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A03717	Sermons preached at Pauls Crosse and else-where, by Iohn Hoskins, sometimes fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, minister and Doctor of Law	Hoskins, John, 1579-1631.	1615 (1615)	STC 13841; ESTC S104239	117,511	248

and I iudge betweene one another Exod. 18. The later condition of enablement or sufficiencie requires many vertues and perfections All may bee reduced vnto knowledge and conscience First a man of knowledge must bee Iudge Deut. 1.13 Bring you men of wisedome and of vnderstanding and I will make them Rulers ouer you Euery man iudgeth best of that which he knoweth Paul thought himselfe happie being to make his answere before King Agrippa Acts 26. who had knowledge of all customes and questions among the Iewes whereas on the contrarie Ignorantia Iudicis calamitas innocentis Aug. 19. de ciuit cap. 6. The Iudges ignorance is the innocent mans calamitie Yea ignorance at the Barre may preiudice it selfe or one mans cause but ignorance on the Bench doth preiudice all the Countrie for either it must determine causes by hap-hazard or frame weake resolutions out of her owne shallow braine as Spiders spinne their Cob-webbes out of themselues Now the poore men come to the Court to haue their hearts relieued with some sentence of equitie they come not to haue their hopes deluded with a Lotterie or their eares delighted with a ierke or trick of Poetry The other inabling perfection is conscience A man of conscience must be Iudge That he may walke with Dauid Psal 101. in the vprightnesse of his heart neither stooping to rewards as Samuels sonnes for such Iudges doe wrap vp a matter as the word is Mich. 7.3 Sometimes giue me thy siluer for thy sinne by commutation and sometimes beare with mee I le beare with thee by compensation nor yet winking at iniustice for fauour with Eli heere whose condemnation proceeds out of his owne mouth The Iudge shall iudge it He was Iudge himself he did not iudge it Yet I would not be conceiued in a wider sense then I dare speake You shall banish some iustice if you banish all fauour out of iudgement The Imperiall Lawes though they detest respect of persons yet I am sure fauour the Defendant more then the Plaintiffe and by the municipall Lawes of this Land as I haue heard a Barre to common intent is good whereas a Declaration must containe precise forme and certaintie The reason I take to bee that of the Ciuilian Actor Instructus accedat oportet and the reason of that reason is because actions are according to nature more in our power then passions To bee short fauours within the cause not fauours without the cause legall fauours not personall are in iudgement considerable A Iudge after the manner you haue heard qualified stands bound in reason to execute the proper act of his function for the iudgement as Iehosaphat spake is the Lords 2. Chron. 19. Therefore are Iudges a liuing kind of instruments You know the nature of instruments consists in vse and operation wheresoeuer you finde instruments without operation as in the Psalme They haue eyes and see not you finde Idols The speech then is as naturall and agreeable when wee say The Iudge shall iudge it as when we say The eye shall see the eare shall heare they be the Ministers of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 attending continually on the same thing Therefore in those dayes when Kings themselues were Iudges such dayes there were howsoeuer the French aduocate dispute against it as vnbefitting Maiestie in those dayes a widdow comming as Xiphilinus and Spartianus say to Adrian but as Plutarch relates to Demetrius and Philip to seeke for iustice and being answered hee was not at leisure replied Noliigitur regnare Be not at leisure to bee King The euent bids me beleeue it of Philip for I finde that his neglect of Pausanias suite when he came to be righted against Attalus was the cause why Pausanias killed him Therefore if a Iudge he shall iudge it So haue you heard the meanes of mediation when one man sinnes against another a man with warrant from without sufficiencie from within both of knowledge and conscience whom the German cals in a significant word Bidermann Vtriusque virum awards for euerie dammage a satisfaction Gallio tolde the Iewes If it were a matter of wrong or euill deed he would according to reason maintaine them If one man sinne against another the Iudge shall iudge it A benefit more knowne by experience in England then euer it was in Israel God be blessed and blessed might we be if it were acknowledged with thankfulnesse They had their counsell of three their lesser Sanedrim of three and twentie Their greater Sanedrim of threescore twelue to which our Sauiour alludeth Matth. 5. We haue more for number better for conueniencie for all causes spirituall and temporall ciuill and criminall pecuniarie and capitall Samuel amongst them went about yeare by yeare to Bethel and Gilgal and Mispeh and iudged Israel in all these places More then one Samuel amongst vs more then once in the yere visit all the great Cities of our Kingdome in such maner that neyther offenders haue any long respite to reflect vpon themselues view their own strength and take incouragement nor any else iust cause to complaine against the publike triall since they stand or fall at home by the deposition and verdict of their neerest neighbours So much of that sinne for which there may be some mediation That the sinne of Elies sonnes was a sinne against the Lord I haue shewed alreadie the successe in this last sequel being the want of true successe bids vs search somwhat deeper into the maner Great was that darknesse whereat Christ the very light of the world did wonder and aske the question How great is that darknesse So strange must that offence bee here of which the High Priest himselfe best acquainted with all the meanes of atonement proposeth this interrogation with admiration Who shall intreate for him Compare Protasis with Apodosis sequel with sequel the former with the latter as they stand in opposition what doth the former affirme No more but a ciuill and humane mediation for a temporall satisfaction What then doth the latter deny by the rules of opposition no lesse then Religious or Diuine intercession for eternall satisfaction Here may we behold some Symptomes of that disease for which there is no Balme in Gilead some signes of that sinne wee commonly call the sinne against the Holy Ghost not that it is against the third person of the Trinitie as hee is the third person more then against the first or second But because it is against the function and operation of that person vpon whose office depends mens conuiction and mens illumination This sinne is a sinne of men enlightned who haue receiued a taste of heauenly g●fts Hebr 6. Who more enlightned who receiued more in their times then the Priests of Israel This sinne contemneth Christ it treadeth vnder foo●e the Sonne of God Heb. 10. Their contempt could reach no neerer to the truth they contemned the type Wherefore haue you kicked against my sacrifice Vers 20. For this sinne there remaineth no more sacrifice Heb. 10.

myracles shall straight surrender their reputatiō of strangenes do you but glad our hearts and blesse our sight with some possibilities of this myracle Euery man will turne to his friend with amazed lookes neighbour communing with neighbour in tearmes of astonishment and admiration Is Saul also among the Prophets Doe the children of Nimrod hunters and oppressors the children of Lamech sighters and swaggerers the children of Iubal singers and players come in What all Wisdomes children See see It is the Lords doing and needs must it be wonderfull in our eyes God hath perswaded Iapheth to dwell in the tents of Shem. O the deepenesse of the riches of wisdome which raiseth out of stones children vnto Abraham And O thou Sauior of men which only workest wonders arise shew forth thy strength in our weaknesse that such stones may be children before they moulder into dust such Iapheths before they die may dwell at length in the tents of Shem. For let religion be a fable and ministers false prophets if vpon this happie change you be not as men that dreamed musing and maruciling at your selues to see such a dawning of light such a day-spring in your iudgements seconded with a trance and rauishment of euery religious affection Old things then are done away with a deepe loathing and detestation of their remembrance as though your golden houres of precious time spent vpon your youthfull vanities had beene a greater waste then if a country-man pardon my familiar comparison then if a country-man I say should anoint his Axle-tree with Amber-greese or liquor his bootes with Balsamum And you that of late posted by wisedoms schoole as by a Pest-house or middle pillar of a race shall now watch dayly at the postes of her doore You that of late would haue spit in wisedomes face likelier to haue cut off a preachers head then heare his words whilst you courted He●o●ias daughter shall now suppose your selues preferred if you may loose the latchet of her shoe striuing to wash the feet of her handmaids seruants accounted in your eyes from which the scales are fallen most beautifull you that of late abhorred the fruit of wisedomes lippes no better in your vnfa●ory tai●● then the poyson of Aspes shall now like new borne babes cry for her milke hanging at her brests the brests of the two Testaments Iudge then this day whether I haue not iust cause in the name of this famous nurserie to begge of all parents and all parents great reason in the name of Christ to begge in their prayers vnto God for this blissefull alteration For as much as it is the sole and compendiarie way to bee a wise father or mother of earthly children First to bee a wise child of our heauenly Father Such a father will not send his sonne hither onely with his purse and a seruing man looking no higher then a chamber a table a bed a stoole and a candlesticke but come himselfe to choose with good aduice shall I say a Gamaliel for his Paul rather a Paul for his young Timothie that in his tender yeeres being like a looking glasse which may be defiled with a breath or a stringed instrument which is put out of tune with the very change of weather he may bee well sorted and well seasoned lest as many words that lose their sence in construction he lose innocencie by company verely a temptation as many good soules taken like brands out of the fire can best testifie more violent outragious then a tempestuous whirlewind more virulent contagious then the breath of a Basiliske Such a mother as is wisedomes childe will not onely seeke wooll and flaxe to labour cheerefully with her hands amongst her daughters at home singing and saying Mittenda est fratri nunc nunc properate puellae Quamprimum nostrâ fact a lacerna manu Haste haste my girles your brother must haue of our owne making a liuerie but like Anna bring it vp her selfe from yeere to yeere that she may conferre with Eli as concerning young Samuels dedication So concerning young Samuels education both father and mother that are wisedomes children at meeting and at parting will with exchange of teares insert this parenthesis neuer too long into their blessing My soone my sonne the booke and language of wisedome the studie and exercise of wisdome the house and company of wisdome aboue all bookes languages studies exercises houses and companies So should they be sure to receiue none but Timothies and Samuels hence back againe men not onely secured of this their relation that they be themselues wisedomes children but armed with a disposition for the good of others to be wisedomes witnesses which is my second Generall When I compare this present Antithesis with our Sauiours argument Ioh. 10.26 27. Iohn 10. Ye beleeue not for ye are not of my sheep my sheepe heare my voyce So far am I from suspecting children as onely remayning like witnesses at an exigent in defect and vpon de fault of more sufficient record that I conceiue them in wisedomes cause the fittest deponents from their iudgement who may deeme this a paradox I streight appeale to Gods own choice for notwithstanding some transient reuelations might glide through Balaam and Caiphas as wise in themselues meanewhile as trunks It is on both sides confessed sauing that some Papists sticke at Salomon that Gods publike Notaries the Canonicall writers of the Scriptures were all regenerate and children of wisedome 2. Pet. 1.21 Holy men of God saith Peter spake as they were inspired by the holy Ghost Holy men spake as if wisdom the richest Domains of the Crown of heauen The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way Prou. 8. were something resembled in the ancient Demaines of England which may not bee tried as the Lawyers say by strangers but onely by the Tenants of the same Demaines And why not soonest by strangers The truth can haue no greater aduantage a man would thinke then when it may be said Our God is not as their God our enemies being iudges Nulla est victoria maior Claudian Quàm quae confessos animo quoque subiug at hosles A faire colour when things are by strangers and enemies discernable For fuller answer giue me leaue to lead your meditations not much aside through the reasonable proceedings in mens Courts by witnesses against whom domesticall inward acquaintance is a most materiall exception because they that dwell vnder the same roofe may without any iealousie be mistrusted for partiall affection in one anothers behalfe Neuerthelesse euen these are admitted whensoeuer others either actually were not or habitually that is in likelihood could not be present at the fact Suppose it if you will some clandestine contract the maine scope of all depositiōs being the manifestation of the truth by them that are best able to enforme whence it followeth that a challenge against the Iudge himselfe should in reason be sooner heard then against a a witnesse for if