Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate…

It is worthy our observation how exceedingly God manifesteth his power and zeal for the help of Magistrates against all opposition. Korah and his company conspire against Moses and Aaron; Magistracy and Ministry, Numb. 16. and would have brought in Anarchy. (Indeed both those Ordinances have the same adversaries. Those that would level the Ministry, making Preachers Jeroboam-like, of the lowest of the people, and filling the Pulpit as Noah's Ark, with creatures clean and unclean, will at last level the Magistracy too, and make the Throne as low and as common as the Pulpit.) But observe what God saith of these opposers of Magistracy and Ministry, and what God doth to them: for his saying; That they are gathered together against the Lord, vers. 11. They wounded God through the sides of Moses and Aaron. They that murmur and conspire against Gods Delegated servants, murmur and conspire against God himself. And surely God will first or last be too hard for those that thus harden themselves against him: For see what he doth to them; The Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods; they and all that belonged to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed, upon them, vers. 32.33. God hath strange punishments for such strange principles and practices; He will work miraculously, ⟨p. 210⟩but that he will make such as are against Magistrate and Minister exemplary.

It is worthy our observation how exceedingly God manifesteth his power and zeal for the help of Magistrates against all opposition. Korah and his company conspire against Moses and Aaron; Magistracy and Ministery, Numb. 16. and would have brought in Anarchy. (Indeed both those Ordinances have the same adversaries. Those that would level the Ministery, making Preachers Jeroboam-like, of the lowest of the people, and filling the Pulpit as Noahs Ark, with creatures clean and unclean, will at last level the Magistracy too, and make the Throne as low and as common as the Pulpit.) But observe what God saith of these opposers of Magistracy and Ministery, and what God doth to them: for his saying; That they are gathered together against the Lord, vers. 11. They wounded God through the sides of Moses and Aaron. They that murmur and conspire against Gods Delegated servants, murmur and conspire against God himself. And surely God will first or last be too hard for those that thus harden themselves against him: For see what he doth to them; The Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods; they and all that belonged to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed, upon them, vers. 32.33. God hath strange punishments for such strange principles and practices; He will work miraculously,