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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05404	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse by R. Lewes, Baccheler of Divinitie, concerning Isaac his testament, disposed by the Lord to Iacobs comfort, though it were intednded to Esau by his father; shewing, that the counsel of God shal stand, albeit the whole worlde withstande it.	Lewes, Richard.	1594 (1594)	STC 15556; ESTC S119665	22,088	50

wish his punishment to bee farre remooved from them Let Phinees and Hophnes though gentlemen offenders yea though Elies kinsmen yea though they bee Elies sonnes if they meddle with the workes of darkenesse let them have the wages of sinne which is death for the service they haue done to Satan You knowe that Prosopolepsia is forbiddē Deuteronomy 1. Deut. 1. Looke not on the face of the person but beholde well the cause The poore man flieth in his trouble to the Magistrate for succour as vnto a shaddowe against the heate a refuge against the tempest if the magistrate bee vnrighteous and ledde by affection and not by iustice the confidence that is put in him Esa 26. is like a broken ●●oth and a sliding foote the more ye trust them the more are ye deceived Chrysippus being demaunded why he did not take charge of the cōmon-wealth vpon him answered that the reason was forasmuch as if he governed ill hee must needes displease God if well he must needes displease men but as he was afraide to displease either God or man so the vnrighteous iudge will not feare to displease both God and man When Iosia iudged the cause of the poore afflicted did not he prosper and was not this because he knewe me saith the Lord Iob delivered the poore helpeles and did not the Lord hedge him and his house rounde about Our gratious dreade soveraigne whom God make a most aged mother in Israel dealeth most graciously with poore subiectes listning most carefully and speaking mos● comfortably vnto them and commaunding that iustice bee done accordingly If it be no disgrace to her highnes nay a speciall honour to deliver the oppressed it can be no blot to inferiour Magistrates If the Princes throne be established by iustice then doth it concerne the safety of Magistrates to doe iudgment otherwise the stone shall cry out of the wal and the beame out of the timber shall aunswere they shal give in their evidence like honest iurates against the houses of all oppressours It will bee time for men to heare when the stone shall cry out of the wal I am built by iniquity by vsury by extortion and the beame out of the timber shal aunswere I am built with bloud oppression There are many such houses built in these evil daies but the builders have consulted shame to their owne houses have sinned against their owne soules as speaketh Abacuk the Prophet Abac. 2. Ioachim a rich oppressour may close himself in Cedar but the Lord will plucke him away with thornes his posteritie with fishookes But in the meane time Amos 4. verse 2. where the hedge is lowe every man goeth over the hedge is low with the widdow she hath no husband with the orphane hee hath no father with the stranger he hath no friend with the poore he hath no wealth the plougher I meane the oppressour plougheth on their backes and maketh long furrowes Psal 29 they have none to defende them but the iudge who should be a father and the Lawier a patron The Iudges in Aegypt were bound by oth to doe nothing against iustice no not at the kings commandement they ware about their neckes a chaine of golde with the image of truth in it The Lorde hath made you ye learned Lawiers patrons of the poore ye cal them clients take heed that ye bereave not poore Iacob of his right I am of Thales minde that that common-wealth is most happy safe where men give least heede to Lawiers most heed to the law it selfe There are two thinges required in euery Lawier the first is learning and skill the seconde is a tender conscience If yee be not seasoned with both yee are vnsavory A tender conscience without learning and skil is vnfruitfull but learning and skill without conscience is divelish an vnconscionable Lawier is more to be feared then an vnskilfull and yet the vnskilfull Lawier receiving the rewarde but not doing the duty of a good Lawier committeth theft The Lorde hath beutified in any of you with verie manie and very excellent giftes Now are you to labour that it maie bee saide of you as our Saviour saide of Nathaniell beholde a true Israelite without guile beholde a true Lawier void of corruption The Lorde hath made all patrons of benefices his instrumentes for Iacobs behoofe but they bestow for the most part Iacobs living on profane Esau Alas that ever the clergy of England should draw drinke in even into her very bowels the deadly poison of covetousnes cōtētion and nowe a daies simony is an open and an easie way to have a living the maide simony that kept the doore in popery is crept into patrons houses and suffereth not Peter only to come in but every meane fellow is admitted sometimes of favour at Iohns request but commonly the Church doore is opened with a silver key and manie a lewde patron by his marte and marchandize of mens soules maketh a living whereby wee see it is come to passe that manie doe denie Christ in their deedes and the love to mens soules waxeth colde while they warme themselves at the fire of riches which is kindled and blowne with the bellowes of covetousnesse and yet with no crowing of cockes or pricking of conscience canne those covetous patrons bee awaked albeit the LORDE doe mercifullie looke vppon them and in their owne heartes doe condemne their impiety but growing olde and obstinate in the drousie disease and abominable dropsie of covetousnesse they drawe sinne vnto them with cordes of vanitie and iniquity as it were with cart-ropes It is saide by the Prophet that Ierusalem shal sucke the milke of the gentiles but manie of our gentles sucke the milke naie the bloude out of the Churches brestes It was woont to bee saide of Friers that they were fedde fatte with mens sinnes a man may say the same of manie patrons falselie so called It was merrilie and truely saide of one that the state of Asses was better then the state of Horses for the Horses runne to patrons for benefices but many ignoraunt Asses doe obtaine them Have they no vnderstanding saith the Lorde that they eat vp my people as if they would eat bread they have not called vpon God Have these cruel patrons no vnderstanding that they eate vp Gods messengers as if they would eate bread they have not called vpon God Wel I say no more but this Rom. ● O thou vnrighteous patron thou abhorrest idols committest thou sacriledge The name of God is blasphemed among the papistes through you The Lord hath made the phisitions of mens bodies his ministers of health they shoulde deale with poore Iacob as well as with rich Esau The Lord hath made fathers masters ministers of many blessings to their children and servantes they shoulde defraude them of the graces of God in no case Finally every one of vs faithfull stewards and good disposers of the manifold