Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances and appointments the best means to preserve…

•. Sometimes the Lord turns the edge of that lawful authority God hath set over them against themselves, to be a heavy scourge from God upon them: Thus it was with Israel in Egypt, Exod. 1. 8, 9. there arose a King ⟨p. 8⟩which knew not Joseph, and it's said then they were oppressed. Thus Jeroboam whom the ten Tribes chose, Hos. 5. 11. he oppressed the people he will be in novating, and this becomes their oppression: Thus the people under the reign of degenerate Solomon (though their complaint might be in part unjust.) Such is the venom of sin an unsubduednesse to the Kingdom God, that the Lord turns light into darkness, and makes an aching head matter of sorrow to all the state and body of people. Eccles. 10. 16. Woe to thee, O Land, when thy King is a child. And one man shall do a world of hurt, one Shebna or Amaziah, and this the Lord doth in justice many times for casting off his government.

•. Sometimes the Lord turns the edge of that lawfull authority God hath set over them against themselves, to be a heavy scourge from God upon them: Thus it was with Israel in Egypt, Exod. 1. 8, 9. there arose a King ⟨p. 8⟩which knew not Ioseph, and it's said then they were oppressed. Thus Ieroboam whom the ten Tribes chose, Hos. 5. 11. he oppressed the people he will be in novating, and this becomes their oppression: Thus the people under the reign of degenerate Solomon (though their complaint might be in part unjust.) Such is the venome of sin an unsubduednesse to the Kingdom God, that the Lord turns light into darknesse, and makes an aking head matter of sorrow to all the state and body of people. Eccles. 10. 16