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A14732	Balme from Gilead to recouer conscience In a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, Octob. 20. 1616. By Samuel Ward, Bach. of Diuinitie, and preacher of Ipswich.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1618 (1618)	STC 25036; ESTC S119469	52,024	176

The legs and feet of iron and clay or mire Indeed the very mire dirt of the Countrey the Bayliffs Stewards of small liberties Bum-Bayliffs laylours c. if Beelzebub wanted officers he needed no worse then some of these what misteries haue they to vex the poore Countrey-men with false arrests and by vertue of that Statute tying euery Free holder of forty shillings per annum to attend the Assises but I list not to stirr this sediment of the countrey too vnsauoury to be taken vp in a sermon Oh that some Iehosophet would 〈◊〉 reforme or that you Iudges in th●se your dayes of visitations wold redresse some part of these greeuances and reduce all to this Ideae of lethro's which indeede would make an Heauen vpon earth amongst vs. An Vtopia I feare some will say too good to be true obiecting to me as to Cat● that he not discerning the times hee liued in looked for Plato's Common-wealth in the dreggs of Romulus And so that these Magistrates thus limbed ou● might be found in Moses golden age of the world but not in these lees of time To which I answere that if Iethr● were now to giue aduice hee would double the force of it If Dauids r●a●son bee true it is now high time for God to worke for men haue destroyed his Law Was there euer more 〈◊〉 of courage then now when sin 〈◊〉 audacious of truth when 〈◊〉 of religion when hypocrisie i●iquity of contentation when the 〈◊〉 of the world so abounds The onely way to repayre these ruines of the dying world is to renew gouernmēt to the primitiue beauty of it the f●ce whereof I haue now shewed in this excellent Mirrour or Looking-glasse so you goe no● away and forget both the comlinesse and sports it hath shewed you but wash and bee cleane and such as it would haue you to bee There being nothing else remaining ●o your perfection the peace of the Common-wealth but this one Item following in my text requiring assiduity and diligence Let ●hem iudge the people at al times c A most needefull 〈…〉 in times that loue ease and priuate employments with neglect of publique Sitting in the gate is perpetually needefull Diligence in hearing and ending ca●ses would preuent that greeuance of delayes which occasioned Iethro his discourse How doe you thinke it would haue affected him to haue seen six or seuen I haue heard sixteene sums set vpon one suit These our English delayes being as Marnixius complayned worse then the Spanish strapadoes And it is fit though publique and generall courts haue their termes yet 〈◊〉 particular audience of petty gree●ances should haue no vacation Many are the suits and controuersies many are the criminall offences that neede continuall inspection Let him therefore that hath an office attend to his office with cheerefulnesse hee that hath no leisure to heare his neighbours causes Let him as the woman said to Philip haue no leisure to beare office Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently withholdeth his hands there from You Gentle-men complaine often of Idoll shepheards dumb dogs c. in the Ministery But how many such in ●he Magistracy Som in commission that neuer sit on the Bench but for fashion Constables that are but cyphers in their place Forsooth they will be no pragmatical fellowes no busiebodies to trouble the Countrey Is there no mean between busi-bodies and tell-clockes between factotum and fay't neant From this neglect comes that wrong and iniury to the Assises that such petty causes tribling actions and complaints trouble these graue and reuerend personages which a meane Yeo man were Iudge fit enough to end in a chaire at home when the whole Shire must be troubled to heare and iudge of a curtesie made out of the path or a blow giuen vpon the shoulder vpon occasion of a wager or such like bawble-trespasses which I shame to mention And to punish euery petty larceny euery small ryo● or disorder which lighter controuersies and faults if perticular Office●s wold comprimize redresse in their Spheares these greater Orbs should not be troubled with them Then indeed would that follow which Iethro assures Moses of in the last part of my Text ver 23 If thou do this thing God so commanding thee then shalt thou thy people endure al this people shal go quietly to their place An admirable emolument of Magistracy sufficient reward of all the paines of it that they and the people may goe home in peace sit vnder their vines and fig-trees follow their callings and that which is the cheefe Iewell of all may lead their liues in al godlines and honesty That the gold blew purple silke might shine and glister within the Tabernacle the out side was couered with red skins and goats haire such a shelter is Magistracy to Gods Church and Religion Nebuchadnezzar was a great tree euery particular Magistrate a little one vnder whose boughs people build sing bring vp their young ones in religious nurture euen foster fathers ●s Ioseph in Aegypt Such were the rich religious ●imes vnder Dauid Salomon vnder such as are described Esa. 32. which whole chapter is worth the reading as a iust Commētary vpon this poynt setting foorth the felicity quietnesse plenty vertue and piety of iust gouernours as are hiding places from the winde and refuges from the tempest riuers of waters to dry places and as raine to the new mowen grasse c. Such also were the times enioyed by the Church vnder Constantine deciphered as I take it Reu●la 8. when there was silence in the heauen about halfe an houre the golden vialls filled with sweet odors the prayers of the Saints ascending as a pillar of smoke vp to heauen Of these times see Panegyricall Sermōs and Encomiasticall discourses storied of old and one of them at large recorded by Eusebius which whole booke is nothing but an Elogium of those peaceable dayes wherin the Church was edified multiplied The Common-wealth being to the Church as the Elme to the Vine or as the garden to the Bees the flourishing of the one the thriuing of the other and the disturbance of the one the disquiet of the other How can men either attend Gods seruice or their owne worke when they are molested at home with drunkards barretors quarrelous persons when hurried vp to London with suits As I haue knowne a Constable molested with fiue or six actions for an act o●●●stice in punishing vice according to his office With what bitternesse of spirit do men groāe vnder delayed and peruerted Iustice when it is turned into Hemlocke and turnes them out of their wits some of them swouning at the sight of their orders as I haue heard from credible eye-witnesses others ready to destroy themselues their aduersaries yea sometime their Iudges Oh the benefit of good Magistrats It is an vnknowne good as the Country-man in an ancient