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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03897	The descent of authoritie: or, The magistrates patent from heaven Manifested in a sermon preached at Lincolnes assizes, March 13. 1636. By Thomas Hurste Dr. of Divinity, and one of his Majesties chaplains.	Hurste, Thomas, d. 1680.	1637 (1637)	STC 14007; ESTC S104349	18,074	38

conspiratours escape as is observed in Corah and his company Num. 16. of Absalom 2 Sam. 16. and many others In the time of that wise King who conjoyned the Roses insurrection was if not a quotidian an anniversary feaver yet as he was ever molested so hee was ever aloft and prevailed The like was in the time of our late gracious Queene and peaceable King by the powder-plotters and others And when it pleaseth God rarely to let the Magistrates suffer for the punishment of the people yet those rebels are so hatefull to God and all good men as makes the like courses abhorred for the future and so Authority to be preserved and continued Augustus Caesar used to say Proditionem amo proditores non item Charles the fourth Emperour of Germany prevailed with three or foure of his enemies Captaines to be perfidious to their Master upon hopes of great summes of money and when he sped he paid them with counterfait coyne affirming it to be good enough for counterfait service When the city of Rhodes was besieged by the Turke a Noble man upon hopes to have one of Solymans daughters did many secret services for the Turke perfidiously against his owne City which when Solyman wonne hee caused the treacherous man to be flayed alive saying it was not lawfull for a Christian to marry a Turke except hee put off his old skin And that Banister who treacherously betrayed his Lord and Master when he expected his thousand pounds King Richard gave him not a farthing saying that hee who would bee untrue to so good a Master must needs be false to all others In our Law crimen laesae Majestatis is accounted so grievous an offence to conspire against the breath of him who is the breath of our nostrills as that it is no plea for him that is non compos mentis although it be for ordinary homicide And in the state oeconomicall murther committed by one that is in subjection is accounted petty treason so hatefull by the lawes of God and man is disobedience Quest 1. Why doth the omnipotent God depute fraile men to be his Lieutenants why not an Angel or a legion of his powerfull heavenly attendants or pages Answ That the excellency of the successe may be ascribed to God where it is due and not to men as Saint Paul saith 2 Cor. 4.7 Wee have this treasure in earthen vessels When we daily see strong sinnes pulled downe by the preaching of weake men we justly conclude that it is the power of God accompanying his ordinance And when wee observe that men Magistrates and not Angels do sway the world quelling and captivating daring vices wee acknowledge it to be Gods power If Magistrates were like Angels of miraculous power like Argus one of them to have an hundred eyes or as Briareus an hundred hands which they have indeed virtually not formally if every one of them were as rich and wise as Salomon or strong as Sampson or that they could destroy mankinde as the Angel did seventie thousand amongst the Israelites wee might thinke it was their own power But now we see it is a secret vertue in the divine ordinance An horse hath strength enough to cast his rider and runne away from him but doth not usually And as strong oxen are guided by little children in regard of the image of God in mankinde thus are a multitude of strong and violent people ruled by Magistracy not onely for feare of punishment but even for conscience sake This reason is given by God himselfe Iudges 7.2 The people are too many lest Israel vaunt saying mine owne hand hath saved me So if Angels ruled it would bee judged to be by their owne power But God for his owne glory hath appointed men of the same mold of the same stuffe by nature borne and dye alike usually better qualified with experience learning wisedome and integrity yet they are but men and in the judgement of rash self-conceited by-standers not better qualified than others for in their simple judgement they thinke they see more than the gamesters God I say for his owne glory doth hang great plummets upon weake lines as in the Ministery so in the Magistracy that God working such strong effects by weake causes we may say as it is Psalme 115.1 Not unto us O Lord but unto thy name c. 2. God deputes mankinde not Angels ex gratia it being a great favour first to the party injured Secondly to the party injuring Thirdly to the Magistrate the party punishing First to the party injured for the propinquity As the Scripture saith yee need not go to Heaven Deut 30.18 nor to the deepe but the word is neare thee So may wee say of government especially in these itinerary circuits Iustice is administred even at our doores Secondly to the party to be punished as the people said to Moses Exod. 20.19 Speake thou with us but let not God speake lest we die If God should punish by extraordinary judgements as the Egyptians or with miraculous plagues as he did to Corah and the like it would be most terrible to malefactors whereas now being by men they may parly for their lives they must be cast or acquitted by their Peeres or equals Thirdly to the Magistrate As he hath made him his Deputy so he puts valuation upon him by imploying him And thereby he doth quicken in men industry paines and care that they may come to be Magistrates that is sublimated manhood God as the Sun doth irradiate Magistracy as the Moone with his brightnesse As Christ was himselfe baptized but never baptized any and gave the Eucharist but once to put a valuation upon his ordinance in the hands of the Ministers So in the Magistracy he graces his Deputy Man putting the honour and imployment upon him It is said Matth. 9.8 The multitudes saw it and glorified God which had given such power unto men As there for miracles so here for authority If David did breake out so pathetically O Lord Psal 8.4 what is man Thou hast made him Lord c. How much more may wee say Lord what is a Magistrate that thou dost thus advance him even over men Quest 2. Doth not God challenge authority to be his Domaine which he will not let out but keep in his own hands saying as it is Deuter. 32.35 which is quoted by Saint Paul Rom 12.9 Vengeance is mine I will repay Whereupon Saint Paul makes his appeale 2 Tim. 4.14 Alexander did me much evill the Lord reward him c. Answ By these places it is meant that private men must not usurpe for else what God doth by his Deputies he doth it as it were by himselfe As the Lord Keeper writes teste meipso and the Iudges of other Courts and the Iustices may write Carolus Dei c. noting in whose right and power they doe it Saint Paul disclaimes it onely as being a private man God will hereafter avenge Nisi priùs Iustitiarii venerint