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A94824	The zealous magistrate. Set forth in a sermon, preached in Exeter, before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Foster, his Majesties justice of assize for the western circuit. / By Thomas Trescot, master of arts, and rector of the church of Invvardleigh in Detton. It is this 10th day of October 1642. (by the committee of the House of Commons concerning printing) ordered, that this book, intituled, The zealous magistrate, &c. be printed. Iohn White.	Trescot, Thomas, 1611 or 12-1684.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1643 (1643)	Wing T2126; Thomason E89_4; ESTC R12172	26,564	40

ad Sap. Introduct 12. Prov. 1. Let them I say be perswaded to love their owne soules to suffer the word of Exhortation yea and of Reproofe too to suffer their Consciences to be gagged and their ulcerous soules to bee searched and tented What saith Solomon He that loveth instruction loveth knowledge but he that hateth reproofe is a Foole saith one Translation brutus est saith Tremelius is brutesh saith our last English and fit for none but Nebuchadnezzar to be fellow-Commoner with him among the Beasts of the field and there I leave him and come to a Vse 2 Second Vse to encourage Gods Ministers in their Office boldly and freely to reprove the greatest when they doe offend In 58 Esay 1. Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voyce like a Trumpet and shew my people their transgression and the house of Iacob their sinnes Cry aloud and spare not spare neither breath nor lungs doe not Syucopize and cut short thy words doe not whisper it in a Corner but Clames ut Stentora vincere possis Trumpet it out to some purpose But then though a Minister doe it boldly yet he must doe it wisely not Satyrically but Christianly not reproachfully but lovingly 25 Pro. 12. And then as Solomon hath it most Elegantly As an Eare-ring of Gold and as an ornament of fine Gold so is a wise Reprover upon an obedient Eare And indeed the Eare can never bee an obedient Eare till it meet with a reprover that is a wise reprove● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Isodore I siod Pel. Lib. 5. Ep. 103. in his Epist to Olympius the Presbyter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Every one can finde fault and reprove another for the same but he that will doe it handsomely as he ought had need to be a very wise man Hence it comes to passe that many from such like Mounts as these doe oftentimes shed and spill their wit in some bitter invective against sin that they cannot be said so properly to reprove as raile I hope I shall not offend if I instance in the profession of of the Law that honourable profession when some there be that would lay open the abuses done by some of that profession for though the Law be good yet all doe not use it lawfully to the prejudice of many an honest man and his Cause yet in what manner doe they it They dip their tongues in such Gall and Vineger that their words easily betray them not to be zealous against the sinne but cholerick against the persons Besides the very language it selfe what is it oft times but a few shreds and scraps dropt firm some Stage-Poet at the Globe or Cock-pit which they have carefully bookt up to serve them for such an occasion I speake not this that these men should be Reproofe-free reprove them soundly and sharply too 't is pitty they should be let alone to live and dye in their sins onely this I would have it done Christian like Divine-like wisely holily lest a Satyre from the Pulpit be unhappily repaid with a Ieere at the Barre and alwayes to remember this That the Arch-Angel Michael did highly scorne it Iude v. 9. to fall a railing though hee had to doe with the verie devill himselfe Vse 3 A third Vse shall bee to perswade great men to hearken to wise councell Let them be advised by him that was the wisest among the sons of Adam Solomon in 7. Ecclesiast 5. t is better to heare the rebuke of the wise Veritas aspera est verùm amaritudo ejus utilior est integris sensibus gratier quam meretrican t is lingue distillans savus Ioh. S. de nugis Curialium l. 3. c. 6. than the song of Fooles better to heare them that will tell them their faults than those that will tell them a tale better to meet with sound Reprovers that will lay Thornes in their way than the Devills Vpholsterers that will sow pillowes under their Arme-pits What though they themselves are grave and wise and learned yet standers by see sometimes more than Gamesters and those that stand upon Gods Watch-Tower can see further than those which stand but upon the levell David the King though he were himselfe a Prophet yet was he not without his Chaplaines Gad was one of them in Ordinary attendance upon his Majesty and God imployes him in a sad message to his Lord and Master to take his choise of those three great Evills War 2 Sam. 24.11 12 13. Pestilence and Famine and yet the King did never put him out of the List or turne him out of service A vast difference there is betweene those two Kings Ahab and David when Elijah told Ahab of his murther and cruelty 1 King 21 20. 2 Sam. 12.13 he is an enemy to the Crowne Hast thou found me O mine enemy But when Nathan tells David of his murther and adultery he presently cryes peccavi I have sinned but doth not with Ieroboam stretch out his hand to cuffe the Prophet 1 King 13.4 Crede te illi esse charum à quo amicè reprehen deris Lud. Vives ad Sap. Introduct O then farre be it from any man be he never so Great to put a Gagge in the mouth of any faithfull Reprover Oh doe not muzzle the mouth of him that speaketh so he speak as the Oracles of God When Elies sonnes began once to hate good Councell 't was a signe God had marked them out for destruction Let me commend unto them the example of that godly King Edward the sixth that miraculum naturae Sir John Hoyward in the life of Ed. the 6. as Cardan called him who when Bishop Ridley in a Sermon before the King had insisted much upon the necessity of good workes to be done specially by great men the King taking himselfe principally aymed at after Sermon was ended had private conference with the Bishop in his Gallerie and desired the advice of that worthy Prelate to put him in such a posture to doe that which in his owne Conscience thus convicted he saw he was bound to performe Thus did the heart of that young Josiah submit and close with the word and was ready to follow that course to which hee was so divinely prompted And thus from the second I come now to the third Observation which is this Obser 3 'T is very fit ond convenient for one Magistrate to put another in mind of his place and duty Nehemiah did so and in 10. Hebr. 24. wee have a Catholique Injunction to consider one another to provoke unto love and good Works Let me then briefly apply it Vse 1 And the first Vse that I shall make of this will be to perswade Magistrates to reduce that generall Rule of the Apostles unto particular practise to perswade them not to bee thornes in one anothers eyes but to bee as Goads in one anothers sides to forward one another in their place and station those whose parts are meaner and lower to