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A44705	[Eloheem], or, God and the magtistrate as it was delivered in a sermon before the honorable Baron Atkin and Justice Tirril, two of His Majestie's judges of assize, in the cathedral church of Lincoln, and in the shrievalty of the honorable Sir Edward Dymockek, and champion to His Scared Majestie / by Obadiah Howe ...	Howe, Obadiah, 1615 or 16-1683.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3050; ESTC R10259	38,248	64

quo minus imperio deposito privatus tutò vivere possit That he did nothing during his Government but his power being laid aside he could live safely a private life It is well for men in power so to act as that they may freely look man in the face but it is a great deal better so to act as that they may be able with cheerfulnesse to look God in the face The Jewes have a Saying Quem admodum judicasti ad lancem Innocentiae imaginetur sibi judex acsi gladius inter faemora ei gehenna aperta fuisset As thou hast judged by the ballance of Innocency so the Supreme Judge shall judge thee Therefore let the Judge upon the Bench imagine to himself as if he had a Sword between his thighs and as if Hell was open before him So judge us here whil'st we stand before you that when you come to stand before God you may change your Judgement Seat for Thrones there to sit and judge the Twelve Tribes of Israel Lastly one word of application general to us all and I have done Magistrates are Gods as representing him and doing his work in judgement Then God is Iudge himself and he will judge the World and there is a Iudgement to come and these are but the Prologues to that dreadful Solemnity And it cannot well be that we being helped on by such Monitors should be unmindful of that day these being so lively representatives of it and least we should these are our Annual Remembrancers all we who are but Spectators of others Iudgement must be persons concerned in that upon our own accompts where we all shall have our Last Trial not for Temporal Inheritances but for Eternity The true Notion of Iudgement to come well considered made Felix tremble when he sate upon the Iudgement Seat much more will it have that effect upon us when we come to stand before it Can we hear of the coming of the Iudge and not think of that wherein it is said He cometh to judge the World in Righteousnesse riding his last Circuit upon his Cloudy Chariot Psal xcvi 13. Can you behold the great Conflux of people from every Quarter to this Solemnity and not think of that day wherein he shall call to the heavens from above and the earth beneath to his judgement Psal l. 1 4. Can yee behold the person of the Judge and not think of that man by whom God hath appointed to judge the World Acts xvii 31. Can ye hear the Trumpet sound before the Judge and not think of those formidable Heralds of that Day when he shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised 1 Thess iv Latter End Can ye behold these as the Poet calls it Ignita purpurea so here upon better reason these flaming Scarlet Robes with which the Iudge sits vested and not think of those flaming Robes which that Iudge shall come cloathed with when he shall come in flames to render vengeance upon all ungodlinesse 2 Thess i. 8. Can ye behold the Iudge sit down upon his Seat to take cognisance of all Causes Criminal and Civil and not behold as in a Vision Christ sitting down upon his Seat to take cognisance of all things done in the body whether good or evil 2 Cor. v. 10. Can ye behold the Iustices of the Peace upon the Bench as Iudicis Coassessores Coassessors with the Iudge by joynt suffrage ratifying the sense and proceedings at Law And not think of those Coassessors with the Great Iudge who shall judge the World and sit upon Thrones by joynt suffrage and assent ratifying the proceedings of that Iudge 1 Cor. vi 2. Can ye behold the Gaol delivery the prisoners conducted to the Bar by the Iaylor and surrendred up to Iustice and not think of that great Gaol Delivery wherein Earth and Sea shall give up their dead and small and great shall stand before God Rev. xx 12 13. Can you see the Books opened every mans Case stated Inditements read Witnesses produced and circumstances proved and all fit for Sentence and not think of those Books which shall be opened wherein all our actions are registred and we all shall be judged out of those books Rev. xx at which time there will be imprisonment without Bail Indictment without Ignoramus Conviction without Plea Sentence without Writ of Error Execution without Reprieve and Judgement without Mercy for all Sinners all which though it be the least in mens thoughts yet it shall certainly come and its prudence before-hand to set our selves before that Tribunal And when we behold the guilty felons at the Bar with pale face and akeing hearts let us think every one of us Iam mea res agitur our part is now acting And thus reason Seeing we look for such things what manner of persons ought we to be in all holinesse of conversation and knowing the terrour of the Lord let me persade you to passe the time of our sojourning here in fear Homo timet Regem qui forte cras morietur ne puniat eum non timet à Rege vero in cujus potestate est anima nostra in hoc faeculo in venturo Aben Ezra in Exod. xx 3. We fear the Magistrate who may die too morrow least he should punish us but fear not the great King in whose hand our souls are in this life and that which is to come The Iews have left a good caution behind them Haec tria consideres non incides in manus transgressionis Vnde venis quo tendis coram quo tibi ratio reddenda sit Consider these these three things and thou shalt not fall into hands of transgression Whence thou comest whither thou goest and before whom thou must give an accompt So speak and so do as those that must be judged by the Royal Law the strictest Rule and stand at his Tribunal who is the severest Iudge that we may with freedome go to meet him in the air not having the black stone of condemnation and so to fall but the white stone of Absolution and so to stand in Judgement and be for ever with the Lord. And thou O Father who hast appointed to judge the World by that Man Iesus Christ and wilst convince the World of sin by thy Holy Spirit Send down thy Spirit into our hearts and so blesse these thy servants who are now to judge in endowing them with a Spirit of Iudgement that they may so execute the Iustice of the Lord in this their day that they may not fear to stand before that Great Tribunal in the Day of the Lord. And so blesse and direct us all in our passage through this Valley of Tears that we living in thy fear not to the will of the flesh but to the will of God we may all when we come to meet at that Great Assize be found blamelesse and without spot at his appearing And this we beg for the Sake and in the Name of Iesus Christ our dear Redeemer to whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all Glory and Honour now and ever Amen ●INIS

tuum per nomen ponimus Aras Who was very shy of accepting the Title of Dominus or Lord at first but at last could swallow that of God also Neither was this of so late a descent as Horace and Augustus For good Joseph got a smack by dwelling in Egypt when so frequently he swore by the life of Pharaoh It is most impious flattery to court mortality into Gods Throne And for man either to give or take in this case For the Samaritans to call Antiochus their God though he acted more like a Devil or as the Poet. Edictum Domini Deique nostri To look at the Emperour as Lord and God for Merentius to demand those sacrifices which were prepared for the Gods to be offered up to him as God or for the people to intend to offer sacrifices to the Apostles as so many Gods though they rejected it with Why do you Sirs since we are men of like passions with your selves My Lords when I tell you and that from the Lord that you are Gods I intend not to tell you that you can divide the Sea Cause Jordan to stand up on heaps The Sun to go backwards Or the Moon to stand still hereby to incourage you to lay claim to those unimitable footsteps of his power if I should you would soon convince me as Canutus once King in this Island Cambden in his Remains confuted his Sycophants that told him he was God and could remand the aestuations of the Sea He wrapt up his Cloak on an heap laid it down upon the sand and sitting upon it with his Scepter in his hand Commanded the Sea but it would not obey him I must here say either with that good old Father Tertullian Imperatorem Deum non dicam quia vel mentiri nescio vel eum deridere non Audeo I dare not call the Emperour a God either because I dare not lie or because I dare not deride and mock him Or else I must apologize with Iob xxxii 22. I am not to give flattering Titles to Man for then my Maker would soon reprove me and the next words doth it effectually Ye shall die like men And yet Gods you are Identitate Potestatis Titulis Operis Finis by an oneness of Power Title Work End The Magistrate is 1. Vested with 2. Dignified with 3. Imployed in 4. Directed unto the same Power Titles Work End with God himself In the prosecution of which particulars I would lay down this Rule That what is spoken in Scripture of the Supreme Magistrate holds also true of those that are sent of him and what is spoken of inferiour Magistrates holds more true eminently of the Supreme Thus the Scripture joyns them together 1 Tim. ii 2. For Kings and for all that are in Authority and 1 Pet. ii 13 14. Whether to the King as supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him with the same subordination as all earthly power is into God himself Now to proceed 1. The Magistrate is vested with the same power that God himself is Prejudge not the expression until I clear it The power in God and in the Magistrate is the same God rules by his own power and a Magistrate ruleth by Gods Power so that in both the Power is Divine onely with this difference in God the Power is Connate and Inherent in a Magistrate but Derivative yet their Power because their substitution is Divine is of the same stamp and impression They are Dei Vicarii his Deputy Lieutenants they are the Fingers of that Hand which ruleth the World The Apostle is very expresse for it Rom. xiii 1. All powers that be are of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God not onely as all other Creatures that are the Works of his hands So of him are all things take in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text and that will tell us they are of him not onely as Men but as Magistrates not onely by Creation but Institution by Supreme Ordination over men they are not oney 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too in the stead of As God told Moses he should be to Aaron in stead of God As Ministers beseech Magistrates command 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Christs stead They must needs be Gods before us that are the Representatives of God above us in whose Transactions God himself is concern'd as the Prince is in all the actions of his Minister of State what they do in discharge of their duty they do by him and what they do he is said to do The Judgement is Gods Deut. i. 17. and David is said upon this account to sit upon Gods Throne 2 Chron. ix 8. And Solomon although he sat upon the Throne of his Father David yet he is said to sit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super solium Iehovah upon the Throne of Iehovah They must be Gods that sit upon Gods Throne Hence all the injuries that are done to them devolve upon God himself Ye murmur not against us but against God Numb xvi 11. Hence God and the Magistrate are joyned together in the same Law of Obligation and Obedience He that obeyeth not the Law of God and the Law of the King let judgement be executed upon him Ezra vii 26. The Commands of Magistrates carry in them a God-like Soveraignty not onely over the bodies but over the souls and consciences of men not onely per concomitantiam as the Schools speak but where their Commands crosse and check not the Law of God himself either in the particular Commands or in the general Rules Of it St. Paul saith Rom. xiii 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lepevery Soul be subject to the Higher Powers Some will say Soul there is taken for the Person or Whole Man be it so then it takes in the Soul as well as the Body but the Apostle further explains himself as his own Comment Col 3.22 where he reading a Lecture of subjection and obedience to inferiours saith Not with eye-service as men-pleasers but in singleness of heart fearing God do it heartily as unto the Lord heartily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he tells us there what he meant by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every soul be subject that is from the heart or soul true it is that none can bind the soul or conscience but God himself but then we must take in God in the Magistrate When the Magistrate commands it 's not man in the Magistrate but God in the Magistrate that obligeth he hath Gods power and because Gods power binds a Magistrates doth also So runs the Texts Obey fearing God and as to the Lord and for the Lords sake and let St. Paul be Doctor in Cathedra and he will soon determine the Case Rom. 13.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not for wrath meerly to secure the body from punishment and to avoid mans displeasure but for conscience sake out of