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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33648	The magistrates support and burden in a sermon preached at the late election of the lord major for the famous city of London, Sept. 28, 1650 / by John Cardell.	Cardell, John.	1650 (1650)	Wing C493; ESTC R38649	31,445	46

Excellency in sanctified Experience It shews a man his own weakness It lets others aswel as himself see what strength he hath received from God And it may at least help to put a man upon the Amendment of all his former failings All and each of which advantages are utterly wanting to him that wants Experience But before I leave these things that I have thus briefly hinted about Age and about Experience Cautions about Gravity Experienc● I shall here put you in some certain Cautions concerning both which may and shall serve as so many Vses of the Point First we must take heed of confining God 1 Caution God not to 〈◊〉 confined un●● days year● unto Dayes and Years any otherwise then as he hath confined Himself Elihu in Job's Case does modestly shew us the vanity of such confinements The vanity of such confinements from Iob 32.7.9 v. Iob 32.7.9 His words are I said Dayes should speak and multitude of Years teach wisdom But sayes he I do now in Experience find That it sometimes falls out otherwise Since great men are not alwayes wise neither do the Aged alwayes understand o Vera Dei nostri cognitio non est commune aetatis bonum sed singulare Dei beneficium per cōmunicationem Spiritus five in juvenibus sive in senibus Jun. ●t Trem. in loc Deus mentes magis comprobat quam aetatem ●vid Collect. Aug. Marl. in 1 Tim. 4.12 Judgment Not alwayes though many times they do Very certain it is That God is Agens liberrimum The freest Agent of all other and as he can so he does fometimes powre out the Gifts and Graces of his Spirit more plentifully upon some in their Youth then upon others of riper years or of longer standing in the world p 2 Chron. 34.1 2. Josiah was but 8 years old when he began to reign and yet he did that which was Right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the wayes of David his Father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left And among all the Kings of Israel and Judah none lived so desired or died so lamented as that man did The greatest q Zach. 12.10 mourning that we reade of in Scripture was that of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddor Iosiab but 8 years old whē●he began to Reign for the death of good Josiah I might also mention our own r Edward the 6 of famous memory but 9 years old whē he began to Reign See Act. and Mon. de vit Edw. 6. Edward the Sixt and some others that carried themselves very Nobly and Honorably in the Places of Supream Magistracy even in their tender years But yet Though the wise and the holy God be at liberty and may sometimes vary from the Rule of outward Gravity which he is no way tyed to yet we see that for the most part he hath respect unto the elder sort and that he does put this high Honor mostly upon them to be his own Vicegerents in Places of Authority But then it must be with this other Caution or limitation 2 Caution Seniores must be Saniores Grave ones Good ones or else not fit to be Great ones That Seniores be Saniores men of known Integrity in their wayes and walkings and every way like to be true and faithful to the Trust reposed in them or else their Places do not grave them so much as they disgrace their Places Grave men must be Good men Sin the greatest Blemish unto Age. or else they are not fit to be Great men since Nothing casts such a blemish upon Age or makes it so unfit for Government as Sin does ſ Prov. 16.13 Quam multi sunt qui multo annos expetun cum pace conjunctos Sed quam pauci sunt qui hos quaerunt in vi● justitiae Quae runt illos convictu in Medicinâ in opibus sed ubi se obviumillis praebent in viâ justitiae non quaerunt Cartw. in loc The hoary head is a Crown of glory if it be found in the way of Righteousness but if it be found in the way of Vnrighteousness then it loses i'ts crown of glory As the Beauty of Age is Holiness so the shame of Age is wickedness And therefore in that very place where God makes so gratious and so pretious a Promise unto his People about filling up their dayes He still leaves the Curse upon the Head and Heart of the wicked Is 65.19.20 I will sayes he rejoyce in Jerusalem and joy in my People and the voyce of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voyce of crying There shall be no more thence an Infant of dayes nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes for the Child shall die an hundred years old But the Sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed that is Though he live never so long yet the Curse that never departs from him but continues and grows upon him still more and more And is it possible think ye That he should be a Blessing to a City or a Blessing to a Common-wealth that is really Accursed in all that he puts his hand unto The undoubted Portion of every wicked man Deut. 28.20 Experience how far to be respected Then for matter of Experience Though it be good to have a Christian and a due respect unto that also both unto Age and unto Experience yet I pray take heed of Idolizing either Such and such have bin in Office a long time it may be but Quam bene se gesserint How have they carried themselves in their Places or in their Offices When do ye mean to make that Enquiry and to Act accordingly True it is that the Apostle tells us and it either does or should at least hold true in Temporals as well as in Spirituals They that have used the Office of a t Diaconos ad fidelitatem in Ministerio suo cohortatur ab utili effectu quod eo modo bonum sibi gradum acquirant et multam libertatem nempe apud Deum Piscat in loc Deacon well which was but a lower Office in the Church They sayes he Purchase to themselves a good degree and great Boldness in the Faith which is in Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 3.13 It is the Rule that Christ himself goes by and that He himself puts down for us to go by u Luk. 16.10 Hortatur suos Discipulos Christus ut fideliter agentes in rebus parvis se ad fidem in maximis rebus colendam assue faciant Calv. in loc He that is faithful in that which is least sayes he is faithful also in much And he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much And according to this Rule of Proportion does the King of Saints and Nations either lift men up or cast them down As in the Parable of the Talents w Mat. 25.21 Adesdum ut fructum percipias benignitatu meae