-, - :t1 Sermon preached - them; at leaft for ~heir owne houfhold to adore. And then if~ get fuch a fellow as is here ~ter defcribed,a Lel>ite;for ten jicl:s.and 4 ju~:: (or becaufe now the world 1s harder,tenpoundi) they are fafe: and the ' they have and hold all{§ligionby themfelves. re 3· For,evidentit is by this text; fetting up offal(e "ll1orfhip is the cauG .why1\ingsweremijfed; and the redrej{e ofit, the caufe, why they wer: placed. The cau[e I fay; and thejirfl; caufe oftheir placing: and therefore this a part, and a principall part oftheir-charge. I will touch themfeve,· rally. I·. Apart, to looke toMica, and his falfo "ll1orjhip. Why; this is mat~ tcr Ecclejiafticafl! Jt is fo, and thereby itappeareth (I thinke)that l\.ingr have, and are to have ahand in~attersofthat nature: IfrJ\!:ligion Were at a fault, becaufe there 'll>ao no1\mg; arid that one there mull be, to fet it right againe. For, is it once to be imagined, thatthe caufe of corrupt~e– ligion is layd on the want ofa1\ing; and yet when there is one he fhould not meddle 1/Jitb it ? Rather the confequence is fl:rong .on the other fide~ Mica thus did, becaufe there was then no1\ing: therefore when there is ·one, he will)ooke better to it, that never aMica of them all fhall doe the like. Thus it went,when there "llJas no 1\in,g: after, when there was one~ I finde againe,tht not taking away the Highplaces (which wereplaces meer– ly religious, where the peopledidfacrifice) imputedRill tothel\ing,ashis fault; And yet, fhall we have nothing to doe TPith high places, or Jacrifi~ fing, either there or any where ds ? Veryflrangeitwere,thattheywhoare:by God Himfelfe, by an ex~ t>f~L8l.6. prdfe Ego dixi, termed Goo's, fhould yet have nothing to doe with Go o's a!Jaires! And no ldfe, that being termed by Efay, Nutrittj, fo,j Efay 4 9. •3· fler fathers, to whofe care theCburch is committed, eo cherifh and bring up,fhould yet be forbidden to intermeddlewith theClmrch,in tbat which is ofallfoflering the principal! part! Verily; when theApoftlefpeaketh 0f the [er)!ice that 1\ings doe unto G0 D, he doth not onely ufe the termc Ro; 13 . 6 >i· of '~T'fl'a' (that is) Publique Officer, but Jl.t:"'" too (as it were Gods 'Deit~ con, or Serviror) by a namepeculiartothe (}urcb_Offices: and this hee ufeth twice for one other. It can therefore neither be denied, nor doub,. ted of, in ~hat Idolatry came up by defect of 1\ings, but that l(in,gs wer~ plac;ed, to pull downe Idolatry, and to plant and preferve the trueServic~ of God, In a word: There is a1\ing in Ijrael, that theremay not be~ ~~~~ . ; But this is not alll the Text carrieth us yet further : T~at it.is n~t onely the clwge of the King; but the very.jirft and cbiefe arncle '!'1 h1s clwge. For, this marke I pray you: that this; is the first place 1~ all theScripture where. and the fir!l caufe why Kings were ll}i!Ted; th1s the I I ' B. G very fidl:occafion,thatdrew this complaint from G0 1).. ' emfo et downe the diforders, that then multiplied; other the~ w~re, elides t~is; y~t, this he beginnethWith (not with the outrag~ of.G1bea! o~ the ~~ot ofDan,but)witli }{~_~~· S. !dol~~~i_:_ .=: a~ t~at1.~~i!~ ~e ~~eflyllllfli~~J
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