A26965:114
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
X. 5. God stated the High Priesthood on the Priests during life, Numb. 35. 25, 28. Jos. 20, 6, &c. which Law the Kings had no power to violate.
XI. 6. There are more particular Laws made by God for the duty of the Priests, describing their office and work, than for any other particular case, as many hundred Texts will tell us: And none of these Laws might be altered, or suspended by the Kings of Israel: Nor those by which God stated some of the Judicial Power in the Congregation, Num. 35. 12. to 26.
XII. 7. Solomon's putting out Abiathar, and putting in Zadok, is not contrary to any of this: For (supposing the words 1 King. 2, 35. to be not only a history of the bare matter of fact, but a justification of it de jure.) 1. It poseth learned men to resolve how Zadok and Abiathar are oft said to be both High Priests before, and Zadok still put before Abiathar. 2. It is certain that Zadok had the right both of Inheritance and especial Promise, Numb. 25. 11, 12, 13. 1 Chron. 6. 3, 4, &c. And what Solomon did was that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled. How the possession came into the hands of the line of Ithamar, Expositors cannot find: It is like it was by occasion of the confusions of their oft Captivity and Anarchy in the interspace of the