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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14975	Two sermons of assise the one intituled A prohibition of reuenge, the other, A sword of maintenance : preached at two seuerall times, before the right worshipfull iudges of assise, and gentlemen assembled in Hertford, for the execution of iustice, and now published / by W. Westerman ...	Westerman, William.	1600 (1600)	STC 25282; ESTC S2384	63,408	150

nor soule of iustice in themselues therefore cannot quicken the dead letter of the lawes nor make them effectuall in sound or motion Are not they rather Idoles thā Gods rather Images that must be kept by a sexten keeper Lodouic Viues in 1. lib. cap. 3. de ciuit Dei for so Plato speaketh of voluptuous and doting gouernours then guardians and keepers of cuntryes cityes and people themselues It is a trewe saying experimented daily that Magistratus indicat virum the honour and authoritie Aristot. lib. 5. of an office maketh triall what is in the man that beares it A priuate man like an empty vessell may haue many flawes and crackes many faults and defectes that appeare not but as when vesselles are filled the chinkes are descryed by the leakeage of the wine so when men are graced with authoritie their vnsoundnesse is discouered through some chinke of folly or feare or carelesnesse or else they proue staunche and shewe their sufficiency for wisdome and conscience The best course in those that haue a preheminence to ordaine officers is to try them by degrees first if they wil be faithfull in little things that so they may be credited at last with the great or as men proue their vesselles with water before they trust them with wine Absolon 2. Sam. 15. will be lowly popular to al suiters promise faire to doe Iustice till he get aloft and then he sheweth himselfe neither to feare God nor the king neither to care for Iustice nor honestie Men can spreade the nets of humilitie and weaue them with the knots of subtiltie till they haue caught their desire and then they shewe their hypocrisie It seemeth that Pope Boniface followed this course in his clyming of whome it is spoken Intrauit vt vulpes Fascic temp Boniface 8. regnauit vt leo mortuus vt canis hee entered like a foxe hee ruled like a lyon hee dyed like a dogge And so commonly it comes to passe a badde beginning hath a wicked proceeding and a miserable ende Wherefore it is expedient for men of honour worshippe and authoritie to carrie this title of the Lorde and this promisse of execution in their memorie that by it they may be comforted in their good proceedings repressed from cruelty the exercise of priuate reuenge in their publike actions yet stirred vp to be diligent carefull because the Lord himselfe is not only a looker on but a chiefe Actor For vengeance is mine and I will repay saith the Lord. Now shall it be requisite againe to returne to priuate men and the people of God for whose sake the Lord hath vouchsafed his power and maiesty his iustice and equitie to be established and executed by worthy men ordained for that end They are inhibited frō that reuenge which they could not execute without sinne sent vnto the courts of gods Iudgement where they may haue a defence of innocencie without repulse If any shall obiect the faults delayes and circumuentions of courts and lawes thereby colouring their disobedience to superior powers they must vnderstād that gods holy ordināce must not be resisted for the personal crimes defects of those that supply the places but rather be obeyed because the sparkes of gods maiesty iustice remaine in some measure in euery magistrate The image superscription of a Prince stamped in basemetall is currant amongst his subiects as well as that which is made in the finest siluer though in deed it be not so pretious S. Peter admonisheth seruants and vnder that title subiects to be obedient in all feare not onely to the good and 1. P●t 2. 18. courteous but also to the froward There be two sorts of people that abuse themselues toward the sacred ordināce of lawes magistrates and gouernours appointed notwithstanding for the punishment of euill and the decision of controuersies that Gods people might liue in honestie and peace The one sort are flat Recusants as Libertines 1. Recusants ciuill ordinances and Anabaptists and such tumultuous fellowes as would haue al subiect to their lusts but they will be subiect to no lawes The other are Foxes that make accompt of 2. Foxes and abusers of the lawes the Iudges and lawes and vse them to the satisfaction of their priuate reuenge and malicious humours Somewhat are we to speake God willing of both and first of those former Recusants not because any such are in this place but because vnquiet and troublesome s●●ters that follow the lawe to serue their lusts when they faile of their hope for the most part turne from one extreame to another and set themselues cleane at defiance with Iustice Authoritie Touching Libertines which promise others libertie Recusants Libertimes 2. Pe● 2. 19. themselues being the seruants of corruption which walke after their lusts and despise gouernment it is no maruell if they scorne and contemne order and magistracie seeing they dare open their mouthes against heauen and say There is no God But as they blush not to be called the Damned crew thereby sentencing themselues to confusion So Saint Peter accompteth ● Pet. 2. 12. them as bruit beastes led with sensualitie and made to be taken and destroyed If you aske howe they shall perish Saint Peter answereth through their owne corruption the cordes of their owne sinne shall stoppe their breath and though they escape long and shift often yet the Lord knoweth how to reserue ● Pet. 2. 9. them to the day of vengeance The Anabaptists and such as leane to their Recusant Anabaptists stubborne conceipt are also within the compasse of such Recusants They would haue all things cōmon to their owne lusts and nothing reserued or kept for any mans need Because some rulers are wicked therfore they will haue no rule nor gouernment at al to be ouer them a gratefull principle to them that desire to be lawlesse I know the good father Tertullian may be produced as a patrone for theese for hee Dan● in August de heres cap. 86. was ouertaken by this errour that he thought the vse of the sworde in battell or punishments coulde not bee lawfull and therefore degraded all capitall and criminall Iudges from their places But fathers as men might be deceiued and so was Tertullian the Lord himselfe can neither deceiue nor bee deceiued and hee hath said Vengeaunce is mine He hath said Giue Matth. 22. 21. vnto Caesar that which is Caesars Hee by his worde hath created the Magistrate called him his Minister put the sword in his hand charged Rom. 13. him to strike and commaunded euerie soule to be subiect not so much for feare as the wicked are but euen for conscience as the godly He commanded the captiues by Ieremie to seeke the prosperitie Ierem. 29. 7 of Babylon and pray vnto the Lord for it He exhorted by Paule that intecessions and 1. Tim. 2 ● supplications should be made for Kings and princes