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A73282 Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity. Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623. 1631 (1631) STC 23505; ESTC S123301 19,735 38

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IETHROES COVNSELL TO MOSES OR A DIRECTION FOR MAGISTRATES A Sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke March 5. 1621. Before the Honourable Iudges by that Reverent Divine THOMAS SVTTON Dr. in Divinity LEVIT 19.15 Ye shall doe no unrighteousnesse in judgement thou shalt not respect the person of the poore nor honour the person of the mighty but in righteousnesse shalt thou judge thy neighbour LONDON Printed by WILLIAM IONES dwelling in Red-crosse-streete 1631. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR ROBERT DVCE Knight Barronet Lord Major of the City of LONDON and to the Right Worshipfull the Sheriffes and Aldermen of the same W. I. P. wisheth increase of knowledge and grace in Christ here that you may reigne with him hereafter in glory HAVING a Sermon come to my hands of the Counsell of Iethro given to Moses the servant of the Lord how hee might with more ease to himselfe and the people decide all controversies as it was preached before the Iudges in Southwarke by that Reverend and learned Divine Mr. Dr. Sutton late Preacher at Saviours The which Sermon giveth direction not onely to Iudges but also to all Magistrates in the Land how to carry themselves in their severall places against all offenders and betwixt man and man It being a subject of so necessary a use it is thought meete to publish it in these evill times because the seate of Iustice is now had in much contempt by many who live as if there were no God in heaven to behold their wickednesse nor Magistrate on earth to punish their horrible crimes And seeking out for a Patron I thought fit to dedicate it to your Honour and Worships To your Honour who in your Shreivalty shewed your great zeale and love to the Gospell of Christ that upon a discovery of the practises of Iesuites and Priests rose at midnight to execute the warrant of Sir Robert Nanton then Secretary to King Iames of most blessed memory where was taken seventeene Altars for their Popish Masse ten Copes twelve or thirteene Surplices above ten thousand Popish bookes besides severall packets of Letters partly come from Bruxels and going to Bruxels c. And seeing the Lord hath advanced your Honour into the chaire of Moses under our gracious Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES the Lord give you courage and zeale against all Popish superstitition and Idolatry requesting you that you would be pleased to peruse the short directions in it That so you may with the rest of your Right Worshipfull Brethren the better direct all and severall Officers in their severall places under you in your severall Wards that they also may be men of courage fearing God To that end I beseech the Lord of heaven who directed his servant Moses so to direct your hearts that you may have both the courage and zeale of Moses against all idolatrous Priests and Iesuites that swarme in the Land whose treacherous practises this worthy Sermon doth at large discover and so put them out of all hope of gaining any Proselites here among you Thus daily praying unto the Lord on your behalfe I humbly take my leave Your Honours and Worships to be commanded in the Lord Iesus W. I. P. Dr. SVTTONS Prayer OH most gracious and most glorious God before whom the Sunne and the Moone become as darknesse the blessed Angels stand amased and the glorious Cherubims are glad that they may cover and hide their faces as not daring to behold that incomprehensible greatnesse and that infinite goodnesse which thou art with what confidence shall we forlorne sinners be ever once able to appeare before thy all seeing providence that terrible and angry countenance that sinne-revenging justice of thine which is so fierce and terrible that it will shake the heavens melt the mountaines dry up the seas and make the tallest Cedars in Lebanon to tremble Good Lord where shall we hide our selves from thy presence masses of corruption mountaines of sinne dead and dry trees fit fewell for thy fierce wrath to worke upon if we should climbe up into heaven to hide us from thee thou art there or goe downe into the bottome and depth of hell thou art there also or take the wings of the morne and fly to the utmost part of the seas even there also will thy allseing eye behold us and thy right hand will quickly visit and finde us out we will therefore here dissolve and melt our selves into a floud and fountaine of many teares bewailing and bemoaning our wofull and miserable estate for albeit by reason of that soule Chaos and staine of naturall corruption and originall sinne we have deserved long since to have had the sweete issue of all thy good blessings to be stopped and dried up thy milde and gentle corrections to be turned into the sodaine execution of bloody tortures and fearefull judgements upon us even in this life and at our departing out of this world to be plunged everlastingly into a pit of destruction there to be fryed and scorched with Satan and his Angels for evermore And yet for all this O Lord wee have never ceased to adde oyle unto this flame and to blow up the coales of thy fearefull displeasure through the hot and eager pursuit of many loud crying actuall sinnes and transgressions so that from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote there is not one place sound or whole within us but we are all full of sores and swellings and botches full of sinne full of corruption our understandings which should have knowne thee to be our true God and him whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ our Redeemer these are blinded and missed with ignorance and doubting our affections which should have beene good guides to have directed our feete into the way of peace they are become swift messengers of Satan to buffet us our bodies which should have beene sweet Temples for thy blessed Spirit to dwell and lodge in they are sinks of sinne and cages of filthy birds our eyes O God are like open windowes and doores to receive sinne our hearts like common Innes to lodge sinne our heads like skilfull Politicians to contrive sinne our tongues smooth and sweet Oratours to pleade for the maintaining of sinne and all our hands like stout souldiers and couragious Champions to fight in the defence of sinne Thus have we waged and managed warre against thee our God ever since we were borne so that now thou maist justly spue us out of thy mouth cut us off in the midst of our sinnes come amongst us this very present and binde us hand and foot and at the end of these few and miserable dayes send us all into hell together that so Satan might pay us our wages onely whom thus long we have obeyed and served thus emptying our selves from all trust and confidence in the arme of flesh we fly unto thee O God the anchor of our hope and the tower built for our defence with many deepe sighes and groanes from our perplexed consciences