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A94824	The zealous magistrate. Set forth in a sermon, preached in Exeter, before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Foster, his Majesties justice of assize for the western circuit. / By Thomas Trescot, master of arts, and rector of the church of Invvardleigh in Detton. It is this 10th day of October 1642. (by the committee of the House of Commons concerning printing) ordered, that this book, intituled, The zealous magistrate, &c. be printed. Iohn White.	Trescot, Thomas, 1611 or 12-1684.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1643 (1643)	Wing T2126; Thomason E89_4; ESTC R12172	26,564	40

was payd home with stones And yet some there are which will not sticke at greater matters than these Some prophane the Sabboth by that which you will thinke very strange of V. Patern of Catechist doctr on 4 Com. First by doing just nothing making it a day of idlenesse and this is Sabbatum Asinorum their Oxe and their Asse may keep as good a Sabbath as this Secondly some that doe not idle away the time but yet are somwhat worse imployed first in ryoti●g and drunkennesse and this is Sabbatum Satanae with such a Sabboth as this the Devill himselfe will be very well pleased secondly in playing carding dancing and the like and this is Sabbatum aurei vituli such a Sabboth is the Israelites kept when they made themselves merry with a Calfe setting themselves downe to eate and drinke and rose up to play Now do but examine the practice of the Major part of the World and you shall find them somewhere in this division And can God then take it well thinke you Hom. of place and time of pray ●● 1 Part 2 Tom. that as our owne Homily complaynes the devill should be better served and God worse upon his owne day than upon any other day of the week Shall not God then visit for these things and shall not his soule be avenged on such a people Goe to my place which is in Shiloh 5 Ier. 9. 7 Ier. 12. sayes God and see what I have done unto it for the wickednesse of my people Israel So may God say to us Goe to my place which was in Germany and see what I have done to it and what hath God done to it Surely great is the misery befalne those Germane Churches Mr. Ier. Dyke of a good Conscieace p. 276. And the time wherein the first blow was given is not to be forgotten which was upon the Sabboth day upon that day was Prague lost I owe both the observation and inference to a Reverend Divine And what one thing have all those Churches failed in more than in the religious observation of the Lords Day They neglected to sanctifie God on that day by their Obedience and God would be sanctified upon them by his Justice Oh then let not England bee high minded but scare Germane sinnes will certainly bring downe Germane plagues See what God threatens by his Prophet 17 Ier. 27. If you will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabboth day then will I kindle a sire in the Gates of Jerusalem and it shall devoure the Palaces thereof and it shall not be quenched And so I come to my sixth and last Observation which is this Obser 6 The remedy of the prophanation of the Sabboth day as a principall part of the Magistrates care and duty Else Nehemiah himselfe had been too blame to blame these Noble-Rulers for that in which they were no way concerned The Magistrates are Custodes utriusque tabulae They have charge of both Tables and if they be remisse and negligent to punish the violations of Gods Lawes God will not be behinde hand to punish them Witnesse Ely for his indulgence towards his sonnes the good old mans neck crackt for it 1 Sam. 4.18 Aske of the dayes of old and they shall teach thee the care that Princes have had for the due observation of Gods day Begin with Constantine the Great Foxe Acts and Monuments p. 134. p. 21● 203. Edit Postr and we find the Sunday commanded by him to bee kept holy of all men and free from Iudiciary causes from Markets Faires and Manuall labours So did Canutus inhibit publicke Fayres Markets and huntings yea King Edgar went so farre to ordaine Sunday to be solemnized from Saturday nine of the clock till Munday morning What reed I goe so far upward we have Lawes of a far later Edition V. Stat. K. Iames K. Charles and more we hope for to restraine and punish the profanation of of Gods day And in whom then doth it rest to see those Lawes to be put in Execution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Aristotle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 T is all one in the Issue Arist Rbet lib. 1. c. 16. to make no Law as not to execute the Law Vse Let this then encourage the Nehemiah's of our time to shew themselves zealous and active for God and the King Let them doe their best First to hinder the prophaning of Gods Day Secondly to further the sanctifying of his Day First To hinder the prophaning of Gods day and that first by men of profit Pedlers Carriers Hucksters unnecessary Labourers and the like These have been Countrey yea and City sins too blessed be God for that Reformation which is in some good measure wrought in this kind Secondly by men of pleasure that make no more use of that day than the Leviathan doth of the Sea onely to take their pastime therein And since if lawfull Labourers be on that day unsufferable how much more unlawfull are sinfull pleasures 'T is strange to behold the generall pollution of Gods day to see how the world is growne perfectly prophane and can play on the Lords day without booke Bish King on Jonas Lect. the 7. T is a sad complaint which a Reverend Prelate sometimes made The Sabbath of the Lord the Sanctified day of his Rest is shamefully troubled and disquieted The common dayes in the weeke are happier in their seasons than the Lords Sabbaths The Sabbath is reserved as the unprositable day of the seven mark you his words The Sabbath and he was no Babe at that Age to be taught English for idlenesse sleeping walking rioting tipling bowling dancing and what not What and Dancing too Heylins Geogr. Descript of France Sure the Bishop and the Geographer are of two minds who hath found out dancing to be such an effectuall meanes for the conversion of Papists that had it not been for some strait laced Divines as hee calls them of the Reformed Church in France who have so bitterly inveighed against that sport many more Catholiques I hope he meanes pseudo-catholiques had been reformed The Counsell which good Ignatius gives is much otherwise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist 3. ad Magnesianos 1 Rev. 10. Let us keep the Sabbath in a spirituall manner to be as St. John was in the spirit on the Lords day imployed in holy and spirituall exercises not in bodily pleasures and Recreations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See how that holy Father breaths nothing but ranke Puritanisme Let them busie their heads in admiration of the works of God and not give their mind to play and dancing How like you now Two Bishops one of later the other of elder times more also might be added both from old and new zealous and punctuall Hor. Carm. l. 3. ode 6. in the religious observation of Gods holy day But aetas parentum pejor avis tulit nos nequiores Children have risen up against the Gray-headed and the base

THE ZEALOUS MAGISTRATE Set forth in A Sermon Preached in Exeter before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Foster his Majesties Justice of Assize for the Western Circuit By THOMAS TRESCOT Master of Arts and Rector of the Church of INVVARDLEIGH in DETTON Contende intrare per angustam portam nec quid multi agunt attende sed quid agendum ipsa tibi Naturae Lex ipsa Ratio ipse Deus ostendet Neque enim aut minor erit gloria●●a si faelix eris cum paucis aut levior Poena si miser es cum multis Ioh. Picus Mirand in Epist Nepoti suo IT is this 10th day of October 1642. by the Committee of the House of Commons concerning Printing Ordered that this Book intituled The Zealous Magistrate c. be printed Iohn White LONDON Printed for Daniel Frere and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Red Bull in little Britaine 1642. To the Worshipfull my much honoured Friends Arthur Vpton of Lupton in Devon Esquire And Francis Rous Esquire one of the Burgesses in PARLIAMENT for the Towne of Truro in CORNVVALL Worthy Gentlemen WHEN one came to Alexander V. Libanii exempla P●ogymnas Chria 1. and desired him that he might see his Treasure he bid one of his servants take him and shew him not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his money but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his friends It seems he put a higher value upon them than he did upon all the wealth which he had Dilectio Christiani nominis thesaurus Tert. de patient c. 12. Good friends are an unvaluable treasure and the rarity of them doth much inhaunce the price of them The love friendship which I have found from you hath stampt in my affections a very high valuation of you and among other friends which God hath given me I must ever reckon you among those of the first magnitude The confidence I have in you in your love to those truths which this sermon holds forth hath imboldned me to make it publique under your names J shall not much trouble my thoughts with what censures others may pass upon it so it carries the mark of your acceptance I will say of that as Libanius did of the Commendation which Basil gave him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if you and such as you are shall like well of it Liban in Epist ad Basilium it will over-master the opinions of other men For my own part I never preached it neither do I now print it with any hopes or desires to please all Salv. ad Eccles Cath. li. 4. Mirum esset si hominibus loquentia de Deo verba non placeant quibus ipse forsitan Deus non placet 'T were very strange if I should please a world of men when God himselfe doth not give every one content and if I should but offer to please Men 1 Gal. 10. my Master would quickly discard me and I should be no longer the servant of Christ I know St. Paul else-where strikes in with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10.33 I please all men in all things but then we must take him Cum grano salis his all things must come under omnia licent All lawfull things or which is more genuine to the Text All indifferent things Mr. Barys Serm. in loc where God hath left us in Bivio without expresse or implicite command But I can no where find that ever St. Paul did forbeare to speak necessary truths though it were oftentimes to his own prejudice or else speak them coldly and faintly 1 Titus 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tremel durè Beza praetise in Annotat. Rigide qrasm sever●ter in Anotat ad vivum severe Gen. note roughly plainly and goe not about the Bush with them for fear of angring or displeasing men I am sure he gives it in charge to Titus when hee had to deale with those peccant Cretians that he should rebuke thē sharply cuttingly do it to the quick for look as Oyle feeds the fire which is quenched by other liquors so many times a sweet oyly loving Reproofe makes some men the more cholerick and the gentlier they be handled like Nettles the worse they sting It wil therefore ill-beseem any Minister of Christ to let flattery take the wall and inside of plain-dealing or make the truth of God to Lacquie up and down after the humors of men For my own part I am yet to learn that piece of parasitical Divinity in this ignorance I hope both to live and die I have no more to say but to desire the God of heaven stil to supply you with all those graces which may continue you serviceable instruments of his glory that you may stil do worthily in Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem 4 Ruth 11 ● which shall be the dayly Paryer of him who is Yours with his best abilities to serve you THO. TRESCOT To the Reader IT was a true Observation Sir Walter Raleighs Hist l. 1. c 1. S. 15. which a Learned Gentleman made of Truth that he that prizeth Truth shall never prosper by the possession or profession thereof The fear of this hath wrought so strongly with some even of the holiest Calling that to follow the thriving Method of the Times they have set themselves upon the studie of men and humours to flatter the one and observe the other by that means to widen their fortune and work themselves into the favour of men though it be with the displeasure of God 30 Is ah 10 Nulli grata reprehensio est imò quod pejus multo est quantūlibet malus quantumlibet perditus mavult falsarum laudum irrisiombus decipi quàm saluberimd ad monitione servari Salo. de Guber l. 8 Hence it comes to passe that the men of the world being willing to be flattered by such Chaplaines into a good opinion of themselves cannot endure to meet with any that shall deale plainly and roundly with them but are readie to say unto the Seers see not and to the Prophets prophesie not unto us right things speak unto us smooth things prophesie deceits Those that would not willingly be cousened of a peny are yet very well pleased to bee guld of Heaven and though in other matters they crie out for plain-dealing yet in things that concerne God and their soules they are all for Sophistry and deceits Prophesie deceits The small experience I have had in the world hath furnished me with plentifull proofes in this hind This very Sermon hath tryed it which met with some of rotten Consciences and itching eares 2 Tim. 4 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui titillentur pruriunt auditu undè quaerunt qui scalpant aures volvptale orationis ●on qui radant veritate Erasm Annot. that could not endure sound Doctrine and if they would but speak out their owne thoughts I believe they were angry with the Sermon for the Texts sake When St. Steven had