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<P>A SERMON Preached at the ASSIZES AT Northampton, <HI>Augu&s;t the</HI> 9th. 1669.</P>
<P>Wherein is a&s;&s;erted,
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<ITEM><HI>The Excellency of Religion, again&s;t the</HI> Athei&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Dignity of Regal Government, again&s;t the</HI> Independent.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Supremacy of his Maje&s;ty in Cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, again&s;t the</HI> Presbyterian.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The Nece&s;sity of Judges, Law, and Magi&s;trates, again&s;t the</HI> Anabapti&s;t.</ITEM>
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<P>By <HI>John Howes,</HI> &s;ometimes Fellow of <HI>Cajus</HI> Col|ledge in <HI>Cambridge;</HI> now Rector of <HI>Abington</HI> near <HI>Northampton.</HI></P>
<Q><P>Sublata Religione, fides etiam, &amp; &s;ocietas humani generis, &amp; una excellenti&s;&s;ima virtus ju&s;titia tollitur. <BIBL><HI>Cicero</HI> de nat. Deor. lib. <HI>1.</HI> in principio.</BIBL></P>
<P><GAP DESC="foreign">. <BIBL><HI>Ari&s;t.</HI> Eth. lib. <HI>8</HI> cap. <HI>10.</HI></BIBL></P>
<P><GAP DESC="foreign">. <BIBL><HI>Demo&s;t.</HI> in Philip.</BIBL></P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>William Leake,</HI> at the <HI>Crown</HI> in <HI>Fleet&s;treet,</HI> between the two Temple-Gates, 1670.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Reverend Father in God, <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> by the Divine Providence, Bi&s;hop of <HI>Peterborough.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>May it plea&s;e your Lord&s;hip,</OPENER>
<P>_MY Pen is unable to expre&s;s how much my heart hath been, and is obliged to your Lord&s;hips &s;ervice; who ever &s;ince you were our mo&s;t Reverend and Honoured Father and Governour, have declared your &s;elf the Pillar of the Church, in your Lord&s;hips Dioce&s;s, the Patron of your conformable and vertuous Clergy, and the great and good Example of Piety, Ju&s;tice, Cha|rity, and Religious Devotion.</P>
<P>The pre&s;ent demon&s;tration of this my cordial &s;er|vice, is a Sermon preached this la&s;t A&s;&s;ize in your Lord&s;hips Dioce&s;s; the which (confiding in your Lord&s;hips obliging candour) pre&s;umes to ki&s;s your Lord&s;hips hands in this publick addre&s;s.</P>
<P>I hope there can be no Soleci&s;m herein, upon the ac|count either of Divinity or Morality; for one Subject
<PB REF="4"> of the Sermon is Religion, who&s;e beautifull face would be not only &s;ullied by the foul fingers of defor|med Errors, but al&s;o wofully &s;cratched, and mi&s;era|bly torn by the poy&s;onous nails of many-headed Schi&s;m, and mon&s;trous Here&s;ies, unle&s;s the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Apud nos, Apo&s;tolorum locum Epi&s;co|pi tenent. S. Hi|er. Epi&s;t. ad Marcell &amp; in Epi&s;t. ad Evag.</NOTE> Apo&s;tolical Order of Epi&s;copacy protected this Cele&s;tial Virgin from vi|olence and rape, according to that of<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ad Papianum</NOTE> St. <HI>Cyprian, Unde Schi&s;mata &amp; Here&s;es ortae &s;unt? ni&s;i dum Epi&s;copus qui unus e&s;t, &amp; Eccle&s;iae praee&s;t, &s;uper|ba quorundam pre&s;umptione contemnitur.</HI></P>
<P>As al&s;o, another Branch of this Di&s;cour&s;e is King|ly Government, the real intere&s;t whereof is &s;o twi&s;ted with the &s;acred Order of Bi&s;hops, that it &s;eems ani|mated by the &s;ame Soul; for like <HI>Hippocrates</HI> twins, they &s;mile and weep together, and live and die toge|ther: the which mo&s;t certain truth was too truly and plainly demon&s;trated in the late &s;chi&s;matical times, which &s;ealed with &s;acred blood that<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Confer. at Hampt. Court.</NOTE> Aphori&s;m of wi&s;e King <HI>James,</HI> No Bi&s;hop, no King.</P>
<P>A third Branch of the Sermon is, the Supremacy of his Maje&s;ty, in Cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical; of which Royal Prerogative, inherent in the Imperial Crown, the Prote&s;tant Bi&s;hops have alwayes been the mo&s;t faithfull and worthy<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Epi&s;c. Elien&s;. Re&s;p ad Apol. Bellarm. cap 4. Bi&s;hop White again&s;t Fi&s;her. p. 570, &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Hypera&s;pi&s;tae:</HI> whereas the Ge|nius of Presbyterian Di&s;cipline is alwayes nibbling at the Royal Scepter.</P>
<P>The la&s;t Branch concerns the Law, which is <HI>Vin|culum Humanae Societatis,</HI> and concerns Magi&s;tracy,
<PB REF="4"> which is <HI>Propugnaculum Legis,</HI> to who&s;e due Rights none tender a more cheerfull and ready obedience, than tho&s;e of the Epi&s;copal judgement, who preach and practice pa&s;&s;ive obedience, not<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Cal. In&s;tit. lib. 4. cap. 20. Sect. 31.</NOTE> Genevizing re|&s;i&s;tance, who &s;ay with<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">S. Ambr. in Orat. ad Aux|entium.</NOTE> St. <HI>Ambro&s;e, Dolere potero&mdash; flere potero&mdash;aliter nec debeo, nec po&s;|&s;um re&s;i&s;tere.</HI></P>
<P>Accept therefore, my good Lord, of this Mite of Duty, which upon the earne&s;t entreaty of &s;ome Per&s;ons of worth and integrity, adventures into the Ocean of a critical world: and although I freely acknowledge, my well-intended endeavours did not merit the &s;prink|ling of that florid and fluent Rhetorick, which the then<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Serjeant Broom.</NOTE> Lord Judge (who hath a <HI>Suada</HI> in his tongue) vouch&s;afed in his eloquent and loyal charge to pour upon them: yet I hope your Lord&s;hip will not throw them away into the gulph of neglect, &s;ee|ing they found a candid reception from the Pulpit, and come from him who accounts it his great honour to be a regular Son of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and conceives it his lawfull ambition to be reputed by your Lord&s;hip, as he is unfeignedly in all Canonicall obedience,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t humble and devoted Servant, <HI>JOHN HOWES.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Text.</HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>2 Chron. 19.5, 6.</HI></BIBL>
<P>And he &s;et Judges in the Land, in all the fenced Cities of Judah, City by City.</P>
<P>And he &s;aid to the Judges, Take heed what you do; for you judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in judgement.</P></Q>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable, Right Wor&s;hipfull, and Well-beloved,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe World before it was civilized, may fitly be re&s;embled to a va&s;t Ocean, or to a wilde Wilderne&s;s: for as in the va&s;t Ocean, the great|er Fi&s;h devour the le&s;s without controul; and as in the wilde Wilderne&s;s, the &s;tronge&s;t Bea&s;ts tear in pieces the weaker at their plea&s;ure: So in the World, the raging <HI>Nimrods,</HI> who are like the<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Job 41.1.</NOTE> <HI>Leviathan</HI> in the Ocean; and
<PB N="2" REF="6"> the furious &s;ons of <HI>Belial,</HI> who are like <HI>Job</HI>'s<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Job 40.15.</NOTE> <HI>Be|hemoth</HI> in the Wilderne&s;s, would make a prey of all who are infirm and quiet, unle&s;s there were Government, Law, and Judges, to pre&s;erve Pro|priety, Liberty, and Life.</P>
<P>Wherefore <HI>Jeho&s;haphat,</HI> a noble and wi&s;e Prince, that he might curb unruly Sen&s;uality, re|&s;train bruiti&s;h Violence, puni&s;h devouring Op|pre&s;&s;ion, and bridle un&s;atiable Avarice, which are the <HI>Scylla</HI> and <HI>Charybdis</HI> of Humane Society; as al&s;o that he might e&s;tabli&s;h Law and Equity, which are the Pillars of a Kingdome; &s;ettle Righ|teou&s;ne&s;s and Truth, which are the Palladium of a Nation; and protect <HI>Meum &amp; Tuum,</HI> which are the Foundation of Wealth, Peace, and Indu|&s;try; He doth (as it is in my Text) <HI>&s;et Judges in the Land, thorowout all the fenced Cities of Judah, City by City. And he &s;aith to the Judges, Take heed what you do,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>The Context.</HI> De Jano bi|fronte. Vide Macrob. Sat. lib. 1. cap. 9.</NOTE>The fir&s;t word of the Text is a Conjunction copulative, and therefore, like <HI>Janus</HI> among the <HI>Romans,</HI> looks backward to the Ver&s;e preceding; where we find King <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> in his Royal pro|gre&s;s, from <HI>Beer&s;heba</HI> to Mount <HI>Ephraim,</HI> and in his progre&s;s denying him&s;elf many contenting de|lights, and lawfull plea&s;ures, that he might pro|mote the Publick good.</P>
<P>For as he was (after the example of all his
<PB N="3" REF="6"> Royal Predece&s;&s;ours) Supream in all Cau&s;es both Eccle&s;ia&s;tical and Civil, &s;o he takes care in all Cau|&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical and Civil: and as he was (after the example of all his noble Progenitours) <HI>Cu|&s;tos utriu&s;que tabulae,</HI> the Guardian of both Tables of the Moral Law, &s;o he takes e&s;peciall care for the ob&s;ervance of each Table. His care in Cau|&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, appertaining to God, appears in the la&s;t words of the former Ver&s;e, <HI>He brought the people back to the Lord God of their Fathers.</HI> His care in Cau&s;es Civil, appertaining to the Kingdome, appears in my Text, <HI>And he &s;et Judges in the Land, thorowout all the fenced Cities of Judah, City by City. And he &s;aid to the Judges,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>And here I be&s;eech you take notice of the Piety and Prudence of this mo&s;t Religious and Heroick King;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;ervation from the Context.</NOTE> He takes care of God and of Religion in the fir&s;t place: for what the Soul is to the Body, that is Religion to the State. The Body without the Soul is dead, and the State without &s;ome e&s;ta|bli&s;ht Religion is confu&s;ed and di&s;-joynted.</P>
<P>This was well known by the glimmering Lamp of Nature, to wi&s;e<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Videtur O|pheus hoc co|natus apud Thraces, quod Pythagoras tentavit apud Ionios, &amp; Numa apud Romanos. E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;. Adag. Chil. 4 Cent. 8. Num. 99.</NOTE> <HI>Orpheus</HI> among the <HI>Thraci|ans,</HI> to aenigmatical <HI>Pythagoras</HI> among the <HI>Greci|ans,</HI> and to devout <HI>Numa</HI> among the <HI>Romans;</HI> who did endeavour in the fir&s;t place to in&s;till &s;ome Principles of Natural Religion, among the barba|rous
<PB N="4" REF="7"> and rough People, that &s;o they might molli|fie their &s;avage Natures, and reduce them to Ci|vility, Order, and Obedience.</P>
<P>For Religion in it &s;elf is the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Religioni &s;erviendum e&s;t, quam qui non &s;u&s;picit, ip&s;e &s;e pro&s;ternit in terram, &amp; vitam pecudum &s;ecu|tus, humanitate &s;e abdicat. La|ctant. de fal&s;a &s;ap. lib. 3. cap. 10. in fine.</NOTE> foundation of all morall Vertue, the original of all ju&s;t and pious Law, the cement that &s;trongly combine s all hu|mane Society, and the very life of impartiall Ju|&s;tice, upright Love, and con&s;tant Hone&s;ty.</P>
<P>And &s;upernatural Religion is the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Haec doctrina porta coeli e&s;t, &amp; janua paradi&s;i, &s;cala illa Jaco|bi, &amp;c. Armin. orat. de auct. &amp; fine. Theolog. pag. 45.</NOTE> Ladder of <HI>Jacob,</HI> by which the Soul may gradually a&s;cend from Earth to Heaven; the &s;ilver wings of <HI>Da|vids</HI> Dove, by which we approach into the pre|&s;ence of the Almighty; and the golden Chain that unites God to Man, and draws down the rich Ble&s;&s;ings of Heaven upon us poor and needy Mor|tals in the Earth.</P>
<P>Wherefore <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> did mo&s;t prudently, as well as piou&s;ly, to give <HI>primitias Deo,</HI> the fir&s;t Fruits to God, who is<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">, A|poc. 1.8.</NOTE> <HI>Primus &amp; ultimus,</HI> the fir&s;t and the la&s;t. And having<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. Aratus in Phaen. Vid. Lorin. in Act. 17.28.</NOTE> fir&s;t &s;erved God in Religious Affairs, he proceeds in the next place to take care of the Kingdome in Civil Affairs, <HI>And he &s;et Judges in the Land,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>The which words do repre&s;ent unto us, as in a clear optick Gla&s;s, two noble Objects, namely,</P>
<P>The Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty; And</P>
<P>The mo&s;t Reverend and Learned Judges.</P>
<P>And they repre&s;ent the&s;e Objects without any
<PB N="5" REF="7"> envious or eclip&s;ing cloud: They repre&s;ent them in their orient &s;plendour, and dazling lu&s;tre.</P>
<P N="1">1. They repre&s;ent the King in his Soveraignty and Supremacy, which is the mo&s;t precious and beautifull Flower in his Crown.</P>
<P N="2">2. They repre&s;ent the Judges in their Circuit and Commi&s;&s;ion, which is their venerable Ho|nour and Authority.</P>
<P N="1">1. Here is the King in the Pronoune primi|tive, <HI>He.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Here is the Kings Soveraignty and Supre|macy, in that, <HI>He &s;et Judges in the Land,</HI> (which none but Royal Maje&s;ty can do.)</P>
<P N="3">3. Here is the Circuit of the Judges, <HI>Thorow|out all the fenced Cities of Judah, City by City.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, Here is the Commi&s;&s;ion of the Judges; Wherein is contained,</P>
<P N="1">1. A pious and prudent Caveat, <HI>Take heed what you do.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The Plea for putting in the Caveat, <HI>You judge not for men, but for the Lord.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The Seal to &s;trengthen the Caveat, <HI>God is with you in judgement. And he &s;et Judges in the Land, thorowout all the fenced Cities of Judah. And he &s;aid,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="1">1. Of the King, in the fir&s;t word of the Text, the Pronoun primitive, <HI>He.</HI></P>
<P>And now I may &s;ay with holy <HI>David,</HI> P&s;al.
<PB N="6" REF="8"> 45 1. <HI>My Heart is inditing of a good matter, I &s;peak of the things I have made concerning the King; my Tongue &s;hould be as the Pen of a ready Writer.</HI></P>
<P>For Kings are not the Invention of active Wits, or of ambitious Heads, or of politick Brains, as the deluded<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Sleid. eom. lib. 10.</NOTE> <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> and other <HI>Enthu&s;ia&s;ts</HI> dream; neither are they Creatures of the Peoples making, or the product of the Multitude, as<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Bell. de Laicis. lib. 1. cap. 6. <HI>E.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Bellarmine</HI> on the one hand, and the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Longe con|traria e&s;t huic doctrinae Chri|&s;ti, Fanatico|rum Angliae o|pinio, qui do|cent Regem e&s;&s;e creaturam po|puli, &amp;c. Salma|&s;ius in reg. de|fen&s;. cap. 3. in principio, &amp; cap. 10. circa medi|um.</NOTE> <HI>Indepen|dents,</HI> with other &s;editious Per&s;ons on the other hand, maintain: But they are grounded on the Law of Nature in Paternall Authority, which is co-aevall with the World; they are founded on the Law of right Rea&s;on, which gives a Dignity and Authority to the Fir&s;t-Born over all his Bre|thren; they are rooted in the Original Law of Nations, as <HI>Cicero lib.</HI> 3. <HI>de Legib.</HI> te&s;tifies, where he &s;aith, <HI>Omnes antiquae Gentes Regibus paruerunt,</HI> All the ancient Nations of the World were go|verned by Kings: They are confirmed by the un|erring Law of God, who did in&s;titute the<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Deut. 17.15.</NOTE> Go|vernment of Kings over his own cho&s;en People, and gave expre&s;s<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 16.1.</NOTE> Commandement for <HI>David</HI> to be annointed King over <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> Finally, they are Prophetically promi&s;ed, as a very great Ble&s;&s;ing to the Church in Go&s;pel-times, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 49.23. <HI>Kings &s;hall be thy nur&s;ing Fathers, and Queens &s;hall be thy nur&s;ing Mothers.</HI></P>
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<P>This Government by Kings, <HI>Plato</HI> the Seraphick Philo&s;opher<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">In Timaeo.</NOTE> calls <GAP DESC="foreign">, the mo&s;t divine Government. And<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Herodotus lib. 3. in orat. O&s;tanis, pro Monarchia.</NOTE> <HI>Herodotus</HI> (who is &s;tiled <HI>Pater Historiarum,</HI> the fir&s;t Hi&s;torian among the Heathen) calls it <GAP DESC="foreign">, the mo&s;t anci|ent Government. And <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> (who was the mo&s;t rational and judicious of all the Philo&s;ophers)<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. Eth. lib. 8. cap. 10.</NOTE> calls it <GAP DESC="foreign">, the mo&s;t excellent Go|vernment.</P>
<P>For Monarchy is the imitation of the Govern|ment in Heaven, which is by one God; the re&s;ti|tution of the Primitive Government in the World, which was by one King: And it is the reflection of that admirable government of Nature, which rules the many Members of the Body by one Soul.</P>
<P>Experience proves, that Ship is be&s;t guided which is &s;teered by one Pilot, though trimmed by many Sailors; that Army is be&s;t ordered which is commanded by one General, though a&s;&s;i&s;ted by many inferiour Officers; and that Nation is be&s;t governed who is ruled by one King, though ad|vi&s;ed by divers prudent and religious Coun&s;el|lours.</P>
<P>Doth not Nature give us a Hieroglyphick here|of in the mellifluous Bees, who&s;e &s;weet Com|monwealth is ordered by one King,
<Q><L>&mdash;Quem admirantur,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Georg lib 4.</NOTE> &amp; omnes</L>
<L>Circum&s;tant fremitu den&s;o, stipantque frequentes,</L></Q>
<PB N="8" REF="9"> whom they all reverence, and like little nimble Courtiers, wait upon. As al&s;o in the &s;ubtile <HI>Cranes,</HI><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Plin. nat hi&s;t. lib. 10. cap. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> who in their annuall flight over the Mount <HI>Taurus,</HI> (where the Eagles, their mortal enemies lodge) do by in&s;tinct reduce them&s;elves into a form of Battalio, like a Triangle, and fol|low the conduct of one Leader, who flies before them, as if he was their King. Let us therefore in a unanimous Suffrage conclude with the judge|ment of the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Hom. Iliad. B.</NOTE> Prince of Poets, <GAP DESC="foreign">;&mdash; Let there be one Lord, one King.</P>
<P>But what is a King without Power? He is as a Bird without wings, or a Picture without life: He is as<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Judg. 16.20, 21.</NOTE> <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> among the <HI>Phili&s;tins,</HI> with his locks cut off; or like<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ae&s;op. fab. 17.</NOTE> <HI>Ae&s;op</HI>'s Log, ca&s;t by <HI>Jupiter</HI> into the Lake, among the croaking Frogs, at fir&s;t their Fear, but afterwards their Scorn.</P>
<P>Power therefore is e&s;&s;ential to the Being of a King, without which he is but like the <HI>Spartans</HI> Nightingale, <HI>Vox, &amp; praeterea nihil,</HI> a Noi&s;e, and nothing el&s;e.</P>
<P>Power is &s;o nece&s;&s;ary, that without it he cannot protect his loyal Subjects from wrong, or his<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Vide Salma&s;. reg. defen&s;. cap. 10. per totum.</NOTE> Sa|cred Per&s;on from outrage: He cannot defend his Laws from &s;hamefull neglect, or Him&s;elf from ba&s;e Contempt; neither can he repell a &s;udden inva&s;i|on from abroad, or charm down the Evil Spirit of Rebellion and In&s;urrection at home. And this
<PB N="9" REF="9"> brings me to the &s;econd part of the Text, and that is,&mdash;The Authority, Soveraignty, and Supremacy of the King, in the&s;e words, <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>He &s;et Judges in the Land.</HI></P>
<P>And now behold the King in his Throne. Be|hold him not only with a Crown of Gold upon his head, but with the glittering Sword of Ju&s;tice in one hand, and the golden Scepter of Law in the other hand. Behold him attended with his reve|rend, wi&s;e, and learned Judges; and they not impo&s;ed upon him, (as if he was a Minor, and in Ward&s;hip) but of his own free choi&s;e, and gracious Election; for &s;o &s;aith my Text, <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>He &s;et Judges in the Land.</HI></P>
<P>And this is a Point very remarkable,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;econd part of the Text.</NOTE> and of highe&s;t Concern: For there hath been in our &s;ad and wofull Memory, Two Pretenders unto this &s;u|pream Act of Power; the one is the People, <HI>Qui vult decipi, non vult cogi;</HI> the other is the Senate, which is the Repre&s;entative of the People. But to &s;ay little hereof, <HI>(ne cicatricem refricarem)</HI> both are ab&s;olutely excluded by my Text: For the Text doth not &s;ay, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>They &s;et Judges in the Land;</HI> but the Text &s;peaks in the &s;ingular number, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>He &s;et Judges in the Land.</HI> This is an Act of Supremacy, and therefore belongs to the King: It cannot belong to the People, unle&s;s we do, with the unrea&s;onable
<PB N="10" REF="10">
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Fanatici' do|cent, populum dominum e&s;&s;e Regis. Salma&s;. in reg. defen. cap. 3.</NOTE> Fanaticks, make the Feet the Head; neither can it belong to the Senate, for their many Oaths, and the title of their frequent Petitions di&s;avow it, whereby they both &s;wear and declare them&s;elves, <HI>His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t humble, loyal, and obedient Sub|jects.</HI></P>
<P>St. <HI>Peter</HI> the Apo&s;tle makes it a ruled Ca&s;e in the Law of God, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.13. <HI>Submit your &s;elves to every Ordinance of Man, for the Lords &s;ake, whe|ther to the King as Supream,</HI> (here is the Kings Su|premacy a&s;&s;erted by divine Authority) <HI>or to Go|vernours, as &s;ent by him,</HI> (here is the inferiority and dependency of all Judges and Magi&s;trates e&s;tabli&s;ht) <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> in my Text, after the practice of all his Royal Progenitours, after the ex|ample of all his noble Predece&s;&s;ours, after the pre&s;ident of pious<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 26.29, 30. 1 King. 4.4, 5.</NOTE> <HI>David,</HI> wi&s;e <HI>Solomon,</HI> and all the other Kings of <HI>Judah,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>He &s;et Judges in the Land.</HI></P>
<P>And it mu&s;t needs be &s;o; for according to the Greek Aphori&s;m, <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp;c. the Throne and the Bed will not bear a Rival. To &s;et Judges in the Land without the King, is either to be a|bove the King, which<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Nec quen|quam jam ferre pote&s;t Cae&s;arve priorem, Pompeiu&s;ve parem. Lucan. Phar&s;. lib. 1.</NOTE> <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> could not brook; or el&s;e to be co-ordinate with the King, which <HI>Pompey</HI> could not dige&s;t; or el&s;e to cut off a skirt from the Kings royal Mantle, which made<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 24.5.</NOTE> <HI>Da|vids</HI> Heart to quake and tremble.</P>
<PB N="11" REF="10">
<P>What Gentleman of the long Robe, who is advanced beyond his <HI>Littleton,</HI> doth not know, it is a received Maxime in the Laws of <HI>England,</HI> that the <HI>King is the Fountain of Honour, and of Ju|&s;tice?</HI> Therefore as all Nobility is like a Chry&s;tal Stream, which flows from that glorious Spring; &s;o all Judges, Ju&s;tices, and inferiour Magi&s;trates, are as Rivers which i&s;&s;ue from that noble Ocean. <HI>Alexander</HI> told the Emba&s;&s;adours of <HI>Darius,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Q Curt. hi&s;t. de Alex. lib. 4.</NOTE> <HI>The Firmament will endure no more but one Sun, and the Regal Throne will bear no more but one Su|pream;</HI>&mdash;
<Q>He &s;et Judges in the Land.</Q></P>
<P>But there are two &s;ort of Judges; the one Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical, the other Civil: The one to judge in things that appertain to God, and Divine Wor|&s;hip; the other to judge in things &s;ecular, apper|taining to Right and Wrong, which concern Mens Liberties, Lives, and Fortunes. Both the&s;e depend upon Kingly Power, and are goodly Branches, which grow and flouri&s;h upon the Roy|al Tree of Monarchy.</P>
<P>For we find in the 8th. Ver&s;e of this Chapter, that King <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> appoints an Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Court of Prie&s;ts and Levites, to determine in Mat|ters Spiritual and Ceremonial; and he con&s;titutes <HI>Amariah</HI> the High-Prie&s;t, Chief Judge in this his Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Court, Ver&s;e the 11th. of this Chapter.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="11">
<P>Further, He appoints a Civil Court, to deter|mine matters of the King, and Pleas of the Crown, and con&s;titutes <HI>Zebadiah</HI> the Son of <HI>I&s;hmael,</HI> chief Judge therein, as it is in the &s;ame Ver&s;e.</P>
<P>And this juri&s;diction of King <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> in Matters Eccle&s;ia&s;tical and Civil, was no intru&s;ion, or innovation, but a ju&s;t a&s;&s;erting of the ancient Charter of his mo&s;t honourable Predece&s;&s;ours: For King <HI>Solomon,</HI> who&s;e<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">King. 4.30.</NOTE> wi&s;dome excelled all the wi&s;dome of the Ea&s;t, and all the wi&s;dome of <HI>Egypt,</HI> did appoint <HI>Zadok</HI> the Prie&s;t to be<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 King. 2.35.</NOTE> High-Prie&s;t. And thus did Chri&s;tian Emperours in the<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Bil&s;on of O|bedience.</NOTE> Primitive times, untill <HI>Boniface</HI> the Third u&s;urp|ed that ambitious and tyrannical title of <HI>&V;niver|&s;alis Epi&s;copus.</HI> Yea Heathen Kings by the prin|ciples of ju&s;t Policy, have, and do keep this Pre|rogative inviolate, namely, To be Supream Go|vernour over all Pe&s;ons, and in all Cau&s;es, both Divine and Civil: well knowing, it is a dange|rous Cancer in the body of the State, to &s;uffer any Power in a Kingdome to be independent upon the Royal; and that it makes a Kingdome, like the Serpent (which<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Plin. nat. hi&s;t. lib. 20. cap. 20.</NOTE> <HI>Pliny</HI> calls) <HI>Amphisbaena,</HI> who having two Heads, drawing two &s;everall wayes, doth writhe the body mi&s;erably, and af|ter many painfull convul&s;ions, doth tear the bo|dy into loath&s;ome pieces.</P>
<P>Pre&s;umptuous therefore, and highly injurious,
<PB N="13" REF="11"> is the U&s;urpation of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> in claim|ing a Supremacy over Kings and Princes in<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Bell. de Rom. Pontif lib. 5. cap 1. &amp; cap. 6. &amp; cap. 7.</NOTE> Cau|&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical: e&s;pecially pre&s;umptuous is he in claiming a Superiority over the King of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> who was held to be <GAP DESC="foreign">, by the<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Vide the pri|mitive Rule of Reformation. pag. 33, 34.</NOTE> <HI>Ro|mani&s;ts</HI> them&s;elves; and as our learned<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Camden. Brit. cap. Ordin. Angl.</NOTE> Antiqua|ry proves, holds not his Empire in va&s;&s;allage unto any, neither is inthroned, or in&s;talled by any for|reign Power, and hath an Arch-Bi&s;hop in his own Dominions, who is <GAP DESC="foreign">, a great Me|tropolitan, <HI>&amp; magnus totius orbis Patriarcha,</HI> a great Patriarch of the Chri&s;tian World.</P>
<P>Injurious likewi&s;e, and more highly pre&s;ump|tuous, is the little Church of <HI>Geneva,</HI> in her no|vell and high-minded opinion, concerning the power of the Presbytery over Kings and Princes,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Traver&s;. de di&s;cipl. Eccl. fol. 136, 137.</NOTE> even to the dreadfull &s;entence of Excommunica|tion; as al&s;o in teaching the People, (as appears in the Writings of<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Cal. in&s;tit. lib 4. cap. 20. Sect. 31. Danaeus de Chri&s;tiana po|lit. lib. 3. cap. 6. Bucan. In&s;t. the|ol. de Magi&s;tra|tu. num. 77. &amp;c.</NOTE> <HI>Calvin, Beza, Danaeus, Buca|nus, Knox, Buchanan,</HI> and many others) that it is lawfull for them to take up Arms again&s;t their Soveraign, in ca&s;e of Religion or Liberty; the which &s;editious Doctrine, clean contrary to &s;acred<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.1.2, 5.</NOTE> Scripture, clean contrary to the practice of the<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Tertul. in A|polog.</NOTE> primitive Chri&s;tians, and diametrically contrary to the judgement of the ancient<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Circa Maje|&s;tatem impera|toris infama|mur, tamen nunquam Ca&s;&s;iani inveniri pouerunt Chri&s;tiani. Tertul. ad Scapulam.</NOTE> Fathers, (if it be not thorowly quenched in <HI>England</HI>) will be a
<PB N="14" REF="12"> Fire-brand to kindle a new Warre in the bowels of the Nation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dolere potero, flere potero &punc; aliter nec de|beo, nec po&s;&s;um re&s;i&s;tere. S. Am|br in orat. in Aux<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nt.</NOTE> as &s;oon as the people are like Tinder prepared for the work. I am &s;ure this novel and people-flattering Opinion is a poy&s;oning of the Subject in point of Loyalty, and a robbing of his gracious Maje&s;ty of the mo&s;t choi&s;e and glorious Flower which grows in the Crown Imperial, the which Flower was planted by the hands of God him&s;elf.</P>
<P>And thus much for Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Judges; who as they are by Divine and Civil Authority e&s;ta|bli&s;hed in <HI>England,</HI> do like<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">1 King. 1.23:</NOTE> <HI>Nathan</HI> the Prophet bow down before King <HI>David,</HI> and heartily ac|knowledge the King (as<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Tert. in apol. adver. gentes. cap. 30.</NOTE> <HI>Tertullian</HI> in his Apo|logy declares the primitive Chri&s;tians acknowledg|ed the <HI>Roman</HI> Emperour) <HI>&agrave; Deo &s;ecundus, po&s;t quem primus, ante omnes, &amp; &s;uper omnes;</HI> Next to God him&s;elf in his own Dominions, and &s;upe|riour to all per&s;ons in his own Kingdomes. I proceed to the other kind of Judges, which are Civil, of which my Text directly &s;peaks&mdash;
<Q>He &s;et Judges in the Land.</Q></P>
<P>And what are Civil Judges? They are the ho|noured Fathers of their Countrey, the worthy Patrons of the Subjects Birth-right, which is Pro|priety, and legal Liberty; and as the holy<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 47.9.</NOTE> Scri|pture calls them, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>the Sheilds of the Earth.</HI></P>
<PB N="15" REF="12">
<P>Judges are the <HI>Atlas</HI>'s which bear up the pillars of a flouri&s;hing Nation; the Altars to which the de&s;olate Widow, the forlorn Orphan, and the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Innocent fly for &s;uccour; and they are the Oracles of Law, from who&s;e well-guided Lips the Princes of the Earth learn Wi&s;dome and Righ|teou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
<P>They are &s;o extreamly nece&s;&s;ary, that not only the Well-being of a Kingdome, but the very Be|ing of humane Society depends upon them. So that what &s;ome Modern Philo&s;ophers &s;ay of the Sun, namely,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rob. de fluct. in utriu&s;que co&s;mi. hi&s;t. tract 1. lib. 1. cap. 6.</NOTE> That if that glorious Planet was pulled out of his Sphear, by the hand of Omnipo|tence, the lovely frame of Heaven and Earth would &s;ink into a Chaos: So we may confidently &s;ay, that if Judges and Magi&s;trates were thrown out of the Seat of Government, and levelled with the <HI>Vulgus,</HI> by the evil &s;pirit of <HI>Quakeri&s;m, Ana|bapti&s;m,</HI> and <HI>Enthu&s;ia&s;m,</HI> all humane Society would quickly corrupt into &s;elf-de&s;troying Confu|&s;ion, and be &s;wallowed up in the gaping gulph of Oppre&s;&s;ion, Violence, and ruining Mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>How happy then are we of this Kingdome, <HI>Bona &s;i &s;ua norint Agricolae,</HI> if we had Eyes to &s;ee our Happine&s;s, that we have Judges and Magi&s;trates in the Land: That we are not left like the harm|le&s;s Dove, to the greedy violence of Birds of prey; that we are not left as the quiet Sheep, to the gri|ping
<PB N="16" REF="13"> hunger of ravenous Bea&s;ts; nor con&s;trained to cry out according to the elegant<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;m Adag. cent 6. num. 22</NOTE> Greek Adage, <GAP DESC="foreign">, Let there be Equality by ca&s;ting of Lots, and not a taking by the Throat, to &s;natch away what is ours by &s;trong hand and power.</P>
<P>As al&s;o what great cau&s;e have we to ble&s;s God, that we have Judges in the Land, who make the Law their rule, and Religion their guide; who are loyal to their gracious King, and faithfull to his obedient Subjects; who know God &s;its in the Congregation of the<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign"> P&s;al. 82.1.</NOTE> Gods; and as <HI>Homer</HI> &s;aith, <GAP DESC="foreign">, hath an impartial Eye to re|venge all ungodline&s;s and unrighteou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
<P>Finally, what great cau&s;e have we to magnifie God, for this Happine&s;s of the Kingdome, far above other Kingdomes in the world, that the&s;e honourable and learned Judges of our Land, do like the Vine and Fig-tree in<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Judg. 9.10.</NOTE> <HI>Jotham</HI>'s Parable, leave their own Sweetne&s;s and &s;elf-enjoyments, to bear precious fruit to us; that they value not their own Ea&s;e and Re&s;t, to bring upright Judgement to our doors, and impartial Ju&s;tice to our Coun|ty; that they are as burning and &s;hining Lamps, wa&s;ting the oyl of their Health and Strength to en|lighten and refre&s;h us. In a word, that they do with<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Exod. 18.13.</NOTE> <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> &s;it from Morning to Evening, to hear the Cau&s;es between man and man. And this brings me to the third part of the Text, the Judges Circuit,&mdash;
<Q><PB N="17" REF="13" MS="y">Throughout all the fenced Cities of Judah.<NOTE PLACE="marg">The third part of the Text.</NOTE></Q></P>
<P>But what have fenced Cities to do with Judges? Fenced Cities have need of valiant Souldiers, and experienced Commanders; have need of &s;welling Granaries, and loaden Magazins; have need of <HI>Vitruvius,</HI> to build &s;trong Bulwarks; and of<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">De Archime|de. Vid. Plut. in vita Marcelli.</NOTE> <HI>Archimedes,</HI> to draw Geometricall lines. <HI>Juli|us Cae&s;ar</HI> told the hone&s;t Tribune, who forbad him to break open the <HI>Roman</HI> Trea&s;ury, becau&s;e it was again&s;t Law;<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Plut. in vita Julii Cae&s;ar.</NOTE> <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar</HI> told him, that <HI>the &s;hrill &s;ound of the Trumpet, and the ratling beat of the Drum, did &s;o deafen his Ears, that he could not hear the voice of any Law.</HI></P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding all this, and much more that might be &s;aid, there is great nece&s;&s;ity and a|bundant advantage, when Judges are appointed to vi&s;it all the fenced Cities of <HI>Judah.</HI></P>
<P>For a City may be fenced in the <HI>Halcyon</HI> dayes of Peace; a City may be fortified, when the Temple of <HI>Janus</HI> is &s;hut; and the politick Wi&s;|dome of Princes teacheth them, to provide as well again&s;t the Fraud of a pretended Ally, as again&s;t the watchfull Malice of a proclaimed Enemy. It is &s;omething too late to draw Fortifications, when the Herald denounces Warre, and the Canon &s;pits fire: And therefore<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">2 Reg. 23.9. 2 Chron. 19.15, 16. 2 Chron. 26.14, 17.</NOTE> <HI>David,</HI> and <HI>Solomon,</HI> and <HI>&V;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">iah,</HI> did fence their Cities in time of Peace; and every Prince who is a <HI>Prometheus</HI> will do &s;o.
<PB N="18" REF="14"> Preventing Phy&s;ick is the cheape&s;t and the be&s;t Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P>Now in this ca&s;e, Judges are as needfull and u&s;efull for fenced Cities, as their deep Trenches, and double Walls: Nay, they are more needfull, and more &s;trong defences, than all their Walls of Stone or Earth; &s;tronger than that brazen Wall, which common fame relates, the learned Frier en|deavoured by Magical skill to erect round about this famous I&s;land.</P>
<P><HI>Lycurgus</HI> the renowned Law-maker of <HI>Sparta</HI> was clearly of this judgement, and therefore<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Plut. in vita Lycur.</NOTE> for|bad his Citizens to build any Walls about their <HI>Sparta,</HI> affirming, that <HI>good Laws duely executed were the &s;tronge&s;t monuments to Towns or Cities;</HI> the which Truth was confirmed by real Experience, for (as <HI>Plutarch</HI> ob&s;erves) <HI>Sparta,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Plut. in vita Ly&s;andri.</NOTE> which had no Walls, but good Laws, was longer lived, and more illu&s;trious than <HI>Thebes,</HI> or <HI>Corinth,</HI> or <HI>A|thens,</HI> or any other City of <HI>Greece,</HI> which had &s;up|po&s;ed invincible Fortifications.</P>
<P>And this Truth is e&s;tabli&s;ht by &s;olid Rea&s;on: For as Impo&s;tumes within the Body, if they are not cured, do more certainly kill, than loathed Ul|cers that are in the external parts: And as infect|ed blood running in the channell of the Veins doth more &s;peedily transfix the heart, than wide wounds which are expo&s;ed to the Eye; &s;o Divi&s;i|on,
<PB N="19" REF="14"> and Oppre&s;&s;ion, and Riots, and Debauche|ries, and &s;ordid vices within a City, do more certainly and &s;peedily ruine a fenced City or Cor|poration, than <HI>Hannibal ante portas,</HI> than a threat|ning Enemy that beleaguers the Walls, or a bold Foe that throws a Granado into the Town, or &s;trikes a Petard upon the Gates.</P>
<P>Needfull then are Judges, even in fenced Ci|ties, that they may be Healers of in-bred Divi&s;i|ons, Repairers of tumultuous Breaches, and Re|&s;torers of quiet paths to dwell in.</P>
<P>Nece&s;&s;ary be Judges, that they may charm with the rod of <HI>Mercury,</HI> the evil &s;pirit of Vio|lence, and puni&s;h with the glittering Sword of Ju&s;tice, the impudence of incorrigible Offen|dors. They are nece&s;&s;ary to protect the Gown from the Buff; to &s;helter the un-armed Town&s;|man, from the imperiou&s;ne&s;s and rapine of the Man of Warre, who would roar and &s;well like the raging Waves of the Sea, if Judges and Go|vernours did not with the Trident of Law, a&s;|&s;wage the fury of the thundring Tempe&s;t.&mdash; But my Text goes further&mdash;
<Q>City by City.</Q> that is to &s;ay, Every City had Judges appointed for the compo&s;ing of civil differences, and the puni&s;hing of notorious malefactours. <Q><HI>&V;rbes no|viter &s;tructae, &V;rbes bello acqui&s;itae,</HI> &amp;c.</Q> Cities
<PB N="20" REF="15"> which were newly built, and Cities which were lately conquered, have Judges appointed to de|termine in all Cau&s;es civil and capital, as the in|comparable<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Grot. Annot. in loc.</NOTE> <HI>Grotius</HI> ob&s;erves upon the Text.</P>
<P>And this was a &s;ingular act of Prudence: For if there be no City, Town, or Corporation, (except in Sr. <HI>Thomas Moor</HI>'s <HI>Eutopia</HI>) which is priviledged in a moral &s;ence, as<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Heylins Co&s;|mogr. de Creta &amp; Hibernia.</NOTE> <HI>Creet</HI> and <HI>Ire|land</HI> are in an hi&s;torical &s;en&s;e, from venemous Creatures; then there is an ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity of providing the antidote of Law, and the amulet of Ju&s;tice for every City, that the Good and Vertu|ous be not &s;tung to death by the flying Serpent of Oppre&s;&s;ion, or gnawn to the bones by the weep|ing Crocodile of Hypocri&s;ie.</P>
<P>Poets do<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Hefiod. Virg. Ovid, &amp;c,</NOTE> fable of the Golden Age, that it flouri&s;hed <HI>&s;ine Lege, &amp; &s;ine Judice,</HI> without Law, or Judges; and that Men were then &s;o vertuous, that&mdash; <Q><L><HI>Vindice nullo</HI></L>
<L>Sponte &s;ua, &s;ine lege, fidem, rectumque tenebant,</L>
<L>&mdash;Paena metu&s;que aberant.</L></Q> that men in tho&s;e ancient times were hone&s;t and faithfull of them&s;elves; and that they were ju&s;t without paenal Laws, or fear of puni&s;hment. But that Age of Innocency is long ago expired, and we live in the Iron Age, where<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Facit indig|natio Ver&s;um. Juvenal. Sat. 1 Num. 79.</NOTE> blu&s;hle&s;&s;e crimes out-face the Sun.</P>
<Q><PB N="21" REF="15">
<L>Where Faith and Truth are &s;trangers, or el&s;e exiles;</L>
<L>Where Fraud or Force do undermine, or &s;torm;</L></Q>
<P>And therefore there is extream need of Judges, and of Law, that the <HI>Augaean</HI> Stable may be clean&s;ed; the &s;tinking &s;inks of foul &s;ins may be wa&s;hed; that men may not be Cannibals, or el&s;e turn Brutes, and be like Mon&s;ters to tear and de|vour one another.</P>
<P>For the body politick is in many regards like the body natural: And as the body natural doth every year contract &s;ome ill humours, and there|fore hath &s;ometimes need of inci&s;ion, &s;ometimes of purgation, &s;ometimes of breathing a Vein, and &s;ometimes of Cau&s;ticks, and &s;ometimes of the amputating Saw, <HI>Ne pars &s;incera trahatur,</HI> le&s;t the &s;ound parts be gangreen'd; &s;o it is in a City or Corporation, the di&s;ea&s;es of Impiety and Iniquity abound, and like the crawling In&s;ects breed and multiply of them&s;elves: and therefore there is a nece&s;&s;ity of Judges and Magi&s;trates, to be the ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Ae&s;culapius</HI>'s to cure all the&s;e de&s;troying Maladies; to cure the Tympany of<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Haec &s;unt &s;eptem pecca|ta capitalia, ut numerantur &agrave; Cani&s;io in cat. pag. 455.</NOTE> Pride, the Drop&s;ie of Covetou&s;ne&s;s, the Itch of Luxury, the Impo&s;tume of Envy, the <HI>Caninus appetitus</HI> of Gluttony, the Feaver of Wrath, and the Lethargy of Idlene&s;s.</P>
<P>Need of Judges itinerant to vi&s;it a Kingdome, City by City, that they may cure the Megrim of
<PB N="22" REF="16"> Di&s;loyalty, the Lepro&s;ie of Schi&s;m, the Frenzy of Quarrelling, the &s;tinking Breath of fal&s;e Wit|ne&s;s, the Rheum of railing Language, and the Pal&s;ie of a lying Tongue.</P>
<P>Who knows not that Cities and Corporations are as Common-&s;hores, wherein the filth of a Kingdome runs? As great Rivers, which admit the &s;treams of any muddy Rivulet to mingle with them; as va&s;t boyling Pots, wherein there ari&s;eth naturally abundance of Scum.</P>
<P>In a Kingdome there is foul-mouth'd Swearing, Heaven-provoking Cur&s;ing, &s;wini&s;h Drinking, abominable Cheating, injurious Bargaining, fal&s;e Conveyances, pretended Titles, cur&s;ed failing in Tru&s;t.</P>
<P>In a Kingdome there are bloody Murthers, im|poveri&s;hing Thefts, frighting Burglaries, Soul-de&s;troying Perjury, Religion-ruining Simony, execrable Trea&s;ons, and dete&s;table Sacriledge.</P>
<P>Wherefore it is nece&s;&s;ary to have Law and Judges in the Land, that the&s;e Impo&s;tumes may be launced, that the&s;e Ulcers may be cured, that the&s;e pe&s;tilential Humours may be emptied, and the&s;e epidemical Di&s;ea&s;es may be thorowly pur|ged by the &s;overaign Pill of Ju&s;tice, Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and Equity.</P>
<P>And it is high time that the&s;e ill Humours of Vice and Wickedne&s;s be evacuated: For what a
<PB N="23" REF="16"> blazing Comet, in reference to the whole King|dome, is that univer&s;all Profanene&s;s which a+bounds both in City, Town, and Countrey With what dreadfull rayes doth it threaten t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> whole Nation? when as Gods holy Ordinanc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;piritual Manna of our Souls, is loathe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> when Gods &s;acred Me&s;&s;engers, the Heralds <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> Evangelical Peace, are de&s;pi&s;ed; when Gods di|vine Wor&s;hip, which is the <HI>Quotidiana Oblatio,</HI> the daily Offering prophe&s;ied of by <HI>Malachy,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mal. 1.11.</NOTE> is not only omitted, but mocked at. And men make no account of their immortal Souls, more precious than ten thou&s;and Worlds, but &s;ell them, as prophane <HI>E&s;au</HI> &s;old his Birth-right,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 12.16.</NOTE> for a me&s;s of Pottage, to gratifie any worldly Intere&s;t, or carnal, momentary Plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>What a di&s;mall Progno&s;tication for the whole Kingdome is the &s;lighting of Authority, the &s;peaking evil of Dignities, the murmuring of <HI>Co|rah</HI>'s, the whi&s;pering of <HI>Miriam</HI>'s, the refu&s;ing the Waters of <HI>Siloam,</HI> which run &s;oftly, and the im|patient longings after the puddles of levelling Go|vernment in the Church, as the fickle and giddy <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> did once long after the &s;tinking Leeks and Onions of <HI>Egypt.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Numb. 11.5.</NOTE></P>
<P>Certainly the&s;e prodigious Iniquities, the&s;e ominous Di&s;orders, and the&s;e dangerous Pre&s;um|ptions, call aloud for the coercive Power of the
<PB N="24" REF="17"> Magi&s;trate, who is <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Mini&s;ter of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13 4.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Reven|ger, to execute wrath on them that do evil.</P>
<P>Certainly the&s;e hainous and mon&s;trous Sins cry aloud in the Ears of our mo&s;t Reverend Judges, for due execution of the Laws, without which God him&s;elf will enter into Judgement with us, and plead his own Cau&s;e in Thunder and Light|ning, in Storms and Tempe&s;ts, far more terrible than the late fiery Torrent of <HI>Aetna,</HI> which to the amazement of the World, con&s;umed all that was before it.</P>
<P>And doubtle&s;s it is mo&s;t &s;afe for Judges and Magi&s;trates, <HI>Venienti occurrere Morbo,</HI> to meet a Di&s;ea&s;e, before the Malignity of it hath &s;eized the Vitals; and to de&s;troy the Cockatrice, while&s;t it is in the &s;hell. I be&s;eech you con&s;ider &s;eriou&s;ly, what dreadfull flames have kindled from neglect|ed &s;parks; and how many &s;tately Ships have &s;unk by &s;mall neglected leaks. I may not, I mu&s;t not enlarge&mdash;<Q><HI>Cinthius aurem vellit,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Virgil Eglog. 6.</NOTE> <HI>&amp; admonuit.</HI></Q></P>
<P>And &s;o much for the third part of the Text, the Circuit of the Judges,&mdash;
<Q>Thorowout all the fenced Cities of Judah, City by City.</Q></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The fourth part of the Text.</NOTE>We &s;hould come to the la&s;t Part of the Text, which is the Commi&s;&s;ion of the Judges.&mdash; But that Part of the Text is the beginning of the
<PB N="25" REF="17" MS="y"> next Ver&s;e, and therefore may be the Conclu&s;ion of my pre&s;ent Di&s;cour&s;e. And the fir&s;t particular in that part is the Caveat which King <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> gives to the Judges, in the&s;e words&mdash; <Q><HI>And he &s;aid to the Judges, Take heed what you do</HI></Q> &mdash; Which Caveat given to &s;uch Wi&s;e, Reverend, and Learned Per&s;ons, &s;hould move me to reflect upon my &s;elf, and to <HI>take heed what I do,</HI> namely, le&s;t I pre&s;ume upon your Honoured Patience, and retard your Weighty Affairs, and Publick Con|cerns. <HI>Wherefore be&s;eeching God to ble&s;s what hath been delivered, we humbly return to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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