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A10739	A sermon concerning the punishing of malefactors. Preached at Paules Crosse, the first of October, by Charles Richardson, preacher at Saint Katharines neere the Tower of London	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 21018; ESTC S115967	37,754	48

Slugg●rd to the pismire to learne instructiō why shold we scorne to earne of paga●s who were endued with excellent gifts of nature Prou. 6.6 Phacion a great Magistrate in Athens when his son in law Charillus was to be endited for extortion would not so much as be presēt there least his coūtenāce might haue procured him some fauor assuming that when he tooke him to be his son in law he hoped he would ●e a good an honest man a Plutarch in praecept polit And Cleon when hee was called to be a Magistrate sent presently for all his friends and renounced then f●●●●dship And when Simonides requested something of Tho●●stocles a Magistrate that was not very iust he●re H●●●●m with this answer He is not a good Poe● that singe●● w●t●out harmony nor he a good mag strate that sheweth any fauour a●a●●st the lawes ●ut there is a most famous example of all other for this purpose recorded by Aelianus The sum of it is this There was a man of the people called Mardi A han lib. 1. cap 34. that had seauen sonnes whereof the youngest being stubborne and dissolute and one that would not be reclaimed the rather taketh him and bindes his hands behind him and b●ought him to the Iudges there doth ●arnestly accuse him required that he might bee put to death The Iudges being astonished at the strangenes of the thing would not meddle with ●t but brought the father and the son to Artaxerxes the King Where the father sti● plea●ed against the son craued iustice The King seeing his ea●n●stnesse said vnto him Canst thou then with thine owne e●e endure to behold the death of thy son he answ ●ed yea very ●el For when I shall see him that wrongeth dishonoureth my family put to death Land the rest of my children shall liue with ●eater comfort When the King heard this he highly commended the father made him one of his Iudges affirming that he that durst so seuerely so iustly pronounce sentence against his owne childe would doubtlesse shew himselfe a sincere incorrupt iudge vnto others But he pardoned the young man for that time threatning to put him to a most horible death if euer ●e should offend againe in the l ke māner ●●h that our Magistrates and Iudges would follow th●se examples For if it did once appeare to the world that rich mighty men should be punished as well as the poore meane persons and that kinsfolke friends should finde ●o more fau●ur then those that are strangers it would soone cut off all hope of impu●●●e from all kinde of malefactors And blessed be God that at this time our eies do see the great care of his Maiesty to haue the ●ād purged frō bloud wherwith it hath been poluted that there is so strict so iust proceeding against all that were co●e●era●e in so wicked a fact nd the Lord strē●then t●e hart ●ā●● that most wort●y Lord chiefe Iustice that he ●ay stil go forward vnpartially to cut off al those that had any ā in so foul a murder Wicked As all the wicked must be punished without partialitie so none but the wicked must be enda gered Th y that are innocent and harme esse must not b●e m●l●sted The Lord commanded Moses that in the execution o● j●st ce Deut 2● 1 Prou. 17.15 The righteous should bee iustified ●nd the wicked condemned And Solomon saith It is as great abhomination in the sight of od to condemne the iust as it is to iustifie the wicke● And the Prophet pronounceth as great a wo● against ●im that Taketh away the righteous es of the r ghteous from him Isa 5.23 as against him That iust●fi●th absolueth the wick d for a reward The Lord hath pu● a sword into the Magistrates hand Rom. 13 4 but it is to this e●d that he may Take vengean●● 〈◊〉 him that doth euill And therefore bee abuseth his author●t●● and abuseth his sword if he turneth edge of it against the godly Psal 11 2. and smite them that are vpright in heart as Dauid saith This is a most fearefull and a most horrible sinne and a si●ne which God will ●ost seu●rely punish Among those se ●en things which the Lord hateth and abhor● h Pro 6.16 17 Psal 9. ●● this is one The hands that shed innocent blood And ●auid saith that the Lord himselfe wi●● make inquisition for blood Sometimes innocent bloo● is shed vnder colour o●●aw But there will be at t●me when the Lord wil c●●e with a quest of ●●qui●e to find it out nd to punish it And therefore when the wicked brought the Prophet Ieremiah before the princes and would haue had him put to death he speaketh to them with great boldnesse Ier. 26.14.15 As for me I am in your hands doe with me as you thinke good But know ye for a certaine that if you put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood vpon your selues and vpon this city vpon the inhabitants therof Implying that God would reuenge his blood not onely vpon the murderers themselues but vpon the people the whole land should be guilty of it When poore Naboth was vniustly condemned and put to death by wicked Ahab the Lord sent Elijah the Prophet to him with this messag Hast thou killed also gotten possession Thus saith the Lord in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shal dogs licke euen thy blood also 1. King 21.13.19 22.38 2. King 21.16 24.2.3.4 Which came to passe accordingly Manasseh was a cruell murderer He shed innocent blood exceeding much till he replenished Ierusalem from corner to corner But marke how fearefully the Lord reuenged this sin in his posterity In the daies of Iehoi●kim The Lord sent against him bands of the Caldees bands of the Aramits bands of the Moabites bands of the Amonites he sent them against Iudah to destroy it Surly by the commandment of the Lord came this vpon Iudah that he might put them out of sight for the sinnes of Manasseh And for the innocent blood that he shed therefore the Lord would not pardon it Manasseh was dead rottē long before this time but we see the Lord had not forgotten his sin but the whole land smarted for it in the third generation after him So likewise Ioash most vnkindly caused Zechariah the son of good Ie●oiada to b● stoned to death because he reproued him for his idolatry But see what followed 2. Chro. 24.21.22.23.24.25 When the yeare was out the host of Aram came vp against him and they came against Iudah and Ierusalem and destroyed all the Princes of the people from among the people and sent all the spoile of them vnto the King of Damascus Though the army of Aram came with a small company of men yet the Lord deliuered a very great army into their hands After this the Lord somte him