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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36518	Totum hominis, or, The decalogue in three words, viz. justice, mercy and humility being a sermon upon Micah 6th vers. 8th, preached in the Cathedral of St. Peters, York, upon Monday the 15th day of March, 1668/9 before the Right Honourable Baron Turner and Baron Rainsford, the Right Worshipful Sr. Jo. Armitage, Bart. ... / by Sam. Drake, D.D. ...	Drake, Samuel, 1622-1679.	1670 (1670)	Wing D2134; ESTC R20477	16,528	32

conveys your estate over to you I might shew you how Mercy calls for an holy alienation of it bids you draw forth your soul to the hungry So the word Mercy is sometime taken but this would not be so suitable Love Mercy If we take the words exegetically by way of Comment upon the former then he that doth justice must by his place afford unto the people a merciful protection in opposition to cruel oppressors Upon this account the Prophet Ezekiel in his 28. 16. styles the Magistrate a covering Cherub to spread out a securing wing and so is Moses styl'd a Nursing Father to his Israel Or if we look upon this as a distinct charge as indeed there seem to be a great Emphasis of love upon Mercy and a merciful act may be done when 't is not loved then the Magistrate must be of sedate affections of a composed temper not hurryed away with the least violence of passion The reason is render'd by St. James For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God no 't is observ'd they stand in opposition there Inferiora fulminant there 's thunder in the lower Region but all above is quiet He that is plac'd above his Brethren must not give place unto wrath None refuse the waters of Siloe because they run softly but such as are styl'd the raging waves of the Sea foaming out their own shame The God of Peace requires pacatum animum a quiet composure of our spirits and in the execution of any office then especially must we love mercy having an eye to softer qualifications rather then more rigorous exactions This seems to be added in my Text to doing justice to season and temper it to a golden Medium lest Man should walk up to the extremities of Draco's bloody Laws that punished all offences with death St. Ambrose gave excellent counsel to Theodosius after his rash Massacre he wisht that in all Sentences that concern'd life there might be thirty dayes before the Execution Some space to shew mercy if need required Thus when you sit upon the Bench in Judgment let mercy give the Sentence In the height of Jewish malice St. Paul assures us in order to himself that they went less still then the summum jus of the Law Deut. 25. 3. Forty stripes saith that Text he may give him and not exceed compare this with 2 Cor. 11. 24. And St. Paul saith of the Jews received I forty stripes save one All things then that are lawful for us are not expedient for us He that chuseth alwayes to walk upon the Battlements is in danger of the Precipice You that are the distributers of Justice then be merciful as your Judge which is in Heaven is merciful Would you know how that is So unwillingly doth he grieve the Children of men that he calls the act of punishing his strange act Opus suum alienum extorquemus ut pereamus saith Tertullian It comes with a sigh Heu consolabor ah I will ease me of my adversaies and avenge of my ennemies yea and a tear too Plangitur Princeps Tyri quam bonus Deus saith Origen qui etiam eos deflet qui se neglexerint Deas tristatur non de injuria sua sed de nostra perditione O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self Thus our Saviour when he beheld the City wept over it What a strugling is there in his calm breast who says What shall I do unto thee Ephraim how shall I make thee as Admah And at last Mercy triumphs over Judgment My repentings are rolled or kindled together I will not proceed to execute the fierceness of my wrath with a remarkable twitting reason for I am God and not man O let all that have the signature of God upon them imitate him St. John saith indeed he saw his Saviour with a Sword Revel 19. 15. But it came out of his mouth Oris arma sunt oscula No weapons but kisses from the lips If there had been any danger of this Sword the Spouse in the very first words of the Canticles would not so passionately have broke forth Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth My Beloved is white and ruddy saith the Church there In that dusky Type he is resembled to a Man whereon Thomas descants excellently Candidus in toto corpore rubicundus in genis white in all conceal'd places ruddy only in the face which is obvious to every ones eye as if it was but a show of Justice rather to terrifie then torment White when merciful but in his justice ruddy as if he blush'd to be constrain'd to punish by our obstinacy God ordinarily reveals himself in the Old Testament by two Names Jehovah and Elohim Now the Hebrews note quando egreditur sententia ad clementiam he chuseth to be call'd by his great Name Jehovah his proper incommunicable Name but quando egreditur sententia ad justitiam in any process of Justice or Judgment he alwayes styles himself Elohim By which Name Angels Judges and false Gods too are once call'd God it seems is jealous of his Name of Mercy Imitate him and do acts of justice with melting spirits and tender bowels There is no such great Chasme betwixt Justice and Mercy as some think no irreconcilable antipathy they may well enough greet each other with an holy kiss you may bring about Justice by a high and powerful yet withal a soft and delicate hand Mercy need not disarm your Justice Moses Rod may be both a Serpent to sting the guilty and a staffe to support the weak These may stand together and yet a third an humble heart must be conjoyn'd all is in vain else Walk humbly with thy God saith my Text. I should not have dar'd to have detain'd you thus long from those weighty affairs I know are incumbent upon you but that my Text at least pleads my pardon when it enjoyns you mercy nor will I retard you much longer now lest I should be thought guilty of that which I do decry and pressing humility shew my self ambitious to detain you Briefly then come we to the highest step of this Heavenly Climax even the must humble posture before the most High And now give me leave like that holy Leveller of Mountains John the Baptist to prepare the way of the Lord by the language of my Text commanding humility Man is a proud Creature prone to stand upon his own supremacy even to Deifie himself When thus puft up above measure Humility is the thorn to prick that Bladder How many still think the Urim and Thummim the Brest-plate of Judgment is only with them Humility teacheth such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to be over-wise I cannot stay to shew you the Lenthenlook of Humility in antient times nor the hoof'd knee by continued prayer yet with much sadness I cannot but observe humility in our times is grown more stately Knees of the soul those invisible ones she will pretend to give readily but Elephant like wants joynts