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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62467	A sermon preached at the assizes held at Chelmsford in the county of Essex, September 2d, 1691 before the Honourable Sir William Dolben, Knight, one of the justices of the Court of Kings Bench by Stephen Thornton ...	Thornton, Stephen, 1657 or 8-1744.	1691 (1691)	Wing T1061; ESTC R16613	14,636	34

Juv Sat. 13. But this fits rather with the Idea's of some Romantick Common-wealth than the true state of the World We are in foece saeculi where if Men do not suffer Justice sometimes they will do none This would tame those Men of Prey the wicked in Power when there should be found those who would break their jaws and pluck the spoil out of their teeth Job 29.17 Those that know no such thing as Property will rather allow it than be Martyrs for their Opinion The poor Man soweth in hope because he knows that thô his great Neighbour would enter upon his Labours there is a greater than he the Law But when Innocency hath no defence but it self the poor comfort of Murus abeneus when Cheating and Theft never sin but in defect viz. in not having made up a Sum worthy the consideration of a Man of Place and Worship when it comes to that that Quae Turpia Cerdoni Volesos Brutosque decebunt Juv. Sat. 8. and the Merit of Men's Ancestors shall save all their Race from Justice no wonder if Treasons Rapines and an increase of all Villany dissolve the Society and all runs back into Wilderness 2. It turns away God's Wrath from a Nation God is honoured by Order and where that is duly observed it looks like his Kingdom He is delighted in a Nation where Laws are like Copies of his Will and Magistrates are as ambitious to resemble him in Righteousness as Power The loins of the Poor shall bless us we shall make Friends of the Protected Orphans and those that by our Justice have escaped Sycophantism Extortion and other ways of Devouring shall return it us in rich and fruitful Prayers God is so pleased with Justice that in the very instant of Vengeance it might make him drop his Thunder and turn to the importunities of his softer Attributes When Israel went a Whoring after the Gods and Daughters of Midian Phinehas going a little out of the way to execute Judgment stai● the Revenging Plague Psal 106.30 By the Promise made in the Text to the House of Joseph the Victorious Assyrians had never entred their Gates had they but establisht Judgment there It seems then it is a Fortification as well as a Robe and Diadem Job 29. You see now Honourable and Worshipful and others entrusted with the Publick Justice you see how much the Common Safety lies in your hands Think your Native Country flies to your Compassions your Mother in Tears it 's well not in Blood Merit then a Crown the Honour not only Servati Civis but Civitatis Dare to be Just not frighted at a mighty Malefactor such make a better Sacrifice and a better Example Like the hand of the Heroick Phineh●s know no Quality otherwise the Zimries will laugh at your Title of Gods and play with the Sword you bear in vain Those that destroy us are zealous they fear not the Day nor Law and shall those in whose hands our Peace is entrusted fear to be singularly good and devolve upon each other the Honour of Beginning Rejoyce then O ye Libertines ye asserters of Nature But in commending Zeal we do not encourage all the Heats and Fits that Humane Minds are capable of A clear Zeal for Justice can hardly be carried too high but we must have a care we do not mistake our Passions for it Even Zeal for your own way of worshipping God may sometimes be out of place when it runs into transports against those that are protected by the same Laws with our selves What should I say more of other Corruptions so much below your Character Perhaps I have said too much already to Persons of your approved Conduct I will only speak a word with those that shall come here upon their Oaths and I have done You touch the Gospels out of which you shall one day be judged you call a Just and Omnipotent God for a Record upon your Souls what is the sense of all this if you falsifie but that you put your hands to your own Damnation As I take it you that are upon the Juries represent your Country it will have but little reason to thank you for the Service if you involve it in Perjury and the Curse of God Yet there are shameful stories in the World about prepared Witnesses and made Juries Sure Men kiss the Book they never read Do your endeavour to recover the Credit of our Constitution and of Christianity deliver us and your own Souls And may God direct all that are concerned in this Assembly so to discharge themselves as expecting assuredly one day to render an Account in a more fearful Assembly when God shall Judge the World that so the Publick Interests may receive no check from what shall be transacted here And let us all unite in such an hatred to Evil and love to Good and so do our parts in our several Stations to the establishing of Justice that God may be glorified by us and delighted in us and as he has begun may continue to be gracious to the Remnant of Joseph FINIS Books Printed for Samuel Smith at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard 1691. A Sermon Preached at the Assizes held at Horsham in the County of Sussex August 23d 1691. Before the Honourable Sir William Dolben Knight one of the Justices of the Court of King's-Bench By Richard Lucas D. D. Vicar of St. Stephen's Coleman-street London In 4o. Price 6 d. Enquiry after Happiness Vol. the First in 8o. 1685. Price 3 s. 6 d. The true Notion of Humane Life Or A Second Part of the Enquiry after Happiness in 8o. 1690. Price 2 s. 6 d. The Duty of Servants Containing First The Parents Duty how to Educate their Children that they may be fit to be employod and trusted Second What Preparation is needful for such as are entring into Service with some Rules to be observed by them how to make a wise and happy Choice of a Service 3. Their Duty in Service towards God their Master and Themselves together with suitable Prayers to each Duty and some Directions peculiarly to Servants for the Worthy Receiving the Holy Sacrament Published for the Benefit of Families in 8o. Price 1 s. 6 d. All written by the same Author The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation By Jo. Ray M. A. Fellow of the Royal Society in 8o. 1691. Price 2 s. 6 d. A New History of the Roman Conclave Containing the Rites and Ceremonies used and observed at the Death Election and Coronation of the Pope As also an Exact Description of the state of Rome during the Vacancy of that Chair Together with a Brief Account of the Life of this present Pope Innocent XII 4o. Price 6 d. 1691.