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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

in your hearts as I doubt not but ye alwaies have and let all your Actions be such that ye may stand before him without fear with joy and comfort at that day Let not friends nor favour passion nor affection cause you to decline to the right hand or to the left remember the judgement is the Lords in whose place ye sit whose vice-gerents ye are on earth let his example be the square of all your proceedings your judgement like his secundum norman Justitiae according to the rule of Justice equity and right your charge is great being well discharged your reward 's the greater As St. Paul said the Elders that Rule well so the Judges that judge well are worthy of double honour they deserve it in this world they shall be sure to have it in the future world this impartial Judge will do right and recompence them according to their works In the next place worshipful and worthy Commissioners ye which now sit Assistants on the Bench let your actions be such that ye may also sit assistants with this Heavenly Judge at the last day and be in the number of the Saints which the Lord in mercy grant St. Austin laid it to the charge of the old Romans that they were more tender of their own honour than of the honour of their Gods if any one had wrong'd a Senator but in a word he was sure to smoak for it but they suffered their Poets to quip and whip their Gods and never questioned them for it I hope you are free from any such imputation of being more forward in revenging your own wrongs than Gods wrongs Yet give me leave humbly to put a case to you If Drunkards Blasphemers Swearers Adulterers Riotous Debauched Atheistical prophane persons who forget the God that made them and deny the Lord that bought them who kick at his Word and worship who scorne at holiness and scoffe away Religion and jest away holy Scripture or directly cry it down daring to Blaspheme and say it is the voice of man and not of God as in truth it is I Thes 2.13 whose madness is manifest enough to all and deserves a severe check who swear away our mercies and curse away our blessings and drink away their healths by drinking healths and do what in them lies to damne their precious souls having God damne me more often than Lord have mercy in their mouthes who shew their sins like Sodom and commit them with an Harlots face without shame or blushing by whom God is more dishonoured than by any other shall swarme in your several Divisions perhaps in some of your Families and yet be seldome or never questioned censured or punished at least by some of you Are ye not too slack in vindicating Gods honour I appeal to your own hearts Surely a heavy clog will at last lye upon their Souls and Consciences by whose connivence sin is nurtured and increased when it is in their hand to restrain it If ye will not do justice on them the time is coming when the great Lord-Chief-Justice of the world will do justice both on you and them on them for sinning and on you for suffering them For Shall not the Judge of all the World do right A sad thing it is and sorry I am I must speak this to our shame That a greater restraint should be put upon sin and foul enormities under the usurped powers than under the true just and lawful powers Will ye so requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father that hath bought or redeemed and established thee said Moses to Israel Deut. 22.6 And shall we thus requite the Lord for the signal mercies the great things the wonders he hath done for us in the blessed restauration of our King our Religion Laws and liberties God forbid For this the mouth of the Adversary is open against us though they see not their own sins of stubbornness disobedience murmuring Schism Heresie as vile in Gods sight though not so visible to the world Yea I fear the Lord hath a Controversie with our Land for this for this his fierce anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still For this gird thee with sackcloath O England weep and howl and let thine eyes run down with tears night and day and let them not cease This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation till it be reformed But do ye desire to redress these abuses as I hope you do then let me humbly commend to you two or three directions 1. Put in Execution the good laws more duely 2. give good example your selves more sincerely sincerely 3. Lessen the occasions thereof more effectually by taking away clandestine blinde and superfluous Ale-houses the Pest-houses of the Nation Let them not be like the head of Hydra when one is cut off two to start up in the place thereof I have read of a certain street in Rome called Vicus Sobrius the sober street perhaps because there was never a tippling-house in it which is hard to be said of any street in England but surely both our Towns Streets and Villages would be more sober if the number of these needless houses were diminished The King of Meth sometime in Ireland asked one how certain noisome birds that came flying into his Realm and bred there might be destroyed who answered nidos eorum ubique destruendos that the only way to rid them out of the Land was to destroy and pull down their nests Do you desire to lessen the number of those noisome birds and unclean beasts that defile our Land your best way is to pull down the nests where they are brooded the dens where they are harboured blind and base Ale-houses which are the nests and Nurseries of all vices There quarrels are bred murthers occasioned oaths coyned robberies plotted thieves harboured whoredomes committed and to conclude they are the very dens and cages of all uncleanness Let me add one Word to Gamaliel the learned of the Law and all who relate to it remember the hour is coming wherein they who plead for others shall not plead for themselves where unless they now work the Judge to be their friend by keeping faith and a good conscience they shall have none to plead for them I say not to you as our Saviour to those in his time Woe be to you Lawyers I hope better things of you and such as accompany salvation Only give me leave to make a supposition if there bee any which blow up the coals of dissention among neighbours to warm their own fingers at the fire who tell their Client his Cause is good when in their conscience they know it to be stark naught who say good is evil and evil good who put light for darkness and darkness for light sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet who make truth falshood and falshood truth whose tongues cannot move nimbly and so by silence smother the poor mans right because

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

obtains a Writ Admelius inquirendum and then falls from fifty to forty five from forty five to forty from forty to thirty from thirty to twenty from twenty to ten which small number had that populous City afforded he would have spared all for their sakes I will not destroy it for tens sake And he brings these words as a convincing Argument that it stood not with the reputation of the Almighty who is the great Lord chief Justice of the world to do injustice to burn innocents with nocents to flay the righteous with the wicked Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked Peradventure there shall be fifty righteous within the City wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein That be far from thee to do after this manner to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the Righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right Not that Abraham in this expostulation doth make any doubt of the Justice of God for this Interrogation is indeed a vehement asseveration so that in this negative question is emphatically implyed an affirmative position as if he had said I know the Judge of all the world will do right Frequent in holy Writ by interrogations in the negative to affirm the more earnestly So Elisha to Gehuzi Went not my heart with thee c. Yes I know all thy tampering and juggling well enough So here Shall not the Judge of all the world do right is all one as if he had said I am sure the Judge of all the Earth will do right The words being thus resolved you may note in them three parts A Judge his Circuit and his Judgement The Judge is the Lord his Circuit very large All the Earth His Judgement most just and right or rather if you will as the Text hath four words so I will put four quaeries to be briefly discussed Quis Quos Quando Quomodo First Quis Who this Judge is and that is Christ the Lord of the World he it was that here talked with Abraham that appeared to the Patriarchs and Fathers in the Old Testament Secondly Quos Whom he shall judge All the Earth or the whole World Thirdly Quando When he shall Judge The time is to come at the end of the World noted in the Particle shall Fourthly Quomodo How he shall judge Not according to the corrupt Fashion of the world Sed secundum norman Justitiae according to the Rule of Justice according to equity and right Shall not the Judge of all the world do right And First I begin with him who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning and the end of all our actions yea of all things and that is Quis who this Judge is namely Christ the Son of God God and man the Messiah the Saviour and Redeemer of the world he is made Lord Chief-Justice of all the world and he hath it by Commission hear his own Testimony for it and we know that his Testimony is true John 5.22 The Father Judgeth no man but hath committed all Judgement unto the Son because that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father Upon which place St. Austin Tractat. 19. in Johan moves a doubt whether the Father shall be excluded in the last Judgement which he resolves by comparing these words with the 27th verse He hath given him power to execute Judgement because he is the Son of Man The Father saith he shall not be seen coming to Judgment but yet he shall not be excluded from giving of Judgement he hath the same power with the Son for the power of all the three persons is coaequal The Son only shall be seen in Judgement The Judge shall appear in a visible shape forma humana in a humane form They shall see him onely whom they have pierced He shall come to judgement and sit on the Throne of judgement and pronounce judgement in the very same body wherein hee suffered and dyed That Forme shall be Judge which stood before a Judge and he shall judge that was judged and hoe shall judge justly that was judged unjustly For the Father hath given him power to Execute Judgement because he is the Son of man that is because he did so far condescend and debase himself as to come into the world and assume our Nature to his God-head to be greatly humbled to do and suffer so much for our Redemption therefore the Father will so highly exalt him that in the same nature in the same forme in the same body he shall sit to judge the world He hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in Righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained Acts 17.31 But doth not the Apostle say that the Saints shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 and Christ to his Apostles Ye which have followed me in the Regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon the Throne of his Glory ye also shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Matth. 19.28 These places are to be understood either of judging the world 1. By their Doctrine or 2. By their good examples and holy lives as Christ said that the Queen of the South and the Ninevites should rise up in judgment against the men of that generation and Condemn them or 3. Of the attestation and approbation which they shall give to the righteous judgement of Christ Rev. 19.1 2. They shall sit Assistants with him and be by his side like privie Counsellors to the King As we see here at an Assize there be many inferiour Justices who sit on the Bench and are Assistants to the Judge not that they give sentence in any matter for that belongs to the Judge but they sit as approvers and testifiers of the just proceedings So shall it be with the Saints they shall sit as Assistants with Christ to approve and applaud the righteous dealing of that great Judge but to him alone belongs the pronouncing of Sentence 1. O what a strong consolation may this be to all the Faithful people of Christ in that he who saved them shall judge them he who is flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone he who gave his flesh and body and blood and life and all to redeem them No comfort like this to a guilty person arraigned at the Barre as to have the Judge to be his friend to speak for him to plead for him to defend to protect him But so it shall be with the faithful at that day they shall have their friend to bee their Judge their Head their Husband their Kinsman their Brother their Redeemer their Intercessor their Saviour Surely it must needs go well with them their cause shall be heard before him who loved them so dearly that he dyed for them The great Judge of all the world shall acquit them who

in our time all the signs preceding fore-told by our Lord and his holy Apostles being fulfilled except the calling of the Jews which how soon when and in what manner it shall be we know not Behold the Judge standeth even at the door Yet a very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Heb. 10. The world is now in decrepito statu● in a declining condition drawing the last breath at the last cast at the last gaspe As man who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little world so the world which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great man as the Philosopher speaks hath its infancy childe-hood youth middle age old age The time saith St. Austin from Adam to Noah was the worlds infancy from Noah to Abraham its childe-hood from Abraham to David its youth from David to the Captivity of Babylon its middle age from the Captivity of Babylon unto Christ its old age from Christ unto the end of all things its dotage for ever since the world hath as it were gone upon Crutches and therefore now cannot stand long if St. Johns age were ultima hora the last hour surely our times are the last minute of the hour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St. Paul the time is short the sails are wrapp'd up the Ship is even at hand let us therefore use this world as if we used it not Let this shortness and speediness hasten us to a speedy preparation the uncertainty of this day to a daily and continual preparation for that which St. Austin said of the day of death may as well be said of the day of Judgement why did God hide from us the day of our death was it not that every day we should be prepared ideolatet ultimus dies observer un c●mis dies The last day is concealed that every day may be observed So if any demand why hath God hid from us this day of Judgement why doth no man know when it shall be I answer It is because we should alwaies watch and wait for it and as St. Jerome speaks so lead the course of our lives every day as if to morrow should be Dooms-day This Application let us make of it alwaies to Prepare Because then God will deal with every man according as hee findes him he that is found smiting his fellow Servants eating and drinking with the drunken shall be cut in pieces and have his portion with the Hypocrites but he that is found doing the command of our great Master shall enter into eternal joy for then God will deal to every man his right and reward him according to his deservings And so I come to the last querie or part of my Text Quomodo How he shall Judge and that is secundum norman justitiae according to the rule of justice according to equity according to right Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right Righteous is the Lord in all his judgements with righteousness shall he judge the world and the peole with equity Psal 98.10 Some Examples of his Justice he gives in this present world as fore-runners of his upright dealing in the future world rewarding the wicked according to the nature and quality of their sins paying them just as they have deserved measuring to them the same measure they have measured and punishing them in the same kinde wherein they offended It is said Wisd 11.15 16. That for their foolish devices in worshipping Serpents void of reason and vile Beasts God sent a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance that they might know that wherewithal a man sinneth by the same also shall he be punished So Hab. 2.8 Because thou hast spoiled many Nations all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee and Jer. 30.16 All they that devour thee shall be devoured and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey And for proof of this I might bring a cloud of witnesses and Examples Sodomiticae illae civitates c. saith St. Austin Those Sodomitical Cities that burned with filthy lusts were justly burned with fire from above and as they made a Hell upon earth by their beastliness and uncleanness so Gehennam misit è Coele as Silvianus speaks he sent a Hell out of Heaven to consume them for it Pharaoh that caused the silly Infants to be drowned in the River Nilus was himself and all his Host drowned in the Red Sea Adonibezeck that caused seventy Kings having the Thumbs of their right hands and great Toes cut off to gather crumbs under his Table was served with the same sawce by Judah As I have done so hath God rewarded me Judges 1.7 Judah did it yet he confesseth Gods Justice in it The Dogs ear the flesh of Jezabel because she made them lick the blood of Nuboth Haman hangs on his own Gallows which he prepared for Mordecai As Agags sword had made many women childeless so was his Mother by the sword made childless among women Maxentius falls into the same trap which he laid for Constantine his Lord and Master Pope Alexander the sixth by the mistake of his Butler was poisoned with the same Bottle wherewith he intended to dispatch his Cardinals That brand of Hell Pope Hildebrand Agent was slain with the same instrument wherewith he was hired to slay Henry the Emperour This Emperour being at Rome used every morning to pray in St. Maries on Mount Aventine Hildebrand suborned a wicked villain secretly to convey up to the rafters of the Church great and massie stones and so to dispose them that as the Emperour was kneeling at his devotions they might fall down upon his head and dash but his brains but as this wretch the minister of Popish cruelty was hastening his design and sitting a massie stone for the execution of his Treason the stone fell down and beat him down withall which falling on the pavement by the just Judgment of God dashed in pieces the carkass of that traiterous workman How miraculously doth he reveal murthers revenging blood with blood how frequently doth he give them their fill of blood who delight in blood As 't is written of Cyrus King of Persia who had been the occasion of much blood-shed that being taken by Tomyres Queen of Scythia she struck off his head and put it into a hogs-head of mans blood with this exprobration of his cruelty satiate sunguine quem fuisti cujus insatiabilis fuisti Glut thy self and take thy fill of blood which thou hast alwaies thirsted after and of which thou hast been unsatiable The like almost we read of Joab a man of blood who shed the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle at was about his joyns and in the shoos that were on his feet basely 〈◊〉 treacherously killing Honer the Son of Ner and Amasa the Son of Jether and though by his power and greatness he long