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A73282	Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity.	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.	1631 (1631)	STC 23505; ESTC S123301	19,735	38

and discased soules most humbly intreating thee to be gracious and mercifull to all our sinnes for they are wondrous great make it thy glory to passe by and to winke at them poure into our soules the oyle of thy mercies supple our hard and dry hearts with the sweete influence of thy best graces and cure all our swelling wounds with the true balme of Gilead purge good Lord and cleanse all the polluted and infected corners of our hearts that though at this day our sinnes be as olde as Adam as numberlesse as the starres of heaven as high as the tallest Cedars in the forrest Lord plucke them up by the rootes bury them in everlasting forgetfulnesse that they may never stoppe the issue of thy blessings nor draw downe upon us the vialls of thy wrath nor be a wound and griefe to our troubled consciences in this life or worke despaire in us at the end of our dayes nor stand up in judgement to be the utter ruine and condemnation of our soules and bodies at the last day Good Lord prepare us all for a better life fit us all for the kingdome of thy Sonne Christ Iesus guide us all with thy blessed Spirit tutor us out of thy holy word humble us by thy mercifull corrections and by thy fatherly blessings wed our affections and knit our hearts more neere unto thee in newnesse of life than ever heretofore they have beene that living as becommeth thy obedient children and servants an holy and a religious remnant of our dayes we may by thy grace and mercy be partakers of a joyfull and a comfortable death and after death of a glorious resurrection to everlasting life peace among thy Saints Neither do we pray to thee for our selves only but for all people and Nations of the earth but more particularly for the place in which we live and therin according to our bounden duty for thy servant our Soveraign Charles by thy special providence King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the most true Ancient Catholicke and Apostolike faith and in all causes and over all persons within these his Majesties Realmes and Dominions next under thee and thy Sonne Christ Iesus supreme Governour adde unto his dayes as thou didst unto the dayes of Hezekiah that he may enjoy a long and a prosperous reigne over us and in the meane time remember him in goodnesse for the good he hath done already to thy Church Bestow the sweetest of thy blessings upon our gracious Queene Mary our hopefull Prince Charles and the rest of those royall branches beyond the seas season them in their young and tender yeares with thy feare that they may be great in thy favour and if it may stand with thine eternall Decree let us never want a holy and a religious man of that house and line to governe the scepters of these Kingdomes and to maintaine the preaching of thy glorious Gospell within these his Majesties Realmes and Dominions so long as the Sunne and Moone endures Blesse our King with an honourable valiant and a religious Councell and Nobility blesse him with a learned painfull and a zealous Clergy by what names or titles soever they be called whether they be Arch-Bishops or Bishops and all other painfull labourers in this thy Vineyard blesse him with a wise prudent and a religious Gentry blesse him with a peaceable a loyall and a religious Commonalty and good God we beseech thee to shower downe thy blessings upon the right hand and upon the left to them whom it hath pleased thee to send to this Congregation that by the blessing of thy good Spirit whensoever they shall stand on thy Mountaine to deliver a Message from thee give them good Father what wilt thou give them give them wise and understanding hearts that they may open to thy people the wondrous things of thy law good Father touch their tongues with a coale from thy holy Altar that by the blessing of thy holy Spirit they may be able to worke some holinesse in the hearts of a sinfull and unbeleeving people and cut downe the head and strength of some sinne that remaineth in us and to this end and purpose make them sound in thy Doctrines terrible in thy threatnings sweet in thy comforts powerfull and effectuall in all thy perswasions and mercifull Father make thy word like the bow of Ionathan and like the sword of Saul or Gideon that never returned empty from the blood of the slaine and the fat of the mighty Lastly we come unto thee for our selves againe thy most unworthy servants that are here assembled in a reverent feare of thy most holy and blessed name most humbly intreating thee in Iesus Christ to be gracious and mercifull to all our sinnes and to be effectually present with thy blessed Spirit in the midst of us all and grant that thy word may drop and distill upon our tender consciences like raine upon the mowen grasse and as dew comes down from heaven to water the earth take away the scales of ignorance from all blind and dark understandings remove farre from us all lets and hinderances whereby the blessed seed of thy word hath bin to many and sundry times made unfruitfull in the hearts of sinfull and unbelieving people and to every soule that is present in thy house this day or at any other time grant us all holy diligence to seeke thee godly wisdome to know thee and sanctified understanding to finde thee aright that so thy word may prove the sweet savour of life unto everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour in whose most holy and blessed name we are bold to conclude these our weake and imperfect prayers in that perfect forme of prayer which Christ hath taught us saying Our Father c. A DIRECTION FOR MAGISTRATES EXOD. 18. Chap. Verse 21. Moreover provide thou among all the people men of courage fearing God men dealing truly hating covetousnesse and appoint such over them to be Rulers over thousands Rulers over hundreds Rulers over fifties and Rulers over tennes THERE are in the body naturall three principall members the liver the heart and the braine resembling three principal members in the body politicke the Magistrate the Physitian and the Divine The liver is the beginning of naturall faculties segregates the humours ingenders alimentall blood and by veines sends it into the body of man from noxious humours whereby it may be indangered and prescribes wholesome diet whereby it may be preserved and kept in health The heart is the beginning of vitall faculties generates vitall spirits sends them into every particular member Like to this is the Divine for hee is Principium though not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of generation nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Radication yet to use the word of the Anatomist he is Principium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of dispensation of the vitall spirits hee takes a man where the Physitians leave him makes him of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

her pulses the signes and Symptomes of desolation and death And when these Catholicke vipers have broken her heart what will become of us who suffer such professours as will never proove good subjects to varnish their nests and make their bowers within her It would doe them good to do us hurt it would lengthen their lives to shorten ours it would bring them halfe way to heaven to bury their poniards in our breasts it would make a newe feast and another holiday in the Romane Kalender if they might smell the burning or heare tell of the smoake and ashes of our Churches they are already become so bold their number so exceeding great their religion so bloudy their malice so inveterate that if no sharper course be taken to represse and smother them they will adventure within a while to trie whether we or they shall be the Masters and if either malice or multitude can doe it they will make bonefires of our flesh they will cut off our lives and confiscate our livings and set fire on our Churches and martyr our Cleargie and massacre our Iudges and murther our Princes and say of England as Edome did of Ierusalem downe with it downe with it even to the ground And if ever this day of mourning come upon us which I pray God may never come wee may thanke our selves for keeping such Romish waspes in our English Hives The Second part of the Text. I come now to the second part of the Text The Quos viz. The persons whom he must appoint and these are described first generally The Magistrate must be a choise man one of a thousand culled and selected out of all the people Secondly He is described by his particular properties and these are 4. First they must be Viri potentes powerfull and able men Secondly They must be viri timentes Deum Such as feare God Thirdly They must be viri amantes veritatem such as love trueth Fourthly viri abhorrentes avaritiam such as hate covetousnesse Of these in order And first of the generall hee must be chosen out of all the people he must be a ch●… man It is the observation of Abulensis that Moses chuseth the high Priests out of all the people of Israel Numb 17. It is the observation of Pelargus that Moses summoned by death to resigne his place nec filios obtrudit suos nec populum in suffragia mittit he shuffles not in one of his sonnes nor comit to most voices but desires God to appoint and nominate some one whom he had singularly enriched with his spirit Numb 27. David a man culled out of all the sonnes of Iesse 1 Sam. 16. the twelve Apostles pickt and chosen out of all the Disciples Luke 6.13 Were the birds of the ayre to chuse them a governour it should be the Phaenix were the starres of the heaven to chuse them a governour it should be the Sunne were the trees of the forrest to chuse a governour it should be the Cedar were the flowers of the garden to chuse them a governour it should be the Lilly or the fragrant Rose We must observe the rule of Paris King of Troy when Pallas Iuno and Venus contended for the golden apple Detur digniori let the most vertuous have it the Magistrate should be like a poesy made of the choycest flowers or like the picture of Helena that Zeuxes made in the Temple of the Croconians whatsoever was faire and beautifull in any other was admirably composed and wrought in that one St. August De Civit. Dei lib. 5. cap. 12. sayes the ancient Romans built their Temple of vertue directly in the way to the Temple of honour to signifie that it was not for a man to ●…pe to a seate of honour before he had proceeded in the schoole of vertue Hence I might justly challenge the precipitant forwardnesse of some who boldly intrude into places of eminence both in Church and State though it be well enough knowne that they are as eminent for their imperfections as they are for their places and the injurious dealings of others who set Idols in the roome of God preferre unworthy persons who come little short of Calligula who was so in love with his horse Incitatus that he gave him his provender in a golden charger made his horse a Priest and solemnly promised to make him a Consul But the generall will be manifest if we take view of the particular properties whereof the first is they must be viri potentes able men non corporis fortitudine sed animi saith Ferus If the eye of a Iudge be not be not like sn Eagle his hand like a Ladies if the heart of a Iudge be not like a lyon he is not fit to be Gods sword-bearer he must have a Chirurgeons heart who cuts the wound weepe the patient never so bitterly Plorat secandus secatur plorat urendus uritur saith Aug. in Mat. Ser. 15. this is not cruelty but mercy for sevit in vulnus ut homo sanetur si palpetur vulnus homo perditur It was Gods speech to Ioshua Be thou strong and of good courage Iosh 10. the commendation that the Angel gave Gideon The Lord is with thee thou vàliant man Iudg. 6.8 I am of the opinion of Chabrias in the history if you be lyons let all the rest of the people be timerous hearts we shall doe well let all the rest of the army be lyons if you be timerous hearts nothing can be well O then awake and put on courage you that minister judgement me thinkes God speakes to you as Gideon did to his men of warre in the seventh of Iudges If you be timerous and fearefull depart from Mount Gilead and lay no hands upon your swords you must remember that as the royall throne of Salomon whereon he sate to judge was supported by lyons on both sides 1 King 10.20 so when you sit in seates of judgement which is as the throne of Salomon bee supported by the lyon-like vertues of courage and magnanimity you must not transgresse for feare or favour therefore you have neede of courage to silence the mighty therefore you have neede of courage to rescue the poore out of the hands of the oppressours with as much danger as David rescued his silly lambe out of the mouth of the lyon and the beare therefore you have neede of courage you must with Zeileucus King of the Locrenses passe sentence upon your owne children if they be found worthy of death therefore you have neede of courage you must confute the sinnes of the mighty you must support the worke of the Ministery you must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a living law to helpe the poore to their right that suffer wrong to heare the widowes cause to acquit the innocent Iosephs and Ieremies whom malice and revenge hath cast into prison shut fast into the stockes and therefore you have neede of courage Moses must chuse Iudges that doe feare God