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A23679	A sermon preacht in Bridgewater, the next day after the election of burgesses, February 27, 1680/1 by William Allen, B.D., and Vicar of Bridgewater, Somerset.	Allen, William, fl. 1681-1697.	1681 (1681)	Wing A1079; ESTC R9086	9,674	20

according to their Works And every mans own Conscience tells him though none else is conscious of it that God to him is just and righteous in all his dealings But though God be Judge and that eminently so and the righteous Judge yet hath he deputed Men as his Substitutes the King as Supreme under him and other Magistrates as ordained by the King Magistracy which is but a Power over others for a common Good is a pious and primitive Institution derivative from God the great and sole Monarch of the World First founded in the Paternal Relation and that afterward expanded but as Families increas'd And Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandment with promise engageth us equally if not more to Obedience to the Pater Patriae to Kings and Queens as Nursing-Fathers and Nursing-Mothers as to our proximate or dearest Relatives And therefore the Hypothesis of Hobbes and Calvin are as absurd as mischievous in making Kings and Magistrates the creatures of the People Justin the Heathen tells us Principio rerum Gentium Nationumque Imperium penes Reges erat That in the beginning of time the Government of the World in all the Kingdoms of it was managed by Kings and Monarchs I say both profane and Scripture-History assure us that Kingly Government was the first Establishment And though the Mosaical Government be urged as a refutation of this proposal yet it is rejoyned that that was a Theocrasie nay and as humane it was Monarchical too Deut. 33.5 for Moses is said to be King in Jesurun And it is evident from Josephus and the Machabees and other Writers that when that people fell under the Government of a Sanhedrim that is a Presbytery they soon fell into ruine and became not a people But not to animadvert upon their Misfortunes nor to make that an Argument of the Justice or Injustice of any particular Polity It is very clear from the Records of the first Times that the Government of a Commonwealth is but an Apostacy from if not a Rebellion against the first Model And as Christ said of Polygamy that from the beginning it was not so the like may we affirm of the whoredom of Republicks And as the one was but permitted the Jews so the other at this day is but permitted of God for the hardness of mens hearts Having thus by the way adjusted the Right of Monarchical Government and withal shewed you that that Government more than any is from God and that persons entrusted with it bear his Authority and as they are his Vicegerents they are to do his work and to personate a Righteous God which Righteousness they are to display in the vindication of Gods Honour in the defence of Gods Laws in the protection of Gods people in the punishment of Gods enemies and this must be done with respect to God as the chief Judge to the common good as the subordinate end and that for the discharge of their own Consciences as they will give an account of their Stewardship at the great Day of Judgment So likewise Under-Magistrates are the Kings Vicegerents and their Righteousness consists in this not only in being true to their God but faithful to their King In preserving his Prerogatives in defending his Person in promoting his Honour in executing his Laws and every way in their places securing the present Establishment Which brings me to the Second Particular general Secondly The peoples Security and Satisfaction in such Governours or Rulers They will do Judgment and therefore all Good and Loyal men will bless God for such a Prince and such Magistrates because they are at once assured of God's protection and their King 's and those that are employ'd and authoris'd by both now if ever shall they lead their lives in all Godliness Peaceableness and Honesty Blessed certainly are the people that are in such a case For as Children are often blessed for the Piety of their Parents and according to God's own promise it is to descend to many generations So for the sake of David a Prince and Ruler after God's own heart Judah shall be blessed And though indeed for his sins the Land did mourn yet upon his Repentance they and he were restored to God's favour And why may I not make this Remark by the way that for the sake of our late English David for the Piety and Constancy of Charles the First the Defender of the Faith yea of that Faith once delivered to the Saints and that even to the Death God in mercy remembred the sinful People of this Land and knock'd off those Chains we enthrall'd our selves in and brought us out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of Bondage and disabled our many Pharaohs and their Hosts from making us a continued prey Why may we not impute the Blessings we now enjoy in the many years of our now lawful Prince and those to the Prayers and Piety of that Glorious Martyr whose Memory ought to be dear and precious to us And would to God that all the Subordinate Magistrates of this Realm who hold their Power by Patent-Royal would defend the same Faith as he and his Successour do and worship God faithfully in the same way and plead for and Christianly and courageously appear for that Righteousness which is established by a Law then might we the people of this Realm confidently hope Isa 48.18 that our Peace should be as a River and our Righteousness as the waves of the Sea For this satisfaction would farther insue that the Inhabitants of the Land and every distinct Corporation and every Member of the same that they might sit peaceably under their own Vines and eat the Fruit of their Labours And that satisfaction shall arise not only from God's promise given to a people so * Isai 1.19 governed but from the confidence we shall have in such Governours For they that will not act contrary to God's Law nor to Magna Charta that will not be imposed upon against the Law of the Nation and the Religion establish'd by Law they will be a terrour to Evil-doers and a praise to them that do well And when we are thus guarded by God's Blessing and the Magistrates Power a wall of Brass or of Fire cannot be more our Security than this double Bulwark of Defence Besides this Security and in it this satisfaction from such just Rulers would arise that the Hypocrites in Sion would tremble and be afraid The resolved and exemplary Loyalty both to God and the King in such men would awe the most impudent and daring Delinquents into a sneakiness of temper and into an external thô not a real compliance The same Bravery and Goodness of Minde in a private person we by experience finde puts oftentimes a check upon the most dissolute and disaffected Naked and unarmed Virtue is too powerful for the powers of Darkness and a little light will dispel the shades below But when the Righteousness of the

A SERMON Preacht in Bridgewater The next day after the ELECTION OF BURGESSES FEBRUARY 27. 1680 1. BY WILLIAM ALLEN B.D. and Vicar of Bridgewater Somerset LONDON Printed for G. S. in the Year 1681. To the Worshipful RICHARD CAN MAYOR John Gilbert Senior and John Harey Aldermen of the Burrough of Bridgewater Gentlemen THe Presenter of this Epistle is very much the Servant of Col. Ralph Stawel as any man must needs be that loves either his Prince or his Countrey and has the Honour to know that worthy Gentleman He has likewise the Happiness to be of the acquaintance of the Minister that Preached this ensuing Sermon Now knowing full well how great a Reverence and Esteem your Worships have for the Honourable Colonel and this Reverend Divine this your Supplicant could do no better than recommend the Honourable Colonel and the Reverend Divine aforesaid to your Fatherly Care and Protection It is most certain that the Generous Colonel has been extremely abused behind his back by some that he deserved better from upon occasion of the late Election and the Divine likewise hath born his part in Reproaches about his late Sermon I am not a person to name People in any case of scandal and therefore I shall content my self to give your Worships a Hint of what passed lately concerning these Gentlemen and leave the rest to your Worships Wisdom and Consideration It is said for a certain that in some Company not unknown to your Worships upon occasion of Discourse with some People of this Neighbourhood there were some very ill words spoken and ill things done by a Knave a Fool and a Cuckold with relation to the Noble Colonel and this worthy Divine If you can either guess at the Men or if you have heard of the thing this is humbly to beg of you that you will interpose your Discretion and Authority in the matter that it may go no further and that you will be pleased to keep this to your selves This comes from a man that must be nameless and that beseeches you over and over not to let either the Fool the Knave or the Cuckold if you should happen to stumble upon them to have any knowledge how This comes to your hand The Lord have you in his keeping PROVERBS 21. v. 15. It is a Joy to the Just to do Judgment IT would be happy with the World says Plato were Kings Philosophers or Philosophers Kings Their Wisdom instructing them in all the Methods of Peace and their Tempers more than inclining them to the practice of them But we have a more sure word of Prophecy to give heed to and a greater than Plato tells us Pro. 14.34 that Righteousness exalteth a Nation When it goeth well with the righteous the City rejoyces 11.11 and by the Blessing of the upright the City is exalted But it is one of the greatest plagues can befal a People or a Body-politick when Children are given to be their Princes Isai 3.4 and Babes shall rule over them and that not so much in Age as Understanding And yet that defect would not be so mischievous neither if they had honest hearts and that it were a joy to them as just to do Judgment And this refers not so much to Kings as Supreme as to those that are in Authority under them And happy would it have been for this Kingdom if the Righteousness established by its Laws had been the measures of subordinate Magistrates proceedings and that it had been a Joy to them as just both to God and their King to have done Judgment In accounting for the words which is the Wiseman's Doctrinal remark I shall undertake to shew these following Truths First That an Habitual Righteousness or Justice of Minde fits a man for Government or doing Judgment if call'd to it as a Magistrate Secondly That the People rejoyce in the Administrations of such men thus qualified to whom it is a joy to do Judgment Thirdly We are to consider the Satisfaction the Just man or Magistrate hath in doing Judgment It is a Joy to the Just to do Judgment In accounting for the first I say That the Holy and Righteous God is the great Rector of the World He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and because He is Holy and Righteous all things are dispensed in Number Weight and Measure And thô there are some Intrigues in his Providence and Arcana's of Kingdom Rom. 11.33 which we cannot fathom or comprehend For his Judgments or procedures are past finding out yet every thing is ordered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Council of his Will which is not arbitrary but according to his own Wisdome Justice and Goodness And as the Kingly Prophet declares God to be Judge so the Father of the faithful assures that the Judge of all the Earth will do right 'T is he alone that by his Power and Wisdome prevents and defeats many of those Designs of Mischief that evil Spirits or evil men would plague the world withal And as 't is He that sometimes turns the hearts of Princes Prov. 21.1 which are in his hands as the Rivers of waters so it is he that stills the raging of the people and brings to light the hidden works of darkness And what no eye can see but the All-seeing One he exposeth to open view Those Malefactors which come not under the Cognisance of humane Judicatures He brings forth to the Bar. And we know by Experience that the Treason some time since directed against the Lord 's Anointed and the murderous Hostilities of others committed against their Brethren hath been by a wonderful Providence detected even to the astonishment of the world In these and the like other instances God may be said to execute his Vengeance and declare that he himself is Judge And by such extraordinary proceedings convince the world of that excellent Saying of the Psalmist Except the Lord keep the City Psal 127.1 the Watchman waketh but in vain Neither hath he given us proofs only of his Governing the World in remarkable Examples of his Punitive Justice but in the expressions of his Grace and Mercy towards those that love and fear him by rewarding their Virtue in advancing their Persons by making them conspicuous and great in the world glorious in mens eyes as well as gracious in his And because he is Righteous he pleads the Cause of the Fatherless and of the Widow and hears their Prayers when they cry unto him and avengeth the wrong done unto them when others concern'd either would not or could not And ever when it consists with the innocent and injured's real advantage which God knows best he delivers them out of all their troubles So that though he reserve many things for the determination of the great Day of Retribution yet that all may know that there is a God that now judgeth the earth he makes men even now sensible that in this world they are rewarded