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A66020	The arraignment of a sinner at the bar of divine justice delivered in a sermon in St. Maries Church at Oxford, March the 5. 1655 before the Right Honourable, the Judges of Assize, &c. / by Robert Wilde ...	Wild, Robert, 1609-1679.	1656 (1656)	Wing W2165; ESTC R22649	25,661	46

and let him escape Fiat Iustitia pereat mundus Oh be severe the drossy case of our Land calls for it and God looks for it Better ungodly men should fall by your hands who can but kill the body then that you and they should together fall into the hands of the living God who can cast Soule and Body into Hell fire Oh remember what the Lord our God hath done hath done to unjust Officers and Magistrates and what your eyes have seen Let none of your hearts entertaine or tongues expresse that vile opinion and speech of Lysander That children are to be cheated with Checkstones men with Oaths But doe you this day remember the presence and the great and terrible name of the Lord our God by which you are sworn and shall swear who will be avenged speedily on all that take his name in vain Be ye holy and just all of you and consider what sad offices and places of all men wicked and profane Magistrates and Ministers are in If they doe not preach against sinne and punish sinners they are guilty and if they doe discharge their Consciences whilst they let fly against the faces of others their guilt like a foul and rusty Gun recoyles and flyes in their owne faces Beware therefore that this accursed thing sinne be not in your own Tents as in Achans and then look to your Sonnes Servants Clerks your Gehizies that this Leprosie cleave to none of them Let not your eyes spare nor pitty but cry out with Canutus a King of the poor barbarous Vandalls when he was pleaded with to spare his owne Sonne found guilty of a capitall crime Filio nostro sublimiorem crucem ponite Make the Gallowes higher for my Sonne who durst break the Laws not onely of his King but of his Father Secondly Would you be free from the sinnes of others Then look to your Edicts your Warrants your Orders your Licences Let not any iniquity be established by a Law or any thing like it Not by a Testimony not by a Plea not by a Verdict not by a Sessions order Publick persons like Briareus have an 100 hands to doe good or evill withall There is a Woe and that little word hath the whole wrath of God and Hell in it hang'd over the heads of them that decree unrighteous decrees When Saul set Doeg to fall upon the innocent Priests 1 Sam. 22. he had better have gone the nearest way and have destroyed them with his owne hands for then he had not been a sinner and a sinner-maker Oh beware all you that have good heads great parts acute wits eloquent tongues how you imploy them They were among these Gentiles their wise men Philosophers Poets Orators that became both practitioners and Patrons of vice some of them would for a fee or in an humour or to shew their parts openly defend {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That there was no such thing as Vertue or Vice That Revenge Incest Sodomy were but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} things indifferent Gentlemen Schollers and Lawyers better it were that any of you had been born dumb or Ideots or had not known Letters than to prostitute your faire and beautifull parts for base gaine as an Harlot doth her body and to sell arguments to uphold or under prop the work of the Devill which must and will down and fall upon your heads that doe offer to buttris up any basenesse Take heed Sirs when God is the Plaintiffe Iehovah litigat Hos. 4. 1. that none of you be Sollicitors Attorneyes Councell or pleaders for the Defendants Thirdly Take heed that you intrust not knowne Knaves and wicked men in any place or office under you for all the Evill which they doe will be found lying at your doores And here I must begge leave that I may pay my Vowes which I made to God in my distresse when I was a prisoner some yeares agoe in yonder Castle the common Jayle of this county It was something like that of the cheife Butler to Ioseph that if ever it should goe well with me and I came to be restored to my office and liberty and should have such a duty and opportunity put into my Hands as I have now this day I would then remember them that are in bonds bound Body and Soule poore wretches who from the time of their Imprisonment are commonly made seven times more the children of wrath than they were before And all for want of good doctrine good discipline and good example I do verily beleive that in that place where the condition of men require Prayer and Teaching and Mortification more then any I saw more drinking and fighting and heard more swearing and cursing that in many a yeare abroad Two things Gentlemen would make your Jailes not to be such Hells as they are A godly Keeper and a powerfull preacher Oh if any wealthy worthy person would do good and lay out a summe of money well indeed He could not thinke of a better way than to allow a good stipend to keept a godly grave zealous Minister not only to preach but even to dwell there to be allwaies preparing those poore creatures to live or dy better then I feare they doe The blessing of them that are ready to perish would light on such a Benefactour Fourthly One request more Beware whom you trust with that great but too common Trust and Licence of Selling Ale and strong drinke and of connivance at any that are lawlesse and unlicens'd all which I looke upon as so many open pits and Sepulchres for men Never expect so long as this deluge of drink still covers our English earth that ever the Arke of Gods presence should settle or rest amongst us As much as men whine and complaine of Taxes I doe believe that there is that drink needlesly sinfully and shamefully guzled away in England which would pay the Tax thrice told and no man feele it For justice and mercy sake doe something vigorously for reforming this sinne which like a Trojan horse hath an army of sins in the bowels of it and now lay your Axes to the root of those rotten trees the signe-posts I must give over Seeing that sinne and wickednesse is that which deserves Gods judgement and eternall death and that this is made known to all men Oh let us all arme and engage against it ye that love the Lord hate evill The Lords people are not like to be all of a minde in all things till they come to Heaven but whoever are not of this minde are none of the Lords people Oh therefore let Magistrates punish it let Ministers preach against it Lawyers plead against it Souldiers fight against it Scholers study and write books against it all the Inke in the world is not enuogh nor black enough to paint it and though the world be full of books yet still there are too few on this subject One little piece of the sinfulnesse of sinne and Aggravation of Sinnes against Knowledge will goe further and doe more good than a whole Library of learned wranglers Finally my Brethren let us all in the feare of God arise and practise against it whilst we live let us cry out Vivat Christus Moriatur Barrabbas Let God arise and sinne and sinners be scattered and when we dye let us give up our ghosts with the words of Sampson Let me dye with these Phylistims Amen FINIS Iudg. 5. 11. Campanella de Monarch Hispan ver. ●● * 1. The Judge 2. The prisoners 3. The Inditement 4. The Law c. 5. The Iury 6. The Verdict 7. The Sentence 2. Cor. 10. 3. 4. 5. 6. Heb. 4. 12. Soe Aristotle defines it Ethic. Lib. 5. chap. 6. Pareus in Locum Doct. Prov. 14. 34. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Ethic. lib. 5. Rom. 3. 4. Rom. 13. 7. Arist. l. Ethic. 5. cap. 7. Certae justissimae Dei voluntas atque decretu●●lciscendi injurias sibi suisque factas Zanch. Deus potest potentiâ executivâ quicquid non involvit contradictionem procedere ab aliis attributis perfectionibus simplicibus Quis nescit hoc esse dei proprium velle ac voluisse const●●●sse punire iniquitates I●ò Deus just●● non esset nisi hac fecisset Si Deus p●ss●t sui naturiâ sceleratos non odisse puni●e sed amare non Deus esset sed diabolus quod est horrendum cogitatu Par. in locum Es. 30. 33. Math. 25. 41. Jude 6. Sic Iustitia pix osculabantur c. Psal. 85. ●1 Bernard Ruth 3. 12. Acts 17. 31. 1. Psal. 82. 6. Rom. 13. 1 Cor. 5.5 1 Tim. 1. 20. La●● lib. de Irâ dei Pareus in Gen. cap. 2. ver. 17. Dr. Owens Diatrib Lactant. Ob hoc inflexibilis obstinatae meniis malum punitur aeternaliter qui● si nunquam moreretur nunquam velle peccare defineret urò semper vivere vel ●et ut semper peccare posset Ber. in Ep. 252. Ad magnam Iudica●is justitiam pertinet ut nunquam carcant supplicio qui in bâc vita nunquam noluerunt carere peccato Greg Hom. 13. in Evang. Third Partic. Gen 3. 9. Gen 4. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Suidas Virgil Usurpatur de iis qui 〈◊〉 custodia detinentur Leigh Crit. Sacr. Caligula Psal. 11. 7. Exod. 31. Psal. 11. 6● The book of Esther Fourth Partie Gen. 7. Gen. 19. Rom. 8. 3. Cant. 16. Exod. 20. 19. 2 Tim. 4. 1 2 Cor. 5. 11. Vses {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Luk. 12. In vitâ Licurgi Ovid Dr. Reynolds Mr. Tho. Goodwin