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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87001	Israels just jvdge; or, The maiestrats brest-plate, against the darts of pride, envy, & hipocrisie: being enemies to iustice, mercy, & humility. Presented to the jmpartial maiestrats of this nation, especialy in the western parts, from whence the author (by Gods providence) drew his first breath; wishing them health here, and all happiness hereafter. / Written by Charles Hammond.	Hammond, Charles, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing H494; Thomason E899_4; ESTC R206742	13,989	19

JSRAELS Just JVDGE OR THE Maiestrats Brest-plate AGAINST THE Darts of Pride Envy Hipocrisie being enemies to Iustice Mercy Humility Presented to the Impartial Maiestrats of this Nation Especialy in the Western parts from whence the Author by Gods providence drew his first breath wishing them health here and all happiness hereafter Written by CHARLES HAMMOND Bring you men of wisedom and of understanding and known amongst your tribes and I will make them rulers over you and I charged your Judges that same time saying heare the controversies between your Brethren and Judge Righteously between every Man and his Brother and the stranger that is with him ye shall have no respect of Persons in Judgement but shal heare the small as well as the great ye shall not feare the face of Man for the Iudgement is Gods Deut. 13.16 17. Iustice London Printed by E. Crowch in Hosier-lane for the Author Seene and allowed of and Entered according to Order MY Book being past the Presse may freely goe To serve his Countrey I would have it so Truth being his leader what Foe needes he feare His cause being good besides his Conscience cleare I le take thy part if any thee appose To Justice and to Truth they must be Foes I will not blaze thy Armes but this I le say Truths Banner on thy Crest thou dost display A Freind to none but those that be Lovers of Justice Mercy and Humility To his much Respected Friends in Somerset-shiere especially in the towne of Taunton the Author wisheth all Truth Peace and Unity to florish amongst you Courteous Reader I Know not into whose hands this my smal Booke may light into but I have so much a cofindence in Truth that heel never shame his Master nor for my part I will never be ashamed to own him if there be any thing disliking to the palet of any Man in my Booke let him not unload his stomack openly to the Author for that will but shew he hath a foule inside though he carries a fair outside this is but a Cordiall gathered from Truths Garden the Scripture of such hearbs that is relishing to all that loveth the Garden or the Gardener the Physitian of Souls will tell you so nor doe I give it you out of malice to doe you harm but hoping it may work with you for the good of you and yours in this life and that to come if you take it any otherwise the Garters Motto I le present you with evil to them that evil thinks I wish you better then you wish your selves that is that you would know your selves what you have been what you may be and what you must be The first you know the second God knows the last all Men knows you must be brought to Judgment when we all shall heare but two Sentences come or depart And whatsoever you owe me being the Author of this little Booke if it be ill will I will returne you by bill of Exchange this wish from the botom of my heart that you may both deserve and have the first sentence of come you Blessed deserve it through Christs merits and receive it from his mouth which shall be the Prayer of him which desires Mercy and Truth to meet together and Righteousness and Peace to kiss each other Charles Hammond ISRAELS Iust JUDGE OR The Maiestrats Brest-Plate AGAINST The Darts of Pride Envie and Hipocrisie being Enemies to Justice Mercy and Humility He hath shewed the O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to doe justly and to love mercy and to wallk humbly with thy God Micah 6.8 MAjestracy and Minestry are the two main Pillars that upholds a Nation ordained of God himselfe ever since the Isralites bondage in Egypt to justifie the truth of it if you please to begin from Moses and Aron which were the first that God gave the Law to and end with the Revelation you shall find God owning and maintaing it in the Law Christ and his Apostles both admonishing others and submitting to it themselves in the Gospell the taking away of those Pillars from any Nation or People you shall find it was a fore-runner of Gods judgements as you may read in severall places but especially in the booke of Judges Idolatry Adultery Opression Murther disdaining one another was the common sins of the Children of Jsrael for then did every Man doe what seemed good in his owne eyes But the subject of my discourse is bent upon another currant and with my best endeavours and Gods permission to up hold those Pillars so far forth as they be not like gilded Sepulchers make a fair shew when there is nothing but rottennesse within such upholders either of Citty Burrough or Corporation or any other place that hath not a wall of hearts to defend them which is the Majestrats Fort-Royall the judgements of God will soone lay their honor in the dust if he find once they have gone beyond their Commission if he summons not them here with his Court Marshall which is death let them looke for disgrace and infamy to cease on them and pull them from their Chaire of Justice and leave them to the censure of envy and malice Well let us see then what is required of Majestrates alas an easie charge that God gives them his commission may very well be kept he requires of them to doe justice love mercy and walke humbly before him and will they not perform it yes they 'l tell you they doe well their own eyes shall be witnesses and their own consciences the Juries and in this booke shall they be found guilty or not guilty of breaking his Commission when they shall appeare before the Judge of all the Earth who shall render every Man according to his works Well the first the Lord requires is to doe justice Deut. 10. v. 17 18. the Lord shewes the people of Israel what justice he requires The Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Lords great mightie and terrible which accepteth no Persons nor taketh reward who doth right to the Fatherless and Widdow and loveth the Stranger giving him food and raiment love you therefore the Stranger for ye were strangers in the Land of Egypt againe Exod. 23. Thou shalt not recieve a false tale neither shalt thou put thy hand with the wicked to be a false witness thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe evill neither agree in a controversy to decline after many to overthrow the truth Thou shalt not esteeme a poore Man in his cause nor thou shalt not overthrow the right of the Poore in his Suit thou shalt keepe thee far from a false matter thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the Righteous thou shalt not oppress at stranger Man may wonder why the Lord doth take so much care and gives such great charge in his Law to Moses concerning the Poore and strangers we must needs

works But admit God should not answer thy greedy desire in multiplying thy Estate he 'll do that which is better give thee a competency with a more contented mind therefore trust God with Abraham who above hope believed under hope Rom. 4 18. For faith is to God as Bathsheba was to Solomon so in favour that the King will deny her nothing that good is Thus you see if the old test or new test be true not getting but giving is the ready way to abundance And if you will not believe Gods word no man ought to beleive you So much for Justice and Mercy Humility comes after as willing to wait upon Iustice and Mercy as we would desire truth joyned with peace and plenty He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord doth require of thee to do justly love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdome and before honour goeth humility Prov. 15.53 The more God advanceth thee to honour the more thou oughtest to humble thy self Thankfulnesse and humility are the onely means to enrich us with Gods blessings but pride and unthankfulnesse is the onely way to make God withdraw from us and take away from us both himselfe and his choicest blessings too Aesops Crow not content with her own likeness borrowed a feather of every bird and she became so proud that she scorn'd them all which the birds observing came and pluckt each one their feather back and so left her naked even so God deals with all proud ungrateful Persons I thinke I may say in these times wherein Pride doth so abound if every bird had his owne feathers they would be left as bare as Aesops crow and then like owls they may walke about by night for by day they would be dispised by all that sees them but I desire the Peacocks of these times to looke downe to their feet for they must needs be very foule when they are treading the paths of destruction Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty mind before a fall better it is to be of an humble Spirit with the lowly then to divide the spoil with the proud Prov. 16 18 19 When Sanl was little in his owne eyes God made him head over all the twelve Tribes of Jsrael and gave him abundance but when out of his greatness he abused his place and gifts God tooke them all away but most remarkeable is the example of Nebucadnezzar who ascribing all to himselfe said is not this great Babell which I have built by the might of my power and the Glory of my Majesty was presently deprived of his Kingdom and all that he had and sent to graze with the Beasts and so likewise of Herod when he sate on the Judgement seat and made an orration in royall Apparrell the People cryd the voice of God and not of Man and he never rebukt them but tooke that honor upon him but imediately the Augell smote him because he gave not Glory to God so that he was eaten with worms he must know and all that sit on judgment seats though God cals them Gods they must not be deified by Man like the true God I have said ye are Gods but ye shall dye like Men they are no more in Gods eyes then those that stands before them for justice nor shall have no more favour shewed them at the tribunall feat at the last day take heed you that sit at the bench of Justice if Humility leads you not up at last Pride will throw you downe what man is he that out of the height of pride or envy will tearme true honest poor Men the scums of the World He that mocketh the poor reprocheth him that made him and be that rejoyeth at destruction shall not be unpunished Prov. 17.5 Before destructions the heart of a Man is haughty and before Glory goeth Holiness Prov. 18 12. if there be a hollow in a vally lower then another thither the water gathers and the more lowly we are in our owne eyes the more lowly we are in Gods Unto him will I looke saith the Lord even to him that is of a nutrit Spirit and that trembleth at my words Esay 57 15. There can nothing make us more accptable to God then the conscience of our unworthinesse when with Iacob we can say O Lord I am not worthy of the least of all thy ways which thou hast shewed unto thy Servant for with my staffe I passed over Jordan and now I am become thy bonds man Man should consider from whence he came and whether he must what he is and what he must be there is as much respect of souls before God as there is difference in souls in the grave no it is the heart that God requires and it must be a humble heart to Samuell when he was sent to Iesse by the appointment of God to anoint a King amongst his sons Samuel lookt on Liab being a Man it seemed in his eyes fit for a Crown by his Person his deportment and outward behaviour But the Lord said to Samuel looke not on his countenance nor on the height of his stature because I have refused him 1 Samuel 16. For God seeth not as Man seeth for Man looketh one the outward appearance but the Lord beholdeth the heart when all his Sons was cal'd that were there saith Samuel is there no more Children but these and Jesse said there is vet a little one that keepeth sheepe and David was sent for And the Lord said arise and anoint him for this is he There is a great deale of difference between Gods chusing and Mans chusing Man looks upon the outward bravery God looks upon the inward humility it is not means but manners that makes a Gentleman some will take acception if they be not writ Esquires or Gentlemen in any business that comes to them indeed there be many by their place may write Esquires but being turnd out perhaps not find a coat of Armes to write Gentleman Afterwards Collonell Morgan in the low Countreys having occasion to send to the Prince of Orenge a letter sent it by an Ensigne of his Regiment delivering his Letter and message the Prince asked him how long he had been a Souldier under Collonell Morgan he answered he was no Souldier he was an Ensigne the Prince returnd a Letter to the Collonell he thought he had been so much a Souldier that he would not make Officers that were no Souldiers and wished him to take from him his colours and give him a pike and let him first learne to be a Souldier and then he is the fitter to be an Officer he that hath first been commanded knows the better how to command a Man that is proud in his office is like a foole in a Morice-dance more lookt upon laught at then respected or regarded Gentility if it be not flampt in the heart by Humility it can never be knockt into their head by

force or polecy for example meet you with a true borne Gentleman his hat in his hand as soone as yours he 'l be as ready to give age the way as he shall give him be he poore or rich and so they bring up their Children take a new upstart Gentleman which may give for a motto in his scutchin of Armes these verses Means I have got though breeding I lack You may blaze my Armes by the coat on my back This man Sir if you meet him either a horsback or foot you quickly know him if on horsback pride whips on his horse a gallop and bids him keep his way though your horse be scarceable to goe out as if he 'll over you or else pride throws his master headlong in the dirt as many times it falls out to fulfil the Proverb Pride will have a fall Meet him in the street if you fear his great looks and worship his fools painted coat he 'll look a squint upon you and russels up his coat or cloake like a Peacocks tayl and think you have done but your due to worship this golden Calf But if you take no notice of him he will take no notice of you and pick a hole in your coat for not idolizing his rich coat But give me leave to stay my pen and not bestow ink and paper on times painted babies which if they were to be sold for their virtues would not yeeld eight shillings a gross for some of them have not the wit to act a part in a popet-play but what must come from anothers mouth But my subject is Justice Mercy and Humility which affords matter enough to treat on for the paper I intend to write on Mercy and Humility cannot be hid in honour or gentility As their hearts by humility opens their eyes of mercy upon the poor the oppressed and the needy they seeing your good works may glorifie your father which is in heaven and their prayers hearts and hands shall be a wall of defence for you in the time of trouble Pray give me leave as I began let me make an end which was with Iustice which is all I desire for man and Mercy from God him have I offended both in thought word and deed from him and through the merits of my Saviour I look for mercy My conscience tels me I have broke the laws of God and so we must all cry guilty Mercy nor favour looke I not from man but truth equity and justice which I hope that just God shall so guide their hearts that heare my cause that without respect of persons I shall have Iustice shewn me Iustice in ancient times was pictured blind representing the unpartialness of her heart She 'll hear all but sees none her eyes shall not corrupt her heart with the habit or love either of plaintif or defendant but in her left hand which is next her heart she holds the ballance of Iustice weighing rightly the cruse then gives she judgement by her two Judges Truth and Equity then hath she her sword ready drawn in her right hand to execute Judgement upon the offender so makes she the Law of God perfect with this motto I heare and see not yet I understand And judge aright the cause I take in hand So I le conclude with the words that the Lord spake to the Children of Jsrael by Zack 7.9 In the time of their Captivity execute true judgemet and shew mercy and compassion every Man to his Brother and oppress not the Widdow and the Fatherless the stranger nor the poore and let none of you imagine evill against his Brother in his heart for this is all the Lord doth require of thee O man to do justly love mercy and walke humbly with thy God and this thou must performe be thou high or low rich or poore judge or jury it is a short lesson to read a heard lesson to learn and a easy lesson to be forgot thou must have God for thy schoolmaster judge or Lawgiver thou must have Christ for thy merciful tutor and by thy humility thou shalt have the holy spirit that proceeds from both repeating this lesson always to thee Every man do seeke the face of the Ruler but every mans judgment commeth from the Lord. Prov. 29.26 FINIS