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A43645 The righteous judge a sermon preached at Hertford-Assize, March 10, 1682 / by Edward Hickes, D.D. Hickes, Edward. 1682 (1682) Wing H1836; ESTC R38791 10,691 29

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disposition lies wholly on the head and hands of Divine Providence And what but absolute infinite Justice can sway and order such a charge Men that rule over men must be just otherwise Confusion and Ruine will break in like a Deluge Justice is the stability of Thrones the basis of Commonwealths the cement of Societies the heart and life of publick and personal good And if God were not most just that rules over all the Earth could not stand nor the Heavens move nor the Sun shine nor the Universe subsist a moment For ever O Lord thy word is settled in Heaven thy commanding ruling Word thy faithfulness is to all generations Here 's Uprightness commensurate to the Rule as large and lasting as that And for an experimental proof of this the very Earth gives it abiding in thy Establishment and all thine Ordinances thy Laws of Providence continue to this day for all are thy Servants Psal 119.89 The vast houshold of the Creatures regulated in such an admirable decorum shew that they have a righteous Master 2. In all gracious dealings God is and must be most righteous He will not lose nor abate an atom of justice in the multitude of his mercies The Lord who is merciful gracious long-suffering abundant in goodness and truth will by no means clear the guilty washes out every spot of our guilt in the bloud of his Son in him receives full satisfaction to the strictest demands of his justice on our behalf 'T is the main stay of our Faith and Comfort that God sets forth and accepts Christ a Propitiation and so declares his righteousness as well as his grace in the remission of fins is just in justifying Believers Rom. 3.25 26. is faithful and just in forgiving 1 John 19. 3. Gods judgments past present and to come particular and universal require and shew him righteous He is known to be so by the judgments he executeth Psal 9.16 If he were not righteous in taking vengeance how could he judge the world Rom. 3.5 6. If we will but open our eyes we may see the vengeance visibly just and dreadful and say Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth O the stupendious equity of Gods retaliating justice how doth it pay Sinners in their kind plaguing Drunkenness with rage Adultery with rottenness of bone staining the glory of Pride and pouring contempt upon the Honourable of the Earth But if we could look further to that great day wherein he hath appointed to judge the World in righteousness by him whom he hath ordained could we seriously set before our view that great white Throne and him that sits upon it from whose face the Earth and the Heaven shall flee away before whom small and great shall stand and receive a righteous doom out of the Books the faithful Records of Heaven Rev 20. ult we may conclude certainly such a Judge shall do right The Truth is clear you see and it will be very useful if we can im prove it aright 1. It may serve to vindicate God 't is a sad Case when poor Mortals must plead for God Bad men are apt to conceit that God is incuriosus quasi negligens humanorum actuum Salv. regardless or neglective of humane Affairs yea scarce equal in his Ways when they transcend their Sense or cross their Humours Interesses or Ends and some of the best have been staggered and perplexed when in outward Events they see that befalling good men which they hold proper to the Wicked è contra It was thus with the Author of the 73 Psal per totum with Jer. 12.1 Righteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee says he he doth well to yield the Victory before hand to God in the Dispute yet let me talk with thee of thy Judgments yet he thinks the matter may come to a modest Parly Wherefore doth the way of the Wicked prosper Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously And why is the Desert of the Wicked so often the Lot of the Just To stop the Mouth of the one and to satisfie the Scruples of the other let me lay before you these Considerations 1. God is just in things that we cannot see nor sound His Righteousness is like the great Mountains firm and stable when his Judgments are a great Deep not to be measured Psal 36.6 His way is in the Sea his Path in the great Waters his Foot steps are not known Psal 77. 19. yet then most pure and regular I have heard that in a Contest between a great Noble-man and a learned-Judge of this Nation the Judge urged Law the Noble-man said I thought your Laws had been consonant to Reason yes replyed the Judge so they are they are made up of the Quintessence of Reason but that comes not within the compass of every Cap. Must you see Sense and Reason of your own in gods Doings or else dispute the Justice of them Hear Salvian Summa sasticed est Voluntas Dei The Will of God is the top of Justice and his Wisdom the rule of it neither is any thing unjust that God doth Quia capere vim divinae justicae homo non valet to use his own Words because Man cannot comprehend the scope and force of God in it Learn we therefore to stoop and tremble and admire what we cannot fathom 2. God is just in all the Shuffles and seeming Confusions in the world He hath his way in the Whirlwind and the Storm Naum 1.3 The stormy Wind fulfills his Will Psal 148 8. What so turbulent tumultuous unruly as the Storm yet that varies not an hair a tittle for the Bounds of divine Command Things that seem immethodical and disorderly to us are most comely in God's Eye and Disposal A Trades-man hath the richest Market when his Wares are drawn out and scattered about the Shop he knows how and when to put them into their places so are there largest Acoruements to the glory of Divine Wisdom Power and Justice in the variety and strangness of events and passages all which God holds in his hand weighs in his balance guides with his eye and hath his times of restitution when he will set all right and in their proper places Act. 3.21 3. God is just in mens in justice Executioners are commonly the basest of the people and the Hangman ofttimes deseryes the Halter as much as he that suffers under him yet that doth not derogate from the justice of the Law or Judge Why boastest thou thy self in mischief O mighty man the goodness of God endureth contiuually Psal 52.1 Let men be never fo insolent in mischief God is constant in goodness he is faithful and just in that wherein they are false and injurious The best Antidote against ●…oison and Pestilential Diseases is made of the flesh of Vipers and hath not God the art think you to extract Honour to his Name and Healing to the Nation out of the rankest venom of wicked men 4.