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A67833	Two assize sermons preached at Winchester the first Feb. 26, 1694, James Hunt of Popham, Esq. being sheriff of the county of Southampton : the second July 14, 1686, Charles Wither of Hall, Esq. being sheriff, &c. / by E. Young ...	Young, Edward, 1641 or 2-1705.	1695 (1695)	Wing Y70; ESTC R3087	24,328	64

whose Matters are not of Natural but only of Positive Right which happens as often as Laws are enacted about things that are in their Own Nature Indifferent Now it is certain these Matters do not Directly belong to Gods Cause and yet they do Consequentially Because Indifferent things do generally carry in them the Advantages and Encouragements of Necessary Things And whether they do or no God will have our Obedience approved in Indifferent Things as well as Necessary We conclude therefore that Moral Things which are most commonly the Matter of Human Laws are Gods Cause by Antecedent Relation and that Indifferent things when they once are made Matter of Human Laws do then become Gods Cause by Espousal And therefore it is that Both are charged upon the Consciences of Men by the Apostle and Both are to be observed for the sake of God Or in Case they are not observed the Animadversion upon those that do not observe them is no less than a Judgment executed in Gods Behalf III. The Issue of Judgment is Gods End The Political End of Judgment is the Maintenance of the Laws the securing of Rights the encouragement of Industry and the establishing of Peace in which consists that Political Happiness that Every Government aims at But God has a Greater End in it than All this and that is the making of Men Internally Good and Virtuous and laying in them the Foundation of a Future Happiness a Happiness that will last when all the Polities of the World are past off the Stage and expired So that we ought to look upon Judgment as a Part of Gods Providence whereby he governs the World to his most holy Purposes For as we all acknowledge that God has a Providence whereby he does govern the World so if we enquire into the Nature and End of that Providence we shall find it to be no other than a series of several Methods to make Men Good to which End this of Human Judgment is conducing in the most Eminent manner For no doubt but Judgment is the greatest possible External Bond of Human Virtue and the most effectual Check of disorderly Passions It guards Men from doing Ill by a Wholsome Fear and those that have done Ill it brings to Repentance by Suffering Insomuch that in the Scripture it is recommended as the great Disposition to Christianity and the great Preparatory to the salvation of God For the Prophet Isaiah speaking of the Coming of our Saviour and explaining as it were that future Message of John the Baptist Prepare ye the way of the Lord he does it in these Words Isaiah lvi 1. thus saith the Lord keep ye judgment and do justice for my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed And to the same sense is that Passage Psalm xcvii where after it has been said verse 1. The Lord reigneth the earth may be glad thereof it follows verse 2. justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne As if according to the Ordinary nature of Things God could not Reign where the Government did not assert him He may in Compassion hover over a People but he can never pitch his Tent and Dwell amongst them unless the Magistrate fix him a Throne by looking to that Point which S. Paul therefore calls the very End of Magistracy viz. To be a terrour to evil doers and a Praise to them that do well Thus God has put into the hands of the Magistrate not only a Godlike Power but likewise the Power of a Godlike Retaliation For as He makes them Govern so they may and who questions but that they ought to make Him Govern Reciprocally I know indeed that God has had a Church in the World and that the most glorious Church that ever was in the World without the Assistance of Magistrates But that was in an Age of Visible Miracles and at a time when the World and the Church stood notoriously distinguish'd and while those that were of the Church were kept so Humble by Persecution and Mortify'd by Poverty and Sober by the Daily Expectation of Death that they needed no Other Laws to restrain their Appetites But now that the World it self is come into the Church and Men can maintain their Temporal Hopes and Passions and their Christian Profession together it is impossible but that the Tares of Common Corruption should choak and wast the Good seed unless the Magistrate step in to weed and to pluck up and assist in the Cultivation of the Field IV. The Formal Judgment i. e. the Sentence of Judgment is Gods Sentence For says the Psalmist God is judge himself Psal. 1. 6. And though Delegated Powers act for him at present and pass the Sentence yet he Recognizes and Imputes that Sentence and takes it into his Own Account We are aware that God has appointed a Day in the which he will Judge the World in Righteousness And the Rule of Proceeding in that Day as the Holy Scripture avouches shall be this viz. Men shall Reap as they Sow and He that hath done Wrong shall receive for the Wrong that he hath done Now the very same being the Rule of all Human Judicature we ought to look upon every Judicial Sessions here to be no other than a Particular Dispatch of Business subordinate and preparatory to the Universal Judgment Thus when wrong is Recompensed by Human Judgment the Judgment of God is so far Prevented If indeed the Sentence it self happen to be Wrong and Injurious then in the Psalmist's Style The poor committeth himself to God that he may take the matter into his own hands Thus I say it happens should the Sentence of Judgment be in it self Wrong and Injurious But both the Law and Good Manners look upon this as the Supposition of an Impossible thing Turpe est Impossibile says the Rule of Law and therefore without farther supposing it I shall form This Conclusion viz. That Every Sentence of Human Judgment is Ingredient to the Retribution of the Great Day and that All that Men suffer here for their Crimes if they suffer it with a just sense of their Crimes shall then be imputed to such a Measure of their Purgation and All the Impunity that Guilt meets with here shall be reckon'd for in the Sentence that shall then be passed I say not that a Man may work out his Future Absolution by any satisfactions that he can make here to Publick Justice or that he cannot be Absolved in the Future without such satisfactions here paid Blessed be the Love of Christ whose Satisfactions are All-sufficient But this I say that since God has made True Repentance a necessary Condition without which none can lay hold on that Satisfaction which Christ has made and no Repentance is True that does not engage a Man to make what Satisfaction he is able himself both to Men by Compensation for Injuries and to God by Sorrow for Guilt And since Men left to their Own Discretion are