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A77114	Jus poli et 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.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3802; Thomason E1813_1; ESTC R209777	30,183	78

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

is beyond measure sinful unjust and wicked They are such Artifts at Oppression that they will not allow an action or let it passe till it hath been in the ballance as if they were afraid of the least grain of injustice when indeed whole pounds will not make so much as a scruple in such mens consciences but enough of them The sycophant the deceitfull dissembling Oppressour He 's the second Violentum Let us look at him as a third The violent man the impetuous and impudent Oppressour that blusheth at nothing Isa 48.4 Jer. 3.3 having a brow of brasse a whores forehead refusing to be ashamed ranting at Jehu's rate and driving furiously as the son of Nimshi charging desperately through all Obligations honour and honesty no law can stop him no oaths can hold him He sets up and pulls down and Leviathan like is made without fear A torrent of such Oppressours not long since broke in upon this more then miserable Church and Kingdome over running all banks and bounds whose language was Overturne overturne overturne and cared not to throw the foundations of the earth out of course and unhinge the world Psal 83.2 For lo thine enemies O God made a tumult Vers 3. they that hated thee have lift up the head They tooke crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones Vers 4. They said come let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance Verse 12. Come let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession Lam. 4.20 The breath of our Nostrils the Annointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live Gen. 49.5 6. Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations O my soule come not thou into their secret and blessed be the living God V. 14. hujus Psal who hath redeemed our soul from their deceit and violence and let our blood be precious in his sight Psal 9.6 So that now I hope we may say not insultingly but humbly not upbraidingly but thankfully O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end Ps 10.18 God hath judged the fatherlesse and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppress The violent Oppressour Hee 's the third I shall not take upon me to give you in a Catalogue of our late new devised Oppressours the remembrance of them is grievous as the burthen of them was intollerable Besides it would over-match both my time and undertaking and I should be at a losse for their names and number they were so many so monstrous it 's well we may have leisure to forget them I wish we may do it heartily Nor would I now have remembred them had not my Text pointed at them and led me to them He that judgeth the poor and saves the children of the needy hath broken in pieces these Oppressours But we have some Oppressours of the old stampe I would we were as well eas'd of them too That we might have no racking skrewing Landlords that do not only fleece their Retainers Underlings and keep them bare but go as near as those Princes of the house of Israel Mic. 3.2 who plucke off their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones and are as attractive of their Tenants silver as the Sferra Cavallo is of iron Br. Pseud l. 2. p. 100. which they say will not let a horse keep on his shooes by it That we might have no usurious Exactors Psal 10.9 who lieth in wait to catch the poore and ravisheth him when he draweth him into his net his intangling net of Forfeitures Mortgages and Obligations That we might have no quarrelling litigious Great ones whose full g●lls and purses know no vent but in Suits and Contentions Such the Apostle complains of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jam. 2.6 Do not rich men oppresse you and draw you before the judgement-seats and that onely ob jejunam calumniam as the Oratour terms it upon a a nice a needlesse a nothing Cavill That we might have no falshood nor treachery lurking under the long Robe in unconscionable Chamber-practice Pliny Aelian whilest like the Amphisbaena they move both wayes take a reward against the Innocent sell the Truth and drive on Judas's bargain quid dabitis Matth. 26.15 What will you give me and I will deliver him to you That we might have no elusions of right no cheats put upon Justice at the Barre by crying up Esau's hands with Jacob's voyce and decrying St. Pauls cause with Tertullus his tongue till Hypocrite-like the cause is any thing but what it seemes and seemes nothing of what it is You that are intrusted with judging the poor of the people and saving the children of the needy will I hope take care also to breake in pieces these Oppressors I shall now but speak the sense and deliver the Errand of the Text to the Judge the Oppressour and the poor of the people and I have done To the Judge first My Lords I do not I dare not take upon me to instruct you whose Commissioned merits and well fam'd abilities set you above the reach of such attempts but remember you I may I must My duty my Text commands me to it The Text tells you you could have no power at all unlesse it were given you from above There is another He whose person whose power whose Tribunall whose Attendants are above are beyond yours who shall judge and save and break in pieces when you have done O do not save what He would have broken nor break what he would save Jam. 5.9 He standeth before the door Hee 'l be here presently and he will judge all mans judgement over again Corn. a Lap. Com. in Eccl. c. 3 Hoc enim est officium Elohim ut justis Laesis suum jus famam restituat It will be the business of God in that great day to scan the causes of the world and rectifie all the errours of these lower judgements and therefore it behoves you to judge exactly if he espy the least detaining of any truth in unrighteousnesse the least connivance at any iniquity the least seducing by any passion or affection the least prevarication or obliquity be sure to heare on 't Job 31.4 Doth not he see your wayes and count all your steps It concerns you then to tread even that have such a looker on Act 24.25 Judge Foelix trembled to heare of another judgement to come thoughts of Gods judgement will notably influence upon yours You had need be better then men if possible when you remember that God sits among you especially when you remember that he shall sit upon you and that as sure as you now judge you shall be judged by him that shall judge the poor of the people and save the children of the needy and breake in pieces the