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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73282	Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity.	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.	1631 (1631)	STC 23505; ESTC S123301	19,735	38

he list a golden key commonly opens a wrong locke Loquente auro nil pollet quaevis oratio The mouth of a Lawyer saith Tully is an Oracle for the whole Citty but if in this mouth there be a guilded tongue it will prove like the Oracle at Delphos whereof Demosthenes complained in his time that it did speake nothing but what Philip would have it that had given a double fee. But I for my part accuse no man but many that have beene ancient Termers say that Lawyers take much money and say little for it that they come amongst many of you for succour as a sheepe runnes to the thornes and briars for shelter in time of a tempest they are saved from the shower for that time but that which saved thē pulls that wool from their backes that they are never able to abide another storme Some have money for holding their peace others for speaking that you who should be like Atropos to cut become like Clotho to spinne and like Lachesis to draw in length the thread of contention Maginus and some other Geographers noting the diameter and circuit of the earth are of opinion that if a foote-man had a path round about the world he might goe it in 900 dayes and take no hard journeyes a strange thing that one man in that time should goe through the world and some other in twice so much time cannot passe through an English Court or the length of Westminster hall let it never be tolde in Gath nor published in the streetes of Askelon that English Lawyers should grow great as that common souldier in Tacitus tolde Pompey per nostram miseriam by the misery of poore clients it is wickednesse inexpiable to build your houses with the fall of others let it never be said that you are like the milt of a mans body whereof Laurentius saith that it never growes great until all other parts of the body decay and perish But purge your hearts from covetous desires wash your hands frō the rust of that silver your consciences from the canker of that gold which with greedinesse you have conjested and raked together know for certaine that God will strictly examine and your soules shall one day pay for it When one asked Diogenes what was the reason that golde alwayes looked pale he shaped him this answer Quia tot habet insidiatores because so many crafty heads lie in ambush for it I pray God you may all be more greedy of heaven than of earth more willing to winne the streight way to heaven than the broad way to a heape of wealth And more carefull to make your election than your lands and possessions sure Thirdly this sinne is to be whipt from all Iurers and Witnesses also if you have but such a thought of this what shall I have you shall be sure to meete with Simon Magus that will say what shall I give You must sweare in truth and justice Ier. 4.2 You are to be whipt for ever out of the company of God and his Angels you are to be shut out of the kingdome and inheritance of the Saints you shall heare the thundering of an angry Iudge Mal. 3.5 There will be a writ against you a flying booke it is ten cubits broad and twenty cubits long Zach. 5. and that booke is a curse that flieth over the whole earth verse 3. that curse shall lay siege to the walls and timber of your houses to consume both you and them if money make you speake either more or lesse than the truth Such men saith Diodo Sicu Bib. lib. 2. cap. were alwayes punished with death and so Bohemus de moribus gent. lib. 1. cap. 5. ad Aug. in his Quae. in Deut. lib. 5. cap. 34. but that is but an easie punishment and temporall but the judgement that God hath for you is endlesse and easelesse you shall stand without Apoc. 22.15 without God without glory without mercy without comfort without hope without the Kingdome you shall have your portion in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Apoc. 21.8 I therefore charge you in the name of God as you will answer it at the dreadfull day of judgement when the secrets of all hearts shall be opened and when you shall remember my words and see my face againe that not money nor money-worth make you smother the truth or support an ill cause that you deale faithfully betwixt a man and his brother that you remember the Apostles rule Ephes 5.3 Let not this sinne be once named amongst you A word for conclusion Right Honorable be you like Iethroes Iudges men of courage to helpe poore ones to defend weake ones to oppose great ones to cut off wicked ones Like Iethroes Iudges fearing God setting God allwayes before your eyes judging others as if you were going to be judged your selves having Gods Law that was once written in Tables of stone firmely and plainly written in the fleshly tables of your heartes Be like Iethroes Iudges men of trueth receiving no false nor suspected witnesses pronouncing no unjust nor partiall sentences Be like Iethroes Iudges hating covetousnesse as the staine of your Courtes the baine of your consciences the smotherer and stifler of Iustice the death and poyson of soules that when you shall put off your scarlet robes you may put on the long white robe of Saints and when you shall be removed from these seates of justice you may be admitted into a seate of glory and may follow the blessed Lambe wheresoever he goes Grave and learned Counsellors you must be like Iethroes Iudges men of courage to pleade against prophanesse men fearing God as patterns and examples of holinesse men of truth not setting a good countenance upon a bad cause men hating covetousnes lest it be truly wrote upon your graves as it was upon the Tombstone of Trinullius Hîc ●andem quiescit mortuus qui vivus requievit nunquam Here he restes in mould who whilst he lived could never rest for gold nor suffered them to rest that would Think godlinesse your greatest gaine Pleade for Christ and hee will pleade for you that when you shall be called from these barres to answer for your owne sinnes at the barre and tribunall of Gods judgement seate you may finde mercy and favour with God and you also may follow the blessed Lamb wheresoever he will Iurers and witnesses you also must be like Iethroes Iudges men of courage whom greatnesse of person cannot daunt men fearing God whom no private affection can command men of truth whom no perjuries can attaint men that hate covetousnesse and say with Balaam if Balaac would give me his housefull of golde and silver I will not be suborned or hired to deflect one haires breadth from the Eclipticke line of truth that when you have decided controversies among your brethren God may have no controversie with you when you have witnessed what possessions belong to men you may have a witnesse in your owne consciences that your selves belong to God and you also may follow the blessed Lambe wheresoever he goes And let all of us be like Iethroes Iudges putting on courage to fight the Lords battells armed with his feare girded with his truth as with a girdle hating the rust and canker of the unrighteous Mammon that when God shall finish our evill dayes of sinne hee may be pleased to quiet our clamorous consciences to pardon our sinnes to save our soules and to receive both our bodies and soules into his blessed kingdome and all of us may follow the blessed Lambe wheresoever he goeth That we may be filled with the glory of the Father be made partakers of an infinite happinesse purchased by the Sonne be ravisht with the ineffable comfort of the holy Ghost to which holy blessed glorious and immortall Trinity be rendred and ascribed of us and all Gods Saints throughout the world all power praise glory thanks and dominion from this time forth and for evermore Amen FINIS