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A78141	The royal robe: or, A treatise of meeknesse. Upon Col. 3. 12. wholly tending to peaceablenesse. / By James Barker, minister of Redbourn in Hartfordshire.	Barker, James, Minister of Redbourn.	1661 (1661)	Wing B769; Thomason E1857_1; ESTC R19561	107,888	272

for his Clemencie it is the most precious Jewel in the Crowns of Princes an addition to their greatnesse hath in it a majesty as well as sweetness which not allures only but awes A Clement Prince is an object for love and wonder to stand amazed at unto whom all men tanquam ad Clarum a● beneficum sidus certatim advolant Titus cognomine paterno amor ac deliciae humani generis C. Suetoni Tran. de vita Ti●i vesp 12. Caesar quid pulchrius quam viv●re optantibus cunctis Sen. de Clem. lib. 1. c. 19. can there be a greater honour than was that of Titus to be the darling of the world What can be more honourable than to live with the good liking of all whose life is tendered as a common benefit of mankind whose death is the fear of al the hope of none whose presence is desired as some Coelestial influence and whose person is beheld with almost a divine veneration for he that comes nearest to God in his clemencie and moderation why should he not be next to God in our love and estimation 3. He shall be better obey'd Rigour and severity is an unsafe and an unpleasant way to keep the people in their obedience Man is a sociable creature and is easilyer led than drawn The will of man is sooner tamed with advis'd following than rash resisting Besides the clemencie of the Magistrate makes the subject Verecundiam peccandi facit ipsa Clementia regentis Sen. de Clem. lib. 1. c. 22. Remissius imperanti melius paretur Sen. de Clem. lib. 1. c. 24. a shamed to offend for he must needs be accounted extremely bad whom a Magistrate inclined to pity doth punish Therefore the saying of the Philosopher is to be approv'd who saith The people will be best ruled when they are mildly governed Yet a care must be had that the Magistrate be not too remiss in punishing for some if they shall perceive the reins of government to be stackened like a mettal'd horse they will overthrow the Rider It is better to live under a rigid government where no man dare do any thing than in an Anarchie where any man dare do all things It is likely to go ill with the good when bad men Principis erga sccleratos len●tas est in bonos crudelitas Cic. 3. offic may do what they will clemencie to the bad is cruelty to the good it is the duty of a good Magistrate to stop the mouth of wickednesse and to vindicate a wronged innocencie The discreet Magistrate will wisely distinstuish he will make a difference that honest me● be not discouraged and the hands of the wicked strengthened When wickednesse is grown exemplary and wickd men incorrigible the Magistrate must deal with them as the Chyrurgeon with an unsound Immedicabile vulnus ense recidendum ne pars sincera trabatur Quia melius est paucorum supplicio universos eximi quam in omnes vindicari Ambros member cut it off lest it endanger the whole body for it is better that one member perish than that the whole body should be ruin'd the safety of many is to be preferred before the pleasure of one seasonable justice prevents many mischiefs which after knows no remedy but patience lenity in some cases is cruelty But as the Chyrurgeon in cutting off a member or searching of a wound is deaf to the complaints of his patient and heeds not his teares nor his cries till he have done his work So the good Magistrate though never so meek doth stop his eares to the cries Anus mulierculae sunt quae lachrimis nocentissimorummoventur Senec. de Clem. lib. 2. cap. 5 Aut ut eum quempunit emendet aut ut paena ejus coeteros melio●sreddat aut ut sublatis malis securiores coeteri vivant Sen. de Clem. lib. 1. cap. 22. C●udeles sunt qui puni●ndi causam haben● mo●um non hab●nt Sen. de Clem. lib. 2. c. p. 4. of the guilty It is for women and children to be mov'd with the teares and sufferings of desperate and incorrigible offenders The Magistrate then is meek and merciful not that punisheth not at all but with justice and due moderation and that having just cause to punish hath respect both to the measure and to the end Respect must be had to the measure for some there are who having cause to punish know no mean in punishing but proceed to that height that mans nature is dishonour'd in a personal suffering 2. Respect must be had to the end and that is first the reformation not destruction of the delinquent for a difference must be made between the sin and the sinner the person and his fault let the fault be corrected butlet the person be spared and so punish that the sin may be destroyed and the sinner saved A second end of punishing the guilty is for the example of others that they may fear and beware lest they fall into the same condemnation jungantur in culpa non separentur in poena It is the rule of justice that they who are guilty of the same offence should partake of the same punishment A third end of punishing is that the evil being removed and take out of the way the rest may live the more securely for when the wicked perish the righteous encrease Prov. Pro. 〈…〉 28. 28. For as the painful husbandman doth gather out the weeds that the Corne may grow the better and cuts off the superfluous and dead branches of his trees and vines that they may bear fruit the better so doth the good Magistrate deal with such men whom he shall find to be pernicious Glementia sua severi●atem sententiae temperavit Hieron in Lacam 18. 27. Vt fulmina paucorum periculo cadunt omnium metu sic animadversiones magna um potestatum terrent latius quam nocent Sen de Clem. lib. 1. c. 8. Su●●ma par simonia etiam vilissimi sanguinis Sen. de Clem. lib. 1. cap. 1. and unprofitable to the Common-wealth And thus as Justice hath respect unto the cause so hath Clemencie regard unto the measure and to the end for the Magistrate like the Surgeon should have an Eagles eye a Lions heart but a Ladies hand skill and courage but withal tendernesse and gentlenesse For the threats of the Magistrate should be like thunder which afrights many with the noise hurts few with the stroke and therefore the Magistrare hath the sword carried before him in the sheath ferrum vagina reconditum and is not to be drawn but upon weighty occasion they must be sparing of blood even of the most vile And now you have heard that meeknesse is a garment meet for the Magistrates wear Secondly mildnesse doth well become the Minister the Prophet saith of God Thou Lord art good and gracious and of great kindness to all Psal 86. 5. that call upon thee Rigour and severity will ill become the servant when his Lord is gentle