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A62128	XXXVI sermons viz. XVI ad aulam, VI ad clerum, VI ad magistratum, VIII ad populum : with a large preface / by the right reverend father in God, Robert Sanderson, late lord bishop of Lincoln ; whereunto is now added the life of the reverend and learned author, written by Isaac Walton.	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.; Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1686 (1686)	Wing S638; ESTC R31805	1,064,866	813

himself called not to deliberate but act without casting of scruples or fore-casting of dangers or expecting Commission from men when he had his warrant sealed within he taketh his weapon dispatching his errand and leaveth the event to the providence of God Let no man now unless he be able to demonstrate Phinees spirit presume to imitate his fact Those Opera liberi spiritus as Divines call them as they proceed from an extraordinary spirit so they were done for special purposes but were never intended either by God that inspired them or by those Worthies that did them for ordinary or general examples The error is dangerous from the privileged examples of some few exempted ones to take liberty to transgress the common rules of Life and of Laws It is most true indeed the Spirit of God is a free spirit and not tyed to strictness of rule nor limited by any bounds of Laws But yet that free spirit hath astricted thee to a regular course of life and bounded thee with Laws which if thou shalt trangress no pretension of the Spirit can either excuse thee from sin or exempt thee from punishment It is not now every way as it was before the coming of Christ and the sealing up of the Scripture Canon God having now settled a perpetual form of government in his Church and given us a perfect and constant rule whereby to walk even his holy word And we are not therefore now vainly to expect nor boastingly to pretend a private spirit to lead us against or beyond or but beside the common rule nay we are commanded to try all pretensions of private spirits by that common rule Adlegem ad testimonium To the Law and to the Testimony at this Test examine and Try the spirits whether they are of God or no. If any thing within us if any thing without us exalt it self against the obedience of this Rule it is no sweet impulsion of the holy Spirit of God but a strong delusion of the lying spirit of Satan But is not all that is written written for our Example or why else is Phinees act recorded and commended if it may not be followed First indeed Saint Paul saith All that is written is written for our learning but Learning is one thing and Example is another and we may learn something from that which we may not follow Besides there are examples for Admonition as well as for Imitation Malefactors at the place of execution when they wish the by-standers to take example by them bequeath them not the Imitation of their courses what to do but Admonition from their punishments what to shun yea thirdly even the commended actions of good men are not ever exemplary in the very substance of the action it self but in some vertuous and gracious affections that give life and lustre thereunto And so this act of Phinees is imitable Not that either any private man should dare by his example to usurp the Magistrates office and to do justice upon Malefactors without a Calling or that any Magistrate should dare by his Example to cut off graceless offenders without a due judicial course but that every man who is by virtue of his Calling endued with lawful authority to execute justice upon transgressors should set himself to it with that stoutness and courage and zeal which was in Phinees If you will needs then imitate Phinees imitate him in that for which he is commended and rewarded by God and for which he is renowned amongst men and that is not barely the action the thing done but the affection the zeal wherewith it was done For that zeal God commendeth him Numb 25. vers 11. Phinees the son of Eleazer the son of Aaron the Priest hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel whilst he was zealous for my sake among them And for that zeal God rewardeth him Ibid. 13. He shall have and his seed after him the Covenant of an everlasting Pristhood because he was zealous for his God And for that zeal did Posterity praise him the wise son of Syrac Eccl. 45. and good old Matthias upon his death bed 1 Macc. 2. And may not this phrase of speech he stood up and executed judgment very well imply that forwardness and heat of zeal To my seeming it may For whereas Moses and all the congregation sate weeping a gesture often accompanying sorrow or perhaps yet more to express their sorrow lay grovelling upon the earth mourning and sorrowing for their sin and for the Plague it could not be but the bold lewdness of Zimri in bringing his strumpet with such impudence before their noses must needs add much to the grief and bring fresh vexation to the souls of all that were righteous among them But the rest continued though with double grief yet in the same course of humiliation and in the same posture of body as before Only Phinees burning with an holy indignation thought it was now no time to sit still and weep but rowzing up himself and his spirits with zeal as hot as fire he stood up from the place where he was and made haste to execute judgment Here is a rich example for all you to imitate whom it doth concern I speak not only nor indeed so much to you the Honourable and Reverend Iudge of this Circuit of whose zeal to do justice and judgment I am by so much the better perswaded by how much the eminency of your place and the weight of your charge and the expectation of the people doth with greater importunity exact it at your hands But I speak withal and most especially to all you that are in Commission of the peace and whose daily and continual care it should be to see the wholsome laws of the Realm duly and seasonably executed Yea and to all you also that have any office appertaining to justice or any business about these Courts so as it may lie in you to give any kind of furtherance to the speeding either of Iustice in Civil or of judgment in Criminal causes Look upon the zeal of Phinees observe what approbation it had from God what a blessing it procured to his seed after him what glorious renown it hath won him with all after-ages what ease it did and what good it wrought for the present State and think if it be not worthy your imitation It is good saith the Apostle to be zealously affected always in a good thing And is it not a good thing to do justice and to execute judgment nay Religion excepted and then care of that is a branch of justice too do you know any better thing any thing you can do more acceptable to God more serviceable to the State more comfortable to your own souls If you be called to the Magistracy it is your own business as the proper work of your Calling and men

not to morrow have been as yesterday with them and lessened the peoples number twenty three thousand more especially their former crying sins having received a new accession of a double guilt the guilt of Zimri's fact and the guilt of their connivance No rack should make me confess that man to be truly zealous of judgment who when he hath power to cut him short shall but so much as reprieve a foul and notorious Malefactor or grant him any respite or liberty to make his friends and to sue a pardon Solomon hath told us and we find it but too true Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil Third Phinees was nothing retarded in his resolution by fore-casting what ill will he might purchase or into what dangers he might cast himself by executing judgment upon two such great Personages The times were such as wherein sin had gotten head and was countenanced both with might and multitude Zimri was a mighty man a Prince of a chief house and he that should dare to touch him should be like to pull upon himself the enmity of the whole Tribe of Simeon It seemeth he was confident that his might and popularity in his own Tribe would privilege him from the enquiry of the Magistrate how durst he else have so braved Moses and the whole Congregation And the woman also was the daughter of one of the Five Kings of Midian And could Phinees think that the death of two such great persons could go unrevenged All this either Phinees either fore-casteth not or regardeth not His eye was so fixed upon the glory of God that it did not so much as reflect upon his own safety and his thoughts strongly possessed with zeal of the common good had not any leisure to think of private dangers Zeal is ever couragious and therefore Iethro thought none worthy to be Magistrates but such as were Men of courage And he hath neither Courage nor Zeal in him besitting a Magistrate that is afraid to do justice upon a great offender The sluggard saith there is a Lyon in the way and then he steppeth backward and keepeth aloof off But the worthy Magistrate would meet with such a Lyon to choose that he might win awe to Gods ordinances and make the way passable for others by tearing such a beast in pieces and would no more fear to make a Worshipful thief or a Right Worshipful murderer if such a one should come in his Circuit an example of Justice than to twitch up a poor sheep-stealer Great ones will soon presume of impunity and mean ones too by their example in time learn to kick at authority if Magistrates be not forward to maintain the dignity of their places by executing good Laws without favour or fear Hitherto of the spirit and zeal of Phinees by occasion of this his former Action or gesture of standing up There yet remain to be considered the other Action and the success of it He executed judgment and the plague was stayed Both which because I would not be long I will joyn together in the handling when I shall have first a little cleared the translation The Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here used is a word that hath three different significations to Iudge to Pray to Appease And Interpreters have taken liberty to make choice of any of the three in translating this place The Greek rendreth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the vulgar Latine which for the most part followeth the Septuagint Placavit as if we should read it thus Then stood up Phinees and made an atonement or appeased God And the thing is true God himself testifying of Phinees Num. 25. that By being zealous for God he had turned away his wrath and Made atonement for the Children of Israel The Chaldee interpreteth it by Vetsalle and the ordinary English translation of the Psalms usually read in our Churches accordingly Then stood up Phinees and prayed But Hierom and Vatablus and the best translators render it according to the most proper signification of the word and most fully to the story it self Dijudicavit he executed judgment Verily prayer is a special means to appease Gods wrath and to remove his Plagues and prayer is as the salt of the Sacrifice sanctifying and seasoning every action we undertake and I doubt not but Phinees when he lift up his hand to execute judgment upon Zimri and Cosbi did withal lift up his heart to God to bless that action and to turn it to good In which respects especially if the word withal will bear it as it seemeth it will some men should have done well not to have shewn so much willingness to quarrel at the Church translations in our Service-Book by being clamorous against this very place as a gross corruption and sufficient to justifie their refusal of subscription to the book But I will not now trouble either you or my self with farther curiosity in examining Translations because howsoever other Translations that render it praying or appeasing may be allowed either as tolerably good or at least excusably ill yet this that rendreth it by Executing Iudgment is certainly the best whether we consider the course of the Story it self or the propriety of the word in the Original or the intent of the Holy Ghost in this Scripture And this Action of Phinees in doing judgment upon such a pair of great and bold offenders was so well pleasing unto God that his wrath was turned away from Israel and the plague which had broken in upon them in a sudden and fearful manner was immediately stayed thereupon Oh how acceptable a sacrifice to God above the blood of Bulls and of Goa●●● the death of a Malefactor slaughtered by the hand of Iustice When the Magistrate who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Minister and Priest of God for thi● very thinge● putteth his knife to the throat of the beast and with the ●ire of ●●● holy zeal for GOD and against sin offereth him up in Holoca●stum for a Whole burnt Offering and for a peace-Offering unto the Lord. Samuel saith that to obey is better than Sacrifice and Solomon that to do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Obedience that is the prime and the best sacrifice and the second best is the punishment of Disobedience There is no readier way to appease Gods wrath against sin than is the rooting out of sinners nor can his deputies by any other course turn away his just judgments so effectually as by faithful executing of Iustice and Iudgment themselves When Phinees did this act the publick body of Israel was in a weak state and stood in need of a present and sharp remedy In some former distempers of the State it may be they had found some ease by diet in humbling their