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A92848	The best and the worst magistrate: or, The people's happiness and unhappiness, laid open in a sermon preached at the late election of the Lord Major for the famous City of London, Sept. 29. 1648. / By Obadiah Sedgwick B. in D. and minister at Covent-Garden.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.; Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662.	1648 (1648)	Wing S2365; Thomason E465_8; ESTC R205183	23,226	32

thus abused 3. Sometimes unto Scorpions The Prophet Ezekiel is said Ezek 2 6. to dwell among Scorpions All wicked men are Scorpions and especially wicked Rulers There are four things which the Naturalists do observe in Scorpions 1. They are venemous Beasts full of poyson 2. They are mischievous Beasts apt to harm Pliny saith of them That they are Semper in ictu always Plinius Eglinus thrusting out their Stings 3. They are troublesome Beasts and therefore in those countreys where Scorpions abound the Inhabitants dare not to lodge low and are forced many times Ocreatos dormire 4. They are tormenting Beasts they lick you and wound you and torment you Their torment was as the torment of a Scorpion when he strikes a man Rev. 9. 5. Now all this are wicked Rulers they are as he spake of Nero Veneum terrae The poyson of Adders is under their lips they are full of mischief David saith That mischief is in their Psal 36. 4. 28. 3. 140. 9. 26. 10. heads Psal 36. 4. and in their hearts Psal 28. 3. and in their tongues Psal 140. 9. and in their hands Psal 26. 10. And besides all this they are but a torment and vexation to a people They have vexed the fatherless and widow Ezek. 22. 7. 4. Sometimes unto Wolves Ravening wolves Her Princes Eze. 22. 27 Zeph. 3. 3. are like wolves ravening the prey and evening wolves Her Judges are evening wolves and what the disposition of these are I need not discourse of amongst you 3. Thirdly survey a few of the actions of wicked Rulers and then judge whether they be not causes of woful mourning to a people Their actions or works have been such as have overthrown Religion and Justice and so consequently the Souls and Bodies of men and what more can be said to express lamentation and mourning 1. Concerning Religion in which bottom all our Souls are embarqued were it not most amazingly sad if a people should forsake the true God and set up Idols and Sacrifice to Devils nay Sacrifice their Sons and Daughters to Devils renounce the Son of God the Truth of Christ the Gospel of Salvation O in what a lamentable condition are such a people Yet wicked Rulers have done all this themselves and have caused Flagitiosissima feceri facinora secuti morem Imperatoris sui Salust in Iugurth the people to do all this by their examples by their perswasions by their commands by their threats by their power as you may read for some part of it in the History of the Kings of Israel and Judah and for the other part of it in Ecclesiastical Histories since Christ 2. Concerning Justice which is the Ark of a peoples safety how woful have the actions of wicked Rulers been against it Justice is like that goodly spreading Tree spoken of in Daniel The leaves whereof were fair and the fruit thereof Dan. 4. 12. 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 boughs thereof and all flesh was fed of it yet wicked Rulers are in this respect onely like him that cryed aloud Hew down the Ver. 14. Tree and cut off his branches shake off his leaves and scatter his fruit let the beasts get away from under it and the fowls from his branches Whatsoever tends to the utter subversion of Justice the same hath been done by wicked men when they bare rule At your leisure peruse the Scripture and that will report unto you Their neglecting of Judgement They judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them Isa 1. 23. They overpass the deeds of the wicked and the right of the needy do they not judge Ier. 5. 28. And their perverting of Judgement They afflict the just they take a bribe and they turn aside the poor in the gate from Amos 5. 7. 12. their right They turn judgement into wormwood and leave off righteousness in the Earth saith the Prophet Amos They justifie the wicked for a reward and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him saith the Prophet Isaiah And are Isa 5. 23. not these the things which will make a land to mourn Amos 8. 8. 4. Lastly consider the Consequences which befal a people for all these things The times of Gods Judgement upon a people are mournful times and times of wickedness make times of judgement and the times of wicked Rulers do make the times most wicked and therefore expose them to the greatest of Gods judgements It were easie to shew unto you That God hath even for the wickedness of Rulers 1. Departed from a people forsaken them cast them off 2. Hath removed all their outward blessings the Corn and Wine and Wooll and Flax and Plenty and Peace and Honor. 3. Hath denyed them many blessings denyed them the fruits of the Earth the showers of Heaven the seasons of Harvest Help Succor Preservation Deliverance And 4. Hath inflicted upon them the sorest of judgements Plague Famine Sword and hath rooted them out of their Land and scattered them over all the quarters of the world And now I think you may safely subscribe unto the truth of this Assertion also That wicked Rulers do make a peoples condition very lamentable and mournful as on the contrary Righteous Rulers do make their condition very happy and joyful There remains nothing but the Application of all this to your selves and your present occasion which I shall finish in three Uses 1. The first shall be a word for you who come this day to choose a Magistrate or Ruler 2. The second shall be a word unto him whose lot it may be to be chosen by you this day 3. The third and last Use shall concern all of you whether Electors or Elected Magistrates or People and the Lord direct what I have to say unto all your hearts First For you who are this day to choose a Magistrate Vse I do humbly present unto your wisdoms three Advices Three Advices to those who are to choose a Magistrate Alvares 1. Be very serious One said That it was as hard a task to obey well as to command well and I think it is almost an equal weight of difficulty to choose a good Magistrate as it is to be a good Magistrate Alvares reports of the Aethiopians That they placed many empty Chairs about the Judge's Seat supposing that the gods came down and sate with him This was but a fiction and yet it served to work an awful care in Judges to sentence righteously Nevertheless this is a Truth That God himself looks upon every one of you in this work considers what you intend or act Magistracy is his Ordinance as wel as Ministery his Image of Authority shines in that as his Image of Grace appears in this his Honor is as much interested in the former as your

occasion of joy unto all the people The Lord direct you to light on such a one this day and this is all which I have to say unto you I have in the next place a word to say unto him whosoever Vse 2 he may be on whom the lot may fall to be this day chosen chief Magistrate for this City Sir As your choyce so your work is likely to be in a troublesome time you well know how divided how broken how shivered our publique condition is and when the Ship is in broken Seas the danger is the greater and the Pilot hath reason to be the more careful and circumspect Assuredly your Piety your Sincerity your Fidelity your Wisdom your Meekness your Zeal all the Abilities which you can possibly ascend unto will meet with occasions sufficient for their tryal and improvement But Sir though it be some part of your unhappiness to appear upon the Stage in divided and distempered times yet it will be the more for your honor if you can with your singular wisdom and expedient meekness calm our seas quench our fires steal into joynt our broken bones binde all of us up into an Unity and Love who are started asunder so much through our own frailties and I fear the more through other mens subtilties It was the work of Jesus Christ to harmonize God and man and it will be your praise as well as duty to close up Christians and Brethren But I shall spare further discourse for this One reports of Hippocrates That he gave an Oath unto his Schollars to look well to his children An Oath is beyond me to impose on you nevertheless I would with all humble and dutiful respect commend and that from God unto your choyest care two Children and both of them belong to God the mentioning of their Relation hath raised in you already both a Reverence and a Resolution But what are these two Children Sir As you have but two farthings to commend unto God Bernard calls the one of them your Soul and the other of them your Body so God puts the care but of two of his Children unto you to Nurse them for one year the one is Religion and the other is Justice If you be pleased to look well to them you may be confident that God will look well to you These are the two Legs upon which the Political Body stands nay they are the two Pillars which hold up Heaven and Earth These are Solomons Jachin and Boaz These are in their peculiar Services that Moses and Aaron who brought the people of Israel out of Bondage God commends and chargeth the care of these two Religion and Justice upon you Some of the Jews as I finde it in one whom I have perused do relate concerning the six Steps by which Solomon ascended unto his Throne That upon every Step in his Ascent one cryed aloud unto him to Remember some special thing appertaining unto him in his Place When he advanced his feet upon 1. The first Step He cryed Lo titeh mishpat Judicium né inclinato Wrest not Judgement 2. The second Step He cryed Lo tikir panim personam né respicito Accept no person in Judgement 3. The third Step He cryed Lo tikahh shohher munus né recipito Take no Bribes 4. The fourth Step He cryed Lo tittang lech asherah Nón plantabis lucum Thou shalt not plant a Grove 5. The fifth Step He cryed Lo takim lech matzebah Noli erigere statuam Set not up a Pillar 6. The sixth Step He cryed Lo tikbahh shor Né mactato Bovem Kill not an Ox ●i Sacrifice not to Idols The meaning of all this was That Solomon and so every Ruler ought to have an exact care of Justice and Religion the which if you shall faithfully perform you shall reap the comforts of both in your own Conscience and see the fruits of both in the prosperity and safety of this great people committed by God and man unto you There is one word more which I have to say and it concerns Vse 3 us all Since Righteousness doth so much conduce to publique comfort and Wickedness doth so much contribute to common misery Therefore let us all labor 1. To be Righteous As Moses wished That all the Lords people were Prophets so do I wish that all the people of this City were righteous that the City may be called as Isaiah Isa 1. 26. speaks The City of Righteousness and then it should have that Name which that City in Ezekiel had the Name of the City Ezek. 48. 33. was The Lord is there and if the Lord be there all blessing and comfort shall be there 2. To love regard and countenanee Righteous Persons Your glory and strength is in those as your reproach and misery is in the wicked Is it not better to see a City like an Orchard set with excellent Trees and Plants then to see it like a Wilderness overrun with noysom and hurtful Beasts The Righteous are the excellent on earth so said David the father The Righteous is more excellent then his Neighbor so said Solomon his son All men are the better for Righteous men the better for their Graces for their Prayers for their Services Laban fared the better for Righteous Jacob and Egypt the better for Righteous Joseph You may truly say of Righteous persons as he of the Prophet The chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof 3. To abound in all the fruits of Righteousness but especially in Love and Unity in Love and Peace amongst your selves which are the glory of Righteousness and your own common Safety and Preservation Jerusalem saith David is builded as Psal 122. 3 a City that is compact together you of this City call your selves Brethren Brethren of such and such Companies Now saith David How good and how pleasant is it for brethren to dwell together Psal 133. 1 in Vnity Some things are neither good nor pleasant as the Torments in Hell some things are pleasant but not good as the Delights of Sin some things are good but not pleasant as the mortifying of Sin but Unity amongst Brethren is both good and pleasant Solomon in the Canticles sets out his stately Chariot with much magnificence The pillars thereof were made of silver and the bottom thereof of gold and the covering thereof it was of purple But then he addes that which was the accent of Cant. 3. 10. all The midst thereof was paved with Love All our excellencies appear with a greater excellency by the flames of Love and Unity Our Savior who was Amor mundi desiderium mundi tells us three things of this Love one That it was the sum of the Law Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and Thou shalt love thy neighbor A second That it was the substance of the Gospel A new Commandment give I unto you that ye love one another A third That it was the character of all his Righteous Servants and Disciples By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples if ye love one another John Gerson in an Oration of his to the King of France assures us That all the sorts of mans life consist in Love and Unity There is our Vita personalis and that consists in the Unity of Soul and Body There is our Vita Spiritualis and that consists in the Conjunction or Union of God with the Soul And there is our Vita Civilis and that consists in the Unity of men one with another Our Souls are saved by Love and our Safeties are preserved by Unity I will but tell you a fancy which the same Author mentions of a dispute betwixt Mars and Pallas which of them should have the honor to give the Name to the City of Athens at length it was resolved That he should give the Name who could finde out that which might be of most good and benefit for that City Hereupon Mars gives a stately Horse which signified Wars Divisions Tumults but Pallas gave an Olive-Branch the emblem of Peace Love and Unity the City of Athens presently chose Pallas to be their Guardian rightly apprehending That Love Unity and Peace conduced most to their Prosperity and Safety you may with ease make the application to your selves And now what can I say more unto you you have heard where joy doth lie and misery your comfort or your sorrow in Righteousness or in Wickedness If you choose to be Righteous and to live Righteously God will delight to be with you and bless you And how will he bless you He will bless you with Peace which is the effect of Righteousness Isa 32. 17. He will bless you with Prosperity which is the shower poured down upon the head of the Righteous Prov. 10. 6. He will bless you with Safety which is the wall of Salvation for the Righteous Isa 26. 1 2. He will at length bless you with that glorious perfect everlasting happiness which the Apostle calls The Crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4. 8. Unto which the God of Righteousness bring us all for his sake who is The Lord our Righteousness Jer. 23. 6. FINIS