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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20472	A godly and learned sermon concerning the magistrates dutie and death preached at the court, and now published for the common good, by Francis Dyllingham bachelour in diuinitie. Magnum non est præesse, magnum est prodesse. It is no great thing to rule, it is a great thing to rule well. Magnum non est vivere, magnum est piè mori. It is no great thing to liue, it is a great thing to die well.	Dillingham, Francis, d. 1625.	1605 (1605)	STC 6885; ESTC S114254	10,327	30

vs first that such should be chosen Magistrates as doe excell others in godlines like vnto gods amongst men Euen as Gods attributes are in him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in an excellencie so should vertue be in Magistrates in a kind of eminencie A Magistrate must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a perfect man without fault Well said the heathen man Aristotle in the 7. booke of his Ethic. chap. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vertue is not in God but a more diuine thing As Magistrates must not be onely liberall but they must be also magnificall so they must not content themselues with ordinarie vertues but they must haue vertue in an high degree not that they can equalize Gods attributes for Dei potestas est infinita Regum praefinita Dei potestas immens● R●gum dimensa Gods power is infinite the power of Magistrates prefinite Gods power is immensurable the power of Princes may be measured If Magistrates did thus excell in vertue this benefit would come thereby vnto subiects namely that they should be vertuous also Of Iosua his time this is recorded Iosu 24.1 that Israel serued the Lord all the daies of Iosua And Iustine writeth that ante Philippum Alexandrum in Macedonia tam clarorum virorum proventus non floruit before Philip and Alexander there was not such a floorish of famous men For such commonly are subiects as their gouernours are Actions are visible words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 10. Ethic. wordes will not so soone be receiued as actions Swearing lying couetous and whorish gouernours make like people And thus much of the first point Secondly Magistrates are called Gods to teach vs that we should obey them as in Gods stead Rom. 13.2 He that resisteth the higher powers resisteth the ordinance of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obedience is the mother of well doing nothing can be well done without obedience And therefore subiects should not striue to excell one another in riches honour and preferment but in obedience What then may Magistrates conceiue of Papists who hold this position Bell. lib. 5. de bono Pont. cap. 7. that licet spirituali principi imperare principibus de eorum bonis temporalibus disponere it is lawfull for the Pope to command Princes and to dispose of their temporalities Vntill they recant and relinquish this position how can Papists be good subiects yet for a thousand yeares saith Langius out of Otho Frising non lego aliquem regno privatum I doe not read any depriued of his kingdome The same is testified by Gotfridus also Behold the antiquitie of Poperie now touching the obedience of subiects it must be first grounded vpon knowledge secondly it must be voluntary thirdly it must be constant and continuall Touching knowledge obedience cannot be voluntarie and constant except it be founded vpon knowledge for voluntatis obiectum est bonum cognitum the obiect of the will is a knowne good To effect this a learned and godly Ministerie must be placed in euery parish for where the dumbe ministerie resideth men are neither taught their dutie towards God nor allegeance towards the Prince nor loue towards one another If it be obiected that there are not learned and godly Ministers enough I answer with Gratian and Thomas Aquinus that prae●tat pa●●os habere dignos Ministros quam plures inutiles it is better to haue a few worthie Ministers then many that are vnprofitable Secondly obedience must be voluntarie This may be effected by the Magistrates clemencie and mercie towardes his subiects amariqui vult languide regnet he that will be loued must raigne remissely yet as seueritie must be mild so clemency must not be dissolute Artaxerxes his speach is worthy to be followed of magistrates magis honorificum est opulentes facere quàm opulentem fieri it is more honorable to enrich then to be enriched And Galba his practise is to be abhorred who would make his citizens siccissimas spongias most dry sponges Thirdly obedience must be constant and continuall which will then come to passe when it proceedeth of conscience The benefits that subiects receaue from their Gouernors are continuall therefore their obedience must be continuall O that Papists and Athists would consider of this But as Herodian saith tenax est memoria iniuriarum the memory of man keepeth fast an iniury it easily forgetteth benefits Againe Magistrates are called Gods to teach them that they should not feare the faces of men as God himselfe iudgeth without respect of persons so should magistrates This duty is commanded Iosua in the first chap Feare not saith the Lord be of a good courage and I will bee with thee There are two arguments to mooue magistrates to courage one is a recept the other is a promise Magistrates must be like vnto Appius of whome Liuy reporteth this that non minae plebis the menaces of the peole could not put him from his mind Iustum tenacem propositivirum non ciuium ardor praua iubentium non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solidâ a righteous constant man is not driuen from his mind either by the fury of people or by the countenance of a tyrant A Magistrate must haue courage to resist bribes Phillip was wont to say that Nulla ciuitas tam munita est quin si asinus auro onustus ingredi possit expugnari queat No city is so well fensed but if an asse laden with gold can enter in it may be vanquished So it is to be feared that golden asses will enter into offices except magistrates haue courage to resist bribes Buying and selling of offices is the ruine of church and common wealth Fourthly Magistrates are called Gods to teach them that they should honor God as God hath honored them by investing them with his owne titles Wherfore they must remember that they be not the seruants of the flesh or of Sathan or of the world Magistracy is not immunitas but munus not an immunitie but a duty It is not vacatio but vocatio not a vacation but a vocatiō To effect this magistrates must haue godly men about them The Aegiptians will haue a king saith one to be most sincere therefore they place excellent men about him that by the sight of them he himselfe may be excited to vertue Psal 101.7 There shall no deceytfull person dwell in my house saith the prophet Dauid he that telleth lyes shall not remaine in my sight O that magistrates would haue a care to reforme their families as good Iosua had who saith that he and his house will serue the Lord. But are not many magistrates men swearing swaggerers and swaggering swearers are they not prophane dicers dauncers and dronkards Secondly if the Magistrate will honor God aright he must not suffer two religions in a land Salomon saith that the king that sitteth vpon his throne 20. Prou. with his countenance disperseth all euill The Angell of Pergamus is reprehended Reuel 2. because he