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A94158	The gods are men: or The mortality of persons in places of magistracy. As it was explained and applied in a sermon preached at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on March 15. 1656/7. By George Swinnocke M.A. last Fellow of Bailiol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6276; Thomason E919_1; ESTC R207499	42,242	46

as solemnly by the Psalms of David as by the Alchoran of Mahomet But what need have we of the testimony of men when God is pleased to give such large witnesse in the Gospel to this book of Psalms In which the Psalms are quoted above sixty b Leighs hist p. 35. times The Apostle calleth them spirituall c Colos 3.16 songs both because they were inspired by the holy Spirit of God and because they are instrumental to spiritualize mens affections and also because they do sute with mens spirits they are so penned that every man may think they speak de se in re sua of himself and to his own condition * Quia reges quicunque potestate praediti sunt immensam sibi licentiam fastu excoecati ut plurimum indulgent denunciat Propheta reddendam esse rationem summo judici qui omnem mundi celsitudinem supereminet Calvin argu Psal 82. This 82 Psalm containeth a severe reprehension of superiours for their ungodly oppression of inferiours The Text presenteth you with their Majesty and with their Mortality In Verse 6. They are gods and children of the most High there is there Majesty In Verse 7. They die like men and fall like Princes there is their Mortality Plautus telleth us concerning Hercules that he was the son of uJpiter and so immortal and the son of Amphitrus and so mortal The former Verse speaketh that Ye are the sons of God thereby ye seem to be immortal but the latter pronounceth plainly that Ye shall die like men and therefore it is apparent ye are mortal In Verse 6. Ye are exalted as high as Heaven I have said Ye are gods In the 7. v. Ye are debased as low as Earth But ye shall die In ver 6. How beautiful are your features how Evangelical are your faces Nay how God-like are your looks I have said Ye are gods In the 7. when the other side of the Picture is turned what hoary heads what heavy hearts what quivering lips what trembling loyns what dying flesh what decaying spirts have ye ‖ Vt caeteri omnes natura sunt obnoxii morti quidem aeternae damnationi si in delictis adversus conscientiam ad extremum usque perseverent ita scitote vos quoque iisdem legibus subjectos esse Moller in loc Ea cogitatio de fragilitate vestra de poenis secuturis commone facere excitare vos debebat ut in procuratione muneris vestri majore diligentia studio versaremini Idem ibid. And it is not without cause that the Spirit of God subjoyneth your humanity to your Deity your Mortality to your Majesty as a means to prevent sin and as a curbe to restrain you from making your Lust your law or your Will the rule of all your actions In the words we have the Mortality of the Magistrate namely from the seventh Verse First affirmed Ye shall die like men Secondly amplified and fall like the Princes Thirdly confirmed surely and certainly as surely as ye live like gods so surely ye shall die like men Certe sicut homo Calvin Moller Trem. legunt I have formerly in this place upon the like occasion from the 6. v. discovered the dignity of * At a● Assize holden at Hertford for that County upon the 2. day of August 1653. Magistracy I shall now proceed to the frailty of the Magistrate My work now will be like Philip's youth to mind you that ye are but men And I hope there is none here of the Persian Monarchs humour into whose presence none might come cloathed with d Est 4.2 sackcloth nor like Lewis the 11th of France who would not permit the word Death to be named in his Court For all the Dish I have to entertain you with at this time is a Deaths head Neither shall I garnish that with the flowers of humane eloquence as knowing there is no need of it The deformed Harlot wanteth colouring but the Virgin truth of God is most beautiful in her native dress And there is little good by it A painted window keepeth out the light a paint●d fire will not burn a painted sword will not cut and if ever the a Jer. 23.29 fire of Scripture warm b Luke 24.32 the heart or this c Ephes 6.17 sword of the spirit wound the Conscience to conviction and conversion it must be drawn out of the gawdy scabbard of mans wisedom I shall first speak to the Explication of the words and then draw the Obs●rvation from the words But i.e. For all the glorious titles wherewith ye are invested as gods amongst mens and the administration of justice wherewith ye are intrusted as my Lieutenants on Earth yet for all this Ye shall d Ac si diceret quum instructi sunt potestate ad regendum mundum non exuisse tamen naturam ut mortales esse desinerent Calv. in loc die though your names are Divine your natures are but Humane Surely i.e. Though ye should flatter your selves because ye are gods ye shall ever live yet know certainly that ye are but men and must die All God's words are true and sure but on some there is affixed a special note of certainty because of mans especially great persons extraordinary infidelity Though ye should neither regard it nor provide for it as if it were a thing of small consequence or little concernment Yet e Job 17.14 ye may say to corruption Thou art my father and to the worm Thou art my brother and sister Ye shall die like men Your souls and bodies that have been joyned together like husband and wife shall be parted asunder Death will loose all bands untie all knots even this conjugal one 'twixt soul and body which is the strongest of all e Sicut plebeius homo Tremel Like men i. e. Like ordinary men like Adam saith Ainsworth Though in your lives ye are like Saul higher by the head and shoulders then the people yet in your deaths they and you meet are equal Two things ye do as men 1. Ye sin as ye are f 1 Cor. 3.3 Errare humanum est men to walk as a man is to walk carnally to walk sinfully 2. Ye die as g Psal 9. ult quod sint homines i. e. quod sint miseri infirmi mortales Moll in loc men to know your selves to be men is to know your selves to be mortal And fall like one of the Princes These words have a double Lection and four-fold Construction We read them And fall like one of the h Et sicut quilibet principes cadetis Calv. Qui exquisitissimis tormentis cruciantur Potentes potenter torquebuntur Princes others read them And ye Princes shall fall like one For their four-fold Construction 1. Some understand them of a fall into Hell So several of the Ancients take them like the Prince of the Divels this is true of evil Magistrates death to them is but the trap-door to