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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27244	Two sermons preach'd at St. Maries in Bury St. Edmunds, at the assizes the first upon the seventh of April 1698, before the Honourable Sir Thomas Rokeby, Kt. ... : the second upon the 16th of August 1698, before the Right, Honourable Sir Edward Ward, Kt. ... / by William Bedford ...	Bedford, William, b. 1652 or 3.	1698 (1698)	Wing B1671; ESTC R5177	24,433	58

that is the Pole-star of all Judicial Actions Shall not he do Right who is ordained to that end to decide Controversies of Right and Wrong Shall not a Judge do Right You have heard the Perfection of a Judge in abstracto what it is there remains the Perfection of a Judge in concreto where or in whom it is 't is not every where nay 't is no where but in God Absolute Perfection is the incommunicable Property of the Deity all created Natures Tantum absunt à Perfectione quantum à Divinitate but in God there is Absolute Perfection Negative Questions in this kind in Scripture pre-suppose always Affirmative Answers Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do Right Yes he will do it do it others or do they not this Judge will do it So that God is here described a perfect Judge in two respects First In the Extent of his Jurisdiction and in the Exercise of it In the Extent of it He is a Judge of all the Earth In the Exercise of it He will do Right he cannot but do Right Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do Right The Extent of his Jurisdiction is the whole Earth 't is not a Country or two that confine his Circuit 't is not a Province or two that bound his Empire he scorneth to borrow a Title as the Old Romans did from one or two Conquered Nations Sarmaticus Geticus Numidicus he hath that which others long for and cannot have Catholicus Oecumenicus He needs no plus ultra as that Charlemayn who confuted his rich Title with his craving Motto for all the whole Universe is his There is none therefore so weak here but if he be Oppressed sees an higher Tribunal that he may fly unto There is none so strong here so armed with Authority and Favour but if he be an Oppressor he sees a Tribunal that he may fear No wonder that Felix trembled when he heard St. Paul dispute of this Judgment and of this Judge From all other Courts there lies an Appeal to him but from him there lies no Appeal to any other There is a Commission against which no Prohibition can be brought we must not come there with our Nemo bis judicabitur de eodem bis judicabimur de iisdem all Causes that have been heard in this World shall be heard again in that Prerogative-Court of Heaven and what was right adjudged here shall be ratified there and what was wrong adjudged here shall be repealed there And finally What was never heard here at all yet shall be decisively ordered there I will shut up my Discourse in a few words which it becomes me to say to demonstrate that the Supream Judge of Heaven and Earth will ever do Right according to the Conclusion of the Text doth most undeniably appear with relation to the Church of England as it is by Law established in whose Cause he hath been pleased of late to manifest his Power and Goodness most remarkably and not only in our Days but he hath done the like in former Ages for in respect of its Doctrine Discipline and External Rites he guided the solid Foundation thereof by that admirable young Prince King Edward the Sixth and supported it by the Steadiness of the Magnanimous Princess Queen Elizabeth who during all her long and glorious Reign would never admit of any Alterations no not in the very Out-works the External Rites thereof which are Securities to the main Fortress of our Religion though she was frequently sollicited thereunto by Men of great Fame and Judgment and though in the 34th Article of our Church it is owned That the External part of its Worship may admit of Alterations by publick Authority upon Emergent Causes and for Reasons demonstrably and apparently tending to the Publick Good and when Times and Mens Manners do require it And this Church hath been since adorned by the Piety and Devout Practice of the late Virtuous and Blessed Queen Mary who by the Countenance and Consent of King Charles the Second was most happily Married to His Present Majesty notwithstanding all the Secret Opposing Intrigues of the Renegado Jesuits which Famous Princess lived and dyed in all the Observances of this Church like a Primitive Saint And it has been not only dignified by the high Respect borne toward it by these two eminent Princesses who set two such Examples as are hardly imitable by the very best and bravest of Womenkind but it was defended and cherished by the Learning and peaceful Temper of King James the First and by the Piety of Queen Anne And it hath been exceedingly honoured and embellished by the Constancy Patience and Charity of the Devout Martyr King Charles the First And thus stood it out against all Assaults during the Reign of all our Princes since the Reformation Queen Maries short Reign and part of the twenty Years of our Unhappy Civil Wars and foolish Anarchical Governments excepted after which it was re-established in course of Law upon the wonderful and peaceable Restauration of King Charles the Second who at his death left it upon its own Establishment But as to two other Princes that have possessed the Throne since the Reformation Queen Mary the First and the late King James the Second they both were pleased to give it publick high and kind Characters at their first Accessions to their Crowns and whilst the Men of our Communion were busily fixing them into their Royal Authorities and the latter of them did for some considerable number of Years outwardly comply with its Observances so long as the Polititians of the Court of Rome would suffer him but their deep Engagements and Confederacies with the Romans Party would not admit them for to countenance it further and that they openly declined Communion with it should be no Argument for any Protestant upon Earth to dislike its Constitution but the rather to embrace and support it How Queen Maries Severities increased Gentlemen your Suffolk Ancestors soon felt and if it had not been for the seasonable Rescue of King William we might long before this time have Sorrowfully felt also how King James would have increased had not King William delivered this Church out of all its Imminent and Surprizing Perils and secured it by his Valour Policy and Indefatigable Vigilance exerted both in the Fatigues of the Field and the Management of the Treaty and with the Security thereof he hath superadded the ancient Lustre to the Realm of England of becoming once more the Ballance to all the Publick Affairs of Europe And he hath pleased to espouse it for his Grand and Professed Design to endeavour to Found us such a Settlement as may secure both our Religious and Civil Rights to our Posterities And towards all these he hath made as vigorous Attempts as the Policy Resolution and Integrity of the most Heroick of our Princes or the Bravest of Men can parallel Therefore we have the highest Obligation to follow that Example of the Grateful