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A88381	Enchiridion judicum, or, Jehosaphats charge to his judges, opened, in a sermon before the Right Honourable, the judges, and the right worshipful, the sheriffe of the county palatine of Lancast. Together with Catastrophe magnatum, or, King Davids lamentation, at Prince Abners incineration. In a sermon meditated on the fall, and preached at the funeral of the Right Worshipful John Atherton of Atherton Esq; high-sheriffe of the county palatine of Lanc. / By John Livesey minister of the Gospel at Atherton.	Livesey, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2594E; Thomason E1582_2; ESTC R208948	163,446	337

it mainly concerns them to Take heed what they do vers 6. 2 God is with them in the Judgement Jehosaphat tells them no less and I tell you no more and Ergo. 3 There is no iniquity in the Lord your God no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 injustice So the Seventy therefore let there bee none in you and that there may bee none in you or done by you Do it and take heed what yee do I remember a famous passage of holy Bernard That man would have God to bee no God who would have him to bee impotent Vult Deum non esse Deum qui vult eum aut impotentem aut insipientem aut injustum esse Biel in 4. lib. Sentent D●st 15 Qu. 7. Artic. 1. Tertio sequitur unwise or unjust And Biel one of the acutest School-men speaking of accepting and respecting persons hath this passage Deus nullius est debitor nec potest aliquid injuste agere quia eo ipso quod aliquid vult facit juste vult facit sua enim volunt as est regula omnis justitiae It is his will and pleasure that all his bee as hee is Just Now if it please you to consider these words as Jehosaphats Charge to his Judges Then two parts are principally observeable 1 The Substance of the Charge of this before 2 The Circumstances of or in the Charge and they are chiefly two 1 The Person by whom this Charge is exhibited 2 The Persons to whom this Charge is directed Concerning the former viz. Jehosaphat Would time and your affairs permit I should give you a fair Character of him and of his noble acts Hee is described three waies By his Place by his Case by his Grace By his place First By his Office Imployment or Place vers 1. Hee was King of Judah Nulli secundus Rex in suo Regno solo Deo minor was anciently the determination of learned Pen's King This intimates 1 His Dignity 2 His Duty 1 His Dignity Every man is born to a cross Man is born to trouble saith Eliphaz Job 5.7 This is ours by a lineal right 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. But Jehosaphat was born to a Crown In Judah there was none comparable to him for Greatnesse and Goodnesse 2 His Duty As they say in Law Haereditas transit cum onere So may I here Dignitas transit cum onere great Honours and great Labours may not bee severed the higher men are advanced the more from them is expected you were not born Judges nor were you ushered into the world with that pomp and Majesty as to this place this morning Hath God done great things for you then do you great things for God for his despised Truths Worship People day It is sad to see men that owe most pay least you are not for sight but service God hath done more for you than hee hath done for others and a day is drawing on in which hee will know of you Mat. 5.47 what you have done more for him than others have done such as have but a little must but account for little such are exempted from the burden of great dangers and the discharge of great duties but it is not so with you My Lords and Gentleme● therefore as you out-strip others in the receipt of mercies so ought you to outstrip others in the performance of duties By his Case Secondly By his State Condition and Case Hee returned to his house in peace verse the first Jehosaphat going to see Ahab King of Israel i.e. of the ten Tribes which revolted from Rehoboam the son of Salomon and adhered to Jeroboam the son of Nebat going I say to see Ahab by way of courtly visitation was cunningly catcht and cast into the confederation and society of an unhappy war whereby hee plunged himself both into spiritual miseries and temporal mischiefs both harmed his conscience stained his royal reputation and hazarded his life hee was exposed to the fury of the whole Syrian army Yet to Jerusalem hee returned not slain nor wounded as hollow-hearted Ahab was Jehosaphat prayed and the Lord heard and helped diverted them delivered him Hic homo potuit apud Deum quod voluit as hee said of Luther it was a miracle of mercy fo● him to return in safety Vatabl. in vers 1. obiter innuit miraculum quo evasit incolumis saith Vatablus on it This was his Case By his Gra●… Thirdly By his Grace as hee was a man of quality and so also of piety Erasm Encnir Canon 6. Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus Juvenal This is it my Lords that makes honours honourable nobility noble and such persons truly illustrious and their posterity famous Nobilitas suprema est filium haeredem esse Dei c. nothing doth so adorn and nobilitate as grace Angels in respect of their nature are all alike and Philosophers say of rational souls that they are equal in ratione specifica quam omnes ex aequo participant Souls have no sexes but grace puts a notable difference Jehosaphat was a man of sincerity though not without his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and humane frailties Mention is made of his infirmity vers 2. Hee helped Ahab whom the Lord abhorred of twenty Kings of Israel you shall not finde above one if one good one of all the twenty Jehu none comparable to this King Ahab for vileness Hee did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him 2 King 16.30 and in the following verses Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the Kings of Israel that were before him There was none like unto Ahab who did set yea sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord Ut in pessimis aliquid boni ita inoptimis non nihil pessimi Tert. This was the man that Jehosaphat helped and this hee did not only before hee knew Gods pleasure in the matter but after that the Prophet had acquainted him with the will of God To this adde further Jehosaphat rose not up in defence of the Lords Prophet Micajah against Zedechiah's insolency and Ahabs tyranny Bersabe erat mulier Uxor aliena cum dolore dicimus tremore sed Deus noluit taceri quod voluit scribi dicam ergo non quod v●lo sed quod cogor non exhortans ad imitationem sed instruens ad timorem Aug. Ennar in Psa 51. Titul who committed him for speaking the truth All great and foul infirmities cum dolore dicimus tremore sed Deus noluit taceri quod voluit scribi as Augustine speaks of David and Bathsheba It is good to help the Lord against the mighty but not so to help the mighty against the Lord nor to joyn hand in hand with them whom the Lord abhorres Jehosaphat was but a man at the best if hee or wee bee left

them all if put into a mad mans mouth May it please you to compare 1 King 3.5,6,7,9 with 2 Chron. 1.10 you read of the Lords appearing to Salomon in a dream hee bids him ask and have a high favour a parallel will not easily be found Salomon was now sleeping when the Lord appeared to him hee made his choice before hee awaked Constans est omnium sententia non solum dormienti Salomoni apparuisse dominum sed etiam illum dormientem somniantem postulasse sapientiam Vide Sanctium Tirinum in loc what was the choice he made See 1 King 3.9 a hearing heart wisdome and knowledge Give mee now wisdome and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people for who can without them judge this thy people that is so great Augustin thinks Solomon prayed so much for wisdome when hee was awake that now when God puts him to ask what hee will his thoughts ran all on wisdome Salomon asked wisdome with abundance of wisdome had hee not been wise before he had not known the worth of wisdome Pavon Ethic. P. Matt. in loc and it was that wisdome which the morallists call prudentiam practice practicam i.e. an ability of the minde whereby wee know what is fit to bee done all circumstances considered and are inclined to act accordingly Had Solomon so wise a man need of more wisdome Averroes said of Aristotle The Civilians of their Baldus the Papists of their Tostatus Prudentia politica scientia bene regendi alios excellentior fuit in Salomone quam in Adamo Perer. in Gen. 2.19,20 Tostat in 1 Reg. 3.9 qu. 7 the Schoolmen of their Bona-ventura that they knew all things possible to be known And wants Salomon yet more wisdome who was wiser than them all Pererius disputes this question whether Adam was wiser than Solomon yea or no and concludes that in some respects hee was Tostatus and Abulensis before him asserted the same I shall wave this and say of him as one did of Bradwardin hee was doctus ad stuporem Hath this wise man need of More Wisdome then surely My Lords this is needful for you you are not so great strangers to your own hearts or parts or this great work you now are imployed in but you will say of Wisdome store is no sore without this you can do nothing exactly Fourthly Take heed of Pride and Arrogancy This was the first sin of the Angels remember how they smarted for it that will make you more humble It is Calvins note Regis animum quisque intra se habet In 1 Pet. 5.5 Every man hath in him the mind of a King But bee you humble Domine qui dat gratiam humilibus da gratiam ut sim humilis Bern. such hee will guide in Judgement Thou Lord who givest grace to the humble give us grace that wee may bee humble is a good prayer for all especially men in authority It is much when God lifts up mens heads for them to keep down their hearts Homo Humilimus cur non humillimus It is a saying amongst the Rabbins the Flye and the Worm yea the most despicable and contemptible creature if there bee any such was mans elder Brother at his first Creation When Antipater recommended one to Philip King of Macedon Philip immediately made him a Judge afterwards being informed that hee used to paint and crisp his hair hee deposed and rejected him saying A man that is proud and useth deceit in his hair will be false on the Bench such a man will not deal truly in a good cause We know not what use to make of broken vessels in our houses God knows how to make the most and best use of humble broken hearts in his house in Church and State Fifthly Take heed of Intemperancy It is nor for Kings O Lemuel Prov. 31.3,4,5 it is not for Kings to drink Wine or Princes strong drink lest they forget the Law and pervert Judgement The greatest imployments require the greatest indowments the greatest places the greatest graces Men in authority should bee of approved sobriety you are not hid in corners all your expressions and actions are weighed in the ballance Solon made a Law at Athens that Drunkennesse in a Magistrate should bee punished with Death The Carthaginians had a Law that none of their Magistrates during their Magistracy should drink any Wine Wee have a Law amongst us but nothing regarded Bee not drunk with Wine Ebrietas in Noah ab omni peccato est excusanda In Gen. p. 383 wherein is excesse Drunkennesse in Noah was no sin saith Pererius it was not so great a sin in him then as in men now there is something in his grounds but a sin it is which God is now dealing with England for I have seen a Drunken Judge upon the Bench and therefore I speak though I hope better things of you Sixthly Let the Fear of God be upon you In your Hearts before your Eyes It is Jehosaphats counsel vers 7. Wherefore now let the Fear of God bee upon You Now not now and no times else but now and all times else yet Now more than at other times and Now rather than at other times See vers 9. This shall yee do in the fear of the Lord Hee that judgeth or ruleth over men must ●ee just ruling in the fear of the Lord said the Rock of Israel 2 Sam. 23.3 When Josephs Brethren were imprisoned and much affraid of harsh usage Joseph tells them I fear God q. d. I dare not do any thing but what the word commands mee The Fear of God doth chain the hand and change the heart I shall not dispute that question whether Dominium temporale fundatur in gratia This I crave leave to speak that such as fear God are fittest and meetest for judicial authority Moses must look out able men fearing God Such are fittest and meetest for Judicial authority Such will not do what is prohibited they will do what is injoyned The Fear of God will make you to abhorre the fear of man will make you to abstain from injustice The fear of man will make you to hide the Fear of God will make you to hate bribes Let the Spirit of the Lord bee upon you the spirit of Wisdome and understanding the spirit of councel and might the spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the Lord The fear of all the Creatures is upon man let the fear of God bee in and upon us When this we do we shall all take heed what we do Seventhly Phil. Jud. de officio Judic p. 146 Alex. Hal. p. 2. q. 136. Art 1 Respect not persons in Judgement in res magis quam personas inquirendum Pliny reports of Scipio Nasica that hee was sworn to speak without affection so should you It was Alphonsus his advice To leave affection as Abraham did the young men and the Asse at the threshold when you go to

they can live without them whether they do live above them how they will carry in the privation of them Many can live without God in the world who know not how to live without Gold and Silver and children in the world It is to humble them Pride is the shirt of the soul which it puts off last when it shifts The heart of man is the proudest little peece in the world Lest I should be exalted above measure there was given mee a thorn in the flesh An humble soul is Heavens delight It is worthy our observation Gen. 22.1 After these things God tempted Abraham After these things what things Solemn intercourses twixt God and him Expresse Assurances from Heaven that God was his God and would bee the God of his seed After these things Abraham is tempted and pride prevented To refine them waters are clearest when they are in motion Dan. 11.35 so are the Saints in affliction Isa 26.16 Hos 5.15 To awaken them to duty Grace ever acts like it self gracious men not so they have need of awakening Ordinances and providences In trouble they will visit him and morning him To subdue the stubbornnesse of their will children will not alwaies bee wrought on or brought to do their Fathers will with one lash as stubborn Oaks so stubborn hearts and wills must have many blows before they bee brought under To make them more modest in their demands desires of and prayers for temporals when men are low in condition they are low in petition A drop of water was all Dives desired in Hell Breach upon breach makes men more modest and moderate To work us more into love with more highly to estimate and think of his precious Ordinances Many of Pauls Epistles cannot bee understood well without the Crosse the sweetest Scriptures were penned in and are prized most in times of afflictions then is truth precious indeed To inlarge their comforts It is the Method of Heaven to bring his Saints first into the Wildernesse then to Canaan every child of God is not taken up into the third Heaven till they have been cast as it were into the third Hell the tree is more firmly rooted by shaking and the true Christian by suffering notable is that prayer 1 Pet. 5.10 To increase his own glory hee made all things at first and do●h all things to the last for his glory then shall his name which is above every name bee more exalted when hee shall make up those breaches in his Church or in your families Notable is that Psal 102.16 When the Lord shall build up Zion hee shall appear in his glory The Case is yours Right Worshipfull Hee hath broken you with breach upon breach Within the circuit of ten daies you have laid in dust the Head and Hope of your family The delights of your eyes are taken from you with a stroak from Heaven Ezek. 24.16 To help you to a right improvement of this great affliction I humbly crave leave to leave two or three words of Counsel with you First Patiently bear the indignation of the Lord acknowledge his Righteousnesse open not your mouth to murmure or rep●ne against him L●t these Considerations stay with you 1 There are no more breaches made than there was need of I dare not say with him in Theocritus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is enough that ones dead out of a family No There is not one dram more in the potion nor one twig in the Rod more than there was need of Notable is that 1 Pet. 1.6 Now for a season if need be yee are in Heaviness if need bee breaches are not made but as there is need and if there bee a need Were wee made Arbiters of our own afflictions it is more than probable wee should not award our selves the tenth of our corrections yet the most High whose wisdome is wonderful and understanding infinite knows he should wrong us much should hee whip us no more 2 The Lord hath done it and who shall gain-say it Psal 39.9 or bee displeased with it Righteous are all his doings in our hearts and in our houses His dealings with David Job and Heman were sharp but never chargable with injustice as the Word so the Work of the Lord is good 3 Have not you and wee deserved it hath hee not been highly provoked by us to take them from us wherefore shall a living a dying man complain since hee suffers for his si● This is mans sin and Gods wonders Nay hath hee not punished us lesse than our iniquities have deserved 4 They were none of yours whom hee hath taken from you they were his before yours more than yours his and none of yours 1 Cor. 6.19 when wee are not our own what can wee call our own may not the Lord do what hee will with his own and call them home at his pleasure 5 His End is good in all the Breaches made upon your comforts It is to break your heart more for sin and from sin from the pleasures profits and honours of the world to make you partaker of his holinesse Now finis dat amabilitatem facilitatem mediis Wee are content to lose some of our blood for the health of our bodies why not the best things in our houses for the health of our souls 6 You will by acknowledging his hand and submission to his Rod without grumbling advance the Lords honour and crosse Satans expectation It was the Devils design not to make Job a beggar but a blasphemer unlesse the way to make him a blasphemer was first to make him a beggar but Jobs blessing of God crossed and amus'd the Devil For Job not to miscarry after all those sad tidings This was a patience that honoured Heaven justified Gods testimony of him made hell ashamed the whole world to wonder and still to talk of the patience of Job Hee saith not Vide Chrys Hom. in locum the Devil hath taken this or that had hee said so the speech had been true enough though not good enough for so holy a man but the Lord hath taken away 7 It is a fruitlesse and bootlesse thing to contend with God nothing is got by murmuring it is no wrangling him out of his way besides this would argue much pride and sullennesse nothing of a self-denying humble spirit which you have a large share of 8 Your noble soul is not yet lost and your Redeemer yet lives There is no breach made twixt God and your soul and Christ is better to you than ten Husbands Sons c. Seneca checks the folly and vanity of murmurers under pressures Bee it supposed saith hee a man hath a princely pallace to lodge in with gallant Orchards pleasant Gardens surrounded with tallest Cedars or other Trees for Ornament or Muniment what an unreasonable thing were it for this man to whine repine and complain if a few leaves bee gone by the boysterous winde the fruits the trees the house remaining