in armes raised by Iehoiada and the people of Iudah to defend the young King. It cannot be said, that this is more extraordinary, then that it is extraordinary for Kings to die, and in the interregnum, warres, in an ordinary providence, may fall out in these Kingdoms, where Kings goe by election; and for Kings to fall to be Minors, Captives, Tyrannous. And I shall be of that opinion that Mr Sym∣mons, who holdeth, That Royall birth is equivalent to divine unction, must also hold, that election is not equivalent to divine unction; for both election and birth cannot be of the same validity, the one being naturall, the other a matter of free choise, which shall in∣fer that Kings by election are lesse properly, and analogically onely Kings; and so Saul was not properly a King, for he was King by election; but I conceive that rather Kings by birth must be lesse pro∣perly Kings, because the first King by Gods institution, being the mould of all the rest, was by election. Deut. 17.18.19.20.
5. If the estates create the King, and make this man King, not this man, as is clear Deut. 17.18. and 2 Chron. 5.1, 2, 3, 4. they give to him the power of the Sword, and the power of War, and the Militia, and I shall judge it strange and reasonlesse, that the power given to the King, by the Parliament or estates of a free King∣dom, (such as Scotland as acknowledged to be, by all) should create, regulate, limit, abridge, yea and anull that power that created it self, hath God ordained a Parliamentary power to create a Royal power of the sword and war to be placed in the King, the Parliaments creature, for the safety of Parliament and Kingdome, which yet is destructive of it selfe? D. Ferne saith that the King summoneth a Parliament, and giveth them power to be a Parliament, and to advise and counsell him; and in the meane time Scripture saith, Deut. 17.18, 19, 20. 1 Sam. 10▪20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. 2 Sam. 5.1, 2, 3, 4. that the Parliament createth the King, heir's admirable reciprocation of creation in policie, and shall God make the mother to destroy the daughter? The Parliamentarie power that giveth Crown, Mi∣litia, sword and all to the King, must give power to the King to use sword and war for the destruction of the Kingdome, and to annull all the power of Parliaments, to make, unmake Parliaments, and all Parliamentary power; what more absurd?
Obj. 1. Symmons Loyall Subj. Pag. 57. These phrases, 2. Sam. 9.1. When Kings goe forth to warre, and Luk. 14.31. What King going forth to warre? speak to my conscience, that both offensive