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lord_n	christian_n	day_n	sabbath_n	11,845	5	9.8333	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62113	Timē kai timōria, A beautifull swan with two black feet, or, Magistrates deity attended with mortality & misery affirmed & confirmed before the learned and religious Judge Hales, at the assize holden at Maidstone, July 7, 1657, for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons ...	Symons, Henry, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6360B; ESTC R22380	23,504	38

i. e. the cause that was dark difficult and dubious he would examine witnesses and weigh circumstances that he would find veritatem in profundo the truth in the bottom It was a great stain to David that he gave away Mephibosheths living upon the false information of Ziba 2 Sam. 16. 2. 3 4. And it 's horrible injustice if true what I have heard of the Turks that they will put a man to death and then enquire whether he justly suffered Judges must be carefull that Writs of Error be not sued upon them of this kind 5. God judgeth speedily and swiftly after full knowledge of the truth Joel 3. 4. Swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence è vestigiò while you can say what is this How quick was he with Sodom and Gomorrha Gen. 19. How speedy with Corah and his complices Numb 16. So ought Judges after examination fall upon execution and that with expedition Ezra 7. 26. And whosoever will not do the Law of thy God and the Law of the King let judgement be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment I will early destroy all the wicked of the land Psal 101. 1. Summo manè I will do morning justice Festinantèr so Genebrad I will hastily do it Justice shall be on the wing delaies are very dangerous and injurious To delay Justice is worse sometimes then to deny justice 6. God judgeth valiantly couragiously he is not afraid of the multitude or might of malefactors The right hand of the Lord doth valiantly Psal 118. 15. It 's right-hand Justice which wounds the hairy scalps of them that go on in wickednesse You have God challenging as a valiant champion Isa 27. 4. Who would set the briars and thorns in battel against me I would go thorow them I would burn them together Gods justice against sinners is as fire to briers and thorns which easily and speedily consumes them And this is the reason the Holy Ghost gives why the whore of Babilon shall be so irresistably and irrecoverably consumed Because strong is the Lord God who judgeth her Rev. 18. 8. So ought Judges to be very valiant and couragious When Joshua came into the place of Magistracy God laies a charge three times in the 1. chap. 6 7 9. on him to be very couragious Solomons throne which is called Gods throne was supported with Lions to shew that in execution of judgement Magistrates should have the hearts of Lions of all beasts the most magnanimous The Athenian Judges sate in Mars street to shew they had Martiall hearts and did not bear the sword in vain Rom. 13. 4. Timidi nunquam statuêre trophaea cowardly and timorous Judges will never set up monuments of their victories over sin and prophaness It is very sad when we may say of our Judges as the Heathen did of Judges in his time they were very good Si audeant quae sentiunt if they durst but do what they ought Cic de Mil. to do Thirdly Defend as Gods the things of God 1. The Book of God 2. The Son of God 3. The Day of God 4. The Ordinances of God 5. The Ministers of God 6. The People of God 1. Defend and maintain the Book of God I mean the Scriptures those Epistolas omnipotentis Dei as Greg stiles them let not those two brethren in iniquity Papists and Quakers dare to say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great Bible is a great libell or call Evangelium Aven-gilion the Gospel of life the Gospel of a lie or use the scoffing phrase of Bonners Chaplain his pretty little Gods-book Silence those expressions of the black Gospel the inky Divinity c. Oh do you own and honour it as a great expression of Gods love to you and make you expressions of your love to that Psal 119. 97 103 105. David through the whole Psalm shews large affections to the Word of God Corn. à Lapide reports of Robert King of Sicily that he was wont to say of the Scriptures to Petrarch that they were dearer to him then his Kingdom and that if he must want one of them he had rather want his Diadem then the Scriptures Much such a story doth Speed in his Chronicles relate of that Queen of famous memory Q. Elizabeth upon the presenting of a Bible to her by the City of London II. The Son of God of whom we may better say then they of Titus Delitiae generis humani The Saviour of the world the desire of Nations the Head of the Church the Beloved of the beleevers soul let none scoff him with a crucified God but make all to kisse the Son Psal 2. 12. If you neglect this shall not the Heathen Judges rise up against you in judgement I mean the Athenian who put Socrates to death for an irreverent speech concerning their Plutareh in vit Nic. gods How many irreverent yea irreligious speeches are belched out against the only wise God Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 1. 17. and yet our Magistrates have no hearts to hate no hands to punish it were well if they had no houses to entertain such blasphemers All that I shall say is consider what a dreadfull curse is denounced against such men and Magistrates 1 Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha III. The Day of God which is Gods holy day Isa 58. 13. the Christians market day for their souls Isa 55. 1. Christs Coronation day Rev. 1. 10. the Beleevers Sabbath and day of rest Heb. 4. 9. the Regina dierum as Ignatius religiously cals it do not suffer that pure day to be so prophaned that pious Ministers and godly people may have as just cause to speak with shame and sorrow what Alstedius did of the Germans Sabbath it was dies daemoniacus non Dominicus the day of the devil according to peoples observation of it and not the day of Jesus Christ Let Nehemiahs example spur you up to do your duties Neh. 13. 17 ad 23. Give me leave to present you with five things from the words 1. He begins with the great ones the Nobles of Judah were not so high but he made the Law to reach them vers 17. 2. He presses them by undeniable arguments as the judgements their fathers brought upon the Nation by prophaning the Sabbath v. 18. 3. He begins the sanctification of the Sabbath over night and makes the people keep in over night that both preparatory duties might be done as also their bodies refreshed with sleep might be freed from drouziuesse in the service of God v. 19. 4. He set his own servants as spies to see how the law was observed v. 19. 5. He commanded the Levites to do their duties for the sanctifying of the Sabbath Oh that all our Magistrates would do likewise IV. The Ordinances of God those canales gratiae those golden pipes which lye at

that none could escape robbing ●lut perhaps not killing in his travels Yet they by their industry zeal severity so cleered the Counties where they rode Circuits that according to what one of them promised a man might ride over Sarisbury Plain with a purse in his hand By reason of our late warre which is the womb of all evil our Nation hath swarmed with rogues and robbers that we cannot ride safely in the waies nor sleep quietly in our beds for them oh let such severe carriage and zealous courage shew themselves against them and all other malefactors that the beams of a Deity may shine forth to the confusion of prophanesse and ungodlinesse that when you pronounce sentence all may say in a true sense what they said in a false of Herod It is the voice of God and not of man Acts 12. 22. II. As Judge of Nisi prius 1. Cast out all frivolous suits all malitious vexatious actions those opprobria legis let them know Non vacat exiguis rebus adesse Jovi that your Deity cannot attend such sorry businesses and that your justice shall never be executioner to their malice 2. Have a special care that no sons of Belial who swear usually be admitted for a witnesse or to take an oath make a difference between them that swear and them that fear an oath Eccles 9. 2. You know that two sons of Belial can and will swear a righteous Naboth not only out of his livelihood but also out of his life except you interpose 1 King 21. 13. 3. That those witnesses who shall swear point blank one to another as white is to black that the witnesse who is found to swear fasly have the reward of perjury It is now in England as it was once in Rome that persons are to be had and hired on both sides by which innocency is wronged justice abused Judges pusled These oaths make the Land to mourn oh make those persons mourn for their oaths Secondly To you my much honoured friends the Justices To the Justices of peace who are our dii titulares I may invert Tertullus speech to Felix in particular to you in generall By your care we enjoy great quietnesse and very worthy deeds are done unto this County by your providence Let me humbly intreat these things of you 1. Keep down and pull down those artillery gardens of sin in which youths are mustered and made compleat souldiers for hels service viz. Alchouses and suffer not the putting down one of them to be like the cutting off the head of Hydra in whose room seven more came as hath been in some places of this County 2. Keep a very strict and severe hand over inferiour officers know that they are not like the heavens that can move by an inward principle viz. of conscience of the fear of God but like Clocks or Jacks that only move by the heavy weights of a Warrant or fear of punishment 3. Never permit prophane and ignorant persons to be chosen officers It is never likely that one drunkard or swearer will punish or complain of another 4. Command the Officers of all Congregations to bring in the names of all such persons as were absent from the publick worship of God on the Lords day For many under the pretence of going to any place go to no place of publick ordinances but spend that day most prophanely Thirdly To you Gentlemen of the Grand Inquest who To the Grand Inquest are dii informantes I beseech you do something this time by way of petition that may make for Gods glory and the good of this County Oramus non pugnamus Caesar was lawfull in a Heathen Magistrates reign much more in a Christian Magistrates rule one who hath valiantly rescued our Liberties for us of whom we in England may as truly say as the Grecians of their General Q. Flaminius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Saviour our Saviour It would be too great impudence at least to suspect that He who hath purchased our Liberties for us would any waies keep them from us It would rather be a Christian and charitable Metonymie to attribute Adrians Motto unto him Non Mihi sed Populo It shall therefore be my earnest request unto you and for you That the Lord would grant you the Spirit of Wisdom and of Knowledge whereby you may improve your selves in your places Instruments of Gods honour his Peoples interest and the flourishing of this County FINIS