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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45577	A charge given at the general quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Surrey holden at Dorking on Tuesday the 5th day of April 1692, and in the fourth year of Their Majesties reign / by Hugh Hare.	Hare, Hugh, 1668-1707.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Surrey)	1692 (1692)	Wing H760; ESTC R25410	29,639	42

modelled Combinations to oppress cheat and ruin the weaker and submitting part of Mankind Not but that the advantages of a Political Union are so Considerable that it may be doubted whether Tyranny it self though as execrable as that formerly practised by the Roman Nero and in these our Days revived with many Additions by the French Louis be not rather to be chosen than a wild and confused Anarchy This State exposes Men to the Frauds and Violence of all their Neighbours and the extravagant Caprices of the Mobile and the other subjects whole Nations to the mad Frolicks and brutal Passions of a slattered and abused Tyrant Both extremes are very Dreadfull and as much to be deprecated as a raging Pestilence or any other common Calamity While the mean between them from which they both so far deviate is a Copy well drawn from that Great and not to be parallelled Original of God's Government of the World whose onely end is to promote the happiness of his Creatures as the Peace Safety and Publick good of the People ought to be no less the Aim of all Rulers than it is the Reason why Government was at first Instituted How happy therefore and how much to be valued are the Constitutions and Laws of England whereby we are delivered from both Extremes We neither lie under the Terror of an Arbitrary Power nor are we cast loose to the Wildness of ungoverned Multitudes we neither groan under the Tyranny of a French Army nor the Madness of the Lawless Rabble Our Laws are Writ neither on Sand nor with Blood for they are neither easie to be Defaced nor cruel in their Execution but are known and establisht Rule whereby we are taught how to administer Justice and whereby as Mens Rights are limited so their Passions are restrained and the Publick Peace is settled on a secure Foundation Prerogative and Property which are so much abused as pretences for Oppression on the one Hand and Sedition on the other are by our Laws so well disposed and regulated that being twisted together in a mutual Defence they afford our Island a safer Protection than the Ocean that surrounds it and having crusht all the Domestick Enemies that secretly Project our Ruine strike a Terrour on those Foreigners that would Invade our Repose The Subject I am upon is so Copious and so Pleasant that should I follow my own Inclinations I should wast that time in Speaking which may be much better spent in Acting for the good of our Country Therefore I shall make my Charge as short as conveniently I may being fully sensible that you all know as well as I the Business for which we are here met together And I am sure they serve the Government best who though they may want Eloquence to give it its due Praises yet have courage enough to defend and preserve it when disturbed by any Enemies In which number are to be reckoned not only that Ambitious Bloody and Perfidious Prince that Ishmael of our Age whose Hand is against every Man and every Man's Hand against Him with whom we are at this time necessarily engaged in a just and honourable War for the common Safety Liberty and Repose of Europe but also those more dangerous Enemies our Domestick Ones I mean all Prophane Lewd Debauched Traiterous Seditious Lawless and disorderly Persons who Blaspheme God and Dishonour themselves who conspire the ruin of the Government under whose Protection they live and censure all its Proceedings who Rob Murther and Oppress the Innocent and in a word disturb the Publick Peace Of all which sorts of People I may truly say that as they are a Scandal and Reproach to Humane Nature so do they naturally weaken the Foundations of any Constitution and must in time if not duly repress'd and punish'd occasion its overthrow Therefore the Laws of England have several ways wisely provided Remedies for so great an Evil and Preservatives against so dangerous a Distemper Among which I may reckon the chiefest to be the Court of Quarter Sessions which is four times in a Year held in every County A Court so Honourable that it receives its Authority by a special Commission from their Majesties in which the highest Subjects of England think it an additional Dignity and Privilege to Act for the Publick Good and in relation whereunto the King himself is by our Laws stiled the Principal Conservator of the Peace A Title glorious without Pomp and clearly expressive of the weighty Burthen annexed to Royalty And as our Office is Honourable so is it likewise very Ancient for besides the Reasons we have to believe that this or something very like it was Contemporary with the Original of our Own and most other Governments besides this I say our Chronicles inform us that William the First commonly called the Conquerour about the fourth Year of his Reign which is above Six Hundred Years ago ordained Justices of the Peace Though the first particular Statute we meet with concerning it is of a younger date viz. the first Year of Edward the Third's Reign How generally useful and serviceable to the Country this our Authority hath been found to be needs no other Proof than the considerable enlargements it hath since that time received Whereas the High Commission Court the Star Chamber the Court of Wards and Liveries and several other Courts being found to deviate from their Original Institution and instead of giving Ease Relief and Security to become Burthensome and Oppressive to the Subjects have been suppress'd by Authority of Parliament But the Wisdom of the Nation instead of vacating our Power hath in several Particulars extended the Limits of it for they could not but be sensible of the vast advantages that every Man receives by so frequent and so regular so cheap and so easie an Administration of Justice whereby all violences are checkt and the Infringers and Disturbers of the Publick Peace are hindred from triumphing in their unpunish'd Villainies That Peace is in its self the greatest Temporal Blessing that either Nations or private Men can enjoy is not only evident from the unavoidable Miseries and Calamities that attend the contrary State and cloud the Glories of the most successfull Conquerours but also from the high Encomium the Holy Spirit gives of it throughout the Blessed Scriptures It was all along promised to the Jews who then were God's peculiar People as the greatest reward that he could bestow on those who were obedient to his Laws And whenever they notoriously swerved from this Divine Rule how severely did they feel the Prophet Isaiah's Denunciation executed upon them There is no Peace saith my God to the Wicked which is literally verified as to all Mankind whether we consider them united into several Political Societies or under the Character of private Persons in both stations Peace and Security Quiet and Comfort are at as vast a distance from them as they are from Innocence and Integrity One of the Characters under