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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13000	Two sermons of direction for iudges and magistrates. By Mathew Stoneham, minister and preacher in the citie of Norwich	Stoneham, Mathew.	1608 (1608)	STC 23290; ESTC S103465	30,644	96

Amen THE SECOND SERMON 2. CHRON. 19. 5. 6. And he set Iudges in the land in all the strong Cities of Iuda Citie by Citie and he said vnto the Iudges Take heede what ye do for ye execute not the iudgemēt of man but of the Lord and he will be with you in the cause and in the iudgement IEhosaphat right Honorable being the king and supreme gouernor of the land of Iuda thinketh it a point of his dutie to substitute and depute inferiour gouernours vnder him that so himself might be the more eased and his land the better gouerned the truth whereof the drift and purport of this my text doth make plaine vnto vs. The words may be diuided into two parts whereof the former concerne the ordination of Iudges in the fift Vers 5. verse the other the information of Iudges in the sixt In the ordination Vers 6. of Iudges there be three points of me to be handled First who were ordained Iudges secondly by whom By him that is by Iehosaphat Thirdly where first set downe more generally in the land secondly more specially in foure members First in the Cities of Iuda Secondly all the Cities Thirdly the strong Cities Fourthly Citie by Citie In the information of Iudges I am to consider First the lesson of it Secondly the reason to inforce it The lesson consisteth of three precepts whereof the first is of courage that Iudges are to do Secondly of wisedome that they are to take heed The the third of both linked and coupled together that they are to take heede what they do The reason for the inforcement hereof openeth it selfe in a twofold consideration whereof the former is whose iudgements they do execute set downe first negatiuely not of man next affirmatiuely but of the Lord. The second consideration is that they themselues are to be iudged to be collected out of these words that the Lord will be with them in the cause and in the iudgement If they do well in mercy to reward them if they do euill in iudgement to punish thē First then concerning the ordination of Iudges the first of the three members therein contained who were ordained Iudges who were officers appointed either immediatly from God or mediatly by Kings and Princes Gods lieutenants wisely to heare and indifferently to determine matters causes betwixt parties and parties Wherein great care is to be had that Iudges may first be enformed by the law according wherunto they are after to conforme themselues and their people for there is ought to be a mutuall reciprocation betwixt the law and the Iudge the Iudge and the law That as the law is a speechlesse Iudge so the Iudge may be a speaking lawe Neither ought the phrase of the law onely to dwell in his lips but the sence of the law to liue in his person Wherefore by a certaine learned man is he called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a liuing law or soule bearing iustice a liuing law so needful and a soule-bearing iustice so necessarie in all States and cōmon-weales as without them they become dead and breathlesse rather cadauera then corpora that is carkasses then bodies These be the eyes of kingdoms and states which being put out because euery man will then do that which seemeth good in his owne eyes Iudg. 17. 6. large limited monarchies wil become Iud 17. 6. like huge limmed Poliphemus when his eye was taken from him in daily danger of downfall and destruction The necessitie of whom are further set downe vnto vs Zachar. 10. 4. in that they are called by the name of Zach. 10. 4. a corner or a naile whose nature is to hold fast and close together to shew that without them the veines and sinewes of kingdomes are loosened the knees of States do smite together with iarres of discord and warres of homebred insurrection as sometimes the ioynts and sinewes of Belshazzar the king were loosened and his knees Dan. 5. 6. smote together at the vision of his kingdomes diuision Dan. 5. 6. The second thing is who ordained these Iudges he that is Iehosaphat the king and soueraigne of the land Honos onus honor is a cumber and he which sitteth on the hill of authoritie beareth a burthen on his necke as heauie as was the hill Atlas As the Sunne therfore hauing absolute light in it selfe yet being not able alone to satisfie the earths contentment lendeth transfuseth the beames therof to the orbes of the Moone and other starres which may supply in the Suns absence so Kings and Princes hauing absolute authoritie in themselues yet being not able alone to extend the same to the satisfaction of euery subiect are enforced to depute and subordaine Viceroies Vicegerents Lieutenants Presidents Deputies Iudges Magistrates and other inferiour officers vnder them which may furnish out this defect And no maruell it is for how is it possible for one man alone to sustaine the burthen of Gods office Now that Kings and Princes stand charged with the office of God it may appeare in that they are graced with the name of God Psalm 82. 2. Psal 82. 2. Hence it is that Moses being wearie of bearing the burthen of the whole people alone and complaining of it Num. 11. 14. God came downe in a Num. 11. 14 cloud and tooke of the spirit of Moses and put it on the seuentie ancient men that should assist him Numb 11. 25. Num. 11. 25 Hence it is that God himselfe appointeth it to his people Iudges and officers shalt thou make in the Cities which the Lord hath giuen thee throughout the tribes and they shal iudge the people with righteous iudgement Deuter. 16. 18. Hence it is that Salomon appointed twelue Princes vnder him for the gouerning of his whole kingdome 1. Reg. 4. 7. Hence it is that Darius constituted 1. Reg. 4. 7. ordained an hundred and twentie gouernours vnder him for the ruling of all the prouinces of the Monarchie three ouer all whereof Daniel was the chiefe Dan. 6. 1. 2. Dan. 6. 1. 2. Hence it is that king Ahashuerosh among the rest of his Princes to whom he made his feast made the same to his Gouernours whereby we may obserue he had Gouernors Ester 1. 3. For this cause the Philosopher calleth Ester 1. 3. Iudges and officers thus appointed vnder Kings and Princes in the 4. booke of his Politikes for their wisedome their eyes for their instruction Aristot Polit lib. 4. their eares for their protection the hands for their supportation the legs of the Common wealth And Philo Iudaeus that learned man writing de Philo Judae de creat princip creatione Principis saith Id quoque summae potestatis officium est that is also the duty of the highest power or kingly authoritie to substitute gouernors vnder him for the administration of iustice for one man quantumuis forti alacrique corpore simul animo in tanta mole multitudine negotiorum