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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

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to be playing up down the streets on the Lords Day Aaron may speak but it is Moses Rod that does the wonders Wee that are Ministers may cry out against these things but you have power in your hands Let not sin dare any longer to affront Word and Sword It s a pretious oportunitie God has put into your hands improve it You may do more good and bring in a greater revenue of glorie to God now in a few houres then it may be you shall ever be able to do again in many yeeres Close your eyes against all discouragements Laugh in the face of difficulties Passe by with generous magnanimitie and brave contempt the derisions of men viler then the earth You are high in place and office Be higher in affection and resolution To the worke in good earnest and goe thorough stitch with it Everie eye that looks upon you will blesse you The prayers of all Gods people will be for you And though we will not presume to say to you as Nestorius said to the Emperour Mihi ô Imperator terram tu haereticis purgatam tribue ego tibi coelum retribuam Give us London purged of Drunkards Swearers Sabboath-breakers c. and wee 'll give you Heaven Yet Jesus Christ shall say Well done good and faithfull servant And not onely wee that now live but succeeding ages shall call you blessed Your name shal be like a pretious ointment to the children yea to the childrens children that are yet unborn Your Honours most humble and obliged servant ELIDAD BLACKWELL A CAVEAT FOR MAGISTRATES 2 COR. 19.6 7. And he said to the Judges take heed what you doe for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgement Therefore now let the feare of the Lord be upon you take heed and doe it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts THese words they are Jehosophats caveat to his Judges In the former verse you have their Commission He appointed Judges in the Land throughout all the fenced Cities of Judah City by City To judge to rule to govern Magistracie though it be for every ones good yet it is not every ones work but theirs that are appointed to it He appointed Judges There 's their Commission And then here 's their charge Wherein two things are required of them First Action ver. 7. Take heed and doe it Judges must be doers Secondly Caution ver. 6. take heed what you doe Judges must take heed what they doe And then you have the grounds of that caution they are two The first is taken from the person they represent in judgement The Lord For ye judge not for man but for the Lord Not for man It is not to be understood negatively but comparatively As that God will have mercie and not sacrifice Sacrifice too but mercie rather then Sacrifice So for men too but for God rather then for men So Tremelius Non tam hominis quam Dei vices in judicando geritis As if he should have said In this great work ye sustain not so much my person as Gods person nor are ye so much my Vicegerents as Gods Vicegerents my Deputies as Gods Deputies therefore take heed what you doe The second is taken from the person present with them in Judgement and that 's the Lord too But for the Lord who is with you in the judgement As if he should say you doe not onely represent God in the judgement but God is present with you in the judgement He sits as Lord chiefe Justice upon the same bench with you therefore take heed what you doe Thirdly you have the main help prescribed and that 's the fear of God Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be upon you The true fear of God in the heart of a Judge first it wil Restrain him from every evil Other Governours did thus and thus were injurious were oppressing c. but so was not I. because I feared God said Nehemiah Secondly constrain him to every good put him upon every duty Though never so difficult Gen. 22.12 Never so dangerous 1 King 1.18.3.12 Lastly you have the main hinderances removed And they are three 1 Iniquity wickednesse profanesse A mighty impediment to justice 2 Accepting of persons 3 Taking of gifis For There is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking gifts We will begin with the caution Take heed what you doe As if he should say be not rash headlong percipitant but discreet wary circumspect in all your doings and very wary marvellous circumspect here 's a double take heed Take heed and doe it and Take heed what you doe Caution upon Caution Of all men in the world Judges Magistrates Ministers Doct. 1 of Justice they ought to be men of marvellous warinesse and circumspection All men ought to be so The divers assaults of Satan to deceive us The sundry inticements of the flesh to beguile us The many allurements of the world to ensnare us All declare as much All have soules to save All have another world to provide for All have rules to walke by All are subject to erre from those rules All must appear before the judgement seat of Christ and give accompt of all they doe Therefore all had need to take heed what they doe But above all Magistrates had need to doe so for why First They have a larger and greater care and charge committed to them by the Lord then others have And that 1 In regard of places Other's their care and charge is shut up and contained within narrower and straiter bounds and limits then their's is Ministers to their Flocks Parents and Masters Governours of families to their families Their 's to Kingdoms Counties Cities 2 In regard of persons Let every soule be subject c. Rom. 13.1 That lawlesse immunity of the Clergie as they call it from the authority and jurisdiction of the civill Magistrate ' its the cursed device of Antichrist 3 In regard of things Others their care and charge hath respect some to the spirituall estate of men onely some to the temporall worldly outward estate of men onely their 's to both Again others their care and charge hath respect some to the state of the Church onely Some to the outward civill politike estate of the common-wealth onely Their 's to both The office of the Magistrate and the duty of the Magistrate it hath respect not onely to Religion but to the civill State not onely to the civill State but to Religion He is Custos utriusque tabulae must be carefull that all duties both of first and second Table be performed All open breaches of every Commandement in both punished Besides these are in the highest degree of preheminence next to God above all others They carry Gods image in their persons Gods scepter in their hands Are called Gods Et quo