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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.

Liberties Lives and the like all appertaining to the Earth Quae supra vos nihil ad vos the soules of men come not within the compasse of your judgement Secondly the place of your residence and abode the place also where you doe execute your office of Iudicature it is the very Element of this Earth Thirdly those who are the proper object of your judgement they are not Angels and Spirits but mortall men they are such as are but dust and earth Fourthly you your selues considered at the best you are no more than a lumpe of Earth Earth by creation and to be Earth by corruption he who was ready to call you Gods was as ready in the next words to tell you that you should dye like men It was the voyce of God by his Prophet commanded to bee proclaimed That All flesh is grasse and all the glory of man is as the flowre of the field The supremest Monarke hath no more power to detaine his spirit in the houre of death then the meanest member Sicknesse and all other the Harbingers of death as not afraid of their Crownes and Scepters of their glorious roabes and sumptuous array dare without respect ceaze upon the very best of the Sonnes of men You doe therefore beare those Ensignes of honour but in earthen vessels Let not therefore I intreat you the eminency of your places so transport you as to blot out of your mindes the remembrance of your Mortality but let the assurance of death and of judgement after death be as continuall Watch-bells to will and to wish you to goe on with care and Conscience with humility and meekenesse that as it was said of Valentinian so it may be said of you the people knewe not whether they had Dominum or Patrem a Lord or a Father with such a sweet awfulnesse did hee governe Humility in the places and persons of authority is a Virtue not more rare than commendable and yet Saint Bernards rule is that Quanto quisque est sublimior tanto debet esse humilior The higher in Majesty the humbler in mind like the eare of Corne the fuller it is the more it stoupes It was an excellent Commendation that St. Cyprian gave Aurelius and Celarinus In quantum gloria sublimes in tantum verecundia humiles fecit donec nihil in honore sublimius et nihil in humilitate submissius fuit How much honour did exalte them so much did Modesty humble them that Meeknesse and Majesty met together Greatnesse and Goodnesse kissed each other in one word you are but Judges of earth you are dust and ashes dust and ashes therefore be not proud Againe in the Fifth place you are called Iudges of the earth and why so but to confine you to your proper places to put a difference and distinction betweene you and another Iudgd whose jurisdiction is of a larger extent in that he is et cali et terre iudex Judge both of Heaven and Earth Judge of quicke and dead and as Abraham spake Iudex totius mundi Shall not the Judge of all the world doe right Gen 18. 25. When man judgeth man there is but earth judging earth but when God comes to Iudge man then there is Heaven judging earth as hee is called King of Kinges and Lord of Lords so also may he be entitled Iudge of Judges and shall without respect of persons render to every man according to his workes Wherefore as Saint Paul willed Masters to doe unto their servants that which was just and equall remembring that they also had a Master in Heaven So may it be said to Iudges to doe onely that which is just and equall to every man remembring that they themselves have even a Iudge in heaven Let not then gifts taken either by your selves or servants blind the eye of Iustice if you doe be sure that he who shall judge the Secrets of men by IESUS CHRIST shall disclose them to your shame for He shall saith Salomon bring every worke to Iudgement with every secret thing be it good or be it evel Whilst the Psalmist calls you Gods he would have you to be Gods for disposition upright and just withall this title may imply that your Courts should be like Heaven voyd of guile and free from all injustice nay more it also wills that your Attendants should be like unto Saints and Angels innocent in respect of all corruption I wish therefore that both you yours would say to corrupting Clients as Simon Peter said to Simon Magus You and your money perish Bee of Samuels integritie and you may boldly speake with Samuels alacritie If therefore the poore the fatherlesse and widow shall repaire to your Gravities as Noahs Dove did to the Arke for refuge or as the Sparrowe is said to flie into Zenocrates his bosome for shelter from the pursuing Hawke oh doe not pocket up their Petitions without pitie but strive with holy Iob to bee eyes to the blinde and to bee legges to the lame cause O cause the Widdowes heart to goe away dancing for joy And now in order it followes to proceed to the handling of the third and last Generall which concernes the Direction it selfe in these words Bee instructed or as it is in the usuall reading Bee learned What more wholsome precept could the Prophet here give in charge to Judges than to bee instructed Nescitis said one very well quanta bellua sit imperium Government is not such an easie taske as many make it and as the most account of it The right managing of Authoritie and the swaying of the places of Supremacie is called by that ancient Father Greg. Nazian orat 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Art of Arts and the very Science of Sciences And why so First for men in Authoritie to make their owne lives an Exposition of that Law whereof they are made to bee Magistrates hic labor hoc opus est for by how much greater is the authoritie by so much the more spitefull is the malignitie of that our mischievous enemie who in the fall of one great one seekes the foyle of many Likewise to bring to unitie a many-headed multitude so divided by Action by Faction and in Affection how hard is it unlesse that Governors be instructed and so Wisdome be made to sit at the sterne of Government that doubtfull matters may be decided Controversies comprimized Causes weighed abuses respectively punished dangers prevented Affaires managed cunning conveyances brought to light the falshood of the seeming simple discovered and that Justice bee sincerely executed How stands it most requisite that Kings bee wise that they be learned who are Iudges of the earth It was therefore not without very good ground that God gave that in command to Moses to take Wisemen men of vnderstanding and men knowne among their tribes and to make such to be rulers over them Learning and instruction sutes so well with persons in places of eminency that we find