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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

with another in the execuriou of Iustice The States of the Vnited Provinces V. Remains of Britain in Impresse upon some difference between them and us gave for their Impresse two pitchers floating upon the water with this word Si collidimur frangimur if we once fal a dashing we shal all fal in pieces If Magistrates be not well glued and sodered together their disagreement breeds nothing but mischiefe and confusion like Castor and Pollux if they doe not appeare together it presageth a storme Secondly doe not straine Courtesie in matters of publique Concernement whose Tongue shall moove first whose Hand must Subscribe first and others like pieces of ill-placed good Manners This doth oftentimes dash out the braines of many a good motion and crush them while they are but yet in the Egge Often times you will conclude t is fit this should be done fit this Order made and that Order confirmed and the like yet none will move their hand to the worke though every one move his tongue Iust like the Rats in the Fable they all agreed 't was sit the Cat should have a Bell about her neck that they might have warning of their enemies comming but the demurre was who should put it on and none would doe that Doe not be thus over-mannerly but strive who shall out-goe one another in the way of well-doing as these two Disciples did who should out-runne one another in the way to the Sepulcher 20 Ioh. 4. Doe not chalke up more sinnes over and above your owne score by a bashfull connivence or a sinfull silence Let the world see and know that your sword is steele to the back able to cut the strongest barres of Iron in sunder That Magistrate which shall bee carefull to execute Gods Lawes and the Kings shall have no need to run to Paris or the Hague for refuge he carries a Sanctuary in his owne bosome 2 Cor. 1.12 1 Chron. 22 16. such a one as Saint Paul had The Testimony of a good Conscience which will be good security for his forth-comming at any time Vp then and be doing and the Lord be with you And so I passe on to the fifth Observation which is this The prophanation of the Sabbath day is a great and grievous sinne Obser 5 Why doe yee this Evill If it were not a fault Nehemiah had no reason to make one where he found none Look in the Law how readest thou In the fourth Commandement Remember the Sabbath day 20 Exod. 8. ● and keep it holy● You know how often this is re-inforced in holy Scripture in sundry places And in the 56 Isaiah 2. there is a blessing pronounced upon the head of all those that shall conscionably observe it Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath and polluteth it not and keepeth his hand from doing any evill They are cursed Caitiffes then that doe not keepe and observe the Sabbath but prophane and pollute it Ob. But Nehemiah's Sabbath and ours is not all one Sol. True not all one day and yet all one Sabbath and requires equall holinesse in the observation Ob. What V. The Translators Preface Sol. Bishop Lakes The sis de Sabbato in sine Dr. Twisse of the Morality of the 4. Com. and Master George Walkers Doctr. of the Sab hath so strict as the Jewes then we may not kindle a Fire nor dresse Victualls and what then shall the Prefacer doe he that made Dr. Prideaux his Lecture of the Sabbath to speake English against his will and minde for Roast-meat for want whereof he hath made such a bitter complaint First 't is doubted by some no ordinary Clerks nay strongly denyed that ever the Jews themselves were bound to that rigid observation that they should not be allowed to dresse meat for themselves And as for those Scriptures which seem to favour that opinion you may receive satisfaction from those late Worthies whose pens have laboured much in this Argument And if I had the time to deliver you their mind yet I should bee but a dull eccho to their silver Trumpets Secondly grant this Jewish strictnesse yet that was but some piece of those Ceremonies which now like our old Almanacks are super-annuated and growne out of date and were dead and buried with Christs body but with this difference never to arise again to chaine and fetter our Consciences as formerly they did I have no purpose to follow all those questions which here might be moved either of the exchange of the lewish Sabbath for the Christian of the last day of the week for the first or of the Name whether we should call it Sabbath or Lords day Lords day I conceive to be more proper and Criticall and yet Sabbath every jot as good as Priest or Altar which of late went for currant English No more yet concerning the Morality of our Christian Sabbath what footing it hath in the fourth Commandement Onely give me leave to bewaile the hard hap that Gods day hath met with to be in worse condition than mans honour or profit Episcopacy or Tithes which have had two legges to stand upon Ius Divinum and Ius Humanum too Divine and Humane authority and Gods own day to leane wholly upon a broken Crutch * The Observation of the Lords day is simply of Eclesiasticall Order Primrose in Preface to the Treat of the Sabbath Jus Ecclesiasticum and to continue no longer but durante bene placito so long as the Church shall be pleased to have it ●o Many other Quaeries would here be resolved but that you may finde them full stated in those learned Treatises Mr. F. Rous his Cathol Charity kept back of whose labours M. Bolton in Ser. 1 Cor. 2 26. had a better opinion Discourse of the Institut Dignity ●nd ●f the Lords day which of late have been exposed to publike view and might have beene much sooner as well as the labours of other Worthies but that the world was so much troubled with sore Eyes that it could not endure to look upon such glorious lights But if there are any who cannot find the mind and leisure to peruse those larger Treatises let them consult with that short but accurate Discourse of the learned Dr. Hake wels upon this subject there he shal have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much in few words and I will say no more of it but this The Image of Caesar may be as lively drawne out in a small piece of Coyne and sometimes with more Art as in a larger Table Is the prophanation of Gods Sabboth such a grievous sin Oh then let this strike terrour into the hearts of all those that profane the Lords Day God is a jealous God jealous of his owne honour and his owne Worship he will ease himselfe of his adversaries 1 Isah 24. and be avenged of his enemies even all those that shall pollute his Sabboths he that did but gather sticks on the Sabboth day 15. Num. 35

made an end of his Sermon the Jewes made an end of him too and stoned him to death 7. Act. 57 58. I can accuse none for casting of Stones yet some there were which could not hold from shooting out of * 64 Psal 3. Mr Ferdin Nicols preaching the Anniversary Serm. of the Cities deliverance from the Rebells 6. Aug. Arrows even bitter words Tincta Lycābaeo spicula felle But I have bin the lesse discouraged because it was the same reward which a Reverend and worthy Divine had for his pains in that verie place but the day before If others could have ruled their tongues I had at this time mastred my pen which must now stand me in some stead to free me from the grosse mistakings of some and the envious glosses of others both which are able to betray the most innocent passages yea even Scripture it selfe to scandall and exception Reader If thou wert a hearer of this Sermon and thoughtest amisse of it then take the paynes to peruse it now perhaps thy sight may confute thy hearing And thine eyes prove better Judges than thine eares But if thou hast beene a Censurer at second hand and upon tradition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Aristoph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Chremylus told Blepsidemus Thou hast done me the more wrong to passe a blindfold Sentence upon me But if hearing or reading will neither change thy heart nor stop thy mouth I shall resolve with Hezekiah's servants who when the King of Assyria had sent Rabshakeh 36 Isaiah 〈◊〉 11. one of his most desperate Cavaliers to rayle and threaten they kept silence and answered him not a word I have now delivered over this discourse to the Presse with no other cloaths about it than it had at its first birth in the Pulpit should I have offered to new-dresse it some perhaps would have taken it for a changeling The thought of this made me forbeare the enlargement of it with those proofes and reasons which at the deliverie of it I was forced by straitnesse of time to keep in and omit I was willing to say something of each poynt being all of them suitable for the occasion and seeing the Text was so pregnant and teeming with such needfull Truths I had not the heart to smother or stifle any of them Read them with the same mind that they were spoken and thou shalt endeare me to be Thine and the Churches Servant THO. TRESCOT The Zealous Magistrate Set forth in an Assize Sermon Preached at St. Peters in Exeter the 7 th August 1642. NEHEMIAH 13. Ver. 17. Then I contended with the Nobles of Iudah and said unto them What evill thing is this that yee doe and prophane the Sabboth day YOV had at the last Assizes By Master Geo. Trevilian out of 1● Acts v. 17. the picture of a carelesse Iudge drawne out before you Judge Gallio by Name one that seemed somewhat forward for matters of Nisi prius for meum tunm between Plaintiffe and Defendant but for matter of Religiou a bare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ver. 15. as hee prophanely stiles it his Lordship would not touch with that I have now presented you with one of another spirit one who besides all his care and cost for building againe the walls of Ierusalem makes it his Master worke of all to re-establish the worship and service of God And to effect this the better First he takes order that the Church-mens livings the Levites dues that had a long time beene embezelled and detained should be restored to the right owners verse 10 11 12. of this Chapter and falls a chiding with the Magistrates for suffering this horrible Sacriledge to be committed Secondly hee takes order for the better sanctifying of Gods Day that it may be no more prophaned by Carriers and Fish-mongers and Pedlers and such like Hucksters verse 15 16. And here in the words of my Text he fals a chiding the second time when he saw the Nobles and Rulers so wicked and irreligious to suffer such abhominable prophanation of the Sabbath day Then I contended with the Nobles of Iudah and said unto them c. The words are a lively Character of a Zealous Magistrate and wee might note in them these particulars First 1 Nehem v. 11. quis who this good Magistrate is and that is Nehemiah and he a Conrtier too Secondly quid what hee did he contended Thirdly quibus with whom with the Nobles of Iudah Fourthly quomodo in what manner he layes sin to their charge Fifthly quamobrem wherefore for suffering the Sabbath day to be prophaned But I shall baulke this Method at present and from the words without fetching bloud from the Text shall draw out six speciall observations to be the subject of my ensuing discourse the first shall be this Obser 1 The greatest men for place and authority are not alwayes the best men This is plaine by the Nobles of Iudah with whom Nehemiah here finds such foule fault Obser 2 The second this Great men may not be let alone in their sinnes but may nay must be reproved for them Nehemiah's chiding here is warrant enough for our reproving Obser 3 The third this 'T is very sit and convenient for one Magistrate to mind another of his place and duty As Nehemiah did his Peeres and fellow Magistrates Obser 4 The fourth this The sins of the people will be put upon the Magistrates score if they do not endevour to suppret them you may easily presume that these Magistrates for such were the Nobles here Gen. B. and therefore one Translation calls them Rulers were none of those Merchants and Hucksters themselves for they were Pedlers come from Tyre verse 16. and yet sayes Nehemiah Why doe yee this evill Yee Obser 5 The fifth this The prophanation of the Sabbath is a great and grievous sinne Why doe yee this Evill and prophane c. Obser 6 The sixth and last this The remedy of this prophanation must be a principall part of the Magistrates care and duty As may be easily collected by Nehemiah's blaming these Rulers here for their remissenesse in this particular Thus you see what a great deale of matter is couched in a few words It is with this Text as it is with Gold Take but a five shillings piece and it will easily bee beaten out into many leaves This golden Text you see without much hammering is enlarged into many observations so many that the time and your patience will not allow me a thorow handling of all and therefore I must doe as those who describe large Countries in small Maps they make but a spot for a City and a dash for a River give you but some briefe Animadversions on these particulars which might well deserve some longer Commentarie and I begin with the first in order namely this Obser 1 The greatest men for place and authority are not alwayes the best men The Prophet Jeremie shall make my words good in his