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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29123	A sermon preached at the minster in Yorke at the assizes there holden, the thirtieth day of March, 1663 / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4138; ESTC R34267	29,067	58

and piety were but hypocrisie and certainly he was all this while but a wicked man and now God had found him out and punish't him for it nay to lay his accusation the more close and home they fall to instances and charge him with particulars clean contrary to these vertues that here he mentions Thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought and stripped the naked of their cloathing thou hast not given water to the weary to drink and thou hast witholden bread from the hungry Job 22.6 7. In such a case of calumny can any man blame the good man if he do insist more then ordinarily in his just vindication by putting in his just defence against their unjust allegations for the clearing of his uprightnesse innocency and integrity as in the Text Where by the way let us take up this Observation Obser That there 's not the wisest the justest nor the uprightest Magistrate that can with all his integrity justice or sincerity free himselfe from the calumnies and obloquies of wicked and unreasonable men Was there ever a juster Magistrate then Moses was that governed the people by immediate direction from God himselfe yet how often do we hear that unthankfull people murmuring against him and against Aaron many times were ready to stone them what do we thinke of Solomon the wisest of the sonns of men Jedidiah the beloved of the Lord who had the priviledge to ask at the hand of God what he would and had what he ask't a spirit of wisedome and understanding that he might wisely go in and out before the people 1 Kings 3.5 yet what grumblings and murmurings of the people were there under his governement in what a mutinous manner doe they come to Rehoboam the young King with their seditious petition 1 Kings 12.4 Make our yoke easier and our burthen lighter thy Father made our yoke grievous and our burthen heavy belike the had charged them with some Carts and Carriages to fetch home some of the materialls that were for the building of the Temple or required some Contribution toward the charge of that great work and oh what a grievance this was make thou our yoke easier and burthen lighter So when Kings and Princes and great Magistrates have done their best and laid out themselves with their utmost endeavours for the good of their people and made it their very study and their businesse to preserve their peace and to guide them with a faithfull and a true heart and to rule them prudently with all their power This is the thanks they have from unworthy people to be clamour'd upon to be charged with Tyrany oppression and cruelty if any thing be amisse in a whole Kingdome if all parties be not pleased which is impossible presently they fall upon the Rulers and Governours not sparing the highest when God knowes the cause of those distempers are in themselves 2 Sam 24.1 we read that God was angry with Israell and he moved David to number the people here was a great judgement in the Land it swept away in three dayes threescore and tenne thousand of the Subjects marke how this plague took its rise it was in the people God was angry with Israell and he moved David to muster the people his anger was not against David but against Israell 't was the cold of the feet that strucke up to the head and caused that distemper But let not Kings nor Magistrates be discouraged in the execution of their Offices and performance of the duties of their High-calling for all this let them not thinke the worse of themselves for the obloquies of those mutinous tongues that speake evill of them but let them remember they are under the care of him that is able to deliver them from the strivings of the people and under the protection of that mighty power which is able to still the raging of the Sea and the madnesse of the people as raging as it is when they set a madding and will subdue the people that is under them Psal No man could have greater discouragements and affronts then this holy Ruler had yet the more they opposed or resisted the greater courage did he take unto himselfe to suppresse their insolencies for which purpose He put on Justice and it clothed him and his judgement was as a Robe and a Diadem c. In which words we have a perfect Character of a worthy Magistrate a Prince a King any in high place and power to execute judgement and it consists of four Parts 1. His love to Justice with his zeal care and conscience duly to execute it in the 14 verse I put on Justice and it cloathed me and my Judgment was a Robe and as a Diadem upon me 2. His inclination to mercy compassion where he found stirr Objects for it in the 15 verse I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame and a father to the poor 3. His paines and patience his care and diligence in examining of the Causes that came before him for finding out of the truth that so he might give judgment in them without error in the later part of the 16 verse The cause which I knew not I searched out 4. His courage in executing justice and judgment upon offenders when he had by diligent search found them guilty though they were never so great or never so insolent never so mighty I brake the jaws of the wicked and I pluckt the preyout of his teeth First He pluckt the prey out of their teeth by causing them to make restitution and satisfaction for the wrong they had done And secondly he break their jaws that they should do so no more Of these something in the order proposed as the time and businesse of the day will permit And first of the first part of his character in his love and care and zeal to execute Justice and Judgment exprest in the words of the 14 verse I put on Justice and it cloathed me and my Judgement was as a Robe and as a Diadem upon me In which words are exprest two things concerning the Magistrate first his Office secondly his Honour his Office in these words I put on Justice and it clothed me his Honour in these words my Judgment was as a Robe and as a Diadem in the former we have his duty and in the latter his dignity the former is intimated to us by this expression of putting on Justice and being clothed with it a metaphor which the Scripture much delighteth in Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ Rom 13.14 Put on bowells of mercy Coloss 3. Put on the whole armour of God Ephes 6. so in the Text here I put on Justice and it clothed me intimating thereby that look what clothing is to the body that was Justice unto him Now we put on clothes for these three uses first to cover our nakednesse and so they are indumenta for a covering secondly to protect us from the injury of