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A32795 A memorial for magistrates a sermon preached at Christ-Church in the city of Bristoll on the twelfth day of October at the assizes or goal-delivery / by John Chetwynd. Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692. 1682 (1682) Wing C3797; ESTC R23993 23,802 38

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sentenceth and as he punisheth all evil so will he reward all faithfull Servants Others cannot reward all their followers as having not wherewith and others will not as being illiberal and sordid but God is able because Lord of all and vvilling because Rich unto all These considerations shall vve not be vvanting to our selves vvould have a very great influence on all of us but especially on such who are In Publique Place Trust and Employment Magistrates and Ministers That they do not with their ill practises and examples overthrow that good which by their Authority and Preaching they do or should promote It were a happy thing and much to be desired that there were none that did so But that cannot be expected and we find by sad experience that it ever was and will be so In Aarons Line there was a Nadab and Abihu In Eli's Family are an Hophni and a Phineas But it is no wonder for amongst the Angels some fell and there was a Judas amongst the Apostles And it is most certain that the generality of the people as Labans Ewes conceived according to the colour of the Rods that were set before them So are they swayed by the practise of others especially their Rulers and Teachers Jupiter ipse fuit Ego non Homuncio But Elihu tells us Great men are not always wise neither do the aged understand judgment I and my Ruler I and my Teacher if the practice be evil there will be no good Plea at the last day for so might the Jews excuse themselves who had the high Priests to go before them and perswade them to Crucifie our Saviour Eminent Persons intrusted with publique inployments are as looking glasses to the places wherein they live whereby the people dress themselves who falling into open sins like men in a crowd many fall with them Mens Souls being as apt to be infected by ill examples as their bodies by ill air Peter at Antioch dissembling Act. 11. dravvs Barnabas into the same error Publique persons then have great cause often to put an avve upon themselves by such reflections Doth my Carriage correspond vvith God's fear and command my duty and account That so they may have their Carriage inoffensive For in all their visible miscarriages there is a double sin The Fact and the Example The vulgar being their shadovvs to follovv their steps and so vvill bring a double punishment on their selves and charges Hence David prays for Zion as vvell as for himself Ps 51.5 Let such say than vvhen tempted to evil as Nehemiah and shall such a man as I fly Upon all which considerations give me leave I beseech you Right Worshipfull Worshipfull who are intrusted with the Government of this Honourable Ancient and Famous City to perswade you to a diligent care rightly to discharge that trust that Gods providence his Majesties Charter and your Brethrens choice have impowered you for and called you to And I can no better do it than by laying before you that famous instance which in all its circumstances is applicable to you That excellent charge which that good King Jehosaphat gave his Judges and Magistrates 2 Chr. 19.6.7 which he by his Royal Charter Established in the Cities of Judah Take heed what you do for you judge not for man but God 2. Chron. 19.6 7. And this he enforceth with arguments and leaves directions for Let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it He impowered them by his Charters and enjoyns them to discharge their duty to judge justly to do nothing rashly unadvisedly but in all their proceedings to use a heedfull circumspection They were not to be idle or as Gallio careless and negligent but they were to do They were not to be wilfull and to do what they please but they were to observe and do both according to God and the Kings Laws and the true state of the particular matters that were brought before them They were not to be rash and inconsiderate in hast and careless but to see what they did least as David they may pass a wrong Sentence and injure a faithfull Mephiboseth upon the flatteries and insinuating calumnations of a treacherous and false hearted Ziba Lo this was the charge that good Prince laid upon his Deligated Magistrates whom he had Established from City to City He gave them Power under him to act he gives them directions how to act They might not usurp a power without his Charter they might not neglect to execute that power committed to them by his Charter But he enjoyns them to do and not be idle to take heed and see to it that they did according to the Law and Justice and not be willfull rash and negligent and to prevail with them so to do he presseth upon them the fear the pattern and presence of God I shall not undertake to direct you in particulars only in general to recommend unto you the consideration of God's fear God's command your own duty dignity and account And then certainly you will discharge the duty of your places according to your names and powers God and mans expectation from you Hos 4.18 Judg. 18.7 You will then be what God calls you Sheilds And so defend the innocent and well-doer Heirs of Restraint to curb the extravagant exorbitances of the Sons of Belial Healers To make up and not make wider any incident breaches that may and will unavoidably arise when many are concerned in the management of the same power Psal 78.71 Shepherds And ought therefore with earnest care as Jacob did Laban's Sheep to feed the Lords Flock aiming at the good of their charge and not their own advantage who must lose themselves in the common right as Rivers their names and natural qualities in the main Ocean Est 10.3 Thus Mordicai sought his Peoples welfare and seeking Gods glory and not their own as Joab did David at the seige of Rabbah since God is jealous of his glory aad keeps that for himself As Potiphar did his Wife when he gives us all things else 1 Sam. 12.3.4 And shall you be able to say as good Samuel did Witness against me w●ose Ox or Ass have I taken whom have I defrauded or oppressed of whose hand have I received any bribes to blind mine eyes therewith Or receive as he did a Testimony of his Innocency Then you may say with comfort as Nehemiah did Remember me O my God concerning this Nehe. 13.22 Isa 38.3 and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy And as good Hezekiah did Remember now O Lord How I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done what is good in thy sight And with our Saviour Joh. 17.4.5 Father I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do I have glorified thee on earth and now glorifie thou with thine own self Fathers And so must when need is prest with a weeping eye and tender