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A47648	A sermon preached at the assizes held at Lincoln, March the 6th, 1691/2 before the right honourale [sic] Sir John Holt, Kt., lord chief justice of England / by Walter Leightonhouse ... ; printed at the earnest request of the gentlemen of the country.	Leightonhouse, Walter, 1656-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing L1032B; ESTC R202676	13,243	31

A SERMON Preached at Lincoln Assizes March the 6th 1691 2. Imprimatur Guil. Lancaster R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à Sacris Domest March 24. 1691 2. A SERMON Preached at the ASSIZES HELD AT LINCOLN March the 6 th 1691 2. Before the Right HONOURALE Sir JOHN HOLT Kt Lord Chief Justice of England By WAL LEIGHTONHOUSE Rector of Washingburgh nigh Lincoln and late Fellow of Lincoln College Oxon. Printed at the earnest request of the Gentlemen of the Country 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. in Palamede London Printed for W. Crook at the Green-Dragon without Temple-Bar 1692. To the Right Honourable Sir JOHN HOLT Kt Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council AND To the Right Worshipful EDWARD PAYNE of How in the County of Lincoln Esq High Sheriff of the County of Lincoln Right Honourable and Right Worshipful THO I was importunately solicited to make the following Discourse publick not only by the Gentry of the Country but likewise by most of the Learned in the Law who were part of that numerous Auditory before whom it was deliver'd yet the Sense of my own incapacity at the best together with those few days which my pressing Occasions would allow me to fit my self for such an undertaking made me demur for some time ere I durst correspond with their Requests And indeed nothing but the consideration of Two such great Patrons your selves who may each of you lay just Claim to it could have prevail'd with me to have repriev'd it to a longer Life You both are so great encouragers of the Subject it chiefly Treats of Justice and Mercy that as they seem riveted in your very Constitution so you may claim a natural Right to this Discourse So that as most Persons are necessitated to screw up their Inventions to fit Epistles Dedicatory by Flattery and Applause to make the Subject of which they Treat and the Person to whom they Dedicate to quadrate with each other There is such an agreeableness between your Genius and the Matter compris'd in the subsequent Discourse that should I say it decyphers each of you there is no part of the World that is thoroughly read in either of your Tempers which would think the Encomium undeservedly plac'd You my Lord from your first setting out into the World have had the Character of Wise Just Good and Benign and as every day adds to your Knowledge so does it to the lustre of your Glory too For by the continual and impartial Exercise of Justice still bestuded with Mercy you beautifie your Place high as it is abundantly more than it can adorn you and thereby embellish that Fountain from whence you derive your Commission And were you really to hear the sentiments and expressions of all good Men in your late Circuit concerning your Lordships Wisdom Industry and Compassion joyn'd with an unbias'd Care for Equity 't would outstrip Hyperbole itself and constrain you to blush at their so frequent admiration of your Vertues And as for you Sir you have always mov'd under that excellent Character of having oblig'd all that know you by your extraordinary Candour Clemency and Justice And altho the Sphere you move in be not so conspicuous as that of his Lordships yet that Specimen which you have always given of a strict regard to Justice and Commiseration is a sufficient evidence that in what Post soever you were plac'd you would act according to the Rules of Prudence and Sincerity But besides all this Sir I have a greater Tie to lay this at your Feet as an expression of that indelible Gratitude which I must ever owe to you And tho Flattery be so sordid a thing and so much against my Temper that you know Sir I would sooner die than be guilty of it yet the fault would be as great on the other hand should I wrap up such favours as I have receiv'd from you in a dark obscurity For I must not be asham'd to own that besides all other kindnesses which are vastly great I owe that which is dearer than Life even my Liberty itself to your exceeding great Favour you alone having been the Instrument of freeing me in a great measure from those sorrows which a Romish Adversary forc'd me to grapple with And therefore be pleas'd to accept of this as a Monument of my publick acknowledgment which is all the favour I shall at present ask from you only that you will both of you vouchsafe to excuse the freedom of this Dedication and Patronize it not for the merits of its Author but in hope that it may in some measure promote that important Work which is the Subject of the following Papers which will add infinite Satisfaction to April 2. 1692. Your Honours and Worships most unfeignedly Devoted and most humble Servant Walter Leightonhouse A SERMON Preached at Lincoln Assizes 2 Chron. 19.6 7. Take heed what you do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment Wherefore let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts ALthough mankind be by the instinct of Nature a sociable Being and delights in Converse and Society yet such is the pravity of his Inclinations that were there not a Coercive Power from without as well as a Sense of God and Religion from within the whole World would in a little time be turn'd into one single Aceldama The sturdy Lyon or the bloody Tyger the Leopard or the Panther will rarely if at all prey upon their own Species Yet Man tho endued with Reason sticks not to be guilty of a more brutish Cruelty The First-born of the World did inhumanly Butcher his own Brother and Israel Gods chosen one supplanted and over-reacht the First-born of Isaac And men are so mighty prone to these things that were it not for humane Sanctions the Dens and Caves of the Earth would be our safest retreat to secure our selves from wrong and injury Natural Religion indeed lays strong Ties upon a man's Conscience to answer the Ends of his Being and revealed Religion doth much more so but yet the Axes of a Temporal Authority are so much more cogent than natural Truths or supernatural Revelation that Aaron's Rod would do little good unless fortified by the Power and Scepter of Moses If there were no Law to restrain man within the Fences and Mounds of Justice his Strength would be the only Rule of his Will and the Standard of his Actions That would be mine which I could get by force and yet I should have Right to it no longer than whilst a more powerful Arm graspt it from me The Sons of Violence would engross what their Swords could reach and the best Patriot might starve whilst the unjust Banditti were surrounded with Plenty Trade and Commerce would be empty Names and Rapine and