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A42779	An assize-sermon preach'd before Judge Twisselton and Serj. Bernard at Carlisle September the 10th, ann. 1660 and now publish'd and recommended to the magistrates of the nation, as a means by God's blessing to quicken them to a serious pursuit of the honourable and truly religious design, for the reformation of manners, which is now on foot, and countenanced by the nobility, bishop's and judges, in the late account of the societies for the reformation of manner's and applauded by the serious and religious men of all perswasions / by R. Gilpin ...	Gilpin, Richard, 1625-1700.	1700 (1700)	Wing G775; ESTC R5869	17,722	40

that in all their Government they must advance his Kingdom upon pain of his Displeasure In the Explication of this Doctrine I shall shew 1. The Magistrates Debt and 2. Their Duty First then They owe Homage to Christ that is their Debt 1. because he is higher than they Psal 47. v. 2. He is a great King the only Potentate King of King's and Lord of Lord's 1 Tim. 6. v. 15. The eternal immortal invisible King 1 Tim. 1. v. 17. The universal King of all the Earth Psal 47. v. 7. he hath prepared his throne in the heavens his Kingdom ruleth over all Psal 103. v. 19. The greatest Ruler upon Earth in all his highest and mightiest Titles and Power is but a glittering guilded Potsherd he is but illustrious mighty most excellent honourable Dust and Ashes take the highest Title the Scripture affords as Psal 82. v. 1. where they are all called God's yet they are but God's Metaphorical either analogically having some similitude of God in their height above others as high Mountains and Cedars are call'd God's Mountains and Cedars or representatively because they sit in his Throne and do as it were represent his Person for they are notwithstanding such God's as are but Men Psal 82. v. 7. and when they are dead their Ashes shall carry no more Prints of Honour than the Beggars that embraces the Dunghil nor shall be distinguish'd from common Dust And if some aspired higher as Caligula Domitian c. who arrogated Divine Honours to themselves yet God discover'd their folly by making good that threatning They shall fall like one of the Princes or as Illyricus expounds it like those Tyrants that perish in their Cruelties That dye as Boniface the 8th like a Dog and have Jehojakim's Burial the burial of an Ass If in the World petty King's shew Homage to the more Potent as it was in the Heptarchy in England and under the Roman and Graecian Conquerours much more then do the greatest Rulers owe Homage to God upon account of his Greatness have you an Arm like God or can you Thunder with a Voice like his if not then bring presents to him Psal 72. v. 9 10. They that dwell in the Wilderness shall bow before him The King 's of Tarshish and of the Isles shall bring Presents A Second reason to Prove that even King's and Ruler's owe Homage to Christ is Because all their Authority is derived from him Their Authority is derivative these two ways 1. In Constitutione Regiminis and 2. Institutione designatione personarum 1. In the Constitution of Government it self Dominion and Rule is Christ's appointment even in the State of Innocency as Parens observes God gave Man Power over himself by free Will and over the Creatures and his Family too Which though some think that the State of Innocency and Magistracy are inconsistent yet carries some resemblance at least of Magistracy however since their Fall as God appointed Sun and Stars to rule Day and Night so hath he appointed Magistracy as Stars in their Courses as a means of Order in the Universe Hence it is call'd God's Ordinance in which Word there is a special Emphasis it is Tolet's observation they are not of God as War and Famine are said to be of his Appointment but they are more especially ordained by Command and Promise 2. The Authority of Rulers is derivative too in designatione Personae Thus he appointed Saul found out David and choos'd Solomon c. Yea in unjust Usurpations though the Manner of attaining and managing be not à Deo approbante having not the Allowance of his preceptive Will Yet they are à Deo permittente and according to his Will of Purpose The Powers that are Rom. 13. which points at Nero for the Abstract cannot consist without the Concrete are ordain'd of God Nature teacheth all Creatures a thankful Respect to them from whom they had their Being the Rivers pay a constant Tribute to the Sea whence they all come much more then should Magistrates own that God that gave them as well their Natural Beings for they are the Work of his Hands as Men as also their Political Beings for they are the Children of the most high as Magistrates such a tributary was David 2 Sam. 7. v. 18 to 22. A Third argument that shews that King 's and Ruler's ought to be Christ's Homagers is That as their Power is borrow'd so also it is ad Placitum not absolute and independent and that two ways 1. In regard of their Rules Laws and Limits which God hath fix'd for their direction he is the supreme Lawgiver and they must take the Law from his Mouth in the Essentials of Piety and Justice He hath given them positive Commands which they are not to Transgress In Circumstantials and particular Emergencies which although he hath left undetermin'd yet even there he hath given general Rules of Order Decency Edification and Salus Populi to walk by in their determinations of Things ad hic nunc 2. They are dependent on his Pleasure for the Continuation of the Power in their Persons he taketh down one and setteth up another he can cut off the Spirit of Princes Psal 76. v. 12. and can raise up the poor out of the mire and the needy from the dunghil to set him with Princes Psal 113. v. 7 8. Pope Coelestin crown'd the Emperour Henry with his Feet and spurn'd off the Crown again as an Emblematical boast of his Power of making and unmaking King's but though this was too much Arrogancy for Man yet it is one of the Jura Regalia of the King of Heaven Fourthly King 's and Ruler's owe Homage to Christ because as their Authority depends on him so it is also Ministerial in subordination to God's Ends and Designs the Magistrate is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.4 the Minister of God God's Agent and Servant his Esse as a Magistrate is alterius esse a Servant entrusted by his Lord may have many encouraging Priviledges and Advantages for himself yet the great End of his Employment and Advancement is his Masters service and profit the Honour and Power of Ruler's are not terminated neither wholly nor chiefly upon their own Persons as if God design'd only the gratifying of some few Men above the common Rank of Mankind giving these Authorities for their Person 's sakes only to make them Great No! His main End is the Service and Fruit that is expected from them both to God and Man and the Dignity is affix'd to the Person as an encouragement to and a necessary Means of doing that Service They are but God's creatures and substitutes for affecting his Will in the Government of his Church in the World to them therefore I may apply that of the Apostle Ye are not your own your Places and Offices are not given but with Reference to your Service then give Homage to your Master whose you are and for whose Ends you are employ'd he is an unworthy

against Satan's Kingdom is to be against him Fourthly Consider that if you be slow in promoting Christ's Cause you contract the Guilt of other Men's Sins and that two Ways 1. Non prohibendo for Qui non prohibet cum potest jubet And 2. You do it Exemplo for if Magistrates be Supine and Careless People will easily see it and think their Example a warrantable Pattern for Imitation Jerusalem and Samaria were Royal Cities where were the Thrones for Judgment hence they were the Fountains of Iniquity to the Land and the Sins of the Land charged upon them Micah 1.5 What is the transgression of Jacob Is it not Samaria And what are the high places of Judah Are they not Jerusalem Fifthly If Magistrates advance not the Throne of Christ they commonly prove Furious against it and Plagues of God's People if this proceed from a careless blockish Temper then Judgment of it self will degenerate into Gall and the Fruit of Righteousness into Hemlock Justice like Water purifies it self by Motion when it runs down like a stream if it be a standing Water it Corrupts and Corruptio optimorum pessima If this neglect proceed from Enmity to Christ then seeing they have the greatest Advantages in their Hands to do Evil they may establish Wickedness by a Law They can push with the horn and tread down the Pasture with their feet Ezek. 34.18 When the wicked beareth rule the People mourn Prov. 29.2 Or if it proceed from Apostacy then the revollers are profound to make slaughter Hos 5.2 And this happens not so much from the Churlish and Cruel Dispositions of Men as from God's giving them up judicially to Rage against his Ways either as a Scourge to his People or in order to their own Ruin Hence 't is noted that the cruellest Persecutions were set on foot by Emperours sometimes of the best Parts and most civil Dispositions as Antoninus Philosophus Trajan Severus Decius c. Magistrates are for the most Part like the Prophet's Figs either very good or very bad they are the Heads of the People and all Diseases in the Head are Dangerous So when the Leprosy appear'd in the Head deeper than the Skin the party was pronounc'd utterly unclean Sixthly If Christian Magistrates do not Advance the Kingdom of Christ what do they more than Heathen Magistrates Christ will have his Subjects to outstrip the Heathen as you may perceive by his arguing Matth. 5. Do not even the Publicans so Heathens have made Good Laws for Moral Honesty and have been just in the Execution of them as among the Athenians Solon the Lacedaemonians Lycurgus There were many Good Laws among the Romans but of the Lacedaemonian Laws Erasmus gives you this Account Dixeris says he speaking of their Laws Christianos si pro Lycurgo Christum nacti fuissent Legislatorum Nay you find farther that even among the Heathens the Decij and the Curtij c. have devoted themselves to Death for the Publick A Seventh Reason why Magistrates should set themselves to Advance Christ's Kingdom is because People are denominated Good or Bad from the goodness or badness of their Ruler's for 1. The more noble Part gives the Denomination a heap of Wheat and Chaff is call'd a heap of Wheat And 2. it influenceth the rest I speak of external Goodness of Profession chiefly though as a Means it may be extended to internal If Jeroboam be wicked the Ten Tribes are so And to this purpose you have the Prophet Isaiah telling you Isa 21.26 That a Restauration of Good Ruler's for it speaks of the Qualifications not the Species of Ruler's v. 23. makes a City of Righteousness I have now done with the Explanation of the Doctrine my next Work is to apply it And Here I must first address my self to the Reverend Judges and the Magistrates of this County and because the time will not allow me to speak to you severally I shall direct my Advice to you all at once that as God hath lifted up your Heads above your Brethren so you would study to Advance his Honour and Kingdom Kiss the Son Give me leave in compassion to your Souls and in discharge of my Duty for surely I am not call'd either by God or Man to Complement with you to be plain with you in a few Directions And surely if you were in my stead and heard God speaking to you Son of Man tell the House of Israel their Sin else their Blood will I require at thine Hand lift up thy Voice like a Trumpet spare not If this were your Case you would judge a Necessity is laid upon me to speak plainly and upon you to receive the Word with meekness First then Submit to Christ's Scepter as Christians and Men Serve the Lord with fear How can it be expected that you will to any purpose submit to Christ as Magistrates for the Good of others if you do not submit to him as Christians for the Good of your own Souls In the Ceremonial Law the Snuffers were of pure Gold to shew the Necessity of Holiness in them that are to be Censurers and Correctors of others Your Stile and Titles shew as much you are call'd God's and should you be ungodly you would make Men think that you are such God's as the Witch of Endor saw rising out of the Earth which indeed were Devils If you live in Rebellion against the King of Heaven you dishonour your great Master stain your Commission and disable your Selves from punishing others For how unseemly would it be for Vice to correct Sin And if Vice would be so officious yet how will you pluck the Mote out of your Brothers Eye while a Beam is in your own And besides it would give the People just reason to Lament over you with that of the Prophet Our Silver is become dross c. If you shall ask me now what I call Holiness I answer 1. Humility Consciencious walking with God Self-denial Prayer hearing the Word Self-examination Family-worship c. are undoubted Works of Piety 2. The Works of the Flesh are manifest Swearing Drunkenness Uncleanness Pride Hatred Sabbath breaking c. are certainly not Holiness 3. To live carelesly though in the Practice of external Duties after the rate of most Men without Conviction of Sin Repentance inward Communion with God Love Joy and delight in his Ways not striving against little Sins nor watching against vain Thoughts This is in no other Sense holiness before God but as a dead Carkass is call'd a Man 4. To think any Service enough for God secretly to loath and hate the Strictness of God's Ways c. will shew that you are not acceptable Servants to Christ who hath requir'd all these things of you Can you deny but that these are the Plain Commands of God Or will any Man say that Great Men are not bound to these things Be not deceived God is not to be mocked Gal. 6.7 If you 'l say That Men that pretend to these things are