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A15108 A sermo[n] preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577. in the time of the plague, by T.W. White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624. 1578 (1578) STC 25406; ESTC S111738 33,572 100

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it as we doe But as the good Phisition to heale the body doth minister many things agaynst the minde so muche more shoulde we to heale the soule deale playne agaynst the body especially séeing that Quo grauior est causa eo intentior esset cura The cause béeing greter there shuld be better care I pray you sée how he calles the best Beastes héere what are the rest then iudge you and not only vnder Manasses but also vnder Iosias a good king were naughtie Rulers to be found And héere are names of purpose méete for them whatsoeuer other titles they take to them selues As a roring Lion and a hungry Beare so is a wicked Magistrate ouer tho poore people sayth the wise king The prouerb of a slouthful slouen is written in the .22 of the Prouerbs that euer when he should doe any good there is a Lion in the stréete But and it be true in déede that a Lion sittes in iudgement to deuoure whom he shoulde defende then equitie shall haue a colde suite and therfore among many other things it was wisely sayd of Salomon There the common welth doth flourish where the good do beare rule but where the wicked strike the stroke there the godly hide their heades We haue a most mercyfull and gracious prince Elizabeth God in mercy long preserue and keepe hir Amen She is a Lambe and no Lion and where she giues the Lion it is to be wished that in this sense she had many Lions I meane men of courage and valour But as she hath hands ynowe so I pray God she haue many harts and then we shall doe well ynough Héere is the picture of Ierusalem a monstrous body a roring Lions head a rauening Wolues throte a Camels neck a Cormerants hart neuer an eye but starke blinde not a right hande or foote but talants like the Diuell so that you might rightly borrowe the Poets verse to say Monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum And all this is for the crueltie in the Princes the couetousnesse in the Priestes and corruption in the people Suche a foule body was it that frō top to toe there was no whole part from the head to the héele no sound place for from highest to lowest they were all set on couetousnesse And héere I could wishe one property yet of a Lion in all our Rulers They saye the Lion quaketh at the crowing of a Cocke So I pray God that the threatnings of the worde may worke with them and quayle them that the spirite of Elias doubled vpon Elizeus maye bee raysed in Iohn and that suche men may be founde out as méetest messangers for them whiche goe not about the bushe neither are blaunchers but as playne as a packe staffe whiche put them in remembraunce what they are that as the Lyon though he be the King of beastes yet at length is made a pray to small birds and then is that saying veryfied Better is a liue Dogge than a dead Lion. So they although they be greate in authoritie yet at the last they are but a bayte for the small wormes And her Iudges are as Wolues in the euening I wil not stand on the curious distinctiō of these degrées but only shew you some difference of the beasts to whom he resembles thē A Liō prayeth in the day a Wolfe in the night a Lyon catcheth stoute beastes a Wolfe killeth Lambes a Lion takes no lambes as an Eagle takes no flies A quila non capit Muscas If a beast humble himselfe to a Lion he is the lesse cruell but do it to a Wolfe and hee is the more fierce A Wolfe hath a more rauenous nature for though he bee ful of spoyle yet he takes pleasure in the bloud for he thrustes his snoute into the bowels of a lambe rooting and noufling for the hart and therefore in scriptures the enimies of the Church are often called Wolues and for no vnlike qualitie are wicked Iudges here resembled to them Whatsoeuer is rightly done of the magistrate may be sayde to be done of god himself I haue said you are gods Take héede therfore what you do sayd Iosaphat a good captaine when he ordayned Iudges for you execute not the iudgments of men but of God and ther is no vnrighteousnesse with him Sit not with his authoritie then to practise your owne crueltie if you do you haue lost your warrant and it is of your self you are no magistrate but a Wolfe and the widow crie and the fatherlesse wéepe for his ryght the lambe is fallen into the Wolues iawes But the bloud shal crie for vengeāce and neuer cease and reuenge shal be redy neuer sleep for hee that made him shall heare hym Now as that Iudges case is cléere that iudgeth thousands in truth and equity so is his moste grieuous that condemneth but one vniustlye Remember the righteous God that hath no respect of persons but is a iust Iudge remember that Potentes potenter punientur the mightie shal be mightily punished and mercy is graunted to the lower sort but the magistrate shall haue a sore triall Wyl you knowe who hath set you in youre seate that same God that raised iudges vnto Israel 2. Iudg. Uerse 16. Wil you know to what end it is to do away euil from among his people and to iudge thē with iust iudgement Put to your helping hand then in the name of God and let two scales fal from al your eyes that haue to deale in iustice the one is couetousnesse that you may sée right the other is cruelty that you shew no wrōg and as much as you can by clemencye pittie and mercy auoyde the name of Wolues But against the wicked be Lions and spare not as Iethro counselled his son in law Moses to picke out men of courage men that feared God and hated couetousnesse to gouern the people You had néede of stomack and courage and to be Liōs some times for you shal méete wyth diuels else now thē Here is suche cutting and flashing as if men were Oxen and not Christians I thinke the sworde you cary should be able to commaund vppe euery sworde into his sheath or if they cannot rule theyr handes I am sure you haue authoritye for theyr legges I reade in the 4. of Genesis that hee that killed Caine a murtherer should bee punyshed seauen folde I am sorie it is made so light a matter in our time I speake not vnto you to make new lawes I knowe you cannot but to execute olde lawes to bee more exquisite on the tryall of him that hath cutte a throte than of hym that hath cut a purse Oh Lord that a murtherer shoulde finde any one friende in a Christian common weale but of nobles of Iudges of magistrates it were to intollerable a poore théefe packes to Tyborne but a manne kyller a murtherer can shyfte hys legges oute of the shackle and