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A68930	The vnrighteous iudge, or, Iudex cretensis, the iudge of Crete a sermon preached within the iurisdiction of the arch-deaconry of Norwich, at a generall court, in April last past, 16. 1621 / by Mr. Yonger of South-Walsham.	Yonger, William, b. 1572 or 3.	1621 (1621)	STC 26098.3; ESTC S121841	20,261	30

shut vp and inclosed Hence is the cause of all with this Antesignanus Nequitiae this Theomachus they feare not God or as Iob saith men haue forgotten the feare of the Almighty Lastly this Iudge is here taxed with inciuility Nor regarded man or want of good manners he regarded not man I wonder then if there were any man regarded him or gaue him a good word any good report A good name saith Salomon is better then a precious ointment yet with many a precious ointment is better then a good name I haue seene men outwardly smell of sweet perfumes but inwardly they haue had an ill sauour of all vices yet men in high place aboue all things are to respect this carefully to auoyd infamy and ill report which quickly spreades out and inlargeth it selfe as we know in a troubled water one circle begets another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore the Poet said well Fama malum quo non aliud velocius vllum Mobilitate viget viresque acquirit eundo Few in high place but much regard this howsoeuer this slow bellied swilbellied Cretian wallowing in his stinke and sinke of iniquity as Lot in his drunkennesse commits abhominable incest with his two daughters the elder and the yonger sinne and shame Secondly He offended in the Negatiue but let vs carefully practise the affirmatiue namely to reuerence and regard man Yea I say man cuiuscunque conditionis as Augustus spake to that Romane Pollio of what condition soeuer he be Though hee bee much thine inferiour hee is made into the same Image with thy selfe endued with the same shape and liueth vnder the same gouernment and prouidence of the Creator and as thou oughtest in charitie to thinke within the compasse of Gods Election Hee is a man Giue him a ciuill reuerence and regard The whole Law is reduced into two maine parts The loue of GOD and the Loue of our Neighbour the one begets the other and hee that loues not his brother whom he hath seene can neuer loue God whom he hath not seene 1 Iohn 4.20 This loue shewes it selfe amongst other things by a ciuill and courteous behauiour towards man Peter amongst other duties 1 Pet. 3. requires this Be courteous to all men in the 3. of Titus 2. Put them in remembrance that they be courteous How courteous and respectfull were the sonnes of Heth to Abraham Gen. 23.6 being in a strange country and put to it for a buriall place for his wife In the chiefest of our Sepulchers bury thy dead And because they would shew their regard the more they adde words enough and words good enough None of vs shall forbid thee his Sepulcher but thou maiest bury thy dead therein It is the commendation of Gedeon Iudges 8.3 He spake courteously to the men of Ephraim But it must not be such courtesie as Dauid speakes of Psal 28.3 To speake friendly to their neighbours but imagine mischiefe in their hearts To be foris Cato and intus Nero of an outward plausible countenance and of inward malitious intendments It was forbidden in the Law to weare linsey woolsey and I am sure they breake the Law of God who weare garments wouen of simplicitie and subtilty together Once men saluted hand in hand saith one but now wee cast arme in arme But an handfull of that old friendship is worth a whole arme full of this new courtesie Nay further wee must be courteous and giue regard euen to wicked men So Paul behaued himselfe before Festus and called him noble Wee must respect them not as they are wicked but as they are men loue their persons loath their vices A wicked man may be of our acquaintance and wee may vse him courteously yet let him neuer be our companion to be vsed entirely Be at peace with all men but at warre with their vices Againe there be who will regard men and vse them regardfully but no further then they serue their turne as Ieroboam sent his wife to Ahijah the Prophet and bade her carry him a present of bread and wafers and honey which Ieroboam would haue scorned to doe but that he thought the Prophet could benefit him by his aduice And such is the condition of many in this age who will regard a Minister when they see they must make vse of him eyther to be visited in their sicknesse or that they might be graced with a Sermon at the buriall of their friends or at their marriage or vpon some other high occasion otherwise we may goe long enough ere wee be regarded or lookt after But howsoeuer this Iudge was wonderfull faulty hee gaue no regard whereas our duty is to regard man though he be a stranger though he be an inferiour What a speciall fauour was that which God did to Moses to call him by his proper name The Angell saluted Gedeon The Lord bee with thee thou valiant man But if he bee set in place aboue thee if a Father if a Master if a Magistrate or instead of any of these giue him that reuerence and regard that is due vnto him Which condemnes the sawcy malepartnesse of children seruants people who will dishonor their Parents dispise their Masters and contest with their Rulers and men in authority and braue them to their face Both Peter and Iude complaine of these 2 Pet. 2.10 Iude 8. I wish they were not so ordinary as they are Yet further if he be thy spirituall Father thy Pastor and Minister giue vnto him a double honour as well of countenance as of maintenance Regard him as a man but much more as a man of God set ouer to instruct thee and to guide thy soule aright to the Kingdome of glory How faulty are many of our ill nurtured Laity in this kind who looke ouer vs as high as Caedars supercilious and lofty like the Iewes They tooke no knowledge of Christ that he was their King or of his Royall descent or that hee was the Redeemer of the world and should dye for the saluation of man of all this they tooke no notice They knew him for a Carpenter and a Carpenters sonne and such to be his brothers and such to be his sisters So we we shall bee readily knowne by the meannesse of our birth and kindred the leannesse of meanes and liuing the poorenesse of our stipends or what else may adde to our disgrace but not of the dignitie and excellencie of our Calling maintenance for our seruice countenance to our Persons like flyes they leaue the sound parts to sucke at a botch Let a man so esteeme of vs as the Ministers of Christ and the disposers of the secrets of God 1 Cor. 4.1 Obey them that haue the ouersight of you for they watch for your soules as they which must giue an account I admonish that you haue them in singular loue for their workes sake Carnall men and the common sort when they heare vs thus to speake they thinke we preach to extoll our selues and to gaine reputation No we say with Dauid in the humility of our soules Non nobis Domine non nobis Not vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the prayse If we haue regard and esteeme at the hands of men we haue but our due But meane while let God haue the Honour by your obedience to his truth loue to his word by your care and conscience to practise those doctrines which faithfully we teach this shall be our ioy our crowne our recompence sufficient otherwise none of his glory shall cleaue to our fingers Finally Conclusion All of vs whether wee be in place to rule or in place to obey in place to teach or in place to heare let vs in the reuerence and feare of GOD so carry and demeane our selues to God and Man That God euen our owne God may giue vs his blessing that hee may blesse and sanctifie our gouernment sanctifie our obedience sanctifie our teaching sanctifie our hearing and all good duties of our life beside I will conclude therefore with that prayer of the Apostle Now the God of peace sanctifie you throughout and I pray God that all our hearts and soules may be kept blamelesse vntill the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ AMEN FINIS

further spoken by way of Application And as Christ in the former Chapter giues an Item for Lots wife remember Lots wife so say I Remember this vnrighteous Iudge And though we might speake of him as God spake of Amelech Deleatur memoria Amelech sub coelo Let the memory of Amelech be blotted out from vnder Heauen And though vnworthy he is that any mention of him should come within my lips yet a little remembrance will not doe amisse for that he hath layd himselfe forth as an example And first of all a Iudge he was A Iudge it is Gods ordinance to set some aboue in place to rule and others beneath in places to obey and as Iuuenal cals Eagles the seruants of Iupiter so such are the seruants and Ministers of God by an honorable prerogatiue in being his deputies and vicegerents And surely had this man honored God in his place God would haue honoured him againe For they that honour mee I will honour And let them further know that whom hee aduanceth to such offices and dignities hee expects they should walke worthy of their places and not be carried away with sundry lusts of intemperancy iniustice couetousnesse and the like to the dishonour of God and the irreuerence of their owne persons It is very incongruous and vnbeseeming that he who by reason of his calling comes neare vnto God there is none further from him Neither is this onely for the Iudge but for all superintendents of what ranke soeuer they be Especially Pastors and Ministers of the Church who haue an eminency of place ouer the soules of men that they adorne the Gospell of Christ Iesus with soundnesse of Doctrine and integrity of life The walls of Iericho were beaten downe but by no other meanes then the Trumpets of the Priests and the strong holds of Satan are onely battered downe with the Doctrine of sound teachers Their good example also of life is of great force Nuga in secularibus in sacerdotibus blasphemae saith Bernard That which is but a trifle and as a matter of nothing in a Lay-man is as ill as blasphemy or the sinne against the Holy Ghost almost in a Church-man and therefore not to demeane our selues as one spake of the Monkes of old time Qui praeter amictum Nil aliud verae Relligionis habent Cut but the hayre from the eye-brow saith S. Augustine and how disfigured will the face looke there is but a small thing taken from the body but a great matter from the beauty Honor God therefore in thy place by thy doctrine and conuersation and whatsoeuer thy former frailties and escapes haue beene yet recompence thy forepassed sinne with a sanctified obedience And let me adde this more if thou hast gifts of learning and knowledge let them not be smothered vp and kept as concealed land but returne them to the right owner and improue thy Talent thou art trusted with to thy masters aduantage it will be hereafter thine exceeding ioy and comfort though nothing in the world comfort thee beside And herein are many of vs faulty who are lazy and negligent making our Sermons as misers doe their feasts rare and seldome but then farced and furnished with such varieties as tend to surfet rather then to profit The flocke of Christ should be fed and fed and fed Iohn 21. which argues a continuall feeding yet some of vs take liberty to do it when we list yea it is almost a miracle to heare some of vs speake I would be more earnest in this but our Lay men doe befriend vs and are quit with vs in this kind for wee cannot be so dumbe as they are deafe deafe at any thing that should profit them in the matter of Saluation and as deafe at any thing that makes for our profit In either of these like Dauids Adder who refused to heare the voice of the Charmer charme he neuer so wisely But howsoeuer let as well the Pastor as the Iudge make conscience of his duty Compensat ille qui dispensat He that sets vs to our taske giues vs our pay when our chiefe Shepheard shall appeare we shall be recompensed for all our paines Cùm ad opus piger es quare ad mercedem festinas How shall we thinke either to haue ioy or peace of conscience in this life or eternall happinesse in the life to come when we are slothfull to the worke What a blessed voice shall that bee when wee heare that blessed voice in the Gospell Well done thou good and faithfull seruant thou hast beene faithfull in a little not a little faithfull no that will not serue the turne but faithfull in a little that is little was thy learning or knowledge to that which others haue in the deepe things of God few thy gifts and ornaments little perhaps thy cure and charge but because thou wert faithfull in a little I will make thee ruler ouer much enter thou into thy masters ioy 2. I may not omit this also There was that Christ here sayth not There is but There was which implies that whatsoeuer the pride and insolency of this man was either not to feare God or dis-regard man yet hee was either taken away by death for euill things haue their periods as well as good or which is likliest secluded from his place through some accident disasterous and so for an earthly punishment became as currant and conuersant a by-word for matter of reproach as once was Daedalꝰ in omni fabula Were he excoriate as once a Iudge in Athens and his skinne hung vp in terrorem Or were he expelled the City where he liued and the gates closed vpon him Or were he shut out of the campe and company of the Host because he was vncleane I cannot say onely Christ saith here there was there is not I would euer haue a Iudge to remember three things First that they are men as himselfe is ouer whom hee hath his authority Secondly these men he must gouerne according to a prescribed law and not according to the lawlesse affections of his owne heart Thirdly he shall not alwayes gouerne but as others haue giuen place to him so must he to others In the meane time therefore whilst he is in place to demeane himselfe in the feare of God and with due regard to man In these striuing to excell all that went before and to be a president to as many as shall succeed wisdome knowledge grauity zeale diligence vprightnesse of heart in his proceedings are notable ornaments in a Iudge especially to sanctifie his person and his place by frequent inuocation and prayer vnto God To haue a pure and vncorrupt heart this this will make him a starre at the right hand of God and that he shine out amongst others of his rancke with that transparency and beauty like Mercury himselfe betwixt those radiant Orbes of Venus and the Moone Nor yet is this to be ouerpassed In a certaine City that Christ here saith hee was in