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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02057	The iudges scripture, or, Gods charge to charge-givers A sermon preached in St. Nicholas Church of Newcastle upon Tyne, before the judges, justices, and gentlemen of the towne and countrey, at the assises holden there the three and twentieth day of July. 1635. By Francis Gray, Master of Arts, and one of the preachers in the same towne.	Gray, Francis.	1636 (1636)	STC 12202; ESTC S103403	14,475	28

Salomon bringing in Wisdome thus speaking of herselfe By me Kings raigne and Princes doe decree justice Pythagoras his position runs much in the same straine Tum demum fore rempub beatam cum aut sapientes regere aut reges sapere caepissent then is there hope of happinesse to a common wealth when wisemen governe or governors doe begin to become wise wherfore that which was Salomons prayer may well suite with every superior Cor intelligens da domine servo Lord give unto thy servant an understanding heart But what instruction what learning is it that David here would have Kings to know and Judges to obtaine that he shewes immediately in the next verse which is to serve the Lord with feare For according to the Wisemans assertion it is timor domini that is initium sapientiae The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome Nay more this serving of God in feare it is the tye and knot the very ground-worke of all true faithfullnesse betwixt God and man betwixt soveraigne and subject betwixt pastour and people betwixt the Judge judgeing and such as are to be Judged by him Remove but this and you overthrow the building of goodnesse it selfe Hence St Bernard Omne virtutum adificium illic● vergit in pracipitium si timoris domini amiserit prosidium banish Gods feare and give immediately possession to all follyes It was the ground of Abrahams feare and that most iustly to be slaine comming into Abimelecks land when he considered that there was not Timor Domini in terra The feare of God was not in that Land And assuredly if Gods service and feare be cast behind our backes farewell care and conscience both in Magistrate and Minister farewell the true ground of goodnesse even in all And to what chiefer cause can we ascribe the generality of sinnes now among us and swarming in this Northerne Climate then the dayly blaspheming of Gods name the continuall prophanation of his Sabbath and other Holy-dayes disloyall to Magistrates disrespect of Ministers Murders Depopulations Oppressions Surfettings Riots Drunkennesse dayly Thefts and all the rabell of rebellious sinnes but to this one corrupt Fountaine Men have not learned and which is worse they will not seeke to learne to serve the Lord with feare It then becomes Judges and all others called to places or ●ignity first and principally to looke to this lesson that with godly Ioshuathey may be able to say I and my house will serve the Lord that as they are above others so they may strive to goe before others in this which will really make them to be more glorious then others Prepositi vita est subditorum regula quod facit faciendo jubet Your carriages being Superiours carries a commanding power along with it whether it bee in vice or in vertue your faults as likewise ours of the Ministry are like the Eclipses of the Sunne which helpes to bring Detriment to these sublunary bodies you are as the principle Wheels in a Clock or as the Heart in the Body and therefore as He who hath called yee to these dignities is holy so ought yee to bee holy in all manner of conversation But though this instruction of serving God in feare begin at home yet it must not end there for it most neerly concernes such as are in high places that they endeavour to make their power to serve for the furtherance of Gods true Religion and vertue that men bee brought to serve the Lord with feare this well learned will teach what it is that we owe to you and you to us what wee both owe to our King and what indeed we all owe to God Feare God and depart from evill saith Salomon Gods feare is to sinne as the bankes are to the raging waters of the Sea to keepe them within compasse Feare God saith the Apostle and honour the King the one helpes to bring on the other for make Subiects truely religious and make them all in all wherefore it concernes Iudges and all Christian Magistrates that Ab Ione fit principium that in the first place they have an eye to the honour and service of God to be more tender touching wrongs offered to God his worship and service then to their owne particular persons we dwell and long may wee dwell under the guidance and government of a wise and religious King who labours by all meanes that Gods worship and service may be preserved and his word may be purely preached Your Honours are sent out as eyes to espy out offences and to see to abuses Be faithfull then to God to your King and bee true to Gods feare Let the service of God bee as deare to you as the aple of your eye and be not respectlesse of his honour who hath beene so respective of yours And now Right Honourable good luck have you with your Honours ride on and my hearts desire shall ever be that he who is one day to come riding upon the wings of the wind may ride on with you to assist to direct and to encourage you in the seate of Iudicature and Iudgement that you may so faithfully discharge the same that the Countrey may have cause to blesse you Posterity cause to praise you the Wicked cause to feare you the Righteous cause to commend you the Magistrates about you cause to thanke you we of the Ministery cause to pray for you all cause to love you your Prince at your returne cause to approve of you and the great Iudge of Heaven and Earth in his due time of his infinite mercy cause to welcome you with that Ioyfull Euge Well done thou good and faithfull Servant thou hast beene faithfull in a little come and I will make thee Ruler over more enter into thy Masters Ioy Into the which joy the Lord God in his appointed season bring us all for his Sonne Christ Iesus sake to whom together with the blessed Trinity bee ascribed as is most due all Honour and Glory Praise Power Majesty Might and Dominion both now and for evermore Amen FINIS Levit. 5. 7. 11. Coloss 3. 15. Gen. 1. 16. Gen. 1 28. 1 Sam. 7. 16. 2 Chron. 19. Rom. 13 ● Vers ● Coloss 1. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 41. Ephes 4. 11. 2 Tim. 3 2 ● Iob 29. 19. Exod. 18. 21. Gen. 18. 21. Deut. 1. 17. Ovid de Trist Exod. 18 13. Isai 40. 6. 1 Tim. 6. 15. Coll. 4. 1. Eccles 12. 14. Deut 1. 13. Prov. 8 15. 16 Prov. 9. 10. Gen. 20. 11 Iosu 24. 15. Cyprian 1. Pet. 2. 17.