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A93723	The magistrates dignity and duty. Being a sermon preached on Octob. 30. 1653. at Pauls Church before the Right Honourable, Thomas Viner, Lord Major, and the aldermen of the city of London. Being the first sermon after his entrance into his majoralty. By William Spurstowe, D.D. minister of Gods Word at Hackney neere London.	Spurstowe, William, 1605?-1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing S5095; Thomason E727_3; ESTC R203652	18,023	51

this our Israel and shew your selves no other then an Assembly of Gods by executing judgement and working righteousnesse which are the great workes by which God is known Psal 9. 16. Without you what are the Laws but leges cadaverosoe livelesse and unactive carcasses as instruments without the touch of a skilfull hand that make no melody as Vines that creep along upon the ground and become unfruitfull for want of support What are they but as the Letter without the Spirit which profiteth not It is you alone that must make them to live to beare fruit and to be usefull for the good of this great City and those over whom you rule I confesse indeed that the times into which you are cast are full of difficulty and such of which we may say as Livie sometime did of the Roman State Nec remedia possumus ferre nec vitia that we can neither beare our medicines nor yet our maladies we groan under the one and yet are impatient of the other But yet however let me beseech you to doe what in you lies to keep Laws Liberties Religion it selfe from an irrecoverable shipwrack and if you perish in your work yet will you live in your name In naufragio laudandus est Rector quem mare obruit clavum tenentem That Pilot dies nobly who saith Seneca perisheth in the storm with the Helme in his hand Endeavour to make good those titles of eminency with which God hath honoured you above others and to be as much above them in goodnesse as you are above them in greatnesse You are Mountaines Micah 6. 2. O then be like the mountaines of Myrrhe and Frankincense which send forth a sweet smell Cant. 4. 6. and not like those of Mizpah and Tabor upon which snares and nets are spread Hosea 5. 1. You are Healers Isai 3. 7. be then as compassionate Chirurgeons that mind more the welfare of their Patient then their profit You are Leaders Isai 9. 16. be then neither blind Guides nor false Guides to seduce into the paths of errour or to lead into the pit of destruction You are Nursing-fathers Isai 49. 23. be not then Egyptian task-masters that made Israel to sigh bitterly under their cruell bondage In one word you are Gods which is a title paramount a name that excels every other name O therefore let not this pious name be joyned to a godlesse life As ye are gods so be like God and that in these particulars First be like him in holinesse Aristotle in ranking the morall vertues gives the precedency unto Magnanimity but the Scripture in setting forth the Charasters of a Magistrate puts holinesse as the first Exod. 18. 21. as being a Robe both of the greatest beauty necessity Without holinesse you may be Judges on Earth but you can never be without it Judges in Heaven 1 Cor. 6. 2. And what comfort can this be to any to sit here upon the bench of Judicature and hereafter to stand trembling at Gods barre to be here a Judge for a few daies and afterwards to be an eternall prisoner to weare here a Chain of gold as an ornament and hereafter to be bound with the chaines of darknesse for ever O therefore if you would not have your glory and honour to expire in so shamefull a period let holinesse shine forth both in your persons and office First be holy in your persons and families Let not your dwellings be stained with open prophanenesse in those that are your followers and filled many times with more disorder then Tavernes themselves having more oathes sworn in them in one day then there are prayers made in a whole yeer having plenty of healths drunk in bowls of Wine but no sweet odours offered to God in Golden vials which are Sacrifices more meet for Christians Rev. 5. 8. These and such like things they are a reproach to any family where they be found but much more to the family of a Magistrate and make their sinnes to be of a deeper die then their Scarlet with which they are cloathed Secondly exercise holinesse in your office by preferring the dignity and esteem of those things upon which God hath set an eminent mark and character of sanctity that they may have that observance and reverence which is due unto them And here give me leave to instance in three particulars First be carefull that the holy name of God be not polluted by wicked miscreants and Atheisticall Russians that scorn to use it in prayer and yet spare not to rend and teare it by hellish and fiery execrations and to set it as a seale to ratifie the worst of lyes and falshoods Late Statutes have raised the penalty of swearing but yet oathes are as cheap as ever And from whence comes all this but from the negligence and lukewarmnesse of Magistrates that have no zeale to stop the growth of so foule and spreading a sinne Secondly doe you that are called Gods improve your power and Authority for the solemne sanctification of Gods day the beauty and lustre of which hath of late been more impaired then ever both by corrupt opinions and practises It was wont to be Englands glory that it did excell other Nations in a religious observance of the Lords day but now it is to be feared that the open contempt and neglect of this day will become both its shame and ruine being for Apostacy from what it hath professed branded by the world and severely punished by God himselfe Thirdly shew forth a holy zeale in defending and preserving the life of Religion and the light of the Gospel both which are in greater jeopardy to be destroyed then ever they were since their first plantation amongst us For when had Antichrist greater hopes of bringing us back again into Babylon then at present Are not all lawes laid asleep which were as so many bridles in the jawes of Popish Emissaries who now like the wicked walk up and down on every side Have we now any Shibboleth that may distinguish a Gileadite from an Ephramite a Protestant from a Recusant Are not all divisions and differences both spread and fomented by their artifices that they may thereby scandalize our Religion and ensnare such as are weak in the faith by pleading the unity of their Church though it hath more rents and patches in it then a beggars coat Is not the vigilancy of the Locusts that are amongst us greater then ever and the spirit of slumber which is fallen upon us deeper then ever Who is it that observes how many of our green and pleasant things are eaten up by them and how few are left Surely unlesse by your wisdome and courage some means be thought upon and set on foot that may like a strong West wind take away these vermine and cast them into their Tyber from whence they came I may truly say there is but a step between Ruine and this ancient City Secondly be ye who are Gods like God in the exercise of