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A11454	Ten sermons preached I. Ad clerum. 3. II. Ad magistratum. 3. III. Ad populum. 4. By Robert Saunderson Bachellor in Diuinitie, sometimes fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford.; Sermons. Selected sermons	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1627 (1627)	STC 21705; ESTC S116623	297,067	482

Mark 10.21 Vnum tibi deest One thing is wanting so when wee haue done our best and vtmost fasted and wept and prayed as constantly and frequently as feruently as wee can vnlesse you the Magistrates and Officers of Iustice bee good vnto vs one thing will be wanting still One maine ingredient of singular vertue without which the whole receipt besides as precious and soueraigne as it is may bee taken and yet faile the cure And that is the seuere and fearlesse and impartiall Execution of Iudgement Till wee see a care in the Gods on earth faithfully to execute theirs our hopes can be but faint that the God of heauen will in mercy remoue his iudgements If God send a b 2 Sam. 21.1 c. Famine into the land let holy Dauid doe what hee can otherwise it will continue yeare after yeare so long as iudgement is not done vpon the bloudy house of Saul for his crueltie in slaying the Gibeonites God will not bee c Ibid. ver 14. entreated for the land One knowne Achan that hath got a wedge of gold by sacriledge or iniustice if suffered is able to d Ios. 7.25.26 trouble a whole Israel and the Lord will e I will not bee with you anymore except you destroy the accursed from among you vers 12. not turne from the fiercenesse of his anger till hee haue deserued iudgement done vpon him If f Num. 25.3.4 Israel haue ioyned himselfe vnto Baal-Peor so as the anger of the Lord bee kindled against them he will not be appeased by any meanes vntill Moses take the heads of the people and hang them vp before the Lord against the Sunne If the Land be defiled with bloud it is in vaine to thinke of any other course when God himselfe hath pronounced it impossible that the Land should be g Num. 35.33 purged from the bloud that is shed in it otherwise than by the blood of him that shed it Vp then with the zeale of Phinehes §. 29. A generall Exhortation thereunto vp for the loue of God and of his people all you that are in place of authority Gird your swords vpon your thigh and with your jauelins in your hand pursue the Idolater and the Adulterer and the Murtherer and the Oppressour and euery knowne offender into his tent and naile him to the earth that hee neuer rise againe to doe more mischiefe Let it appeare what a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lysias apud Stob. Serm. 44. loue you beare to the State by your hatred to them and shew your pity to vs by shewing none to them The destroying Angel of God attendeth vpon you for his dispatch if you would but set in stoutly hee would soone be gone Why should either sloath or feare or any partiall or corrupt respect whatsoeuer make you a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lysias apud Stob. Serm. 44. cruell to the good in sparing the bad or why should you suffer your selues for want of courage and zeale to execute iudgement to lose either the opportunity or the glory of being the instruments to appease Gods wrath and to stay his plagues §. 30. With particular applications to But for that matters appertaining to Iustice and Iudgement must passe through many hands before they come to yours and there may bee so much iuggling vsed in conueighing them from hand to hand that they may be represented vnto you many times in much different formes from what they were in truth and at the first that your care and zeale to execute Iustice and Iudgement faithfully according to your knowledge may not through the fault and miscarriage of other men faile the blessed end and successe that Phinehes found I desire that euery of them also as well as you would receiue the word of Exhortation each in his place and office to set himselfe vprightly and vnpartially as in the sight of God to aduance to the vtmost of his power the due course and administration of Iustice. And for this purpose by occasion of this Scripture which pointeth vs to the End of these assemblies I shall craue leaue to reflect vpon another which giueth vs sundry particular directions conducing to that End And it is that Scripture whereinto wee made some entrance the last Assises and would haue now proceeded farther had not the heauy hand of God vpon vs in this his grieuous visitation led mee to make choyce rather of this Text as the more seasonable That other is written in Exod. 23. the three first verses Exod. 23.1 3. Thou shalt not raise a false report Put not thine hand with the wicked to bee an vnrighteous witnesse Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe euill neither shalt thou speake in a cause to decline after many to wrest iudgement Neither shalt thou countenance a poore man in his cause Wherein were noted fiue speciall Rules shared out among fiue sorts of persons the Accuser the Witnesse the Iurer the Pleader the Officer I will but giue each of them some briefe intimation of their duty from their seuerall proper rules and conclude If thou commest hither then as a Plaintiffe §. 31. the Accuser or other Party in a ciuill cause or to giue voluntary Information vpon a Statute or to prosecute against a Malefactor or any way in the nature of an Accuser Let neither the hope of gaine or of any other aduantage to thy selfe nor secret malice or enuy against thine aduersary nor thy desire to giue satisfaction to any third party sway thee beyond the bounds of truth and equity no not a little either to deuise an vntruth against thy neighbour of thine owne head or by an hard construction to depraue the harmelesse actions or speeches of others or to make them worse than they are by vniust aggrauations or to take aduantage of letters and syllables to entrap innocency without a fault When thou art to open thy mouth against thy brother set the first Rule of that Text as a watch before the doore of thy lips Thou shalt not raise a false report If thou commest hither secondly §. 32. the Witnesse to bee vsed as a Witnesse perhaps a See Cic. pro Flacco although Turneb 13. aduers. 14. interpret the prouerbe otherwise Graecâ fide ●d est optimâ Graecâ fide like a downe-right knight of the post that maketh of an b quibus iusiurandum jocus est testimonium ludus laus merces gratia gratulatio proposita est Cic. pro Flacc. oath a jest and a pastime of a deposition or dealt withall by a bribe or suborned by thy landlord or great neighbour or egged on with thine owne spleene or malice to sweare and forsweare as these shall prompt thee or to c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dictum solemne Graecorum enterchange a deposition with thy friend as they vsed to doe in Greece Hodie mihi cras tibi sweare thou for mee to day I le sweare for thee tomorrow or tempted

b Exod. 20.5 third scarce euer the fourth generation passe before God visit the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children if hee doe not in the very next generation In his sonnes dayes will I bring the euill vpon his house §. 34. The second Secondly if not onely our owne but our fathers sinnes too may be shall be visited vpon vs how concerneth it vs as to repent for our owne so to lament also the sinnes of our forefathers and in our confessions and supplications to God sometimes to remember them that he may forget them and to set them before his face that hee may cast them behind his backe Wee haue a good precedent for it in our publike Letany Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers A good and a profitable and a needefull prayer it is and those men haue not done well nor justly that haue cauilled at it O that men would be wise according to sobriety and allow but iust interpretations to things aduisedly established rather than busie themselues nodum in scirpo to picke needelesse quarrels where they should not What vnity would it bring to brethren what peace to the Church what ioy to all good and wise men As to this particular God requireth of the Israelites in Leuit. 26. that they should a Leuit. 26.39.40 confesse their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers b Psal. 106.6 Dauid did so and c Ierem. 3.15 Ieremy did so and d Dan. 9.5 Daniel did so in Psal. 106. in Ierem. 3. in Dan. 9. And if Dauid thought it a fit curse to pronounce against Iudas and such as he was in Psal. 109. e Psal. 109.14 Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord and let not the sin of his mother be done away why may we not nay how ought we not to pray for the remoueall of this very curse from vs as well as of any other curses The present age is ri●e of many enormous crying sinnes which call loud for a iudgement vpon the land and if God should bring vpon vs a right heauie one whereat all eares should tingle could wee say other but that it were most iust euen for the sinnes of this present generation But if vnto our owne so many so great God should also adde the sins of our forefathers the bloudshed and tyranny grieuous vnnaturall butcheries in the long times of the ciuill warres and the vniuersall idolatries and superstitions couering the whole land in the longer and darker times of Popery and if as hee sometimes threatned to bring vpon the Iewes of f Math. 23.35.36 that one generation all the righteous bloud that euer was shed vpon the earth from the bloud of the righteous Abel vnto the bloud of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias so hee should bring the sinnes of our Ancestors for many generations past vpon this generation of ours who could be able to abide it Now when the security of the times giue vs but too much cause to feare it and the regions begin to looke white towards the haruest is it not time for vs with all humiliation of Soule and Body to cast downe our selues and with all contention of voyce and spirit to lift vp our prayers and to say Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sinnes Spare vs good Lord spare the people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. §. 35. the third inference Thirdly Since not onely our fathers sinnes and our owne but our Neighbours sinnes too aliquid malum propter vicinum malum but especially the sinnes of Princes and Gouernours a Morat 1. Epis● 2. delirant reges plectuntur Achiui may bring iudgements vpon vs and enwrap vs in their punishments it should teach euery one of vs to seeke his owne priuate in the common and publike good and to endeauour if but for our owne security from punishment to awaken other from their security in sinne How should wee send vp b ● Tim. 2.1 2. supplications and prayers and intercessions for Kings and for all that are in authority that God would encline their hearts vnto righteous courses and open their eares to wholesome counsells and strengthen their hands to just actions when but a sinfull ouersight in one of them may proue the ouerthrow of many thousands of vs as Dauid but by once numbring his people in the pride of his heart lessened their number at one clap c 2 Sam. 24.15 threescore and ten thousand If d Ios. ●8 10.25 Israel turne their backs vpon their enemies vp Iosuah and make search for the troubler of Israel firret out the thiefe and doe execution vpon him one Achan if but suffered is able to vndoe the whole hoast of Israel what mischiefe might he do if countenanced if allowed The houre I see hath ouertaken me and I must end To wrappe vp all in a word then and conclude Thou that hast power ouer others suffer no sin in them by base conniuence but punish it thou that hast charge of others suffer no sin in them by dull silence but rebuke it thou that hast any interest in or dealing with others suffer no sinne vpon them by easie allowance but distast it thou that hast nothing else yet by thy charitable prayers for them and by constant example to them stop the course of sin in others further the growth of grace in others labour by all meanes as much as in thee lyeth to draw others vnto God lest their sinnes draw Gods iudgements vpon themselues and thee This that thou mayst doe and that I may do and that euery one of vs that feareth God and wisheth well to the Israel of God may doe faithfully and discreetely in our seuerall stations and callings let vs all humbly beseech the Lord the God of all grace and wisedome for his Sonne Iesus sake by his holy spirit to enable vs. To which blessed Trinity one only wise immortall inuisible almighty most gracious and most glorious Lord and God be ascribed by euery one of vs the kingdome the power and the glory both now and for euer Amen THE FOVRTH SERMON In S. Pauls Church London 4. Nov. 1621. 1. COR. 7.24 Brethren let euery man wherein he is called therein abide with God IF flesh and bloud be suffered to make the Glosse §. 1. The Occasion and scope of the Text. it is able to corrupt a right good Text. It easily turneth the doctrine of Gods grace into a Iude 4. wantonnesse and as easily the doctrine of Christian libertie into licenciousnesse These Corinthians being yet but b 1. Cor. 3.1.3.4 Carnall for the point of Liberty consulted it seemeth but too much with this cursed glosse Which taught them to interpret their Calling to the Christian faith as an Exemption