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A10515	Moses and Iethro: or the good magistrate containing sundry necessary admonitions to all maiors, gouernours, and freemen of townes corporate, as they were deliuered in a sermon at S. Maries in Douer on the election day. By Io: Reading.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1626 (1626)	STC 20791; ESTC S115680	13,902	23

aduice post factum non poenitebis the reason why wisemen loue others aduice is because seeing their owne wants they suspect and are iealous of themselues the foole because he knoweth not so much as his owne defects hath an high opinion of his own worth therfore he is precipitate and often vnlucky to himselfe or that vnhappy common-wealth committed to his managing and like the Polypus a true embleme of vnaduised men taken in a snare Whose motto is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambros for want of taking heed I conclude this point then Counsell is for wise men and correction for fooles for these hate aduise the wisest of men hath the summe of all Prou. 12.15 The way of a foole is right in his owne eyes but he that heareth counsell is wise I know not yet to whom this addresse belongeth but in the phrase of Tamar I may say to him Discerne I pray thee cuius sunt ista sigillum Gen. 38.25 sudarium scipio iste I meane the seale and staffe of office to him I say as this concerneth him when the staffe and authority shall be put into his hand by your suffrages to assure him that he cannot be a good patriot who despiseth and therefore will not hearken to counsell so to you all I say it first and for present concerneth you who though many are but one body and in place of one Moses now to make choice one Moses made choice of many Magistrates you being many are to choose one therefore your first part is in imitation of this man of God to heare aduice what choice you ought to make you must be auscultantes first to the Prophet who by a laudable custome is to you as some Iethro aduising you concerning your election secondly to those grauest and most experienced members of your state whose age imployment and obseruation haue enabled them to iudge what man in respect of the particulars fittest to be elected The word is our cloudy pillar to direct our courses when that remooueth we must follow it when that standeth Greg Math. 13. Mat. 13.16 we must rest this is that cibus mentis in whose strength we are to walke this is that which maketh vs blessed in hearkning to it and wise in doing it Math. 7. 24. S●ultus verò haec audita dis●imulans tanquā super arenam opus a dif●eationis impenderi● infideliter flat c. Hilar. Canon 6. Exod. 29.20 I will like him to a wise man which hath builded his house on a rocke hee and his worke shall stand With this the good Magistrate must be initiated and consecrated as the high Priests were wont to bee with the blood of the sacrifice thou shalt take of the blood and put it vpon the tip of their right eare and vpon the thumb of their right hand and vpon the great toe of the right foot their eare must first bee touched with the word that it may be sanctified and opened to counsell next the hand that their worke and administration may be holy and that their conuersation may be blamelesse If this part be neglected I easily beleeue the rest will prooue vnhappy and euil to you what choice soeuer you make for how shall God giue you a blessing in a good Magistrate how shall hee prosper his best counsells or endeauours to you when to initiate him you begin so euilly as to contemne God For he that despiseth these things despiseth not man but God And himselfe faith againe Ezek. 3.7 The house of Israel will not heare thee for they will not heare me It must needs be euill likewise where the aduice of men experienced authorised to assist is contemned I say therefore there are some men I say not where if it now concerne you looke to it if nor lay it vp till it may there are some men for this cause most vnfit to be elected because they cannot abide the word of God if it touch them nor the counsell of good men if it crosse them Some worldly men are like those inhabitants by the falls of Nilus the noise of other businesses hath so filled their eares that they cannot hearken the Roman Peter hath cut off the right eare of some and such a Malcus heare nothing saue onely what the state of Rome saith there are no men to sit at our helmes Others are Aug. ●● Psal 57. for other causes deafe adders who laying one eare to the earth and couering the other with the tayle I mean either for carnall aduice or peruerse affections luting vp their eares cannot be drawne out of their holds who louing their owne ignorance cannot be brought out into the light with the most diuine and sweet inchantments of wisedome ib. Aug. these are not onely non audientes men not hearkening but omninò vt non valeant audire facientes So composing themselues that they may not heare these like the enraged Iewes when they heare their faults toucht stop their eares and flye vpon the speaker Non erant surdi sed fecerunt se surdos Act. 7. Aug. qu●s they are thus affected also to the counsell of men if it bee not a Miner●a of their owne braine pride and selfe-loue wil neither suffer then to execute nor apprehend it there is nothing more intolerable then this out-sides of a magistrate who thinketh nothing can be right but what himselfe doth or proiecteth looke neerer him he admireth his owne head talketh of the excellent seruices done to the state disparageth his predecessours findeth inconveniences in other gouernments in fine as if hee were possessed with a spirit of contradiction and his eares metamorphosed into tongues hee who should bee a●scultans with Moses in my text is loquax and nothing els as for aduice he feareth it might import some weaknes in the receiuer to carry any but an independent brain I haue shewed you the Idea and character of a Magistrate whose example if any so euill be to be found must be auoided as Cyprian said of Doctors I must conclude of gouernours Neminem bonum esse c. qui non idem sit docilis he cannot be good who will not be taught Moses thought not himselfe too good to be aduised by a man who neuer went dry-foot through the red sea who neuer talked familiarly with God to shut vp this point then in your elections it is safer I dare say it confidently if you had any so vnhappy choice to take a foole who would performe this first part and hearken to good counsell then a wise man in his owne conceit there is more hope of a foole then of him a simple man with eares is better then a deafe Ahithephel with his most curious oracles he then that hath an eare let him heare Tutiùs auditur veritas quàm pradicatur Aug de doct Christ there is no feare in hearing good counsel there is often danger in giuing it Moses hearkened vnto the voice of his father in law

The Lord did beare them in the wildernesse at a man doth beare his sonne The Lord had promised Moses his assistance Deut. 1.31 Exod. 3.12 certainly I will be with thee to dictate what he should speake in his seruice Exod. 1.12 15 I will be with thy mouthy and will teach thee what thou shalt say and to direct in all cases of deliberation I will teach you what yee ought to doe and lest Moses should still distrust his own ability God confirmeth his promises by miracles peculiar to Moses sense Thus was Moses enabled by the spirit of counsell but as for Iethro whether hee were Prince Exod. 4. or Priest of Midian or both I dispute not it was an ancient manner among the nations for Kings to bee sacrificers Aristot Polis 3.10 and though Dauids sonnes are called Cohens 2. Sam. 8.18 which is interpreted Chron. 18.17 Primi ad manum regis Psal 1 ●0 4. 〈◊〉 3. P●●l 1●2 9 ●●r 32.32 chiefe about the king yet the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth vsually import the same which is in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Apostle vseth Hebr. 7. so called of sacrificing and doing of sacred workes admit he were a Prince yet in this new forme of a trauelling common-wealth which could borrow neither modell nor rules from any other state then in being but was immediately dependent for lawes policies and gouernment on the word and commandement of God hee could not be acquainted with any such mysteries of state as might serue to declare him a fit counseller for an vnknowne gouernment yet Moses hearkened vnto his voice How abundance of knowledge especially attained by immediate reuelation puffeth vp the messenger of Sathan buffeting Paul 2. Cor. 12. to preuent that mischiefe doth sufficiently declare how authority greatneth the mind Pauls prescription to Timothy may serue to intimate a bishop saith he may not be a yong scholler 1. Tim. 3.6 lest be being puffed vp fall into the condemnation of the diuell he prohibited not his youth as vnapt for that office 1. Tim. 4. let no man contemne thy youth but the inexperience of such a man as was nouiter instructus and as it were nouella plantatio Chrys●●●o 10 The diuell doth mainely labour to bring men downe the same way by which himselfe fell therefore he tempteth the ignorant to presumption till such a mind like the rising smoke Omnia vitia in male faclis timend a sunt superbia in benefactis c. Aug. in Ps 58 2 Cor. 12.10 Chrys ib. hom 26. by greatning it selfe vanish and come to nothing He tempteth the learned and good to pride and contempt of others therefore when all vices els are to be feared in euill workes pride onely is to be feared in good When I am weake then am I strong said the Apostle Vbi afflictio ibi consolatio where affliction is there is consolation and that grace which fortifieth with humility by subduing and lessening the mind which in the naturall man hath for the most part such dependance on things externall that the mind of man and his condition like the beasts and the wheeles in Ezekiels vision are degressed Ezek. 1.10 or lifted vp together for that mind is on the outward estate which beareth it as the spirit of the beasts was in the wheeles What so great a command as Moses had might worke they know who becomming acquainted with such titles of honor suddainely forget themselues and their eares prooue nice and impatient of counsell Saul did once thinke humbly of himselfe was little in his owne sight 1. Sam. 15.17 then he would hearken to the aduice of Samuel but being promoted to a kingdome he neglected the voice of God no doubt but there was a time when Rehoboam would haue heard the counsell of the ancient men but feeling the authoritie of a king in his hand he reiected them for the aduise of the young men why go I so high or farre hath no man knowne that a white staffe hath in a yeere or two so inspired an officer ouer a thousand that he could abide no aduise Moses in their language would haue said hath not God himselfe put mine authority into my hand hath hee not committed to my charge sixe hundred thousand men Num. 11.21 haue I not talked with God in the mount haue I not by the power of God confirmed my authority by sundry miracles or in the language of the willfull Sodomites some would haue replyed he is come alone as a stranger and shall he iudge and rule Gen. 19.9 or as the insolent Pharises to the yong man whose eyes Christ had opened thou art altogether borne in sinnes Ioh. 9.34 and doest thou teach vs thou art not acquainted with the affaires of this new state content thy selfe with thy charge at Madian But this meekest seruant of God for all those glorious dignities conferred on him hearkened to his counsell who was farre inferiour to himselfe leauing vs in his example this instruction The best and most excellent men wil hearken to the aduice of others yea sometimes of their inferiours for 1. The wisest men are subiect to ouer-sights and errours neuer to erre is peculiar to God alone who onely is omniscient who therefore hath beene his counseller but he giueth not all knowledge to the wisest to humble them who being subiect to a thousand errours are yet apt to be proud with a false opinion of wisedome 2. God doth sometimes reueale wisedome and counsell to men whose aspects are not promising whose condition is meane and obscure there was found in the little City a poore wise man who deliuered the city by his wisedome Eccl. 9.14.15 though he were so little respected that no man remembred him and hide it from the learned and prudent as to ascertaine men that himselfe is the authour and fountaine of euery perfection so to teach them that they ought not to bee arrogant of that they haue receiued since the simple may eft-soone controule their proiections neither to contemne others to whom God will sometimes make them beholding for aduice Hence it commeth to passe that wise men loue counsell and fooles their owne waies they know in the greatest atchieuements counsel is better then strength 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 M●●●●d they know it is a great misery to want the aduice of priuate friends much greater is the want of counsell in matters publicke they know aduice is a sacred thing they know that counsellesse force falleth with it owne weight Vis co●si●ij expers mole ruit sud Cassi●d●r Ber● de consid l. 4. c 4. Ibid. euery prouident man therefore consilium quaerit if it be not giuen him hee will purchase it Bernard saith well by counsell tracta ante factum quia post factum sera retractatio est aduise before thou execute repentance and counsell come too late when things are done Doe nothing without