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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16342	Two sermons preached at Northampton at two severall assises there The one in the time of the shrevalty of Sir Erasmus Dryden Baronet. Anno Domini, 1621. The other in the time of the shrevalty of Sir Henry Robinson Knight, anno Domini, 1629. By Robert Bolton ... Published by E.B.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.	1635 (1635)	STC 3256; ESTC S106258	56,433	110

of murderous complotments as no age or story can possibly parallell Whereas on the other side that knife that could but strik out the teeth of Henry the fourth while he stucke to the truth of GOD and true Religion upon the pulling downe the Pyramis for their gratification and admitting againe those bloody firebrands and cut-throats of Christendome the Iesuits had power to take away his life Secondly consider that counsell given to great ones Psal. 2.10 11 12. Be wise now therefore O yee Kings be instructed yee Iudges of the earth serve the LORD with feare and rejoyce with trembling Risse the Sonne least he be angry Here Princes Iudges and all that beare Authority are charged to lay hold both upon imputed and inherent righteousnesse Kisse the Sonne entertaine and embrace IESUS CHRIST blessed for ever bleeding upon the Crosse for your sinnes and sakes and sweetly and amiably offering himselfe to all broken hearts in the armes of your faith love and everlasting affection And serve the LORD in feare Let the feare of GOD be ever before your eyes in all places at all times about all affaires and thereupon neither thinke nor speake nor doe neither judge nor plead nor being in verdict c. But so as you would be content when it is new done to goe immediatly to give an account of it before the high and everlasting Iudge otherwise this Sonne whom you should Kisse and to whom all Iudgement is committed Iohn 5.22 will be angry and if once a fire be kindled in his anger against an impenitent wretch that hates to be reformed it will burne unto the bottome of hell and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines And howsoever you may carry things faire to the worlds eye in the meane time yet assure your selves very shortly for that day hasteneth apace all the judgements pleadings sentences verdicts which have passed against IESUS CHRIST the truth any good cause or a good conscience they shall all be reversed and repealed before that last and highest Tribunall in the face of heaven and earth before Angels men and Devils and there and then you shall be horribly universally and everlastingly shamed be then advised before hand and in the Name of GOD take heed what ye doe Thirdly for our purpose let us ponder well those properties which the Scriptures require in a man of place Exod. 18.21 Deu. 1.13 They are seven in all foure in the first three in the second place I name them not in their order you shall finde them all in the Text Magistrates should be First Able men apt to fill the place with some competency of parts and equallity of worth to answer and sustaine the heat and burthen of it with a fit sufficiency of endowments ability activenesse and industry There ever ought to be a convenient correspondency betweene the importance of the place and the capacity of the party It is a thousand pitties to see in a Church and Common-weale many places full and yet so few filled when there is no proportion nay a vast distance betweene the height or rather the weight of the place and the weakenesse worthlesnesse if not the notorious wikednesse of that unworthy person who either by a golden violence or temporising basenesse hath most impudently thrust himielfe into it Secondly Wise sapient men Such as are skil-full in the Theory nature mystery and meaning of the place and Office into which they are to be preferred A man can never happily execute and successefully any function office or Art which is not learned in the speculative part before he descend unto the practicke Is it fit thinke you for a man to plead at the Barre before he hath well studyed and profitably passed thorow the course of the Common-law If a Physician should fall to practise before he be skilled in Hypocrates Galen in the natures causes signes symptoms prognosticks and remedies of diseases he is like enough to kill all before him Proportionable miseries and mischiefe may be expected and ensue when important places are prest into and undertaken without habituall understanding and speculative skill what belongs unto them It is a pittifull thing when a man will needes thrust into publicke imployments onely for the gaine and honour and depend upon others for the discharge of them or else doe them beastlily Thirdly Prudent So fitly rendred by Iunius approved also by Vatablus that great Professour of the Hebrew tongue They must not onely be Sapient if I may so speake and it cannot possibly be otherwise exprest in the English tongue but also Prudent endowed with a practicall dexterity and discretion to order wisely all the particulars in the execution of their place This prudence which is as the Moralists speake the generall Queene superintendent and guide of all other vertues Auriga virtutum without which there is nothing good beautifull fit and decent being sanctified especially will enable them by comparing one thing with another by well weighing all accidents circumstances appurtinances times persons places c. to guide and manage all the severall passag●●f their publicke charges with wisdome equity and impartiality It consists principally in three things which are all of one ranke to consult deliberate well to judge and resolve well to conduct and execute well It hath a chiefe stroke in affaires of judicature to moderate rigour with equity That you may more clearely apprehend the necessity of adding this to the former requisite in a good Magistrate take an instance or two It is not enough for a Minister of GOD to be a good Scholler and preach generall truths though I confesse a great deale of learning is required in euery Minister of our times I say besides his speculative Divinity and ability to preach he must exercise a prudent zeale to winde himselfe by the Word into the consciences and affections of men to convince and cast them downe and so conduct them thorow the pangs of the new birth into the holy path he must labour to adde to the excellency of learning the art of converting else woe unto the people that are under him It is not enough for a Iustice of Peace to have a good revenew and rich attire and to present himselfe solemnly upon the Bench every Sessions and Assize but he must be skilfull in the duties of his office and Statutes so farre as they concerne it other wise he will sit but as an Idoll or cipher upon that Tribunall which requires a great deale of understanding and action Nay and not onely so knowledge in the duties of his place though never so univer●●●l and exact will not serve the turne except he be also active and imployed Being thus furnished with speculative abilities and wisdome for that purpose he must take to heart the good of the Country out of conscience labour and pray for an holy dexterity to discover and dive into the depth of the Devils Agents their combinations haunts and hypocrisies to search businesses that are brought