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A77843	Iudgements removed, where judgement is executed. Or A sermon preached to the Court Marshall in Lawrence Iury, London, the 5th of Septemb. 1644. Being the day of their solemn seeking of the Lord for his blessing upon their proceedings. By Anthony Burges, sometimes fellow of Emmanuell Colledge in Cambridge; now pastor of Sutton-Coldfeild in Warwickshire; a member of the Assembly.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5649; Thomason E18_15; ESTC R210008	9,859	17

res sacra it is a holy thing saith the Civilian hence the Lawyers were sometimes called Sacerdotes because it is a kind of a holy thing to judge and pronounce sentence you are to look higher then to men even unto God himself The Romans are much commended for their Justice yet their actions were but splendida peccata refined sins Aristides the just was but a Glow-worm and severe Cato but a Blazing-star Vincit amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido the praise of men overcame them you must not walke by this rule This man must be condemned the people will have it so and the City will have it so but will the Lord have it so 4. Deliberately and advisedly howsoever it be questioned whether a Magistrate may release the punishments of sins yet that he may delay all agree Truth is the daughter of Time Alius dies de alio judicat de omnibus supremus one day judges of another and the last of all an act of Justice ought to flow from mature deliberation and advised attendency It is said of Lewis King of France that when hee had through inadvertency granted an unjust thing as soon as hee read that verse in this Psalme Blessed is hee that doth righteously at all times presently recalled himself especially there ought to be deliberation when it is above the life or death of men When Theodosius had rashly killed many in a City which did much trouble him afterwards it was ordered that thirty dayes should intervene between the sentence and execution Potest dilata poena exigi exacta revocari non potest deferred punishment may be executed when we will but if once executed it cannot be recalled 5. With much godly pity and compassion A Butcher they say may not be of the Jury much lesse may hee be a Judge and certainly there is just cause of great relenting whether we consider our selves or others our selves who are of the same mould and subject to the same temptations as others though wee may delight in Justice yet to do it as it is the evill and griefe of another so to be glad of it this is very sinfull and though you may have much Religion and Piety in your breasts yet sowrenesse and severity doth much discourage how did Joshua speak to Achan My sonne give glory to God where there is Justice within and nothing but austerity without it is like those houses where they say treasures of Gold are but the place is so haunted with spirits that none dare come neer though there be Piety and Justice yet Passion and Frowardnesse hinder others from being made partakers of it It is remarkable of David that when the news of Sauls death was brought he rejoyced not at all though it was greatly to his outward advantage but wept and bewailed him 6. With sure Knowledge and Vnderstanding it is observed of all Gen. 18. as a pattern in judgement I will descend and see if it be so so Job 29. If I did not search out the cause that was too hard for mee the Judges had an Image with a Jewell upon it that was called Truth and a multitude of bookes lying by to shew the Knowledge of the Judge and this made Solomon so pray for Wisdome In matters of life and death proofs ought to be full therefore Moses ordered that if there fell out matters too hard for inferiour Courts they should go to the higher you are to give physick to the Common-wealth and Ignorance may indanger the whole besides Knowledge is not enough but Prudence is requisite which is Rectaratio agibilium the right way of ordering things the Physician hath not Knowledge enough when it is Theoreticall but it must also be Practicall therefore know what you do for there is nothing that you judge but God will judge yea the world will judge it over and over again 7. With Courage and Boldnesse Much opposition and hatred will alwayes be in the way of justice but the Rule is Fiat justitia ruat mundus Let justice be done though the world be ruin'd and that is a true saying Odia qui nimium timet regnare nescit He that feares the hatred of men too much knows not how to governe You will find that to resist Friends and to overlook Enemies in this your worke will be difficult To have friends intreating and to have Enemies reviling will be a great temptation Magistracy is called Cos hominis the Whet-stone of a man it is not onely a Touch-stone to try what a man is but a Whet-stone also to quicken him in that worke Saul when he was called to the government had another spirit and doe you pray That as the worke you have is other worke then you have had so your spirit also may be otherwise Especially harden your selves against worldly feares It is noted by some Expositors that Moses when he had killed the Aegyptian he looked up and downe as being afraid which they say was his weaknesse and corruption Let that be true of you which was said of Chrysostome That he feared nothing but sinne 8. With much Patience See what a world of Censures you must lie under some will say you are too severe some you are too mercifull some that you doe nothing some that you doe too much and how much patience must here be And there is nothing more unstable then the people who as they are earnest for justice so when it is done doe relent and pittie those that suffer as if wrong were done to them 9. With much Fervor and Zeale This is the cause of Courage Adami voluntas non habuit fortitudinem quia non habuit fervorem It was Bernards saying Adams will had not strength to endure because it had not fervency and zeale The righteous are compared to Palme trees now they love hot Regions and so doth Justice a zealous heart And terrible is that instance of Eli he did something yet because he was not zealous and fervent how was he punished by the Lord Every Sacrifice was to have fire and let your hearts also burne with fire for the glory of God and the good of the Common-wealth Lastly This Zeale must be pure as an act of Justice and out of Love too or it may be thy murther while it is Justice hence Numb 25. Phinehas his zeale is called the Lords zeale the fire it must be pure Elementary not Culinary or basely feeding upon carnall respects Among the Thebans the Images of their Judges were without hands and blinde that so no bribing nor compassion might divert them from Justice And these are the Things which hinder pure Justice First Malice and Revengefull thoughts Anger and Envy are present Pests to all Courts and Governments It was a good speech of Alphonsus That if he had lived in those times when the Roman Common-wealth was almost consumed with mutuall jarres he would have built a Temple Jovi positorio wherein men should have deposited and laine downe all heart-burnings before

IVDGEMENTS REMOVED VVHERE JUDGEMENT IS EXECUTED OR A SERMON PREACHED to the Court Marshall in Lawrence Iury London the 5th of Septemb. 1644. Being the day of their solemn seeking of the Lord for his blessing upon their Proceedings By ANTHONY BURGES sometimes Fellow of Emmanuell Colledge in Cambridge Now Pastor of Sutton-Coldfeild in Warwickshire a Member of the Assembly LONDON Printed by M. Simmons for Thomas Underhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1644. TO THE HONORABLE The Commissioners OF THE COUNCELL OF WARRE now sitting by an Ordinance of PARLIAMENT HONORABLE HOwsoever the feare of God be not thought necessary to human Judges by men of the world yet the Scripture doth much presse it Exod. 18.21 2 Chron. 9.7 Yea some Heathens have acknowledged the necessity of it therefore amongst the Ancients the court of Judgement was neare the Temple that so the reverence of their gods might bend the minds of Judges to Justice And they report that in Aethiopia the Judges sitting in their Court leave twelve seats in the highest place empty which they say are the Angels seats Therefore he was the unjust Iudge in the Parable that did not feare God nor respect man Such an one was Agesilaus who wrote to a Captain for a prisoner in these words Release Nicias the prisoner without faile for if he have not offended in Iustice you are to dismisse him but of he have hainously offended and deserved punishment then dismisse him for my sake Here he mingled private affections in publick administrations which is very sinfull Therefore that you may avoid such rocks especially consider that Argument of the Scripture It is the Iudgement of the Lord Iudicium Dei est saith a Schoolman ideo Iudex in tribus Deo debei conformari in potestate in bonitate in veritate It is the Iudgement of the Lord therefore the Judge ought to resemble God while he judgeth in power in goodnesse and in truth All which if you doe the Kingdome may be freed from guilt truth and peace may kisse each other and you deliver your own soules Which is the earnest prayer of him who desires to serve you in the Lord ANTHONY BURGES JUDGEMENTS REMOVED VVHERE JUDGEMENT IS EXECUTED PSAL. 106.30 31. Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgement and so the plague was stayed and that was counted unto him for righteousnesse unto all generations for evermore THe Text is a cleare mirror and glasse of justice wherein you have all the necessaries requisite to a righteous action There is Justus the person righteous justum the matter and fact righteous and jus●è this righteous fact done righteously The righteous person is described by his name Phinehas It is not worth the while to meddle in the dispute amongst Popish Authors whether because of the promise made to him Numb 25. to wit A Covenant of peace for ever that therefore Phinehas be yet alive and kept till the day of judgement as they conceive of Enoch Secondly The just Actions are two First He stood up howsoever this word be used for those that minister and serve therefore the Angels are called Zach. 3. Standers yet in other places it doth denote Firmnesse and Stabilitie Hence the word that signifies a Pillar cometh from this root Ezekiel 22. Can thy heart endure in the Hebrew Can it stand And thus here it implies the Courage the Fervency and Zeale of Phinehas The second just Action is he executed justice Some read he prayed and so the Chaldee Paraphrase the root in the Originall doth indeed in one Conjugation signifie to praise but in the other which is here in the Text it signifies to adjudge and to condemne for so Phinehas did both judge and execute this judgement therefore Gregory Nyssen calls him both the Judge and the Executioner What the Delinquents were you may read Numb 25. Lastly That this was justè righteously done appeares by a twofold effect or reward First Publike the plague ceased the plague the word signifies any kinde of striking and therefore what this plague was is not recorded The other Effect is private and personall It was imputed to him for righteousnesse Not as Faith was to Abraham for that was a righteousnesse of the person and universall for justification but this is of a fact and particular and the sense is it was approved of by God for a just act whereas otherwise it might have been doubted of Although some thinke what he did here was done by command of the Elders and Judges The Doctrine When men execute their just judgements then God removes his First We will shew the necessitie of Justice and that flows from divers streames First From God who besides those many commands for justice shews that all their other religious Sacrifices were rejected for want of this Isaiah 1. As long as their hands were full of bloud how doth he loath their Ordinances therefore it is not enough to reforme nor to set up a good Ministery to abolish corruption unlesse also the just judgements of the Lord be executed The will of the Lord is to be done not onely in the Assemblies for Worship but also in Judicatories And you may observe in the Prophet that commonly those two sinnes are linked together Idolatry and Bloud And had not England the experience of this Are wee to this day cleansed either from the one or the other Yea to doe justice is an acceptable service Pinguior mactari Deo victima non potest quam homo sceleratus so that the high prize which is put upon this service of him may make men couragious and faithfull And certainly the Acts of Justice are so apt to be obstructed that unlesse a man look up to God he can never beare up his heart in them Secondly From our selves We shall hereby be freed from the guilt of others For where Justice is not executed there a whole Kingdome is defiled Now to have other mens sinnes become ours to have the bloud of Ireland all those outrageous insolencies there and in England to become our sinnes this is terrible The sinnes of others may become ours negatively as well as positively when we doe not humble our selves when we doe not labour a Reformation therefore the Prophet complained that there was none who called for justice It was a sin in the people not to pray for it and desire it And this is the reason why in publick calamities the righteous perish as well as the wicked because they get some infection when the plague is generall You say the plots and the conspiracies of enemies they ruine and undoe us but may not also our sinnes in civill Judicatories undoe us Thirdly We shall hereby prevent the publick judgement that may come upon a Land As neglect of Justice brings other mens sinnes upon us so also it ushers in all publick calamities See what Achan what Sauls sons unpunished did bring upon the Nation therefore Zach. 8.16 It is said Execute the judgement of truth and peace in your