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A67236	Of Christian magistracy A sermon preach'd in the Cathedral-Church of St. Peter in York, at the assizes held there, July the 26th, 1697. Before the right honourable Mr. Justice Nevill and Baron Turton. By Christopher Wyvill, D.D. and Dean of Ripon.	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3786A; ESTC R222179	17,177	31

with Infidel Magistrates and have not we then great Reason to think our selves happy that we are not under the Power of Popish ones Would Popish Judges put the Protestant Laws in execution Would a Popish Magistracy promote the good and welfare of a Protestant Church and Nation Just as much as the Heathens would that of the Primitive Christians 'T would suit neither with their Interest nor their Principles And therefore we have great Reason to thank God and the King that we are not concern'd with them 2. We may from hence also discern the great Unreasonableness and the great Injustice of private Revenge and personal Vindication of Injuries For it is an usurping of the Power of the Civil Magistrate who is Gods Representative and Deputy appointed under him to be the publick avenger and therefore 't is written Avenge not your selves but rather give place unto wrath for vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord Rom 12.19 Deut. 32.35 He does it by his Ministers the Judges and Magistrates and therefore no private Person ought to intermeddle with it 3. We may moreover from what I have said perceive how great encouragement we have to live answerably to our Holy Calling by walking in Holiness and Righteousness of Life and by becoming truly Saints here since if we do so we shall be advanced to the Honour of sitting with our Lord among the Saints in Judgment hereafter 4. And lastly We may from hence take an occasion very seasonably and profitably to meditate upon that great and general Assize which shall be at the end of the World when we shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Let us therefore from the Formalities of a Court of Judicature here fix our thoughts upon that which will be hereafter when we shall all be summon'd before the Tribunal of that Impartial Judge who even now keeps a private Sessions in every Mans Breast Here the Earthly Judges Men like our selves come unto us with indeed some little shew of outward Pomp and Slendour as 't is fit they should But what is that to the coming of our Lord himself who shall descend from hea●en with a shout with the voice of the arch-angel and with the trump of God Even the Lord Jesus himself shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on those that know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thess. 1.8 9. Here indeed Malefactors of all sorts may so sculk and hide themselves as that they cannot be found out and discovered and consequently may avoid the danger and shame of being set to the Bar to be try'd But there every Man shall make his personal appearance and nothing shall hide them or cover them from the presence of the Judge Here we have need of Witnesses and Informers to prove the Inditement but there our own Consciences shall testifie against us and God himself will set before us the things that we have done Here through collusion and prevarication the Truth may be conceal'd but there all things will be open and manifest to him with whom we have to do Who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest even the very counsels of the Heart Here a notorious Offender through Partiality and Favour or through Bribery and Foul-dealing may escape the Punishment due to his Crimes but there nothing shall avert the execution of that dreadful Sentence Go ye cursed into everlasti●g fire Mat. 25.41 The utmost Punishment that the stroke of Justice can here inflict on Evil-doers may be perhaps but Banishment into another Climate or Confiscation of some perishable Goods or some Pecuniary Mulct or some Corporal Castigations or Imprisonment during Life or Temporal Death at the farthest but they that shall be condemned at that Bar shall be banished from the Glorious Kingdom of Heaven shall lose the most durable and most desirable Goods shall undergo never ceasing Pains shall be detain'd in Everlasting Chains of Darkness shall suffer the second Death both of Body and Soul for ever Here the acquittal from the Judge is only a restitution to our former state of Life but there it will extend to a new far better much more glorious condition O therefore let such Thoughts as these sink down into our Hearts and produce in us an answerable Conversation This is that good use which we may all make of these Inferiour Courts of Justice seriously considering what will be the sad and most deplorable case of all wicked and impenitent Sinners at the terrible Bar of that irrespective Tribunal where their Appearance will be certain the Sentence of Condemnation irreversible and the Punishment consequent thereupon intolerable Wherefore let us make it our business so to behave our selves here that we may appear with comfort when that great and terrible day of the Lord comes Let us endeavour to make our peace with God whilst we live by a sincere Repentance of our former Sins a firm resolution to lead a new Life and a stedfast Faith in his Son Jesus that so at the general Resurrection of the Dead when we shall all appear at that Judgment-seat we may be set on the Right-hand and receive with joy that blessed Sentence which the Lord the Righteous and Eternal Judge shall then pronounce to all that love and fear him saying Come ye blessed children of my Father receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world Mat. 25.41 Which God of his Infinite Mercy grant unto us all through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost the ever-blessed and adorable Trinity be all Honour Glory and Praise now and for evermore Amen FINIS Books Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil A Brief Exposition on the Creed the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments To which is added the Doctrine of the Sacraments By Isaac Barrow D. D. and late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge This on the Creed never before Published being very different from the Volume of Sermons on it in 8 vo A Defence of the B. Trinity By Isaac Barrow D. D. late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge Never before Printed The Council of Trent no Free Assembly More fully discovered by a Collection of Letters and Papers of the Learned Dr. Vargas and other great Ministers who assisted at the said Synod in Considerable Posts Published from the Original Manuscripts in Spanish which were procured by the Right Honourable Sir William Trumbull's Grand-Father Envoy at Brussels in the Reign of King James the First With an Introductory Discourse concerning Councils shewing how they were brought under Bondage to the Pope By Michael Geddes LLD. and Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Sarum Twelve Sermons Preach'd on several Occasion By Richard Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells In 8 vo A Seasonable Vindication of the B. Trinity Being an Answer to this Question Why do you believe the Doctrine of the Trinity Collected from the Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury And the Right Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet Now Lord Bishop of Worcester In 8 vo

to the Enemies of the Church had great Reason to forbid them going to Law before the Unbelievers and making their Appeals to the Bar of Heathen Judges In which prohibition he may be conceived to have had respect to a common and known saying amongst the Jews viz. That he who prosecuteth an Israelite at the Tribunal of the Gentiles profanes the Name of God Besides there is one thing farther to be considered in the case namely That the Heathen Judges being already sufficiently prejudiced against the Christians when they had them in their Power by having them at their Bar they would be sure to treat them with the utmost Rigour and Severity Nay moreover they by being Heathens and Unbelievers might be presumed to be also Unjust in the strictest sense of the word like the unjust Judge in the Gospel who neither feared God nor regarded man Luke 18.2 and then what Justice or Equity could the poor Christians expect from them And therefore St. Paul had good Reason to say unto them Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints rather There may be also another Reason why he forbad them to appeal to Heathen Judges and that was because it reflected upon the Wisdom and Authority of the Church and look'd as if none of themselves were worthy of or fit for such an Honour therefore saith he bring not your Causes to be try'd before the Infidels give them not that occasion to triumph and exult over you but if you must go to Law let it be done before the Saints And this prohibition we must look upon to concern chiefly the Plaintiffs who are not bound to sue and not to belong to the Defendants who if prosecuted are bound to stand to Tryal Secondly And thus I come in the second place to consider the Reason which our Apostle gives why a Christian may be a Judge why he should undertake the Office of a Civil Magistrate For although there needs no Reason to be given for it the thing it self being so very evident and plain the general practice whereof declares its Reasonableness and Necessity too yet that which the Apostle gives is a very considerable one and deserves our particular remark and that is Because the Saints shall judge the world yea even Angels themselves For do you not know saith he that the saints shall judge the world And if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters Know ye not that we shall judge angels how much more things that pertain to this life Now the proper signification of Saints is Men of Holiness such as were all the Faithful Servants of God under the Old Testament such as all under the New are supposed or required to be And being that all Christians are called unto an Holy Calling and without great and apparent Reason to the contrary ought in Charity to be presumed to live answerably to their Calling therefore they may very well be accounted and called Saints And although it be true that not all who are called Saints shall hereafter judge the World but they only who have lived according to that Calling yet if any shall the Argument holds good that therefore they may be Judges and Magistrates here For the better understanding of which it will be necessary that we should consider what kind of Judicature the Saints shall exercise and in what sense they may be said to judge Now although there may be several ways whereby this may be understood yet waving all the rest as thinking it needless to trouble you with a particular enumeration and discussion of them I shall at present mention but one as being most plain and natural and most apposite to what St. Paul intends and that is this viz. That when our Lord Christ who by Gods appointment is design'd to be the Supream Judge of all the World when He shall descend from Heaven at the end of the World to judge the Quick and the Dead the Saints of God shall first be judged and absolved themselves and then be assumed as assessors unto him and bear him company in Judging and Condemning the rest of the World that is to say all Wicked Men and all Apostate Angels This Explication seems to be the most Reasonable and is what the best Expositors are agreed upon and which seems to be the meaning of what our Saviour said to his own Apostles when he told them that when He the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory they also shall sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Mat. 19.28 Now if the Saints of God if Christians who have lived here according to their Holy Profession if they in the Great and Final Judgment of all the World shall be vouchsafed that Honour as to be Assessors with Christ and to sit in Judgment with Him on the Wicked World if they shall have any thing to do in matters of so high importance they may Reasonably enough be accounted worthy to have the Judgment of inferiour things committed to their trust well may they take upon them the Power and Authority of Judges and Magistrates now who shall hereafter be concern'd in adjudging the Eternal Being both of Angels and Men. This is that Reason which St. Paul gives why a Christian may be a Judge why he should undertake the Office of a Civil Magistrate and if there be any who are yet unsatisfied with it if there are still any so unreasonable as not to admit of a Legal Magistracy amongst Christians other Reasons there are not unworthy our Consideration that may be alledged for it For 1 st We find it no where mentioned in the Gospel of Christ that so high and useful a Calling is inconsistent with the Profession of it And if it were Unlawful for a Christian to bear that Office we may be sure that either Christ himself or some of his Apostles would have expresly forbidden it Which being they have no where done we cannot but conclude their Censure rash and foolish who do condemn it Nay so far is the Christian Religion from interdicting it to Christians that there are many things in it which make manifestly for it All Civil Magistrates and Rulers are by St. Paul said to be the Ministers of God Rom. 13.4 even they who do not profess the Faith of Christ much more Reasonably therefore may they be esteem'd so who really do We read in the New Testament of some Eminent Persons in great Power and Authority who were Disciples of Christ and converted to his Religion but we no where find that they laid down their Offices when they became Christians Besides if there were to be no Christian Magistrates or Governours or Judges amongst Christians they must then either be exposed to all the Confusion and Disorder which an ungovern'd Society is lyable unto which we cannot imagine that our Lord did ever design they should be or