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A77114	Jus poli et fori or, God and the King. Judging for right against might. As it was delivered in a sermon before the honourable His Majesties judges of assize in the cathedrall church of Lincolne, Septem. 10. 1660. / By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham in the county of Lincolne.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3802; Thomason E1813_1; ESTC R209777	30,183	78

who is here called Solomon as he is called David elsewhere The children of Israel shall return and seeke the Lord their God Hosca 3.5 and David their King And therefore it is Genebrard that he approves of another making it a patronymie In Solomonidem for the Son the Nephew one sprung from Solomon or is willing to allow it an Appellative speaking no more then Peace-maker and so is eminently the due of the Lord Jesus Christ Heb. 7.2 who is King of Salem that is King of Peace But I cannot list under this opinion to cut Solomon quite out of this Psalm to which the Inscription gives him so clear a Title I know a greater then Solomon is here but yet Solomon is here too Solomon in the figure and Christ in the perfection of Kingly administration Solomon's kingdome shall be a mapp of Christ's And as David was a type of him in his encounters with and triumph over the Churches enemies so shall Solomon be in the calme and happy dayes of the Church when Christ shall give his beloved rest and finde a repose for the daughter of Zion making peace within her walls and plenteousness within her palaces In short those blessings that flow in with the rule of Christ shall not be wanting to the Reigne of Solomon onely he shall governe by and compose to this modell He shall judge the poore of the People c. The Text seems to have some little dependance upon the first verse wee 'l quit it of that and then we shall come clear to it The threed of connexion runs through both it and the two former verses thus Give the King thy judgements O God c. v. 1. And then He shall judge thy people in c. v. 2. And The mountaines shall bring peace to c. v. 3. And He shall judge the poore of the c. in the Text. The connexion then is plain The King prayes heartily Give she King thy judgements O Lord c. The Kings son proves accordingly He shall judge the poor of the people c. The Kings Son and the Kings Subjects and all fare the better for the prayers of pious Kings We are the happy witnesses of this truth this day I am very confident the peace the plenty the prosperity the rich confluence of mercies we are now entring upon and do in some good measure enjoy are the sweet fruits of his late Majesties prayers He sowed in teares what we are now reaping in joy That Princely Martyr was excellent at those spirituall wrestlings such another devout duellist as Jacob his faith made him more then man a Match for the Angel Hos 12.4 And though his Treaties on Earth were sadly successesse yet his entreaties with Heaven were of invincible strength and urgency as a Prince he had power with God Gen. 32.28 and prevailed God hath heard the Kings prayer for the Kings Son and given him such a returne of Judgement and Righteousnesse that we may promise our selves in the confidence of the Text He shall judge the poore of the people c. The Psalme being Depositum Davidis as it is called because of the last words of it Davids Testament the Text is one of those Legacies which he bequeaths to Solomon and in him to those happy people which should live in the peaceable plenteous dayes of his flourishing Reigne looking also through the Perspective of Faith at their incomparable condition which should see the most desirable dayes of the Son of Man and follow the conduct of the Prince of Peace in the glorious administration of his Kingdome Wherein David as else-where sings of Mercy and Judgement Mercy He shall judge the poore of the people he shall save the children of the needy Judgement And shall break in pieces the Oppressour Or if you please Here is all distributive justice sum'd up and comprised in two particulars 1. Defensive justice let me so call it He shall judge the poore of the people that 's one piece of it and the second is like unto it He shall save the children of the needy 2. Offensive justice and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour Each of these hath an Agent Act Object The Agent He the same in all The Act diverse as it meets with an object judge save breake in pieces The Object diversifying this Act The poore of the people the children of the needy the Oppressour He shall judge the poor of c. I begin with the Agent his first Act and Object He shall judge the poore of the people He But who is that is he invested with Authority is he qualified for so great a worke Is he commissioned first that 's a question would be asked We have had many invaders of late some have taken Aarons honour upon them Heb. 5.4 and never were called of God as Aaron was Others have climbed Moses his Chaire by strange steps of their owne laying who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the quicke and the dead 1 Pet. 4.5 when they shall be asked the Hebrews question to Moses Exo. 2.14 Quis constituit te Principem judicem Who made thee a Prince and a Judge And is he sufficient let that be asked too For we have had some whose names and places have been of the greater print and themselves of little or no letters How many have possessed themselves of Gamaliel's seat that never did nor were ever worthy to sit at his feet of whom we may say as St. Paul of the Gentiles in another case That having not the Law Rom. 2.14 they were a law unto themselves I and to others too who have cause enough to complaine they feel it yet How many have been set on high like the Idols of the Heathen Psal 115.5 6 7. of whom the Psalmist They have eyes and sea not eares and heare not it had been well if they had been like them in that other defect too that they had hands and handled not But they were too active with them it is to be thought and that makes so many poore of the people at this day And hence it was that Judgement like Jordan's streams was turned backward or as the Prophet complains Am. 5.7 Judgement was turned into wormwood Righteousnesse was left off in the earth Oh! but the He in the Text is infinitely furnished for his employment Col. 2.3 having all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge bid in him knowing the Law exactly even as he kept it in every title of it Jam. 4.12 being that one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy He is a Judge that sees without evidence and knows without witness He that can read the dark letters of the heart as if they were written with a beam of the Sun upon a wall of chrystall He that can discerne a false cause through a faire varnish He that shall bring every worke into judgement with every secret

thing Eccl. 12.14 whether it be good or whether it be evill He shall judge the poor of the people c. And he is commissioned too in answer to the other querie He brings his authority with him for on his vesture and on his thigh he hath a name written King of Kings Lord of Lords Rev. 19.16 Isa 9.6 It is He whose name is called Wonderfull Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Lu. 1.32 33. It is He who is great and called the son of the Highest to whom the Lord God hath given the throne of his father David and he shall reigne over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdome there shall be no end Psal 19.6 It is He whose going forth like that of the sun is from the end of Heaven and his circuit to the ends of it Mat. 24.30 Chap. 25.31 It is He who shall come in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory and all the holy Angels with him Rev. 20.9 It is He who shall sit on the great white throne from whose face the Earth and the Heaven shall flee away and there shall be no place found for them It is He before whom the dead small great shall stand Rev. 20.12 and be judged out of those things which are written in the books according to their works It is He to whom the Father hath given authority to execute judgement John 5.27 because he is the son of man Jesus Christ as Mediator hath had the Scepter and rule in his hands ever since the fall and the last and great act of his Regall power shall be to judge the world to settle the eternall and unalterable estates of men and Angels 1 Cor. 15.24 and then he shall deliver up the Kingdome to God even the Father that God may be all in all This is He the first He He in the Antitype and by way of Eminency He shall judge the poor of the people c. But lest some of St. 2 Pet. 3.4 Peters scoffers should question this Judge and say Where is the promise of his coming Or some desperate daring wretch should argue himselfe into folly from the distance of the day Eccl 8 11. and because sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily his heart should be fully set in him to do evil Here is an He in the Type too another He deputed authorized commissioned from Heaven and in trusted with the management of judgement till that day and He also shall judge the poore of the people And if you aske who he is though the matchless iniquity of the late times interdicted all mention of him with that honour due unto his Name forcing men either to cancell or conceale it and pouring contempt upon it yet blessed be God we may now speake out this He is the King He shall judge the c. Judgements is the King 's He hath it from good hands he comes fairely and freely by it Give the King thy judgments O Lord The power of judging is in the King is from him so St. Paul tells us Acts 25 10. I stand at Caesars judgement seat where I ought to be judged And Absalom as great a Rebell as he was grants this 2 Sam. 15 3. Thy matters are good but there is none deputed of the King to heare thee The hearing Causes is proper to the King and whom he shall depute It is said of Samuel when he held the Kingly power ingrossed in the Judiciary that He went from yeare to yeare in circuit to Bethel 1 Sam 7.16 and Gilgal and Mispeh and judged Israel in all those places But because as Jethro told Moses Exod. 18.18 ultra vires tuas est negotium the thing is too heavy for one Deut. 1.12 And Moses himself complaines Non valeo solus how can I my selfe alone bear your cumbrance and your burden your strife If you please wee 'l follow that Model of Jethro and take in wise and understanding men known in our Tribes that they may take off part of the burden by subjoyning with the He in the Text and helping to judge the poor of the people And the He will be He the King and He the Judge The King in person and the King in proxy The King in himselfe and the King in his substitute He that hath the primitive and he that hath the derivative power The supreme and the subordinate Magistrate the Co-Assessor Counsellor every one that is commissioned to act in matters of Justice He is the man it is He shall judge the poore of the people And that for the Agent He of whom we shall speak no more single but as he falls in with the severall Acts and Objects to which we now proceed beginning with the First Judge He shall judge And here we shall not make a stirre about judging To judge in its highest signification imports to Rule to exercise the supreme power to hold the reines of Government in the hand and stit at the Stern To command in chiefe and give Laws Victorque volentes Per populos dat jura So the Chieftaines in the polity and Common-wealth of Israel in the nonage of Kings or in the inter-regnum rather Deu. 33.5 betwixt Moses who was King in Jeshurun and Saul the first annointed are said in their several Generations to have governed Israel But we shall wave this and other significations lesse of kinne to our purpose and speak of such onely as may goe along with our sense and be of concernment to us The whole business of judging takes up in these two Oppressos liberare Oppressores coercere to support the poor and oppresse the proud that 's judging Or thus there is judicium comprobationis condemnationis a judging for and against 1. There is a judgement of comprobation a judging for in the safer sense a laying out of intrusted power for the behoofe of those that want it Judicare aliquem Ribera in Hos a p. 3. n. 95. est sententiam pro illo ferre To judge a man is to give sentence for him to appeare for his rescue Isa 1.17 Or let the Prophet english it Seeke judgement relieve the oppressed judge the fatherlesse plead for the widow This is a judging for and is sometimes rendred a delivering As David in his compurgatory speech and selfe-vindication against the cruel causeless and unhandsome persecution of Saul The Lord be judge 1 Sam. 24 15. and judge between me and thee and see and plead my cause and deliver me out of thine hand They that are skilfull in the left-handed language Plurimi ln bonam parte interpretantur judicandi vocabulum ut sit defendere ac tueri destitutos opisque indigentes Lovin in loc render it indifferently judge or deliver or by judging deliver And therefore what is here judge in the other Translation we have keepe