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A34713	England's restoration parallel'd in Judah's, or, The primitive judge and counsellor in a sermon before the honourable judge at Abington assizes, for the county of Berks, Aug. 6. 1689 / by Francis Carswell ...	Carswell, Francis, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing C649; ESTC R222147	22,865	40

neither fear God nor regard Man. Who live on Orphans Tears sacrifice and sell the Blood of some the Estates of others their Country their Laws their Religion and their own Consciences to purchase their Places and their Maker's Favour whom that you may know I shall name one John 19. 12. If thou let this Man go thou art not Caesar's Friend When Pilate the Judge heard that he sate down in the Judgment seat and condemned the most innocent holy and just i. e. when he heard he was like to lose Caesar's Favour and Friendship farewel to Justice to purchase its continuance In the whole Creation there is not one Creature more like a God than a Primitive Judge Nor a Monster more like a Devil than a corrupt degenerate one from his Original Pattern But to let pass this Pilattick Sect of Judges and leave them to repent or their Names to rot and Memorials to perish being the Antithesis and Reverse of those my Text speaks of I proceed 2. To consider and determine what Primitive Judges and Counsellors are And here 1 st what are Primitive Judges Homines in naturali statu liberi nascuntur pares in quâ parietate semper remansciscent nisi necessitas quaedam politica illos in ordinem co●gisset ut alii praesint alii subsint in totius salutem primô idem fuit Imperator Judex Liberty and Freedom being the Universal and Natural Birthright of all and their Security and primary end of all Government need no more proof than to prove the Tooth in a Man's Head his Eye or his Senses are his own But whosoever pretends to exercise any power over others must prove every Tittle and shew his Commission how and which way he came by it and take care to answer the End and true Reasons which first gave Birth to Empire and Dominion Which were not to invade or destroy but to protect and defend their Subjects And therefore if at any time they act contrary in it they renounce the ends of their being and overthrow the Foundation on which they stand Exposing their Authority to be stripped Naked subverted and trampled on For tho some self-designing men to flatter and abuse Princes and promote themselves may have tortured Scripture and screwed up Conscience and Religion to such heighths as to infer thence Obligations to an extravagant unreasonable sort of Obedience Yet 't is as impossible for men in general to act contradictory to their true Interest their Natural Principles of Freedom and Self-preservation or to stand by and assist any Power in abusing themselves As it is to be mad with Reason And 't is as foolish if not impious and contradictory to pretend to fetch Arguments from a Religion that comes from God to cheat men of those Natural Rights which himself and Nature has given them Whereby they represent God as tho repenting or recalling his Gifts and so acting contradictory to his goodness which is himself and dividing his Kingdom against it self like that which cannot stand Let then their mistaken sense of Government be what it will it was no doubt instituted for the defence and preservation of the whole and at first the Emperor and the Judge was the same with his Sword in one hand to defend against their Enemies and his Scepter in the other to determine Controversies But the weight of Government and number of Subjects increasing the Emperour withdrew from the Tribunal and substituted Judges And this was the course that Moses took by the advise of Jethro whose Books and Writings being the most ancient and authentick that we can rely on I shall from them collect what those Original Judges were according to whose pattern a Restoration is here promis'd By Judges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Septuagint ut antea as the Syrriack Version ut erant antiquitùs ut olim as the Arrabick and Caldee Paraphrase as at first as before as anciently as in times past I understand either 1. Such as God himself was or such as he at first extraordinarily qualified and sent 2. Or such as Moses was or such as he commissioned 3. Or such as the best of the Kings of Israel and Judah were or such as they commission'd in their respective Reigns 1. Such as God himself was For tho by his Universal Power and Providence he at first planted and still governs all the Kingdoms of the World and has given them to the Children of Men yet Israel was his peculiar Care and Government and therefore when they clamoured for a King like other Nations God in anger replied by Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them because that himself as Isa 9. 7. was their King their Judge and their Lawgiver And it was common for them to bring such Causes as they could not determine and spread them before the Lord. 2. Or such as God extraordinarily qualified and sent to judge his People Israel such were Othniel Shamgar Deborah and Samuel and thus he gave them Judges for the space of 450 years and God was with the Judge Acts 13. 20. 2. Or such as Moses himself was or as he commissioned Moses was the first we ever read of that sate upon the Bench in a judicial way of Over and Terminer and he is the first too that issued out Commissions to other Deputy-Judges to bear part of the burthen with him and to judge the people at all seasons 3. Or such Judges as the best wisest most renown'd and religious of the Kings of Israel and Judan were As Jehosaphat Solomon and David whose Throne for Righteousness and Judgment was a Type of the Throne of the Messiah who is to judge the World in Righteousness and the Nations in Equity so famed for Justice that it revived the hearts of his Subjects but to talk of appearing before his Tribunal Our feet shall stand within thy gates O Jerusalem for there are set thrones of judgment even the throne of the house of David Or such as Solomon his Son so famed for Wisdom and Judgment in that righteous and critical decision of the Controversie between the Two Women about the dead and the living Child Or such as Jehosaphat sent into all the Cities of Judah in Circuit City by City 2. We may learn what these Judges at first were 1. From the Rules laid down for their Choice 2. From the Charge given them upon Admission for the Execution of their Office. I shall only instance in Two Moses and Jehosaphat's Rules and Charge 1. Moses's Rules for Choice or Qualifications he requires in a Judge are reduceable to these Four recorded Exod. 18. 2. 1. Chuse able men i. e. Men of Parts and Understanding 2. Such as fear God Not the Face of Man in the Judgment 3. Men of Truth Men of Integrity hating False Judgment 4. Such as hate Covetousness If not they 'l take Bribes and sell Justice 2. Moses