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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77114	Jus poli et fori or, God and the King. Judging for right against might. As it was delivered in a sermon before the honourable His Majesties judges of assize in the cathedrall church of Lincolne, Septem. 10. 1660. / By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham in the county of Lincolne.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3802; Thomason E1813_1; ESTC R209777	30,183	78

JUS POLIET FORI OR GOD and the KING Judging For RIGHT Against MIGHT As it was delivered in a Sermon before the Honourable His Majesties Judges of Assize in the Cathedrall Church of LINCOLNE Septem 10. 1660. By Edward Boteler sometimes Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge and now Rector of WINTRINGHAM in the County of LINCOLNE Isa 28.5 6. In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people And for a spirit of judgement to him that sitteth in judgement and for strength to them that turne the battel to the gate LONDON Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins at the Middle Temple gate in Fleetstreet 166● TO THE Right Worshipfull Sir WILLIAM TROLLOP Baronet High Sheriff OF The County of Lincoln SIR DVring the late Whirlewinde in Church and State in which He that could not hold his tongue could not hold his peace I studied to Comment practically upon that Text of the Prophet Am. 5.13 The prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evill time Privacy was then a priviledge nothing so safe as solitude and I could not but hug my self and applaud my condition in obscurity No tyes of Interest no flatteries of the Times could draw me out of my recesses or court me to make a step on that publique Theatre where I perceived little acted but what would put ingenuity to the blush and make honesty ashamed But now that by the goodnesse of God the clouds are scattered our day cleares up and we seeme to sit under the smiles of Heaven I have adventured abroad under the Conduct of your name to salute our new-borne Peace and bid that desirable Stranger welcome into our more then wearied world and this I have done in the great Congregation Nor have I done yet but that you may see how my obedience strives to be as large as your Commands I have followed them from the Pulpit to the Presse And though I thought these worthlesse conceptions publique enough before as having delivered them in the face of the Country yet since your selfe and others neither the least nor least considerable and intelligent part of the Auditory are pleased to thinke otherwise I submit what ever I thinke my selfe They are now no longer mine but yours the Dedication makes them so designe them your protection they begg it they need it I heard some whisperings as if I were too tart I value it not errour must needs be the sore where truth makes the smart I shall not so much as Epistle the Reader to be courteous the candid and cleare brow'd will be so as for the tetricall and angry generation let them go Rumpatur si quis rumpitur invidia I am Sir Your most humble most obliged Servant E. BOTELER PSAL. 72.4 He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour In our other Translation He shall keep the simple folke by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer IT is not long since we were in as sad a case as the poor captive Jewes Psal 137.1 2. who sate by the waters of Babylon weeping to remember our sometimes happy Zyon Hanging our harps upon the willows and being out of tune for any song unlesse to descant upon our miseries with the lamenting Prophet Lam. 2.1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel Amos 4.9 and remembred not his foot-stool in the day of his anger And we are now as a fire-brand pluckt out of the burning seasonably pluckt out For Isa 1.9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant we should have been as Sodome and we should have beene like unto Gomorrah and the glory of this flourishing Church and Kingdom had been like that of the materiall Temple at Hierusalem which fell from courting the clouds to kisse the dust So that when I recognize what we lately were and take a view of what we now are when I behold our captivity turned as the rivers in the South Ps 126.4 1 K. 10.9 fully suddēly unexpectedly The Lord delighting in the King Isa 1.26 to set him on the throne of Israel restoring our Judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning Jer. 30.21 Our Nobles being of themselves and our Governour proceeding from the midst of us Num. 16.2 Our Tribunals and seats of justice furnished with Princes of the Assembly famous in their congregation men of renown Isa 30.20 Our Teachers no more removed into corners but our eyes seeing our Teachers When I consider all these me thinks I cannot keep my Meditations from running those numbers of David To climbe the heavens Psal 148.1 2 3 c. and call in the glorious Inhabitants and powerfull Hosts thereof the Angels Sun Moon and Stars of light To range the Ayr and summon thence the Fire and Hayle Snow Vapours and stormy winds To dive the Abysse of waters and bring up the Dragons and all Deeps To traverse the Earth and gather the mountains and all hills fruitfull trees and all Cedars Kings of the Earth and all people Princes and all Judges of the Earth both young men maidens old men and children that all may beare a part in the rejoycings of this day and joyn in praises to the God of Jeshurun Deut. 33.26 who rideth upon the Heavens in our help who giveth salvation unto Kings Ps 144.10 who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword Ps 78.71 that he may feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance That he may judge the poore of the people that he may save the children of the needy and breake in pieces the Oppressour The Psalme like the Times presents us with a most pleasant and delicious prospect full of blessings both what 's written in the one you may read in the other The Travailer who in his observations of severall Countreys reports he found in one Pulchrum Regem and in another Pulchrū Regnum might here see both a gracious King and a flourishing Kingdom If you take a view of the Psalm you may finde 1. God pray'd to to blesse the King v. 1. Give the King thy judgements O God c. 2 The King made by God a blessing to the people He shall judge the people c. to v. 18. 3 The King and people blessing God in the following verses I would not stumble at the threshold by engaging in a quarrell about the Title which some have left worse then they found it perplexing it with more whilest they pretend to free it from some difficulty A Psalme for Solomon Lovinus in loc Not for Solomon the son of David Bathsheba saith one but for Christ