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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45484	A map of judgement, or, A pattern for judges delivered in a sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford-in-Surrey, July 23d, 1666 before Sr. Orlando Bridgeman, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sr. Samuel Brown, Kt. / by W. Hampton ...	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1667 (1667)	Wing H635; ESTC R21596	21,322	25

A Map of Judgement Or a Pattern for JUDGES Delivered in a Sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford in Surrey July 23d. 1666. BEFORE Sr. Orlando Bridgeman Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas AND Sr. Samuel Brown Kt. By W. Hampton Rector of Blechingley in the same County 2. Chron. 19. 6 7. And he said to the Judges take heed what ye do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the Judgement Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts LONDON Printed by R. I. for H. Brome over against the Crane in Little-Brittain 1667. TO The Honourable Sr. Orlando Bridgeman Kt. Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Common Pleas and Sr. Samuel Brown Kt. another of his Majesties Justices of the said Court. Grace Mercy and Peace with all happiness in this World and everlasting blessedness in that which is to come Reverend and Honourable Sirs THis Sermon being Preached in your hearing and received with the good liking of that numerous auditory then present as I understand and as appeared by their more than usual attention while it was delivering for what was said of our dear Saviour I may without ostentation say of my poor self The eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastned on him Luke 4.20 And being importuned by some worthy friends to make it more publick I have condiscended hoping it may adde some few mites to the publick treasury for the Churches good And I assented chiefly upon these reasons First Because it was so well approved and accepted by such pious learned and judicious Worthies as your Honours great assertors of piety equity and right by whom this Circuit hath for some years been honoured as well as blessed in the Administration of Justice Secondly Because I have some hopes it may put at least a stop to that great inundation of Sin and Prophaneness which is gone forth into the Land by animating his Majesties Commissioners in all places to a diligent discharge of their duties in so good a work Thirdly That it may stand as a lasting evidence of my humble and cordial thankfulnesse to that supreme Moderator of all things for enabling me a poor worm to labour so long in his Vineyard and to bring forth some fruits both in Youth and Age and to perform such a task twice at such a distance of time the interval of more than ten Olympiads intervening I cannot think of meeter persons to Devote it to than your Honours who so well approved both the manner of delivery and the matter delivered which I humbly beseech you to accept in good part and to shelter it under your Patronage It is Printed almost verbatim as Preached only in the last point some little enlargement is made which I was forced then to omit least prolixity should have impeded your most weighty business Thus humbly craving pardon for my boldness commending this poor Work to the blessing of God for the glory of his Name and good of his People I commit you to his safe Protection who am Your Honours most humble Servant in the work of the Lord William Hampton From my Study in Blechingley Aug 13. 1666. A Map of Judgement or a Pattern for JUDGES GENESIS 18.25 Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right IT was the saying of our Saviour Mat. 13.52 Every Scribe which is instructed for the Kingdome of Heaven is like unto a man that is an Housholder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old The same with Gods help I hope to do now It was full forty years ago the seventh of this month the Lords holy Name be praised that I spake something upon this Text on the like occasion and in this County at the Assizes holden at Riegate July 7. 1626 and if I should happen to harpe upon some of the old notes I dare say most if not all here present would keep my counsel It will be new to them and yet I doubt not but to bring forth some things new as well as old It is true we are to live Praeceptis non Exemplis by Precepts not by Examples and yet experience proves Exemplis magis quam praeceptis we are apt to be led rather by pattern than by precept and in framing the course of our lives Example for the most part more prevails than Exhortation Wherefore this being a time allotted for Judgment I have made choice to set before you a Map of Judgment the Pattern and Example of a great Judge the Judge of Judges the Judge of all the world in his place you sit he lends a part of his honour to you and invests you with his power he vouchsafes his name unto you dixi dii estis whom then should the Servant imitate but his Lord the Subject but his Soveraign the Little Gods of the earth but the great God of Heaven and Earth the Judges of a Land or little world but the Judge of all the world Zeno being asked by his friends how they might keep themselves to right when he was gone answered si me presentem semper putetis if you imagine me to be alwaies present with you the beholder of your actions And surely a stronger motive you cannot have to keep your selves to equity and right quam Deum presentem semper cogitare than to have this great Judge alwaies before your eyes the pattern and spectatour of all your proceedings hee sees our works he hear our words he knows our thoughts if we do ill will not he punish us if we do well will not he reward us if we do right will not he applaud it if we do wrong will not he revenge it Yes verily For shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right The words were uttered by Abraham upon this occasion when the Almighty was minded to destroy the City of Sodom whose sins cryed to his Throne for vengeance he first after the manner of men pawsed on the matter and was loath to do it till he had taken advice of a friend and made Abraham whom St. James calleth the friend of God privie to his purpose Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do Abraham being hereby assured of Gods love and favour began to argue the matter and became an humble suitor for his sinful neighbours and knowing them to be in misericordia provero clamore puts up his petition into the Chancery of Gods boundless mercy that if there could be fifty good men found within the City he would be pleased to spare the whole for their sake The Lord grants his petition Abraham goeth straight way with a privy search through the City of Sodom and after his labour lost he makes return unto God with a non est inventus yet he proceeds on in his suit and craving pardon for his boldness he