This is evidently set forth in Holy writ, for God sent Moses to be a ruler. Acts. 7. 35. And God appointed Joshua over the congregation of Israel. Numb. 27. 16. 18. The Lord raised up the Judges. Judg. 2. 16. The Lord anointed Saul to be Captain over his inheritance. 1 Sam. 10. 1. And though Saul was afterward chosen by the casting of the lot, yet The whole disposing thereof was of the Lord, Prov. 16. 33. 1 Sam. 10. 24. and 14. 41. Afterwards the Lord saith, I have rejected Saul from reigning over Israel: For I have provided me a King among the sons of Jesse, 1 Sam. 16. 1. I gave thee, O Israel, a King in mine anger, and I took him away in my wrath, Hosh. 13. 11. And 1 King. 13. 2. a Prophet told Jeroboam of Josiah King of Judah, three hundred and twenty years before his reign. Neither was Gods power of disposing Kingdoms limited only unto Judah and Israel, but it was, is, and ever shall be, extended over the whole world. He is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: by him Kings reign, Prov. 8. 15. Not this King only, or that King, but Kings, all Kings whatsoever. Moa•, saith God, is my wash-pot, over Edom will I cast my shoe: over Philistia will I triumph, Psal. 108. 9. I have made the earth by my great power, and have given it unto whom it pleased me, ⟨p. 12⟩and now I have given all those lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar my servant▪ and all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his sons son, until the very tim of his land com•: and then many Nations and great Kings shall serve themselves of ••m▪ Jer. 27 5 6, 7. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose righ hand I have holden to subdue Nations before him, I will go before thee, I will break in pieces the gates of brass and I will give thee the hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I the Lord, which call thee by thy name am the God of Israel, Isa. 45. Where God shows, that all Kings are by his particular appointment, in that he called Cyrus by his name above 180. years before his reign.
This is evidently set forth in Holy writ, for God sent Moses to be a ruler. Acts. 7. 35. And God appointed Ioshua over the congregation of Israel. Numb. 27. 16. 18. The Lord raised up the Iudges. Judg. 2. 16. The Lord annointed Saul to be Captain over his inheritance. 1 Sam. 10. 1. And though Saul was afterward chosen by the casting of the lot, yet The whole disposing thereof was of the Lord, Prov. 16. 33. 1 Sam. 10. 24. and 14. 41. Afterwards the Lord saith, I have rejected Saul from reigning over Israel: For I have provided me a King among the sons of Iesse, 1 Sam. 16. 1. I gave thee, O Israel, a King in mine anger, and I tooke him away in my wrath, Hosh. 13. 11. And 1 King. 13. 2. a Prophet told Jeroboam of Iosiah King of Iudah, three hundred and twenty yeers before his reigne. Neither was Gods power of disposing Kingdoms limited only unto Judah and Israel, but it was, is, and ever shall be, extended over the whole world. He is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: by him Kings reigne, Prov. 8. 15. Not this King only, or that King, but Kings, all Kings whatsoever. Moa•, saith God, is my wash-pot, over Edom will I cast my shoe: over Philistia will I triumph, Psal. 108. 9. I have made the earth by my great power, and have given it unto whom it pleased me, ⟨p. 12⟩and now I have given all those lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar my servant▪ and all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his sons son, untill the very tim of his land com•: and then many Nations and great Kings shall serve thems•lves of m
