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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80874	A sermon preached July 17. 1676. in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York, before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and the Honourable Vere Bertie Esquire, one of the barons of the Exchequer; His Majesties judges of assize for the Northern Circuit By Thomas Cartwright D.D. and Dean of Ripon, chaplain in ordiary to His Majesty.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1676 (1676)	Wing C703A; ESTC R231183	17,951	45

that we may the better do I proceed to examine that particular account which the second part of my Text gives of them viz. II. The Terrible Consequent or Israels miserable condition without their King in as much as every one did that which was right in his own Eyes Every Man whose short-sighted Soul can see no farther than his Eye ought not to be empanneld to give in a Verdict of Right of which to expect a true Judgment from him were to exact an account beyond the Sphere of his notice For admit that some of Nature's Courser Wares may lie upon the Bulk expos'd to the transient view of every Vulgar Eye yet these her Choicer Jewels of Right and Equity are lock'd up in her private Cabinet for their sight who can purchase them at their due rates of Sweat and Oyl If therefore any Mans Eye be the competent Judge of Right yet without peradventure not every Mans certainly not those of the Croud who prostrate their Assent to every shallow Appearance and defile their Judgments with each bold Conjecture that flatters them And indeed if every private Man had Wit and Honesty sufficient to govern himself and his own Actions there would be no need of Publick Laws to direct and Magistrates to guide them But alas most Mens Minds are too much out of order to have such a Trust reposed in them as being acted by fond and absurd Principles and so horribly impos'd upon by their Vices and Passions that their Determinations are as different as their Judgments and those as their Interests and they who have no reason in them but their Wills will hear none against them which would make Controversies and Dissentions endless if the Wisdom of Providence in a foresight of these Mischiefs to which we are thus obnoxious had not caus'd us all to be born Subjects to some Empire placing a Prince and Priest at first in every Family and suffering none since the World was better peopled to live without the Restraints of an over-ruling Government But if every Mans Eye could be supposed to be the competent Judge of some Right yet without peradventure not of his own Right for we are prone to fawn upon our selves and to be wilfully ignorant of our own failings Our Affections do so easily bribe our Judgments to most apparent degrees of inequality that it will be in vain to expect a Right Sentence where the Judge is a Party We do so infinitely believe what makes for our selves and so easily settle in a firm perswasion of the goodness of our own Causes without examining them that any thing seems Right to us if it be our Interest to have it so and whatsoever we see through those Selfish Spectacles comes with such great improvement to our Judgments that as oft as Reason is against us so oft are we against Reason Rectum non ex propria recti honestique rationem sed ex uniuscujusque libidine definitur Nor is there any Crime so bad but it seems as right in some Mens Eyes as the Worshipping of an Idol did in Micha's or as Rebellion under pretence of Religion did to them who had Espous'd the Good Old Cause and in pure tenderness of Conscience to make her a Sufficient Dowry Joyntred her in the Blood and Estates of their Lawful Sovereign and his Loyal Subjects till their Gospel-Reformation was in a manner compleated and the Godly Party came to Inherit the Fattest Portions of this Land Nor need we go back to them for an instance of Mens being blinded with their Passions and Interests for we see not the Beams in our own Eyes but hug our very Deformities when they bear our Names and will hardly be perswaded they are so when we take our selves to be their Authors Nemo suae mentis motus non aestimat aequos Quodque volunt homines se bene velle putant Prov. Many Men many Minds and each strongly addicted to his own If therefore every Man should be his own Judge so as to take upon him to determine his own Right and according to such Determination to proceed in the maintenance of it not only the Government but the Kingdom it self would quickly come to ruine and yet admit of the former and you cannot exclude the latter For the Hand will follow the Eye and Men do as it seems right to them be it never so wrong in it self so that if a vicious Eye be seconded with strong Hands and there be No King to pinion them we cannot expect more Miseries than will infallibly invade us nor fewer than befel the Jews when every Man did that which was right in his own Eyes Diseases in the Eye Errours in the Judgment are dangerous and there being not one Reason in us there is the more need of one Power over us Yet they who see amiss hurt none they say but themselves But how if their unquiet Opinions will not be kept at home but proves as Thorns in their Sides and will not suffer them to take any rest till from Liberty of Thinking they come to Liberty of Acting which the most Judicious Hooker foresaw they would do and we have seen they did Then without question if we cannot pull Mens Eyes out of their Heads which were inhumane to attempt nor beat them out of their perverse Opinions which were unchristian yet at least it is the Publick Interest and the Magistrates Duty to pinion their Hands and bind them to the Peace and the Kings Charge it must consequently be to look to His Subjects Eyes as well as he can that they sin not blindly for want of Direction and especially to their Arms that they sin not with a high Hand for want of Correction to look well to Micha in matters of Religion to take care to pull False Worship down and to set up the Power of Godliness in its room The letting loose of that string of Uniformity which the Laws have scrued up to its just pitch will make greater Discords in the Harmony both of Church and State than we can easily imagine Regis quisque intra se animum habet Every Man is apt to take more Liberty than he will allow and to look upon the Restraints of Authority as an Incroachment upon his Birth right and therefore doing of Right is a smooth term with them who are for the most part in the Wrong and Liberty of Conscience the plausiblest thing in the World even among Men of no Conscience at all But our Wiser Progenitors who expected Protection not only for Themselves but their Posterities did and might as reasonably ingage for our Obedience to them who should protect us nor are we therefore born in a state of absolute Liberty to chuse what Laws and Governours we please but Subjects to that Authority we now live under which we are bound to preserve both in Church and State with our Lives and Fortunes Nor is there any reason we should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lawless to do