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A45484	A map of judgement, or, A pattern for judges delivered in a sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford-in-Surrey, July 23d, 1666 before Sr. Orlando Bridgeman, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sr. Samuel Brown, Kt. / by W. Hampton ...	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1667 (1667)	Wing H635; ESTC R21596	21,322	25

A Map of Judgement Or a Pattern for JUDGES Delivered in a Sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford in Surrey July 23d. 1666. BEFORE Sr. Orlando Bridgeman Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas AND Sr. Samuel Brown Kt. By W. Hampton Rector of Blechingley in the same County 2. Chron. 19. 6 7. And he said to the Judges take heed what ye do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the Judgement Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts LONDON Printed by R. I. for H. Brome over against the Crane in Little-Brittain 1667. TO The Honourable Sr. Orlando Bridgeman Kt. Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Common Pleas and Sr. Samuel Brown Kt. another of his Majesties Justices of the said Court. Grace Mercy and Peace with all happiness in this World and everlasting blessedness in that which is to come Reverend and Honourable Sirs THis Sermon being Preached in your hearing and received with the good liking of that numerous auditory then present as I understand and as appeared by their more than usual attention while it was delivering for what was said of our dear Saviour I may without ostentation say of my poor self The eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastned on him Luke 4.20 And being importuned by some worthy friends to make it more publick I have condiscended hoping it may adde some few mites to the publick treasury for the Churches good And I assented chiefly upon these reasons First Because it was so well approved and accepted by such pious learned and judicious Worthies as your Honours great assertors of piety equity and right by whom this Circuit hath for some years been honoured as well as blessed in the Administration of Justice Secondly Because I have some hopes it may put at least a stop to that great inundation of Sin and Prophaneness which is gone forth into the Land by animating his Majesties Commissioners in all places to a diligent discharge of their duties in so good a work Thirdly That it may stand as a lasting evidence of my humble and cordial thankfulnesse to that supreme Moderator of all things for enabling me a poor worm to labour so long in his Vineyard and to bring forth some fruits both in Youth and Age and to perform such a task twice at such a distance of time the interval of more than ten Olympiads intervening I cannot think of meeter persons to Devote it to than your Honours who so well approved both the manner of delivery and the matter delivered which I humbly beseech you to accept in good part and to shelter it under your Patronage It is Printed almost verbatim as Preached only in the last point some little enlargement is made which I was forced then to omit least prolixity should have impeded your most weighty business Thus humbly craving pardon for my boldness commending this poor Work to the blessing of God for the glory of his Name and good of his People I commit you to his safe Protection who am Your Honours most humble Servant in the work of the Lord William Hampton From my Study in Blechingley Aug 13. 1666. A Map of Judgement or a Pattern for JUDGES GENESIS 18.25 Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right IT was the saying of our Saviour Mat. 13.52 Every Scribe which is instructed for the Kingdome of Heaven is like unto a man that is an Housholder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old The same with Gods help I hope to do now It was full forty years ago the seventh of this month the Lords holy Name be praised that I spake something upon this Text on the like occasion and in this County at the Assizes holden at Riegate July 7. 1626 and if I should happen to harpe upon some of the old notes I dare say most if not all here present would keep my counsel It will be new to them and yet I doubt not but to bring forth some things new as well as old It is true we are to live Praeceptis non Exemplis by Precepts not by Examples and yet experience proves Exemplis magis quam praeceptis we are apt to be led rather by pattern than by precept and in framing the course of our lives Example for the most part more prevails than Exhortation Wherefore this being a time allotted for Judgment I have made choice to set before you a Map of Judgment the Pattern and Example of a great Judge the Judge of Judges the Judge of all the world in his place you sit he lends a part of his honour to you and invests you with his power he vouchsafes his name unto you dixi dii estis whom then should the Servant imitate but his Lord the Subject but his Soveraign the Little Gods of the earth but the great God of Heaven and Earth the Judges of a Land or little world but the Judge of all the world Zeno being asked by his friends how they might keep themselves to right when he was gone answered si me presentem semper putetis if you imagine me to be alwaies present with you the beholder of your actions And surely a stronger motive you cannot have to keep your selves to equity and right quam Deum presentem semper cogitare than to have this great Judge alwaies before your eyes the pattern and spectatour of all your proceedings hee sees our works he hear our words he knows our thoughts if we do ill will not he punish us if we do well will not he reward us if we do right will not he applaud it if we do wrong will not he revenge it Yes verily For shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right The words were uttered by Abraham upon this occasion when the Almighty was minded to destroy the City of Sodom whose sins cryed to his Throne for vengeance he first after the manner of men pawsed on the matter and was loath to do it till he had taken advice of a friend and made Abraham whom St. James calleth the friend of God privie to his purpose Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do Abraham being hereby assured of Gods love and favour began to argue the matter and became an humble suitor for his sinful neighbours and knowing them to be in misericordia provero clamore puts up his petition into the Chancery of Gods boundless mercy that if there could be fifty good men found within the City he would be pleased to spare the whole for their sake The Lord grants his petition Abraham goeth straight way with a privy search through the City of Sodom and after his labour lost he makes return unto God with a non est inventus yet he proceeds on in his suit and craving pardon for his boldness he

in your hearts as I doubt not but ye alwaies have and let all your Actions be such that ye may stand before him without fear with joy and comfort at that day Let not friends nor favour passion nor affection cause you to decline to the right hand or to the left remember the judgement is the Lords in whose place ye sit whose vice-gerents ye are on earth let his example be the square of all your proceedings your judgement like his secundum norman Justitiae according to the rule of Justice equity and right your charge is great being well discharged your reward 's the greater As St. Paul said the Elders that Rule well so the Judges that judge well are worthy of double honour they deserve it in this world they shall be sure to have it in the future world this impartial Judge will do right and recompence them according to their works In the next place worshipful and worthy Commissioners ye which now sit Assistants on the Bench let your actions be such that ye may also sit assistants with this Heavenly Judge at the last day and be in the number of the Saints which the Lord in mercy grant St. Austin laid it to the charge of the old Romans that they were more tender of their own honour than of the honour of their Gods if any one had wrong'd a Senator but in a word he was sure to smoak for it but they suffered their Poets to quip and whip their Gods and never questioned them for it I hope you are free from any such imputation of being more forward in revenging your own wrongs than Gods wrongs Yet give me leave humbly to put a case to you If Drunkards Blasphemers Swearers Adulterers Riotous Debauched Atheistical prophane persons who forget the God that made them and deny the Lord that bought them who kick at his Word and worship who scorne at holiness and scoffe away Religion and jest away holy Scripture or directly cry it down daring to Blaspheme and say it is the voice of man and not of God as in truth it is I Thes 2.13 whose madness is manifest enough to all and deserves a severe check who swear away our mercies and curse away our blessings and drink away their healths by drinking healths and do what in them lies to damne their precious souls having God damne me more often than Lord have mercy in their mouthes who shew their sins like Sodom and commit them with an Harlots face without shame or blushing by whom God is more dishonoured than by any other shall swarme in your several Divisions perhaps in some of your Families and yet be seldome or never questioned censured or punished at least by some of you Are ye not too slack in vindicating Gods honour I appeal to your own hearts Surely a heavy clog will at last lye upon their Souls and Consciences by whose connivence sin is nurtured and increased when it is in their hand to restrain it If ye will not do justice on them the time is coming when the great Lord-Chief-Justice of the world will do justice both on you and them on them for sinning and on you for suffering them For Shall not the Judge of all the World do right A sad thing it is and sorry I am I must speak this to our shame That a greater restraint should be put upon sin and foul enormities under the usurped powers than under the true just and lawful powers Will ye so requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father that hath bought or redeemed and established thee said Moses to Israel Deut. 22.6 And shall we thus requite the Lord for the signal mercies the great things the wonders he hath done for us in the blessed restauration of our King our Religion Laws and liberties God forbid For this the mouth of the Adversary is open against us though they see not their own sins of stubbornness disobedience murmuring Schism Heresie as vile in Gods sight though not so visible to the world Yea I fear the Lord hath a Controversie with our Land for this for this his fierce anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still For this gird thee with sackcloath O England weep and howl and let thine eyes run down with tears night and day and let them not cease This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation till it be reformed But do ye desire to redress these abuses as I hope you do then let me humbly commend to you two or three directions 1. Put in Execution the good laws more duely 2. give good example your selves more sincerely sincerely 3. Lessen the occasions thereof more effectually by taking away clandestine blinde and superfluous Ale-houses the Pest-houses of the Nation Let them not be like the head of Hydra when one is cut off two to start up in the place thereof I have read of a certain street in Rome called Vicus Sobrius the sober street perhaps because there was never a tippling-house in it which is hard to be said of any street in England but surely both our Towns Streets and Villages would be more sober if the number of these needless houses were diminished The King of Meth sometime in Ireland asked one how certain noisome birds that came flying into his Realm and bred there might be destroyed who answered nidos eorum ubique destruendos that the only way to rid them out of the Land was to destroy and pull down their nests Do you desire to lessen the number of those noisome birds and unclean beasts that defile our Land your best way is to pull down the nests where they are brooded the dens where they are harboured blind and base Ale-houses which are the nests and Nurseries of all vices There quarrels are bred murthers occasioned oaths coyned robberies plotted thieves harboured whoredomes committed and to conclude they are the very dens and cages of all uncleanness Let me add one Word to Gamaliel the learned of the Law and all who relate to it remember the hour is coming wherein they who plead for others shall not plead for themselves where unless they now work the Judge to be their friend by keeping faith and a good conscience they shall have none to plead for them I say not to you as our Saviour to those in his time Woe be to you Lawyers I hope better things of you and such as accompany salvation Only give me leave to make a supposition if there bee any which blow up the coals of dissention among neighbours to warm their own fingers at the fire who tell their Client his Cause is good when in their conscience they know it to be stark naught who say good is evil and evil good who put light for darkness and darkness for light sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet who make truth falshood and falshood truth whose tongues cannot move nimbly and so by silence smother the poor mans right because