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A30732 A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord mayor and aldermen and citizens of London at St. Lawrence Jewry on the Feast of St. Michael, 1696 : at the election of the lord mayor for the year ensuing / by Lilly Butler. Butler, Lilly. 1696 (1696) Wing B6281; ESTC R24759 12,031 29

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Mr. BUTLER'S SERMON Preach'd before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen c. On the Feast of St. Michael 1696. Houblon Mayor Martis 29 Sept. 1696. Annoque Regni Regis Willielmi Tertii Angliae c. octavo THIS Court doth desire Mr. Butler to Print his Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of this City at the Parish-Church of St. Lawrence Jury this Day being the Day of Election of the Lord Mayor of this City for the Year ensuing Goodfellow A SERMON Preached before The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor and Aldermen AND Citizens of LONDON AT St. Lawrence Iewry On the Feast of St. Michael 1696. At the Election of the Lord Mayor for the Year ensuing By LILLY BUTLER Minister of St. Mary Aldermanbury LONDON Printed for Brab Aylmer at the Three Pigeons in Cornhil over against the Royal-Exchange 1696. TO THE Right Honourable Sir John Houblon Lord Mayor of the City of London And the Court of Aldermen MY LORD I Have obeyed your Order for the printing this Sermon and the more readily because it will be a publick Acknowledgment of the Necessity and Vsefulness of Religion especially in your own Hearts and Lives to the good and happy State of the People committed to your Care and Government A Confession very seasonable and honourable in such an Age as this wherein so little Regard is had to Religion in all our Schemes of Politicks My particular Obligations to your Lordship do also deserve the most publick Acknowledgment I endeavoured in this Discourse to represent and inforce the Magistrate's Duty with the greatest Plainness and Sincerity that whilst I was preaching the Duty of others I might not be thought to forget my own May the God of Heaven stablish strengthen settle you in every good Work in a prudent and impartial a diligent and courageous Execution of those great Offices he hath called you to to the Glory of God the Joy of the People and your own double Honour both here and hereafter This is the hearty Prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most obliged and humble Servant LILLY BUTLER Prov. xxix 2. When the Righteous are in Authority the People rejoyce ONE great design of Solomon in this Book of Proverbs is to recommend Religion by declaring the excellent fruits which single persons and publick Societies might reap from the sincere practice of it He tells us that length of days are in Prov. iii. 16 17. her right hand and in her left hand riches and honour that her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace that the Throne is established that a Nation and a City are Prov. xvi 12. Prov. xiv 34. xi 11. exalted by it That it is the Safety and Honour and Happiness of a People That it doth in a most eminent manner conduce to the Publick Good and deserve a general rejoycing when it adorneth and influenceth the Lives of those that are in Authority When the Righteous are in Authority the People rejoyce This is a Political Aphorism of Solomon a great and mighty Prince who better than any before or after him understood all the most advantageous methods of governing for the publick good having Wisdom and Knowledge given him by the special favour of God to judge his People over whom he had made him King 2 Chron. 1. 11. By the Righteous Solomon doth generally mean in this Book of the Proverbs those that are so in the most comprehensive sense Religious and good Men those that fear God and keep his Commandments That these are the Righteous Men spoken of in the Text doth farther appear from the opposition of them to wicked Men in general When the Righteous are in Authority the People rejoyce But when the wicked beareth rule the People mourn The People rejoyce i. e. Then they have great and worthy cause of rejoycing then their condition will be flourishing and prosperous and happy It being very common to speak of those things as consequent in effect which in reason ought to follow Thus then we may express the meaning of the Proposition in the Text. That Religious Magistrates do contribute very much to the general Happiness of a People When those that have a lively and vigorous sense of God upon their Minds and a sincere regard to his Divine Will when Men of Conscience Integrity and Religion when such Men are in Authority they do highly promote the good estate of that Society they govern I shall First endeavour to clear the Truth of this Proposition And Secondly make some seasonable Application of it First I shall endeavour to clear the Truth of this Proposition as it respects subordinate Magistrates the Ministers of Justice for God and the King in which sense it is most proper matter for our present Consideration by shewing these Four things First That Religious Men in Authority will make Conscience of performing the proper work of their Office in the several parts and exercises of it Secondly That the proper work of the Magistrate's Office in the several parts and exercises of it doth highly tend to promote the good and happy State of the People Thirdly That Religious Men in Authority will perform all the proper exercises of their Office in the most advantageous manner for the effectual promoting the publick good and benefit of the People Fourthly That great Blessings are derived upon the People for the sake and by the intercession of Religious Magistrates First I shall shew that Religious Men in Authority will make Conscience of performing the proper work of their Office in the several parts and exercises of it When a Religious Man one that truly fears God comes into any publick Office he considereth it not only as a Place of Honour or Profit but also as a new Scene of Duty and therefore presently sets himself about the study and performance of it for he cannot be willingly ignorant or regardless of any part of his Duty He knows that Power and Authority are Talents put into his Hands by God who expects to receive his own with Vsury He dares not therefore hide or bury them but imployeth and improveth them to those Ends for which he received them remembring the account he must give of his Stewardship and the fearful doom of the unprofitable Servant He cannot bear the thoughts of Perjury and therefore cannot satisfie himself in neglecting any thing which by solemn Oaths he hath obliged himself to perform A Religious Magistrate then is a Magistrate indeed he doth not only bear the Name but do the Work of his Office and that for Conscience sake from a most strong and lasting Principle Such Magistrates then must needs contribute very much to the Happiness of the People as will be farther manifest by shewing Secondly That the proper work of the Magistrates Office in the several parts and exercises of it doth highly tend to promote the good and happy State of the People They are Ministers of God to them for