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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05417	Two sermons one preached at Paules Crosse December 20. By Roger Lea Master of Arts, of Iesus-Colledge in Cambridge: and preacher at S. Leonards Shorditch, in Middlesex, by London. Another preached in Paules-Church, Decemb. 26, being S. Steuens day, by Iohn Squire, Master of Arts, of the same Colledge: and preacher of the same parish	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.; Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653. Sermon preached in Pauls church upon Saint Stevens fay. 1618. aut	1619 (1619)	STC 15569; ESTC S103084	38,824	74

by Philosophers and drawne from morrals of the Heathen much more must it hold in the Christian common wealth that the publike good must bee so preferred by the ruler that hee ought to put it before the priuate in his heart the glory of God before his owne and the welfare of the countrey before his priuate commodity all the omitting of necessary good all winking at euill doth lie vpon the necke of the Superiour This must excite a diligent care that a ruler must rule himselfe with more then an ordinary circumspection In these euill daies wherein the vniuersall crie of sinne betraies it selfe when men cry out of a corrupt age and say that the world is ending because that vice abounds Here you see a cause that requireth industry The spirituall power must detect sinne and inueigh with vehemency the sword of the temporall power must correct and reforme with seuerity to procure amendment I must confesse that we cannot haue Platoes common-wealth neither can we so labour but our purging will leaue drosse behind it Sinne when it is smitten will rise againe and some abuses will be incurable yet a man must bestir that power that he hath and doe his best or else God will punish him for slacknesse and visite with a heauy Iudgement because he did not visite offendours with his deriued authority and that iudgement committed into the rulers power That I may finish this point there is a gouernment which masters haue and parents also ouer their children For the Lord hath giuen much authority power and rule to them See the great care of almighty God his desire is to see things well ordered and hath placed a threefold authority in the world spirituall in the pastour temporall in the Magistrate as also domesticall in priuate families in as much as a threefold cord is not easily broken He in mercy striueth to giue sin the foyle and draw vnder the world into true obedience Doe masters and fathers represent diuine authority Let them be then in Gods place to bring vp and tutor those vnder them in Gods feare to teach and instruct them in religion not to let them sinke or swim to let them liue or die in ignorance pretending businesse they haue no leasure or corrupted by the diuell with a foolish bashfulnesse that maketh them to let passe this duty Doubtlesse the Lord will require their blood at the hands of slacke ouerseers But when I say masters must teach their seruants I doe not meane they must teach them to lie or to deceiue and by example or command to corrupt them in their youth in shewing those base and false proceedings that when the age is greene and capable of all conditions youth is spoyled before it can discerne and the new vessell seasoned with vnseasonable liquor this is odious instruction Is this to be a tutor or gouernour in Gods place This is like to Antichrist that sitteth in the Temple of God but aduanceth himselfe against all that is called God I haue the rather insisted vpon this subiect for the corrupter of the earth the power of hell will alwaies be ready to poison the degrees of gouernment and mustereth all the forces against true authority to hinder the endeauours of good men that they may be crossed and opposed that here the bond of amity may be broken that the affaires of the world may draw the minde another way working like to Sampson that laid hold vpon the pillars whereon the house did stand that ouerthrowing them the house and the men might fall in a common ruine If he also can lay hands on him that is commander then he is in his prime such intentions that are fostered in the highest places doe best agree with his desires and are most like to spread abroad knowing that when the fumes and cloudes are fitted in the a●re when the sky is darke aboue the storme will come and the earth shall feele a tempest Lastly see that the Lord to shew his power triumphs against them that are highest To breake downe them that are already low is an argument of lesser might but when these are brought downe whome none could tame when their power is abrogated that before was not to bersisted by violence or stubborn contradiction or gain-said in their commands here we see a mighty arme and a powerfull blow This must bee a great argument to feare the Lord and to dread his displeasure because his reach is vnlimited no compasse or strength can stay his force The greatest man on earth oweth as much humility to God as the meanest and is equally yoaked to vndergoe the edicts of heauen Wee preach alike to all and God will deale without distinction Christ in Daniel is described to ouerthrow kingdomes That Image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in the dreame with a gold on head with armes and brest of siluer and the rest did either signifie the foure great Monarchies of the world or else the three first with the remnant of Alexanders succession Although this Image was most glorious yet a stone cut without hands brake the Image and became a great mountaine filling the whole earth And as the Scepter was not departed from Iuda nor a Law-giuer from betweene his feete till Shilo came So Christ will alwaies make his comming notable with alterations When Shilo came first Iuda lost his Scepter and when he commeth againe the world shall loose all dominion You see how infinite is the the power of God aboue all earthly power Let no man swell in greatnesse of heart although the Lord exalt him to height of dignitie but that mildnesse and moderation may temper him in all his counsels For there is one aboue euery man euen our Sauiour that can turne him as he pleaseth The time shall come when scepters shall be broken when power shall grow impotent and when authoritie shall loose her authoritie Thus much for the first which is the doing of good I will now enter into the second which is the remoouing of euill He must reigne till he hath put all his enemies vnder his fecte First of his kingdome As Christ is God hee must reigne Hee reigneth ouer all as hee is Mediatour hee reigneth also Which office belongeth to him according to both his natures whereby hee maketh his kingdome absolute by vniting two in one bond reconciling the subiect and the soueraigne God and man This assumed kingdome is the thing here mentioned which is inferiour to the diuinitie For Christ is God by nature and of necessity but he is Mediatour by election and office it was a thing arbitrarie he might haue chosen whether hee would haue suffered the world to sinke in sinne or to haue redeemed it by his merits Ignatius therefore maketh a threefold difference of all first of the creatures secondly of the office of the Mediatour aboue all creatures thirdly of the diuine nature This kingdome hath a large extent he reigneth euery way and in euery place in the rulers and ministers one