An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…

Nevertheless the King is not left at liberty to do what he pleaseth, & to make his will the rule of his actions. No, he is the Lords Shepherd, and¹ the Lord hath appointed unto him his charge and duty. When God set Joshua over the Congregation, Moses gave him a charge in their fight, Num 27. 16, 19. And of David it is said, Psal. 78. 70, 71, 72. He chose David his ⟨p. 24⟩servant, and took him from the sheepfolds, from following the Ewes great with young. He brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them (therefore the King ought to provide for, and cherish his people) according to the integrity of his heart, (therefore the King ought to be faithful to his people) and guided them (therefore the King ought to be careful and vigilant over his people) by the skilfulness (therefore the King ought to counsel his people) of his hand, therefore the King ought to defend his people.) And when the Prophet Ahijah told Jeroboam that God would give ten Tribes of Israel unto him, he withal tells him his duty and the conditions upon which God gave them; If thou wilt hearken unto all that I the Lord command thee, and wilt walk• in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my Statutes and my Commandments, as David my servant did, then will I be with thee and build thee a sure house, 1 Kings 11. 30, 31, 38. And at that time when the Lord chose Saul to be King, Samuel told the people the manner of the Kingdom, and wrote it in a book, 1 Sam. 10. 25. whereby it is evident that Saul might not rule as he listed, for that God had prescribed the form or manner of the government or Kingdom. And what that was you may read in Deut. 17. It shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his Kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this Law, (that is, the Deuteronomy) in a book, out of that which is before the Priests and Levites. And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this Law, and these Statutes to do them. That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren (therefore the King ought not to insult and tyrannize over his people) and that he turn not aside from the Commandment, to the right hand or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his Kingdom he and his children in the midst of Israel.