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A19756	A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of the citie of Waterford in Febr. 1617. before the Right Honorable the Lord President of Munster, and the state: as also, before Sr William Iones knight, Lord Chiefe Iustice of Ireland, and Gerrard Loder Esquire, one of the iudges of the Common Pleas, the then iustices of assize held in the same place. At which time the charter of the same citie, being by diuers iuries found forfeit, was lastly surrendred. By Robert Daborne chancelor of the said cathedrall church of Waterford.	Daborne, Robert, d. 1628.	1618 (1618)	STC 6183; ESTC S109200	14,058	48

A SERMON PREAched in the Cathedrall Church of the Citie of Waterford in Febr. 1617. Before the Right Honorable the Lord President of Munster and the State AS ALSO Before S r William Iones Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of Ireland and Gerrard Loder Esquire one of the Iudges of the Common Pleas the then Iustices of Assize held in the same place At which time the Charter of the same Citie being by diuers Iuries found forfeit was lastly surrendred By ROBERT DABORNE Chancelor of the said Cathedrall Church of Waterford ROM 11.33 Oh the deepnesse of the riches both of the wisedome and knowledge of God! how vnsearchable are his Iudgements and his wayes past finding out Printed at London for H. Gosson 1618. TO THE TRVLY ennobled Donogh O Bryan Baron of Ibrackan Earle of Thomond and Lord President of the Prouince of Munster in the Kingdome of IRELAND Robert Daborne wisheth the increase of all Honours and the fruition of his sanctified desires RIGHT HONORABLE AS all Vertue findes both originall and perfection in Christian Religion so especially Gratitude that if I would deliuer in a word what our Profession teaches it should bee this To bee thankfull And though my ablest endeauor assisted with most fauourable acceptance can neuer render mee more then willing to deserue the greatnesse of your H bounties yet if I onely of many my Brethren as who knowes your Honor truly but must confesse you a Father of our Nation come back with the Samaritane to make publique acknowledgement as it can no way take from the constancie of your goodnesse so it addes this benefit to mee that I haue some testimony of my desire to pay as I haue many witnesses of my debt Not to trouble your Lordship with much as the wisdome of Kings best appeares in their election of Vicegerents and Counsellors An example where of wee haue in Salomon and his Sonne Roboam 1 King 12. So the Lord grant in preferring such Religious and truely Honourable Personages as your Lordship to the seat of Iustice we his Maiesties loyall Subiects may euer continue to admire his high Iudgment and daily blesse the Lord for him Your Honors faithfull Seruant and Chaplaine ROB DABORNE A Sermon preached at Waterford in Ireland Right Honourable Right Reuerend Worshipfull and Beloued in the truely louing and best beloued Christ Iesus my Meditations to bee expressed at this time for your edification are grounded vpon that parcell of the word of God which you shall finde written in the 11. Chap. of the Prophecy of the Prophet Zachary the 7. Ver. the last part of the Verse And I tooke vnto mee two staues the one I called Beauty and the other I called Bands and I fed the flocke THe Scripture as man consists of a Soule and a Body the Letter is the Body the Sence is the Soule There is a Law for both to both Explication of the Letter Application of the Sence the Ecclesiasticall Law to direct the soule the Sword of the Magistrate to gouerne the body both agree to this time to this place both meet in my Text the first is called Beauty the other Bands What I haue receiued that I shal deliuer what I deliuer shal become you to receiue God which is the Creator of the meanes knowes best how to dispose the means He which in the Gospell was restored to his sight excepted not against the clay neyther abhorred the spittle Holy Iob despised not the counsel of his seruant it Naaman had not bin ruled by his Bond-woman hee had died in his leprosie Matter and Breuity if wee beleeue Fulgentius are two maine vertues in a Preacher though I haue onely the first in my desires you shal b● sure of the last which is in my power And I tooke vnto me two staues c. Wherein I obserue an action Feeding an Actor I I am that I am God The Obiect circa quod the Flock The means of feeding in quantitie two in qualitie excellent forcible Beauty Bands And I tooke vnto me two staues c. That Feeding is taken for ordering and gouerning Psal. 78. the last Verses Hee chose Dauid also his seruant and took him from the Sheep-fold to feede his people in Iacob and his inheritance in Israel So bee fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart and guided them by the discretion of his hands According to that 2. Sam. 5. Thou shalt feed my people in Israel and be a Captaine in Israel To come neerer to you 2. Sam. 7.7 I commanded the Iudges to feede my people Israel And that you may not thinke this gouernment only belongs to the Temporall Magistrate S. Paul 1 Tim. 5.17 tels you The Elders that rule well are worthy of double honour And that yee may not thinke the word Rule is heere meant onely Preaching in the same Chapter he tels Bishop Timothy what Witnesses hee shall allow of in what manner hee shall rebuke and aboue all that hee be not partiall And as our Sauiour giueth in the person of Peter warrant sufficient to all Elders to feed and to gouerne the flocke so S. Peter expounding the intent of Christ in the first of Peter giueth as ample authoritie to all Bishops as well as to the Pope to feede and gouerne in these words The Elders which are amongst you I beseech who also am an Elder not Dominus Dominantium that you feede the Flocke which dependeth upon you gouerning it not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a free and ready minde Now if Bozius tell you Saint Peter spoke not to the Pope here considering his manners in the effects I am content to beleeue him That the Actor or Feeder heere is God is as S. Ierome tels you vpon this place that Iudges may know they doe onely supplere vicem Dei supply Gods place not sit in their owne When thou commest vnto the people of Israel saith God to Moses Exod. 3.14 Thou shalt say vnto them I am hath sent mee vnto you All power is giuen from God and Iudgement from aboue Wild. 6.1 And I charged your Iudges at that time saying Iudge rightly between euery man and his neighbour for the Iudgement is Gods Deut. 16. Hence comes our reuerence hence should come your zeale your feare God visits vs by you but he will visit you by himselfe Ier. 5.29 The Obiect or people fed are named The flocke that you may feed not fleece them and that wee which are vnder your gouernment may behaue our selues not as Wolues rauening not as Dogs enuying barking at and tearing one another not as Foxes subtill and crafty not as Swine luxurious vncleane not as Horses proud stubborne but as Sheepe tractable gentle innocent that these Iudges which are set of GOD may finde vs such in their Circuit as we would be found at the generall Assize by the Iudge of Iudges Christ Iesus when he will acknowledge vs by the name of Sheepe euen the blessed of his Father and seperate

Sodomorū Vox oppressorum merces retenta laborum And because the first two are notorious of the third wee haue spoken I cannot forget to touch the fourth which is the withholding the reward of the labourer seeing hee is amongst the most oppressed and it is your duty to support him I neede not tell you that the faithfull Minister is a true laborer a painefull watchman 1. Ez. 3. though it may be in some places they are not husbandmen as Paul cals them the 1. Cor. 3. but Haruest-men known onely to their Parishioners when they come to gather their tithes tanquam stratonicles in auream messem reaping where they doe not sowe I shall not neede to tell you who withhold their wages your Courts haue their names in black rowles as God has them in his black booke but I say you are to support them that haue their wages withholden you are with Ezra to make hast in restoring the Church to her rights to bestow trauell nay and cost too for the rebuilding the Temple of the Lord but alas our number of Brick is required at our hands but the allowance of straw is taken away nay there is daily more Brick required the poore Minister is forced to attend at the Assises and Sessions to present Recusants at his owne cost abroad who hath not wherewith to feede him at home if this be not an oppression I am sure it is to deuide the punishment inconsideratly as Dauid did the inheritance betweene Mephisbosheth and Ziba a good man and a wicked 2 Sam. 19. Sanabimur si separemur a caetu saith Seneca and I am sure it is Religious seeing God hath put vs apart from the people not to lay burdens vpon vs to impouerish vs to the contempt of the people but I speake to the wise lesse then a word is heere sufficient Lastly the wages of the poore souldier is to be lookt vnto a true laborer that hath sweat his blood for his Country The sonne of Syrack in the 26. of Eccle. 29. saith there are two things which grieued his heart A man of war that suffered pouerty and a man of vnderstanding that is not set by They haue a rule in the Gospell to be content with their pay but there is no law to see them miserable for want of pay let vs not vse them as we doe our chimnies creep to them in winter and stand aloofe from them in Summer No let vs deale with them as wee doe with plants cherish and prune them in our spring that wee freely may tast their fruit in the fall I note them as cares worthy your intertainment Let Esau speake neuer so friendly he hopes yet a day of mourning will come let vs preuent it by our Charity by Iustice by Prayers But he that is wicked to himselfe to whom can he be good therefore to this fourth property of support I adioined a fourth qualtitie in a Iudge to hate Couetousnesse it is well obserued that the Mountaines where gold growes beare neither grasse nor graine hearb nor tree so where the loue of the World couetousnesse raignes there is no hope no expectation of support let gold be interposed betweene God and the conscience of the Iudge once like the earth betweene the Sun and the Moone we shall haue an Ecclipse But wherefore should I speake so much of the vices of Iudges Surely Right Honourable to your exceeding great prais Qui malos corrigit laudat bonos he that inueighs against sin extolles vertue He that hath beene the least while a Iudge in this place hauing left Iacobs stone in the highest Court of our kingdome to witnesse the integrity of his conscience that God I say hath appeared vnto him I speake it with great ioy the chiefest in place of Iustice whom I haue beene so happy to know haue afforded matter of reuerence to me matter of admiration reuerence towards their vertues admiration in the goodnesse of God who hath his Melchisedeck in Salem his lot in Sodom Be thankfull oh be truely thankefull to God beloued brethren that he hath not beheld our sins with the eye of seuerity sinne being the cause that in all ages he hath set ouer rebellious people cruell and wicked gouernors Mich. 3. He hath not I say dealt with vs as he hath done with other Nations The memory of Elizabeth as that of Iosias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the Apothecary it is sweete as hony in all mouthes and as Musique at a banquet of wine Eccle. 49.1 As for our Solomon whom the Lord grant long to sway the Scepter of these Kingdomes euen one of his seede rightly seruing the Lord to the ends of the world our posterity shall say of him that he reigned in a peaceable time and was glorious for God made all quiet round about that he might build a house in his name and prepare the Sanctuary for euer we may say truely of him that he hath guided vs with a discreete hand and appointed worthy gouernors ouer vs such as with Moses haue put of their shooes their desires of the World before they haue approched to the bush of the Lord such whose memories we haue cause to blesse and whose posterity shall inherit the Land FINIS

exceeding great foolishnesse that Wee in Temporall affaires are subiect to none As I say we iustifie the Pope to be Antichrist for vsurping both Swords so we confesse Damascen Bishop of Rome was a good Bishop and Martyr who suffered for the liberties of the Church In this mans time the deuise of the Bishops of Rome might haue well beene a blanck paper opposed to a burning glasse the word Candor illaesus The Arms of the Church being then teares and praiers at nunc horrentia martis now they are swords targets and gunpowder I feare I haue leaned too long vpon this staffe but my conscience the more inforceth me because I assure my selfe the want of that respect and power the Ordinary ought to retaine is a maine cause of so many being in this place Recusant Briefely then that you may know by Beauty is heere meant the Ecclesiasticall gouernment besides the verses following my Text which confirme it which shewing that both staues were broken and foolish shepheards set ouer the people it particularly giueth vs to vnderstand that this staffe of Beauty was broken for the sins of the Priests and the staffe of Bands for the sinnes of the Prince and his Subiects The Prophet Dauid I say in the 19. Psal. telleth vs that the statutes of the Lord are right reioycing the heart the commandements of the Lord are bright enlightning the eyes And Saint Paul in the 2. of the Corinths 3. If the old Law the Law of condemnation were beautifull were glorious much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in glory Oh that we could as truly say the discipline of our Church were as fruitfull as Leah as we can say she is beautifull as Rachel nay beauty it selfe not in the concreat but in the abstract according to the words of my Text And I tooke vnto me two staues the one I called Beauty and the other I called Bands and I fed the flock But why are both Lawes Spirituall and Temporall called Staues because they ought to haue these foure properties of a staffe to direct to correct to defend to support They must direct all correct the wicked defend from the oppressor support the oppressed And that the stone may be hewed out and fitted to the line Iethro placeth Iustice vpon a cube or square painting out a good Iudge with foure answerable qualities Exod. 18.21 Prouide saith he to Moses amongst all the people able men that is for direction fearing God not men that is for correction dealing truly that is for defence hating couetousnesse that is for support Of these as the spirit of God shall inable me your respectiue patience incourage me and the time permit First a Iudge must direct therefore vnderstanding is required in a Iudge ignorantia Iudicis populi calamitas woe be vnto that people who haue Children for their Kings and Gouernors Eccle. 10.16 and Ecclus. 11. 7. vnderstand first and then reforme righteously Cassbodore giues vs the reason why learned and skilfull men in the Law should be chosen Iudges quia non facile erroris vitio sordescit quem doctrina purgauit learning saith he is the best preseruer from vice and error and that you may not thinke only Iudges of Assise and Bishops ought to be learned in the aforenamed Ex. 18. Let able men be chosen to be Iudges ouer hundreds ouer fifties ouer tens It is worthy your eare your regard who haue power to constitute Iudges ouer inferior Courts the seed-beds of corruption oppression but he must direct then he must expound the law directly he must be Iudex ius dicens as our Ilands Oracle wel obserued not ius-faciēs he must pronounce Law not make Law which he does when he either wrests it or interprets it falsely Againe dirigit qui directè it he directeth who goes directly but he that lookes aside can hardly goe directly he that is blinde cannot goe directly he that is a respecter of persons he lookes aside non consideres personam pauperis Leuit. 19. Thou shalt not consider the person of the poore nor behold the countenance of the rich but judge thy neighbour iustly And he that takes a bribe cannot see at all Eccle. 20.18 Rewards and gifts blind the eyes of the wise and make them dumb that they cannot reproue faults Of the first Laertius giues vs an excellent example of one Bion a yong man newly made a Iudge whom a familiar of his meeting as he was going to the Bench runs to him crying out friend Bion I am glad I haue met you you are mistaken Sir saies Bion I left your friend at my house whither if you come when the Court is vp you will finde him ready to intertaine you Oh! had Achab remembred this when being daz●led by the name of his friend Benhadab 1. King 20. Hee could not see to doe Iustice vpon the enemy of God he had not died so miserably Had wretched Pilate not beene lured out of the way of Iustice by the name of Cesars friend he had washt his hands truely in innocency Iohn 19.12 I exhort you therefore in the name of the euer liuing God who is no respecter of persons as Moses did the Israelites against Idolatry Deut. 13.6 seeing this friendship is enmitie with God Iames 4 4. That if thy Brother the Sonne of thy Mother or thy wife that lieth in thy bosome or thy friend which is as thy owne soule shall intice thee secretly saying I pray winke at the sinne of my tenant giue way to the putting off a Triall which is brought against me but till next Assise or I pray entertaine my aduersary roughly that he may be disheartened to seeke for Iustice I beseech thee consent not vnto it for why he that stall respect the person in iudgement mine ●ie shall be vpon that man to cut him off from Israel saith the Lord Deut. 16. As for bribes let Tytus motto be thine non habet euentus sordida praeda bonos The end of filthy gaine is miserable The Iudges in the old Law sate in the gates of the Citie to auoid suspition of bribery and for easie and vnsuspected accesse Now we know that the way to a Magistrates chamber may be open his hands may be free but as in a Salmon weire the returne may be hard there may be certaine sharp prickers at the dore which will draw blood of him if he depart before he pay tythe But if a Iudge will florish like an Oliue tree he must haue the property of an Oliue tree which as Solinus tels vs growes not onely smooth it selfe but suffers no bryer to grow neere it quifacit per alium facit perse now if a Iudge will receiue bribes either directly or indirectly if Troy will be wonne with gifts heere be Greekes will soone be Masters of it But wise Laocon will cry out timeo Danaos dona ferentes they will know he was a Heathen that said profit smelt wel whence soeuer it came and with Christian Saint