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death_n	call_v	good_a	life_n	5,210	5	4.4180	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43060	Gladius justitiae, a sermon preached at the assizes held at Lincoln, March 9, 1667/8 William Welby, esq. being Sheriff of the County / by G.H. M.A.	Hascard, Gregory.	1668 (1668)	Wing H1112; ESTC R9759	13,775	32

lay in its primitive Chaos and confusion Figida cum calidis c. Draw the dismal consequences of Civil Warrs Inroads of Enemyes and depopulations secret Murders and open Invasions with all the numerous spawn of mischiefs you will then discern what a deformed monster this World would turn if instead of wholsom Laws and an exact distribution of Justice with a free a cheerful obedience the harmony of the moral World only the harsh notes of tyrany and oppression frauds and violence should grate upon your ears the tears of Widdows and the cryes of Orphans the deaths of Innocents and blood of all good Men no sitting under our Vines to crop their fruit though watred with the sweat of our own brows or calling for Land-marks of propriety when life it self would not be our own but Tenant at Will to anothers passion revenges the strongest arm would be the greatest right the weakest Christian the greatest criminal subtilty would be Justice and want of power with the groans of the poor the only crying vice Reason and Religion candour and ingenuity with all the lovely principles of humane nature would lie a bleeding and a fiat justitia modò ruat Coelum might rather have this sense Heaven would totter if Justice were not done For these and many more like the opening of Pandora's box would swarm together if once the streams of Justice be obstructed penalties remissly inflicted upon disobedience and the Pale of Civil Govenment pluckt up by the brawny hands of violence So that'a faithful dispenser of Justice is a benefactor to all Mankind repairing its ruines the only Atlas of the moral World which otherwise would rush into Confusion The Sword of Justice therefore like the Angel's flaming one must still guard Paradise Religion and Equity least it become a Wilderness of Sin The eyes and hopes therefore of all innocen Souls the cryes of all good Men and of our common Parent too for your Protection against these black and dismal ills which are so closely linkt and twisted with the corrupt and ruinous nature of Mankind make your Justice of an indispensable convenience and absolute necessity Secondly Consider who you represent Your Authority and Power like Janus carry a double face they look upward towards God who hath chosen you his Deputies and Exarchs in ruling the Provinces of this lower world and just Sentences and Dooms he appropriates and calls them his own The Judgement is Gods And it looks below to the People your fellow Beings whose Trustees and Representatives you are to distribute the equal shares of Justice The one in your Commission sets you above the level of Mankind Deu. 1.17 for what the ambitious Pagans would have enamel'd in their Crowns as Domitian call'd himself Dominus Deus noster and Rome Christian still courts the title of Rome Pagan as though entail'd upon her Selden T it Honour Revel 17.14 Sesostris wrote himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Corrival with the King of Heavens title King of Kings and Lord of Lords with what the Peruvian Kings of late or the Persian and Mahometan Emperours now do swell is enjoyed in a sober and modest sense by the Administrators of Justice when God Christens them with his own name I say ye are Gods Divisum imperium cum Jove Caesar babet Psal 8 .5 Their Commission being higher than their Crowns of an immortal race The other styles you Guardians and Feoffees in trust of the Peoples Proprieties and Possessions A Judge no longer remains asingle and individual Person but sounds a Multitude a Legion a Leviathan of Men a Monopoly of Rights and Priviledges the Beast with many Heads Revel 13. Beast in Prophetick Schemes and Types signifying Goverment or Polities So that the remiss Migistrate that falls in love with Beauty and Varnish of his Office like the giddy Phaeton currus miratur habenas Ovid. and neglects a strict and wise discharge doth not only bespot his own Purples but shakes the Throne of Heaven too from whence his Commission came If the Judge that is invested with the Peoples Rights misimploy or wrest their Trust from its first intention of preserving them from the greedy jaws of Rapine and Violence and abuse them to crooked designs and private Interests he acts in part what Caligula wisht that all the World had but one neck and he its Executioner He murders the People with their own Right committed to him Private persons like smaller Stars may be obseur'd and no dammage to the lower World but Publick like Sun or Moon when once Eclipst Heaven and Earth seem to mourn in blackness with a train of aggravating circumstances Hence then to make your Office answer its Pedigre and Original which is Divine Gods Commissioners and the Peoples Trust impartially and deveoid of Fear inflict due punishments upon Offenders and use not the Sword in vain Thirdly Let the Magistrate consider the grand account at an higher Bar. God to over-aw the actions of Mankind and strike a Reverence into mortals breasts hath plac'd himself a spectator and Judge at lower Bars good and bad Angels more then Mahomets upon the two shoulders of every Disciple to record your Sentences and the Mind and Conscience of all good Men the grand Inquest at the last Tribunal where all Causes must be tryed ore and pleaded once again the Court of Equity the last appeal where all unjust damages too rigid penalties passionate Dooms and Sentences and decisions of design will wheel about and return upon the Judges score The cries of the weak and destitute whose poverty here below was their only crime and the blood of Martyr'd Innocents reeks up to Heaven and returns in a shower of Vengeance or the Thunder of Conscience upon the drowzy Magistrate Acts 18.27 who like Gallio was a spectator of Riots and Injustice yet cared for none of those The Judge therefore that only admires the splendor of his Office and courts the Pomp and Retinue of his Charge the noise of his Duty without regard to the Lines of Justice Laws of Equity and proportions of Reason dies like Cleopatra in beds of Roses the sweetness and pleasure of his Office to delight his Senses yet forgets the Asp upon her breast the sting of Conscience there Every Man hath numerous swarms of his own Sins and may read large Catalogues of his private Crimes enough to put his Soul in a sweat and agony but Men of publick capacities to have the Sins of Cities and Villages Nobles and Plebeians all where he reformed not nor distributed right charg'd upon their account stands in need of the back of Angels the brawny Consciences of Fiends the Lethargy and stipidity of the desperate to bear so great a load Sins and Crimes of People and Magistrates are correlatives as well as they and have been mutually charged upon another and as there is in the body Natural so in the Politick too a Circulation of bloud and return of ill humours to