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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28303	A caveat for magistrates in a sermon, preached at Pauls before the Right Honorable Thomas Atkin, Esquire, Lord Major of the city of London, November the third, 1644, being the first day of his coming thither after his entrance upon his majoralty / by Elidad Blackwell ...	Blackwell, Elidad.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3090; ESTC R200137	30,169	52

order for bloudie Joabs cursing Shimeys treacherous Absolons punish sin as well in great ones as in small ones not sparing with Moses To hang up even the Princes of the people before the Lord God is no respecter of persons no more be you Remember that message out of Smithfield the other day Freely too Let love of justice constraine you to do justice and desire of Gods glorie and desire of the publike good Not promises gifts rewards gratuities Herodotus has a dreadfull story of one Cambyses a Persian King who finding that one Sicanus a Iudge had been hired by money to pronounce a wrong sentence Eum excoriari jussit pellem ejus affigi ad sedem judicialem Hee caused him to be flead and his skin to be nailed over the judgement seat and there to remain for the terrour of succeeding Iudges If all perverters of judgment had been so served there be many Iudges in England had had but little skin on their backs Bion was wont to say A Magistrate when he leaves his place should go out non ditior sed clarior not more rich but more righteous And what is it for a Iudge to have lucrum in arca damnum in conscientia as Austine speaks Gaine in his Coffer and losse in his Conscience A full purse a foul soul 'T will prove like Judas his bag his bane at last Remember that of Iob Fire shall consume the Tabernacle of bribery Never let it be said of you as Eschanes said of Demosthenes that you incline that way most that brings In most Iustice is a debt you owe scorne to be hired to pay your debts Doe it speedily too Jethro was troubled to see causes hanging from morning to evening Surely t would have troubled him more to see them hanging from year to year To see causes depending to become immortall And then execute that sentence when you have passed it And if it be to life execute it with all the allowance of time of mercie of clemencie of mitigation that justice will permit And with aboundance of compassion In a word doe nothing rashly unadvisedly inconsiderately but every thing gravely warily deliberately with abaundance of caution and circumspection To helpe you a little consider 1 the person you represent in judgement You judge not for man but for the Lord The Ordinance of Magistracie it is the Ordinance of God Rom. 13. The person who judgeth is a person sent of God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Minister of God Rom. 13.4 The person sustain'd by the Iudge is the person of God He is Gods vicegerent Gods delegate Gods deputy The persons and causes to be judged are Gods The man is Gods his life is Gods his estate Gods The judgement too If righteous and just and good it 's Gods God will own it approve it defend it reward it Consider that You have your commission from God receive your office from God derive your power and authority from God sustain Gods person doe Gods worke execute Gods judgement take heed therfore what you doe Doe nothing but what God would doe if he were in your room Now would God punish the poor and pardon the rich would God justifie the wicked and condemne the righteous would God pervert judgement would God accept persons would God receive gifts would God be corrupted why no more be you You execute Gods judgement make God your pattern in the execution of it Follow his rule Imitate his example He accepts not persons nor takes rewards Deut. 10.17 but without respect of persons judges according to every mans work 1 Pet. 1.17 The greatest potentates and the highest Monarchs in the world if wicked and ungodly can no more escape the vengeance of God then the poorest wretches that live upon the face of the earth witnesse Pharaoh Zenacherib Nebuchadnezer Herod Hamon c. Yea and his dearest children he corrects as well as those that are his veriest enemies Yea Judgment Begins at the house of God 1 Pet. 4.17 and tribulation and anguish to every one that doth evil to the Jew First Rom. 2.9 God carries himselfe equally and indifferently to all in the execution of judgement Doe you likewise Set up God for your pattern your president imitate God Thinke would God shew mercie now would God acquit this man now or would God condemn this man now If not why should I doe it It is a sweet thing when a Magistrate lying down at night can reflect upon the day and say I have done nothing this day but what God himselfe would have done if he had been in my room That 's the first reason And He is with you in the judgement That 's another mighty argument why you should take heed what you doe The Lord is with you in the judgement 1. with you to assist you The burthen 's too heavie for you aye but God will put under his own shoulders you shall be assisted by the great God 2 With you to protect you defend you safeguard you from wrongs from hurts from violences Friends may frown enemies may threaten aye but God is with you and if God be with you who can be against you 3 With you To behold all your proceedings God stands in the assembly of gods Psal. 62.1 Stands Not sits but stands Stands to looke this way and that way and the other way to heare what this man sayes and what that man does To heare who gives an I when the nocent is to be punished who gives a No when the innocent is to be quitted Therefore take heed what you do 4 With you To reward your integritie punish your partialitie Remember that When ever you set foot into the place of judgement say as Jacob Surely the Lord is in this place ô how dreadfull is this place The Lord is here and he heares every word I speak and he sees every action I doe I have not only men to behold mee and Angels to behold me but even God himself he is present with me There was a Canon made in the Chalcedon and Ephesine Councell that upon the Judges Bench the Book of the Gospell should be set up which the Judges were to cast their eyes upon to the end they might doe every thing according to the minde of Christ And the Ethiopians were wont to set up a Chaire of State in their Senate and that to be emptie as if the God of judgement sate there as Umpire and Moderator whom the Senators ought to look upon in passing sentence that they might imitate him in their judgment to the end they might doe every thing as in the sight of God who as the text says is with them in the judgement These are the Reasons in the text You sustain the person of God sit in the seat of God execute the judgment of God stand in the presence of God Therefore take heed what you doe Execute Gods judgment as God himself would execute it Nay yet more you must