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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

point in hand in their fiftieth Disputation By how much the greater power authority and opportunity the Civil Magistrate hath received from God above private persons by so much the more vigilant and diligent should they bee lest any Heterodox opinions spread within their jurisdictions Notable is that of the Philosopher in the seventh of his Politicks Quo quis sanctior eo promptior novellis contraire solet Virenener 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Magistrates first and greatest care should bee about things divine about Religion the Orient pearl of the Nation nor can I passe by that of Guevara in an Epistle to the Emperour Charles the fifth Christianus nulla re magis dignosci potest quam si Deo factas contumelias blasphemias severissime ulciscatur suas obliviscatur A true Christian can by nothing better bee discerned than this by forgiving and forgetting the injuries and indignities done to himself and severely punishing such contumelies and blasphemies as tend to and end in the dishonour of God In Christs Catalogue there is no Neuters Hee who is not for him and his Truth and Honour are against all Learn of Nebuchadnezzar an Heathen Magistrate hee decreed Dant 3.28,29 that whosoever should speak amisse mark it but speak amisse of the God of Shadrach should be cut in peeces and their houses made a Dung-hill Help us wee humbly pray against the Prophaners of the Lords day What the Philistims said of Sampson is true of these men They are the destroyers of our Country c. Nehemiah was a famous Neh. 3.17 exemplary Magistrate hee contended with the Rulers and Nobles What evil thing is this that you do and prophane the Sabbath day Haec olim curarunt Christiani principes saith Gualther how is the Lords day lost amongst us that most refined part of time consecrated by divine sanction how is it idled and bezled away Time was our Saviour whipt some out Now there is need of whips to bring some into the Temple Conscience I confesse cannot be compelled to love Vertue or imbrace the Truth yet in regard of outward conformity men may and should bee injoyned the frequenting of Gods publick worship and ordinances It is a chief branch of your charge to see to the observation and sanctification of the Lords day Exod. 23.12 The Fourth Commandement hath a memento praefixed which none of all the rest have and why so why is this prefixed I shall hint at some Reasons 1 Because wee are most apt to forget this and therefore 2 Because none can keep this day holy when it is come that do not remember it before it come 3 Because this is one of the greatest if not absolutely the greatest of all the Commandements It is sometimes put for all the ten it is the Synopsis of them all Vossius though hee confesseth there bee ten great and principal commands yet asserts there are in those Exod. 16.28 four more which hee calls secondary or appendical commands Gerard. Vos de Divis Dealogi and most of them are in this fourth Commandement 4 The Observation of all the Commandements depends chiefly upon the Observation of this fourth none walk so much after the Spirit on other daies as they who are most in the Spirit on the Lords day as Luther said of the first In the observance of this obedience to all the rest is comprized In Exod. p. 131 or as Alsted said of the fifth so may I of this stante honore superioribus debito mandata reliqua totius decalogi manent in viridi observantia Vide Rib. de Templo lib. 5. cap. 1 Cum essent c. 5 Because the observation of this Commandement was by reason of their cruel Task-masters much neglected now they are delivered it is with a memento inculcated 6 The forgetting of this duty and prophaning of this day Ezek. 20.12 22.8 23 38 is one of the greatest sins that a people can be guilty of It is a violation of all the decalogue at once Levit. 26.2 14 Lam. 2.6,7 Neh. 13.17 it is a sin against all the commandements and concernments of God one of the greatest sins in Israel To adde no more Many heavy Judgements are threatned against and have been inflicted upon the prophaners of this day It was not their not trimming of their Churches as some of the German Nobility thought but the prophanation of the Lords day as others which brought those desolating Judgements upon that Nation Some think the Flood began on the Lords day from that Gen. 7. they were grown such notorious prophaners of the Sabbath The Council of Matiscon in France attributed the irruption of the Goths and Vandals to their neglect of this day My Lords Cum oritur veneris stella consequens occasum solis c. Ribera de Templo l. 5. pag. 247. Sheph. Thes Sab. it is your duty to see every one have his due shall not the Lord have his is not the Lords day the Lords due Nehemiah did his indeavour to keep men from this sin of sins When the gates of Jerusalem began to bee dark for then began their Sabbath and in the evening begins ours too as I conceive hee commanded the Gates to bee shut hee did his indeavour and the Lord remembred him for Good Do you yours this will bee your Glory your Crown your Comfort In short as none truly indeavour the salvation of their own souls who indeavour not the salvation of more souls than their own So none truly indeavour the sanctification of the Lords day who do not cordially indeavour the sanctification of it by all within their families precincts and jurisdictions Little do you know worthy Gentlemen what acceptable service you may do to God in this very businesse Help us Against the Ale-houses those Hell-houses and that accessive drunkennesse which is so prevalent and frequent amongst us TAKE HEED how you countenance them It is almost as easy a Task to conquer the Turk as to bring down a rotten Ale-house so many of the Gentry patronize and plead for them Reduce them to a smaller number command them to keep better orders they are very exorbitant and irregular These houses are the very suburbs and seminaries of Hell the nurseries of all sin the Synagogue of Devils incarnate the Devils fish-ponds the Devil is the fisher drunkenness is the hook pleasure is the bait Fools are his fish Hell their frying-pan In ardentem salite sartagine prunam Are such houses to be priviledged or licensed in which the Name of God is so notoriously blasphemed the precious fruits of the earth so shamefully abused by occasion whereof the Lords day is so much prophaned so many families impoverished young ones empoysoned all manner of wickednesse increased In the time of the Law Deut. 21.21 Drunkards were to bee stoned to death and shall it escape now in the time of the Gospel It was one of King Lewis his Apophthegmes That Prince

2.3 In goodnesse Rom. 2.4 In Grace Ephes 1.7 In Glory Ephes 1.18 And in Mercy also Eph. 2.4 It is a main plain and a momentous Truth I am now to discourse of the execution of justice Justice is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fulcrum anchora civitatis saith the Philosopher in his Politiques It is conservatrix humanae conjunctionis quae ad beatitua tidem via est saith Scaliger I am easily convinced that mercy best becomes a Ministers mouth God loves mercy best and wee need mercy most hee is in Scripture stiled the Father of mercies for hee begets mercies as Fathers beget children and loves mercies as Fathers love children Hee is a Sea of mercy both bottomelesse and boundlesse an over-flowing and an ever flowing fountain of mercy and yet ever full Hee is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rich in mercy not rich in wrath hee delights in mercy not in judgements Isa 7.20 hee hires the raisor wherewith hee shaves his people Isa 7.20 Judgement is his work 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but his strange work hee loves freely but corrects not willingly not from the heart though men do willingly grieve the children of God Lam 3.33 yet God doth not willingly grieve the children of men O Ephraim what what shall I do unto thee and how shall I give thee up O Ephraim Hos 11.8 how shall I deliver thee O Israel how doth the most High debate and project with himself to shew mercy Excellent is that of Vossius upon that Text De Extr. Judicio Thes 3 Go yee cursed it is said come yee blessed of my Father but not go yee cursed of my Father Benedictionis author pater est non item maledictionis c. But bee all this and more granted wee must sing this compound ditty of judgement and mercy Unisons make no good musick Such are his Attributes that hee will not cease to bee just that hee may bee merciful As hee is the Father of mercies so hee is a Lord of wrath Baal chemah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a possessor of wrath Nahum 1.2 As hee hath a time of reprieving so he hath a time of reproving a time of correcting man for sin as well as a time of conniving at mans sin his patience hath fixed bounds and limits None may leave sin unpunished who are thereto deputed upon pretence that God is merciful it is said that no attribute of God is so often iterated no act of God so often inculcated no work of God so often repeated in sacred story as Justice Judge Judgement c. Two Branches of the Observation 1 Justice must bee executed and Judgement administred 2 And that exactly conscionably deliberately c. First Of the first It is the more common observation and therefore I shall not injure this reverend Auditory by prolixity I come then to clear it by testimonies both divine and humane out of the inspired Prophets and Heathen Poets and Philosophers Consult Jer. 22. 2 2● 12 For Scripture proofs consult Deut. 16.19 Judges and Officers shalt thou make in all thy Gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee throughout the Tribes and they shall judge the people with just judgement Psal 82.3 Thou shalt not wrest Judgement thou shalt not respect persons Deut. 1.16 Et A Lapide in loc nor take a gift that which is altogether just shalt thou follow Deut. 19.21 In the Original it is more emphatical Justice Justice shalt thou follow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all manner of Justice and nothing but Justice carefully constantly c. Micah 6.8 Calvin conceives that that Prophesy as wee now have it is but the Synopsis or Epitome of certain Sermons collected by him and recorded for the Churches benefit And Gualther thinks this is part of his fourth Sermon the marrow whereof you have in this eighth verse Hee hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee To do justly Vide Guath in locum Kings and Princes Magistrates and Ministers Masters and Servants Judges especially must learn to do judgement justly though your dispositions may incline you to mercy yet his command must praeponderate and over-awe you to justice there can bee no mercie in injustice and nothing but injustice in disobeying the Lords command Exod. 23. Thou shalt not speak no not speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgement Thou shalt not wrest the Judgement of thy poor in his cause Keep thee farre from a false matter the innocent and the righteous slay thou not and verse 13. In all things which I have said unto you bee circumspect Take heed what you do Nor is that time the least considerable though last considered in Zachary 8.16 The Persians were so in love with Justice that this was the first of those five things which they taught their children from their fifth to their tenth year as Zenophon Hist lib. 1. de Institutione Cyri. Execute the Judgement of Truth and peace q. d. It is not sufficient to build the Temple and to have an eye to his ceremonial worship you should mainly minde the moral Law see that the main duties bee performed some particulars are mentioned under which the rest are comprized Execute the Judgement of Truth and Peace judge according to law and the rules thereof and according to true information in matters of fact It is the conclusion of the Philosopher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the more just any person or action is Arist hic lib. 1. c. 1 lib. 5. c. 1 the more excellent and glorious it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as peace comprizeth all blessings so doth justice all vertues Ubi nec cura juris Senec. de Clem. lib. 1 cap. 2. 4 said Seneca where there is no care of equity and justice Kingdomes must needs bee in a tottering condition P. Parad. 4 this is Civitatum vinculum saith Tully the Ornament the Muniment the Cement that holds Cities and Kingdomes together no society can subsist without it Vide Valer. Maxim lib. 6. cap. 5. Amongst Thieves and Robbers were no justice observed but one take all the society would suddenly and happily dissolve It was Pythagoras his grave advice to his Scholars Aur. Carm. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. both in word and deed inure your selves to equity ever remembring you are mortal and Hipparchus his Motto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Think on Righteousnesse as thou goest along or practise Righteousnesse in thy life and conversation Vide Phocylidis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Another of them hath his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first worship God then honour thy Parents in the next place do justice to all men Plato Plotinus Hesiod and others are very full in this who would not blush to hear Pagans pressing this so much and to see Christians practising this so little For Arguments to convince take nine or ten Justice must bee executed

cruci affigeretur saith Maldonate Audi quomodo amatus es O homo Aug. O quantum dilecta spousa prae qua filius ipse aut non dilectus aut sa'tem neglectus Incomparable was the love which Christ manifested to man in praying for us paying a great price for us dying for us and now making intercession for us his very life was the Jewel hee pawned for us Vide Bolducium in Job 2.4 precious it was to him and so is ours to us Skin for skin and All that a man hath will hee give for his life Now this is in your hands What Seneca said of Nero to Nero in that excellent book of Clemency Lib. 1. cap. 1 so highly prized by Queen Elizabeth Ego vitae necisque arbiter qualem quisque sortem statumque habeat in manu mea positum est quid cuique mortalium c. is true in part of you notable was the answer of Alexander Magnus to his Mother Olympia when shee had a design to take away the life of an innocent man shee remembred him how shee had carried him in her womb nourished him with her blood painfully laboured in his birth therefore hee must not deny her request but his return was grave and serious Life was precious Misera vis est valere ad nocendum there is lesse evil in sparing ten that bee nocent than in sentencing to death two that bee innocent For that there is a plea of mercy This is pure injustice Hee was none of the wisest Judges who solemnly professed as the Italian Oratour speaks to hang many was his Jubile Silesio and a great execution was his great recreation Hee had not the reason of a man but the rage of a Lion the venome of a Serpent the malice of a Daemon And How dear our Civil Interests Immunities Rights and Priviledges are I shall not speak Do not too many make their Gold their God their Bonds and Indentures their Scriptures The world their All in All They would rather part with their part in paradise than in Paris While gracious souls say What is a man profited if hee gain the whole world and lose his own soul The Cry is greater what is a man profited if hee save his own soul and lose his Riches his Rights his Honours his Flax and Wool the great things of this world The Application In which I shall study more brevity I cannot more perspicuity But one thing I must remember your Lordships of and my self of another before I can proceed on safe ground any further Remember you that of Chrysostom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nisi fideliter dixetim vobis crit damno sum mihi periculosium Timeo itaque damnum vestrum damnationem meam si Tacuero The Church is not a Theater where mens ears are tickled but their hearts are touched nor are you come hither I presume to hear what will please but profit It may bee it should bee what is most profitable will bee most delectable and acceptable And I shall remember Bernards Nisi fideliter dixerim hee who hath advanced you to this Authority hath ingaged mee to fidelity The plaister which causeth most smart is most soveraign To proceed then 1 Use And First for Humiliation Is this so Must Justice bee executed and Judgement administred THUS with this deliberation c. Then let us Humble our souls this morning in the presence of the Eternal God for the Male administration of Justice in the Nation This is one burden which England hath too long groaned under it is our sin our shame our judgement a state desolating sinking sin it carries destruction in the very face of it when there is little or no Justice Truth or Knowledge of God in a Land God will enter into controversie with it Hos 4.1,2 Gualther might well call that Text sui an non nostri Temporis speculum It is Englands Looking-glasse who can say wee are free from injustice oppression Aqu. 2. 2. Qu. 57. Ar. 12 c. the Schools say Justice is the chief of Moral vertues sure then Injustice is chief of Mortal vices May it bee spoken My Lords May it bee spoken Nay is it not to bee spoken with tears of blood Judgement hath been turned backwards Justice hath stood afarre off Truth hath fallen in our streets the Widdow and the fatherlesse have been oppressed The Name of God blasphemed his holy day prophaned his Ordinances sleighted and his Laws violated while the Statutes of Omri are observed Quis talia fando Temperet a lachrymis Let Rivers of Waters run down our eyes because men keep not thy Laws O Lord. Seneca unmasking the face of their corrupt state hath this notable passage The news from Rome take thus the walls are ruined the Temples are not visited the Priests are fled the Treasuries rob'd Old men are dead young men are mad Vices are Lords over all The Dictator blames the Consul The Consul checks the Censor the Censor chides the Praetor the Praetor falls foul upon the Aedile and hee casts all the fault upon the Quaestor and because no man will acknowledge himself in fault wee have no hopes of better times I shall not take the boldnesse to apply It was a strange saying yet very true Nic. de Clemang There is more justice and equity in Hell than in France there the oppressor is oppressed there hee that would not give a crumb of bread is denyed a drop of Water there such as shed innocent blood have blood to drink there is no respect had to persons potentes potenter puniuntur Every man hath according to his deserts but in France c. let this never bee true of England Not to travel far In this County which is not the greatest there is too much of Rome and Hell You may behold the tears of such as are oppressed and crushed by Malignant Antichristian Lords but they have no comforters you may behold Seducers and Impostors Vain-talkers and idle persons whose mouthes are not muzled Wee fear the setting of our Sunne at Noon-day the removal of our bright-burning and shining lights out of our territories wee tremble O that wee could tremble to think of Gods striving with us no more by his Spirit and his Word Wee fear not the downfal of Tythes so much as of Truths unless that bee a fore-runner of this Herb. The Gospel upon tip-toe stands And 's ready for the American strands If Justice be not executed Errours suppressed faithful and painful Ministers encouraged and Gods Ordinances frequented and attended on Woe unto us if Judgement bee established Salvation shall come and his Righteousnesse shall be revealed Luther had never any great design on foot for Gods glory and the Churches good but hee was brought very low before by the afflicting hand of God My Lords the work you have in hand is of God and for God humble your selves this day before God the work will go better on Vis

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