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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73282	Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity.	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.	1631 (1631)	STC 23505; ESTC S123301	19,735	38

her pulses the signes and Symptomes of desolation and death And when these Catholicke vipers have broken her heart what will become of us who suffer such professours as will never proove good subjects to varnish their nests and make their bowers within her It would doe them good to do us hurt it would lengthen their lives to shorten ours it would bring them halfe way to heaven to bury their poniards in our breasts it would make a newe feast and another holiday in the Romane Kalender if they might smell the burning or heare tell of the smoake and ashes of our Churches they are already become so bold their number so exceeding great their religion so bloudy their malice so inveterate that if no sharper course be taken to represse and smother them they will adventure within a while to trie whether we or they shall be the Masters and if either malice or multitude can doe it they will make bonefires of our flesh they will cut off our lives and confiscate our livings and set fire on our Churches and martyr our Cleargie and massacre our Iudges and murther our Princes and say of England as Edome did of Ierusalem downe with it downe with it even to the ground And if ever this day of mourning come upon us which I pray God may never come wee may thanke our selves for keeping such Romish waspes in our English Hives The Second part of the Text. I come now to the second part of the Text The Quos viz. The persons whom he must appoint and these are described first generally The Magistrate must be a choise man one of a thousand culled and selected out of all the people Secondly He is described by his particular properties and these are 4. First they must be Viri potentes powerfull and able men Secondly They must be viri timentes Deum Such as feare God Thirdly They must be viri amantes veritatem such as love trueth Fourthly viri abhorrentes avaritiam such as hate covetousnesse Of these in order And first of the generall hee must be chosen out of all the people he must be a ch●… man It is the observation of Abulensis that Moses chuseth the high Priests out of all the people of Israel Numb 17. It is the observation of Pelargus that Moses summoned by death to resigne his place nec filios obtrudit suos nec populum in suffragia mittit he shuffles not in one of his sonnes nor comit to most voices but desires God to appoint and nominate some one whom he had singularly enriched with his spirit Numb 27. David a man culled out of all the sonnes of Iesse 1 Sam. 16. the twelve Apostles pickt and chosen out of all the Disciples Luke 6.13 Were the birds of the ayre to chuse them a governour it should be the Phaenix were the starres of the heaven to chuse them a governour it should be the Sunne were the trees of the forrest to chuse a governour it should be the Cedar were the flowers of the garden to chuse them a governour it should be the Lilly or the fragrant Rose We must observe the rule of Paris King of Troy when Pallas Iuno and Venus contended for the golden apple Detur digniori let the most vertuous have it the Magistrate should be like a poesy made of the choycest flowers or like the picture of Helena that Zeuxes made in the Temple of the Croconians whatsoever was faire and beautifull in any other was admirably composed and wrought in that one St. August De Civit. Dei lib. 5. cap. 12. sayes the ancient Romans built their Temple of vertue directly in the way to the Temple of honour to signifie that it was not for a man to ●…pe to a seate of honour before he had proceeded in the schoole of vertue Hence I might justly challenge the precipitant forwardnesse of some who boldly intrude into places of eminence both in Church and State though it be well enough knowne that they are as eminent for their imperfections as they are for their places and the injurious dealings of others who set Idols in the roome of God preferre unworthy persons who come little short of Calligula who was so in love with his horse Incitatus that he gave him his provender in a golden charger made his horse a Priest and solemnly promised to make him a Consul But the generall will be manifest if we take view of the particular properties whereof the first is they must be viri potentes able men non corporis fortitudine sed animi saith Ferus If the eye of a Iudge be not be not like sn Eagle his hand like a Ladies if the heart of a Iudge be not like a lyon he is not fit to be Gods sword-bearer he must have a Chirurgeons heart who cuts the wound weepe the patient never so bitterly Plorat secandus secatur plorat urendus uritur saith Aug. in Mat. Ser. 15. this is not cruelty but mercy for sevit in vulnus ut homo sanetur si palpetur vulnus homo perditur It was Gods speech to Ioshua Be thou strong and of good courage Iosh 10. the commendation that the Angel gave Gideon The Lord is with thee thou vàliant man Iudg. 6.8 I am of the opinion of Chabrias in the history if you be lyons let all the rest of the people be timerous hearts we shall doe well let all the rest of the army be lyons if you be timerous hearts nothing can be well O then awake and put on courage you that minister judgement me thinkes God speakes to you as Gideon did to his men of warre in the seventh of Iudges If you be timerous and fearefull depart from Mount Gilead and lay no hands upon your swords you must remember that as the royall throne of Salomon whereon he sate to judge was supported by lyons on both sides 1 King 10.20 so when you sit in seates of judgement which is as the throne of Salomon bee supported by the lyon-like vertues of courage and magnanimity you must not transgresse for feare or favour therefore you have neede of courage to silence the mighty therefore you have neede of courage to rescue the poore out of the hands of the oppressours with as much danger as David rescued his silly lambe out of the mouth of the lyon and the beare therefore you have neede of courage you must with Zeileucus King of the Locrenses passe sentence upon your owne children if they be found worthy of death therefore you have neede of courage you must confute the sinnes of the mighty you must support the worke of the Ministery you must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a living law to helpe the poore to their right that suffer wrong to heare the widowes cause to acquit the innocent Iosephs and Ieremies whom malice and revenge hath cast into prison shut fast into the stockes and therefore you have neede of courage Moses must chuse Iudges that doe feare God