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A62112	The Lord Jesus his commission (under the broad seal of His Highnes the Royal & Real Lord Protector of heaven and earth) as man, to be the alone judge of life and death in the great and general assize of the world proved and improved before the reverend judges at the assize holden at Maidstone, March 17, 1655 for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons.	Symons, Henry, fl. 1657-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6360A; ESTC R26957	35,152	56

and be content with their wages How are these Rules inverted by most Souldiers they offer violence to every man acccuse any man falsly are not content with their pay but will have plunder and free quarter into the bargain How hard a matter would it be to answer one that should ask this question Cui bono do Souldiers serve I know some will be ready to answer to fight the Lords battails to withstand forraign invasions to subdue intestine rebellions and to preserve Princes in their Royalties Parliaments in their Priviledges and people in their Liberties I cannot deny but that they may do such things and must do or else cannot be able to justifie the lawfulness of their calling Yet for the most part they serve for nothing else but to maintaine Princes in their Tyranny and oppression Parliaments in feare and subjection people in vassalage and slavery I read of Xerxes that viewing almost an innumerable Army of men fell on weeping saying Where will all these men be within an hundred yeares If he thought that for his sake or rather sin they should be in hell it might well make him weepe 6. Rich men How few of them that are rich towards God Luk. 12. 21. Rich in faith James 2. 5. Rich in good works 1 Tim. 6. 18. Inopem sua copia fecit Their plenty in temporalls and poverty in spiritualls Riches for the most part are not ladders to lift mens souls to heaven but to let them downe to hell Riches to most men are as wind and quill to bladders puff them and swell them with prophaneness they make gold their God and worship that in the stamp which they abhor to do in the statue These are such as the Apostle could not mention with dry eyes Phil. 3. 18 19. Their minds are so taken up with earth as they have no leisure nor love to looke after heaven As the Duke d' Alva told H. 4. of France asking him whither he had observed the late great Ecclipse they are so taken up with minding their Hawks and hounds and worse employments that they have no time to mind God Christ grace poore nor their own immortall soules See an instance in that rich man Luk. 16. 19. Here is minding back and belly no praying reading singing or releiving Lazarus c. Oh that all rich men would but seriously weigh two places of Scripture they are able to make their hearts tremble Math. 19. 23 24. Then said Jesus unto his Disciples verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdome of heaven And again I say unto you It is easier for a Camel to goe thorow the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of God Philip was wont to say An Asse laden with gold would enter any City-gates I say not enter the City-gates of heaven Luk 6. 14. Woe unto you that are rich for you have received your consolation Rich men usually have their heaven on earth Consolation here and desolation hereafter Luk. 16. 25. 7. The ordinary and Common sort of people bond and Praeter paucissimos quosdam qui mala fugiunt quid est aliud penè caetus Christi norum quàm sentina vitiorum free as in the Text who live more like Bruits then men Cretians then Christians We may say of most of them as Plato said of the Argentines they live as if they should never dye and come to judgement for all their oathes whoredomes cosenages c. Heu vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur Seu velut infernus fabula vana foret Salv. de Pro. They call and count judgement a bug-beare to scare children They have made a Covenant with death and with hell are they at agreement Isa 28. 15. Tell them of an Assize on earth wherein they are much concerned either for land or life they like the Devills believe and tremble James 2. 19. But tell them of an Assize in the aire wherein they are most concern'd for their eternall life they little believe it and less tremble at it David in Psal 14. 1 2 3. The fool hath said in his heart There is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doth good The Lord looked downe from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seeke God They are all gone aside they are all together become filthy there is none that doth good no not one And Paul Rom. 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit the poyson of Asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness Their feet are swift to shed blood Destruction and misery are in their wayes And the way of peace have they not known There is no feare of God before their eyes joyned together give a most exact description of such persons as these are It is as true of our time as true in the time Multis annis jam transactis Nulla fides est in pactis Mel in ore verba lactis Fel in corde fraus in factis I may partly English it in our Singing Psalms Help Lord for good and godly men Doe perish and decay And faith and truth from worldly men Is parted clean away Who so doth with his neighbour talk His talk is all but vaine For every man bethinketh how To flatter lye and faine Luk. 13. 24. Strive to enter into the strait gate most are so far from striving to get into heaven that they strive to get into hell they ride post to get thither first for feare there should be no roome for them in hell the only place of honour and happiness in their opinion Alas whose faces blush not eyes weep not hearts bleed not if any sparks of good in them to see the most of poor people like the country about Eugubium Quo magis aliena divitijs eò magis exuberat vitijs the more poore the more profane the more barren the more base If they John 7. 49. did condemne the rabble to be accursed because they did not know the Law then may we safely mistrust them that neither know the Law nor believe or obey the Gospel Inform. 3. The reason why godly men and Ministers are so much discontented yea * 2 Cor. 5. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 insanimus Beza mad when they see any injury or indignity offered to the person offices government of the Lord Jesus Christ Oh how say they shall we be able to look the Lord Jesus Christ in the face when he comes as a Judge if we suffer or endure it For Christ to have just occasion to say to any of them as Absolom to Hushai about 2 Sam. 16. 17. David Is this thy kindness to thy Friend would be a torment as bad as hell and therefore they cannot beare the least wrong to Christ Servetus condemned Zwinglius for