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sense_n	body_n	motion_n	nerve_n	1,652	5	10.7938	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73282	Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity.	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.	1631 (1631)	STC 23505; ESTC S123301	19,735	38

〈◊〉 to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a naturall to bee a spirituall man transformes him from a meere man to be a pure Saint The braine is the beginning of animall faculties chiefe commander of the body sits in the highest roome as in her royall pallace compassed about with the Cranium the Pericranium and the two Meninges which are like strong Castles and Countermures against forraigne invasion it hath the five externall senses as intelligencers to give notice what is done abroad the cōmon sense he fantasy the understandings privy counsellors the memory as register book of records yet the brain is not idle but busied in tempering the spirits received from the heart sending them by nerves into the old body and thereby giving sense and motion to each part And this braine is the fit embleme of a good Magistrate who as he hath forts and guards and Counsellours and records so must he know that he hath them not for his owne use but for the benefit of the body Politique and therefore must bestirre himselfe in tempering the spirits received from the heart I meane in making use of spirituall counsells received from the Minister of the Gospell Now as the body Naturall is in best estate when all these three are well affected but very ill at ease if there be a distemper or dyscracie in any of them so in the body Politique if the Physitian the Divine and the Magistrate be faithfull in their places and follow the rule of their bookes there would be no complaining in our streetes But if the Physitian instead of wholesome Physicke minister nothing but hemlocke the Divine in stead of wholesome Doctrine broach nothing but heresie and curiosity the Magistrate turne justice into wormewood then is the head sicke and the heart heavie and in the Symptomes of death upon the whole body once more Of all parts in the body Naturall the braine is most subject unto diseases and of all parts in the body Politique the Magistrate most obnoxious to slips and falls First because he hath many provocations which others want Secondly he wants a benefit which others have he is not freely reproved as others are Thirdly because of those Cubiculares Consiliarij as Lypsius calleth them Politic. cap. 9. lib. 3. Tineae et Sorices Palatij these rattes and mothes of the Court that feede upon other mens wants live by other mens losses and as the common souldier in Tacitus in Pompeium Miseriâ nostrâ magnus es grow great by others mens miseries who sell their Masters favours as Zoticus in Lampridius solde the faire promises of Heliogabolus and are alwayes ready for their owne advantage to applaud their Masters worst and basest actions Hence is it that Iethro gives this good direction to Moses the Iudges and Magistrates which thou doest appoint must be men of courage fearing God dealing truly hating covetousnesse Which words have in them 1. A Quis 2. A Quos 3. A Quibus The Quis is Moses Sed consulto Domino and gives this conclusion that the ordination of Iudges and Magistrates is of God In the beginning of time the Lord prescribed to the heavens their courses and motions and they observe them to the Elements he set bounds and limits and they keepe them the bees he gave a King saith Elian de hist. animal lib. 1. cap. 11. and they obey him to man hee gave lawes and hee transgressed them wrote them in his heart and man blotted them out Againe whensoever the Heathen made lawes they were wont to father them upon some of their gods thereby to purchase credit and reverence When Licurgus made lawes for the Lacedemonians he fathered them upon Apollo Minos for the Cretians he fathered them upon Iupiter Solon and Draco For the Athenians they fathered them upon the Goddesse Minerva as Diodorus Siculus reports of them When Numa made lawes for the Romans he fathered them upon the Goddesse Egraecia as Plut. in the life of Numa Pompilius reports When Anacharsis the Scythian Philosopher made lawes for the Scythians hee fathered them upon Zamolxis as Vives upon Aug. and Herodotus in his Melpomene have related but all this could not refraine wilfull man from exorbitancy and manifest riot against God It is true of him which the olde Lacedemonians said of the olde Athenians they knew what was to be done but did it not and which the Cimickin Laertius objected to the Philosophers of Greece they had good lawes but practised them not they made no more account of lawes than Remus in Livie dec 1. lib. 1. of bestriding the walls which Romulus had built hee stood in no more awe than the frogges in the fable of leaping over the jawes of the lion when he was couchant and fast asleepe and therefore did God appoint the Magistrate to put life into this dead letter and made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aristotle calls him Ethi lib. 5. cap. 4. a living law that these two the Law and the Magistrate the one as a sword the other as a souldier to draw it the one as a soveraigne medicine the other as a Physitian to apply it the one as a pibble gathered out of the streame the other as a skilfull David to sling it might unite the forces to the utter extirpation of idolatry the protection of justice the supporting of sound religion the disparaging of sinne and this is the authority they have from God In which point wee must with Tully distinguish the power it selfe Secondly the meanes of attaining Thirdly the manner of execution The first is allwayes of God but not the second nor the third Potestatem Deus distribuit God gives the power Elationem potentiae malitiam venit saith Gregor as he is quoted by the ordinary glosse If the Magistrate be good he is set there for the good of the people if wicked he is set there for the sinne of the people Saul is appointed by God as well as David Nero as well as Iosiah and Ashur as well as Moses or Ioshua But the one is stirred up to be the Saviour of the people as Ehud was Iud. 3.15 the other as the rod of his wrath as Ashur was Esa 49.23 Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and Queenes thy nurses Nor from Christ who commands to giue unto Cesar that which is due unto him Mat. 22.21 nor from Peter who bids honour the King 1. Pet. 2 27. nor from Paul who bids pray for Kings and Magistrates 1. Tim. 2 2. nor from Moses who commands not to raile upon the Iudge nor speake evill of the ruler of the people Ex. 22.28 It is true of them which God said to Samuell concerning the Iewes when they disliked their present government they have not cast away thee but they have cast away mee that I should not rule over them 1. Sam. 8.7 The other is the Papist who denies not temporall authority of our Kings and Iudges yet tyes one of the Magistrates hands lessens his authority and limits him