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A01473	Ientaculum iudicum: or, A breake-fast for the bench prepared, presented, and preached in two sacred seruices, or sermons, the morning sacrifice before the two assises: at Thetford, at Norwich: 1619. Containing monitory meditations, to execute iustice and law-businesse with a good conscience. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods word in Win-farthing in Norff.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1623 (1623)	STC 11598; ESTC S102832	18,427	42

the word of his Grace which is able to build thee further c. I rest Thy Christian Well-willer Sa Garey A BEAKE-FAST FOR THE BENCH TEXT PSAL. 2. v. 10. Be learned ye that are the Iudges of the earth serue the Lord in feare THis Psalme a Piscator in l●t is partly propheticall and partly protrepticall and paraeneticall The Psalmist prophesies of the Kingdome of Christ vnto the tenth verse and then exhorts admonisheth all Kings and Iudges to serue and honour this high and holy Lord and King in the three last verses following Of the Kingdom of Christ three things prophesied 1. Of enemies Why doe the heathen rage vers 1. 2. Their enterprize The Kings of the earth band themselues c. vers 2. 3. Their ouerthrow followes specially described vers 9. Similitudine dissipationis vasis figlini Breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell The second part of the Psalme paraeneticall Admonitorie or exhortatorie to serue Christ who is here prophetically presigured I will be no generall Surueior of this Psalme vpon a little peece of ground I set this Fabricke And this Dauid a princely Prophet who from a poore Sheepheard raised by God to sit vpon the Kings Bench here giues a Spirituall Charge to Kings and Iudges Dauid the prolocutor is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let the hearer be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Charge Quibus de quibus 1. To Kings and Iudges 2. Be wise be learned The duty of both conioined Serae the Lord in feare I haue chosen halfe his charge worke enough for my discourse and for your practise In this Apostrophe or Compellation behold Danids Information and Exhortation Information Be learned Exhortation Serue the Lord in feare Here is both Theoricum Practicum 1. A Qualification in quo Be learned 2. A Caution circa quod Serue the Lord in feare Three parts the principall points of all 1. The persons Iudges there is dignitas Their dignitie 2. Their properties erudimini Be learned there is qualitas their qualitie 3. Their practise Serue the Lord in feare there is pietas their pietie Thus this Text like a small Garden-plot yeelds plenty of rarities like to b Matth. 26.7 Iohn 12.3 Maries little Box full of sweete ointment which being opened the sauor perfumes an whole house Verba pauca longum Epiphonema Few words yet full of weight In handling of them we implore Gods assistance and your fauourable patience 1. Of the persons Iudges dignitas personae Iudges are of Gods owne c Iudg. 2.16 raising Their calling and office venerable Nomen honorificum apud omnes an honourable name among all Their Authoritie not to be controuerted except God be countermanded Iudges e Acts 13.20 ruled in Israel 450 yeares and because f 1 Sam 8.3 Samuels children were bribing Iudges therefore the people of Israel cried and called for a g 6. King to iudge them like other Nations For before that time h 1 Sam. 7.15.16 Samuel Iudged Israel and went about yeare by yeare as it were in circuite to Bethel Gilgal and Mizpeth and iudged Israel in all those places Moses the first who chose Iudges by the counsell of i Exod. 18.21 Iethro which practise after continued long in Ierusalem they had their Gasith their Court in the inward Citie which the Iewes called Sanhedrim the Greekes Syned●ion the counsell of the Elders I purpose to passe by the Antiquitie and Authoritie of Iudges their properties are markes more proper for our discourse and these properties specially fiue required in a iust Iudge 1. Perspicacit as ingenij deepe vnderstanding 2. Audacitas An●mi boldnesse and courage 3. Honestas conscientiae honesty of Conscience 4. Impartialitas Iustitiae vprightnesse of Iustice 5. Aequitas sententiae Equitie of Sentence These siue faire properties are better ornaments to adorne Iudges then Iosephs siue k Gen. 45.22 suits of rayment to set out Beniamin 1. Perspicacitas Ingenij sharpnesse of apprehension Ignorantia Iudicis est calamitas innocentis saith Auslen the Ignorance of a Iudge is the calamitie of the Innocent and graue Iudicium est eius qui non habet iudicium saith Seneca Grieuous is his iudgement who hath no iudgement They must be wise and learned and haue the eyes of vnderstanding in their owne heads not to be guided by others or like the * Plutarch Lamiae carry their eyes in a boxe rather l Matt. 10.16 to be wise as Serpents A Magistrate should not be like Polyphemus who had but one eye and that a had one to be monoculate rather like Argus oculatus à fronte à tergo eyes before and behinde An office which requires the prayer of the m Ephes 1.18 Apostle That the eyes of their vnderstanding may be enlightened So hard a Taske to performe that the Son n Ecclus. 7.7 of Syrach counselleth Seeke not to be made a Iudge or a Magistrate lest thou be not able to take away iniquitie I haue read that Heraclitus being sicke examined his Phisition concerning the cause of his sicknesse and for that he was ignorant of the cause he would none of his Phisicke saying If he be not able to shew me the cause he is lesse able to take away the cause of my disease So the Phisition of the politicke Body If he hath not wisedome and knowledge he can neither see nor take away the causes of the corruption of Common-wealths but by a man of vnderstanding a Realme endures long saith o Pro. 28.2 Salomen They had need of great knowledge and experience who are appointed Instruments to preserue Regem The King Iagem The Law Gregem The Country They had neede to be learned and able to carry the Iethro of Counsell in their owne Bosomes There are many sores and sicknesses in a Common-wealth Fraude is subtle mille necendi Artes a thousand waies to deceiue And as Ouid of Autolicus that he was furtum ingeniosus ad omne Witty in all kinde of wickednesse The world is full of wicked wits Magistrates had neede of Serpentine wisedome to p Cant. 2.15 take the little Foxes of the world q Ier. 15.19 to separate the pretious from the vilde The Aegyptians Embleme was Oeulus cum Sceptre an Eie with the Scepter The Heathens in their Hierogliphicks did decipher Iupiter with an Eie and an Eagle insinuating such a nature beseemed his Maiesty not to be deceiued or deluded by any Obiect To be Eagle-eyed and to be Lion-hearted Magistrates should be for Wisdome Eyes for Instruction Eares for Protection Hands for Supportation Legges Like r Iob 29.15 16. Iob who was Eyes to the blinde feete to the lame hands for the poore to helpe the fatherlesse and friendlesse The ſ Psal 10 13. poore commit themselues vnto you for you should be helpers of the fatherlesse t 1 Iohn 5 19. Mundus in maligno positus the world is set vpon wickednesse yea as u Mic. 7.2 Micah

oppressed from the hand of the oppressour vex not the stranger the fatherlesse nor widow doe no violeuce nor shed innocent bloud Thus I haue a little touched the office and dutie of the Iudges of the earth their peculiar properties wherein I may be said to me as q 1 King 10.7 Sheba to Salomon Lo the one halfe thou hast not told vs. I confesse I haue no skill in the politickes I only doe remember the Ethicks to shew what is good and what the Lord doth require of you Surely to doe iustly to loue mercy to humble your selues to walke with God as the Lord by r Mich. 6.8 Micah And now as ſ Sam. 2.23 Ioabs men who did follow the chase vpon Abners hoast when they came to the place where Asail lay dead there made a stand in wonder and pitie thinking how so braue a man came to so bloudy a death So here I will make a little pause and stand and ouer-looke a while these fore-named properties of faithfull Iudges and worthy Magistrates To be wise learned men of good courage of good conscience vnpartiall in Iustice and vpright in Sentence These ornaments ennoble Iudges more then their Robes wherewith a lorned or their troupes wherewith attended And these properties Right Honourable are your ornaments who may say of them as Cornelia did to a certaine woman of Campania boasting of her brauery of her sons the Gracchi Et haec sunt ornamenta mea these Sonnes are my ornaments So you are wise learned of courage of good conscience vpright and equall in Iustice These things afford our Countrie comfort that now you come with Alexanders sword to cut a sunder the knot of sin and sinners which swarme in euery place It were enuious yea infinite to arraigne the seuerall sinnes of this Age Let me name but three wormes which gnaw the belly and bowels of the Common-wealth The Slow-worme the Glow-worme and the Wild-worme wormes worthy to be crushed with the sword of Iustice The Slow-worme Drunkennesse Idlenesse swift to the Alchouse but slow from it they runne to it but reele from it Multa pocula multi morbi Many cups breed many corruptions These drunken drones dote on the two t Pro. 30.15 daughters of the horse-leach which sucke out all their thrift the Flemish hop the Indian weede These Alehouses which nourish them begin like Hydras heads to multiply and there these Malt-wormes make their nest saying of the Taphouse as Peter of u Matt. 17.4 Tabor Bonum est esse hic It is good for vs to be here Vbi nec deus nec daemon Where they thinke both God and the deuill are a sleepe Thus they wast their daies their health their wealth abuse the creatures profane Gods name Loue the Tauerne better then the Tabernacle It were to be wished these common Drunkards might stand forth at the barre and be punished as the Samians did their captiues brand them with the figure of an Oule ashamed of the light who liue out their daies in louing the workes of darknesse The Glow-worme Cozenage Cheating the shops of Cities full of these Glow-wormes and yet there is another Glow-worme Popery is a Glow-worme and can cozen the Law and come with their Statute-legs once a moneth to the Church Lunae vituli Moone-Calues whose religion is mutable like the Moone caried like the * Acts 3.2 Creeple to the Temple vpon the crutches of Law or custome or come a little before the Assises more for feare of Law then loue to God Let such remember Austens counsell Quando timore non amore fit bonum nondum benè fit bonum Where for feare and not for loue they doe good their good is not well done Of these kinde of Popish Glow-wormes I may say as Lactantius of the Pagan gods Nascuntur quotidie a daily breed of them These non serendi veriùs feriendi not sufferable lukewarme parasites to God and man and since the Gospell cannot make them blush the Law should make them bleede Haeretici corrigendi ne pereant reprimendi ne perimant Punish them lest they perish and correct them lest they corrupt others Moses and Aaron the Magistrates and Ministers of God like the x Ger. 3.24 Cherubins set to keepe the way to the forbidden Tree they should waue the blade of the shaken sword the one the sword of Iustice to correct the carcase the other the sword of the Spirit to conuert the conscience It was the royall speech of our gratious y Star Chamber Speach Soueraigne saying My heart is grieued when I heare Recusants increase Ecce gladius Domini et Gedeonis nostri Behold the sword of the Lord and of our z Iudg. 7.14 Gedeon and these able to make them decrease and herein Primaque suscipite pro Ioue bella patres First and before all draw forth your sword in defence of Gods Word let this be your primum Agite as it should be euery mans primum quaerite A godly Magistrate is custos vtriusque Tabulae an happy instrument for the glory of God and good of men to punish all contemners of Gods worship and Anti-Sabbatarians who haue no care to serue the Lord in feare and to vse the words of the Psalmist * Psal 45.3 4. Gird thy Sword vpon thy thigh O most mightie ride on because of the word of truth of meekenesse of righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things I would not be thought too bitter I speake in generall I accuse none in particular with a Acts 28.19 Paul I accuse not my Nation Yet hony was no b Leuit. 2.11 offering for gods Sacrifice neither must the sweet waxe of Bees burne within the Tabernacle of the Temple Wholsome Admonitions like c Iohn 10.10 Iohns booke Sweete in mouth and bitter in belly and the Lord commands d Esay 58.1 clama Cry aloud and spare not to tell Iacob their offences and the people of Israel their sinnes The Wilde-worme Contention the cares of Magistrates too often verberated with her querulous noises Oppression is a Wild-worme and stings to death Specially if the worme be great This Sinne Oppression like e 1 Sam. 15.14 Sauls fatlings bleates in the eares of Samuel and cryes Quousque f Reu. 6.10 Domine how long Lord Auenge our cause against these Oppressors Faction is a Wild-worme furious and fierce in profession Saint Cyprian doth report of Nouatus a seditious and pernitious Wild-worme that he would not allow his owne Father bread being aliue or bury him being dead because he would not consent vnto him in his hereticall opinions Iesuites Brownists Anabaptists Arminians Separatists all Wild-wormes What should I name any more of these Babylonian brats I say with the Psalmist g Psal 137.9 Blessed is he who takes them and dasheth them against the stones The song of the Angels is the summe of all your labours and of our desires h Luke 2.14 Glory be to