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A43844	Two sermons preached before the judges of assize 1. At Reading, on Cant: 7.4, 2. At Abingdon, on Ps. 82.1 : with two other sermons preached at St. Maries on Oxford, 1. On I Cor. 15.10, 2. On Psalm 58.11 / by John Hinckley ...	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2049; ESTC R37864	133,129	357

world Psal 73.6 God is Judge himselfe he sets up and pulls downe Even wicked rulers derive their power from him Thou could'st have no power against me said Christ to Pilate except it were given thee from above Jo. 19.11 Qui regnum Augusto ipse Neroni commisit Auguste de civitati dei l.b. 5. c. 21. He that made Constantine the Christian Emperour he gave power to Julian the Apostate But here we must distinguish of power as we use to doe of sinne in relation to God viz. He is the cause of its materiality as t is a physicall action but not of its obliquity and sinfulness He is the Efficient cause of what is good He is the permissive or deficient cause as the Sun of darkness of what is evill so the power it selfe in evill rulers is from God though the sinister way of coming by it in some or the abuse of it by pride and cruelty in others is from their own corruption Rev. 13.12 or the Devill as the keyes of the beast was from the bot tomless pit and he received his power from the dragon Now seeing your power is from God Use O referre it and mannage it to the glory of God and the comfortable protection of Gods people turne not your swords or power against him that put these into your handes 4. He stands to protect and defend them How many black designes have been laid as low as Hell and been manag'd with all secresie against these Gods in the text yet as if a bird of the aire had told the matter they have brought forth the whirlewind those treacherous fowlers have been taken in their own gins and these gods have been delivered Could rulers but behold those spiritual guardians that watch about thē 2 Kings 6.16 they may say with Elisha they that are with us are more then they that are with them As God protects them so he * Funestus ille annus quo primi consules crea●i sunt expulsâ regiâ potestate Aust civ l. 3. c. 16. Certè violata potestas invenit ista Deos avenges them on their enimies Had Zimri prace that slew his master 5. He stands to restraine their fury if they should be bent to ruine their people as he that wisht the people of Rome had but one neck He puts hookes into the jawes of these Leviathans and sets bounds as to the raging sea hitherto shall ye goe and no farther which leades me to the second particular of the second general 2. He judges among the gods 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuag Jerome Esa 10.1 2. dijudicat deos He judges the gods As the Judges come to judge the people so God comes to judge them if there shall be obliquitie or irregularity in their judgment if they shall goe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a crooked Arist Rhet. Lesbian rule if they shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if they shall warpe with anger Sr. H. W. Of the Duke of Buck envy or ungrounded pitty Magistrates should be like that states-man of whom t is said how truly I cannot tell that he carried his passions in his pocket When Joshua gave judgment on Achan he said my Son c. Josh 7.19 to shew that he was free from all rage Annota Lex est meus sine cupiditate They must take heed of Calculating justice according to the Meridian of particular interests or of looking upon causes through a falsifying glass turning one end of the perspective upon some offenders that may extenuate Mountaines into Mole-hills and the other end upon others which may aggravate and swell up motes into beames and lapses into piacular offences noe Tros Tyriúsve let them be what they will let them have justice impartially and endeavour yet to be as indifferent as the Aequinoctial betwixt the two Poles that men may see you condemne crimes and not men O remember the judgments of God on Saul Vid. Constantini orationem ad sanctorum coetum cap. 24. apud Eusebium Potentes potenter cruciabuntur Ahab Joram Oreb Zeb Zeba Zalmanah and if you turne over other stories you shall find Rara in nobilitate senectus few have lived out halfe their dayes neither have they dyed sicca morte upon their beds soe that the * Specimen Historiae Arabum Herodotus l. 5. L●timers sixt Se●mon before King Edward the sixt Arabians meeting their King saluted him thus abunas maledictionem take heed of a curse I read it of Camebyses that he commanded an unjust Judges skin to be flayed over his cares and to be put upon the chayre of judgment that others siting in that chayre might remember justice and equity T is reported also of Senacherib that being dead he thus spake I meane he had this inscription upon his statue or monument 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 look upon me and consider the judgment upon me then learne judgment and piety It is time for rulers to learne righteousness by the sad examples of others lest they also should fall under Gods Scepter and be dasht in peices Discite justitiam moniti 2. He Judges among the Gods by approving confirming their judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 entering it into the Court-roles of Heaven He sits upon the bench votes and passeth sentence with them as one of their fellow judges As the afflictions of Gods people come immediately from second causes as Josephs bannishment from his brethren Jobs losses from the Caldeans and Sabeans yet they come mediately and principally from God himselfe the Lord sent me hither said Joseph in Egypt the Lord gives and the Lord takes away said Job overlooking the Caldeans so the sentence of a malefactor though it proceed from the mouth of the Judge yet therein his voice is but the Eccho of Heaven as Joshua told Achan that the Lord should trouble him and therefore he was commanded to give glory to the God of Israel Josh 7.19 25. 1. Now right honourable To the Judges would you have Gods presence and his suffrage would you vouch the Lord for what you doe you must strive to resemble him now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Cle Alex pag. 61. God is most just and in nothing are we more like unto him then by executing justice 2. You must strike most at those faults which God hates most Look to the first table piety towards God you have the law of God and the law of land to beare you out Idolatry blasphemy sabboth-breaking must not goe without controule a gentle reproofe will not serve turne so Eli reproved his sons and yet you know what became of Eli As faint asking does but teach to deny so a cold reproofe does but incourage sinne let them know Qui omnes vetat peccare cum posset debet jubet that as you are Gods Vicegerents so you must not see your God dishonoured unless you will bring the guilt upon your own heads When Basil was

be as the sun when it goes forth in its strength 2. God so judges in the earth that often he payes the wicked in in their owne coine 1 King 8.32 and brings their waies upon their own heads the iniquity of their own heeles compasse them about So that their sinnes may be read in their punishments this the Lord threatens Joel 3.6 7 8. The children of Judah and of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Greaclans and I will sell your sons and daughters into the hand of the children of Judah and Esa 33.1 Those that spoile shall be spoiled and those that deale trecherously it shall be dealt trecherously with them A tooth for a tooth An eye for an eye yet stands unrepealed God himselfe do's frequently put it in execution and that not only among the damned spirits in Hell in apportioning their plagues according to their severall sios As by abasing and treading under foote the prond by crushing the a Quae maxima turb● est Virg. Aeno 6. Covetous with the weight of their owne wants by devouring the glutton with ravenous hunger by scorching the drunkard with thirst or filling him with flagons of brim stone By wrapping the unchast in the imbraces of stinging and stinking flames by making the mercilesse to become endlesse and bootlesse suitors for a drop of water who regarded not the poore crying for a crum of bread c. And as this is like to be the Method of Gods judgments in Hell so also He judges b Dr. Reynolds on Ps 110. v. 1. p. 125. in the earth If we compare our sufferings with our sins the language of the rod will commonly interpret the dialect of our transgressions and point at the very Achan which troubles our Camp Those Capitall plagues Warre Famine and the pestilence may easily be foreseene without a spirit of divination in their rootes and Causes I meane in the abuse of peace plenty and health When the Lord thunders out of heaven against any of us let us discover by the flashes of his displeasure the bratts of sin lying at our doores which before like so many atomes lay undiscerned that so at least by this meanes we may c 1 King 17.18 call our sins to Remembrance In my reading of the scriptures with other authors and stories with speciall notice I have observed the dealing of God in this kind in the dispensation of his judgments 1 To begin with scripturall examples Joseph's brethren dealt hardly with him no intreaties would serve but he must be sold to the Ishmeelite merchants for a bond slave Well about fifteene or sixteene yeares after they do arte perire suâ they go to Egypt for corne in a time of famine and so are detained as prisoners for coming as spies And they are so ingenious as to a Justa dei ultione fieri agnoscunt ut suppliciter deprecando nihil obtineant quia inexorabiles ipsi fuerint erga fratrem Calvinus in locum acknowledge their fault in the midst of their sufferings And they said one to another we are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soule when he besought us and we would not here therefore is this distress come upon us Gen. 42.21 Adonibezek had cut off the thumbs and toes of no lesse then threescore and tenne Kings and when he became a Captive to Judah and Simeon they cut off his thumbs and his great toes so that he confesses As I have b See Mr. Joseph Mede on Judg. 1.7 p. 171. done so God hath requited me Judg. 1.6 7. Nadah and Abihu offer'd strange Fire which God did not c Lev. 10.1.2 See also Num. 16.35 Command and God Commands strange fire to consume them Sodome d Gen. 19.24 burn't with unnaturall lusts and the Lord burnes them up with the flames of a supernaturall fire The Ammonites offer'd up their e 2 Sam. 12.31 owne Children as a burnt sacrifice to Moloch and David when he had subdued them he made them passe thorow the Brick-kilnes Nay the valley f Jer 7.32 and 19.6 of Hinnon where the Jewes burnt their sons and daughters with fire was the very place which the Lord chose to be the valley of slaughter for the Jewes themselves Pharaoh commanded the g Exod. 1.16.14.27 male children of the Israclites to be drowned and the red-sea swallowed him up together with his whole numerous army Ahab and Jezebel were so prodigall of poore Naboth's blood that they shed it to the intent the doggs might lick it up And they become dogges meat themselves the Lord will not abate them the circumstance of the place The h 1 King 21.23.2 King 9.26 dogges shall eate Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel Agag the King of Amalek had kill'd many a mothers child and when his turne came to be hewed a peices Samuel puts him in mind that i 1 Sam. 15.33 as his sword had made women childlesse so should his mother be childlesse among women k 2 Sam. 3.27 Abner killed Asahel under the fift r●b and just in the same place did Joab let out the life of Abner l Esther 7.10 Haman set up a lofty Gallowes for Mordecas and he was exalted to the top of it himself Sampsons wise was treacherous to him in expounding his riddle to the Philistims that so shee might preserve her selfe and her Fathers house from fire and this was the occasion that both a Judg. 14.15 and chap. 15.6 shee and her Father perished by fire by the treachery of those very Philistims b Judg. 9.5 Abimelech slew his Brethren the sons of Jerubbaal vers 53. and Judg. 19. The Levites wise through lightnesse straggled from her husband and shee was forc't to death by the men of Gibeah being threescore and tenne persons upon one stone and a certaine woman cast a peice of a milstone upon Abimelech's head and all to brake his scull Hezekiah prided himselfe in his treasures his heart was even wrap't up in his wardrope and therefore when the Babylonish Ambassadours came to visit him after the recovery from his desperate sicknesse instead of magnifying the Lords goodnesse to him in that deliverance he shew'd c 2 King 20.13 them the house of his pretious things his silver gold spices pretious oyntments and all the house of his armour But all these thinges were taken from him afterwards and carried into g cap. 24. Babylon Eli did not bow the stubborne neckes of his Sons with the yoke of discipline and correction and he falles h 1 Sam. 4.18 from off his seate backward and his necke brake and he died David also was inordinatly fond and affectionate to his Sons Adonijah and Absolon and they scourge him for it by their disobedience and rebelion And now we have begun to speake of David we may see this Talio in most of his sufferrings they doe evidently resemble the Complexion of his sinnes How