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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88381	Enchiridion judicum, or, Jehosaphats charge to his judges, opened, in a sermon before the Right Honourable, the judges, and the right worshipful, the sheriffe of the county palatine of Lancast. Together with Catastrophe magnatum, or, King Davids lamentation, at Prince Abners incineration. In a sermon meditated on the fall, and preached at the funeral of the Right Worshipful John Atherton of Atherton Esq; high-sheriffe of the county palatine of Lanc. / By John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton.	Livesey, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2594E; Thomason E1582_2; ESTC R208948	163,446	337

Rev. 14.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from henceforth expect not blessednesse if you rest from your labours Job 3.17 before ye die in the Lord There viz. in the grave the weary are at rest That sentence is entailed on all Mortalls In the sweat of thy brow or brain shalt thou eat thy bread till thou return unto the ground Gen. 3.19 By Mahomets law the Grand Turk himself was to bee of some trade The Athenians hated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By Solons Law idle persons were to suffer death Non solum negotii sed otit redenda est ratio said Tully truly The Lacedaemonians called men to account for their idle hours an idle Magistrate or an idle Minister or an idle Gentleman the Lord abhorres it is not enough for you venerable Gentlemen Vide p. Mart. in 2 Sam. 11. Fusius agit contra otium not to do evil It is required that you as well as others nay that you more than others should bee doing good A Negative Magistrate is no Magistrate Nic Machiaveli disput de Republica lib. 1. cap. 1 Machiavels counsel is good Otium prohibeatur perpetua quaedam honestorum exercitiorum necessitas imperetur vitanda est maxime sterilitas c. Idlenesse exposeth to the Devils malice Idleness disposeth to the Devils service Vide Doctissimi Saunder soni concionem quartam ad populum Res age tutus e●is when hee findes you about nothing that is good he will imploy you about something that is evil otium animi mors est vivi hominis sepultura saith Seneca it is the death of the soul the interring of a man alive An idle hour is the hour of temptation a flying Lark who makes his mark Hispani bellum quam otium malunt Justin Hist .. lib. 44. p. 349. The Spaniards had rather bee warring than idleing if the Historian may bee credited and in my judgement it is more eligible Legitima authoritas justa causa intentio recta moderamen debitum requiruntur secundum Bielem lib. 4. Sent. Distinct 15. Qu. 4. Illicit a non sunt Christianis bella sive defensiva sive invasiva modo adsint haec tria justitia causae potestas publica intentio recta Estius in Sent. lib. 3. Distinct 37. Parag. 20. If there bee a good cause a good call a good end and if managed in a right way and manner for Warre though a necessary evil is the solemn instrument of Justice the restraint of vice and publick insolencies the support of a body politick against forraign invasions and Domestick rebellions Up then and bee doing Honourable Lords and worthy Gentlemen account your selves happy in that God accounts you worthy to do any thing for him especially to bee so honourably imployed under him your time is short with us your work is great though the Sun stand still or go backwards yet still time goes forward five or six dayes beyond which you cannot sit will soon expire Reverend Fathers and Brethren Remember you and I that Motto of famous Mr. Perkins Minister verbi es Vide Bezam in vita Calvini 2 Per. 1.12,14 Hoc age And that worthy saying of judicious Calvin Quid si Christus cum venerit me otiosum invenerit what if Christ when hee comes to summon mee to death shall finde mee idle It was holy Augustins wish that Christ might finde him aut precantem Possid de vita moribus Aug p. penult Vel inveniendis rebus ●… de jam inventis c. aut praedicantem praying or preaching Possidonius relates this of him that hee was ever imployed either inventing or dictating transcribing perusing or preaching praying or visiting the Fatherlesse and the Widdows Et hoc agebat in die laborans in nocte lucubrans Minima portio temporis dabatur somno minor cib● nulla otio ita Adri●om de Hieron And memorable is that which Augustine himself spake to Eudoxius and the brethren with him in his eighty first Epistle As Fire and Water so Pride and Sloathfulnesse are by Ministers to bee shunned It is certain a whet is no let Recreation may bee used but in its due season Amice quisquis huc venis aut Agito paucis aut abi aut me laborantem adjuva haec erat inscriptio musaei Urfmian Vide Mel●…i Adam Vide P. Mart. in 2 Sam. 12 and with a right intention to fit us for our work but never as our work not to procure wealth but to preserve health which such as live sedentary lives seldome have and also with choice persons The two witnesses of whom you read Rev. 11. end their lives and their labours together Nullus est in Anglica diligentior Episcopus quam Diabolus said Latimer There is not a more busy Bishop in all England than is the Devil shall wee learn some good of him To bestirre our selves the more because our time is short Rev. 12.12 The Levites in the Law were discharged at fifty in part Numbers 8.25 Let not us pretend more weaknesse of body or decay of memory of natural abilities and faculties more than is to gain a dispensation Augustin preached till his last sicknesse aged seventy six And Ambrose dyed commenting on the Psalm Usque ad suam ipsam extremam aegritudinem Possid ubi supra on that 47. Psalm if A Lapide mistake not Oportet Episcopum conscionantem mori soul-work is sweet work though wee sweat Paul did not say I converted more than they yet hee could say I laboured more than they and herein may wee solace our selves if Israel bee not gathered wee have discharged our duty in some measure sincerely though slenderly non curatio sed cura Ovium a pastore requiritur as A Lapide well observed A Lapid in 1 Tim. 4 Christians this is of concernment to you also you must bee doing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Our Religion consists not in wording Justin Mar. Aq. 1. p. qu. 1. Art 4. Estii praefat in Sent. Tenendum est Lev. 25 but in working not in speaking but in living great things The Jews usually called the seventh year the idle year because then there was no plowing no sowing no reaping or mowing with many Christians every year is the idle year Should wee bee examined what wee have done for God what naked backs wee have cloathed what hunger-starved bellies wee have refreshed what duties wee have discharged should conscience speak and all tongues bee silent shame might cover our faces Seneca jeered the Jews because they lost one day in seven Vide Aug. de C. D. lib. 6. cap. 11 To observe the Sabbath day was with him to lose a day well might hee deride the Christians of this lazy drousy age were hee now alive who lose Lords dayes Exercise dayes and other precious seasons for soul advantages too many dividing their lives one half they are idle and the other they do nothing Pauci hoc agunt said the Heathen Philosopher It

point in hand in their fiftieth Disputation By how much the greater power authority and opportunity the Civil Magistrate hath received from God above private persons by so much the more vigilant and diligent should they bee lest any Heterodox opinions spread within their jurisdictions Notable is that of the Philosopher in the seventh of his Politicks Quo quis sanctior eo promptior novellis contraire solet Virenener 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Magistrates first and greatest care should bee about things divine about Religion the Orient pearl of the Nation nor can I passe by that of Guevara in an Epistle to the Emperour Charles the fifth Christianus nulla re magis dignosci potest quam si Deo factas contumelias blasphemias severissime ulciscatur suas obliviscatur A true Christian can by nothing better bee discerned than this by forgiving and forgetting the injuries and indignities done to himself and severely punishing such contumelies and blasphemies as tend to and end in the dishonour of God In Christs Catalogue there is no Neuters Hee who is not for him and his Truth and Honour are against all Learn of Nebuchadnezzar an Heathen Magistrate hee decreed Dant 3.28,29 that whosoever should speak amisse mark it but speak amisse of the God of Shadrach should be cut in peeces and their houses made a Dung-hill Help us wee humbly pray against the Prophaners of the Lords day What the Philistims said of Sampson is true of these men They are the destroyers of our Country c. Nehemiah was a famous Neh. 3.17 exemplary Magistrate hee contended with the Rulers and Nobles What evil thing is this that you do and prophane the Sabbath day Haec olim curarunt Christiani principes saith Gualther how is the Lords day lost amongst us that most refined part of time consecrated by divine sanction how is it idled and bezled away Time was our Saviour whipt some out Now there is need of whips to bring some into the Temple Conscience I confesse cannot be compelled to love Vertue or imbrace the Truth yet in regard of outward conformity men may and should bee injoyned the frequenting of Gods publick worship and ordinances It is a chief branch of your charge to see to the observation and sanctification of the Lords day Exod. 23.12 The Fourth Commandement hath a memento praefixed which none of all the rest have and why so why is this prefixed I shall hint at some Reasons 1 Because wee are most apt to forget this and therefore 2 Because none can keep this day holy when it is come that do not remember it before it come 3 Because this is one of the greatest if not absolutely the greatest of all the Commandements It is sometimes put for all the ten it is the Synopsis of them all Vossius though hee confesseth there bee ten great and principal commands yet asserts there are in those Exod. 16.28 four more which hee calls secondary or appendical commands Gerard. Vos de Divis Dealogi and most of them are in this fourth Commandement 4 The Observation of all the Commandements depends chiefly upon the Observation of this fourth none walk so much after the Spirit on other daies as they who are most in the Spirit on the Lords day as Luther said of the first In the observance of this obedience to all the rest is comprized In Exod. p. 131 or as Alsted said of the fifth so may I of this stante honore superioribus debito mandata reliqua totius decalogi manent in viridi observantia Vide Rib. de Templo lib. 5. cap. 1 Cum essent c. 5 Because the observation of this Commandement was by reason of their cruel Task-masters much neglected now they are delivered it is with a memento inculcated 6 The forgetting of this duty and prophaning of this day Ezek. 20.12 22.8 23 38 is one of the greatest sins that a people can be guilty of It is a violation of all the decalogue at once Levit. 26.2 14 Lam. 2.6,7 Neh. 13.17 it is a sin against all the commandements and concernments of God one of the greatest sins in Israel To adde no more Many heavy Judgements are threatned against and have been inflicted upon the prophaners of this day It was not their not trimming of their Churches as some of the German Nobility thought but the prophanation of the Lords day as others which brought those desolating Judgements upon that Nation Some think the Flood began on the Lords day from that Gen. 7. they were grown such notorious prophaners of the Sabbath The Council of Matiscon in France attributed the irruption of the Goths and Vandals to their neglect of this day My Lords Cum oritur veneris stella consequens occasum solis c. Ribera de Templo l. 5. pag. 247. Sheph. Thes Sab. it is your duty to see every one have his due shall not the Lord have his is not the Lords day the Lords due Nehemiah did his indeavour to keep men from this sin of sins When the gates of Jerusalem began to bee dark for then began their Sabbath and in the evening begins ours too as I conceive hee commanded the Gates to bee shut hee did his indeavour and the Lord remembred him for Good Do you yours this will bee your Glory your Crown your Comfort In short as none truly indeavour the salvation of their own souls who indeavour not the salvation of more souls than their own So none truly indeavour the sanctification of the Lords day who do not cordially indeavour the sanctification of it by all within their families precincts and jurisdictions Little do you know worthy Gentlemen what acceptable service you may do to God in this very businesse Help us Against the Ale-houses those Hell-houses and that accessive drunkennesse which is so prevalent and frequent amongst us TAKE HEED how you countenance them It is almost as easy a Task to conquer the Turk as to bring down a rotten Ale-house so many of the Gentry patronize and plead for them Reduce them to a smaller number command them to keep better orders they are very exorbitant and irregular These houses are the very suburbs and seminaries of Hell the nurseries of all sin the Synagogue of Devils incarnate the Devils fish-ponds the Devil is the fisher drunkenness is the hook pleasure is the bait Fools are his fish Hell their frying-pan In ardentem salite sartagine prunam Are such houses to be priviledged or licensed in which the Name of God is so notoriously blasphemed the precious fruits of the earth so shamefully abused by occasion whereof the Lords day is so much prophaned so many families impoverished young ones empoysoned all manner of wickednesse increased In the time of the Law Deut. 21.21 Drunkards were to bee stoned to death and shall it escape now in the time of the Gospel It was one of King Lewis his Apophthegmes That Prince