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A96469	A dissection of the braine. A sermon preached at the assises in Lincoln Anno 1640. / By Michael Wigmore Rector of Thoresway in Lincolnshire, and sometimes fellow of Oriel-Colledge in Oxenford.	Wigmore, Michael, 1588 or 9-1664?	1641 (1641)	Wing W2111; Thomason E175_17; ESTC R23433	13,886	28

Iustice Dura must remember that she 's Mater and that her sister Pia must dwell with her as Rachel and Lea the wives of Iacob as Mary and Martha under one roofe as Mercy and Truth that met together as Righteousnesse Psal 85. 10. and Peace that kist each other like Abraham going to Sacrifice his Sonne with the Sword of Justice in the one hand and the fire of Charity in the other When God appeared to Elias in Mount Horeb Hee was 2 P●a Mater 1 King 19. 12. not in the winde that did rend the Mountaines nor in the Earthquake nor in the fire but came unto him in a still soft voyce when He chastised Adam in Paradise it was in the Gen. 3. 8. Evening in the coole of the Day and the Sunne was but risen Gen. 19. 23. 24. upon the Earth when the Lord rained upon Sodome and Gomorrha Brimston Fire from the Lord out of Heaven for who shall be able to stand before him walking like a Grant in his full strength Amongst those thirteen divine Attributes Exod. 34. 6. there was but one that named his power but onely two that concern'd his Iustice and All the rest were of Mercie Exod. 25. 40. and Goodnesse As God spake to Moses in the Mount Fac ad similitudinem exemplar So must it be the charge of those that beare his Image and Superscription looke that thou doe after thy paterne Hee that made the whole Ios 6. world in six-dayes tooke seaven dayes to destroy one Citie and they that are his stamp and character must not seek to be like unto him either in the Arme of his power and strength or in the Finger of his Miracles Wonders or in the Braines of his infinite Wisdome but in his Bowels of Pittie and Compassion Exact and strict were the Rabbins of the Jewes in observing the properties of their Judges as that they should be free from all blemish of Body that they should be skild in the seventy languages that they should not be too farre striken in yeares that they should be men of Wisedome and Knowledge amongst others they would not admit of an Eu●uch because that such men were commonly cruell nor of any but such as were Fathers of Children which they thought to be a motive to Mercy Men in Authority should be like the Planets quò altiores eo sedatiores and not like Aristides that was too just Phaeton the sonne of the Sunne riding in the Chariot of his Father is a Mythologie of all such as sit in the Throne of him who saith Vengeance is mine and I will repay it Rom 12. 19. Mal. 4. 2. Psal Christ he is the Sunne of Righteousnesse The Chariots of the Lord are twenty thousand and they that rule them are Gods on earth called the Children of the most high stiled with the title of the sonnes of God And good luck have Psal 45. 5. they with their honour according to their worship and renowne to ride on because of the word of Truth but not to be too busie with the spurre rather to make use of the reines then of the Whip not to turn to the right hand or the left not to stray from the path of the just and in their Progresse to keepe the Rode not to mistake Plaeentia for Verona Sylla that was surnamed Foelix thought himselfe to be the more happy for the friendship that hee held with Metellus named Pius so let it be their Crowne their Glory to remember those that are in Bonds with the Heb. 13 3. Col. 3 12 Bowels of Piety Kindnesse Meeknesse To be as their Father in Heaven is Mercifull To look upon the wounded and afflicted and to pittie the friendlesse and oppressed Yet not to respect the person of the poore nor yet to honour the Levit. 19 15. person of the Mighty But in righteousnesse shalt thou judge thy Neighbour And thus as Papyrius at the Gate of the Senate I have set up the Image of Mercy with another of Iustice standing by it Sensus Communis is the next that doth present it selfe 3. Sensus communis unto your view sitting as a Judge in the Gates of the Citie and taking the Appeales from all outward objects yet as being in the substance of the Braine it is deprived of all sense and feeling Nec unquam apprehendit objectum sub ratione jucundi vel molesti Which bids Authority to be the like and as it was the manner of the Thebans to portrait their Princes blinde and their Iudges assisting without hands So not to censure by an outward appearance nor yet to be corrupted in their wayes Nerva was wont to say of himselfe Se nihil fec isse quò minus possit imperio deposito privatus tuto vivere Princes Examples are speaking lawes bidding as Abime●ech somtimes what yee see one doe doe yee likewise Those heretofore that sate at Sterne and rul'd the Rudder of the Common-wealth● had while they were in the seat of Iudgement their solemne Habits to be furr'd with Ermins which little Creature in the Hunting finding the Mouth of it's Cave to bee bedirted doth rather yeeld it selfe to be a prey then to pollute it's skinne with filth and mud An Emblem calling unto them in those words Mallem mori quàm 〈◊〉 as Adams skinn● he wore declared his fall Rewards and gifts are like an Incubus which overlayes the judgement of the wise whilst Avarice an envious Philistim comes with his earth to choak up Isaaks Gen 26. 1● 20. 21. Well and leaves us to the Springs of Eseck and Sitnah none but the waters of strife and contention This done you shall have them like Aethiopians that usually doe paint their Angels black in favour of their owne complexion to runne point-blank the Course of Equity to damme up the passages of right and reason and so to betake them to new quirks and quaeries with those Astrologers that make good their motions by finding out strange Notions and Intentions Eccentricks Epicicles and the like The Lord our God is a God of Gods a Great Almighty Deut 10. 7. and a terrible regarding neither Persons nor Rewards and those that are Minores Dij when they passe sentence upon others ought to be like Mathematicians onely conversing in Abstractions Not to weare on them the Robes of Iustice as dead-mens Coffins are bestrewed with flowers not to be speechlesse in the poore mans cause as if necessity should have no law not to be like the Idols of the Heathen with eyes and eares that neither heare nor see nor like the Griffin to floare their nests with gold and then to censure for the Mighty as if in case pro formâ pauperis Bos in linguâ as it is in the Proverb their tongues were hung up to the roofe of their mouthes and their soules possessed with a dumb devill Surdaster erat Marcus Crassus sed illud pejus quod male audiebat And t is the memoriall

on certaine dayes of the yeare the people gathered themselves together and as if they had beene all enrag'd with madnesse Fathers and Children and neighbours with others threw stones with such violence one against another as that not a few were murthered with it A fit resemblance of this Campus Martius in these dog-dayes of strife and contention When we shall finde five in one house L●● 12 52. 53. three against two and two against three the Father divided against the Sonne and the Mother against the Daughter their hearts reaking with passion within them as if they had suckt the Dragons in the Desert and like that vast and untamed Element foaming out their owne shame Some come hither 〈◊〉 13. l●ke the Mermayd and the Dolphin who take their pastime in troubled waters and with Abner call fighting sport let 2 Sam. 2. 14. the young men arise and play before us Others for as small provocations as Jonas had to be angry with his God onely Ionah 4. 6. 8. a blast of winde a shadow like those that runne to Chirurgions and Physicians for every trifle a Pimple or a Wart whereas the Physician and the Lawyer should bee for necessity and not for wantonnesse Envie comes swelling hither like a Toad waiting a time to disgorge it selfe and goes a way again like the Wasp which leaves his sting and his strength behinde him The proud man striving with a stronger then himselfe as Milo rending an Oake in sunder is caught so fast in the clest by the fingers that he becomes a prey to his Enemie But loudest of all is the crie of Oppression who comes in like Nero in the Tragedy Fortuna nostra cuncta permittit mihi And where the Foxes doth prove too scanty hee 'll inch it out with the Lions skinne to grind the faces of the poore to devoure the widdowes houses and that peradventure with as much equity as he that layd claime to Tullies learning because he married his Executrix Saint Paul would have such Harmony betweene us as 1 Cor. 12. is amongst the members of the body and Saint Augustine would have every man to be as a severall letter in the same sentence Quilibet inquit in Civitate sit una litera in Sermone Were this accord kept in humane Societie Then each foule word would be a Barbarisme and he that should but wrong his neighbour should be as one that is sick of a phrensie biting and wounding his owne flesh But here we finde such discord and dissention such scratching and tearing one of another as if we would choose the Bramble for our King to put our trust under his shadow Jud. 9. 15. It was a custome amongst the Persians to make them feele the smart of Anarchie that at the death of every Emperour their lawes did sleep for five dayes and every man in that interstitium did what was good in his owne eyes whether would the swinge of our passions fling us were we not bounded with Authority which limiteth our turbulent perturbations as God once spake unto the Sea hither unto shalt thou goe and no further But the rapacity Job 38. 11. of these Orbes are slacked by the course of the higher Sphaeres Nature never yet framed an heart but where there was a braine to coole it and the Ancient and Honourable He is the Head which beckens mee unto my second Close the Torse that wreath of Or and Argent in those Appellatives of Age and Honour It was an inviolable custome with the Romans never The second part 1. Of the Ancient 1. Their Gravity to give sentence but sitting in token that Judgment ought to proceed from a stay'd and well setled minde And t is an observation in Philosophie That nimius calor agitationem efficit cognitio quietem stabilitatem requirit The Braine that must disperse those former sumes had need to be of a strong constitution Et tunc mentis oculi vident perspicatius cum corporis oculi deflorescunt Greatest Atchivements are not managed so much by strength as they are by wisedome whence the Sanhedrim amongst the Numb 11. 16. Jewes was of the Elders of the people as the Senate with the Romans had it's nomination a Senio from Old-age It 's often found that the lustre of the minde looking forth through the countenance of Man doth dart such a terrour upon the Beholder that the Heads-man let his sword drop from his hand when Hee beheld the face of Marius And in the hottest eommotions of the People Even then when sedition hath been staring mad the grave aspect of some reverend Personage hath so becalmed and allayed the furie as that Madnesse ●ath beene turned into shame Tum pietate Gravem ac meritis si fortè virum quem Conspexere silent arrectisque auribus adstant Ille regit dictis animos pectora mulcet If so then well may the wrinkled brow become the seat of Command and Power whose furrowes have beene sowen with the seeds of Vertue Et Seges est ubi Troia fuit Whose despised Characters of Age doe beare the Escuchions and fore-fronts of wis●dome which onely waxeth young and fresh with yeares And in whose visage onely doth appeare a Transfiguration o● Feare and Exod 34 30. Reverence as Moses after his Conference with God the people were afraid to look upon him As Authority dazeleth with its splendour being a Medall 2 Their Maturity Dan. 7 9. Ecclus. 25. 6. cast in his mold who beares the name of the Ancient of Dayes so is Experience the Crowne of Old men which ripens the understanding of the Aged And makes them speak as the Oracles of God No man when hee hath tasted Luk. 5. 39. Old wine desireth new for the Old is better and Certiora sunt judicia senum qui d●● res easdem cogitarunt sursum ac deorsum volutarunt The prerogative of Infancie is Innocencie of childhood wantonnesse of manhood valour of old-age discretion Roses that are fresh are more pleasant in the flower yet being dry give a sweeter sent And it was Antigonus his judgement of Pyrrhus Magnum futurum si senesceret The Spring indeed is lovely for it's hopes B●t the Autumne onely is for fruit which bringeth that maturity with it as maketh wisedome a skilfull Pilot The hoarie Head is a Crowne of glory if it be found Prov. 16. 31. in the way of truth And where should wee seeke for Righteousnesse and 3. Their sincerity Judgement if not under these Winter colours 'T is true that the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the wo●ds of the Exod 23. 8. righteous But when our forces begin to languish when our senses wax dull and dimme when the ruinous Cottage of our feeble flesh is decayed and threatneth a finall fall then when like Aaron in the Camp o● Israel wee stand betweene the living and the dead Then when the Eccles. 12. 3. Keepers of the house doe tremble and