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A28303 A caveat for magistrates in a sermon, preached at Pauls before the Right Honorable Thomas Atkin, Esquire, Lord Major of the city of London, November the third, 1644, being the first day of his coming thither after his entrance upon his majoralty / by Elidad Blackwell ... Blackwell, Elidad. 1645 (1645) Wing B3090; ESTC R200137 30,169 52

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A CAVEAT FOR MAGISTRATES In a SERMON preached at PAULS before the right Honorable Thomas Atkin Esquire Lord Major of the City of London November the third 1644. Being the first day of his coming thither after his entrance upon his Majoralty By ELIDAD BLACKWELL Master of Arts and Preacher of Gods Word at ANDREW UNDERSHAFT Published according to Order PSAL. 101.8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the Land that I may cut off all the wicked doers from the City of the Lord 2 SAM. 10.12 Be of good courage let us play the men for our people and for the Cities of our God and the Lord doe what seemeth him good LONDON Printed by Robert Leyburn for Richard Wodenothe at the signe of the Star under Peters Church in Cornhill 1645. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS ATKIN Esquire LORD MAJOR Of the City of LONDON Right Honourable THis Sermon had waited upon you sooner had not some interveening accidents and occasions hindred At length such as it is It here humbly presents it selfe unto your Honour And truly my Lord you have all the reason in the world to own it for it 's more yours then mine It was your desire which with me hath and ever shall have the force of a command that brought it first into the palpit then into the presse yea so much as the very Text and all was your choice which to me is a mighty rock of confidence that you earnestly desire to know what it is God requires of you in your place being willing to doe it and I am sure you have power And these three compleat a good Magistrate Skill to govern Power to manage that Skill will to actuate both Much of that blessed work I was then such an earnest and humble suiter for I already see happily accomplished Your pious care for the more strict observation of the Lords Day Your unparalleld zeale for the suppressing of swearing drunkennesse and other the like God-provoking Land-devouring Soul-damning abominations your vigorous activity fidelitie sinceritie for the Reformation preservation good every way of this great Citie shall stand upon record to your everlasting Honor When I think of it I cannot choose but say with Ezra Now blessed be God who hath put such a thing as this into your heart And then pray with David Keep this for ever Lord for ever in the thoughts of the heart of thy servant To be instrumentall in the reformation though but of a family yea though but of a particular person 't is the most choicest and most glorious piece of service that can possibly be accomplished by the sonnes of men but to be instrumentall in the reformation of a City and such a City so populous so exemplary so influentiall into the whole Kingdom Oh the heighth the depth the breadth the length of this dignity The Lord give you an humble heart that you may not be exalted above measure through this aboundant honour he hath put upon you which is such that truly my Lord were there no other end for which you live but this yet in this you have great cause to blesse your selfe in God and in his name we blesse you And now what remaines but that you gird your sword upon your thigh and ride on that you advance still forward and do nobly for your selfe your people and your God Consider I beseech you how great the trust is this Citie hath committed to you It has given you the Keys the Sword The Safetie the Government They have all cast themselves as it were at your feet saying This is the man we will have to rule over us Thus shall it be done unto the man whom London will honour and thus has it been done to you And now will not you honour London my Lord that has thus honoured you And wherein can you honour it more then in reforming it It was the honour of that Citie Jerusalem above all other Cities in the World that it was the Holy Citie Oh that it might be Londons honour To say London is rich or London is wise or London is strong this is something But to say London is holy this is more then all Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome nor the strong man glory in his strength nor the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understands and knows me saith the Lord This will make it honourable in the eyes of God in the eyes of the Saints of God yea and in the eyes even of the verie enemies of God You cannot honour the Citie more then by endevouring to make it a holy Citie And my Lord as ever you seriously minded and intended any thing I beseech you mind and intend this It s the thing wee looke for at your hands It s the thing you must doe or doe what you will what you can you doe just nothing Doe nay you undoe every thing Reform us my Lord or you ruine us what a perfidious thing were it for your Honour to betray the Citie My Lord reform it or you betray it And your late solemne Covenant and the Oath upon Oath you have taken since ô what mightie ingagements should they be upon your spirit The vows of God are upon you my Lord so that it s no arbitrary thing Necessitie is laid upon you and wo to you if you doe it not Yet again reforme London my Lord and you reforme England If London be wicked ungodly prophane how will prophanesse flow from it as from a fountain into the whole Kingdom And on the other side if London be pious religious well ordered well governed reform'd how will all the Counties Cities Villages Places round about by its example be encouraged likewise to a Reformation Once more and I will use the mightiest argument in the world and that which so raisd the brave spirit of that great Apostle to such invincible patience unwearied activeness for Gods glorie and the Churches good Let the love of Christ constrain you I read of holy Job that being a man in authoritie as you are he was such a terrour to wicked and ungodly men that they durst not shew their heads but were glad to flie into woods wildernesses solitary places and there hide themselves in clifts and rocks and holes of the earth and cut up mallows among the bushes and Juniper roots for their meat It 's a copie penn'd for you my Lord by Gods own hand write after it I know you feare not the face of man Your Honour knows what it is to lie in a prison for your Countries good Beare not the sword in vain Draw it and cut off those that wil not otherwise be reclaim'd Make wicked and ungodly men affraid of you Let not Drunkards dare to goe reeling and staggering in the streets nor Swearers dare to open their mouthes in oaths and blasphemies in the streets nor children others dare