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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44569	A sermon preached at the parish-church of St. Mary Saviour's in Southwark, at the Lent-assizes, Feb. 28, 1671 before the honourable Sir Thomas Twisden, and Sir William Morton, His Majesties judges of assize, and at the request of Ellis Crisp, Esq., high sheriff of the county of Surrey / by Thomas Horton, D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1672 (1672)	Wing H2881; ESTC R43265	18,419	40

A SERMON Preached in the Parish-Church of St. Mary Saviour's IN SOUTHWARK At the Lent-Assizes Febr. 28. 1671. BEFORE THE HONOVRABLE S ir Thomas Twisden AND S ir William Morton His MAJESTIES Judges of ASSIZE AND At the Request of Ellis Crisp Esq High Sheriff of the County of SURREY By Thomas Horton D. D. Prov. 21.3 To do Justice and Judgment is more acceptable to the Lord then Sacrifice Joh. 7.24 Judge not according to the appearance but judge righteous Judgment London Printed by W.R. for Ralph Smith at the Bible under the Piazzo of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1672. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE JUDGES The Eight and Twentieth of February 1671. 2 Chron. 19.6 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 Judgment THere is nothing more comely or amiable then when Worth goes together with Honour and when Places of Trust and Dignity meet with Persons of Faithfulness and Integrity for the managing and discharge of them from whence they prove to be mutually acceptable and advantagious one to the other This is that which is observable of us in the carriage and scope of this Scripture which we have now before us where Jehoshaphat the King of Judah finding it to be in some Respects requisite and necessary for Him to set up certain Officers of State and to appoint Judges in the Land for the better ruling and governing of his Kingdom under himself He does not content himself only to appoint them their Places but he is careful also to mind them of their Duties and to provoke them to care and diligence in these places which were imposed upon them and sustain'd by them That they might be the better inabled to give their Charge to others he first of all gives his Charge to them and lays a very strict and solemn Injunction upon them That so from the same Authority whence they received their Office it self they might likewise receive some kind of fitness and preparation for it And be said unto the Judges Take heed what ye do c. In which words there are two main parts considerable of us First A Charge premised Secondly A Reason annext for the inforcing of this Charge The Charge that we have in these words Take heed what ye do The Reason annext in these For ye judge not c. Or if ye will we may invert the parts and take them thus First A Truth declared Secondly A Caution inferred upon the supposition and declaration of this Truth The Truth declared in these words Ye judge not c. The Caution infer'd in these Take heed what ye do So as the one is in the nature of the Doctrine the other of the Vse And in this method and order shall I now with Gods gracious assistance take notice of them I begin first of all with the former which is the Doctrine or Truth declared and this consisting of two Branches more First The simple Preposition Secondly The additional Amplification The Preposition that ye have in those words Ye judge not for Man but for the Lord. The Amplification that ye have in these Who is with you in the Judgment First Here is considerable of us the simple or single Preposition Ye judge not for Man but for the Lord This is that which is here asserted and declared concerning the Judges But it s●ems to carry some kind of difficulty and intricacy with it and therefore will require a little opening and explication of it to us in what sense it is to be taken by us The Preposition it self is of that nature as wherein the Parts are segregated and separated one from the other and accordingly we shall speak separately and distinctly of them First By shewing how far the Judges do indeed judge or not judge for Man Secondly Shewing how far and in what respects they do judge for the Lord. For there is a Truth contained in both being rightly stated and understood by us First To view it in the first reference as it hath respect unto Men Judges they do in a sense and in some sort judge even thus They judge for Man and that according to a twofold explication First For Man that is by Mans Appointment Hominum Instituto Secondly For Man that is for Mans Advantage Hominum Commodo First For Man that is by the Appointment of Man They judge so and so they may judge It is true They are by Gods appointment chiefly as we shall hear afterwards out of the Text but they are by Man's also subordinately and therefore even here in this present Scripture are said so to be In the verse immediately preceeding namely the fifth verse of this Chapter it is said That Jehoshaphat set up Judges in the Land throughout all the fenced Cities of Judah City by City And so Moses by the advice of Jethro chose able men out of all Israel and they judged the People at all Seasons Exod. 18.25 26. And so Samuel upon the same account also he judged Israel all his Dayes and went from year to year in Circuit 2 Sam. 7.15 16. Judges they are no new thing in the World but have been long appointed and that by Men themselves Therefore expresly call'd in Scripture the Ordinance of Man or Humane Creation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2.13 14. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be unto the King as Supream or unto Governors that are sent by him These Governors amongst the rest are the Judges who are there described from the main scope of their Office in reference either to Punishment or to Reward Secondly For Man that is for Mans Advantage They judge for man likewise so for man that is for the good of man and as that which is beneficial to him for so it is Judges and the Dispencers of Justice they are of very great use and necessity in the life of Man without which he could not well subsist or hold out in the World nor indeed the World subsist it self Man by nature is so wild a Creature and hath so much corruption and perversness in his heart as that without Judgment and Justice People would be ready to destroy both themselves and one another Therefore we have very great cause to bless God for such as these and to submit unto them as being indeed our own greatest Interest and Accommodation For it is the happiness of every thing which is inferior to be in subordination to an higher than it self for the regulating and ordering of it And the weaker that any thing is by so much the more does it need the power of another to support and assist it Therefore the Apostle speaking of the Magistrate sayes He is the Minister of God to thee for good Rom. 13.4 that is he is so by his Place and Office in the proper nature and scope of it And for good in the full latitude and extent