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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29687	The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered in LVIII sermons from Heb. 12. 14, where you have the necessity, excellency, rarity, beauty and glory of holiness set forth, with the resolution of many weighty questions and cases, also motives and means to perfect holiness : with many other things of very high and great importance to all the sons and daughters of men, that had rather be blessed then cursed, saved then damned / by Thomas Brooks ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4939; ESTC R36378	584,294	672

looked upon as noble and necessary justice that all insurrections in the State be punished as Rebellion and shall those who are daily up in open arms against the great God and that daily bid defiance to him to his Son to his Ordinances to his people to his word and to his wayes escape without the least lash the least censure Shall those that rob their neigbours though it be but to the value of five shillings yea lesse be indited examined condemned and executed and shall others that rob God of his glory of his Sabboths and of his service c. escape without the least shaking of the rod or without the least danger of the whip Shall all prophan●sse loosnesse and wickednesse be winked at yea countenanced and encouraged notwithstanding his Majesties most Zealous pious and renowned Declaration against it and shall real holinesse and the power of godlinesse be on all hands scorned discountenanced opposed and reviled and yet no man say What means these things Well my Lords and Gentlemen for ever remember this All those sins that are in this Land committed which by your just power and gracious examples might have been prevented all those sins in the great day shall be charged upon your accounts and therefore it highly concerns you with all your might to brow-beat wickednesse to discountenance ungodlinesse and to improve your power to the uttermost for the suppressing of all prophanesse and for the countenancing encouraging and promoting of real holinesse that so you may give up your accounts at last with joy I have read of King Ethelbert how that by his godly example and by his countenancing and encouraging such as were godly and by his discountenancing of prophanesse and wickednesse he drew this whole Kingdom once to look after godlinesse Oh my Lords and Gentlemen if you would be but shining examples and patterns of holinesse to the Nation if you would but in good earnest put forth your utmost power for the encouraging of godlinesse and for the suppressing of prophanesse O what a holy Nation yea what a happy Nation should we have King Cyrus commanded the chief officers of his Army to keep a strict hand upon themselves for saith he that is the best way in the world to keep the whole Army in good order the application is easie But Eighthly In the exercise of justice you must look that justice and mercy that justice and clemency go hand in hand Prov. 20.28 Prov. 29.14 Psalm 101.1 Mercy and truth preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by mercy Some read the words thus It is usual in Scripture by Truth to understand Iustice Mercy and justice preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by mercy All justice will not preserve the King nor all mercy will not preserve the King there must be a mixture both of justice and mercy to preserve the King and to uphold his Throne and to shew that mercy is more requisite then justice the word Mercy is doubled in the Text. Justice without Mercy turns into rigour and so becomes hateful Mercy without Justice turns into fond pity and so becomes contemptible Look as the rod of Aaron and the pot of Manna were by Gods command laid up in the same Ark so must mercy and justice be preserved intire in the bosom of the same Magistrate King John thought to strengthen himself by gathering a great deal of money together but neglecting the exercise of mercy clemency and lenity he lost his peoples affections and so after many endless turmoyles he came to an unhappy end Iudge and Iustice Mercy and justice mildnesse and righteousnesse lenity and fidelity are a safer and a stronger guard to Princes and People then rich Mines munitions of Rocks mighty Armies powerful Navies or any warlike preparations It is very observable that Christ is called but once the Lion of the Tribe of Judah in the book of the Revelation and that is in chap. 5.5 but he is called a Lamb no lesse then nine and twenty times in that book and what is this but to shew the transcendent mercy clemency lenity mildnesse and sweetnesse that is in Jesus Christ and to shew that he is infinitely more inclined to the exercise of mercy then he is to the exercise of justice It is true Magistrates Judges and Justices should be Lions in the execution of justice and it is as true that they should be Lambs in the exercise of mercy and clemency mildn●sse and sweetnesse And the more ready and inclinable they are to the exercise of mercy where mercy is to be shewed the more like to the Lamb they are Seneca hath long since observed that the custom of anointing Kings was to shew that Kings should be above all other men of the greatest sweetnesse and mildnesse their anointing being a sign of that Kingly sweetnesse and mildnesse that should be in them Nero's speech hath great praise who when he was to subscribe to the death of any condemned man would say Utinam nescirem literas I wish I did not know how to write But Ninthly and lastly you must do justice proportionable to the nature of the offence your penalties and punishments must be alwayes suitable to the offence to punish any fact more severely then it deserves is alwayes injustice to the offendour for so far innocency it self suffers as any man is punished beyond the demerit of his offence I have read of the River Nilus that if it either exceed or be defective in its due overflowings of the land of Egypt it causeth famine the application is easie Cleobulus one of the seven Sages was wont to say that Mediocrity was without compare and to punish lesse then the Fact deserves may be of dangerous consequence to the publike The Roman Fasces were a bundle of rods with an Ax in the midst to signifie the equity of Magistrates in punishing some only with reds and others with the Ax the Romans had their rods for lesser faults and their Ax for capital crimes Justice is then remiss when it spares where it ought to punish and Justice is then too s●vere when it punisheth where it ought to spare Extream right often proves extream wrong he that will alwayes go to the utmost of what the Law allows will too too often do more then the Law requires it is rare very rare to see a man dance upon the brink of the pit and not to tumble in A rigid-severity often mars all equity is still to be preferred before extremity To inflict great penalties and heavy censures for light offences this is to kill a Fly upon a mans fore-head with a Beetle In the French History there is mention made of an old Courtier that would needs depart the Court and retire himself to a private life the King desired him before he went to leave his advice in some general Rules what was best to be done in the Government of the Kingdom Upon which motion he took a fair