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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44569	A sermon preached at the parish-church of St. Mary Saviour's in Southwark, at the Lent-assizes, Feb. 28, 1671 before the honourable Sir Thomas Twisden, and Sir William Morton, His Majesties judges of assize, and at the request of Ellis Crisp, Esq., high sheriff of the county of Surrey / by Thomas Horton, D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1672 (1672)	Wing H2881; ESTC R43265	18,419	40

is that which is very needful and desirable in all other professions Employments besides For God is not onely to be with them remotely by a common and general Preparation but also to be with them immediately by a particular concurrence Thus for instance a Preacher he does not onely need a qualification in general for the work of the Ministry but also God's assistance in every particular Sermon Nor a Souldier does not need onely to be train'd up to the War in general but to have assistance in every Battell Nor a Physician to have Skill at large and in the habit but to have assistance as to such a particular Patient and to such a particular Disease And as is said of our blessed Saviour To have Power present with him to Heal. And so for Judges and the Distributers of Justice not only to be able men in the Law Affairs of Judicature consider'd at large but also to be assisted by God in such particular Causes and in such particular Cases and in such particular Difficulties which are at any time brought before them And this as I conceive is included also in his being with them and from God in the mouth of Jehoshaphat intimated and declared unto them That which is here rendred In the Judgment is in the Text Bidvar Mishphat which according to a different signification of the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath a double sense with it This word it signifies both Res and Verbum And each of them very pertinent to the purpose in hand God promising assistance to these Judges in each particular First He is with you in re Judicii that is in the matter of the Judgment as the Margin expresses it He is with you to inable you to judge aright and to discern of the Cause and business it self which is offer'd and presented to you Secondly He is with you in verbo judicii that is he is with you in the Sentence and Verdict which is given by you and which comes from you As in each of these you do need his assistance so in each of these you have the promise of his assistance made over to you upon your dependence upon him for it He is with you so as to assist you and to inable you That 's the Second Thirdly He is with you to defend you not only to stand among you but also to stand by you and to stand to you This is that which is to be supposed and taken for granted that those who are in any kind hinderers and restrainers of Sin they shall be sure to have Enemies Ministers that reprove and condemn it Magistrates that censure and punish it And therefore accordingly will they need such as may be Abettors to them This is that which God himself does undertake here for these Judges That he will thus be with them and that according to a twofold injury whereunto they are exposed from those who are Enemies to them The one is of Reproach and Ignominy the strife of Tongues The other is of Assault and Mischief the Hand of Violence with respect had to each of these will God be with them to defend them He will defend their Names to justifie them and he will defend their Persons to protect them and to keep them from evil First Their Names to justice them where they are careful to discharge their Consciences and to do that in good earnest which is their Duty they shall be sure to have Him with them thus so as to clear them and to take off those Scandals which are past upon them While men seek to please men and to curry favour with them God does many times in just Judgment give them up to the censures of men and make them more odious and abominable But while they are careful to discharge their Duty he does from thence clear their Innocency Secondly Their Persons to protect them there are sometimes desperate People in the world who by their insolency and violent attempts would fright those who are the Dispensers of Justice from that which is to be done by them but God himself takes care of them and watches over them Those who are publick Magistrates they are under a more special Protection and those Angels which are charged with others do take more special charge of them then of any others besides God is with them to defend and preserve them on every side to hide them in the secret of his presence from the pride of man and to keep them secretly in a Pavilion from the strife of Tongues Psal 31.20 Thirdly and Lastly He is with you to bless you and to reward you for that good which is at any time done by you There 's no man that does any thing for God that shall be a looser by him but shall have it abundantly recompenc'd to him Those that are with Him he will be sure to be with them and those that Honour Him He will Honour Those that are for him to Serve him he will be for them to Crown them and to bestow a full Reward upom them Ye judge not for Man but for the Lord and ye receive not from Man but from the Lord as that which is chiefly considerable What ever good any man doth the same shall he receive from the Lord whether he be Bond or Free Eph. 6.8 To be sure he shall not lose his Reward nor his Labour be in vain And therefore that which is here exprest by Gods being with you some Translations render it Quod in vos redundabit that is which shall at last turn to your own account And thus have we seen how many wayes God is said to be with those who are his Servants in such businesses as these are To observe them to assist them to defend them and to bestow a blessing upon them And accordingly it shews how far it is both to be pursued and also acknowledged by such kind of persons not onely to partake of Gods common and essential presence in regard whereof he is said to be with all his Creatures but also to partake of Gods special and gracious presence in regard whereof he is said to be with those who are his Servants and Children The ground and foundation of this is Immanuel who is God with us First With us in our nature which is reconciled to God in Christ who hath taken it upon himself and then with us in our Persons who are in Covenant with God through Christ upon compliance with Evangelical Conditions And then also last of all with us in our Services and Performances as coming from such Persons And so now I have done with the first general part of the Text which is the Truth declared And that consisting of two Branches First The Proposition Ye judge not for Man but for the Lord. And secondly The Amplification who is with you in the Judgment And this in the nature of the Doctrine The Second is the Caution inferr'd upon the Supposition and Declaration