JUS POLIET FORI OR GOD and the KING Judging For RIGHT Against MIGHT As it was delivered in a Sermon before the Honourable His Majesties Judges of Assize in the Cathedrall Church of LINCOLNE Septem 10. 1660. By Edward Boteler sometimes Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge and now Rector of WINTRINGHAM in the County of LINCOLNE Isa 28.5 6. In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people And for a spirit of judgement to him that sitteth in judgement and for strength to them that turne the battel to the gate LONDON Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins at the Middle Temple gate in Fleetstreet 166◠TO THE Right Worshipfull Sir WILLIAM TROLLOP Baronet High Sheriff OF The County of Lincoln SIR DVring the late Whirlewinde in Church and State in which He that could not hold his tongue could not hold his peace I studied to Comment practically upon that Text of the Prophet Am. 5.13 The prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evill time Privacy was then a priviledge nothing so safe as solitude and I could not but hug my self and applaud my condition in obscurity No tyes of Interest no flatteries of the Times could draw me out of my recesses or court me to make a step on that publique Theatre where I perceived little acted but what would put ingenuity to the blush and make honesty ashamed But now that by the goodnesse of God the clouds are scattered our day cleares up and we seeme to sit under the smiles of Heaven I have adventured abroad under the Conduct of your name to salute our new-borne Peace and bid that desirable Stranger welcome into our more then wearied world and this I have done in the great Congregation Nor have I done yet but that you may see how my obedience strives to be as large as your Commands I have followed them from the Pulpit to the Presse And though I thought these worthlesse conceptions publique enough before as having delivered them in the face of the Country yet since your selfe and others neither the least nor least considerable and intelligent part of the Auditory are pleased to thinke otherwise I submit what ever I thinke my selfe They are now no longer mine but yours the Dedication makes them so designe them your protection they begg it they need it I heard some whisperings as if I were too tart I value it not errour must needs be the sore where truth makes the smart I shall not so much as Epistle the Reader to be courteous the candid and cleare brow'd will be so as for the tetricall and angry generation let them go Rumpatur si quis rumpitur invidia I am Sir Your most humble most obliged Servant E. BOTELER PSAL. 72.4 He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour In our other Translation He shall keep the simple folke by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer IT is not long since we were in as sad a case as the poor captive Jewes Psal 137.1 2. who sate by the waters of Babylon weeping to remember our sometimes happy Zyon Hanging our harps upon the willows and being out of tune for any song unlesse to descant upon our miseries with the lamenting Prophet Lam. 2.1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel Amos 4.9 and remembred not his foot-stool in the day of his anger And we are now as a fire-brand pluckt out of the burning seasonably pluckt out For Isa 1.9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant we should have been as Sodome and we should have beene like unto Gomorrah and the glory of this flourishing Church and Kingdom had been like that of the materiall Temple at Hierusalem which fell from courting the clouds to kisse the dust So that when I recognize what we lately were and take a view of what we now are when I behold our captivity turned as the rivers in the South Ps 126.4 1 K. 10.9 fully suddēly unexpectedly The Lord delighting in the King Isa 1.26 to set him on the throne of Israel restoring our Judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning Jer. 30.21 Our Nobles being of themselves and our Governour proceeding from the midst of us Num. 16.2 Our Tribunals and seats of justice furnished with Princes of the Assembly famous in their congregation men of renown Isa 30.20 Our Teachers no more removed into corners but our eyes seeing our Teachers When I consider all these me thinks I cannot keep my Meditations from running those numbers of David To climbe the heavens Psal 148.1 2 3 c. and call in the glorious Inhabitants and powerfull Hosts thereof the Angels Sun Moon and Stars of light To range the Ayr and summon thence the Fire and Hayle Snow Vapours and stormy winds To dive the Abysse of waters and bring up the Dragons and all Deeps To traverse the Earth and gather the mountains and all hills fruitfull trees and all Cedars Kings of the Earth and all people Princes and all Judges of the Earth both young men maidens old men and children that all may beare a part in the rejoycings of this day and joyn in praises to the God of Jeshurun Deut. 33.26 who rideth upon the Heavens in our help who giveth salvation unto Kings Ps 144.10 who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword Ps 78.71 that he may feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance That he may judge the poore of the people that he may save the children of the needy and breake in pieces the Oppressour The Psalme like the Times presents us with a most pleasant and delicious prospect full of blessings both what 's written in the one you may read in the other The Travailer who in his observations of severall Countreys reports he found in one Pulchrum Regem and in another Pulchrū Regnum might here see both a gracious King and a flourishing Kingdom If you take a view of the Psalm you may finde 1. God pray'd to to blesse the King v. 1. Give the King thy judgements O God c. 2 The King made by God a blessing to the people He shall judge the people c. to v. 18. 3 The King and people blessing God in the following verses I would not stumble at the threshold by engaging in a quarrell about the Title which some have left worse then they found it perplexing it with more whilest they pretend to free it from some difficulty A Psalme for Solomon Lovinus in loc Not for Solomon the son of David Bathsheba saith one but for Christ
Oppressour 2. To the Opressour I shall apply my selfe in that of the Psalmist Ps 75.4 Dixi iniquis I said to the fooles deale not so madly and to the wicked lift not up the horne Proud dust whether wilt thou be blown and scattered when the great Judge shall come riding upon the wings of the winde Poore stubble where wilt thou stand before a consuming fire Thou that tread'st upon the necks of the needy with the feet of pride and cruelty and bearest thy self up by thy outward advantages as if with those in Obadiah thou wouldst nest thy selfe among the stars Obad. 4. and sayest in thine heart Vers 3. who shall bring me down to the ground Here 's a Hee in the Text who hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. Chrysostome a most dreadful Tribunal before which thy pride shal shrink up thy high looks be level'd and thy thoughts laid low Isa 2.20 21. In that day thou shalt cast away thy idolized silver and gold to the Moles and to the Bats to goe into the holes of the rocks into the caves of the earth to go into the clifts of the rocks into the tops of theragged rocks for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majestie when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Heb. 12.26 Yet once more he shakes not the earth onely but also heaven Matth. 24.29 The day is coming when all the powers of heaven shall be shaken the Sun become blacke Rev. 6.12 13. 2 Pet. 3.10 and the Moon as blood the Stars fall and all the lights of heaven be put out at once the Elements melt with fervent heat Mat. 24 30 Rev. 1.7 the sea roar and the Tribes of the earth mourn and then shall appeare the signe of the son of man Every eye shall see him and thine also which pierced him in the poor members of his mysticall body 2 Sam. 13.13 and thou whether shalt thou cause thy shame to goe thou wilt then be glad of a Covert that would cut thee in pieces that thou mightest run into ruine Rev. 9.6 seeking death and shall not finde it desiring to dye and death flying from thee Ch. 6.16 saying to the mountaines and rockes Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. Dan. 4.27 Wherefore let my counsell be accepted Breake off thy sins by righteousnesse and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poore Ps 50.12 if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility Now consider this you that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver◠For he shall judge the poore of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour 3. To the poor of the people and children of the needy the Text sayes so much I need say but little very little this Haile you that are highly favoured Luk. 1.28 the Lord is with you blessed are you among men You are the very darlings and delight of providence You are God's care and he ha's given you in charge to the Judge here is both Jus Poli and Jus Fori for you so that if either Heaven or Earth can do you right you shall have it You have been oppressed it may be and shed teares and found no Comforter Eccl. 4.1 And on the side of your Oppressours there was power but you had no Comforter The Text will shew you one Rev. 21.4 Who shall judge and save you and wipe away all teares from your eyes and set you above death and sorrow and crying and paine You have had your Names clouded and over-cast with Obloquies disgraces reproaches Psal 36.5 He will clear them up for you Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe Vers 6. He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgement as the noon-day Rest in the Lord Vers 7. and wait patiently for him Mat. 13.43 You shall shine forth as the Sun in the kingdome of your Father You have been despised Isa 53.3 and rejected of men they hid their faces from you and esteemed you not Mal. 3.17 you shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts in that day when I make up my Jewels You have lost all for keeping the Commandements of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ Lu. 12.33 You shall have bags which wax not old treasure in the heavens which faileth not Mat. 6.20 where neither moth nor rust can corrupt and where theeves cannot breake through and steale a better and more enduring substance Heb. 10.34 Psa 58.11 So that you shall say Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth You can get no reparation for sufferings no redress of grievances but after abundance of waiting Prov. 13.12 Jer. 8.15 Your hope is deferred and your heart is sicke You looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health Lu. 21.19 Jam. 5.8 and behold trouble O but in patience possesse ye your soules Stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh Rev 3.11 Ps 125 3. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy Crown The Rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous The needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poore shall not perish for ever That longing expectation of the soules under the Altar Vsque quò Domine How long Rev. 6.10 O Lord holy and true is answered with an Adhuc modicûm aliquantulúmque Heb. 10.37 Yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry For he cometh Ps 96.13 for he cometh to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth Rev. 22.12 Behold he cometh quickly and his reward is with him to give every man according as his worke shall be For He shall judge the poor of the people He shal save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour Now the great God of heaven and earth the maker of all things the Judge of all men 2 Tim. 4 1◠who shall judge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and his kingdome give you such a spirit of judgement wisdome counsell courage and the fear of the Lord that you which now judge men may one day judge Angels and sit in glory before the face of the world Angels and men and grant to us all such a spirit of meeknesse moderation holinesse humility and obedience that we may so live as those that must dye and after death come to judgement and then be able to stand in great boldnesse being made safe from all oppression fraud and violence secured within the embraces of the everlasting armes and called into a better Kingdome with that gracious invitation Come ye blessed of my Father receive the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the world was laid And all this He gives us who hath so dearly purchased it for us Jesus Christ the Righteous To whom with the Father and the Eternall Spirit be rendred of us and of all creatures both in Heaven and Earth all honour glory adoration and praise throughout all ages Amen Hallelujah FINIS
thing Eccl. 12.14 whether it be good or whether it be evill He shall judge the poor of the people c. And he is commissioned too in answer to the other querie He brings his authority with him for on his vesture and on his thigh he hath a name written King of Kings Lord of Lords Rev. 19.16 Isa 9.6 It is He whose name is called Wonderfull Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Lu. 1.32 33. It is He who is great and called the son of the Highest to whom the Lord God hath given the throne of his father David and he shall reigne over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdome there shall be no end Psal 19.6 It is He whose going forth like that of the sun is from the end of Heaven and his circuit to the ends of it Mat. 24.30 Chap. 25.31 It is He who shall come in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory and all the holy Angels with him Rev. 20.9 It is He who shall sit on the great white throne from whose face the Earth and the Heaven shall flee away and there shall be no place found for them It is He before whom the dead small great shall stand Rev. 20.12 and be judged out of those things which are written in the books according to their works It is He to whom the Father hath given authority to execute judgement John 5.27 because he is the son of man Jesus Christ as Mediator hath had the Scepter and rule in his hands ever since the fall and the last and great act of his Regall power shall be to judge the world to settle the eternall and unalterable estates of men and Angels 1 Cor. 15.24 and then he shall deliver up the Kingdome to God even the Father that God may be all in all This is He the first He He in the Antitype and by way of Eminency He shall judge the poor of the people c. But lest some of St. 2 Pet. 3.4 Peters scoffers should question this Judge and say Where is the promise of his coming Or some desperate daring wretch should argue himselfe into folly from the distance of the day Eccl 8 11. and because sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily his heart should be fully set in him to do evil Here is an He in the Type too another He deputed authorized commissioned from Heaven and in trusted with the management of judgement till that day and He also shall judge the poore of the people And if you aske who he is though the matchless iniquity of the late times interdicted all mention of him with that honour due unto his Name forcing men either to cancell or conceale it and pouring contempt upon it yet blessed be God we may now speake out this He is the King He shall judge the c. Judgements is the King 's He hath it from good hands he comes fairely and freely by it Give the King thy judgments O Lord The power of judging is in the King is from him so St. Paul tells us Acts 25 10. I stand at Caesars judgement seat where I ought to be judged And Absalom as great a Rebell as he was grants this 2 Sam. 15 3. Thy matters are good but there is none deputed of the King to heare thee The hearing Causes is proper to the King and whom he shall depute It is said of Samuel when he held the Kingly power ingrossed in the Judiciary that He went from yeare to yeare in circuit to Bethel 1 Sam 7.16 and Gilgal and Mispeh and judged Israel in all those places But because as Jethro told Moses Exod. 18.18 ultra vires tuas est negotium the thing is too heavy for one Deut. 1.12 And Moses himself complaines Non valeo solus how can I my selfe alone bear your cumbrance and your burden your strife If you please wee 'l follow that Model of Jethro and take in wise and understanding men known in our Tribes that they may take off part of the burden by subjoyning with the He in the Text and helping to judge the poor of the people And the He will be He the King and He the Judge The King in person and the King in proxy The King in himselfe and the King in his substitute He that hath the primitive and he that hath the derivative power The supreme and the subordinate Magistrate the Co-Assessor Counsellor every one that is commissioned to act in matters of Justice He is the man it is He shall judge the poore of the people And that for the Agent He of whom we shall speak no more single but as he falls in with the severall Acts and Objects to which we now proceed beginning with the First Judge He shall judge And here we shall not make a stirre about judging To judge in its highest signification imports to Rule to exercise the supreme power to hold the reines of Government in the hand and stit at the Stern To command in chiefe and give Laws Victorque volentes Per populos dat jura So the Chieftaines in the polity and Common-wealth of Israel in the nonage of Kings or in the inter-regnum rather Deu. 33.5 betwixt Moses who was King in Jeshurun and Saul the first annointed are said in their several Generations to have governed Israel But we shall wave this and other significations lesse of kinne to our purpose and speak of such onely as may goe along with our sense and be of concernment to us The whole business of judging takes up in these two Oppressos liberare Oppressores coercere to support the poor and oppresse the proud that 's judging Or thus there is judicium comprobationis condemnationis a judging for and against 1. There is a judgement of comprobation a judging for in the safer sense a laying out of intrusted power for the behoofe of those that want it Judicare aliquem Ribera in Hos a p. 3. n. 95. est sententiam pro illo ferre To judge a man is to give sentence for him to appeare for his rescue Isa 1.17 Or let the Prophet english it Seeke judgement relieve the oppressed judge the fatherlesse plead for the widow This is a judging for and is sometimes rendred a delivering As David in his compurgatory speech and selfe-vindication against the cruel causeless and unhandsome persecution of Saul The Lord be judge 1 Sam. 24 15. and judge between me and thee and see and plead my cause and deliver me out of thine hand They that are skilfull in the left-handed language Plurimi ln bonam parte interpretantur judicandi vocabulum ut sit defendere ac tueri destitutos opisque indigentes Lovin in loc render it indifferently judge or deliver or by judging deliver And therefore what is here judge in the other Translation we have keepe
Manna indeed that will drop into their mouths and no diet so sweet as the bread of idlenesse Indeed he must either eat that or starve for his own crop will not afford him bread do but see it and you 'l say so Pro. 24.30 31. I went by the field of the sloathfull and lo it was all grown over with thornes and nettles had covered the face thereof The wise man by an elegant Mimesis brings him in the person posture Vers 33. and language of the sleeper Yet a little sleepe a little slumber but this sinite paululum ibit in Longum as St. Augustine all 's little with them and their little wil never be enough Ep minondas It was the saying of a Captain who ran his sleeping Sentinel through talem reliqui qualem inveni I left him as I found him You into whose hands God hath given the Sword of Justice as you may not kill these sleepers upon that single account so neither will you I hope when you meete with them leave them as you found them Especially remembring that expression of our Saviour's Mat. 25.26 Thou wicked and sloathful servant â nequaquà m facilè transitur ad nequam Idle will soon be evill 1 Pet 2.14 and you are for the punishment of evill doers And another sort of Poor there are by the hand of negligence which I humbly crave leave to mention in this place because they have hitherto pass'd with little or no notice from the Magistrate and I know some places have been pester'd with them I mean a running sort of Sectaries that are first idle-headed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and then idle-handed creeping into houses and are commonly as poore as they can creep and these skrew themselves into the opinion affection of their Proselytes so far till they call them from their callings and make them spend themselves in frequent treatments of their seducers The former Solomon calls sleepers and these St. Jude 8. Jude calls dreamers filthy dreamers despising dominion and speaking evill of Dignities These religious kind of Vagabonds pardon the expression having got a stocke of Confidence and Canting presently set up for themselves traverse the Countrey and scatter up and downe their wilde and empty discourses against Magistracy and Ministry Church and Church-Government maintenance by tythes and Paedobaptisme and like Theudas Acts 5.36 boast themselves to be some body to whom a number of men joyne themselves as in the late dayes of desection and I wish I could not say at this day So that what Pharaoh with cruelty enough charged upon the poor oppressed Israelites will without breach of charity be the crime of these Errants Exo. 5.17 You are idle you are idle and therefore you say let us goe and do sacrifice to the Lord and some such employment as the Israelites had would be fittest for them Verse 12. Better they were scattered abroad throughout all the Land though but to gather strawes then suffered to meet in such riotous numbers to spread their Heresies and Treasons They are the first and worst sort of poor let them be judged but with judgement in the sharper and severer sense So Hee shall judge the poore of the people Poore by the hand of negligence they are the first 2. There are the poor by the hand of Violence Some that make themselves poor and it is pity but they should be so by laying violent hands upon their owne estates Such the proud that wear out their Lord-ships upon their backs Such the riotous that sends an estate down his throat and consumes all upon his belly Such the gamester that crumbles it away with his fingers Such the Litigious that quarrels it away at the Barr and will be never the wiser for the proverb that tells him Lawyers houses are founded upon the skulls of fooles Such poore will finde no relief by the judging of the Text. But there are some made poor by the violent hands of others such who knew no goods to a good conscience and have lost all to keep faith unfeigned as resolved as Job Job 27.5 till I die I will not remove my integrity from me Heb. 10.34 As stout as those noble confessors that tooke joyfully the spoyling of their goods knowing they have in heaven a better and more enduring substance Keeping possession of their inward peace against all assaults it being indeed the unplunderable riches of a Christian standing unbroken unshaken in their profession and Loyalty even when times were like those ante-diluvian dayes corrupt before God Gen. 6.11 and the earth was filled with violence There is a He that will judge this poore of the People and therefore you sons of Violence whoever you be rest not wholly in an Act of Grace here below for which you have cause to bless God and the King and much good may it do you but sue out your pardon above too and to your impunity add your repentance For if the Judge called him foole Lu. 12.20 St. August who laid up his owne goods vos illi invenite nomen qui tulit aliena Finde a name bad enough for him if you can who takes away another man's And if the sentence shall run so severe against negative offenders I was hungry you gave me no meat Mat. 25.42 43. I was thirsty and you gave me no drinke I was a stranger and you tooke me not in naked and you cloathed me not sicke and in prison and you visited me not how dreadfull must the doom needs be against all positive impiety against such as took meat from his mouth cloaths from his back turn'd him out of his owne doors and cast him into prison He shall judge the poor of the people Poor by the hand of violence they are the second 3. There are the poor by the hand of Providence such to whom the hand of Heaven hath carved more sparingly and given a shorter allowance in the things of this life This sort of poor are one of the standing Orders of the Creation the great and only wise God having disposed of the Inhabitants as of the Earth it selfe raising some into mountains in estate and dignity and laying others in the plain and levell of a meane and indigent condition These are God's poor he makes them he keeps them He takes notice of them and cares for them His notice is observable in that whereas he calls the rich man by an Appellative onely Luke 16.19 20. he ownes Lazarus by a proper name His care is remarkable in that he is said to prepare for them Psa 68.10 Thou O God hast prepared of thy goodnesse for the poore As if they were such extraordinary Guests they could not be treated without preparation The rich have got all they 'r like to have Luk. 6.24 Woe unto you that are rich for you have received your consolation The estate of the poor lies in hope he 's but preparing
remembrest no more they are cut off from thine hand Our Religion rescued from the confines of Atheisme the very jawes of irreligion and prophaness Our Church raised from the dust and reared out of her rubbish and ruines after her Adversaries had a long time been chief Lam. 1.5 and her Enemies prospered and spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things Vers 10. The wayes of Zion mourning because so few came to her solemn feasts Vers 4. all her gates desolate her Priests sighing her Virgins afflicted and her selfe in bitternesse Our Lawes framed and founded by the wisdome and upon the well-grown experience of prudent and more sober Ancestors for successive ages the boundaries of our liberty and property re-established re-inforced against the anomalous encroachments and arbitrary impositions of unreasonable men Our lives given us for a prey when Jer. 21.9 with the widow in Timothy though in a far different case she for pleasure we for perplexity we were dead 1 Tim. 5.6 while we lived Our peace and happy calme after so great a tempest Isa 2.4 Beating our swords into plow shares and our speares into pruning books Mic. 4.4 sitting every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none to make him afraid Ps 144.14 No breaking in nor going out no leading into captivity no complaining in our streets Our plenty Ps 65.11 The yeare crowned with Gods goodnesse his paths dropping fatnesse Joel ◠24 25. The floors full of wheat and the fats over flowing with wine and oyle The yeares restored to us that the Locust had eaten the Cancker-worme and the Caterpillar and the Palmer-worme the great Army which was sent among us All these speak to us in a plain and loud language this salvos faciet of the Text He shall save the children of the needy This is prosperity to our King glory to our Church happiness to our Kingdome shipping to our Island walls to our Garrisons wisdome to our Counsellours valour to our Souldiers plenty to our borders peace to our Nation joy and security to us all this is all in all This salvos faciet He shall save the children of the needy That 's one He. He indeed the soveraign and supream He the first and great Saviour There 's another He a second and subordinate He a proxy a sub-saviour the King the Judge the Magistrate He also hath a part to act in this salvos faciet He shall save the children of the needy It is not to be expected that the Lord should make bare his holy arme to work great and miraculous deliverances every day Isa 51.10 You that are as the hand to that arme or rather the instrument in that hand have your posse for that purpose The Kingdom is the Lords Obad. 21. but from him shall come Saviours upon Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau Therefore hath the great God armed you with his authority and fortified you with his name and strengthened you with his Commission and intrusted you with his power that you may lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make streight paths for their feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed let it be helped let it be saved He shall save the children of the needy The children of the Needy Of the Poore sayes the other Translation here are two words used for poor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The one signifieth the poor that worketh with his hands the other the poor that hath no hands to work the poorest of the poor the most forlorn and wretched the sons of misery the Chaldee renders it Videri potest exaggeratio in filiis Pauperum in Loc. p. 325. l. F. saies Lorinus there seems to be a whole heap of poverty in the expressions here used Every word speakes them poorer then other Here is populus or popellus rather people of the lowest sort and least account Then here are pauperes populi the poor of those people And then filii pauperum the children of those poor Of all people the poor are most have-less and of all poore the Children are most helplesse They are the neediest of the poore and the children of those needy Children that were sold and slaved for want of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the redemption penny and so signifies those that were a kinde of Orphans with living Parents such as were destitute of all parentall helps and advantages like those precious Pilgrims Heb. 1◠37 that were destitute afflicted tormented These the more lost they are the more need they have of saving misery is a moving plea where Compassion fits Judge The God of Heaven will not over-looke these children of the needy as little as low as they are no more must the Gods on Earth They need no Advocate but their adversity their condition is an invitation to their eyes to see them to their hands to save them He shall save c. But I must not stay with this I must hast to the last part Let me only mind you by a review of what is past that the Magistrate must be a compound of justice and mercy He must so do justice that he remember to be merciful and so shew mercy that he forget not to be just God furnisheth you with objects for both when you meet with the evill idle poor judge them and spare not when with the destitute the afflicted the children of the needy save them Do justice and love mercy the one by force the other by choice Mica 6. ◠Mercy is a choyce a lovely attribute God loves it do you so too It is said of him that he made a way for his anger Ps 78.50 As if there were no way for Anger to passe till he made it or if it was made it was grown up again for want of use till he had made it anew When the Lord was angry with Judah threatned to shave her with a keen and cutting Judgement it is said he will do it Isa 7.20 in novacula conductâ with a Razor that 's hired as if he had no Instruments of his own for so sharp a work 2 Cor. 1.3 Rom. 15.5 Hos 14.3 Ps 102.17 He is the father of mercies and God of consolation With him the fatherlesse finde mercy Hee regardeth the prayer of the destitute He saves the afflicted people and children of the needy Be you therefore mercifull as your heavenly Father is mercifull It 's like you will finde needy enough and children of the needy too for some have slain and also taken possession every one hath been ready to tread upon him that was down and go over the hedge where it was lowest I shall only be their Advocate so far as my Text warrants me for I would not repeat old injuries but repell new ones remember the salvos faciet lyes upon you He shall save the Children