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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29123	A sermon preached at the minster in Yorke at the assizes there holden, the thirtieth day of March, 1663 / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4138; ESTC R34267	29,067	58

and Authority in them that wear them and adde in the estimation of the people glory and honour to those that are clothed with them And state and magnificence to the actions that are done in them Fourthly They are documents to them that wear them and put them in mind what they are and what they have to do and admonish them to carry in them that state and gravity that becomes them and so to demeane themselves that they may be a greater honour to their Robes then their Robes are to them Upon all these accounts how unreasonable are the exceptions of vain and sordid men against them who look upon them with an envious and an evill eye and charge them with vanity and ostentation and such as might well be spared surely had these men been in Moses's time they would have control'd the wisedome of God in appointing such rich Garments to be made for Aaron with an ad quid haec perditio what needs this wast whereto is all this cost they would have told us that God is a spirit and that Aaron should have worshipped him in spirit and in truth and if he did so it were all one whether he did Minister in a pair of linnen or of letherne Breeches an Ephod or a Miller's jacket and so I leave this first part of the Character and come to the second His inclination to mercy compassion where he found fit objects for it in that he was Eyes to the blind feet to the lame and to the poor a Father Under these three sorts of people are comprehended all such poor impotent helplesse people of what sort or kind soever which stand in need of our help and relief And if I take the words litterally and so plead the cause of such I shall therein do the Text no wrong for how do the streets swarme with such how are the high-wayes and hedges lin'd with them besides how many Hospitalls and Almes-houses are there full of such founded by the piety and charity of mercifull men for their releif yet what by the cruelty and covetuousness of some what by the negligence and unfaithfulnesse of others intrusted for them what through the inabilty of those that are in them to helpe themselves shamefully wronged and defrauded and the meanes belonging to them in a second or third generation well nigh quite extinguished now in such cases for the Magistrate to looke upon them with a mercifull eye and provide for their releife by reviving wholesome Lawes made for that purpose by setting on foot the Commissions for pious and charitable uses and taking care to the due execution of them is certainly a work not only of Justice but of mercy too well worthy the care of a worthy Magistrate by which he shall become as Job in the text Eyes to the Blind feet to the lame and to the poor a father But Job had a farther meaning in this Expression then this he speakes Metaphorically by the blind doth Job understand the ignorant man by the lame the impotent man and by the poor the indigent man and they all equally stand in need of help The blind man hath leggs good enough to walk with but he wants eyes to see his way and so he must necessarily fall into one of these two mischiefs or both either to erre out of the way or to stumble and fall in it the lame man hath eyes good enough to see his way but he wants leggs to go in it and so is in as ill case as the other the poor man may have both his eyes and his limbs and yet being poor and wanting a purse to carry on his businesse he is in as ill a condition as any of the other the worthy Magistrate is a releif to them all and supplies them with those helps that are most suitable to their several necessities Ignorantem dirigendo impotentem supportando indigentem sublevando by directing the ignorant supporting the impotent and relieving the indigent and thus make good the Character here in the Text and becomes Eyes to the blind feet to the lame and to the poor a father The ignorant man hath a good Cause but wants skill to mannage it wants eyes to spy out all those niceties which in his proceedings and carrying of it on might destroy it and indeed he had need of good eyes indeed that can spy out all the windings and turnings the niceties quirks quillets quidities that a good Cause may be subiect to and yet ther 's not the least of these suppose the misdateing a Declaration mistaking a Name or mis-spelling of it vitium scriptoris or some such slight matter but it shall be pleaded to the destruction of the whole businesse and the poor Clyent shall be forc't either to loose his Cause or to put his Cap to daying as we use to say or to fetch it about again and again upon some such other light and slight Cause till he become weary of his Suite and his life too and chuse rather to sit down and to loose all then to hazard the recovery of it by a remedy worse then the disease now in such a case for a Magistrate to lend an eye to the blind is certainly on Act not only of Justice but of Mercy too and of pure charity And here by the way let me propose it to you nimble-Pleaders as a case of conscience whether in such a case when you see the Cause clearly against you truth and equity on the other party for the love of a Fee or to advantage a Clyent you may lawfully undertake in it and set your witts upon the tenters to find out some such slight errors or mistakes to overthrow it and to use your cunnings against your conscience to the perverting of judgment And so I passe from the blind to the lame another sort of impotent People here quartered in the next room of this Spittle in the Text I was eyes to the blind and limbs to the lame The former sort of impotent people we spake of wanted eyes to see these want limbes to walke and so are in as ill a case as they for though they see their way never so well yet if they want leggs and limbs to goe there may they sit still and perish and without helpe must needs do so look what the want of leggs is to an impotent man for walking such is the want of means to any man to carry on his businesse in any undertaking for instance In the military way Rabshakeh says truly 2. Kings 18.20 Wisedome and Counsell are for the warre they are the eyes but let those be never so good to contrive yet if they want men munition and moneys they are the leggs or sinewes of warre as we call them they will make but slow marches or Progresse in their undertakings even such as a man would do in a journey travelling without leggs or with leggs without sinewes Hāniball in his warr against the Romans found it so and for this

and piety were but hypocrisie and certainly he was all this while but a wicked man and now God had found him out and punish't him for it nay to lay his accusation the more close and home they fall to instances and charge him with particulars clean contrary to these vertues that here he mentions Thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought and stripped the naked of their cloathing thou hast not given water to the weary to drink and thou hast witholden bread from the hungry Job 22.6 7. In such a case of calumny can any man blame the good man if he do insist more then ordinarily in his just vindication by putting in his just defence against their unjust allegations for the clearing of his uprightnesse innocency and integrity as in the Text Where by the way let us take up this Observation Obser That there 's not the wisest the justest nor the uprightest Magistrate that can with all his integrity justice or sincerity free himselfe from the calumnies and obloquies of wicked and unreasonable men Was there ever a juster Magistrate then Moses was that governed the people by immediate direction from God himselfe yet how often do we hear that unthankfull people murmuring against him and against Aaron many times were ready to stone them what do we thinke of Solomon the wisest of the sonns of men Jedidiah the beloved of the Lord who had the priviledge to ask at the hand of God what he would and had what he ask't a spirit of wisedome and understanding that he might wisely go in and out before the people 1 Kings 3.5 yet what grumblings and murmurings of the people were there under his governement in what a mutinous manner doe they come to Rehoboam the young King with their seditious petition 1 Kings 12.4 Make our yoke easier and our burthen lighter thy Father made our yoke grievous and our burthen heavy belike the had charged them with some Carts and Carriages to fetch home some of the materialls that were for the building of the Temple or required some Contribution toward the charge of that great work and oh what a grievance this was make thou our yoke easier and burthen lighter So when Kings and Princes and great Magistrates have done their best and laid out themselves with their utmost endeavours for the good of their people and made it their very study and their businesse to preserve their peace and to guide them with a faithfull and a true heart and to rule them prudently with all their power This is the thanks they have from unworthy people to be clamour'd upon to be charged with Tyrany oppression and cruelty if any thing be amisse in a whole Kingdome if all parties be not pleased which is impossible presently they fall upon the Rulers and Governours not sparing the highest when God knowes the cause of those distempers are in themselves 2 Sam 24.1 we read that God was angry with Israell and he moved David to number the people here was a great judgement in the Land it swept away in three dayes threescore and tenne thousand of the Subjects marke how this plague took its rise it was in the people God was angry with Israell and he moved David to muster the people his anger was not against David but against Israell 't was the cold of the feet that strucke up to the head and caused that distemper But let not Kings nor Magistrates be discouraged in the execution of their Offices and performance of the duties of their High-calling for all this let them not thinke the worse of themselves for the obloquies of those mutinous tongues that speake evill of them but let them remember they are under the care of him that is able to deliver them from the strivings of the people and under the protection of that mighty power which is able to still the raging of the Sea and the madnesse of the people as raging as it is when they set a madding and will subdue the people that is under them Psal No man could have greater discouragements and affronts then this holy Ruler had yet the more they opposed or resisted the greater courage did he take unto himselfe to suppresse their insolencies for which purpose He put on Justice and it clothed him and his judgement was as a Robe and a Diadem c. In which words we have a perfect Character of a worthy Magistrate a Prince a King any in high place and power to execute judgement and it consists of four Parts 1. His love to Justice with his zeal care and conscience duly to execute it in the 14 verse I put on Justice and it cloathed me and my Judgment was a Robe and as a Diadem upon me 2. His inclination to mercy compassion where he found stirr Objects for it in the 15 verse I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame and a father to the poor 3. His paines and patience his care and diligence in examining of the Causes that came before him for finding out of the truth that so he might give judgment in them without error in the later part of the 16 verse The cause which I knew not I searched out 4. His courage in executing justice and judgment upon offenders when he had by diligent search found them guilty though they were never so great or never so insolent never so mighty I brake the jaws of the wicked and I pluckt the preyout of his teeth First He pluckt the prey out of their teeth by causing them to make restitution and satisfaction for the wrong they had done And secondly he break their jaws that they should do so no more Of these something in the order proposed as the time and businesse of the day will permit And first of the first part of his character in his love and care and zeal to execute Justice and Judgment exprest in the words of the 14 verse I put on Justice and it cloathed me and my Judgement was as a Robe and as a Diadem upon me In which words are exprest two things concerning the Magistrate first his Office secondly his Honour his Office in these words I put on Justice and it clothed me his Honour in these words my Judgment was as a Robe and as a Diadem in the former we have his duty and in the latter his dignity the former is intimated to us by this expression of putting on Justice and being clothed with it a metaphor which the Scripture much delighteth in Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ Rom 13.14 Put on bowells of mercy Coloss 3. Put on the whole armour of God Ephes 6. so in the Text here I put on Justice and it clothed me intimating thereby that look what clothing is to the body that was Justice unto him Now we put on clothes for these three uses first to cover our nakednesse and so they are indumenta for a covering secondly to protect us from the injury of