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A10515	Moses and Iethro: or the good magistrate containing sundry necessary admonitions to all maiors, gouernours, and freemen of townes corporate, as they were deliuered in a sermon at S. Maries in Douer on the election day. By Io: Reading.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1626 (1626)	STC 20791; ESTC S115680	13,902	23

MOSES AND IETHRO Or the Good Magistrate Containing sundry necessary admonitions to all Maiors Gouernours and Freemen of Townes Corporate as they were deliuered in a Sermon at S. Maries in Douer on the Election Day By IO READING 2 CHRON. 19.6 c. Take heede what yee doe for yee execute not the iudgements of man but of the Lord and he will be with you in the cause and iudgements LONDON Printed by Iohn Legatt for Robert Allott and are to be sold in Pauls-Church-yard at the signe of the Gray-hound 1626. To the Right Worshipfull the Maior and Iurats of Douer To the Maiors Barons and Free-men of the Cinqueports Grace and peace be multiplied in Iesus Christ RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL I Haue tendered these Meditations to your so generall Patronage because you all haue one interest in them In as much as you all make one bodie I am not ignorant that they are neither accommodated to the excellencie of these times nor the curiositie of such as will not abide wholesome Doctrine I doe know that to guiltie consciences and carnall mindes of men not so much proposing to themselues reformation as formalitie in hearing all plaine and home-put reproofes are like acrimonie of medicines to greene wounds I remember that truth by reason of our corrupt will and peruerse affections is fruitfull in begetting enemies neither am I to learne this out of mine owne particulars it was euer so with the Prophets Apostles Martyrs yea and Christ himselfe yet haue I without care what the vnreformable shall thinke or say of my plaine dealing addressed these exhortations to those few of many amongst you who duely considering how heauily it importeth vs to admonish sinners Ezek. 3.20 lest their blood be required at our hands to cry aloud and spare not to shew the people their transgressions I●●● 8.1 and the house of Iacob their sinnes will not therefore thinke we are become their enemies because we tell them the trueth but remember how necessary the greatest instancie and roundest warnings now are in these dangerous times wherein the dreadfull hand of God hath in our late visitations po●nted out the neglect conniuence and impunitie begetting that cursed libertie of sinning for which the wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience and that since we must all indifferently appeare before the tribunall of Christ they are not friends ● Cor. 5.10 who passe by our vnregarded faults as the Priest and Leuite by the wounded man but they who like the good Samaritan powre in Wine and Oyle to clense and heale and consequently to prepare vs against the strict examination of the most holy Iudge Consider therefore what I say and the Lord God giue you vnderstanding in all things that vpon a present reformation the Lord may make fast the barres of our gates turne his indignation from vs and set the cloudy pillar day and night betwixt vs and our insolent enemies in which hope I rest Yours to loue and serue you IO READING Moses and Jethro Exod. 18.24 And Moses harkened vnto the voice of his father in law and did all that he had sayd MOses doth here passe to the historie of a new policy which thenceforth hee obserued there are two parts of it the first declareth the aduice and counsell of Iethro gluing being and life to this politicall course From the 17. verse to the 23. the second relateth the execution of the same counsell from the 24. verse In the first is found an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an euersion reiection or reproouing their former custome the thing which thou doest is not well as if one should tell you you haue some inconueniences in your custome Vers 17. which are neither right nor good so found Iethro some subsect or reformation in the customes of Moses and the republicke of Israel In the second is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or proposition of an order from that time to be instituted Concerning the persons eligible to the magistracy these particulars are set downe 1. Quis praefecturus esset Moses consulta sacie Domini Be thou for the people to God-ward Vers 19. and report thou the causes vnto God and admonish them of the ordinance and of the lawes c. that is Vers 22. iudge thou in difficult causes which cannot be decided but by consulting with God 2 Quos eligeret prouide among all the people men of courage fearing God men dealing truely hating couetousnesse 3 Quibus Appoint such ouer them to bee rulers ouer thousands rulers ouer hundreds rulers ouer fifties and rulers ouer tens Let them iudge the people at all seasons that is for the manner of iudicature which is set downe vers 22. the euent is promised vers 23. if thou doe this thing and God so commaund thee both thou shalt be able to endure and all this people shall also goe quietly to their place Immediately after the aduice commeth the narration of the fact the fruit and issue thereof Moses obtemperated And Moses harkened vnto the voice of his father in law The words cōtaine Moses his 1. Regularitie and disposition in taking counsell And Moses harkened vnto c. 2. Conformitie in the execution thereof and he did all c. And Moses harkened vnto the voice of his father in law 1. His regulatitie Gen. 3.17 Hearing is the sense of discipline errour first entred into the soule through that dore the woman harkened to the serpent and was seduced and because the man hearkened to the voice of his wife in that which God forbad he was cursed and the cure must follow the euill the same was into the soule we must be healed through the care there the word entreth to beget sauing faith faith is by hearing there counsell entreth into the mind Rom. 10.17 Pro 2.2.10 11 12. to make men wise cause thine cares to hearken vnto wisedome encline thine heart to vnderstanding when wisedome entreth into thine heart and knowledge delighteth thy soule then shall counsell preserue thee and vnderstanding shall keep thee and deliuer thee from the euill way Moses was here ruled by his father in lawes counsel what that was the precedent story hath and I shall speake summarily of it in the conclusion hereof For the present I haue to obserue the regularitie and disposition of considering him in relation to his counseller Moses had heard God speake had receiued commission and instruction from God himselfe God had by his hands done wonderfull things in the land of Egypt wonders in the sea Num. 14.14 wonders in the desert the Lord was among that people he went before them by day time in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire by night to giue them light Exod. 13 2● Deut. 1.31.33 and to search them out a place to pitch their tents in this was the dreadfull standard of the Lord of hostes where God set it downe they pitched their tents when he remooued it they were to march againe

aduice post factum non poenitebis the reason why wisemen loue others aduice is because seeing their owne wants they suspect and are iealous of themselues the foole because he knoweth not so much as his owne defects hath an high opinion of his own worth therfore he is precipitate and often vnlucky to himselfe or that vnhappy common-wealth committed to his managing and like the Polypus a true embleme of vnaduised men taken in a snare Whose motto is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambros for want of taking heed I conclude this point then Counsell is for wise men and correction for fooles for these hate aduise the wisest of men hath the summe of all Prou. 12.15 The way of a foole is right in his owne eyes but he that heareth counsell is wise I know not yet to whom this addresse belongeth but in the phrase of Tamar I may say to him Discerne I pray thee cuius sunt ista sigillum Gen. 38.25 sudarium scipio iste I meane the seale and staffe of office to him I say as this concerneth him when the staffe and authority shall be put into his hand by your suffrages to assure him that he cannot be a good patriot who despiseth and therefore will not hearken to counsell so to you all I say it first and for present concerneth you who though many are but one body and in place of one Moses now to make choice one Moses made choice of many Magistrates you being many are to choose one therefore your first part is in imitation of this man of God to heare aduice what choice you ought to make you must be auscultantes first to the Prophet who by a laudable custome is to you as some Iethro aduising you concerning your election secondly to those grauest and most experienced members of your state whose age imployment and obseruation haue enabled them to iudge what man in respect of the particulars fittest to be elected The word is our cloudy pillar to direct our courses when that remooueth we must follow it when that standeth Greg Math. 13. Mat. 13.16 we must rest this is that cibus mentis in whose strength we are to walke this is that which maketh vs blessed in hearkning to it and wise in doing it Math. 7. 24. S●ultus verò haec audita dis●imulans tanquā super arenam opus a dif●eationis impenderi● infideliter flat c. Hilar. Canon 6. Exod. 29.20 I will like him to a wise man which hath builded his house on a rocke hee and his worke shall stand With this the good Magistrate must be initiated and consecrated as the high Priests were wont to bee with the blood of the sacrifice thou shalt take of the blood and put it vpon the tip of their right eare and vpon the thumb of their right hand and vpon the great toe of the right foot their eare must first bee touched with the word that it may be sanctified and opened to counsell next the hand that their worke and administration may be holy and that their conuersation may be blamelesse If this part be neglected I easily beleeue the rest will prooue vnhappy and euil to you what choice soeuer you make for how shall God giue you a blessing in a good Magistrate how shall hee prosper his best counsells or endeauours to you when to initiate him you begin so euilly as to contemne God For he that despiseth these things despiseth not man but God And himselfe faith againe Ezek. 3.7 The house of Israel will not heare thee for they will not heare me It must needs be euill likewise where the aduice of men experienced authorised to assist is contemned I say therefore there are some men I say not where if it now concerne you looke to it if nor lay it vp till it may there are some men for this cause most vnfit to be elected because they cannot abide the word of God if it touch them nor the counsell of good men if it crosse them Some worldly men are like those inhabitants by the falls of Nilus the noise of other businesses hath so filled their eares that they cannot hearken the Roman Peter hath cut off the right eare of some and such a Malcus heare nothing saue onely what the state of Rome saith there are no men to sit at our helmes Others are Aug. ●● Psal 57. for other causes deafe adders who laying one eare to the earth and couering the other with the tayle I mean either for carnall aduice or peruerse affections luting vp their eares cannot be drawne out of their holds who louing their owne ignorance cannot be brought out into the light with the most diuine and sweet inchantments of wisedome ib. Aug. these are not onely non audientes men not hearkening but omninò vt non valeant audire facientes So composing themselues that they may not heare these like the enraged Iewes when they heare their faults toucht stop their eares and flye vpon the speaker Non erant surdi sed fecerunt se surdos Act. 7. Aug. qu●s they are thus affected also to the counsell of men if it bee not a Miner●a of their owne braine pride and selfe-loue wil neither suffer then to execute nor apprehend it there is nothing more intolerable then this out-sides of a magistrate who thinketh nothing can be right but what himselfe doth or proiecteth looke neerer him he admireth his owne head talketh of the excellent seruices done to the state disparageth his predecessours findeth inconveniences in other gouernments in fine as if hee were possessed with a spirit of contradiction and his eares metamorphosed into tongues hee who should bee a●scultans with Moses in my text is loquax and nothing els as for aduice he feareth it might import some weaknes in the receiuer to carry any but an independent brain I haue shewed you the Idea and character of a Magistrate whose example if any so euill be to be found must be auoided as Cyprian said of Doctors I must conclude of gouernours Neminem bonum esse c. qui non idem sit docilis he cannot be good who will not be taught Moses thought not himselfe too good to be aduised by a man who neuer went dry-foot through the red sea who neuer talked familiarly with God to shut vp this point then in your elections it is safer I dare say it confidently if you had any so vnhappy choice to take a foole who would performe this first part and hearken to good counsell then a wise man in his owne conceit there is more hope of a foole then of him a simple man with eares is better then a deafe Ahithephel with his most curious oracles he then that hath an eare let him heare Tutiùs auditur veritas quàm pradicatur Aug de doct Christ there is no feare in hearing good counsel there is often danger in giuing it Moses hearkened vnto the voice of his father in law