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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46828	The magistrate's duty in a sermon, preached at Saint Crux in the city of York, on Sunday, August the 16th, immediatly after the reception of the charter, and the swearing of the Lord Mayor and Alderman / by Chr. Jackson ...	Jackson, Christopher, 1638-1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing J68; ESTC R22682	14,480	34

no Possessor or Heir of restraint or Master of Prohibition according to the Hebrew there was none that by Succession or Divine Election laid claim to the Office none that did make them asham'd of what was ill or indecent And to Restrain in the Holy Book is to Reign so we use it 1 Sam. 9.17 where we read That when Samuel saw Saul the Lord said unto him behold the man whom I spake to thee of this same shall Reign over my People In the Original the word Signifies he shall restrain in or among my People The business then of a Ruler is to protect the vertuous and to scare even for their own good the vicious from their Impieties The Idolatries and other irreguralities of the Israelites are charged upon their Princes which never had been done if it had not been their duty and that they had power to keep them from those courses That is a worthy Question of one of the Ancients Quis mentis sobrius dicat Regibus non advos pertinet quis in vestro Regno velit esse Religiosus aut Sacrilegus What man is in his wits will tell Kings that it is nothing to them who within their Dominions be Religious or who Sacrilegious All the ill things they might and ought to prevent and do not lie at their doors thus they contract guilt and have their other mens sins They are Fathers of their Countrey and reclaiming and reducing them that are erroneous and insolent is but a product of their Paternal care because they love them in such extremities they must use them hardly Physicians of the Body Politique as well as Natural sometimes are constrain'd to make choice of Corrosives and cut off Members it is their Prudence to begin betimes a word may do that at first which a Rod will not effect afterwards By too great Clemency the number of bad men will be so great that it will not be safe to go about to amend them at least not a few will be wrackt in the Reformation Contempt is the issue of too much Lenity For 2. Secondly This is the great support of their credit and of the Reputation and Dignity of their Place They are God's Vice-Roys to him vengeance belongs and he hath intrusted them with the executing of it they make him as far as possible the Author and Abettor of Crimes when they justifie the Wicked and condemn the Righteous when they suffer any to go on in their almost uncontroulable licentiousness and destructive extravagancies It was such Indulgence a sparing those whom God had devoted to ruine that lost Saul his Kingdom and Ahab his life What plainer token of Disobedience then not to smite when he bids do it then to favour those that he esteems the Pests and Fire-brands of the World This is under his Authority to violate his Laws and to Patronize his Enemies such negligence in Servants shall not go unpunished Thus also all good men are disheartned When as Prov. 11.10 it goeth well with the righteous the City rejoiceth and when the wicked perish there is shouting and Chap. 28.28 When the wicked rise men hide themselves but when they perish the righteous increase When Oppressions Frauds Slanders and all beastly Vices have freedom all modest upright orderly persons are afflicted and grieved have no mind to shew themselves their number at least as to appearance decreaseth nay more then this in the estimation of the ill men themselves that are cherished a Ruler falls much he is trampled upon vilified represented as base by them They render him as odious and contemptible he is despised in their eyes taxed for ignorance weakness and insufficiency just as the too too cockering and tender Mother is slighted and reproached by the pamper'd Child so true is that of God utter'd as in 1 Sam. 2.30 when Eli had prefer'd his Sons before God Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed Connivance much more assistance makes such notorious offenders judge a Magistrate a Partner as a poor mean spirited man that cannot or will not contradict them as one altogether unfit for his Office 2. Secondly I shall enquire what Evil-doers in particular Magistrates are to punish and restrain They are to be a Terrour to 1. First They are to be a terrour to prophaners of Holy things to those that neglect or contemn God's Worship that give no honour to his day to his Ordinances to what is Sacred and nearly related to him The Ark a Symbol of the Divine presence had Davids serious thoughts his primary care and repairing the Lords house having the Law read and taught making provision for the Levites and Priests was the Principal endeavour of good Hezekiah and Josiah The Greek Father speaks of Jovian the Emperour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It was Princely wisdom in him to defend the Truth because the truth could best support him Princes are never so readily obeyed as when the People are Religiously disposed and Magistrates that heed not the defence of God's Laws do but teach the people how to undervalue theirs They must uphold their Church and their Crowns too this belongs to them as Kings that as Advocates of the Church as a Father hath it Even the Kings of Persia and Babylon decreed that the Temple should be re-edified and the God of the three Children and Daniel Worshipped for which they were more celebrated then for any other Enterprize This made Constantine and Theodosius great more then any other thing And the Act of the King of Nineveh when destruction was threatned makes him famous 2. Secondly To Blasphemers to those that defie heaven by horrid Oaths and imprecations that without any temptation often dishonour God The Heathens would suffer none to revile their Gods None of us willingly would permit a reverend Friend to be exposed after this rate to have his name forc't into what is absurd frivolous and false to be mentioned vainly lightly to be solemnly brought to attest an untruth We ought not to trifle thus with the name of an Earthly King and then not with his who is the King of Kings to acknowledge God and yet thus to disgrace him in some sense is worse then to deny him It is to presume that he is not what we confess him to be Omnipotent and Omniscient It is a very high provocation and calls for Vengeance Because of Oaths the Land mourns as Jer. 23.10 Is in black as the word implies Perjury which is the addition of an Oath to a Lye is a great indignity and shall be followed with sore tho' sometimes slow punishment and a rash extrajudicial usage of the Divine name is as hurtful as fruitless 3. Thirdly they are to be a terrour to turbulent persons and contemners of Authority these are those that libel and bespatter a Prince that wound his Reputation which is the way to weaken his Government and invalidate his Laws Inviso semel Principe seu benè seu