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A53927	A sermon preached at St. Edmonds-Bury, in Suffolk, at the assizes, March 18th, 1692/3 before Lord Chief Justice Holt and Judge Rokeby and William Hammond, Esq., high-sheriff for that county / by Samuel Peck, lecturer of Ipswich.	Peck, Samuel.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1037A; ESTC R35100	10,033	32

keep himself from his Iniquity And for Men in Authority not to bear the Sword in vain but to use their utmost Diligence and Power for the Punishment of Wickedness and Vice and maintenance of Religion and Vertue And here I Crave leave for a few Words to you My Lords the Judges and those Worshipful Gentlemen who help to fill up the Seat of Judgment Being hereto Encouraged by your Commendable and Religious Practice to Enter into the House of God to ask his Direction and Benediction before you proceed to Execute your Commissions Not that I shall Presume to dictate or Direct in the Discharge of your Honourable and Weighty Trust or to Meddle with things I understand not your distinct Offices and Duties And surely 't is no diminution to a Divine that he is not a compleat Lawyer But my desire as well as Duty is Right Honourable to excite your Zeal for God and his Cause for the Prosperity and Peace of their Majesties and their Kingdoms Your Lordships have heard somewhat of our publick Grievances and understand more than I can inform you and what the Consequences are like to be Now whether next to God should we betake our selves to offer our humble and earnest Addresses for help but to your Lordships and the rest of those Worthy Magistrates who have Power and Authority put into your Hands by God and the King that you would in your respective Places by a due Execution of our wholsom Laws for Laws not executed are as Laws repealed endeavour to put a stop to that Deluge of Wickedness that threatens our Destruction It is observable That God in Scripture ascribeth to Magistrates the most Honourable Names among Men as Great Men Nobles Princes Kings Chief of the People Heads over the People Dignities and Glories yea they are styled Angels 2 Sam. 14 20. nay they are called Gods Psal 82. 6. and that you answer these Titles of Honour Trust and Power God both requires and expects as you will answer it to Him who hath thus Honoured you in his Word And if you consider what the Apostle Rom. 13. saith of Magistrates their Office Power and Authority he seems to speak you no less than the Keepers of our Liberties the Safety of our Persons the Security of our Possessions the Terror of Sinners the Defence of Saints the Nerves and Sinews yea the vital Spirits of the Body Politick without whom all things would quickly run to disorder and Confusion now how becoming how necessary is Religion and Righteousness Courage and Zeal for God in such Persons which only can make your Authority serviceable to the Divine Majesty Wherefore we and the whole Countrey yea the whole Kingdom Cry to you and such as you Right Honourable and Right Worshipful in the Language of the distressed Disciples Save us we perish help or we are ruined Help us against Impostors and Seducers prophane Sabbath-breakers common and false Swearers against Swinish Drunkards Heaven-daring Blasphemers and bold Atheists who industriously labour in the Devils Service and who seek to laugh and banter all true Notions of God all practice of Religion yea all Honesty and Sobriety out of the World Let not my Lords be Angry if I say once more Help us against the Murmurers and unreasonable Male-contents at our present Governours and Government the greatest Blessing of that sort that ever our Kingdom enjoyed My Lords and Gentlemen Can you do any thing We know you can we hope you will and pray you may help us against these grand Impeders of our Peace and Tranquility who retard our full Deliverance and Salvation and hasten Misery and Destruction upon us more by their Sins than they could do by their Hands Conscience I Confess cannot be compelled to love Vertue but Restraints may and ought to be laid upon the openly Vitious Arise therefore Honourable and Beloved for your own sakes for the Lands sake for the Lord's sake arise put on a Spirit of Zeal and Resolution for God 't is good to be zealously affected in a good thing suppress all topping Vice and Profaneness and lift up fallen despised trampled-upon Religion and Godliness in your respective Stations and Places and shew your selves Valiant for God upon Earth The Sword of the Spirit the Word of God may do somewhat to the Amending the Manners of Men but it will do more when the Sword of the Magistrate is joyned with it A Magistrate Conscientious and Zealous for God may in his place do God more Service in giving check to open Vice and encouragement to Vertue than many Ministers can do most Men living more by Sense than Faith dreading a good Judge or Justice of Peace more than God and are more afraid of a present Temporal Punishment than of a future tho' an Eternal Misery Continual Experience proves it true that the Price and Penalties for Oaths Drunkenness Sabbath-breaking c. duly exacted and called for by you according to Law prevail more upon such Offendors than all the Penalties threatned against them in the Word of God So powerful is the Sword of the Magistrate where the Sword of the Spirit can make no Impression work no Reformation Wherefore with all Humility and Earnestness and as the Apostle speaks in Christ's Name and stead I once more Address my self to you Honourable and Beloved That you would afford us your Assistance in this great and necessary Work We preach against Wickedness and Vice and we beg of you to punish it We in our places press and exhort Men to the observation of the Laws of God and we humbly pray you in your Places to put in Execution the good and commendable Laws of the Land against open Enormities and Prophaneness For till this be done we are still in danger of Divine Judgments We may look for peace and behold trouble for salvation but behold destruction and tho' brought out of Egypt may perish in the Wilderness But if this be universally and heartily endeavoured we may yet hope to see Religion lifting up her languishing Head and recover a repute amongst us equal at least to what Looseness and Debauchery have had for divers years past We may then hope for success against our Enemies hope to see Mercy and Truth meet together Righteousness and Peace kiss each other yea and Glory to dwell in our Land However Your Reward shall be sure for them that honour me will I honour saith the Lord 1 Sam. 2. 30. A great Word a Promise whose Contents neither Words nor Thoughts can fully reach And he that spoke it hath Earth and Heaven too at his dispose and Heaven and Earth shall pass before it shall fail O that it may prevail with you to stand up for God for his Cause his Truth this Day Worship and People else were you greater than you are the following Threatning shall overtake you here or hereafter They that despise me shall be lightly esteemed Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is not Iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of Persons nor taking of Gifts 2 Chron. 19. 7. FINIS There is Published by the same Author the 3 Books following sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside THe Best way to mend the World by perswading the Rising Generation to an Early and serious practice of Piety With Answers to the principal Cavils of Satan and his Agents against it c. A Dialogue between Timothy and Titus about the Articles and some of the Canons of the Church of England Wherein Super-Conformity is Censured and Moderation Recommended With a serious perswasive to all the Inferior Clergy of that Church By one that heartily wisheth Union amongst Protestants Jericho's Downfall In a Sermon Preached upon Jan. 31. 1688 9. Being a Day of Publick Thanksgiving to God for our Deliverance from Popery and Arbitrary Power