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A19954 Two sermons preached at the assises holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times / by L.D. ... Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653. 1614 (1614) STC 6389; ESTC S320 64,296 158

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recourse to such an harbour haue his skin ripped by the bramble I will not apply I reverence the profession It is good and necessary for the commonwealth and a calling warrantable by Gods word And I make no question but there are many of this profession which doe study to approue their doings in the sight of God and man And so I am perswaded of you all though I thus speake but as the c 1. Cor. 4.4 Apostle saith of himselfe I know nothing of my selfe yet am I not iustified so say I though I know nothing by any of you yet I am not iustified I do not discharge a good cōscience vnlesse I should admonish you of these things that if any be guilty of that which I haue spoken he may learne to amend it if not he may do his endeavour to avoide it 22 If I should speake vnto you R. H. and offer to instruct you in the particular duties of a iudge I might perchance be iudged by many with d Aelian Var. hist lib. 2 ●ap 2. Megabizus to discourse of the art of painting before the schollers of Zeuxis To say nothing that my text giues me no fit occasion to discourse of this subiect notwithstāding I beseech you in one word giue me leaue to moue you to that which yee both know are ready I am sure to put in practise You know the saying of the Poet Qui rogat vt facias quod iam facis ipse rogando Laudat et hortatu comprobat acta suo The obiect of your office is either life ●or liuing About both these it is requisite you haue 3 properties an eagles eie a ladies hand and a lyons heart An eagles eie to diue into the bottome of such matters as shall come before you for the wound is never soundly cured vnlesse the bottome be first searched A ladies hand to deale softly and gently with your patients A lyons heart to be couragious and resolute when there is no place for lenity Herein yee must imitate a good Surgeon who cuts the wound though his patient weepe never so sore e Aug. in Mat. Ser. 15. Plorat secandus secatur plorat vrendus vritur The sicke weepes and yet the Surgeon cuts the sicke laments yet the Surgeon seareth Is this cruelty in the Surgeon none at all For saevit in vulnus vt homo sanetur quia si vulnus palpetur homo perditur Where there is hope of cure without sea●ing or cutting vse there a ladies hand in this case a plaster is better then a knife But where the member is incurable and incorrigible and like to endanger the whole cut it off Melius est vt pereat vnus quàm vnitas And immedicabile vulnus Ense recidēdum ne pars syncera trahatur But yet Cūcta prius tentanda fire must be the last medicine All gentle meanes must be first tried and even in this act of iustice yee must not altogither exclude mercy f Plutare de audiendis poetis When many of the Lacedaemonians were drunke with wine Lycurgus gaue charge that the vines should be cut downe but Platoes counsell was better who willed that the fountaines shoulde be caused to run amongst the Vines and that the rage of Bacchus should be tempered with the sobernes of Neptune that is that the water should be mingled with the wine Though the extremity of iustice make some desperate as did Draco's laws which for their severity are said to be written in blood yet must it not therefore be taken away but rather the rigour of iustice must be mixed with clemency as his counsell was that the rage of wine shoulde bee asswaged with the coolenesse of the water For iustice without mercy is bloudy cruelty mercy with out iustice is foolish pity but iustice with mercy is perfect Christianity Oh then those which God would haue ioined togither doe not you put asunder But let them both be so linked togither that yee may verifie that of the g Ps 85.10 Psalmist Mercy and truth are met togither righteousnes and peace haue kissed each other To this purpose in all your consultations and actions set God before your eies Let him be on your right handes and so yee shall not greatly fall A Poet when he is to bring a person vpon the stage wil haue this care that the action and speech be agreeable to the person h Hor. de art Poet. Intercrit multum Davusne lo quatur an Heros i Cicero Id histrio videbit in Scena quod non sapiens in vita shall a stage-player obserue that decorū on the theater which a wise man will not looke to in his life The world is a stage every man acteth his part vpon this stage You R. H. doe act the part of God himselfe The more wary ought ye to be in your actions Ever waiting whether God if he were in your places would do thus or thus Remember likewise that though ye be Gods yet ye must die as a man The greatest iudge of the earth must one day hold vp his hand at the barre and answer for him selfe when the iudge of the world shall sit on the bench This do when it shall please God to call you hence yee shal be advanced to a higher court the court of heavē where for your scarlet garments yee shall be invested k Rev. 7.15 in long white robes your bench shall be the throne your attendants the Angels the parties yee shall iudge l 1 Cor 6. ● the world your sentence an Halleluiah Amen praise and glory and wisedome and thankes and honour and power and might bee vnto our God for evermore Amen PSAL. 82.6.7 I haue said yee are Gods but yee shall die like men THere are 3. sortes of men who if they bee faithfull in their places and followe the directiō of their bookes are the chiefe pillars to support a Christian commonwealth the Physitian the Divine and the Magistrate These 3. are in the body politicke as the three principall parts the liver the heart and the braine are in the body of man The Physitian is the liver the Divine is the heart and the Magistrate is the braine of the common-wealth The liver is called the beginning of the naturall faculty it segregareth the humours it ingendreth alimental blood by vaines sends it into each part of the body whereby the whole is nourished and preserued Like vnto it is the Physitian who purgeth the body of man from such noxious humours as whereby it may be endangered prescribeth such a diet as whereby it may be best nourished and kept in health The heart is called the beginning of the vitall facultie it ingendreth the vitall spirits and by arteries sendeth them into every particular member To which I cōpare the Divine For as the heart is the fountaine of the vitall spirits the beginning of the vitall facultie so is the Divine the foūtaine and beginning though