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A62375	Civil magistracy by divine authority asserted and laid forth in a sermon, preached at the assises holden at Winchester, for the county of South-Hampton, on Thursday the 4th day of March, 1651/52 : afterward the same subject much enlarged, and in some particulars more cleared, and applyed, on the like occasion, at Taunton in Somerset, on Sunday in the assize week, Aug. 22, 1652 / by William Sclater ...	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S914; ESTC R34025	36,513	52

mysterious Counsellor in regard of his Interpretation of Pharaoh's Dreame But in the Egyptian Language as u Beauximis in Harmon Evangel Beauxamis acquaints us it is by interpretation A Saviour of the world in as much as by his Providence He saved so many besides his Fathers house from perishing by famine and expresly the Magistrates Neh. 9.27 have the appellation of Saviours in respect of that outward incolumity and safety which they procure to such as are under their Governance and Protection To this same purpose is it that * Simon Maiolus p. 347. de Bellor Eventu Aristotle the Master said to Alexander the Scholer Governours were appointed not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not by an Imperious Domination to become injurious but by a gracious Dignation to become x Luke 22.25 Benefactors So saith Euripides likewise That a good Magistrate was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same is also sweetly illustrated by that Vision offered to Nebuchadnezzar under the similitude of an high Tree Dan. 4.11 12. The leaves whereof were faire and the fruit thereof much and in it was meat for all the Beasts of the field had shadow under it and the fowls of the Heaven dwelt in the boughes thereof and all flesh was fed of it Because the good Magistrates procure sustentation defence and quiet Habitation to those that are under them Again Under another Metaphor they are resembled unto Pastors or Shepherds So Cyrus whom God unexpectedly raised up for a Deliverer to his people Isai 44.28 is called The Lords Shepherd and Moses likens people without a Governour to sheep without a Shepherd Numb 27.17 And King David gives the style of sheep unto his Subjects 2 Sam. 24.17 So in ruling them he is said to feed Jacob the Lords people and Israel his Inheritance Psal 78.71 72. So Psalm 28.9 that word which is translated Feed thine inheritance is in the Original Rule thine inheritance and that not unfitly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith y Xenophon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xenophon because the Offices of the one bear a kind of correspondence with the other in the suppeditation of wholsom pastures and provisions And as it 's reported to have been the saying of * Sucton in Tiber. Tiberius It is the care of a good Shepherd tondêre pecus non deglubere to fleece them not to flay them As in the great Charter of England Theodoricus rex admonuit Marcellum Ne plus tribueret Fisco quàm Justitiae Cassiodor lib. 1. Epist 22. Fines were imposed salvo contenemento in a gentle moderation Lastly They are called * Num. 11.12 Exod. 20.12 Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chiefly when good and godly Isa 49.23 By the Romans their Senators were called Patres conscripti and * Xenoph. l. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xenophon approves the Title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in regard of that providence and nutrition they have and provide for their people S. z S. Hieron l. 9. in Ezek. Hierom observes That as the King of Egypt was successively called Pharaoh after one Name so among the Philistims the King was stiled Abimelech which is a compound signifying My Father King Even as in the other sex Deborah was said for counselling well to be a Mother in Israel Judg. 5.7 Joseph advanced to the Regiment over Egypt saith of himself Gen. 45.8 That the Lord had made him a Father to Pharaoh and by his command the people as he rode in his Chariot of State Gen. 41.43 were to cry before him Abrech that is mild or tender Father as a Hieron in Tradit Hebraicis super Gen. tom 3 pag. 390. Hierom renders it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pater mollis however the LXX take no great notice of the word before whom all were to how the knee And now after this so copious an amplification both of the Office and Benefit of Magistracy or Government It 's time I presume to hasten to an Application of the Point And here perhaps it may be expected on some hands Vse That I should first of all become a Monitor at least a Remembrancer to the Judges themselves and put them in minde of their Duty But I told you even now that was none of my purpose It were more meet to * 2 Sam. 13.24 beseech them as b Num. 11.12 Exod. 20.12 Fathers then to instruct them as Magistrates I know the snuffers of the Sanctuary were to be of pure c Exod. 37.23 gold and I am not of so good metall to take on me to do that lest what here Jehoshaphat insinuated to his Judges in the plurall may be returned upon me in the singular Caveto Take heed what thou doest I shall therefore become as some divine Proteus to metamorphose an expected Exhortation into an humble and cordiall Congratulation to magnifie and blesse God that he hath raised up so eminent Worthies whose Learning in the Lawes whose Sanctity and cleannesse of hands will altogether occasion judgment to run down as a river and righteousnesse as a mighty stream My Counsell that I have to subminister upon this occasion must look on some other objects at such I mean who are under such Magistrates even all obsequious people who are d Psal 35.20 quiet in the Land Pliny tels us of some herbs that however they be set in the waters yet will not grow so well absque imbribus supervenientibus without some showers from above No more will this obedience which I am now about to presse without continuall watering by good advice And the whole that I have to say to such shall be reduced to these four Heads from whence as from the e Gen. 2.10 four Rivers in Paradise shall be derived such streams as may f Psal 68.9 refresh the inheritance of God First then Let me minde you of that of the Apostle very apposite to our present purpose Rom. 13.7 Render to all their dues Fear to whom fear Honour to whom honour And to whom can there be of right and conscience justly more due then to those Higer Powers who are ordained of God himself It 's a quaere in Politicks Whether a Ruler were better to be feared or to be loved Sigismund the Emperor as g Panormitan de dictis factis Alphonsi lib. 4. cap. 35. Vid. Dieter Dn. 23 post Trin. p. 841 842 c. Panormitan acquaints us wisely resolv'd it That Superiours will be both feared and beloved too and indeed both conjoyned argue a reverence meet for Authority And surely if they be Fathers as ye heard but now They must have Honour Mal. 1.6 This comes under the Fifth Commandment To honour our Father Not onely of our Bodies but also of our Country And this 1. In Thought by carrying an awfull and reverentiall esteem of them in regard both of their Persons and Power yea of their Persons for their Power

Scripture direct and light you to the main Materialls of the Text. Here are many Circumstances and my Text like an Ingenuous Picture lookes upon all The first was the Occasion of this grave advice to the Judges which was a Solemn Reformation both of Church and State intended by King Jehoshaphat in the Diamonds of whose Crown though there were some flawes yet the sparkling of the one overblazed the duskishnesse of the other for the good things found in him ver 3 in his hands was now intrusted the Supreme Authority over the Kingdome of Judah which Kingdome partly through his owne Oscitancy or Connivence and partly also as the Story foregoing intimates through his God-displeasing League with Ahab that Sacrilegious Idolatrous and Wicked Prince having been lately ridden with but loose rains He now admonished by Jehu the son of Hanani the Seer ver 2 resolves to give a check to his foregone regardlessnesse and by a speedy Expergefaction to awaken both Himselfe and his People to a discreet Regulation of all past Disorders And this he sets about in the right course and after the best order He begins first with Himself next with Religion and then with Civill Justice as the strong Guard to both 1. With Himselfe And as the e Prov. 30.28 Spider taketh hold with her hands and begins to mend her Web at the middle He prepared his Heart to seek God ver 3. By which Personall Reformation the Vertue of his Pious Example proved so Magneticall that it attracted the Observation of all his People He went out again through the people from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim The Ancients were wont to place the Statues of their Kings by Springs or Fountains to intimate as one observes that they were the Fountains of Good or Ill in a Common Wealth So was Jehoshaphat here of good to his Subjects 2. Next to Himself and his owne Heart and Actions He takes care immediately for Religion and the right Worship of the true God and surely none so fit to restore that as they who first have made their own hearts as it were the mould wherein to cast Religion as in the proper Form and surely thus did Jehoshaphat as is abundantly manifest in the twentieth Chapter ensuing by his Fasting and Praying and seeking of God so that as soon as his heart had f Psal 45.1 indited so good a Matter his tongue incontinently becoms as the pen of a ready writer By an effectuall Invitation reducing his Exorbitant people from their Adoration of Idols in their Groves unto the Veneration of the True God in Jerusalem He brought them back unto the Lord God of their Fathers ver 4. 3. After himselfe and Religion having so well entred with God He then and not till then provides for Civil Justice and the due administration thereof according to the rules of Equity and Judicious Reason throughout the Land and this to be managed by such Persons whose Learning and Experience in the Lawes should give weight to their Proceedings whose Age and Gravity win Reverence and Honour to their Persons such as these He set Judges in the Land throughout all the fenced Cities of Judah City by City ver 5. and having given them their Commission and withall pondered the seriousnesse of the Employment He said to the Judges Take heed what yee do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord c. And thus I have shewen you the severall Circumstances of this Scripture which were it happily in a skilfuller hand might yet be branch'd out farther into more variety But least I may seem to have hovered too long in the Air of Generalities I shall now fasten on those Substantiall Materialls which are here before us in the Text. Which Text is as the short abridgement or Epitome of what concerns the Magistrate as such in the discharge of that Function insomuch that whatsoever lines of Paticularities can be drawn from the largest Circumference may be all here concentred in this Point Yet for my Method in the present Sermon I observe out of it these Heads of Discourse 1. The Division The Office it selfe Ye Judge or Judge ye 2 The Authority or Commission by which they execute that Office Not for man but for the Lord Vices Domini gerentes as Junius notes As God's Vice-gerents 3. The Discharge of that Office Do it or Judge ye Judicabitis Ye shall Judge so translated in the Future hath after the Hebrew Idiotisme the Vertue of an Imperative 4. The due Caution or Circumspection to be heeded in that Discharge Cavete Take heed which is twice repeated both in the Front and in the Foot of the Text The one standing as an Ecce prefixed the other as one of David's Selahs subjoyned both which Notes serve to set an Accent upon our Observation The former Cavete hath relation to the Matter Take heed what ye do The later Cavete hath respect to the Manner Take heed Now let the fear of the Lord be upon you 5. The Motive to perswade the well accomplished discharge of the whole Vobiscum Jehovah in rebus Judiciariis God is with you in the Judgement or in the matter of Judgement Which phrase of Gods being with them is in travell as Rebekah with a Twin of Interpretations It denoting either God's presence as a Spectator or else God's preheminence as a Protector of you in the matter of Judgement Which later seems by the last words of this Chapter to be the most genuine where he saith Deal couragiously and the Lord shall be with the Good to wit for their Divine Assistance And these at least as to my observation they occurr are the proper parts of this Scripture the measures of my Sermon and of your Christian Patience Please to favour me with the one whilst I am by Gods blessing in the dispatch of the other I shall be as compendious as the Gravity of this matter and the great affairs ensuing shall allow in all And he said to the Judges Take heed what ye do c. The first part The first member of my Division mentioned is the Office it self of Magistracy which I apprehend may well be couched under the Term or Style of Judging an eminent degree of the same From whence the Point that I would commend to you is this viz. The Office and Benefit of Government Doctrine together with the mischief and misery of Anarchy In speaking whereof I shall use the same modest Apology which g Calv. Instit lib. 4. c. 20. §. 9. Mr. Calvin that bright burning Taper of Geneva did being about to write upon the same Subject In Expounding saith he the Magistrates Office Non tàm Magistratus ipsos instituere consilium est quàm alios docere quid sint Magistratus It is not my intention to informe the Rulers or Magistrates themselves but to instruct others of the people who are to be Ruled and Governed by them What the Magistrates are and for what good end and