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A77114	Jus poli et fori or, God and the King. Judging for right against might. As it was delivered in a sermon before the honourable His Majesties judges of assize in the cathedrall church of Lincolne, Septem. 10. 1660. / By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham in the county of Lincolne.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3802; Thomason E1813_1; ESTC R209777	30,183	78

thing Eccl. 12.14 whether it be good or whether it be evill He shall judge the poor of the people c. And he is commissioned too in answer to the other querie He brings his authority with him for on his vesture and on his thigh he hath a name written King of Kings Lord of Lords Rev. 19.16 Isa 9.6 It is He whose name is called Wonderfull Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Lu. 1.32 33. It is He who is great and called the son of the Highest to whom the Lord God hath given the throne of his father David and he shall reigne over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdome there shall be no end Psal 19.6 It is He whose going forth like that of the sun is from the end of Heaven and his circuit to the ends of it Mat. 24.30 Chap. 25.31 It is He who shall come in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory and all the holy Angels with him Rev. 20.9 It is He who shall sit on the great white throne from whose face the Earth and the Heaven shall flee away and there shall be no place found for them It is He before whom the dead small great shall stand Rev. 20.12 and be judged out of those things which are written in the books according to their works It is He to whom the Father hath given authority to execute judgement John 5.27 because he is the son of man Jesus Christ as Mediator hath had the Scepter and rule in his hands ever since the fall and the last and great act of his Regall power shall be to judge the world to settle the eternall and unalterable estates of men and Angels 1 Cor. 15.24 and then he shall deliver up the Kingdome to God even the Father that God may be all in all This is He the first He He in the Antitype and by way of Eminency He shall judge the poor of the people c. But lest some of St. 2 Pet. 3.4 Peters scoffers should question this Judge and say Where is the promise of his coming Or some desperate daring wretch should argue himselfe into folly from the distance of the day Eccl 8 11. and because sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily his heart should be fully set in him to do evil Here is an He in the Type too another He deputed authorized commissioned from Heaven and in trusted with the management of judgement till that day and He also shall judge the poore of the people And if you aske who he is though the matchless iniquity of the late times interdicted all mention of him with that honour due unto his Name forcing men either to cancell or conceale it and pouring contempt upon it yet blessed be God we may now speake out this He is the King He shall judge the c. Judgements is the King 's He hath it from good hands he comes fairely and freely by it Give the King thy judgments O Lord The power of judging is in the King is from him so St. Paul tells us Acts 25 10. I stand at Caesars judgement seat where I ought to be judged And Absalom as great a Rebell as he was grants this 2 Sam. 15 3. Thy matters are good but there is none deputed of the King to heare thee The hearing Causes is proper to the King and whom he shall depute It is said of Samuel when he held the Kingly power ingrossed in the Judiciary that He went from yeare to yeare in circuit to Bethel 1 Sam 7.16 and Gilgal and Mispeh and judged Israel in all those places But because as Jethro told Moses Exod. 18.18 ultra vires tuas est negotium the thing is too heavy for one Deut. 1.12 And Moses himself complaines Non valeo solus how can I my selfe alone bear your cumbrance and your burden your strife If you please wee 'l follow that Model of Jethro and take in wise and understanding men known in our Tribes that they may take off part of the burden by subjoyning with the He in the Text and helping to judge the poor of the people And the He will be He the King and He the Judge The King in person and the King in proxy The King in himselfe and the King in his substitute He that hath the primitive and he that hath the derivative power The supreme and the subordinate Magistrate the Co-Assessor Counsellor every one that is commissioned to act in matters of Justice He is the man it is He shall judge the poore of the people And that for the Agent He of whom we shall speak no more single but as he falls in with the severall Acts and Objects to which we now proceed beginning with the First Judge He shall judge And here we shall not make a stirre about judging To judge in its highest signification imports to Rule to exercise the supreme power to hold the reines of Government in the hand and stit at the Stern To command in chiefe and give Laws Victorque volentes Per populos dat jura So the Chieftaines in the polity and Common-wealth of Israel in the nonage of Kings or in the inter-regnum rather Deu. 33.5 betwixt Moses who was King in Jeshurun and Saul the first annointed are said in their several Generations to have governed Israel But we shall wave this and other significations lesse of kinne to our purpose and speak of such onely as may goe along with our sense and be of concernment to us The whole business of judging takes up in these two Oppressos liberare Oppressores coercere to support the poor and oppresse the proud that 's judging Or thus there is judicium comprobationis condemnationis a judging for and against 1. There is a judgement of comprobation a judging for in the safer sense a laying out of intrusted power for the behoofe of those that want it Judicare aliquem Ribera in Hos a p. 3. n. 95. est sententiam pro illo ferre To judge a man is to give sentence for him to appeare for his rescue Isa 1.17 Or let the Prophet english it Seeke judgement relieve the oppressed judge the fatherlesse plead for the widow This is a judging for and is sometimes rendred a delivering As David in his compurgatory speech and selfe-vindication against the cruel causeless and unhandsome persecution of Saul The Lord be judge 1 Sam. 24 15. and judge between me and thee and see and plead my cause and deliver me out of thine hand They that are skilfull in the left-handed language Plurimi ln bonam parte interpretantur judicandi vocabulum ut sit defendere ac tueri destitutos opisque indigentes Lovin in loc render it indifferently judge or deliver or by judging deliver And therefore what is here judge in the other Translation we have keepe

remembrest no more they are cut off from thine hand Our Religion rescued from the confines of Atheisme the very jawes of irreligion and prophaness Our Church raised from the dust and reared out of her rubbish and ruines after her Adversaries had a long time been chief Lam. 1.5 and her Enemies prospered and spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things Vers 10. The wayes of Zion mourning because so few came to her solemn feasts Vers 4. all her gates desolate her Priests sighing her Virgins afflicted and her selfe in bitternesse Our Lawes framed and founded by the wisdome and upon the well-grown experience of prudent and more sober Ancestors for successive ages the boundaries of our liberty and property re-established re-inforced against the anomalous encroachments and arbitrary impositions of unreasonable men Our lives given us for a prey when Jer. 21.9 with the widow in Timothy though in a far different case she for pleasure we for perplexity we were dead 1 Tim. 5.6 while we lived Our peace and happy calme after so great a tempest Isa 2.4 Beating our swords into plow shares and our speares into pruning books Mic. 4.4 sitting every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none to make him afraid Ps 144.14 No breaking in nor going out no leading into captivity no complaining in our streets Our plenty Ps 65.11 The yeare crowned with Gods goodnesse his paths dropping fatnesse Joel ● 24 25. The floors full of wheat and the fats over flowing with wine and oyle The yeares restored to us that the Locust had eaten the Cancker-worme and the Caterpillar and the Palmer-worme the great Army which was sent among us All these speak to us in a plain and loud language this salvos faciet of the Text He shall save the children of the needy This is prosperity to our King glory to our Church happiness to our Kingdome shipping to our Island walls to our Garrisons wisdome to our Counsellours valour to our Souldiers plenty to our borders peace to our Nation joy and security to us all this is all in all This salvos faciet He shall save the children of the needy That 's one He. He indeed the soveraign and supream He the first and great Saviour There 's another He a second and subordinate He a proxy a sub-saviour the King the Judge the Magistrate He also hath a part to act in this salvos faciet He shall save the children of the needy It is not to be expected that the Lord should make bare his holy arme to work great and miraculous deliverances every day Isa 51.10 You that are as the hand to that arme or rather the instrument in that hand have your posse for that purpose The Kingdom is the Lords Obad. 21. but from him shall come Saviours upon Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau Therefore hath the great God armed you with his authority and fortified you with his name and strengthened you with his Commission and intrusted you with his power that you may lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make streight paths for their feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed let it be helped let it be saved He shall save the children of the needy The children of the Needy Of the Poore sayes the other Translation here are two words used for poor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The one signifieth the poor that worketh with his hands the other the poor that hath no hands to work the poorest of the poor the most forlorn and wretched the sons of misery the Chaldee renders it Videri potest exaggeratio in filiis Pauperum in Loc. p. 325. l. F. saies Lorinus there seems to be a whole heap of poverty in the expressions here used Every word speakes them poorer then other Here is populus or popellus rather people of the lowest sort and least account Then here are pauperes populi the poor of those people And then filii pauperum the children of those poor Of all people the poor are most have-less and of all poore the Children are most helplesse They are the neediest of the poore and the children of those needy Children that were sold and slaved for want of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the redemption penny and so signifies those that were a kinde of Orphans with living Parents such as were destitute of all parentall helps and advantages like those precious Pilgrims Heb. 1● 37 that were destitute afflicted tormented These the more lost they are the more need they have of saving misery is a moving plea where Compassion fits Judge The God of Heaven will not over-looke these children of the needy as little as low as they are no more must the Gods on Earth They need no Advocate but their adversity their condition is an invitation to their eyes to see them to their hands to save them He shall save c. But I must not stay with this I must hast to the last part Let me only mind you by a review of what is past that the Magistrate must be a compound of justice and mercy He must so do justice that he remember to be merciful and so shew mercy that he forget not to be just God furnisheth you with objects for both when you meet with the evill idle poor judge them and spare not when with the destitute the afflicted the children of the needy save them Do justice and love mercy the one by force the other by choice Mica 6. ● Mercy is a choyce a lovely attribute God loves it do you so too It is said of him that he made a way for his anger Ps 78.50 As if there were no way for Anger to passe till he made it or if it was made it was grown up again for want of use till he had made it anew When the Lord was angry with Judah threatned to shave her with a keen and cutting Judgement it is said he will do it Isa 7.20 in novacula conductâ with a Razor that 's hired as if he had no Instruments of his own for so sharp a work 2 Cor. 1.3 Rom. 15.5 Hos 14.3 Ps 102.17 He is the father of mercies and God of consolation With him the fatherlesse finde mercy Hee regardeth the prayer of the destitute He saves the afflicted people and children of the needy Be you therefore mercifull as your heavenly Father is mercifull It 's like you will finde needy enough and children of the needy too for some have slain and also taken possession every one hath been ready to tread upon him that was down and go over the hedge where it was lowest I shall only be their Advocate so far as my Text warrants me for I would not repeat old injuries but repell new ones remember the salvos faciet lyes upon you He shall save the Children