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A43193 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Treby at the Assizes held at Horsham in the County of Sussex, on the 23d day of March, 1696[/]7. By Peter Heald, A.M. and prebendary in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Heald, Peter, d. 1728. 1697 (1697) Wing H1300A; ESTC R216620 11,478 30

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is the Blindness of the Understanding and none are more in danger to mistake their way than they who walk in the dark And then if a Zeal be joined with Ignorance as commonly it is then it is a Zeal without Knowledge indeed i. e. an Ignorant Zeal or a Zealous Ignorance which has driven Men on to commit the greatest Sins under the pretence of doing well This irritated the Jews to Hate and Despise to Slander and Blaspheme to Accuse and Crucifie our Blessed Saviour for thro' Ignorance they did it Acts 3.17 as did also their Rulers This inraged them to Kill his Disciples Joh. 16.3 and yet misled them to think they did God Service in doing so This made St. Paul before his Conversion to be exceedingly Mad against Good Men to Persecute them even to the Death and yet to think he did well in it But when he better understood himself he confest he did these ill things ign●rantly in Vnbelief 1 Tim. 1.13 This has kindled the Flames of many Cruel Persecutions and caus'd many Uncharitable Divisions in the Christian Church This has rais'd many dreadful Convulsions in the State and by Riots Tumults and Insurrections has Threatned and sometimes Effected the Ruin of Flourishing Kingdoms We have heard that Forty Men have been inraged to make War against a Mighty Nation in full Peace in the midst of its Principal City And we have no Security but an Ignorant Furious Enthusiastick Zeal may animate greater Numbers to attempt the like or worse Mischiefs It is reasonable indeed that Ignorant People should be Modest willing to hearken to good Instructions and ready to follow the Directions of their Superiors But on the contrary a Zealous Ignorance which is usually accompanied with Opinionativeness and Bigotry Partiality and Self-conceit Pride and Prejudice makes Men Bold above measure and Self-will'd above the Power of Conviction and 't is almost certain that those who are acted by it are very bad Men and know it not and do many ill things and fancy they do well Altho' the Rule of their Duty is plain and obvious yet there is such a false Byass such an obscurity in their Understanding that they see it not And as Error in Judgment produces Mischief in Practice they think themselves Obliged to do Evil. Now there is no Cure for such an Ignorance as this like Laws and Punishments for many who have not Wisdom enough to know their Duty have Wit enough to fear the Punishment for the Transgression of it 2. From Vice Many who know their Duty well enough have not a Will to do it Murderers Thieves Robbers upon the Highway and other Criminals of the first Magnitude dread Courts of Justice being able to read their own Doom when brought before Upright Judges and Honest Juries And other Malefactors over-rul'd perhaps by Self-love or Fear or greater Cunning who decline these Desperate Courses and chuse to practice their Villanous Projects in as Morally a wicked but as they think a safer way by Fraud and Falshood Injustice and Oppression Forgery and Perjury they all know the Shame and Punishment due to their Crimes as appears by their Denials and the Shifting Deceitful Arts they use for the Concealment of them And yet Bad Men will be guilty of these Crimes by the Instigation of the Devil and the prevailing Vices of their Corrupt Nature Their Wills are stronger than their Reason and their Irregular Passions so much more powerful than their Consciences that they will do such things as in their Judgment in their Sober Intervals they Blame and Condemn themselves for And if so great Crimes be committed in a Christian Countrey under a Regular Government notwithstanding so many Suffering Examples and the standing Terrours of the Law against the Desperately Violent and Cunningly Dishonest part of Mankind what could we expect but the Abomination of Desolation in every Corner of the Countrey were Criminals suffer'd to Riot at the Expence of other Men's Lives and Fortunes with Impunity Altho' we all have this Security that none can do us Injury without venturing the Damnation of their own Souls yet so great is the Wickedness of some Men as makes Temporal Laws necessary to affect them with the Fear of more present more dreadful Punishments than they think the Eternal Torments of Hell to be II. As there is a Necessity of Government so there is the same Necessity of Governours for by Principalities and Powers are signify'd the Persons who have the Power of Governing and the Word Magistrates which is not exprest in the Original is added in our Translation probably by way of Explanation of the former 1. There is a Necessity of Supream Governours to Exercise Acts of Soveraignty viz. to make Laws for the Publick Good and Order of a Nation to moderate the Rigorous Execution of them when 't is likely to prove more Prejudicial than Beneficial to the P●blick in this sense that is doubtless a good Maxim Salus populi suprema lex eslo and to Repeal them when upon change of Circumstances and unforeseen Inconveniences which no Humane Wisdom can provide against the Publick Benefit requires it To have the Power of making War whether Defensive or Offensive for Reparation of National Wrongs and to Secure their Dominions from the Dangerous Greatness of False and Faithelss Neighbours And to make Peace upon the Offer or Acceptance of Just and Honourable Terms to Send and Receive Ambassadors for the Securing a Good Understanding with Forreign Princes and States and a Mutual Intercourse of good Offices with their Subjects to Appoint the Value Weight and Stamp of the Coin to supply the Occasions of Trade and Commerce to Confer Honours as Rewards for and Encouragements of Generous Minds to Worthy Actions and Noble Enterprizes to Receive the Last Appeal that the Course of Justice may not run infinitely a Circle from one Superior to another without End and to Appoint Ministers of State Great Officers Judges and Magistrates such as St. Peter tells us are Sent or Commissioned by the King for the Punishment of Evil-doers and the Praise of them that do well 2. There is a Necessity of Subordinate Governours and Magistrates to Administer Justice in their Respective Places and Stations according to Jethro's Advice to Moses Exod. 18.21 22. for the Ease of the Prince in bearing part of the Burden with him and for the Benefit of the People that they may not want Right to be done to them upon their several Occasions of it For it is as impossible a Task for Princes to Administer Justice to their People as to Fight their Battels without their Hands and Help And it is greatly to the People's Benefit and to Supply their Necessities that there are Subordinate Magistrates in several Parts of the Kingdom Appointed by the Authority and Fatherly Care of the Prince from whom as the Head all the Advantages of Government are convey'd to them as Members of the Body Politique And in truth