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A73282	Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity.	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.	1631 (1631)	STC 23505; ESTC S123301	19,735	38

and discased soules most humbly intreating thee to be gracious and mercifull to all our sinnes for they are wondrous great make it thy glory to passe by and to winke at them poure into our soules the oyle of thy mercies supple our hard and dry hearts with the sweete influence of thy best graces and cure all our swelling wounds with the true balme of Gilead purge good Lord and cleanse all the polluted and infected corners of our hearts that though at this day our sinnes be as olde as Adam as numberlesse as the starres of heaven as high as the tallest Cedars in the forrest Lord plucke them up by the rootes bury them in everlasting forgetfulnesse that they may never stoppe the issue of thy blessings nor draw downe upon us the vialls of thy wrath nor be a wound and griefe to our troubled consciences in this life or worke despaire in us at the end of our dayes nor stand up in judgement to be the utter ruine and condemnation of our soules and bodies at the last day Good Lord prepare us all for a better life fit us all for the kingdome of thy Sonne Christ Iesus guide us all with thy blessed Spirit tutor us out of thy holy word humble us by thy mercifull corrections and by thy fatherly blessings wed our affections and knit our hearts more neere unto thee in newnesse of life than ever heretofore they have beene that living as becommeth thy obedient children and servants an holy and a religious remnant of our dayes we may by thy grace and mercy be partakers of a joyfull and a comfortable death and after death of a glorious resurrection to everlasting life peace among thy Saints Neither do we pray to thee for our selves only but for all people and Nations of the earth but more particularly for the place in which we live and therin according to our bounden duty for thy servant our Soveraign Charles by thy special providence King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the most true Ancient Catholicke and Apostolike faith and in all causes and over all persons within these his Majesties Realmes and Dominions next under thee and thy Sonne Christ Iesus supreme Governour adde unto his dayes as thou didst unto the dayes of Hezekiah that he may enjoy a long and a prosperous reigne over us and in the meane time remember him in goodnesse for the good he hath done already to thy Church Bestow the sweetest of thy blessings upon our gracious Queene Mary our hopefull Prince Charles and the rest of those royall branches beyond the seas season them in their young and tender yeares with thy feare that they may be great in thy favour and if it may stand with thine eternall Decree let us never want a holy and a religious man of that house and line to governe the scepters of these Kingdomes and to maintaine the preaching of thy glorious Gospell within these his Majesties Realmes and Dominions so long as the Sunne and Moone endures Blesse our King with an honourable valiant and a religious Councell and Nobility blesse him with a learned painfull and a zealous Clergy by what names or titles soever they be called whether they be Arch-Bishops or Bishops and all other painfull labourers in this thy Vineyard blesse him with a wise prudent and a religious Gentry blesse him with a peaceable a loyall and a religious Commonalty and good God we beseech thee to shower downe thy blessings upon the right hand and upon the left to them whom it hath pleased thee to send to this Congregation that by the blessing of thy good Spirit whensoever they shall stand on thy Mountaine to deliver a Message from thee give them good Father what wilt thou give them give them wise and understanding hearts that they may open to thy people the wondrous things of thy law good Father touch their tongues with a coale from thy holy Altar that by the blessing of thy holy Spirit they may be able to worke some holinesse in the hearts of a sinfull and unbeleeving people and cut downe the head and strength of some sinne that remaineth in us and to this end and purpose make them sound in thy Doctrines terrible in thy threatnings sweet in thy comforts powerfull and effectuall in all thy perswasions and mercifull Father make thy word like the bow of Ionathan and like the sword of Saul or Gideon that never returned empty from the blood of the slaine and the fat of the mighty Lastly we come unto thee for our selves againe thy most unworthy servants that are here assembled in a reverent feare of thy most holy and blessed name most humbly intreating thee in Iesus Christ to be gracious and mercifull to all our sinnes and to be effectually present with thy blessed Spirit in the midst of us all and grant that thy word may drop and distill upon our tender consciences like raine upon the mowen grasse and as dew comes down from heaven to water the earth take away the scales of ignorance from all blind and dark understandings remove farre from us all lets and hinderances whereby the blessed seed of thy word hath bin to many and sundry times made unfruitfull in the hearts of sinfull and unbelieving people and to every soule that is present in thy house this day or at any other time grant us all holy diligence to seeke thee godly wisdome to know thee and sanctified understanding to finde thee aright that so thy word may prove the sweet savour of life unto everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour in whose most holy and blessed name we are bold to conclude these our weake and imperfect prayers in that perfect forme of prayer which Christ hath taught us saying Our Father c. A DIRECTION FOR MAGISTRATES EXOD. 18. Chap. Verse 21. Moreover provide thou among all the people men of courage fearing God men dealing truly hating covetousnesse and appoint such over them to be Rulers over thousands Rulers over hundreds Rulers over fifties and Rulers over tennes THERE are in the body naturall three principall members the liver the heart and the braine resembling three principal members in the body politicke the Magistrate the Physitian and the Divine The liver is the beginning of naturall faculties segregates the humours ingenders alimentall blood and by veines sends it into the body of man from noxious humours whereby it may be indangered and prescribes wholesome diet whereby it may be preserved and kept in health The heart is the beginning of vitall faculties generates vitall spirits sends them into every particular member Like to this is the Divine for hee is Principium though not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of generation nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Radication yet to use the word of the Anatomist he is Principium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of dispensation of the vitall spirits hee takes a man where the Physitians leave him makes him of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

the fire the Pope loath his owne fingers useth them as the Spaniells foote to scrape forth the chesnut little cares hee how they be scorched so he be in hope to obtaine his desire and though many of them have burnt both their hands and hearts yet blessed be God he mist the chesnut Wee have heard the roaring of his Bulls but they have not hurt us they have beene like the shewes of Semiramis the Astrian Queene when shee warred against the King of India which seemed afarre off to be Elephants and Dromedaries but being examined were nothing else but hides of oxen stuft with straw such have beene all Popish machinations against us They have plotted but God hath prevented them laid snares but God hath broken them attended mischiefe but God hath confounded them Nati natorum qui nascentur ab illis the children that are yet unborne have continuall cause to remember what the Lord hath done for us let our tongues cleave unto the roofe of our mouthes let the Sunne deny us his light the heavens their influence the earth her fruites if wee forget to give God thankes and to say as Psal 124. If the Lord had not beene on our side they had swallowed us up quicke when their wrath was kindled against us c. and this I passe over and come to a two fold dutie The one concernes our duty to the Magistrate the other the Magistrates dutie towards God Our duty to you is reverence and honour Aristotle and Herodotus in Euterpe have recorded a story of Amasis the King of Egypt who being mocked of his Subjects by reason of his meane discent tooke a golden bason wherein they vsed to wash their feete and turned it into the Image and similitude of one of their gods and the men that before regarded it not did then fall downe and worship it The story applies it selfe though when you were private men your respect was ordinary but the Lord hath given you his owne name I have said you are gods and set you in his owne place of judgement and trusted you in his worke the cause and lives of his people we obey and reverence you even for conscience sake and this is our duty towards you The next is the Magistrates dutie towards God God hath given you much and he requireth much from you and yet sometimes it comes to passe that they pay him least who owe him most Tacitus reports of Claudius that he was a good subject but a bad Emperour and in his lib. 2. Hist of Titus that he was a bad privat man but a good Emperour But where one proves like Titus bad private men and good governours a thousand prove like Claudius good private men but bad governours As Pope Vrban said of Baldwine the Metropolitane Bishop of this Kingdome that he was Monachus ferventissimus Abbas calidus Episcopus tepidus Archiepiscopus remissus or as Bucolcerus at the yeare 1464. reports of Aenaeus Silvius that after he got the Popedome and changed his name into Pius Secundus he then condemned many things which before he allowed whereupon one wittily plaies upon him thus Quod Aenaeas probavit Pius damnavit It was the practise of heathen persecutors to place the Image of Venus in the same place where Christ was crucified that if any came there to worship they might seeme to worship Venus A tricke which the Devill useth at this day to set in Gods roome and seate of judgement an Idoll Magistrate sometimes a Cupid or Venus delighting in pleasure sometimes a Mars delighting in blood sometimes a Mercurie with a voyce like Iacob to speak smoothly but hands like Esau and fingers like lyme-twiggs to bring all homewards and make their places but bands for their profits And howsoever this point may seeme as needlesse as for Phormio to discourse of militarie Discipline before Hanniball yet I beseech you beare with patience for though I must remember you I must not forget my selfe nor my place nor the mount whereon I stand For I also am in Gods roome and am set here to put you in mind of your duty your maine dutie is the care of religion and worship of God the suppressing of Idolatry and prophanes There are a kinde of men whereof I may say as Tully said of the Catelinarians Semper prohibetur semper retinetur wee have lawes against them and yet still wee keepe them a good common wealth consisting of Heterogeniall parts must be like Peters sheet in the 10. of the Acts. wherein though there bee all manner of beasts and foules yet must it bee knit at the foure corners though in a common wealth there be Nobles flying above like the foules of the heauen and meaner men creeping below yet must it be knit at the foure corners the remotest parts as lines in a center must meete in unity of religion if you be slacke in this it is no small danger whereto our Kingdome may be quickly brought Seneca on Theavil reports that Cadmus the King of Phaenicia seeing some of his followers staine by a serpent slew the serpent and sowed the teeth of it Ex quibus prodiere homines armati and we have good cause to feare it though some of these serpents brood be dead yet there be armed men bred out of their bones who though they may speake us faire yet I approve the judgement of Caesar who stood more afraid of Brutus who had his mouth in his heart than of Anthony who had his heart in his mouth Our land never was so sicke never groaned so loud never mourned in such a passion never travelled of such Hermaphrodites with halfe so much paine and griefe as now it doth shee hath already bred and at this day both feedeth and clotheth numberlesse swarmes of outcast professours who sometimes like Iudas pretend to kisse but if they can come neare enough intend to kill her she may conclude a peace with forraigne enemies but they will cut her throat by way of friendship It is no whispering rumour but the voice of truth but they are warmely lodged and richly friended and costly fed with the marrow and fatnesse of our land who in the middest of our Iubiles make flawes in our peace and in the midst of our joyes indanger our lives and if ever forraigner should invade our Land would lend their knives to cut our throates and be the foremost men to beare armes against us this alas this is the malady that makes the visage of our Church so wanne and her face so full of wrinkles her backe so full of furrowes and her eyes so full of teares and her heart so full of sorrowes that though many good Physitians will speake her faire and wish her health yet they launch not the Impostume they purge not the fretting humour that consumes and grieves her you may reade in her face that the gripings and convulsions are unsufferable you may heare by her groanes that her paines are intollerable you may presage by