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A30009	Salus populi, or, A nations happinesse a sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester, Iuly 22, 1658 / by Edward Buckler.	Buckler, Edward, 1610-1706.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5351; ESTC R30256	14,145	31

contribute to a peoples happiness that is not able to shew its Pedigree that it came down from Heaven you may by no means set it down amongst a nations priviledges if God can say I commanded it not neither came it into my heart Ier. 7. 31. 5. Their End to give thanks unto the name of the Lord A part of Gods worship and service put for the whole when a Religion is set up for any except meerely for religious ends they much mistake that look upon it as any part of a peoples glory That 's the first ingredient to that peoples happiness Religion 2. Righteousness There are set thrones of Iudgement the thrones of the house of David A full provision for the administration of Iustice and the happiness of that state and kingdome thankfully acknowledged In the 1. Enjoyment of it for the present there are set thrones of Iudgement 2. Settlement of it for the future the thrones of the house of David 1. The enjoyment of it for the present there are set thrones of Iudgement a very amiable and pleasant prospect where we see 1. Iudgement that is recta judicatio justi atque injusti it hath its true in Scripture many acceptations but is here made up of hearing and determining whether the cause depending be criminal or civil as it is also in Lev. 19. 15. and to expound it as we must do into a blessing For the judgement is not yours but Gods We are necessitated to interpret it Of a Hearing 1. With understanding both matters of fact and matter of Law The persons that sate here were wise men and under standing in Deut. 1. 13. and this was it that qualified them for their Commission Those people are possessed of a very desirable priviledge whose administrators of Law and Justice are under characters of Gods own prescribing and have not the hearing of causes in the dark 2. With Patience It is hardly Iudgment if it want deliberation which is well worth the laying out upon all concernments where we can mistake but once The reason why the Lacedemonians dwelt so long upon causes that were Capital Si in capitis discrimine erraverint non est corrigendi consilii potestas Loss of life is among those damages that are not capable of reparation And even in lower cases temeritas judicis may be calamitas innocentis hasty sentences may throw misery upon the guiltless which David you may be sure would never put upon the account of a peoples happiness 3. With both Ears There be you know cases in which there may be nothing but Iustice in the decision and not a jot in the desider And we must understand it Of a Determining 1. By Law No Iudgment hath any other foundation You have nothing to discover offenders by but this glass nothing to restrain them with but this bridle nothing to smite them withal but this sword If Iudgment flow from any other spring how easily is it turned into wormwood and how directly destructive is it to the very end that lawes were made for cum jus ab uno viro homines non consequerentur inventae sunt leges The judgement of God is according to Law else would he punish where there is no transgression so is Iudgment in the Text what else doth it make amongst that peoples priviledges 2. By Law quietly suffered to speak its own meaning which in States and Kingdomes as Davids was professing Religion can never be expounded into an opposition to the law of God Legislation its true is the highest act of the highest Powers on earth yet as it is our interest to know they have no power so it s our duty to believe they have no intent to cross in any one Iota the will of Heaven if they do such Laws and Iudgements must not take it amiss if we be not able to reckon them amongst the materials of our happiness For sin is a reproach to any people Pro. 14. 34. this is judgment 2. Thrones of judgement The administration of Lawes hath from the beginning been allowed its Ensignes of State and Majesty Christ himself when he is described as a Iudge is represented sitting upon a Throne and a glorious train waiting upon him Mat. 25. 31. and all Nations have seen cause to distinguish their magistrates especially when in the exercise of their Office by some or other mark of state and dignity from other men that Rods Axes Lictors Gowns Maces Swords Trumpets and the like might bespeak that fear and reverence of the people which all authority must endeavour to beget and nourish in that great and many-headed body or resolve to be trampled upon When Delinquency shall be allowed its gallantry and justice shall sneak up and down in a despised posture and a vulgar Equipage it may perhaps bespeak a people thrifty but by no means happy Here ●are thrones of judgement and these 3. Are set The margin tells us that the Original is of the active voice there do fit thrones of judgment The like expression you have in Dan. 7. 26. The judgement shall sit And yet it is not the judgment that doth sit but the Iudges Mirum aenigma saith Augustine t is a strange a wonderful riddle Be it so yet it is doubtless a duty to expound it the duty 1. Of the Iudges Iudgment is mentioned and Iudges are meant Is it not to remember them that Iustice and judgment should not be accounted amongst their accidents which may be present or absent without the destruction of their subjects but should be lookt upon as their very forme bestowing upon them both their essence and denomination the duty 2. Of the judgement To sit is a posture of composedness When judgments are not calm deliberate digested this part of the Text may for all them be a riddle still But let 's suppose the Active to be put for the Passive and that Thrones are set yet this doth David look upon as a happiness that the Kingdome was in a posture of executing judgment 't was so protempore and even that is a mercy fit to be acknowledged Blessings from hand to mouth are blessings and obligations to thankfulness But here is withal 2. The Settlement of it for the future the thrones of the house of David Thrones of judgement there were before but by the injury of the times often interrupted alwaies changeable but God had built David a sure house 1. Reg. 11. 38. Settled him the supreme magistrate over that people they might now know upon what to bottome and where to seek for the administration of justice Civil government is a Nations blessing the settlement of it is the addition of another or a very merciful augmentation of the former As such God doth promise it 1. Reg. 17. 14. as such in the Text doth David acknowledge it and so will every body else that believeth Solomon Prov. 28. 2. For the transgression of a Land many are the princes thereof And so you have a

short view of the particulars in the Text the matter of Davids joy and his peoples happiness a full provision for Religion vers. 4. and for the administration of Iudgment and Righteousness vers. 5 And because I may not attempt to prosecute them in all their branches I must deale in grose and wrap up as much of both verses as I can in this proposition or point of Doctrine The condition of a people is then happy 〈◊〉 fit object of a good mans joy when Religion and Righteousness are joyntly provided for and carried on together Which I shall indeavour to make out from 1. Scripture and 2. Reason The Scriptures I shall reduce to these 4 Ranks viz. 1. These two religion and righteousness are promised as a peoples Happiness that God will set his Tabernacle among them Lev. 26. 11. and his Sanctuary in the midst of them Ezek. 37. 26. All necessaries to the exercise of religion That he will restore their Iudges as at the first and their Counsellors as at the beginning Isa. 1. 26. reduce them to their primitive institution of the same Character they first were when they came out of Gods own hand all necessaries for the administration of Iustice That he will make their Officers peace and their Exactors righteousnesse Esa. 60. 17. When the troubles of a People shall become their Peace and Publicans and Sinners shall be no longer Synonyma's but Two names of the same persons it s no ordinary blessing 2. When God would deale with a people in his Wrath He Iudicially provides against their enjoyment of these Two Upon this account He forsook the Tabernacle of Shiloh the ten● which he placed a●ongst men Psal. 78. 60. and gave that people Statutes t●at were nor good and Iudgements whereby they should not live Ezek. 20. 25. That by Statutes and Iudgements are meant Lawes and Rules of Government in one kinde or other is too plaine to be stood upon Of the Morall or Iudiciall Laws of God none I think wil adventure to expound them Of the Ceremonial some have to make the Epithet here given them sutable do distinguish between Bonum non bonum Malum But the Ceremonies were given in Expiationem peccati These Statutes and Judgements In 〈◊〉 peccati Those in Mercy and were a part of that peoples Glory Deu. 4. 8. ro 9. 4. these in wrath as A great Contribution to their Shame and Misery and so must be Statues and judgements i. e. the Lawes Government Rites and Customes of men whom God set over them or delivered them in his wrath So there will be no question why these Statutes are sayd not to be good and but a little why these judgments such whereby they should not live after we have considered how often in Scripture To live is put to signifie not simply life but the convenient accommodations of it amongst which provision for our religious and civill Concernments is of the first magnitude This the Lord in this sad dispensation stript them of by giving them A Government that cared for none of these things 3. The Happinesse of a people is described by these Two What Nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all that Law which I set before you this day Deut. 4. 8. It is an Appeale to the people of Israel whether God had dealt out happinesse to any other Nation at the Rate that he had to them and the instance is in their Statutes and judgements the provision they had for Religion and righteousnesse Statutes being Lawes for a people under a sacred consideration and judgments under a Civill See to the same purpose Psal. 147. 19. 20. 4. Ruine is threatned unto a people upon the neglect of these If it be Religion that Nation and Kingdome that will not serve her and her children shall perish yea those Nations shall utterly perish Esa. 60. 12. If it be Righteousnesse Gods Soule shall be avenged on such a Nation Jer. 5. 29. Reasons 1. From the influence that these two Religion and Righteousnesse have upon a peoples Happinesse An influence if I may so expresse it both 1. Morall and 2. Physicall 1. Religion and Righteousnesse have a Morall influence upon a peoples Happinesse The Lord loading● A Nation with Blessings or Curses according to their care or neglect of these Of this you have a full account in Jer. 22. from the first to the seventeenth Verse to which I must but refer you Augustine observes of Constantine that God bestowed more blessings upon him and his people then others did dare to wish for and the contrary of Iulian who yet was a man of a great spirit and as fit for Empire as the world afforded That States and Kingdomes have naturally their Ortus and Interitus their rise groath declination and ruine I think is but a fancy it is the blessing of God entailed as it were upon the godliness and honesty of a State and Nation that makes them prosperous And t is the curse of God that pursues a wicked people to destruction If Religion be provided for from this day saith God will I bless you Hagg. 2. 18. 19. If Religion be neglected you may date from that very point of time a peoples misery and write down every blessing they have left them spoiled with a curse Mal. 2. 2. If Righteousness be provided for the mountains and hills shall bring such a people peace Psalm 72. 2 3. No place so barren that shall not yield a complication of blessings If Righteousness be neglected what will such a people do in the day of visitation Isaiah 10. 3. 2. Religion and Righteousness have a Physical influence into they have a natural tendency to a peoples welfare Religion will guide them to and the due administration of Iustice will keep them in the nearest way to all the blessings of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come Do you but observe that sobriety temperance chastity that patience humbleness of minde readiness to forgive studiousness to be quiet that industry care frugality laboriousness that unanimity love publike spiritedness fortitude prudence that eye and hand of Iustice upon delinquencies as to any of these which the Scripture requires and if health and peace and riches and honour and safety and every outward blessing fall not soon●r into your bosomes then from your strictest observation of all the rules that ever any other booke or discourse in the world hath layd down to these purposes either there is a wisdome above Gods or he delighteth not in the prosperity of his servants Xenophon looking upon the flourishing condition of the Lacedemonians and considering their inconsiderable beginning it became the matter of his wonder but when he saw the provision they had made for the administration of Justice and Righteousness Admirari pro●●●is desinebat his wonder ceased 2. These Two keep God with a people and do settle them with a people under his