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A01473	Ientaculum iudicum: or, A breake-fast for the bench prepared, presented, and preached in two sacred seruices, or sermons, the morning sacrifice before the two assises: at Thetford, at Norwich: 1619. Containing monitory meditations, to execute iustice and law-businesse with a good conscience. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods word in Win-farthing in Norff.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1623 (1623)	STC 11598; ESTC S102832	18,427	42

and receiue their reward according to their workes They who serue the Lord in feare shall finde an happy venite Come ye blessed they who doe not shall heare a most dismall discedite Depart ye cursed and well if no more woe Faine would the condemned sinners flye away Heu fuge peccator teque his ait eripe slammis They wish the wings of swiftest birds to flie from the fury of these fierce flames all in vaine they call and cry to the * Reu. 6.15 Mountaines and Rockes cadite super nos montes Petrae Fall vpon vs ye rockes and mountaines Gladly would they be pressed to death with the ponderous weight of mountaines desirous to haue the Rockes for their pillowes and Mountaines for their couerlets to hide them from the presence of the Iudge of quicke and dead Oh desperate voice of deepe miserie to wish to be hid from Christs presence which to Gods elect is as a refreshing Paradise to the Reprobates is as hot as hell as terrible as the second death endured with the deuill and his Angels I may say with Anselmus Heu miser peccator sic deprehensus quo sugies Latere impossibile apparere intolerabile Wofull sinner who can rescue thee impossible to escape intolerable to appeare The Glorious Iudge will say Ito lictor ligato manus Goe Satan Iaylor to infernall soules binde them hand and foot cast them into darknesse where the a Esay 66.24 worme neuer dies and the fire neuer goes out The worme of conscience alwaies gnawes the heart yet neuer gnawes the strings asunder fire euerlasting Semper punire nunquam finire No hope of ease or end Virg Vna salus illis nullam sperare salutem Their comfort is to expect no comfort after many millions of yeares still remaine millions more eternitie of torment breakes the heart of all Thinke vpon this all ye who forget God fire b Psal 11.6 and brimstone storme and tempest this shall bee your portion to drinke Too many are ready to serue Satan who yet is as Paracelsus tearmes him a base and beggarly spirit his wages damnation but few are forward to serue the Lord in feare who is the best Master his reward is Saluation The cry of the damned at the iudgement day will be like the wish of the Roman Valerius who when Caligula that monster was killed and it could not be found out who had done it Noble Valerius rose vp and said Vtinam ego would to God I had killed that monster so all will say at last if not too late Vtinam ego Would to God when time did serue I had serued the Lord in feare would to God I had killed those monstrous sinnes wherewith on earth I was enamored and now like Pharos c Ex. 14.23 25. Chariot they haue drawne their master into the bottomlesse Sea of destruction Sinne and Satan are like Actaeons hounds they deuoure their masters who feede and follow them Fooles make a mocke of sinne saith d Prou. 14.9 Salomon Cum illis ludunt quae laedunt They dally with their owne vexation like Waspes about a Gally-pot for one lick of honey drowned for euer Let vs take pitty vpon our owne Soules and not lose them in the errors of our liues Now e Esay 55.6 seeke the Lord while hee may be found Serue him in feare So runne that we may obtaine put holy f Matth. 25.10 oyle in our Lampes that when the Bridegroome comes wee may enter into the mansion of eternall glory Remember g 1 Pet. 1.17 Saint Peters precept If ye call God Father who without respect of persons iudgeth euery man according to his workes See that you passe the time of your dwelling here in feare To winde vp all in one word Principatum quem geritis ornate Pythagoras principle to princes Adorne your seuerall places With Christian and sacred graces Neuer cease your best endeuours to serue the Lord infeare thinke it not enough Quaerere Coelum sed acquirere non Christum sequi sed consequi h Luke 11.9 Seeke till you finde and knocke till Heauen gate be opened vnto you Neuer forbeare or giue ouer your search and seruice of God vntill you come vnto Summum ad quod caput bonae spei The head and Hauen of all good hope Quo mihi cursus erit Where I desire to land my selfe and all the Brethren at this most happy Hauen That when the King of Kings shall come and call vs all before his Throne we may receiue that most heauenly Euge i Luke 19.17 Well done good seruant you haue beene faithfull in a little k Matt. 25.23 Goe and enter into your masters Ioy. The Lord for his infinite mercy sake grant to vs all this Grace that with soule and body we may serue the Lord in feare call for mercy pray for repentance practice better obedience that so by true faith in the merits of CHRIST IESVS wee may finde forgiuenesse of all our sinnes and neuer be condemned for them at the great day of Iudgement to come That we may liue in Gods feare and die in his fauour rest in peace rise in power and raigne in eternall glory To which blessed selicity he vouchsafe to bring vs who with his pretious bloud bought vs IESVS CHRIST the righteous To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be ascribed of vs all all praise power and maiestie now and for euer Amen

the testimonie of our Conscience and truly to protest with vpright o 1 Sam. 12.3 Samuel Behold here I am beare record of me whose Oxe haue I taken whose Asse haue I taken of whose hand haue I receiued any bribes c. It is a comfort to the soule when able to beare a part in Dauids song O Lord thou knowest my p Psal 7.8 Innocencie There is nothing worse saith q Ecclus 10.9 Syrach then a couetous man for his Conscience will be corrupted with Omnia haec dabo r Matth 4.9 all these will I giue thee Therefore Dauids petition necessary ſ Ps 119.36 Incline my heart O Lord vnto thy testimonies and not vnto Couetousnesse The t 1 Tim. 6.10 desire of money is the roote of all euill Such a couetous Iudge u Acts 24.27 Felix who did grope for a bribe He who sels Iustice for siluer sels his Soule to damnation It is a clause of a Iudges oath as I haue heard when he is promoted to that office to repeate this diresull imprecation If I doe not Iustice God blot me out of the Booke of Life a fearefull oath if not faithfully performed Had they Robes as rich as Salomon or dominions as large as Alexander yet if corrupt they may quake at their doome to be blotted out of the booke of life O verbum ipsa gehenna terribilius Chrysost A word more terrible then hell it selfe as * Wis 6.1 3 4 Wisedome her selfe Learne ye that be the Iudges of the earth the Lord will trie your workes and search out your Imaginations and for the mightie abides the sorer Triall Therefore x Psal 57.1 Dauid examines all Are your minds set vpon Righteousnesse O yee congregation and doe yee iudge the thing that is right O yee sonnes of men Many make their conscience poore to make their coffers rich wee enuie not the grauell which stickes in the throat of the vnconscionable It is better to be Pauperem pium quàm prosperum peccatorem a godly poore man then an vngodly rich man A little that the righteous hath is better then the riches of the vngodly And saith Dauid y Ps 37.16 Ill gotten goods neuer prosper and saith Iob z Iob. 15.31 Fire shall deuoure the houses of Bribes I haue read how the Sophy of Persia being to send a great summe of money for an oblation to Mahomet in Arabia would send none of his owne coine because it was gotten by ill meanes but exchanged it with Merchants whose money he thought was gotten honestly and with a good conscience Doe vnbaptized Idolaters know that vnconscionable offerings are vnwelcome offerings to their false and fictitious gods and shall not Christians much more acknowledge that the true God of heauen earth loatheth the seruice sacrifice of vnconscionable sinners he * Psal 6.8 cries Depart from me ye workers of iniquitie Many with a Tim. 4.10 Demas stoop for gold lose the goale and What shalit b Matt. 16.26 profit a man to win the whole world lose his soule Quicquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem Remember the end you shal neuer do amisse wealth is d Gen. 27.39 Esaus portion the fatnesse of the earth shall be thy dwelling place But God e Gen. 27.28 giue thee of the dew of heauen is Iacobs blessing Gods children say Non est mertale quod opto If God prosper them with wealth they praise God and neuer practise to augment their store by a bad conscience they seeke not to set their nest on high by f Hab. 2.11 making the stone to cry out of the wall and the beame out of the timber to answer it The Sonne of man Iudge of quicke and dead is said to g Reu. 1.14 haue Eyes as a flame of fire Eyes to behold sinners as a flame of fire to punish for sinne Testes factorum stare arbitrabere Diuos h Heb. 4.13 All things are naked and open to his eyes he behold all deeds of darkenesse no curtaines can keepe out the light of his eyes Horace Noctem peccatis fraudibus obijce nubem No cloud nor night can dazell Gods eyes i Zeph. 1.12 He will search Ierusalem with lights and visit the men frozen in their dregges and say in their hearts the Lord will neither doe good or cuill O Lord saith k Ier. 5.3 Ieremy are not thine eyes vpon the truth It is a poore comfort laudari ore alieno et damnari conscientia sua to haue the crouches and commendation of the people and to be condemned in their owne conscience but a ioy to the soule if able truly to say with l Acts 23.1 Paul Men and brethren I haue in all good Conscience serued God vntill this day And as Austen accused by Secundinus to haue come from the Manichees for hope of preferment answered I esteeme not what Secundinus faith or thinks of me so long as my conscience accuseth me not before God O te miserum si contemnas hunc testem Miserable is the man who contemneth the testimonie of his conscience Remember S. m Iam. 5 9. Iames caueat Behold the Iudge stands before the doore The n Reu. 20.12 Iudge before whom all shall stand And to end this as the o Gen. 4.7 Lord to Caine If thou doe well shalt thou not be rewarded But if thou doe ill sinne lies at the doore the doore of thy conscience 4. Propertie Impartialitas Iustitiae impartialitie of Iustice Iustice is the quintessence of the Law the essentiall propertie of a Iudge Tandiu Iudex quamdiu iustus So long a Iudge so long as Iust Nomen ab aequitate sumitur per iniquitatem amittitur saith Cassiodorus A name giuen from equitie and lost by iniquitie The eyes of Iustice saith Crisippus are pure eyes and she hath open eares to heare Truth without a golden eare-picke The Heathens did dedicate Iustice to the Sun which goeth immoueable in his circuite seeing all and seene of all and The iust saith our p Matth. 13.43 Sauiour shall shine as the Sunne in the kingdome of their Father Iustice was borne on sound not halting legges and earthly Iudges should imitate the Iudge of all q Psal 119 137. Iustus es Domine et recta iudtcia tua Righteous art thou O Lord and iust are thy iudgements yea thinke vpon Ieromes meditation Surgite mortui venite ad Iudicium Arise ye dead and come vnto Iudgement To remember r Psal 58.12 Dauids saying Doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the Earth a Iudge aboue to iudge Iudges and all below Quid faciet Agnus vbi aries tremit Oregor The ſ Reu. 6.15.16 Kings of the earth great men mighty men rich men are afraid of the Iudge that sits vpon the Throne All the Gods as Homer faines could not warde a blow of Iupiters hand If God be angrie with you I may say to

oppressed from the hand of the oppressour vex not the stranger the fatherlesse nor widow doe no violeuce nor shed innocent bloud Thus I haue a little touched the office and dutie of the Iudges of the earth their peculiar properties wherein I may be said to me as q 1 King 10.7 Sheba to Salomon Lo the one halfe thou hast not told vs. I confesse I haue no skill in the politickes I only doe remember the Ethicks to shew what is good and what the Lord doth require of you Surely to doe iustly to loue mercy to humble your selues to walke with God as the Lord by r Mich. 6.8 Micah And now as ſ Sam. 2.23 Ioabs men who did follow the chase vpon Abners hoast when they came to the place where Asail lay dead there made a stand in wonder and pitie thinking how so braue a man came to so bloudy a death So here I will make a little pause and stand and ouer-looke a while these fore-named properties of faithfull Iudges and worthy Magistrates To be wise learned men of good courage of good conscience vnpartiall in Iustice and vpright in Sentence These ornaments ennoble Iudges more then their Robes wherewith a lorned or their troupes wherewith attended And these properties Right Honourable are your ornaments who may say of them as Cornelia did to a certaine woman of Campania boasting of her brauery of her sons the Gracchi Et haec sunt ornamenta mea these Sonnes are my ornaments So you are wise learned of courage of good conscience vpright and equall in Iustice These things afford our Countrie comfort that now you come with Alexanders sword to cut a sunder the knot of sin and sinners which swarme in euery place It were enuious yea infinite to arraigne the seuerall sinnes of this Age Let me name but three wormes which gnaw the belly and bowels of the Common-wealth The Slow-worme the Glow-worme and the Wild-worme wormes worthy to be crushed with the sword of Iustice The Slow-worme Drunkennesse Idlenesse swift to the Alchouse but slow from it they runne to it but reele from it Multa pocula multi morbi Many cups breed many corruptions These drunken drones dote on the two t Pro. 30.15 daughters of the horse-leach which sucke out all their thrift the Flemish hop the Indian weede These Alehouses which nourish them begin like Hydras heads to multiply and there these Malt-wormes make their nest saying of the Taphouse as Peter of u Matt. 17.4 Tabor Bonum est esse hic It is good for vs to be here Vbi nec deus nec daemon Where they thinke both God and the deuill are a sleepe Thus they wast their daies their health their wealth abuse the creatures profane Gods name Loue the Tauerne better then the Tabernacle It were to be wished these common Drunkards might stand forth at the barre and be punished as the Samians did their captiues brand them with the figure of an Oule ashamed of the light who liue out their daies in louing the workes of darknesse The Glow-worme Cozenage Cheating the shops of Cities full of these Glow-wormes and yet there is another Glow-worme Popery is a Glow-worme and can cozen the Law and come with their Statute-legs once a moneth to the Church Lunae vituli Moone-Calues whose religion is mutable like the Moone caried like the * Acts 3.2 Creeple to the Temple vpon the crutches of Law or custome or come a little before the Assises more for feare of Law then loue to God Let such remember Austens counsell Quando timore non amore fit bonum nondum benè fit bonum Where for feare and not for loue they doe good their good is not well done Of these kinde of Popish Glow-wormes I may say as Lactantius of the Pagan gods Nascuntur quotidie a daily breed of them These non serendi veriùs feriendi not sufferable lukewarme parasites to God and man and since the Gospell cannot make them blush the Law should make them bleede Haeretici corrigendi ne pereant reprimendi ne perimant Punish them lest they perish and correct them lest they corrupt others Moses and Aaron the Magistrates and Ministers of God like the x Ger. 3.24 Cherubins set to keepe the way to the forbidden Tree they should waue the blade of the shaken sword the one the sword of Iustice to correct the carcase the other the sword of the Spirit to conuert the conscience It was the royall speech of our gratious y Star Chamber Speach Soueraigne saying My heart is grieued when I heare Recusants increase Ecce gladius Domini et Gedeonis nostri Behold the sword of the Lord and of our z Iudg. 7.14 Gedeon and these able to make them decrease and herein Primaque suscipite pro Ioue bella patres First and before all draw forth your sword in defence of Gods Word let this be your primum Agite as it should be euery mans primum quaerite A godly Magistrate is custos vtriusque Tabulae an happy instrument for the glory of God and good of men to punish all contemners of Gods worship and Anti-Sabbatarians who haue no care to serue the Lord in feare and to vse the words of the Psalmist * Psal 45.3 4. Gird thy Sword vpon thy thigh O most mightie ride on because of the word of truth of meekenesse of righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things I would not be thought too bitter I speake in generall I accuse none in particular with a Acts 28.19 Paul I accuse not my Nation Yet hony was no b Leuit. 2.11 offering for gods Sacrifice neither must the sweet waxe of Bees burne within the Tabernacle of the Temple Wholsome Admonitions like c Iohn 10.10 Iohns booke Sweete in mouth and bitter in belly and the Lord commands d Esay 58.1 clama Cry aloud and spare not to tell Iacob their offences and the people of Israel their sinnes The Wilde-worme Contention the cares of Magistrates too often verberated with her querulous noises Oppression is a Wild-worme and stings to death Specially if the worme be great This Sinne Oppression like e 1 Sam. 15.14 Sauls fatlings bleates in the eares of Samuel and cryes Quousque f Reu. 6.10 Domine how long Lord Auenge our cause against these Oppressors Faction is a Wild-worme furious and fierce in profession Saint Cyprian doth report of Nouatus a seditious and pernitious Wild-worme that he would not allow his owne Father bread being aliue or bury him being dead because he would not consent vnto him in his hereticall opinions Iesuites Brownists Anabaptists Arminians Separatists all Wild-wormes What should I name any more of these Babylonian brats I say with the Psalmist g Psal 137.9 Blessed is he who takes them and dasheth them against the stones The song of the Angels is the summe of all your labours and of our desires h Luke 2.14 Glory be to