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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10498	Mercy to a beast A sermon preached at Saint Maries Spittle in London on Tuseday in Easter-weeke. 1612. By Iohn Rawlinson Doctor of Divinitie.	Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.	1612 (1612)	STC 20773A; ESTC S115700	37,164	60

the weale publike as is the siders web out of her bowels but as q Laert. l. 1. Solon once complain'd even as spiders webs indeed which every great Droane or Humble bee will breake thorow at his pleasure when the poore seely fly shall be caught and entangled in them to his overthrow Nay without these two what will Iudges themselues be but as Greater thieues sending lesse thieues to execution Nay without these saith r Austin de civit l. 4. c. 4. Austin Quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia quia latro●inia quid sunt nisi parva regna What are kingdoms themselues but as great robberies For what else are robberies but little kingdomes Mercy must bee aboue iustice in the Magistrato Howbeit as before I noted that though God be both mercy and iustice it selfe yet mercy hath the predominācie and preeminence over his iustice So I hold it a good caveat to all Magistrates that ſ Margarita decreti Rationem praelati tutiùs reddent de miscricordiâ quàm de crudelitate When the righteous Iudge of all the world shall call Iudges themselues to the bar of his iudgement more easily will he dispense with their overmuch lenity than with their overmuch crueltie For God who loveth mercy so well that he hath made her as it were a Queene giving her the supremacy and soveraigntie t Psal 145.9 over all his workes Psal 145. and hath so inserted and ingraffed her within the very bowels of man that when hee would speak to mans capacitie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the maner of men and would insinuate his owne mercifull affection to man he is wont to expresse it by calling himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a man as in that parable Luc. 14. u Theophil in Luc. 14. where it is said A certeine man made a great supper c. no doubt but as himselfe is abundant in mercy so will his mercy abound to those that abound in mercy but there shall bee iudgement mercilesse to him that sheweth no mercy and mercy reioiceth against iudgement as it is * Iames. 2.13 Iames 2. Be it then that our English lawes be not alwaies written in bloud but somtimes in oyle providing for some malefactors of better hope some easier penaltie than death as the Pylorie rather than the Galowes or perhaps a note of invstion in the eare or in the hand or whipping or slitting of the nose or the like shall they therefore be condemned as partiall because they would in iustice punish sinne and yet in mercy spare the Sinner No no there must bee that which the Morall Philosophers call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an aequity that must allay and lenify 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the severity of iustice Reverend x Ioh. Gerson Gerson sometimes Chancelour of Paris cals it Iustitiam interpretativam a iustice that will make a favourable yet a conscionable construction of law respecting that intent and meaning which the Law-giver had or of likelyhood would haue had in this or that particular case each circumstance thereof being duly and rightly pondered Wel and wisely therefore hath it been provided that there should be a conscionable Court of Chancery to mitigate the rigid austerity of other Courts because as y Cicer. the heathen man saith Summūius summa iniuria Extremity of right is no better than extremity of wrong And truely The occasion of this text I should do my text but right if I should terme it a Chancery-text For to confesse a truth that which caused me to fasten my me ditations vpon it was this that I haue often heard it fal from the lips of my most honourable Lord the Lord Chancelor as great as graue as wise as noble as iudicious as mercifull a Iusticer as ever this kingdome had that with such sweete complacency of affection that he hath sometimes professed that were he a Preacher this should be His Text A righteous man is mercifull to the life of his beast As is the song of the Civill Magistrate Mercy and iustice in the Minister such must also be the song of the Spiritual magistrate which is the Minister It must be a song bipartite of mercy and iudgement Mercy in applying the sweet promises of the Gospel iudgement in delivering the feareful threats of the Law A thing not obscurely signified vnto vs z Act. 2.3 in those Linguae dispertitae or cloven tongues wherein the holy Ghost appeared to the Apostles Act. 2. Cloven tongues to teach them that their song must be both of mercy iudgement Not alwaies of mercy for feare of presumption nor yet alwaies of iudgement for feare of desperation but of mercy and iudgement both for that 's good discretion because either of them without the other is like a good medicine ill applyed which rather hurts than helps the wound Mercy aboue iustice in the Minister But ô let the smoaking flaxe never be quenched so long as the paenitent sinner can but send forth smoaky sighes and sobs for his sinnes and so long as there is any light or sparke of grace in him let him never want cherishing But when with the sharpe share of the law we haue made as it were deepe furrowes of sorrow in the hearts of our hearers then let vs sow the comfortable seed of the gospell following the example of God him selfe who first said to Adam a Gen. 2.17 Morte moriêris thou shalt dy the death there is the furrow of the law then comes with b Gen. 3.15 Semen mulieris the seed of the woman shall break the head of the serpent there is the seed of the gospell But must iustice and mercy rest only vpon the heads of Moses Aaron the magistrate and the minister No beloved they must be like that pretious ointment Mercy and iustice in all sorts of men which being powred vpon Aarons head ran downe to his beard and so to the very skirts of his garments they must descend to the very lowest meanest of the people And so deare must they be to all sorts of men that c Prov. 3.3 Salomon Prov. 3. not content to haue said Let not mercy truth forsake thee addeth further Bind them on thy necke or weare them vt torquem aureum as a chaine of golde about thy necke and write them in the tables of thy heart He afterward giues the reason d Prov. 21.21 Prov. 21. He that followeth after righteousnes and mercy shall finde life and glory 2. HYPOTHESIS And so from my first generall part which is the Thesis A iust man is mercifull I now descend to the second which is the Hypothesis that in particular he is mercifull to the life of his beast Wherin I told you we are to note first How then Why he is to reguard it In the handling whereof because I am not to teach you husbandry but divinity I will briefly make particular