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A11626	God and the king in a sermon preached at the Assises holden at Bury S. Edmonds, June 13. 1631. By Thomas Scot Batchelour in Divinitie, and minister of the word at S. Clements in Ipswich.	Scot, Thomas, minister at St. Clement's, Ipswich.	1633 (1633)	STC 21873; ESTC S100056	17,205	34

for without it pietie to God and charitie to man cannot be such as they should Hence it is that God accounts the profaning his day the eversion of all religion as appeares in many places We may conjecture what care man ought to have in the keeping by the Lords care in the deliverie of it for he sent it not abroad naked like many of the other commandments but clothed it as Joseph with a garment of divers colours it is in words larger in reasons fuller then any of the rest First there is a Memento for fear of forgetfullnesse Remember Next the bounty of God for fear of repining Six daies shalt thou c. Thirdly the soveraignty of it for fear of contemning It is the sabbath of the Lord c. Fourthly the generality of it for fear of misapplication Thou and thy sonne c. Fifthly the Lords example and benediction for fear of exception Thus you see it fortified with an high fence that it might be made strong for his own self like mount Zion not to be moved We are not ignorant also of the Kings pious laws in force for the observation of it yet in despite of both in many places how do people grudge to give God the seventh part of their life at least they will incroach a little having some odde job or other to do on that day nay alas what marketting what drinking and bowsing what fidling and dauncing and generally what profaning this day almost every where is to be seen in somuch that this day brings forth more sinne then any I think I may say then all the dayes of the week and if any Turk or Pagan should come into many places among us ask the reason why we leave our work and wear our best clothes on that day and answer should be made We keep this day holy to our God it were enough to make him forswear Christianity or giving their names to that God who is content to be served on such a fashion But ye know your charge Let then profane sabbath-breakers also have judgement without delay Lastly beastly drunkennesse is also against Gods and the Kings law Gods law every where pronounces woes against this sinne denouncing ruine to bodie goods and good name yea by name excluding drunkards out of his kingdome The truth is a drunkard puts himself in the ready way to break every commandment for when he ceaseth to be himself he is in a fair possibilitie to be any thing for drunkennesse never goes alone but is attended by the black guard of other sinnes as oaths railings mutinies quarrells fightings murders chambering wantonnesse ribaldrie adulteries and what not so that in mine opinion a man must first hood-winck his charitie before it can lead him to beleeve a drunkard not to be every way vitious and is it not a common plea with men of this rank to excuse these and other great sinnes by saying they were not themselves Thus is it against Gods law The Kings law hath also wholesomely provided against this overflowing sinne as we know but yet maugre them both with what a deluge of drunkennesse is this land overflown It is grown a sicknesse Epidemicall in court and countrey city and town yea our people are grown artificiall and exquisite in this sinne to drink the three Ou ts to drink by the dozen by the yard and by the bushell oh monstrous even in name how much more in practise insomuch that it seems to me the Germanes are like to lose their charter In Rome there was a street called vicus sobrius because there was never an alehouse in it I think there is scarce such a street to be found in England There is a story in Athenaeus which gives us a lively picture of the behaviour of drunkards at their meetings The roaring boyes meeting at an alehouse sat by it drinking so long till their brains were so steeped that they imagined the room wherein they were to be a ship tossed in the sea the fancied storm still increasing as the cups emptied so that at last they begin to fear shipwrack wherefore to make the ship lighter they heave the pots plate furniture and all that comes to hand out at the windows as if it were over board And thus do good-fellows at these meetings throw the house out at windows and keep quarter to the dishonour of Gods and the Kings law and yet the Justice is every where milde the drunkard merry I beseech your Honours therefore charge the Justices to abridge the excessive number of alehouses the shops of drunkennesse and that they charge the Constables better to look to the demeanour of the rest And if I may not be heard let Justice speak she saith thus I have heard Popery swearing sabbath-breaking and drunkennesse all convicted as dishonourable to Gods and the Kings law I charge you then Let them have judgement otherwise I take you all guilty of the same offences though not by committing yet by conniving It 's true indeed Every fat shall stand on its own bottom that is every one shall answer for his own sinnes yet take heed lest we mistake the account of our own sinnes seeing those are not to be reckoned our own onely which are so by perpetration but those also which are ours by participation Justice calls also for expedition in judgement and desires that poore mens causes might first be heard and not put off to the last for they can worst bear the charge of longer delay but she complains that the poore mans cause lies like the palsie-man at the pool of Bethesda where the motion is not made but by an Angel and so the stronger step in before them I end with one word for my self in the nineteenth of Deuteronomie at the fifth verse the Lord appointing cities of refuge for such to flee unto who had unawares killed his neighbour doth instance in the hewer of wood who if while he is felling the tree the head of the ax slippeth from the helve and striketh his neighbour so that he dieth shall flee to the next citie of refuge and live I have been hewing for the Lords sanctuary and felling down the huge trees of the sinnes forenamed if the head hath slipt from the helve and hurt any my next citie of refuge is your charitable construction and favourable interpretation And even so I commit you to God to whose Majestie let us all pray that this Assises may be much advantage to the honour of Gods law and the Kings Amen FINIS 2. Chron. 19.6 Psal 82.6 Matt. 22.30 Nah. 2.3 Galat. 4.18 Rom. 1.30 Acts 5.39 Exod. 5.2 Job 21.14 Psal 73.9 Psal 12.4 See Isa 28.18 Rom. 1. ●8 Rom. 13.1 Matt. 22.21 Prov. 24.21 2. Thes 2.4

hath his principall strength in things of their own nature indifferent for these be neither commanded nor forbidden in Gods law To conclude this point The Kings law is the sinew of all government which to cut is to ham-string Church and Common-wealth for it is better to live where nothing then where every thing is lawfull In the next place Justice in these cases must have her due course Let him have judgement c. By this time Justice calls out to all her retinue Judges Justices Jurours c. Is there any who will not obey c I charge you let him have judgement whosoever he be and saith in Gods words Thine eye shall not spare in judgement And heare your charge O ye Ministers of justice she hath made you executours of her will and hath bound you all by oath well and truely to perform it so farre as Gods and the Kings law shall binde you See then ye discharge and not deceive the trust reposed in you lest Church and Commonwealth the orphanes whose guardians ye be do lose religion and peace the legacies which she hath bequeathed them Judex saith Isidore is jus-dicens for the Judge is a speaking law and the law is a silent Judge Verily the law is a dead letter till the Judge breaths the breath of life into it by execution which is the edge and life of it The law sees nothing but by the eyes of the Judge and Judges are the eyes of the Commonwealth which if they be by any means put out a State though never so potent is but like big-limbed Polyphemus ready for ruine or mighty Sampson pulling down all upon their heads to their own and the ruine of all ingaged with them in the same condition Cicero could say that Impunitie is the greatest breeder and nurse of transgression that may be For to let malefactours go without judgement either not at all or condignly punishing them is but to stroke the offenders on the head as Eli did with a Do no more so my sonnes and so to give them and other after them a kinde of commission to do the like Take heed of a weak affectation of mercifull Judges or mercifull Juries take heed I say ye do not thereby encourage sinne and clap it on the back Can that be mercy which is unjust The greatest and most admired mercy that ever the world saw even that whereby we must all live for ever was it with neglect of justice No for Ecce benignitatem severitatem Dei may also to this great work be applied it being hard to determine whether Gods adopted sonnes found more mercy or his naturall sonne more severitie Bonis nocet qui malis parcit saith Seneca By sparing one ye are injurious to many for Chrysostom saith well Dum parcebatur lupo mactabatur grex Spare the wolf and the flock goes to wrack What though the vulgar account you hard Judges remember the answer of a King of Thrace to one telling him that in regard of his severitie he played the mad-man and not the King Oh saith the King this my madnesse makes my subjects sound and wise Execution must be speedy Without delay Yet no more haste then good speed mature deliberation must go before execution nothing must be judged before the time for that were not speedy but rash judgement an evil in our private and petty carriages severely forbidden therefore much more in publique and weighty affairs But when the way is made and the offender convicted then Judges must like Almighty God be swift witnesses for sinne and punishment must ride both on one horse let him that hath done the work have his wages for in criminall causes it is as crying a sinne to detein it as from the honest labourer And this hath no lesse place in personall causes between man and man which if they hang long before a Judge it is as a sore long under a chirurgians hand or a quartane ague which is opprobrium medicorum Thus have I with your Honourable and Christian an patience passed through the points propounded I have washed and searched the wounds and also prepared the plaister Now give me leave I beseech you to lay it on as tenderly as I can in a few words of Application wherein I intend healing not exasperating but if any sore smart it is because it 's festred or ranckled not by any corrosive in the balm And now what shall I do shall I be silent and give in a verdict of Omnia bene that 's indeed the shortest cut and safest way but so should I make all your sinnes mine own No we must review every piece of the Text and charge the same upon all the Ministers of justice great and small upon Judges the Kings eyes in their circuits upon Justices the Judges eyes in their divisions upon Jurours who are the scales of justice to weigh all actions and upon witnesses who put these weights into the scales But oh hard task to rake in this kennell to speak of the many-headed vice in all these particulars without dislike from you or check from mine own conscience so that I may say in Persius his words Oh si fas dicere Sed fas Shall the stage in a play and the Poet in a peal of Satyres deride your sinnes with a prophane spirit and shall the Spirit of God in the pulpit be confin'd or must the Preacher stoop at pulpit-doore to take measure of his hearers feet God forbid I am sent this day on Gods errand to you all which if it should not please remember I beseech you that I am but a poore messenger and must do my message at mine own perill First there must be no partiality in judgement And give me leave most Honoured Lords lest I should commit a sinne of partiality while I speak against it in the first place to addresse my self to your Honours I have an awfull and reverend respect of your places and persons yet remember I beseech you that humilitie in eminency is a singular vertue if like the soaring eagle or towring hawk the higher ye be the lesse ye seem and I do well know your labours pains are great for magna fortuna magna servitus your difficulties also are more then we can imagine you have the winde and storms in your faces when we be under the lee and being fathers of the Commonwealth do wake for us when we do sleep I meddle not with your employments of state they are out of my reach I am no eaves-dreeper of state it is for me to observe the ground-winde not the rack-winde I keep me therefore within the compasse of my Text and desire your Honours seriously to ponder that acceptation of persons in judgement is a stinking abomination in the nostrils of the Almighty whether it be for reward favour passion or cowardise For the first mine own breast doth clear your selves that ye be not as those Judges in Plutarch who ever came to the judgement-seat as