onelyachange; andthatinUeadofa forraine, they lhall haveaJUmeflicd/1, and in Bytlu:~fll~/~ ftead ofone, manJ: and no remedy now, bur one of thefe two they mufi needs ad. ttr 1 , - • mit of ds this now become good Divinity~ Nay (I trufi) ifEmnttibi were one<; true,it is fo frill: and if(Tibi)were thenMo(es, iris fo ll:ill. That we will be b~tter advifed, and not thus goe againfi our felves, and let truth be no longer truth, then it .willferve our turnes. , . . . l. And t-his calleth to my mind the like dealing ofa fort ofmen, not long lince - here a'mong us. A wllile rhey plied Prince and Parliament, with Admonitions, Sup- l!yt"'~o#< jlications, Motions andPetitions. And inthem,it was: theirduty,t!Jeirright,to fram.e ehcmfclyes. , . all things to their new invented plot: And this,fo long ~sany hope blew out ofchat ~:f'JJ•""') Coafi. Bur when, that way they faw it would not be, then rooke rheyup a newTe. - Pet, firaight : They needed neither MagiffratenorTmmpet, they : Thegodly among the people might doeir ofrhcmfelves. For colifulion to the wife and mighty j the poore and limple rnufi rake this worke in hand, and fo by this meanes theTriJmpet prove their righr,in the end : and fo come by devolution toD~metrimand the crafrfmen, · Now, if!lot forlove-oftha.trurh,yer for ve<y.il~n:te ofthe(c !hifting abfllS.dk ties, let the(e phantalies be'al:fandohed ::tJnq(t.bat wh,.ic.l} G~ds<>wnem.oy_th hathI}~ fpoken) letitbe for once and for ever true; That which once we truly held andmain· taincd forrruth, let usdoefo il:ill: that we be notlike evil! fervanrs, ·judged (Ex ore ;rQprio) out of their owne rnouthes. . Letmenorover-wearyyou; ler this rather fuffice. r. v,re havedoneasour tilket'i;ist S11vio11r CH RI s T willed us, reforted to theLaw, and fotind what there iswrittm: ThcC~~~uli:, · (The Gra¥Jt of this Puwer to Mo(es, ro call the congregAtion :) z, We hav,e fol• 0!,1, lowcdMofes's advife; enquiredof the dayes before uo, even froriJ one end of heaven ~~the other, and found theprattifeofrhis Grant in Mo{es's Succeifo.urs: and the , L1111 >ongregatioli
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