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kingdom_n	david_n	israel_n	judah_n	1,785	5	9.8153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28303	A caveat for magistrates in a sermon, preached at Pauls before the Right Honorable Thomas Atkin, Esquire, Lord Major of the city of London, November the third, 1644, being the first day of his coming thither after his entrance upon his majoralty / by Elidad Blackwell ...	Blackwell, Elidad.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3090; ESTC R200137	30,169	52

sublimior gloria Eó major cura sayes Cyprian Again they of all others are most obnoxious to slips and falls and miscarriages And that 1 Because they have many provocations which others have not Ly open to many snares which others doe not ly open to 2 Because they want many restraints which others have Publike and private admonition and reprehension Fear of punishment c. A terrour indeed they are to others if they doe evill revengers to execute wrath upon others Rom. 13. But if they doe evill themselves who shall be a terror to them and execute wrath upon them Once more Innumerable and those unspeakable are either the mischiefs or benefits that must necessarily flow from Magistrates either diligence or negligence and that both to Church and Common-wealth A Magistrate he is a publike person and therefore a publike good or a publike evill If he be carelesse negligent ungodly unjust abuse his authoritie neglect his dutie what 's the issue Religion degenerates into Idolatry and Superstition The publike ministery of the word and all other means of salvation are either wholly neglected or exceedingly slighted Wicked men incouraged Godly men discountenanced Nothing but Ataxie Disorder Confusion in Church in Common-wealth Men cannot possesse their lives their estates their names their any thing in peace in quiet Whereas on the other side if Magistrates be wise faithfull carefull vigilant intentive God will be worshipped purely the Ministerie of the word prized highly evill men punished good men protected And all knit together in such an order that every one will forward what he can the peace prosperitie welfare good comfort of another and every one possesse and enjoy his life his goods his good name his all in peace in safetie in securitie This is cleer by the state of the Kingdomes of Israel and Judah When they had good Magistrates as David Salomon Josia Hezekiah c. How did every thing flourish that concerned either the glorie of God or the profit and benefit and comfort of men both for soul and bodie But when the Magistrates were Idolatrous Tyrannous Vicious Then all went to wrack And wee see it by our own sad experience And therefore Ecclesiastes 10.16 17. Woe to thee ô Land when thy King is a child and thy Princes eat in the morning And blessed art thou ô Land when thy King is the sonne Nobles and thy Princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkennesse sayes Solomon That Land is happy that has good Magistrates and the contrary most miserable and unhappy For these and many other reasons Judges and Magistrates men set apart for the guiding and governing and ordering of Kingdoms or Counties or Cities ought in a more especiall manner to take heed what they do And that in all their actions Naturall Civill Religious In their whole conversations The ordering of their Families There Children Their Servants Those they employ in managing their publike Affairs Those too they employ in managing their Domestick or Houshold businesses and occasions to see that they be such as be faithfull in their dutie to them their masters on earth mindfull of their dutie to God their master in Heaven That they be pious religious conscientious such as feare God such as will discharge the trust committed to them If a man know not how to rule his owne house how shall he take care of the Church of God saith the Apostle of Ministers and it 's true of Magistrates as well How shall hee be able to governe a Citie that cannot govern his own Family The ordering of their persons too Above all men in the world Magistrates had need to take heed that their lives be holy harmlesse righteous religious Such as may adorn their profession Such as may put an honour a lustre upon Religion Such whereby they may be an example of good to all of evill to none For why First with what face can a Magistrate punish sin in others if guiltie of the same sin himself A drunken Magistrate A swearing Magistrate A whoring Magistrate A Sabboath-breaking Magistrate how can he punish drunkennesse in others oaths in others uncleannesse in others prophanenesse of Gods day in others Secondly The excellencie of their office requires it Magistracie It 's a visible character of an invisible Deity They are called Gods I have said ye are Gods Psal. 82. And what a drunken God! a swearing God! a Sabboth-breaking God! a prophane vicious God! It 's no lesse then blasphemy Thirdly The eminencie of their place requires it They are as a City set upon a hill All mens eys are upon them Their lives are exemplary Men are led by example much and by the example of Magistrates more then by the examples of other men Reges ad exemplum c. Magistrates lives they are the peoples rules And of all things a rule should be strait A false rule a crooked rule it 's most dangerous Fourthly Example in them doth more good or more hurt A mighty force in the example of Magistrates Have any of the Rulers believed in him John 7.48 The example of the Rulers kept many from believing Evill examples in Magistrates is more infectious more contagious Jeroboams sin it made All Israel to sin If Magistrates be wicked how will wicked men be animated imboldned incouraged in their wicked wayes Not a greater provocation in the world to a wicked life then a wicked Magistrate God will be dishonoured more his people grieved more wicked men imboldned more the Land indangered more defiled more from them as from a fountain prophannesse wickednesse ungodlinesse will flow forth into all the Land as the Prophet speaks of the wicked priests of his time Jer. 23.15 Therefore above all men in the world Magistrates had need to take heed wihat they do And that even in All their actions in their whole conversations But especially in the administration of justice in the execution of their office in matter of government in point of judgement in their judiciary proceedings That is 1 In hearing causes that are brought before them 2 In passing sentence when they have heard them 3 In executing that sentence when they have passed it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} To these three heads may be referred all judiciary proceedings Hearing Sentencing Executing First hearing of causes that are btought before them whether criminall or controversall Doth our Law judge any man before it heare him saith Nicodemus The Common-wealth it 's a body politike offenders and offences in a Common-wealth they are as it were the peccant and noxious humours and diseases in that body Judges and Magistrates they are as it were Physicians for the healing and curing of those diseases and doth any Physician prescribe c. before he understands the state of a mans body and considers the nature of the disease Descendam ut videam saith God The sins of Sodome were exceeding grievous and their cry came up to heaven Yet God does not