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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61282	Four sermons preached upon solemne occasions I. The troubler of Israel. II. The righteous mans concern for the churches misery. Preached before the judges. III. Cæsars due honour, preached before the mayor and aldermen of Leicester, May 29. 1669. IV. Davids work and rest, preached before the election of the mayor. By Tho. Stanhope A.M. Vicar of St. Margarets in Leicester.	Stanhope, Thomas.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5233B; ESTC R221868	48,189	101

to our good God and good as the ready way to procure good to our immortall souls This then I desire to charge upon all in publick offices Let those that are about you discern your vigour and activity for His service by whom you are advanced Spare no pains in furthering it neglect no means conducing to it And remember that when you act for him you act for your selves when you endeavour his glory he will be sure to enhaunce yours according to his promise 1 Sam. 2.30 Them that honour me I will honour but they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed But Gods worship is a word of large extent and camprehends many things under it I humbly crave leave to be your remembrancer of these two 1. Let no false worship be countenanced within your Jurisdiction Let not Dagon be set so near the Ark nor an Altar for Baal be reared by the Altar of the God of Israel Zeal against the rules of Grammar begins to decline at the ablative as well knowing that a true worship can never be advanced till all false worships be suppressed Whilst like the Samaritans 2 Kings 17.41 we fear the Lord and worship our graven Images we are party-per-pale Christians and Idolators The first work of good Hezekiah was to throw down the high places and to make the brazen Serpent Nehushtan 2 Kings 18.4 If any enquire whither this advice tends my answer briefly shall be Luke 23.33 Every Considerative man may easily discern that the Church of England like Christ its husband is crucified between two malefactors The Papist on the one hand and the Separatist on the other both these would have their worship in contempt of and opposition to ours which brings an Odium upon our Religion And certainly if those who have power in their hands improve not their power to vindicate that Church whereof they are members their account will be heavy when the greatest must appear before one greater than they and receive a reward according to the discharge of their places No matter how foolish people spend their Lungs and strain their throats to cry up liberty of conscience It is a thing which once admitted would make our England an Amsterdam And if arguments will not convince us sad experience may that nothing is more intolserable than a toleration of opinions 2. Take care that the Lords-day be kept holy That God may be worshipped it is necessary some time be set apart for his worship and what time fitter than that which is already appointed wherein then can Magistrates more promote Gods worship than by providing that this day be spent in it How vigorously did Nehemiah appear in sanctifying the legall Sabbath chiding with the Nobles of Judah shutting the Gates in the evening before the day declined and not opening them till the Sabbath was ended nay setting his own servants to watch the gates and not suffering the Merchants and Tradesmen to lodge within the City Nehem. 13.17 19 20. I argue not for a Jewish Sabbath Omnes dies dominicos cum omni veneratione decrevimus observart et a servili opere abstineri et ut mercatus in eis minimè sit nec placitum ubi aliquis ad mortem vel ad poenam judicetur Concil Mogunt can 37. Vid. Zanchuin in 4 Precept Exod 20.8 but a Christian Lords-day which had we nothing else the argument à fortiori would engage us unto If they under the law must set apart one day in seven to remember the great work of Creation well may we under the Gospel to commemorate our redemption without which creation had done us no good And truly I am sorry there is so much reason for this advice Men generally forbear bodily labour and suffer themselves to be worse employed giving the least part of that day to him whose due the whole of it is It is a shame that an usurped power should bring people into better order than all the commands of lawfull Authority It is not many years since a strict Proclamation came forth for keeping this day Holy and frequenting Church both evening and morning I hope you will see that so Religious a Command be observed And forget not that the fourth Precept of the Law is directly charged upon the head of a Family and by the same reason reacheth the head of a Corporation Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day as if the duty were only his or the omission of inferiours should be set upon the superiours score It is through Gods blessing in your hand to rectifie all abuses of this nature your Authority will force men to Church keep them both out of Ale-houses and Idleness when our Sermons cannot And therefore we humbly beg your help that God be not provoked to curse the work of our days because we despise the work of his and blast all our diligence on the six for our prophanation of the seventh 2. David served his Generation and by punishing contumacious offenders I will early destroy all the wicked of the Land that I may cut off all wicked doers from the City of the Lord Psal 101.8 When the Amalekite came with the news that he had slain Saul David slew him 2 Sam. 1.15 When Baanah and Rechab had killed Ishbosheth he killed them 2 Sam. 4.12 yet the one was his persecutor and the other his competitor for the Kingdom Afterwards when Joab had sinitten Abner and Amasa of whom I mean Joab it might be said as once of Origen ubi benè nemo melius ubi malè nemo pejus Where he did well no man did better and where he did ill no man did worse and when Shimei had cursed David though his Reign was so troublesome that he could not take vengeance on them in his life yet he leaves it in charge to Solomon 1 Kings 2.5 6 8 9. Punishments of such high nature possibly fall not within your compass yet herein it is fit you imitate David and hereby also you shall serve your Generation in not suffering any guilty persons which come before you to glory in impunity Pity and lenity do well become a Magistrate where they may do good but if the sore will onely rankle with plaisters it is time to apply tents and corrosives Comerarius apud Godwinum de Antiquit. Roman lib. 4. cap. 2. Bonum est cum puniuntur nocentes Quis hoe nisi nocens negabit Tertul. de spectaculis cap The Consuls of Rome had both rods and axes carried before them Rods as ensigns of mercy if the offences were less and the offenders penitent axes as tokens of severity if the offences were greater and the offenders incorrigible You know who hath said To acquit the wicked and to condemn the righteous both of them are abomination to the Lord Prov. 17.15 Nay let me tell you that a sparing those who are evil is a discouragement a wrong to those that are good Magistratus qui de malis paenas nòn sumit bonos injuriâ