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A62375	Civil magistracy by divine authority asserted and laid forth in a sermon, preached at the assises holden at Winchester, for the county of South-Hampton, on Thursday the 4th day of March, 1651/52 : afterward the same subject much enlarged, and in some particulars more cleared, and applyed, on the like occasion, at Taunton in Somerset, on Sunday in the assize week, Aug. 22, 1652 / by William Sclater ...	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S914; ESTC R34025	36,513	52

3.2 midst of judgment God remembers mercy nor without incorrigible provocations doth he execute the fiercenesse of his anger Hos 11.9 Yea though Justice and mercy are Attributes both equally in God yet quoad nos in respect of us the manifestation of the acts of clemency seem to come more kindly from him then those of severity The acts of mercy flow from God the g 2 Cor. 1.3 Father of mercies as a stream running kindly and derived clearly from a sweet Spring or Fountaine but the acts of Justice like liquor or wine from the grape which is not without squeezing or h Gen. 40.11 pressing forth From God floweth not more Mercy then Justice yet rather Mercy then Justice And therefore when he proceeds to wrath he is said by the Prophet Isa 28.21 to doe his work a strange work as if he had been unacquainted with such an act It is observed That God was longer in destroying one poor City Jericho then he was in making the whole world i Josh 6.16 for he was seven days in destroying it but k Gen. 1.31 Exod. 20 11 six dayes only in creating the world In the second Commandment we read of his visitation of wrath but unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hated him but of his mercy unto l Exod. 20.6 Thousands of them that love him It s worth our Observation also how our Saviour wrought no destructive miracles but all salving or restorative Wee read in the Gospel that our Saviour was once angry but it was in an anger of Zeal not of Livor when he saw his Fathers House the House of Prayer to become by buying and selling therein a Den of Theeves robbing God of his due honour in that place he then made a m Joh. 2.15 Whip of small cords to scourge those Money-Changers out of the Temple he made a whip to shew his displeasure but of small cords to shew the mitigation of that displeasure God sends his lightning with n Psal 135.7 rain saith the Psalmist as the one affrights with fiery flashes and coruscations so the other cooles and comforts the inflamed ayre yea t is observed by o Ruffin Hist l. 2 c. 23. Ruffinus in his Story that the Ancients were wont to place upon the Statue of their Jupiter Modium a certain measure as an embleme of Moderation And this by way of Analogy is imitated by those who are called Gods with men Clemency is that golden thread which runs through all their actions of Judicature They will remember that of p Chrysost Ser. De Mansuetud Chrysostome That its better to give account to God the q Heb. 12.23 Judge of all for shewing mercy rather then too much rigour or severity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith r Isidor Pelusiot l. 3 cpist 131. Isidor Pelusiota Extremeties prove often dangerous There is more safety in walking in the middle path then upon the very brink of the River if men do all they may do they may soon bee apt to do through humane Infirmities or Passions what they should not do Moderation therefore and a sweet ſ 2 Cor. 10.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sith the Law Maxime is Justitia nescit irasci may be like that water observed by Anatomists in the Pericardium which cooles the Ebullitions about the heart or like Minerva's golden bridle to the winged horse it makes a good Magistrate alwaies to carry a Chancery in his own brest and inclines him like the Master Bee to rule but without a sting And yet let me not be mistaken neither for it is so sometimes that Summa justitia proves to be Summa misericordia the extremity of Justice the height of Mercy it is when Justice is executed upon obstinate Malefactors then mercy is shewen to the Country which they spoil tifle and depopulate Bonis Nocet quisquis pepercerit malis saith t Seneca sen 99. Seneca he hurts the Innocent who spares the Nocent In this case Justice deals like Alcon who espying a Dragon to clasp his child so directed his arrow that he shot the Dragon and preserved the child In cutting off unreclaimable Malefactors Vice is destroyed Vertue encouraged and the Country preserved It was the saying of Ludovicus Divus as is written in the Annalls of France Pietatis opus est non saevitiae justitiam facere It was an act of Piety and not of cruelty to do Justice so that this notwithstanding Mercy like a refulgent beam of the orient Sun may shine in the midst of Judgement from the Seat of an upright Magistrate 3. Saith Jehoshaphat here With the Lord our God there is no taking of gifts yea covetousnesse is as u Col 3.5 Idolatry and God * Psal 10.8 abhorrs both it and the persons that bow down to it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith x Isidor Pelusiot l. 3. Epist 337. Isidor Pelusiota 't is for Vultures not for Eagles to prey upon garbadge Magistrates like the woman cloathed with the Sun Rev. 12.1 that is the Church arrayed in the robes of the Lord Christ the Sun of Righteousness as he is stiled Mal. 4.2 they have the Moon under their feet by which fickle and dim Star all the inconstant vanities of this Sublunary lower world where with many the present Possession is but the Possession of the present are resembled Oh what a pure brest and what cleane hands had innocent Samuel a Prophet and withall a Judge too in Israel when bidding his last adieu to the world and putting off his Office with his earthly Tabernacle he made a challenge to all saying Whose Ox have I y 1 Sam. 12.3.4 taken or whose Asse he means unjustly or whom have I defrauded and the people answer him as every * 2 Sam. 23 3 4 just Rulers conscience should to him Thou hast not defrauded O the tranquility of a spotlesse brest there is nothing to a man in Judicature comparable to Samuels integrity both to get and to keep an inward solid peace Who then would suffer his eyes by * See Exod. 23.8 Deut. 16.19 Eccles 7.7 bribery or corruption to be blinded as old Tobits were with the Swallows dung of this earth or end anger the whole ship of his soul for a little ballast of gain z 1 Sam. 12.3 * Tob. 2.10 It s said among the Poets that the River a Sic tibi cum fluctus subterlabêre Sicanos Doris amara suam non intermisceat undam Virgi Alpheus glides under the salt sea yet still preserves it self untainted by the brackish waters till it salutes the sweet and limpid Fountaine Arethusa so all Godly and Religious Governors keep themselves * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ho. mer. above others unspotted b Jam 1.27 of the world till they drink of the well of Life in the new Jerusalem I mean till their souls be refreshed with pure comfort in the Kingdome of Heaven And yet perchance