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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20472	A godly and learned sermon concerning the magistrates dutie and death preached at the court, and now published for the common good, by Francis Dyllingham bachelour in diuinitie. Magnum non est præesse, magnum est prodesse. It is no great thing to rule, it is a great thing to rule well. Magnum non est vivere, magnum est piè mori. It is no great thing to liue, it is a great thing to die well.	Dillingham, Francis, d. 1625.	1605 (1605)	STC 6885; ESTC S114254	10,327	30

A GODLY AND LEARNED SERMON CONCERNING THE MAGISTRATES dutie and death preached at the Court and now published for the common good by Francis Dyllingham bachelour in divinitie Magnum non est praesse magnum est prodesse It is no great thing to rule it is a great thing to rule well Magnum non est vivere magnum est piè mori It is no great thing to liue it is a great thing to die well HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA PRINTED BY IOHN LEGAT PRINter to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1605. TO THE RIGHT worshipfull wise and vertuous Ladyes the Lady Anne Fleetwood and Elizabeth Luke grace and peace THe dayes and times beeing euill right worshipfull religious Ladyes require preaching they require also printing Preaching and printing so desperate is the case of many will not preuaile A great and maine cause of this deluge and flood of iniquitie is the negligence of Magistrates who will not adioyne the sword to defend the word The Lord in his rich mercie towardes vs hath sent forth many worthie Ministers who preach in season and out of season yet oathes abound the Lords Sabboths are prophaned And why so because these sinnes escape vnpunished Caput audaciae maxima illecebra peccandi est impunitatis spes The hope of impunity is an exceeding bayte vnto sinne Wherefore I nothing doubt but that if Magistrates would faithfully execute their office we should not haue such bold and presumptuous sinners as swarme amongst vs. Now that the Magistrate may execute his office according to Gods will he must knowe the same for which cause I thought good to publish this sermon that those which will learne may both knowe and practise And as in this sermon is set out the Magistrates duty so likewise in the same is set out the Magistrates death The consideration of which should mooue all Officers to doe their duties The Lord without all controuersie will call them one day to an account And what account can many Magisters make no doubt many can make an account of their debts accruing by vngodly vsury Others may count their bribes But how many can count and number the soules of men which haue reaped benefit by their gouerment magistrates haue no greater thing then this that they can punish sinners they haue no better thing then that they will Which if they would doe no doubt many sinners might be conuerted and brought vnto God Not to proceede any further in this point as I haue published this sermon which concerneth the Magistrates duty and his death so I haue dedicated the same to your Worshippes whose vertues shine like the starres If I should speake all things answerable to your vertues I might peraduenture seeme to some to flatter If I should conceale some things I might bee thought of others enuious as Hierome speaketh in the like case Wherefore to leaue this matter of cōmendatiō I humbly desire yee both to accept this my labour as an argument of my duty and harty affection which I beare to each of you the great fauours which I haue receaued at your hands I confesse deserue a greater worke But you are wise to know that in great things there are not alwaies good things but in good things there are alwaies great things Trusting then to the goodnes of the subiect matter which is Gods word I present this labour to your Worshippes The Lord of his infinite goodnesse graunt that the good course which yee haue begun yee may keepe fast vnto the end And in so doing as he hath highly aduanced you in this world so will he aduance you in the world to come Your worshippes euer bounden Francis Dillingham Psalme 82. v. 6 7. I haue said ye are Gods and ye are all children of the most high But ye shall die as common men and ye Princes shall fall like others THese words containe two parts the first is an Exaltation the second is an Humiliation The exaltation is in these words I haue said ye are Gods c. In which two things are to be considered first a proposition secondly the proofe of it The proposition is in these words Ye are all Gods c. The proofe taken a testimonio divino from Gods testimonie is in these words I haue said Touching the Humiliatiō two things are likewise to be considered first what this humiliation is to wit death secondly the māner of it l●ke vnto common men for so doth the Hebrew word signifie as it is plaine and euident out of the 49 Psal v. 2. Concerning the Humiliation Death must needes be a great humiliation vnto Princes For as Ecclesiasticus saith 41. cap. v. 1. O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions vnto the man that hath nothing to vexe him that hath prosperitie in all things yea vnto him that is able to receiue meate Therfore Adrian asking what death was receiued this answer namely that it was pavor divitum the terrour of rich men and it seemeth indeede so to be by Adrian his owne speach for he beeing readie to die vttered these wordes Animula vagula blandula non vt soles dabis io●os O my darling now thou shalt not iest and scoffe as thou wast wont to doe In death as Iob saith chap. 3. v. 19. there are small and great and the seruant is free from his master Hauing thus resolued this text of holy Scripture I am now to deliuer the doctrines that arise from the same Before I take this thing in hand this question may be mooued How Magistrates can be called the children of the high God seeing it may be truly averred that all of them doe not feare God all of them are not regenerate and borne of the holy Ghost To this question this answer is to be suted namely that the children of God are so called in a double respect First in respect of regeneration 1. Ioh. 3.1 and so magistrates are not here called the sonnes of the most high God Secondly in respect of honour and dutie and so they are here called the sonnes of the most High because God hath greatly aduanced them and so by dutie they are bound to feare him The word in the Hebrew phrase will beare this construction The sonnes of the high that is high As psal 29.1 The children of Gods that is Gods And Amos 9.7 The children of the Aethiopians that is the Aethiopians So speaketh Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the children of the Grecians that is the Grecians This question beeing thus assoiled I proceed to the doctrines Magistrates are called Gods not that men should imagine that omnis Deorum potestas est ad illos translata aut saltem cùm illis communicata Tullic all the power of God is conferred or at least wise communicated vnto them This was the pride of Alexander and Domitian who would be called Gods But they are so called to teach