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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09254	The charge of God and the King to iudges and magistrates, for execution of iustice. In a sermon preached before Sr Henry Hobart Knight and Baronet, Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas: and Sr Robert Haughton Knight, one of the iudges of the Kings Bench, at the Assises at Hartford. By William Pemberton B.D. and minister at high-Ongar in Essex.	Pemberton, William, d. 1622.	1619 (1619)	STC 19568; ESTC S103437	46,028	130

this regular and circular revolution all motion begins in God and ends in God for mans felicitie and Gods glory infinitely and eternally Great you see is your honour as great is your charge A double charge from God Deut. 17. v. 18 19 20. from King God chargeth the King God and King whose Ministers and sword-bearers you are haue charged you Rom. 13.4 Your office then of Magistracie as ours of Ministery is not so much nomen honoris as oneris Aug de Ciuit. Dei l. 19. c. 19. Your desire must therefore be not so much praeesse as prodesse to beare rule as to profit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc 21.25 to be benefactors for the good of men that is your end who are publique Patrons oracles of your Country Hauens and Refuges to poore distressed ones Your symbole must be that of Alphonsus Alphons Neapolitan Rex The Pelican with her own bill picking and drawing bloud out of her owne breast with this inscription Pro lege pro grege Magistra●us virio ostendit Arist ex Biante Herein will Magistracie shew your manhood Lastly where as these matters of iudgment are disposed and dispensed not by your selues alone but by many other inferior organs and instruments who need due inspection and daily information 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as interpreters of Law instruct them as Moderators of Iustice direct them as charged your selues of God and King to doe iustice lay great charge on them yea as armed with power coactiue by vertue thereof as far as shall be lawfull and needfull as Guardians of equitie vrge them to doe what God and King law and conscience equitie and honestie exact at their hands that this chaste Virgin Iustice be not by them deslowred Hesiod that conscience of crime in vnrighteous dealing may not inwardly Hieron epist. wound their consciences at home nor their name and familie outwardly besmeared with iust reproch and ignominie abroad But that good right be maintained good conscience discharged good name preserued that God may be honoured 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods people benefited the Common-wealth cherished the Church inlarged our communion with God and society with men may become most comfortable happy and blessed while iudgment and iustice are equally dispensed of all manner persons vnder God and King as from God by God and for God as is more largely declared in this insuing Treatise which being heretofore once vttered by me and now drawne into publique by effectuall perswasion of others I now make bold to present to your Honours and Worships because it concernes you all though for manner not so worthy as I well could wish your learned wisdomes view and approbation Well hoping that in your priuacie and retirednesse from your weighty imployments you will please to peruse it couering what faults and slips you espie therein with your robes of loue and Christian Charitie 1 Pet 4.8 not looking at my want of discharge of my dutie which I ingenuously acknowledge and sue for pardon thereof at the hands of God and you but at the better discharge of your owne whereto this my poore labour as a weake meane would further For so you stand charged of God and the King Take heede therefore what yee doe 2 Chron 19.6 for yee iudge not for man but for the Lord. And the Lord be with you in the iudgment Amen Your Honors and Worships in all dutie to be commanded William Pemberton The Charge of GOD and the KING DEVTER 1.16 17. 16. And I charged your Iudges at that time saying Heare the causes betweene your brethren and iudge righteously betweene euery man and his brother and the stranger that is with him 17. Yee shall not respect persons in iudgment but you shall heare the small aswell as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of man for the iudgment is Gods and the cause that is too hard for you bring it vnto me and I will heare it AL the counsels and works of God the most mighty Creator most wise disposer of all things doe proceede from the good pleasure of Gods will Ephes 1 12. which is the cause of all causes and tend to the glory of his name Voluntas Dei omnium quae sunt ipsa est causa Aug de●en contra Manich l. 1. c. 2. Prou 16.14 which is the end of all ends And that in the manifestation of his mercy in the gracious saluation and happines of some and of his iustice in the deserued condemnation and misery of others And this our naturall and temporary life which we liue on earth is in the counsell and decree of God a praeparation and degree to a better life And in the elect to omit the rest to a life spirituall and supernaturall begun on earth in this time of grace and continued in Heauen in that eternitie of glory This life well led in faith and obedience doth highly aduance vs to felicitie and happines This life ill led in infidelitie and sin doth deeply depresse vs into miserie and wretchednesse The entrance of Lawes Now that man on earth might liue well God did giue him a Rule to liue by This Rule is the Law of God the rule of piety the square of equitie first instamped in mans nature in his created innocencie Antequā scripta fuit in hominum legthus in mentibus vigebat Ambr●● lib. 4. de Abra hamo Patriare cap. 4. Eph 4.24 In libro aduersus Iudae●s For what was that Image of God in man consisting of righteousnesse holinesse and trueth but Lex primordialis a primordiall Law as Tertullian speakes exactly requiring and absolutely inabling the performance of duties of piety to God and of equitie to man both in habite and act and that in sinceritie and perfection of them both And what was the Morall Law proclaimed on Mount Sinah Exod. 20. after that man had defaced Gods image by transgressing his command but this primordiall Law renewed and repeated as an absolute and eternall rule and square of piety to God Exod. 31.18 and equitie to man which God with his owne finger did ingraue in two Tables of stone and gaue vnto Moses for the vse of his Church This Morall Law requires obseruation according to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or exact perfection thereof but it giues no abilitie to performe obedience It sheweth what man now ought to doe what once he could haue done but not what he now can do nor what it will inable him to do but accuseth and accurseth euery man as guilty of sinne for the least transgression of it Whereupon God in mercy to releeue mans misery to this law of works giuen in Sinah Exod. 20. did adde another Law as the Apostle stiles it the Law of Faith Rom. 3.27 Is●● 2.3 Mich. 4.2 giuen in Sion which promiseth life and blessednesse to all that beleeue in