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A32795	A memorial for magistrates a sermon preached at Christ-Church in the city of Bristoll on the twelfth day of October at the assizes or goal-delivery / by John Chetwynd.	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing C3797; ESTC R23993	23,802	38

matter of belief or opinion that are proposed by any to be embraced whether they be God's saving truths or the errors of deceivers and the fancies of mens brains bring them to this Test and they will quickly appear what they are Yea ordinary capacities without any extraordinary learning may be able as far as it concerns themselves to prove all things 1 Thes 5.21 Gen. 1.1 Rev. 22.13 21. that so they may hold fast that which is good It is a good observation that one makes that the Scriptures begin with In the beginning and end with Amen which signifieth Truth Shewing that they contain in them which no other writings do Et vetustissimum verissimum what is eldest what is truest And indeed what is not antient is not true Truth is of God Error is of the Devil So that what is not Old Divinity is not true Divinity though it come from the Councel of Trent the Conclave of Cardinals with their pretended infallible Inspirers the Pope and the Devil or Consult of Jesuites 3. It 's mans whole happiness and excellency This distinguisheth him from and prefers him before all others though never so great and glorious in the world Job Job who feared God and eschewed evil was acknowledged by God himself to be the None-such of his time The Righteous is more excellent than his Neighbour Pro Let him be what he will if he be not Righteous In Gods account who knows best how to esteem and whose honourable approbation is of greatest weight and worth in the eyes of good men who despise vile persons Psal 15. yea in the eyes of wicked men themselves All men held John for a Prophet yea Herod reverenced him in his heart though he was overswayed by an Impudent Harlot to command his Death And in real worthiness as being and having that in him which makes a man and will keep him happy If you know these things happy are ye if you do them Joh. 13.17 3. God will call to account For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be bad ver 14. A pressing and powerfull argument if well weighed to enforce upon us the care of fearing God and keeping his Commandements That we shall be most certainly brought to an account whether we do or do not VVe are not Lords Paramount that may do as we please and live as we list and there 's an end No but an account must be rendered and therefore we have great reason to see to it that our Thoughts VVords and VVorks may be such as may correspond with Gods fear and comply with his Command our Dignity and Duty For though by our greatness we may bear it out and by our policy conceal what evil we do from man yet we cannot escape Gods Hand which is Omnipotent nor his Eye which is Omniscient and so knows what we have done and though he doth not always in this Life which we may all justly fear and he many times doth yet he will most assuredly hereafter bring us into judgment for it And the minding of this would be our wisdom and prove a great restraint from evil and encouragement unto good And unto this end we find the consideration often made use of in the holy Scriptures Thus Solomon makes use of it as a Bridle to restrain the Lustfull extravagancies of unruly Youth VVhen by an Ironical Concession he seems to invite a Young Man to rejoyce Let his heart chear him in the days of his Youth to walk in the ways of his heart and the sight of his eyes But again powerfully to restrain him with this consideration Eccl. 11.9 But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment Thus St. Paul doth ingeniously confess that by the remembrance of this he was stirred up and assisted in and unto a holy and incorrupt ministration of his Office 2 Cor. 5.11.10 Knowing the Terrors of the Lord we perswade men For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Thus the same Apostle exhorts the Athenians to Repentance because God had appointed a day wherein he would judge the world Act. 17.31 And though mockers may scoff and think it afar off because the signs of it are not yet come yet alas Though the general judgment may not surprize them yet the day of their death will which will be to them a day of judgment and all will certainly be found at the great day as they are found at that hour And if the time would bear it it were worth a larger consideration How Emphatically Solomon lays down this argument which I cannot at present but briefly lay before you In which fourteenth verse of this Chapter concerning Gods judgment VVe may observe these five things 1. The unavoidableness of it 2. The certainty of it as to the thing and the uncertainty as to the time 3. The generality and exactness of it 4. The Righteous proceeding in it 5. The directing of the sentence according to desert 1. The unavoidableness God shall bring whom none can escape or delude Here many culpable persons make shift to escape by secresie hiding flying or corruption But there is no such dealing with God with whom we have to do by whose authority the judgment shall be though Christ be the Administrator of it and the Saints shall give their Approbation As the Kings Majesty by his Deligated Judges and the assistance of others in Commission with them perform Judgment amongst Men. God then being Judge he hath as Inferior Judges his Deputies ought to have and are supposed to have what ever is requisite and is ever necessary Viz. 1. Knowledge 2. Power 3. Uprightness 1. Knowledge to discern As Solomon had who having the Scepter in his hand had an eye in his head to discern whose the living Child was Justice is indeed usually painted blind but that is as to persons not causes Blind Isaac that would try by feeling placed the Blessing where he would not 1 Sam. 12.3 and blinded Judges and you know the Scripture tells us what will blind them usually place it where they should not But God is Omniscient and cannot be deluded nor deceived Heb. 4.13 All things to him are naked and bare 2. Power to see their judgment executed otherwise they will be contemned and authority fully to end and determine its appeals will be made nought of and matters will run in a circle and endless Labyrinths But God is Omnipotent and Supreme there is no resisting of him nor appealing from him 3. Uprightness in passing sentence The Egyptians in their Hieroglyphicks describe Justice as an Angel without hands that he may not receive gifts and winking or without eyes that he might not respect persons The Person of a Judge must