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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62049	Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate as it was presented in a sermon at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on August 2, 1653 / by George Swinnocke ...	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.; Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665. Beauty of magistracy.	1660 (1660)	Wing S6278A; ESTC R18061	67,270	101

such will your practices be water riseth no higher then its Fountain If therefore you would walk as God and work for God you must both walk and work from God If ever the hand of the dial point and go right without the wheels and poises must be right within It is noted of true and sincere Saints that acted for God in the Regal Office That their hearts were perfect with the Lord 1 King 15.14 Isai. 38.3 This spiritual life in their souls made them warm and zealous for their Saviour Caleb that followed the Lord fully had another spirit a different principle from the ten carnal Princes Numb. 14.24 Mens actions will then be sacred when their affections are sanctified He that followeth God he knoweth not why will forsake God he knoweth not how A Magistrate that is zealous for God only because the times favour such may soon be brought to be as zealous against God He that is not knit to his service with the heart-strings of love spun out of a renewed nature will easily be parted from his service Such slavish spirits will serve God no longer then they can serve themselves of God When Jehu's interest Gods are conjoyned as in rooting out the idolatry of Baal how fiery is Jehu how furiously doth he drive He slayeth all the false Prophets he breaketh down the Images of Baal and the house Baal and maketh it a draught-house 2 King 10.25 26 27. But when Gods Interest and Jehus are divided as in the Calves at Dan and Bethel there Jehu must be excused he will uphold them as some do by that Monster of Toleration out of State policy expecting that they should uphold him 2 King 10.27 28. But what was the reason of this Surely the want of this divine principle the fire of Jehu's zeal was not lighted at the Altar for then it would have continued burning but kitchen fire kindled at a common hearth and therefore would burn no longer then it had such gross matter as his own credit or profit to feed it when this fuel was taken away his fire went out look in vers 31. Jehu walked not in the law of the Lord with all his heart his heart was not perfect it was not cast into the fire of the Word and new-moulded by the Spirit of God The want of this foundation over-turned all that beautiful building which Jehu had set up It is a question in Politicks Whether a wicked man may be a good Magistrate It is I suppose possible for a wicked man when he is in authority to do some good but I conceive he will hardly do the good he ought or like Caleb stand for God when the times are against God when the people talked of stoning him but like the king of Navarre he will launch no further into the Ocean then he can be sure to get back safe Such a man is like an Horse with a thorn in his foot which may go fairly on in good wayes but if he come to hard wayes he will halt and discover himself He that hath not gone through the pangs of the new birth and heartily taken God in Christ for his All and thereby secured his eternal estate will scarce hazard his name or estate much less his limbs or life for God as he must do that will be faithful unto the death For with what heart can he look that danger in the face which for ought he knoweth may kill both body and soul Or if he be very bold and venturous for God yet being an evil man he can never do good by all his activeness as a Ruler to his own soul God may give him parts and gifts and courage as a Noble man giveth dainty fare to his Nurse not out of love to him but for his childrens sake He may like a ship be instrumental to land others at some happy Port whereon it never entereth it self He may be very helpful to others temporal nay and eternal salvation and yet miss himself Jehu by acting for God got a lease of an earthly Kingdom for three or four lives but he lost the heavenly one for ever The most that I know that a civil yet unsanctified Magistrate gets by his forwardness and heat for God is only a cooler hell though your names are divine yet if ye be not partakers of the divine nature ye are lost for ever Now what advantage will it be to you like Noahs Carpenters to build an Ark for the saving of others and to perish your selves Believe it Sirs If ye would have good fruits in your lives there must be this root of holiness in your hearts A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things What water is in the Well such will be in the bucket and what ware is in the shop such will be on the stall therefore when God promiseth that men shall walk in his wayes and keep his judgements and do them he promiseth also to put his Spirit or a new spirit into them which should enable them thereunto Ezek. 11.19 Ezek 36.26 27. The flesh will serve to enable a man to walk after the flesh but the Spirit of God alone can enable man to walk after the spirit Natural light is not sufficient to mortifie natural lusts It may cover for some time but can never kill sin Some men may be like the Lyons in Daniels den chained up or restrained and yet have their ravenous dispositions their old carnal hearts still Civility though commendable yet without inward sanctity is not sufficient to prove one interested in a Saviour or in a state of salvation There is as much difference between a Moral man and a real Christian as between a liveless picture and a living person A Lion and a Lamb a Raven and a Dove darkness and light death and life do not differ more then a sinner and a Saint then a man only civilized and a sanctified Christian O Sirs think of it seriously the terms upon which salvation may be had are the same to you and the meanest beggar John 3.3 If heaven be not in you by the indwelling of Gods Spirit renewing you in the Spirit of your mind it is impossible that ever you should be in heaven The tide of your natures and the wind of your affections must be turned the clean contrary way to what they are by your birth if ever you sail to the Haven of Heaven Labour therefore as for life for this principle of spiritual life without which you cannot escape the second death Secondly If ye would walk and work as Gods among men then your rule must be divine as well as your principle Every calling hath some rule to go by in conformity to which their excellency consisteth The Lawyer hath his Littleton and Coke the Physitian hath his Galen and Hippocrates the Philosopher hath his Aristotle the Christian hath the Word of God a sure and a perfect rule to walk by Gal. 6.16 And this

thoughts of sin and holiness then now ye have Sin will not be so pleasant and lovely nor holiness so mean and unworthy as now it is in your eyes Probably you can hear of death by the reports of others and be little troubled ye can stand it out stiffly against such false fire with We must all die and Nothing so sure God knoweth who shall go next and the like all this while the heart not with seriousness considering of it so as to be preparing for it The soul as much neglected God as little regarded and the affections as much inslaved to fleshly lusts as before But when Death * climbs up to your own windows and entereth into your Chamber and comely with its pale save to your bed side and boldly arresteth you with a warrant from Heaven assuring you by its symptoms on your body that you must in good earnest into the other world and there have all your walkings and workings interpreted and examined by the infinitely pure and righteous God and your souls according to your deeds sentenced impartially and sent immediately to Heaven or Hell then surely your apprehensions of a new Nature and strict Conversation will change and you will wish with all your souls for a little of others oyl for your Lamps will go out The stoutest unregenerate heart alive will droop at last when God cometh to take away his soul then his crest falls and his plumes flag Now possibly thy Cup overfloweth thou hast a large portion of the good things of this world and they have so much of thy heart that thou art little troubled about the things of the other world the Table of thy life now is richly spread with honours pleasures relations possessions and these have the largest share in thy heart in these thou solacest thy self desiring no other Heaven But what wilt thou do when Death shall come with a Voider and take all away even all thy treasure on earth then thou wilt wish thou couldst find a treasure in Heaven that thou mightest die the death of the Righteous and have thy latter end like his But oh Friend thou shouldst then have lived their lives and have had thy conversation like theirs as the Crab in the Fable told the Serpent who when she had received her deaths wound for her crooked conditions stretched out her self straight At oportuit sic Vixisse that she should have been straight in her life time The way to make thy death comfortable is to make thy life serviceable to God and thy soul He that would enjoy true rest when he dyeth must labour faithfully and diligently whilst he liveth It will be like a dagger at the heart in an hour of death to reflect upon the talents misimployed and opportunities misimproved which free grace afforded you for the honouring of God and furthering of your own salvations Sins of omission will wound deeper at a dying hour then most are aware of God hath committed a great trust to you and the day of your lives is the only time of discharging it besides ye know not how few hours ye may have to your day whether it shall be a Winter or a Summer day the shadows of the evening may suddenly stretch themselves upon you and then it will be no longer day therefore work the work of him that sent you into the world while it is day for the night cometh wherein no man can work John 9.4 Is it not sad that our common observation should he so much verified in the practices of great men That Bells strike thick while they are rising but stand still and give no sound at all when they are at full pitch That Magistrates should like the Sun the higher in the Zodiack move the slower The more noble creatures are the more active they are Men more active then Beasts Angels then men One I remember observeth that God would not accept the first-born of an Ass because it was a a dull slothful creature The Spirit of God which is in all that are sanctified is compared to fire Acts 2. therefore they that would not grieve it must not be slothful in business but fiery fervent seething hot as the word signifieth in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12.11 Hence it was that the Church of Ephesus got letters testimonial from Heaven Revel. 2.2 I know thy works and thy labour how thou canst not bear them that are evil And indeed the more good a Justice hath in himself the less he will bear with evil in others Augustine hath a true saying Qui non zelat non amat He that is not zealous for God hath no true love to God For though love be a passion yet it delighteth to shew it self in acting for the party beloved When Calvin grew sickly some friends disswaded him from hard studying but he gave them this answer Vultisne Christum me invenire otiosum would you have Christ when he comes to me by death to find me idle So do ye think that when sinners Jehu-like drive furiously ye should not like Aegyptians go heavily least death find you idle Observe what became of the idle servant that hid his talent in a napkin Matth. 25.30 He was punished with an eternal long night who would not work in his short day 3. Consider the day of Judgement God will then search and sentence you discover and reward you according to your works Ye that examine and try others shall then be examined and tryed your selves and ye that acquit or condemn others shall then be acquitted or condemned your selves How should this thought move you to walk exactly since your hearts shall be anatomized and your lives manifested before God Angels and men Could ye but as Jerom hear the sound of the last trump always in your ears Arise ye dead and come to judgement surely ye would he holy Judges and Justices indeed Peter maketh this argument a strong enforcement to holiness 2 Pet. 3.10 11. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also and the works therein shall be burnt up seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness Observe the certainty of it The day of the Lord will come If it were doubtful it would not be so dreadful but it will come surely though it come slowly therefore men had need to be holy Tertullian observed of all those that profest Christianity in his time none lived so loosely as those that did not believe the certainty of the day of judgement But observe 2. the suddenness of it The day of the Lord will come as a theif in the night when men at midnight are securely sleeping they dream not of nor prepare for a theif It is sometimes called a day Matth. 25.13 propter revelationem secretorum