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A10739	A sermon concerning the punishing of malefactors. Preached at Paules Crosse, the first of October, by Charles Richardson, preacher at Saint Katharines neere the Tower of London	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 21018; ESTC S115967	37,754	48

according to the qualitie of his falt Our instruction then from hence is this That they that are in authority Prou. 20.26 are bound to punish the wicked Solomon saith A wise king scattereth the wick d and bringeth the wheele ouer them And the Lord commāded Moses that if any man did fasly accuse his brother looke what punishment soeuer hee should haue suffered if the accusation had beene true Deut. 19.19 21. the same punishment should be inflicted vpon the accuser himse fe Yee sha●l doe to him as he had thought to haue done to his brother Thine eye shall haue no compassion but life for life eie for eie tooth for tooth hand for hand foote for foote And in an other place if a man by due examination of his cause were found worthy to be beaten Deut. 25.1.2 Leui. 24.16 the Iudge must cause him to lie downe and to be beaten before his face Againe the Lord gaue a special and a strict charge that he that blasphemed the name of the Lord should be put to death all the congregation should stone him to death So likewise Num. 5.301 whosoeuer did any thing presumptuously was to be cut off from among his people I confesse that men at the first are to be allured to obedience by rewards and other gentle courses but if that will not serue the turne then seuerity must be vsed Praemio et paena Solon and punishments must be inflicted Whereupon the Philosopher said hat the common wealth was vpheld by two things namely by rewards and punishments But howsoeuer if there be not seuerity to keepe men in awe the common wealth cannot be well gouerned And therefore it was the commandement of Artaxerxes King of Persia vnto Ezra that whosoeuer would not doe the law of his God and the Kings law he should haue iudg●ment c. And there are many reasons which may further confirme the truth of this point For first if pu●ishment be not inflicted vpō offenders much euill and hurt will follow thereupon as namely first of all the offender himsefe and others also are animated and encouraged in their lewde courses Their hands are streng●hened that they cannot returne from their wickednesse as the Prophet saith in another sence Ier. 23.14 a Maxima peccandi ille cebra impunitatis spes Cic. Milone The greatest prouocation that can bee is hope of impunitie Neither is any greater cause of euill then libertie to doe euill Because Eli would not correct his sonnes but rather stroked their heads when they did amisse therefore they behaued themselues so vilely in their places as by reason of their sinne men abhorred the Offering of the Lord. And because Dauid did so cocker Adoniah as he would not displease him from his Childhood to say 1. Sam. 2.17 23.24 1. Ki. 1.5.6 Why hast thou done so Therefore there was none more ready to take the Crowne from his Fathers head As it is in priuate families so it is in Common-wealthes when men are not punished according to their deserts they become more dissolute And therefore Bernard saith well b Nulla maio mali c● usa quam licentia mali Cas b Impunitas incuriae soboles insolen iae mater t●ansgressionum ●ut ix Ber. de Consid l. 3. Impunitie is the brood of carelesnesse the mother of insolencie the nurse of transgressions c Ad pecca●dum p aecipi tes f●n qui impune peccant Tract 1. contra Demetr Alex ab Alex. lib. 3 cap. 5. Psal 10.5.6 Eccles 8.11 And Cyprian They that sinne without controlement runne headlong to sinne Impunitie is the fewell that feedeth the fury of dissolute and vnbridled persons And therefore it was wisely prouided by the Romanes that their Magistrates should neuer come in publike without their Officers to beare halberds and rods before them for the terror of those that should offend As wicked men deale with Almightie God so doe they deale with the Magistrate his Deputie Dauid saith of the wicked that because his wayes alwayes prosper and the Iudgements of God are out of his sight therefore he saith in his heart I shall neuer be moued nor be in danger and God hath forgotten he hideth away his face and will neuer see And Solomon saith Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill So when the Magistrate is negligent in punishing offenders they and others are more emboldened to sinne We read in the booke of Iudges Iud. 17 6 18 1 19.1 21 25. of many grieuous abhominations that were committed among the Israelites as namely Micahs making of a grauen and a molten Image and consecrating of a Leuite for Idolatrous seruice the Danites spoyling their brethren by force of Armes and sacking of their cities the horrible abuse offered to the Leuites wife c. And the cause of all is said to be this In those dayes there was no King in Israel there was no Magistrate nor Law to punish them but euery man did that which was good in his owne eyes Secondly when men are suffered to transgresse without punishment the wrath of God is prouoked and publike calamities are pulled downe vpon the land The Lord tolde the people of Israel that if blood were shed in the land and the murderer not put to death Num. 35.33 the land was defiled and made lyable to Gods heauie displeasure When Ahab charged the Prophet Elijah that he was the man that troubled Israel 1. Kin. 18.18 and caused that great famine that was in the land he answered boldly That it was he and his Fathers house that troubled Israel in that he suffered so much Idolatry to be vnpunished When Achan had stollen the consecrated thing the wrath of the Lord was so kindled against all the Host of Israel Iosh 7.11.12 that they could not stand but were discomfited before their enemies Ye● the Lord threatned that he would be no more with them vnlesse they destroyed that person from among them When that villany was committed vpon the Leuites Concubine and the Beniamites would not deliuer those wicked men that had done it Iudg. 20.12.13 c. that they might be put to death to put away euill from Israel the Lord stirred vp the rest of their brethren to make war e against them till the whole Tribe was almost destroyed 2. Sam. 21.1 So long as the murder committed by Saul vpon the Gibeonites was vnpunished the Lord sent a grieuous famine vpon the land of Israel three yeares together And whiles Ionah that had fl d from the pr sence of God Ionah 1.4 was in the Shippe a great winde and a mightie Tempost raised by the Lord pursued the Ship that it was like to be broken and all the Marriners in danger of drowning On the contrary side wh●●●● c● is executed vpon wicked doers the wrath of God is turned away

Slugg●rd to the pismire to learne instructiō why shold we scorne to earne of paga●s who were endued with excellent gifts of nature Prou. 6.6 Phacion a great Magistrate in Athens when his son in law Charillus was to be endited for extortion would not so much as be presēt there least his coūtenāce might haue procured him some fauor assuming that when he tooke him to be his son in law he hoped he would ●e a good an honest man a Plutarch in praecept polit And Cleon when hee was called to be a Magistrate sent presently for all his friends and renounced then f●●●●dship And when Simonides requested something of Tho●●stocles a Magistrate that was not very iust he●re H●●●●m with this answer He is not a good Poe● that singe●● w●t●out harmony nor he a good mag strate that sheweth any fauour a●a●●st the lawes ●ut there is a most famous example of all other for this purpose recorded by Aelianus The sum of it is this There was a man of the people called Mardi A han lib. 1. cap 34. that had seauen sonnes whereof the youngest being stubborne and dissolute and one that would not be reclaimed the rather taketh him and bindes his hands behind him and b●ought him to the Iudges there doth ●arnestly accuse him required that he might bee put to death The Iudges being astonished at the strangenes of the thing would not meddle with ●t but brought the father and the son to Artaxerxes the King Where the father sti● plea●ed against the son craued iustice The King seeing his ea●n●stnesse said vnto him Canst thou then with thine owne e●e endure to behold the death of thy son he answ ●ed yea very ●el For when I shall see him that wrongeth dishonoureth my family put to death Land the rest of my children shall liue with ●eater comfort When the King heard this he highly commended the father made him one of his Iudges affirming that he that durst so seuerely so iustly pronounce sentence against his owne childe would doubtlesse shew himselfe a sincere incorrupt iudge vnto others But he pardoned the young man for that time threatning to put him to a most horible death if euer ●e should offend againe in the l ke māner ●●h that our Magistrates and Iudges would follow th●se examples For if it did once appeare to the world that rich mighty men should be punished as well as the poore meane persons and that kinsfolke friends should finde ●o more fau●ur then those that are strangers it would soone cut off all hope of impu●●●e from all kinde of malefactors And blessed be God that at this time our eies do see the great care of his Maiesty to haue the ●ād purged frō bloud wherwith it hath been poluted that there is so strict so iust proceeding against all that were co●e●era●e in so wicked a fact nd the Lord strē●then t●e hart ●ā●● that most wort●y Lord chiefe Iustice that he ●ay stil go forward vnpartially to cut off al those that had any ā in so foul a murder Wicked As all the wicked must be punished without partialitie so none but the wicked must be enda gered Th y that are innocent and harme esse must not b●e m●l●sted The Lord commanded Moses that in the execution o● j●st ce Deut 2● 1 Prou. 17.15 The righteous should bee iustified ●nd the wicked condemned And Solomon saith It is as great abhomination in the sight of od to condemne the iust as it is to iustifie the wicke● And the Prophet pronounceth as great a wo● against ●im that Taketh away the righteous es of the r ghteous from him Isa 5.23 as against him That iust●fi●th absolueth the wick d for a reward The Lord hath pu● a sword into the Magistrates hand Rom. 13 4 but it is to this e●d that he may Take vengean●● 〈◊〉 him that doth euill And therefore bee abuseth his author●t●● and abuseth his sword if he turneth edge of it against the godly Psal 11 2. and smite them that are vpright in heart as Dauid saith This is a most fearefull and a most horrible sinne and a si●ne which God will ●ost seu●rely punish Among those se ●en things which the Lord hateth and abhor● h Pro 6.16 17 Psal 9. ●● this is one The hands that shed innocent blood And ●auid saith that the Lord himselfe wi●● make inquisition for blood Sometimes innocent bloo● is shed vnder colour o●●aw But there will be at t●me when the Lord wil c●●e with a quest of ●●qui●e to find it out nd to punish it And therefore when the wicked brought the Prophet Ieremiah before the princes and would haue had him put to death he speaketh to them with great boldnesse Ier. 26.14.15 As for me I am in your hands doe with me as you thinke good But know ye for a certaine that if you put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood vpon your selues and vpon this city vpon the inhabitants therof Implying that God would reuenge his blood not onely vpon the murderers themselues but vpon the people the whole land should be guilty of it When poore Naboth was vniustly condemned and put to death by wicked Ahab the Lord sent Elijah the Prophet to him with this messag Hast thou killed also gotten possession Thus saith the Lord in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shal dogs licke euen thy blood also 1. King 21.13.19 22.38 2. King 21.16 24.2.3.4 Which came to passe accordingly Manasseh was a cruell murderer He shed innocent blood exceeding much till he replenished Ierusalem from corner to corner But marke how fearefully the Lord reuenged this sin in his posterity In the daies of Iehoi●kim The Lord sent against him bands of the Caldees bands of the Aramits bands of the Moabites bands of the Amonites he sent them against Iudah to destroy it Surly by the commandment of the Lord came this vpon Iudah that he might put them out of sight for the sinnes of Manasseh And for the innocent blood that he shed therefore the Lord would not pardon it Manasseh was dead rottē long before this time but we see the Lord had not forgotten his sin but the whole land smarted for it in the third generation after him So likewise Ioash most vnkindly caused Zechariah the son of good Ie●oiada to b● stoned to death because he reproued him for his idolatry But see what followed 2. Chro. 24.21.22.23.24.25 When the yeare was out the host of Aram came vp against him and they came against Iudah and Ierusalem and destroyed all the Princes of the people from among the people and sent all the spoile of them vnto the King of Damascus Though the army of Aram came with a small company of men yet the Lord deliuered a very great army into their hands After this the Lord somte him