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A05170 A sermon preached on Munday, the sixt of February, at Westminster at the opening of the Parliament. By the Bishop of S: Dauids. Laud, William, 1573-1645. 1625 (1625) STC 15304; ESTC S108348 19,061 57

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long as Ierusalem was at vnitie in it selfe But when that brake all misery began For no sooner had Ieroboam made a Rent in this vnity and torne away ten Tribes from the house of Dauid but by and by Samaria is as good as Ierusalem and the Calues in Dan and Bethel as good as that God that brought them out of the land of Egypt 3. Reg. 12. So dangerous a thing it is when vnitie and God's command are broke together The Iesuite Lorinus tels vs There are better causes to perswade vs now to goe on pilgrimage ad Limina Petri and the Iubilees at Rome then the Tribes had here to goe to Ierusalem What better causes The Iewes had Gods expresse commandement to goe to Ierusalem and the forme of worship that was there And what better warrant can any man or any people haue then Gods command Let him or any other shew me such a command That all the whole Church of Christ all the Tribes which now serue the Lord must come in person or consent and doe it at Rome wee will neuer stay for Lorinus his better reasons Wee will take Gods command for a good one and obey it But they must not thinke to choak vs with the wool that growes vpon Pasce oues S. Iohn 21. which as the Fathers haue diuersly spunne out so no one of them comes home to the cloathing of Rome with such a large Robe of State as she challengeth And this in the meane time will bee found true That while they seeke to tye all Christians to Rome by a diuine precept their Ambition of Soueraignty is one and a maine cause that Ierusalem euen the whole Church of Christ is not at vnitie in it selfe this day Now beside the honour seruice done to God the people had many other benefits by comming vp and meeting at Ierusalem Many but one more especially And that comes in to the third commendation of Ierusalem the Gouernment both Spirituall and Temporall For there also are the seates of Iudgement euen the seates of the house of Dauid So they might serue themselues at the seats of Iustice while they went to the Temple of serue God In the ascending 't was illuc thither And here at the sitting 't is illic there One the same City honoured with God his Church and the King And it must needs bee so For these three God the King and the Church that is God his Spouse his Lieutenant vpon earth are so neere allyed God and the Church in loue God the King in power The King and the Church in mutuall dependance vpon God and subordination to him That no man can serue any one of them truely but he serues all three And surely 't was in a blessed figure that Gods house and the Kings stood together at Ierusalem The Temple if I mistake not vpon the East and the Palace of Salomon vpon the South-side of the same Mountaine to shew that their seruants and seruice must goe together too that no man might thinke himselfe the farther from God by seruing the King nor the farther from the King by seruing God The Kings power is Gods ordinance and the Kings command must bee Gods glory and the honour of the Subiect is obedience to both And therefore in the Lawe the same command that lay vpon the people to come vp illuc thither to Ierusalem the very same lay vpon them to obey the Iudges and the house of Dauid illic when they came there To obey the Sanhedrim the Iudges Deut. 17. and both them and the King after the house of Dauid was setled as in this place For then there was seated as diuers of the Fathers and later diuines obserue both Authorities both of the Priests and of the King and his Iudges So the first lesson which the people doe or should learne by going vp to the Temple is obedience to both spirituall and temporall Authority but especially to the house of Dauid Well then illic there were the Seates or Thrones of iudgement Of all things that are necessary for a State none runs so generally through it as Iustice and Iudgement Euery part and member of a Kingdome needs it And 't is not possible Ierusalem should bee long at vnitie in it selfe if Iustice and Iudgement doe not vphold it And 't is in vaine for any man whether hee bee in authority or vnder it to talke of Religion Gods seruice to frequent the Temple if he doe not in the course of his life exercise and obey Iustice and Iudgement And this Lesson Religion euer teacheth For it was the very end of Christs comming to redeeme vs That wee might serue him in holinesse and in righteousnes S. Luk. 1. In holines toward God that 's first and then in righteousnes and iustice towards men that 's next And they stand so that the one is made the proofe of the other Righteousnes of Holines For he that doth but talke of Holinesse and doth vniustly therewhile is but an Hypocrite This for Iustice the preseruatiue of vnitie Now for the Seates of it They which are appointed to administer Iustice and Iudgement to the people haue Thrones or Chayres or Seates call them what you will the thing is the same out of which they giue sentence vpon Persons or Causes brought before them And they are signes of authority and power which the Iudges haue And 't is not for nothing that they are called Seates For Iudgement was euer giuen in publike sitting And there 's good reason for it For the soule and minde of man is not so settled when the Body is in motion For the Body moued moues the humours and the humours moued moue the affections and Affections moued are not the fittest to doe Iustice and iudgement No Reason in a calme vnmoued is fittest for that Now the Seates stand here both for the Seats themselues And so sederunt Sedes is Actiue for Passiue The Seates sate for The Seates are placed or for the Iudges that sit in them or sederunt id est permanserunt for the perpetuity and fixing of the Seates of Iustice. The Seates must bee in some reuerence for the persons that sit in them The persons must haue their Honour for the Office they performe in them And the Seates must bee fixed and permanent that the people which are fallen into Controuersie may know the Illi● and the Vbi whither to come and finde Iustice. The words in my Text are plurall Seates of Iudgement And 't is obseruable For the exorbitances of men that quarrell others are such and so many that one Seat of Iudgement only was scarce euer sufficient for any State Seates they must be they seldome want worke In the prime times of the Church Christians could not hold from going to Law one with another and that vnder vnbelieuers 1. ● Cor. 6. To meet with this frailtie of man God in this Common-wealth which himselfe ordered