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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61335	The divine obligation of humane ordinances Delivered in a sermon upon the 26th of February, before the iudge, at St. Maries in Bury St. Edmonds, By William Starkey, D.D. Rector of Pulham in Norfolk.	Starkey, William, 1620 or 21-1684.	1668 (1668)	Wing S5294; ESTC R214022	19,168	36

granted that with impunity persons may persist in their unreasonable and lawless Resolutions under the name of Conscience For Zions sake therefore I could not hold my peace nor for Jeausalems sake rest nor find quiet in my own spirit till I had offered publickly what if it were soberly and without prejudice received might make for the peace and quiet of the Nation Suffer now but one Word of Exhortion that shall divide it self into two branches the first tending to those that are Dissenters the second to those that are concerned in the great business at hand and I have done For Dissenters I humbly beg of them to think soberly of themselves and not to be overwise in their own eyes but to trust the ordering of Gods Providence who from the care he hath of his own Ordinance is likely to direct his Deputy in determinations most convenient I heartily crave they would abide contentedly in that station God hath set them in and with a real humility that they would sit down quietly though in the lowest room That they would suspect their Consciences as erroneous and to be reformed when they see they are not to be brought under a certain Law That they would consider the Sacred Authority and Divine Obligingness of Humane Ordinances in matters indifferent from a superintending binding Command of an infallible orderly God neither can any upon a pretence of Conscience sin against that Rule and be excused Let then the Authority of our Rulers as of Gods Constitution be uncontroulable let their Wisdome as most probably to come from his Direction be unquestionable and we may hope their Laws not barely as mans but as Gods may be kept inviolably Yea I beseech you lay aside all contentious Humours and let no more a spirit of opposition contradiction or singularity be found among us Let us follow those things that make for peace and wherein we may best comfort and edifie one another 'T is true we are called to liberty and let us stand fast on Gods blessing in that liberty wherein Christ hath set us free but let us not use our liberty as a cloak of maliciousness but as servants of God Let us give due reverence to the persons set over us and that is best done by respect to the Laws established among us For so is the will of God that we submit our selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake Secondly For you then that are interested in the great and necessary Concern that is now at hand in carrying on the great Designe of this time be pleased to consider You are hither come not barely to hear of the Notion but for the Execution of Righteousness and are not severely to animadvert onely upon the Transgressours of the Moral and natural and necessary Divine Laws but upon those that break the positive particular Humane Ordinances that our Rulers in wisdome have established for our good among us If persons were so well disposed as Counsels and Monitions might perswade all to be good from the Pulpit or in the Closet then no need to urge any rigour from either Bench or Bar But here you are met for the Remunerative part of Justice and to be a terrour to them that do evil as well as a countenance to them that do well You see what unhappy success your remission and lenity hath had hitherto it must be severity must do your business Your method of leading the people must now be like Gods leading his Israel from Egypt to Canaan the Conduct must not be onely as in the day to lead them by a cloud but in this night it must be by a pillar of fire The eyes of this people have too long been dawbed up with Honey they must at last be opened by Gall better to cause some smart and cure them then suffer them through blindness to run headlong into the pit In short our lives must be confused and uncomfortable without Laws and Laws are unprofitable without execution Breath then at last fresh life into the languishing Laws of a fainting Kingdome by an impartial execution Remember Faciens consentiens eâdem lege tenentur Qui tolerat aliena peccata cum tollere possit facit sua Make not the rebellious mans sin thine by indulgence or connivance that hast too many to answer for of thy own My Lord For your part your Integrity and Loyalty is so eminent as we are sufficiently assured no smoke of Passion can put out your Reason no dust of the World can take away your sight no partiality can pervert your sentence To you therefore that are Assistants on the Bench and to the Grand Inquest at the Criminal Bar we direct our suit Offer the Sacrifice of Righteousness and take all care that Justice and Judgement may be executed in the midst of us For you to seem to be righteous and not to be so is to be like the Polypus to change into the colour of the Rock to which he cleaves whither while the poor Fishes go in a storm to be sheltered they are devoured Remember Lenity to the Transgressour is Cruelty to the Innocent If you conceal and smother Disorder wink at Wickedness and countenance Disobedience O sad consequence The King and his Deputy is deluded the course of Justice is hindred the hands of the Wicked are strengthned the heart of the Orderly is weakned You hurt the Offendour his heart must be hardned when for his sin he is not corrected You hurt your weak Neighbour for he is staggered if not perverted You hurt your own Souls for you are perjured You are injurious to God for his Worship is undervalued and contemned You wrong the King and the Governours under him for the Laws are slighted For the Sinners the Magistrates your Neighbour for your own for the Kings for Gods sake let there be no more halting no longer connivance to be found in the midst of us Execute true Judgement without partiality and if we cannot have that Obedience to the Laws that is required let the Offendour feel that just Vengeance which is threatned Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for that Lords sake To whom be rendred as is due all Obedience and Service and Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS