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A13527	The mappe of Moses: or, a guide for governours Two sermons lately preached before the iudges of assize, and magistrates of the towne of Reding, at two seuerall assemblies there held for the countie of Berk. By Theophilus Taylor, Master of Arts, and pastor of the parish of S. Laurence in Reding.	Taylor, Theophilus, d. 1640.	1629 (1629)	STC 23819; ESTC S103237	48,498	60

wholly free from care the Prophet Ieremie denounceth a heauy curse against all them who doe the work s of the Lord negligently of which number this of g uernment is one of the chiefest which no man must neglect as Gallio did if he respect the fauour of God But we are to know that all diligent employment is not good there is triplex negotium 1 Vitiosum 2 Odiosum 3 Virtuosum a vitious odious and vertuous employment Math 2.7 1 Negotium vitiosum a vitious employment wherein men are diligent to doe mischiefe as Herod who was diligent in searching for Christ that he might destroy him this diligence is sinfull 2 Negotium odiosum when men busie themselues in those things which fall without the bounds and compasse of their calling Let such men know that hee who is busie in other mens matters neglecting or omitting their owne affaires God will giue him as little thankes for his diligence as Dauid did Absolon 2 Sam 15.2 1 Pet 4●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who off●ed to vndertake a needlesse and thankelesse paines in his fathers office who was seuerely punished of God as a busie body this diligence is hatefull 3 Negotium virtuosum a vertuous employment when men are diligent in their functions whereunto God hath called them the Minister in Preaching Gods word in season and out of season the Ruler in hearing complaints reforming abuses determining of controuersies this diligence is lawfull and vsefull and thus was Moses diligent Iob. 29.16 Iob is commended for this kind of diligence in his office he sought out the cause diligently Seneca ad Lucil. epist 118. Non tam benignum liberale natura nobis tempus dedit ut aliquid ex illo vacet perdere Arist in Occon experg●scidecet prius dominum quam servum cubitum ire pasterius Facilius esse Davidi pastoralem vitam egisse quam regalem Aguanus in Ps Luke 18.4 Domitian Tantae fuit desidiae ut in cubiculo solus acuto stilo muscas configeret Prou. 24.31 let euery Ruler therfore resolue vpon a painefu●l and diligent course no way fostering idlenesse he that hath the least imployment in the world saith Seneca hath no time left to spend in an idle manner because nature hath not bestowed on vs so much as whereof we can be prodigall The Magistrates businesse is more than ordinary and therefore it is expedient that he be an extraordinary good husband of time that which Aristotle requireth in a Master of a family is no lesse requisite in a Ruler in the Common-wealth that is he must be the first vp in the morning and the last man in the euening not presuming that his preheminence can excuse his diligence Dauid was first a sheepheard and afterwards a Ruler and his first kinde of life was lesse laborious the second more industrious and tedious godly industry in this office will remoue the shame and infamy of that iudge in the Gospell who because hee would not be troubled is therefore branded with iniustice as also of that Romane Emperour Domitian who would all the day long sit in his chamber and kill flyes with sharpe needles Where there is a sluggish Husband-man saith Salomon the field will be ouergrowne with thornes so where a sluggish Gouernour all things will be amisse and out of order he that is not fit to take paines in gouernment is not fit for gouernment as the poore woman to Adrian the Emperour who denyed to take her petition because then hee had no leisure to heare her replyed noli ergo imperare Dionys Cassius Bernard de ordine vitae Moses in silentio loquebatur in otio operabatur Ierom epist ad rusticum monachum Facito semper aliquid operis ut te diabolus inveniat occupatum Dilectione Exod. 32 32. Greg dele me 1. Tolle me de hoc officio ne sim legislator populi if you haue no leisure leaue your Empire let therefore all Gouernours be exhorted to imitate Moses in his diligence whereof Saint Bernard speaketh thus Moses euen in his silence was a speaker and in his relaxation he was a diligent labourer and to remember the counsell of Saint Ierome neuer be thou idle but alwaies diligent in some good businesse sutable to thy calling that Sathan may neuer finde thee but well employed 2 Dilectione by his affectionate loue towards them when the people offended God hee prayed vnto God for them in this manner either pardon their sinne or else raze my name out of the booke of life by which booke whether wee vnderstand 1 Liber legislaturae as Saint Ambrose blot mee out of the booke of Law-giuers and Rulers dismisse me from the office of iudicature Dimitte me de hac vita Vbi electi ad futuram gloriam conscribuntur 2 Liber viuentium in hac vita that is blot me out of the booke and catalogue of them who haue their being liuing and mouing in this life or 3 Liber vitae aeternae that is raze my name out of that booke wherein the names of the elect are written In what sence soeuer we take it wee cannot but discerne great loue in Moses towards Gods people wherein Moses resembleth a childe who seeing his father about to turne out of doores one of his seruants whom he dearely affecteth in the ●eat of his loue towards that seruant hee thus saith to his father Pater noli hunc ●ijce ● aut si cum eijcis me queque eijcito Father I humbly beseech you cast not out this your seruant whom I so heartily affect as that I cannot lie comfortably if I be depriued of his society and company rather then so turne me out of doores in his stead or cast me out with him Bernardus in Cont. serm 12. Si dives quispiam mulieri pauperculae dicat c. or otherwise as Saint Bernard saith he resembleth a poore woman who comming very hungry to a rich mans doore with her tender infant in her armes which she dear●ly loueth the housholder inuit th h●r to come into the house and refresh her selfe but withall forbiddeth her to bring in her childe with her lest it make a noise and trouble the house which mother refuseth all the kindnesse that is offered vnto her because her childe cannot partake thereof she had rather fast and continue in hu ger rather then that her childe should be neglected and endangered In like manner Israel was as a froward childe Numb 11 12. Exporta hunc populam in sinu tuo quemadindum portat nu●icius lactentem Praestat ut unus p●reat quam u●●tas Bernard in sesto Mariae Magdal Pene oblitus sim Mosen sacriliquoris huius rore persusum Exod. 2. carried in the bosome of Moses a tender nurse who had rather himselfe be depriued of comfort then they had rather perish b●ing but one man then all they being so many this was an infallible symptome of his extraordinary loue Saint Bernard speaking of