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ENGLANDS SATISFACTION IN EIGHT QƲERIES; Concerning the true place, Office, and power of a KING, according to GODS Word.
A KING, as he is the Lords Anoynted over his * 1.1 people Israel, 1 Sam. 8.11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. will take your sonnes and your daughters to serve him; He will take your fields, vineyards, and your olive-yards, even the best of them from you, and give them to his ser∣vants; He will take the tenth of your seed and of your vine-yards from you, and give them to his Officers and to his servants; and he will take your men-servants and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your Asses, and put them to his worke; He will take the tenth of your sheepe, and yee shall be his servants.
1. Quest. Is it lawfull for Kings to doe as Samuel from the Lord told the people Saul would doe?
Answ. No: for Samuel at the establishing of Saul, 1 Sam. 10. 25. told Saul and all the people the dutie of a King, as it is written, Deut. 17.16, 17, 18, 19, 20. and wrote it in a Booke and laid it up before the Lord, as a witnesse betwixt King and people, so that all that the Lord doth command, is lawfull to be done, and it is a sinne not to doe it; and all that the Lord doth forbid, is unlawfull to be done, and it is a sinne to doe it. The Lord in the 8th of the