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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80874	A sermon preached July 17. 1676. in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York, before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and the Honourable Vere Bertie Esquire, one of the barons of the Exchequer; His Majesties judges of assize for the Northern Circuit By Thomas Cartwright D.D. and Dean of Ripon, chaplain in ordiary to His Majesty.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1676 (1676)	Wing C703A; ESTC R231183	17,951	45

Imprimatur G. Jane R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à Sacris Dom. Aug. 13. 1676. A SERMON Preached July 17. 1676. IN THE Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York Before the Right Honourable Sir FRANCIS NORTH Lord Chief Justice of the Common PLEAS And the Honourable VERE BERTIE Esquire One of the Barons of the EXCHEQUER His MAJESTIES JUDGES of Assize for the Northern Circuit BY THOMAS CARTWRIGHT D. D. And DEAN of Ripon Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY In the SAVOY Printed by Thomas Newcomb and are to be sold by Richard Lambert Bookseller in York 1676. To the Right Worshipful Sir EDMUND JENNINGS Knight High Sheriff of the County of YORK SIR AS I owe you my Thanks for the Honour you did me in thinking me worthy to be imployed in so Publick a Service as that to which this Discourse relates so I think it would be more than a Venial Sin to offer such a violence to Gratitude as to decline your Commands for the Publication of it I will not therefore use any thing which may look like an Excuse but instantly shew how inclinable I am to prefer your Judgment before my own and beg leave to prefix your Name before that which the Nature of the Subject no less than the Obligations of the Preacher have made wholly yours The chief design of the Sermon was to convince them that heard it that our greatest Security under Heaven is the Wisdom of our Laws the vigorous Execution whereof would remove those manifold Mischiefs which the Relaxation of them hath bred and will cherish among us Your Eminent Loyalty is such that I have good reason to believe you love the Sermon for the Subjects sake and if there be not also a Power in your Judgment to oblige others to have a good opinion of it I shall account my self strong enough to abide their Censures whilst I have you on my side and endeavour to make my self the more valuable in the World by your Friendship with the continuation whereof you can Honour none who puts a greater value upon it and who is more sincerely than I am Ripon Aug. 7. 1676. SIR Your most obliged and humble Servant THO. CARTWRIGHT JUDGES 17. 6. In those days there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes THe first and great Reason of Humane Laws and Dominion is a Prevision that all men will not be a Law unto themselves so as to do their Duty for love or fear of God and therefore though there be Judgments to come in the next Life denounced against all Crimes committed in this yet did God in the very Infancy of the World make an Edict for Magistracy so that the Civil Power doth derive its Pedigree from Heaven and is a part of the Government over Mankind in which God useth the Ministry of Angels and the service of Men and it hath accordingly in all Ages been found absolutely necessary for the preservation of Community Peace and Piety not to leave persons to terrours at such a distance as are those of Christs second coming to judge the World in Righteousness but to put the Sword of Vengeance into one Mans hand here on Earth for the benefit of all because if Men should be let loose to their licentious freedom wickedness would increase among them even to cruelty nor would Good Men have any better security than Lambs in a Forest of many Wolves if there were not some present restraints for such exorbitant Offenders whom the determents of the Life to come could not over-rule into subjection that they might at least obey for wrath if not for Conscience sake We are like Children in their Minority not fit to be trusted to our own conduct but to be secured at the publick charge of our Superiours to whom next under God and his good Angels we are most beholding for our safety Our Breath of our Nostrils is not more necessary for our being than our Princes Sovereignty is to our well-being for were he not armed with Authority to over-power Evil doers the Purse-proud-man would oppress the Poor the Crafty circumvent the Simple the weaker party be continually exposed to the spoil and rapine of the stronger and we prostituted to the exorbitant Lust of every turbulent and domineering Spirit who could prevail to lord it over us From hence we may easily conclude That those days must needs be evil wherein the Civil Government is Unhinged when the ancient and unquestionable Sovereignty over any People is cut off of which sad spectacle your Eyes and mine have been deploring Witnesses For what Isaias foretold was fulfilled in these days The People were oppressed every one by another Isai 3. 5. and every one by his Neighbour the Child did behave himself proudly against the Ancient and the Base against the Honourable When there was No King in Israel every one was more than a King to himself which is the greatest Judgment that can befal a Rebellious People in this World For better any one a King than every one a King and yet every one is more than a King if he may do without controul what is right in his own Eyes and therefore we are the most Ingrateful Wretches in the World and fit to be condemned to such repeated Confusions if we do not bless God both with our Lips and in our Lives for the Re-establishment of that Regal Authority to which we so evidently owe the preservation of our Order our Peace and our Religion and indeed of every other good thing which is and ought to be dear unto us Moses was the first King in Israel and when he absented himself from the People but for forty days they Calv'd themselves a Molten Image and became such Beastly Idolaters as to fall down and worship it Their new fashion in Religion which they took up in his absence as ridiculous as it was was quickly followed by the Crowd and their God of Gold though but a Calf indeed did not long want Worshippers His next immediate Successor was Joshua and as soon as he was dead Micha and his old doating Mother made them both Gods and Priests and from what occasion these abominable Disorders sprang my Text tells you the true reason was There was no King in Israel none to prohibite or punish such Prophanations and so bless God or blaspheme him be of any or no Religion come to Church or stay at home follow any Seducer though never so dangerous embrace any Heresie though never so damnable or espouse any Faction though never so desperate and seditious turn Idolaters or commit Sacriledge every Man may do what he lists when there is no Publick Magistrate to call him to an account for it Thrice more we read in holy Scripture this Burden of the same Lamentation repeated that There was no King in Israel and this upon no less occasions than Idolatry and abominable Lusts and with no less pernicious consequences and effects than