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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77843	Iudgements removed, where judgement is executed. Or A sermon preached to the Court Marshall in Lawrence Iury, London, the 5th of Septemb. 1644. Being the day of their solemn seeking of the Lord for his blessing upon their proceedings. By Anthony Burges, sometimes fellow of Emmanuell Colledge in Cambridge; now pastor of Sutton-Coldfeild in Warwickshire; a member of the Assembly.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5649; Thomason E18_15; ESTC R210008	9,859	17

res sacra it is a holy thing saith the Civilian hence the Lawyers were sometimes called Sacerdotes because it is a kind of a holy thing to judge and pronounce sentence you are to look higher then to men even unto God himself The Romans are much commended for their Justice yet their actions were but splendida peccata refined sins Aristides the just was but a Glow-worm and severe Cato but a Blazing-star Vincit amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido the praise of men overcame them you must not walke by this rule This man must be condemned the people will have it so and the City will have it so but will the Lord have it so 4. Deliberately and advisedly howsoever it be questioned whether a Magistrate may release the punishments of sins yet that he may delay all agree Truth is the daughter of Time Alius dies de alio judicat de omnibus supremus one day judges of another and the last of all an act of Justice ought to flow from mature deliberation and advised attendency It is said of Lewis King of France that when hee had through inadvertency granted an unjust thing as soon as hee read that verse in this Psalme Blessed is hee that doth righteously at all times presently recalled himself especially there ought to be deliberation when it is above the life or death of men When Theodosius had rashly killed many in a City which did much trouble him afterwards it was ordered that thirty dayes should intervene between the sentence and execution Potest dilata poena exigi exacta revocari non potest deferred punishment may be executed when we will but if once executed it cannot be recalled 5. With much godly pity and compassion A Butcher they say may not be of the Jury much lesse may hee be a Judge and certainly there is just cause of great relenting whether we consider our selves or others our selves who are of the same mould and subject to the same temptations as others though wee may delight in Justice yet to do it as it is the evill and griefe of another so to be glad of it this is very sinfull and though you may have much Religion and Piety in your breasts yet sowrenesse and severity doth much discourage how did Joshua speak to Achan My sonne give glory to God where there is Justice within and nothing but austerity without it is like those houses where they say treasures of Gold are but the place is so haunted with spirits that none dare come neer though there be Piety and Justice yet Passion and Frowardnesse hinder others from being made partakers of it It is remarkable of David that when the news of Sauls death was brought he rejoyced not at all though it was greatly to his outward advantage but wept and bewailed him 6. With sure Knowledge and Vnderstanding it is observed of all Gen. 18. as a pattern in judgement I will descend and see if it be so so Job 29. If I did not search out the cause that was too hard for mee the Judges had an Image with a Jewell upon it that was called Truth and a multitude of bookes lying by to shew the Knowledge of the Judge and this made Solomon so pray for Wisdome In matters of life and death proofs ought to be full therefore Moses ordered that if there fell out matters too hard for inferiour Courts they should go to the higher you are to give physick to the Common-wealth and Ignorance may indanger the whole besides Knowledge is not enough but Prudence is requisite which is Rectaratio agibilium the right way of ordering things the Physician hath not Knowledge enough when it is Theoreticall but it must also be Practicall therefore know what you do for there is nothing that you judge but God will judge yea the world will judge it over and over again 7. With Courage and Boldnesse Much opposition and hatred will alwayes be in the way of justice but the Rule is Fiat justitia ruat mundus Let justice be done though the world be ruin'd and that is a true saying Odia qui nimium timet regnare nescit He that feares the hatred of men too much knows not how to governe You will find that to resist Friends and to overlook Enemies in this your worke will be difficult To have friends intreating and to have Enemies reviling will be a great temptation Magistracy is called Cos hominis the Whet-stone of a man it is not onely a Touch-stone to try what a man is but a Whet-stone also to quicken him in that worke Saul when he was called to the government had another spirit and doe you pray That as the worke you have is other worke then you have had so your spirit also may be otherwise Especially harden your selves against worldly feares It is noted by some Expositors that Moses when he had killed the Aegyptian he looked up and downe as being afraid which they say was his weaknesse and corruption Let that be true of you which was said of Chrysostome That he feared nothing but sinne 8. With much Patience See what a world of Censures you must lie under some will say you are too severe some you are too mercifull some that you doe nothing some that you doe too much and how much patience must here be And there is nothing more unstable then the people who as they are earnest for justice so when it is done doe relent and pittie those that suffer as if wrong were done to them 9. With much Fervor and Zeale This is the cause of Courage Adami voluntas non habuit fortitudinem quia non habuit fervorem It was Bernards saying Adams will had not strength to endure because it had not fervency and zeale The righteous are compared to Palme trees now they love hot Regions and so doth Justice a zealous heart And terrible is that instance of Eli he did something yet because he was not zealous and fervent how was he punished by the Lord Every Sacrifice was to have fire and let your hearts also burne with fire for the glory of God and the good of the Common-wealth Lastly This Zeale must be pure as an act of Justice and out of Love too or it may be thy murther while it is Justice hence Numb 25. Phinehas his zeale is called the Lords zeale the fire it must be pure Elementary not Culinary or basely feeding upon carnall respects Among the Thebans the Images of their Judges were without hands and blinde that so no bribing nor compassion might divert them from Justice And these are the Things which hinder pure Justice First Malice and Revengefull thoughts Anger and Envy are present Pests to all Courts and Governments It was a good speech of Alphonsus That if he had lived in those times when the Roman Common-wealth was almost consumed with mutuall jarres he would have built a Temple Jovi positorio wherein men should have deposited and laine downe all heart-burnings before