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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28303	A caveat for magistrates in a sermon, preached at Pauls before the Right Honorable Thomas Atkin, Esquire, Lord Major of the city of London, November the third, 1644, being the first day of his coming thither after his entrance upon his majoralty / by Elidad Blackwell ...	Blackwell, Elidad.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3090; ESTC R200137	30,169	52

What ever divisions compose them Ministers that are faithfull encourage them Christians that walke closely with God protect them Rule for God Reward for God Punish for God Maintain vertue Suppresse vice Promote Religion Bring in Reformation It is the great designe God hath upon the Land improve all the wisdome of your heart and all the power of your place to be therein serviceable and helpfull to God all you can Doe this my Lord or doe what you will what you can you doe just nothing And as one to Antipater King of Macedonia who being presented with a book treating of happinesse rejected it with this answer I am not at leasure Noli igitur regnare sayes he be not King then if thou art not at leasure My Lord I beseech you give me leave to speake freely to you Truly I pitty you and as well as I can I pray for you you have much work to doe but yet this this is the work and if you be not at leasure for this if you be not at leasure to reforme the Citie what doe you in the place of Magistracie My Lord you cannot honour the City more then by furthering a reformation What 's the honour of a Citie Not Armies and Navies and Forts and Bulwarks and sumptuous buildings and stately edifices and silver as the dust and gold as the stones of the street c. But wholsome Laws and Constitutions and those duly executed when the Gosple is propagated Religion countenanced piety promoted innocencie defended vice punished equity preserved and soe Church Common-wealth joyntly and mutually live and love and grow and prosper and God has glory from the well ordered cōmunities of men and men felicitie in a blessed Communion with God happy is the people that is in such a case My Lord doe what in you lies to make US such a people You cannot honour London more then by reforming London You cannot honour Your-selfe more neither This will be your everlasting honour and renowne not that you had the Keyes of the Citie committed to You but that You provided for the safetie of the Citie Not that you bore the Sword of the Citie but that you drew that Sword to destroy wicked doers and to cut off all the workers of iniquitie from the Citie Psal. 101. ult. Not that such a yeer you was Londons Governour but that such a yeer you was Londons Reformer It was not the honour of Asa Hezekiah Josiah c. that they were Kings in Israel so was Jeroboam and so was Ahab and so was Manasse c. but that they reformed Israel puld downe Images cut downe groves destroied Idolatrie restor'd Religion to its puritie made the Church pious the Common-wealth prosperuos Doe it therefore my Lord 'T will be your Renown throughout all generations And when others that stand like Cyphers in their places and have a name only to be Agents in this great transaction shall be forgotten the children that are yet unborn shall rise up and call you blessed and this shall be your happy memoriall that you was The repairer of the breaches the restorer of the paths to dwell in You cannot profit London more neither Godlinesse it is profitable to all things Entitles persons and so places too to all the promises of protection provision preservation c. You cannot fafeguard it more neither Religion Reformation it 's corporis politici neruus the Sinews of a Common-wealth and so the sinews of a City And what glorious things are spoken of such a Citie in the Word of God That God will create upon every dwelling in it a piller of a cloud by day and a piller of fire by night Esay 4.5 alluding to that Exod. 13. That the Lord will make it a defenced City Iron pillers brazen walls and that against the whol land against the Kings men of power Against the Priests men of parts Against the people headie tumultuous violent Jer. 1.18 yea walls of fire Zach. 2.5 I will be to it a wall ef Fire saith the Lord If of brasse only possibly some might breake through it or climbe over it but of Fire therefore no approach Hee alludes to the custome of Travellers in those Easterne Countries who when they pitch'd their tents at night were wont to make fires about them to scare away Lions Bears Wolves Foxes c. Enemies that for strength are Lions for fiercenesse Bears for crueltie Wolves for subtiltie Foxes God will be a wall of fire to scare away these Nay yet more Wals of salvation Esay 26.1 In that day that is In the day of Jerusalems restauration and reformation as in the former Chapter In that day shall this song be sung Wee have a strong Citie why Salvation will God appoint for walls and Bulwarks Nay yet more Its place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks Bread shall be given it and its waters shall be sure Esay 33.16 A Citie besieged though it have walls of brasse yea walls of fire yet possibly it may be starved and so forced to yield that way But if besides these fortifications without It has also all things for life growing within itself Springs of water fields of corn Pastures for Cattell c. and so is not subject to want by reason of its dependence upon forreigne supplies how safe were such a Citie and how impregnable and unconquerable Why and so safe so impregnable so unconquerable should this Citie be were it a reformed Citie As Persia the Captive Virgin said of Athens being asked if it were not a goodly strong fenced Citie Truly 't is saith shee were but the inhabitants well mannerd Si incolaebenè morati pulchrè munitam arbitror My Lord what an impregnable how mightily fenced and fortified were London si incolae benè morati were but the Londoners pious religious well ordered well governed reformed My Lord two or three things I desire to minde you of what swarms of poore lame maimed wounded souldiers lie up and downe the streets crying to every one that goes by one half-penie for Gods sake and no man turns back to give a half-penie what a dishonour is this to London and to them what a discouragement My Lord they have ventured their lives for us I beseech you let some course be taken that they may have a livelihood amongst us And oh the many poore sad desolate widdows and the many fatherlesse children that this warre hath made My Lord should you come into a family and there see the mother sighing and the children standing about her weeping and crying bread bread and she has no bread unlesse it be the bread of teares if you looke into her Cupbord there 's no bread there if you look into her purse there 's no monie there to buy bread if you looke into her shop there 's no trading there to fetch in monie no emploiment no work that shee either has or knows where to have would not this be a sad spectacle my Lord would it