on the C,o RON AT Ib ~~day. We caimotpullmens eyesoucoftheir heads, norchdr opinions nei. ther; but fhall we not pinion thei~ IJal!ds? or binde them to the peac'e ~. Yes, whatfoever become ofreBumm oculu, order mull: be takenwithfo~ cit or elfe farewell all. Foule rulewe are like to have; even (for all the ~~~ld) fuch as was here in lfrael~ · . ( 12.1 We fee then the maladie ; more than time we fought oui: a reinedie It for it; That fhall we bell: doe, ifwe know the caufe. The caufe iS-here The cauf<; fee downe; and ehis is it, Non erat IJ?...ex. Is c!Jis the caufe? We would ~~," ,;.~ (perhaps) im;tgine many caules befides, but Goo paffeth by them a!!; -· and layeth it upon none but thi;;, N._on erat IJ?...ex. And·feeing hee hath affigned that onely for the caufe, we will not be wifer than He, bufreft our [elves in it. The rather, for that, r Ex ore i11imici we have as much. Forthefe mifcreants, whom He fets on worke, to bringRealmes to con.: fufion, and to root out Religion, that ewry one may doe that, ugood in their owne eyes : to this point they all drive, Vt nefit ~x. Away with the King, that is their onely way. Hea)len andbell both are agreed, chit is the cauft. · '' · To make fhort worke then : Ifthe caufe'be[There is no I(ing ;J bt there be one, that is the remedy: .Agood I(ing Tvi/1 helpe all. If it be of abfg~ lutenecefsity, that neither Micah for all his wealth; nor Van, for all their forces; nor Gibeab,for all their multitude, doe what they lift : And ifthe miffe of the I(ings were the caufe, that all this w~reamiffe; no bettet , way eo ceafe it, no better way to keepe IJ?...eligion from Idolatry; mens li11es andgoods in fafety, theirrvej]e!s in hono11r, than byKJ11gs. No moreeffi: Elua/1 barre to fecit qui/qtuquod reEtttm inoculio, than rJ?..!x in lfrael, ' This will better appeare, ifwe take it in funder : There 1'VM no I(ing; He dorh not charge them with a fiat Anarchie; that there was'no EStates; no kinde ofgowrnment amongthem : but this onely, thereTva.nio I(ing. What then? rhere werePriefts : would not they ferve? It feemed, they would not. Phinees was to looke to their eyes i But; fomewhere there be fome fuch, as Hofee fpeakes of, Populus hie quaft qui contradicit Sacerdoti, Ofe.4~1~ This people Trill look. to Phinees eyes:Set their tpriefls andPreachm'tofchoole; and not learne ofthem, butlearne rhem Divinity. The Iudzes are ro . looke to their hands : But, there are too fomewhere fuch, as he fpea:ketll Ok.j.7] " ·of (Chapter VII. Verfe VII.) 1)e)1brabu1lt Judices; fuch, as (if it take them in the head) will not fl:ick toJup up, and[wallow do1vne their Judges; fpecially, inter arma. How then, ilnll wee have Militarie Gowrnment? Nay, that is too violent: and if it lye long, the remedy proves as ill, as the difeafe. To me, a plaine evidence; that, though all rhefe were, all thefe were not perfoEt. There was one yet mifsing, that was to doe this rd better p\lrpofc, than yet it had beene done: and till he were had, they ~ere not, wherethey fho~ld be: · This
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