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A94062	Justice justified; or The judges commission opened: in two assize sermons, preached before the judges of assize. The first at Chard, on Prov. 14.34. March 12. the other at Tauton, on Rom. 13.4. Aug.3. 1657. By James Strong, Master of Arts, and minister of the Gospel at Illmister in Sommerset.	Strong, James, 1618 or 19-1694.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5992; Thomason E937_3; ESTC R207741	20,137	35

JUSTICE JUSTIFIED OR THE Judges Commission Opened IN TWO ASSIZE SERMONS Preached before the JUDGES of ASSIZE The first at Chard on Prov. 14. 34. March 12. the other at Taunton on Rom. 13. 4. Aug. 3. 1657. By James Strong Master of Arts and Minister of the Gospel at Illmister in SOMMERSET Justitia immota res publica floret illa sublata flaccesset ac deficit Casper Sibelius Tom. 3. page 389. And I will restore thy Judges as at first and thy Councellors as at the beginning afterward shalt thou be called a City of Righteousnesse and a faithful City Isa. 1. 26. LONDON Printed for John Stafford and are to be sold at his house neer the George at FLEET-BRIDGE 1658. To the Right Honourable Robert Nicholas one of the Barons of the Exchequer and Richard Newdigate one of the Justices of the Vpper Bench Judges of the Western Circuit As also to the Right Worshipful William Hillyard Esq High-Sheriff of the County of Somerset together with the Gentlemen of the Grand Inquest and others at whose request these Sermons were made publike My Lords and Gentlemen T Was a sad presage of Israels ruine when the Lord in anger threatened to break these two Staves of his beauty and bonds if Religion be the one of these two Staves the Law shall be the other these are semper gemella nunquam singula in foetu two Twins mercies that live and die together Israel at once lost them both Hos. 3. 4. The Children of Israel shall be many dayes without a King without a Prince without an offering and without an Ephod c. corruption is the mother of confusion Dan and Bethel the place of Judgement and the house of God had been corrupted together and therefore 't was just they should be destroyed together wickednesse had usurped the seat of Justice at Dan and Bethel the house of God was become a Bethanes the house of lies What violent adventures have been made by many of this Nations own degenerate Sons to break the staffe of beauty I need not tell you I fear the next generation will scarce live to see Religion healed of some of these scars and wounds she hath received in our late unhappy wars of which oh may she not complain in the Prophets words that she hath been wounded in the house of her friends The quarrel begun with Religion but ended against policy Those that are burthened by the Gospel can live without the Law Sine Fide sine Rege sine Lege The staff of bonds hath of late had its turn and had not both been held in the hand of a strong God sure the issue ere this had been confusion My Lords That both Justice and Religion finds yet the countenance of so egregious Patrons as your selves is a Valley of Achor a door of hope to our Israel that we shall once more see Jerusalem in Jerusalem when truth buds out of the earth and righteousnesse looks down from heaven then have we ground to hope that our Land also shall give her encrease What evidence have you given the world not only of your integrity in doing Justice but also of your zeal to Religion This makes your name which you have left behind you like a sweet perfume Not to flatter you 't was but your duty how often to provoke others of quality to imitate your Religious practise have I mentioned that joy that possest me to see a Judge so constant and serious in writing Sermon notes like those Noble Berians Acts 17. The two short Sermons following however esteemed by your Honors and others had never seen more light then came into my Study window had I known how else to have satisfied the earnest importunities of many Gentlemen and others that were my Auditors but beyond all the joynt desire of your Lordships was of sufficient authority to make me consent this liberty only I must crave when there was one only desired to present you with two They are both of the same mould and like Ruth and Naomi they are resolved to go together What may be the censure of others though I am sure to have my back-burden doth very little trouble me The Smith's Dog they say doth not fear the fire it hath been my lot for some years beyond many of my place to be exercised by a generation whose inward parts is very wickednesse and their throat an open Sepulchre so that experience hath sufficiently steel'd me against reproaches What ever be the welcome that this weak Essay finds among others yet I am sure wisdome is still justified by all her children To your Honors then and the rest of the Gentlemen whose desire I have gratified by this impression I humbly inscribe these weak conceptions of mine And oh that God would once more make another impression of them upon their hearts and as he hath honoured you among his people and advanced you above others in place so may he make you all more eminent in piety that having served your generation in the several trusts committed to you awhile you may cheerfully resign your Offices together with your Souls and give up your accounts to him who shall come to judge quick and dead at that last and great day So doth he promise to pray that is Your most zealous and affectionate Servant in the Gospel Ja. Strong A Sermon Preached at the Assizes held for the County of Somerset at Chard March 12. 1657. Mr. William Hillyard of Sea Sheriffe PRO 14. VER. 34. Righteousnesse exalteth a Nation but sin is a shame to a people TO begin with God especially when the work hath been weighty hath been the practice of Antiquity among all Scipio went first to the Capitol and then to the Senate and thither as the Historian tells us the Consuls alwayes went to Sacrifice the day they received their Authority a Lesson that Nature hath taught even Heathens and Grace hath much more charged as a duty on Christians Of the Patriarchs it 's observed that where-ever they pitch'd their Tent there also they built an Altar Thus did Abraham Gen. 12. and Isaack Gen. 16. and Jacob Gen. 33. And good reason 'T is that which was their Duty Glory Security 1 Their duty especially where ever they came to set up God by a publike profession who had set up them in publike places 2. Their Glory hereby they read as it were their Commission from that great God who was pleased to own them in a special relation and gloried to be called the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob Moses face was never seen shining until he convers'd with God on the Mount then God darted a beam of his own glory on the face of his Magistrate so that Israel trembled at Moses Majesty 3. Their Security Abraham called his Altar Jehovah Nissi Lord is my Banner under which a Christian marches with courage and confidence The Ark paid Obid-Edom well for its entertainment