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A94759	The palace of justice opened and set to veiw [sic], in a sermon at Margarets Westminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the 12th of May, 1646. Being the day of their solemn thanksgiving, for regaining and taking in the several garisons, of the city of Exeter. Barnstable. Michaels Mount in Cornwall Ruthen Castle. Ilford-Combe. Aberystwyth in Wales. [double brace] Dunster Castle. Titbury Castle. Woodstock Mannor. Castle of Bridgnorth. Banbury Castle. Newarke. / By Sam. Torshel.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1940; Thomason E337_12; ESTC R200826	21,000	29

The Palace OF JUSTICE OPENED AND SET TO VEIW IN A SERMON At Margarets Westminster before the Honorable House of COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT upon the 12th of May 1646. Being the day of their Solemn Thanksgiving for Regaining and taking in the severall Garisons of The City of Exeter Barnstable Michaels Mount in Cornwall Ruthen Castle Ilford-Combe Aberystwyth in Wales Dunster Castle Titbury Castle Woodstock Mannor Castle of Bridgnorth Banbury Castle Newarke By SAM TORSHEL Prov. 14.13 Righteousnesse exalteth a Nation LONDON Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Bellamy at the three golden Lions in Cornhill 1646. TO THE HONORABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT AS most men have censured the Florentine to be Not honest So I could hardly allow him So much as in the vulgar notion the name of A Christian when I met with these passages in ●m One in his Second Book De Republica cap. 29. Si rerum vicissitudinem Contemplemur comperiemas multa accidere ex fato ita urgente ut iis obviam ire nemo possit quamvis in promptu remedia fuerint Another to the same purpose in his Book De principe cap. 25. Haud illud mihi obscurum est ejus Sententia complures esse ac olim fuisse itae rerum humanarum procurationem à fortuna omnino ab ipsoque dec teneri ut ab hominum prudentia nulla ratione corrigi queat immo nullo posse occurri remedia Ob id existimeri posset in iis rebus non multum laborandum esse sed qua fortuna impellit co se ferri permittendum Haec opinio majori persuasione his nostris temporibus propter rerum multiplicem conversionem recepta est quod nunquam non visae sint quotidieque videantur mutationes extra omnem humanam quae possit capi conjecturam Hoc ego nonnunquam animo cum cogitassem aliqua ex parte co inclinaveram sententiae Sed ne arbitrium nostrum extinguatur eam opinionem sequor ut alteram nostrarum rerum partem fortunae arbitratu judicem procurari alteram vel paulo minus administrandam relinqui Fortunam enim montano flumini omnia prosternenti comparare soleo quod cum praeceps fertur inagros effunditur arbores sternit convellitquè domos hinc terrae multum abripiens alio idem illud regerit omnia item prae se agit omnia ejus conspectum fugitant omnia illius furori cedunt sublata omni qua possit ratione reprimi nihilominus cum tali feratur ingenio nihil impedit quo minus homines pacatioribus temporibus possint objicibus aggeribusque prospicere ut iterum exundans canalibus destuat aut impetu represso tam effuse pernicioseque non feratur Idem accidit de fortuna quae vim suam exerit ubi nulla adest ad resistendum instructa virtus eò suos impetus convertit ubi nullos aggeres nulla impedimenta quibus sibi obviam iri possit novit esse extructa He afterwards propounds the troubles of Italy a little before and about his time as an instance of this discourse in which he gives more to Fate and yet to Divine ordination lesse then becomes one that is in profession a Christian And there are others who speak of the alterations and period's of Kingdoms as if they did beleeve a Mathematicall or Chaldaick necessity or a Stoick-fate both of which do subject even God himself one to the Starres the other to the connexion of second Causes And there are some men whatsoever their faith be in this that yet are busie enough to work by this advantage upon weak and jealous apprehensions which are sufficient to give countenance in the world to pretended and artificiall prophesies which have their greatest authority from superstitious fear Guicciardin gives us a notable instance of this There were some that had given out many Prognostications which were purposely made in favour of Charles the Emperour and in prejudice of the French King and Nation These wrought so farre upon the Marquesse of Saluzze that notwithstanding his deep ingagements to Francis the first and contrary to his own greatest interesse yea and to his proper inclination and affection he fell off from his Master to the Emperour after he had shewed his affrightment to his private freinds to whom he had complained of the inevitable Miseries which the Fates had prepared against France But we have a clear rule in Scripture by which to order our selves and suppresse our weak fears There we learn that all things are indeed under a Sentence which carries not a necessity of coaction but of Infallibility We subscribe to that of David 1 Chron. 29.11 Thine O Lord is the greatnesse and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine thine is the Kingdome O Lord and thou art exalted as head above all Both riches and honour come of thee and thou reighnest over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand it is to make great We finde there also the course that this great and absolute Soveraigne taketh and constantly keepeth in the advancing and ruining of Kingdoms which is that which Jeremiah tells the King and Princes of Judah of cap. 22.2.3 4 c. Hear the word of the Lord O King of Judah that sittest upon the Throne of David thou and thy servants and thy people that enter in by these gates Thus saith the Lord execute yee Judgement and Righteousnesse and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor and do no wrong do no violence to the stranger the fatherlesse nor the widow neither shed innocent bloud in this place For if you do this thing indeed then shall there enter by the gates of this house Kings sitting upon the Throne of David riding in Charets and on horses he and his servants and his people But if yee will not hear these words I swear by my self saith the Lord that this house shall become a desolation According to the tenour of these words I have preached righteousnesse unto you that you may be established and that all your late Victories may bee confirmed unto your posterity I might speak something of these present joy●●●●● of things in a conjecturall and prudentiall way I am a Protestant in the principles that distinguish both from Romanisus and Schism and in my Interesse I am a very Englishman Be just in all things and yee shall not need to fear either Starres or Prophecies or men Let me speak as a Divine in the words of the son of Oded Hear yee me in this The Lord is with you while yee be with him But if yee forsake him he will forsake you Your faithfull and most humble servant SAM TORSHEL THE PALACE OF JUSTICE The TEXT DEUT. 16.20 Justice Justice or That which is altogether just shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee MEe thinks I

and for them Posterity will honour your memory 2. 2. In preferring the publick interesse Preferre the publick Interesse Be willing to be rather nothing in reputation then that the Nation should lose hers The brave Policratidas of Lacedemon who was sent to the enemy with some others and having made some Propositions being demanded if they came privately or were sent hee answered Si impetramus publicè Sin minùs privatim If wee obtaine wee were sent if otherwise we onely came Let mee add Build up the house of the Kingdome rather then ciele your owne Set up no private houses upon the Common waste Hearken not to the inticements of opportunity to doe wrong Frederick the Emperour educated in his Court the young Ladislaus the infant-King of Hungarie and Bohemia some that were about him perswaded him to lay hold on that advantage to joyn those two Kingdomes to his But said hee Quid ergo Divitem potius quàm justum Regem vulcis What Would you rather have a rich King then a just one Implying that they must also expect the same from him in dealing with them rather to fill his coffers out of their estates then to yeeld them the benefit of just administrations Nothing good can bee expected from a man that is onely good to himself 3. 3. In securing the future peace Be carefull of the succeeding times to secure the peace of them Admit them not to trust who have betrayed the Publick trust Put not the Common-wealth into their hands who have deceived or opprest it Suffer mee to apply my self as I am wont by a Storie There was one Septimius Arabinus a man very infamous for many oppressions who being acquitted under Heliogabalus and re-admitted into the Senate the great Parliament of Rome when upon the choice of Alexander Severus to the Empire the Senators entertained him with a publick Salutation and Congratulations hee espying Arabinus among them cryed out O numina Arabinus non solùm vivit sed in Senatum venit Ah what times are these What doe I see Arabinus not onely lives but sits in Senate also Through a just indignation hee would not endure to see him 4. 4. To be just to friends I have yet one particular more to exhort you unto Be just to your friends 1. 1. To Ministers To the Ministers who are godly zealous and conscionable in their function Suffer them not to be exposed to contempt or want both of which are the designes of such as are enemies to the honour and successe of your present Councels And I the rather speak of the later because of the Petition which a few dayes since came unto your hands but to the praise of your Equity and Wisedome not entertained 2. 2. To the honest party To the faithfull and honest party of the Land who have spent their estates lost their livelihoods ventured upon the frownes of their Prince to serve the Publick and You with all sincerity and diligence Let not enemies eat their bread or take their trade out of their hands Reward them cherish them employ them It was a wise and just provision which wee find in Plato in his sixth Book De Legibus No man that serves the Publick must suffer in his private estate but care is to be had of him 3. 3. To the Scots To our Brethren of Scotland who are your friends by many obligations Be just in what is due to them in the agreement I pretend not to the knowledge of any thing in this matter beyond what you are pleased to let every man know in publick Instruments and Scripts and think it enough onely to have intimated this among other Exhortations And now upon the whole Motives of the Use what shall I say by way of enforcement of this point What Motives shall I need to use 1. 1. Justice saves from Reproach Hereby ye shall be kept safe from reproach for righteousnesse is a brest plate Ephes 6.14 yea you shall be clothed with honour I proposed the 29. Chapter of Job as an example see also in the same place the reward of his integrity Hee was so respected that when hee went out to the gate of judgement the young men saw him and hid themselves and the aged arose and stood up The Princes refrained talking and laid their hand on their mouth The Nobles held their peace and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth When the ear heard him it blessed him and when the eye saw him it gave witnesse to him as when the Oratour in Athens was declaming in praise of Justice all the eyes of the people were instantly fastned upon Aristides who sate among the Auditors It followes vers 21 22 23. Vnto him men gave ear and waited and kept silence at his Councell After his words they spake not again and his speech dropped upon them They waited for him as the rain and opened their mouth wide as for the later rain 2. 2. Justice fortifies against attempts Hereby yee shall be kept safe from attempts The righteous may be as bold as a Lion Hee needs not fear any thing that fears onely to be corrupt Some men talk of the Constellations and what the Heavens threaten But the Starres are no enemies to just men It was a conceit which much pleased mee when I observed it among the Symbols which I formerly mentioned of Cosmus the first Duke of Tuscany his device was A Diana with a Serpent at her foot the meaning seems to be Purenesse of conversation walking with wisedome Shee held in her hand the figure of the Constellation of Capricorn which it seems was the Signe under which he was born and as the Astrologers would perswade him threatned some evill to him The word was Integer vitae scelerísque purus Implying that hee that is wise and just needs not stand in doubt of any thing It is the most assured protection to be honest and the most quick-sighted providence to have a sincere eye to God Many great fishes that tumble in the waves and devoure the shoales of the lesser fish notwithstanding their strength and quick eyes doe many times crush themselves against the rocks and perish But the Naturalists tell us of one fish which they call the Vranoscope which hath but one eye and that in a verticall point on the top of the head directly upward by which it yet avoids all rocks and dangers 'T is much better to have but one eye so it be to heaven in a sincere respect to justice then two of the best and sharpest eyes of corrupt and worldly policie 3. 3. Justice better then a Thanksgiving Let mee take another Motive from the day a Day of Thanksgiving Wee are met together to offer our praises unto God and we have a large field of matter Ten severall mercies that I have mentioned in your first and in your additionall Order Wee have reason to be joyfull and you have done well to