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book_n	aaron_n	burden_n	discontent_n	16	3	13.1219	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33648	The magistrates support and burden in a sermon preached at the late election of the lord major for the famous city of London, Sept. 28, 1650 / by John Cardell.	Cardell, John.	1650 (1650)	Wing C493; ESTC R38649	31,445	46

lies upon the Magistrate Magistrates ye know are called Patres Patriae * Senatus no●en dedit aetas ●am ijdem Pa●essunt Quin. ●●st orat lib. ● Cap. 6. Fathers of their Country And can a tender-hearted Father see any of his Children lie groaning under heavy Burdens and not do whatever in him lies to ease their shoulders of those Burdens How sad was the fruit of Rehoboams refusing to hearken unto the People Magistratus moribus debe● se gerere ut f● trem reliquo rum in offici● ut Patrem Ames de c●● lib. 5. cap. 2● when they came in a fair Petitioning way unto him to ease them of their Burdens u The peop● Petition to Rehoboam 1 King 12. Thy Father made our yoke grievous say they now therfore make thou the grievous service of thy Father and his heavie yoke which he put upon us lighter and we wil serve thee No saies he w His Answ●● vers 10.11 compared with 2 Chr●● 10.14 My little finger shall be thicker than my Fathers loins my Father made your yoke heavy but I will add thereto my Father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with Scorpions Hereupon the People depart in a mighty discontent and resolve to have no more to do with Rehoboam nor with his Government neither x Their Resolution v. 1 of both Cha●ters What Portion have we in David say they neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse every man to your tents ô Israel and let David see to his own house And not only there or at that time but at other times and in other places also * Most of t●●● Civil Wars● that ever we● in the world● have had the● Rise from hence Oh! the woful Contentions and bloody Breaches that have heretofore fallen out between Governors and Governed when heavy burdens have been either imposed or continued without a sufficient cause y Gods goo● ness and sev●rity towards England How many Iron yokes of Oppression hath God already freed the People of this Nation from through a vast expence of Blood and Treasure And as for those other Burdens and Impositions that som amongst us do so much complain of Truly for what I know They might All have been removed by this time Had we not either drawn or continued them upon our selves by our own z What hinders our presēt prosperit● Love would soon heal all our Breache● and ease us 〈◊〉 all our Taxe● unthankefulness and Disobedience and unworthy walkings one towards another The Burden of the people Rights or 〈…〉 Thirdly The Burden of the Peoples Rights or Priviledges that also lies upon the Magistrate I do not say That the Rights and Priviledges of the People are a Burden in themselves or A Burden unto them But this I may and do say That the care of upholding and main●aining The care of vindicating encreasing al the several Rights Priviledges of the People That must needs be a Burden to any man or men that shall conscientiously undertake the work and go through with it accordingly Especially in * Serò medicina paratur Cùm mala per longas invaluêre moras corrupt times when things are mightily out of frame and order They that shall industriously set upon and accordingly prosecute this service The upholding of that which is present the vindication of that which is stollen or taken away The encreasing or adding of that which is wanting in point of Right or Priviledge They shall find it to be one of the hardest pieces of work that ever men enterprized and that which will prove a Burden too heavy for them If the Lord Himself do not mightily assist or wonderfully come in to help And yet this Magistrates should and are bound to do Virtute Officij by vertue of their Office For as a 2 Cor. 11.28 Paul had upon him the care of all the Churches so have Magistrates upon them the care of all the People to see that b In istos fines incumbit Magistratui singularis cura legum judiciorum ut comomni justitiá et aequitate tam constituantur quam exequutioni mandentur Ames ubi suprà Justice be done impartially for them without respect of persons and that Nothing be withheld from any one that of right belongs unto him either for fear or favour or upon any other terms whatsoever Fourthly The Burden of the peoples Discontents The Burden of the Peoples Discontents that also lies upon the Magistrate If ye roade over several Chapters in the Books of Exodus and Numbers and there view the Passage of the Children of Israel from Egipt into Canaan you shall find that nothing all along was such a Burden to Moses and Aaron or such an affliction to them as the Discontents of the People True it is that the wants of the People were exceeding great and many yet no other then such as the wise God thought fit to exercise them by sometimes they wanted Bread and sometimes they wanted Water and sometimes they wanted c Want of Faith the greatest w●● See for th●● Iob. 13.15 ● 27.13 L● 22.32 Jo● 36. other 〈◊〉 wants nev●● pinch us t●● our Faith 〈◊〉 ns Fides 〈…〉 mem non ti●● Hier. If 〈…〉 take away 〈…〉 mear God 〈…〉 take away 〈…〉 hunger sa●●● the Marty 〈…〉 Faith and that was the worst want of all And in the midst of al the straits that they were under hereby instead of complaining of themselves and of their own unworthiness and unbelief and undue provocations They would still be murmuring and complaining against Moses and against Aaron as if they had been the Causes of all their present sufferings Instances 〈…〉 the People● Burdenm● Moses 〈…〉 with their 〈…〉 murmuri● in the 11. ● 16. Cha● of this Bo● of Number ● A remarkable instance of this their unjust and injurious dealing ye have not only here in the 11th Chapter and again in the 16th Chapter of this Book of Numbers in the matter of Korah and his Company But more especially in the 14th Chapter of the same Book where when the false Spyes had brought them news of Gyants and sons of Anak in the land of Canaan that would in all likelihood be too hard for them and that might peradventure come upon them and kill them Numb 14.2 It is there said A special 〈…〉 stance of 〈…〉 doing so 〈…〉 Numb 14 〈…〉 vers 2. c 〈…〉 That all the Children of Israel murmured against Moses Aaron and the whole Congregation said unto them Would God we had died in the Land of Egipt or would God we had died in this Wilderness And wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this Land to fall by the Sword that our Wives and our Children should be a prey Were it not better for us to return into Egipt And they said one to another Let us make a Captain and let us return into Egipt And