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A62113	Timē kai timōria, A beautifull swan with two black feet, or, Magistrates deity attended with mortality & misery affirmed & confirmed before the learned and religious Judge Hales, at the assize holden at Maidstone, July 7, 1657, for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons ...	Symons, Henry, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6360B; ESTC R22380	23,504	38

Let it acquaint Magistrates who are their best friends even those that presse and perswade them to do their duties of Gods that they may avoid the damnation of devils I know such Ministers are lookt upon with a squint eye and are forbid to preach at Bethel Amos 7. 13. they are called the troublers of Israel 1 King 18. 17. are put into prisons 2 Chron. 16. 10. yea often are beheaded Mark 6. 27. yet they are their chiefest friends Those that kept their friends awake in the time of the sweating sicknesse were the truest friends though they thought them not so for they kept them from death And reproving Ambrose was solus dignus Episcopi nomine as Theodosius ingenuously acknowledged 2. Vse Of Exhortation 1. To Magistrates 2. To people 1. To Magistrates Are you Gods then be perswaded to three things 1. Live as Gods 2. Judge as Gods 3. Defend as Gods First Live as Gods 1. In your Conversations 2. In your Families 1. In your Conversations Places of Gods and practises of devils are grievous solecismes You are called Optimates because you should be the best and resemble him who is Optimus as well as Maximus Your lives like Planets have great influence upon inferiour bodies Non sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent ac vita regentum Claud. Magistrates lives are looking-glasses by which all their neighbours usually dresse themselves And assure your selves Austins rule is true Magis intuentur quid fecerit Jupiter quam quid docuerit Plato The people more mind what the next Justice does then what the best Minister saies They more observe what the Judge delivers then what the Preacher Oh therefore let the graces of God that have been in other gods as meeknesse in Moses uprightnesse in Samuel holinesse in David wisdom in Solomon patience in Job courage in Nehemiah meet in your lives as in so many burning glasses whereby you may warm the hearts of the godly and burn the hands of the wicked II. In your Families Have a care you entertain none but holy persons into them and keep up holy duties in them that the ancient salutation may come into fashion again And to the Church that is in thy house Philem. 2. Good Joshua in such a time of liberty and licentiousnesse as this is keeps himself and family to the pure service of God Josh 24. 15. I and my house will serve the Lord. David makes a publique protestation that his eyes shall be upon the faithfull of the land that they may dwell with him he that walketh in a perfect way should serve him that the worker of deceit shall not dwell in his house that the teller of lies shall not tarry in his sight Psal 101. 6 7. Nicephorus reports of Andronicus the elder that he was Master of such a family as was the very shop of vertue discipline and all godly exercises and therefore was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sun of the earth to enlighten others Oh labour to make yours so yea a little heaven Secondly Judge as Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Just Martyr proves that you had never been put into Gods place but to do his work and in his way Now God judgeth 1. From an innate principle of affection to justice Isa 61. 8. I the Lord love judgement so ought Judges to execute justice and judgement from an inward principle of love to them The wheels of affection within should cause the hand of execution to go without Prov. 21. 15. It is joy to a just man to do judgement Titus was so delighted with it that he was wont to cry Amici diem perdidi I have lost that day wherein he had done no act of justice Parúm est justitiam facere nisi diligas Bern. ad Eug. 2. God judgeth righteously justly Psal 67. 4. Thou shalt judge the people righteously Psal 119. 75. I know O Lord thy judgements are right saies David And so acknowledged Mauritius the Emperour when Phocas had slain his wife and children so ought Judges Deut. 16. 20. God gives a special charge that you should do that which is altogether just i. e. pure justice free from any mud that what the Heathens brag'd of their Aristides surnamed Justus might be as true of every Judge Justice and Maior in England It were easier to turn the Sun out of his course then to turn them out of the course of Justice 3. God judgeth impartially 2 Chron 19. 7. For there is no iniquity in the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking bribes Job 34. 19. tels us he accepts not the persons of Princes neither regardeth the rich more then the poor which the Heathen could observe and Phocylides speaks truly of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So ought Judges Deut. 1. 17. Ye shall have no respect of persons in judgement but shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not fear the face of man Lev. 19. 15. Thou shalt not favour the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty A Judge should be as the Sun which shines on the beggar as well as the noble he must view the face of the cause and not the face of the person It was a blur to Cesar that Cassius his cause was the better but he must deny 〈◊〉 in vit Cesar Brutus nothing the poor mans cause is the better but the rich man neighbour friend kinsman must not be overthrown Prov. 18. 5. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgement there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the words more is implied then spoken i. e. it is a very sordid sinfull shamefull thing to be done they that do it deserve to be hist at in the streets as they go from their Judicatories 4. God judgeth deliberately advisedly making strict scrutiny and diligent search whether the accusation be so Gen. 18. 20 21. And the Lord said because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is grievous I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me and if not I will know Greg. in loc observes that God doth speak thus to teach men Ne mala hominum antè praesumamus credere quàm probare for God cannot descend neither need he search to know for all things are naked and open before him Heb. 4. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dissected unboweld anatomized 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hes So ought Judges to be very inquisitive sifting searching they are commanded first to examine the thing narrowly Deut. 17. 4. And if it be told thee and thou hast heard of it and enquired diligently and behold it be true and the thing certain then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman and stone them with stones till they die This was Judge Jobs course Job 29. 16. The cause I knew not I searched out

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A BEAUTIFULL SWAN With TWO BLACK FEET OR Magistrates Deity ATTENDED WITH Mortality Misery AFFIRMED CONFIRMED BEFORE THE Learned and Religious JUDGE HALES AT THE Assize holden at Maidstone July 7. 1657. FOR THE COUNTY of KENT By HENRY SYMONS M. A. and Minister of the Gospel at Southfleet in KENT Psal 89. 48. What man is he that liveth and shall not see death Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah Non multum curandum est eis qui necessario morituri sunt quid accidet ut moriantur sed moriendo quo ire coguntur Aug. de Civ Dei lib. 1. cap. 11. London Printed by J. Hayes and are to be sold by H. Crips at his Shop in Popes-head alley 1658. To the HONOURABLE JOHN KELSY Major General of the County of Kent AND Governour of Dover Castle His much esteemed FRIEND SIR IT was the businesse of my Sermon to defend Magistrates and I hope it will be the businesse of Magistrates to defend my Sermon I know full well it shall stand in a worse place then the man in the Zodiack many daggers will be thrust into every part and therefore I humbly fly unto your Honour for Patronage and Protection And if you demand Quo jure I having no interest in you Intimacy with you Dependance upon you Expectation from you I must answer upon the best Title viz. Detur digniori which you are both as a publique Magistrate and as a private Christian I shall not bring this Sun of Truth to one who hath sore eyes and cannot abide the light nor present this glasse to a painted or spotted face which will not endure the sight Your Eagle eyes will bear these bright beams your Angels face can endure this clear and Crystall glasse which shews the whole proportion of a Magistrate a capite ad calcem Here you have his Head and that is of Gold I have said you are Gods Here you have his feet and they are of earth you shall die like men Many Magistrates like and love to hear of their Deity but not of their Mortality much lesse of their eternal Misery But you are well pleased with all being not proud of your Deity nor insensible of your Mortality nor afraid of your eternal Misery Were all Magistrates qualified with that Mercy and Meeknesse Humility and Holinesse Zeal and Severity they would so magnifie and beautifie that Office that as the Heathen said of vertue Omnes in amorem ejus traheret the work of Ministers would be both uselesse and needlesse as for pressing Duties to and praising the Dignities of Magistrates Antalcidas his Quis unquam vituperavit would be seasonable I know also I shall not tender this Present to a rugged and rigid Christian who can like nothing but what comes from one of his own Church but your sweet temper is known to all You do not expresse your self distant from them in your affection who do expresse themselves different from you in their opinion You can harbour love to their persons in your heart though you cannot harbour liking of their opinions in your head a most excellent pattern for all Magistrates Ministers and people fearing God whose great blot and blemish it is that if they have difference with people in their opinion they will have distance from them in their affection Magistrates will not do them justice Ministers will rail at and revile them in their publique Pulpits and Christians will slander them in their private meetings Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli My Brethren these things ought not so to be Jam. 3. 10. I speak unfeignedly without flattery had all Magistrates Ministers Souldiers Christians that Moderation and Discretion to bear one anothers burthens and so to fulfill the Law of Christ Gal. 6. 2. as you have I am confident that both certainly and suddenly would the Jesuite be defeated the Prophane silenced the Neuter convinced the Doubtfull resolved the Godly reconciled and all the honest party strengthened and we should live and love together as becomes the Professors of the Gospel You see Sir by what tenure my Sermon holds both in Capite and in Corde as you are a good Magistrate and a gracious Christian I beseech you do not sue it with a Writ of Ejection either out of your Protection as a Magistrate or Affection as a Christian by granting which request you shall much oblige him who esteems it his highest honour to be Your lowest Servant HENRY SYMONS From my Study in Southfleet Feb. 7. 1657. Psal 82. 6 7. I have said ye are Gods and all of you are children of the most High but ye shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes TO spend or spin out time with the needless thred of curious enquiry Whether this be a Psalm of Asaph or for Asaph or whether it were composed in the reign of Jehosaphat or of David after the death of Saul would be as vain as those Cities who spent their time to know in which of them Homer was born or as they Who was the Author of that golden sentence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am sure this Psalm was calculated for the Meridian of Israel and may serve for England or any other Nation in the world A Psalm of much use and in much use among the Jews when their Fab. in loc Judges rode Circuit and sate in Judicature This Psalm may fitly be stiled and titled The Judges Charge Where you have the Prophet the Crier to call the Court and the holy Ghost the Judge that gives the Charge As Judges give their Charge to men so God gives his Charge to Judges and as Judges expect men should attend to their Charge so God expects Judges should attend to his Charge And indeed this is a pretious and profitable Charge which might as well be written over our places of publick Judicature in letters of gold as those Verses are in Zant Hic locus odit amat punit observat honorat Nequitiam pacem crimina jura bonos It would be profitable to the Judges to have this Psalm sung before them alwaies before they go to their Judicatories Sim. de Muiz It is worthy to be learned of all Magistrates and to be put in all publick places of Judgement Fab. in loc But Vino vendibili why should I hang out a bush when the Wine sufficiently commends it self In the Psalm are these three parts observable 1. Ratio an Introductory reason 2. Oratio an Exhortatory oration 3. Peroratio a Conclusory praier First An Introductory reason by way of preamble to aw and amaze the hearts of Judges vers 1. God stands in the Congregation of the mighty and he is presens and praeses a God present yea the Lord President of all your Courts and Counsels He is Judex and Vindex Judge Paramount who will certainly and severely judge the Judges If Father Latymer was circumspect what he answered