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A77114	Jus poli et fori or, God and the King. Judging for right against might. As it was delivered in a sermon before the honourable His Majesties judges of assize in the cathedrall church of Lincolne, Septem. 10. 1660. / By Edward Boteler, sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Wintringham in the county of Lincolne.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing B3802; Thomason E1813_1; ESTC R209777	30,183	78

Oppressour 2. To the Opressour I shall apply my selfe in that of the Psalmist Ps 75.4 Dixi iniquis I said to the fooles deale not so madly and to the wicked lift not up the horne Proud dust whether wilt thou be blown and scattered when the great Judge shall come riding upon the wings of the winde Poore stubble where wilt thou stand before a consuming fire Thou that tread'st upon the necks of the needy with the feet of pride and cruelty and bearest thy self up by thy outward advantages as if with those in Obadiah thou wouldst nest thy selfe among the stars Obad. 4. and sayest in thine heart Vers 3. who shall bring me down to the ground Here 's a Hee in the Text who hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. Chrysostome a most dreadful Tribunal before which thy pride shal shrink up thy high looks be level'd and thy thoughts laid low Isa 2.20 21. In that day thou shalt cast away thy idolized silver and gold to the Moles and to the Bats to goe into the holes of the rocks into the caves of the earth to go into the clifts of the rocks into the tops of theragged rocks for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majestie when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Heb. 12.26 Yet once more he shakes not the earth onely but also heaven Matth. 24.29 The day is coming when all the powers of heaven shall be shaken the Sun become blacke Rev. 6.12 13. 2 Pet. 3.10 and the Moon as blood the Stars fall and all the lights of heaven be put out at once the Elements melt with fervent heat Mat. 24 30 Rev. 1.7 the sea roar and the Tribes of the earth mourn and then shall appeare the signe of the son of man Every eye shall see him and thine also which pierced him in the poor members of his mysticall body 2 Sam. 13.13 and thou whether shalt thou cause thy shame to goe thou wilt then be glad of a Covert that would cut thee in pieces that thou mightest run into ruine Rev. 9.6 seeking death and shall not finde it desiring to dye and death flying from thee Ch. 6.16 saying to the mountaines and rockes Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. Dan. 4.27 Wherefore let my counsell be accepted Breake off thy sins by righteousnesse and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poore Ps 50.12 if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility Now consider this you that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver● For he shall judge the poore of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour 3. To the poor of the people and children of the needy the Text sayes so much I need say but little very little this Haile you that are highly favoured Luk. 1.28 the Lord is with you blessed are you among men You are the very darlings and delight of providence You are God's care and he ha's given you in charge to the Judge here is both Jus Poli and Jus Fori for you so that if either Heaven or Earth can do you right you shall have it You have been oppressed it may be and shed teares and found no Comforter Eccl. 4.1 And on the side of your Oppressours there was power but you had no Comforter The Text will shew you one Rev. 21.4 Who shall judge and save you and wipe away all teares from your eyes and set you above death and sorrow and crying and paine You have had your Names clouded and over-cast with Obloquies disgraces reproaches Psal 36.5 He will clear them up for you Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe Vers 6. He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgement as the noon-day Rest in the Lord Vers 7. and wait patiently for him Mat. 13.43 You shall shine forth as the Sun in the kingdome of your Father You have been despised Isa 53.3 and rejected of men they hid their faces from you and esteemed you not Mal. 3.17 you shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts in that day when I make up my Jewels You have lost all for keeping the Commandements of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ Lu. 12.33 You shall have bags which wax not old treasure in the heavens which faileth not Mat. 6.20 where neither moth nor rust can corrupt and where theeves cannot breake through and steale a better and more enduring substance Heb. 10.34 Psa 58.11 So that you shall say Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth You can get no reparation for sufferings no redress of grievances but after abundance of waiting Prov. 13.12 Jer. 8.15 Your hope is deferred and your heart is sicke You looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health Lu. 21.19 Jam. 5.8 and behold trouble O but in patience possesse ye your soules Stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh Rev 3.11 Ps 125 3. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy Crown The Rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous The needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poore shall not perish for ever That longing expectation of the soules under the Altar Vsque quò Domine How long Rev. 6.10 O Lord holy and true is answered with an Adhuc modicûm aliquantulúmque Heb. 10.37 Yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry For he cometh Ps 96.13 for he cometh to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth Rev. 22.12 Behold he cometh quickly and his reward is with him to give every man according as his worke shall be For He shall judge the poor of the people He shal save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour Now the great God of heaven and earth the maker of all things the Judge of all men 2 Tim. 4 1● who shall judge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and his kingdome give you such a spirit of judgement wisdome counsell courage and the fear of the Lord that you which now judge men may one day judge Angels and sit in glory before the face of the world Angels and men and grant to us all such a spirit of meeknesse moderation holinesse humility and obedience that we may so live as those that must dye and after death come to judgement and then be able to stand in great boldnesse being made safe from all oppression fraud and violence secured within the embraces of the everlasting armes and called into a better Kingdome with that gracious invitation Come ye blessed of my Father receive the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the world was laid And all this He gives us who hath so dearly purchased it for us Jesus Christ the Righteous To whom with the Father and the Eternall Spirit be rendred of us and of all creatures both in Heaven and Earth all honour glory adoration and praise throughout all ages Amen Hallelujah FINIS

good lawes against swearing drinking debauchery and yet where do they abound more The one is counted the Gallantry the other the Civility of the Times so that prophanesse growes daring and brass-brow'd and out faceth the Law it selfe because Magistrates do not countenance and abett it but Gallio like Act. 18.17 they care for none of those things Will not this make men say the Magistrate weares a scabbard only and not a sword Or if a sword will they not say it is rusty for want of drawing O remember my Lords and Gentlemen you that are in authority Rom. 13.14 that you beare not the Sword in vain Officium inane maleficium immane a vaine Officer is a maine offender If you know these things happy are you if you do them To examine to discern what you examine and to execute what you discern this completes judgement And that 's the first Act judge which I now leave and remove to the Object the poore He shall judge the poore of the people But why the poore Doth not the Philosopher call the Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a minde without affections a soule without passions insinuating that Justice sees but takes no notice Knows but is not moved with any excentrick considerations Lev. 19.15 And are they not the expresse words of the royall Law You shall do no unrighteousnesse in judgement thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty True not the person It is not to prefer the person of the poor under that nude and abstracted consideration that the Magistrate must judge for him but to beare him up against those incommodations and disadvantages which poverty is apt to labour under The hand of power must keepe the scales even that the poor mans condition do not let down his cause must so regulate and guide the ballance that he who wants weight in honesty may not turn the scales by the odds of his honour Thus far the poor may be must be respected in judgement to set their causes upon even ground with theirs whose persons are higher then they Thus He shall judge the poor of the people The poore of the people Cicero The plebecula in the Oratours term the lowest rank and meanest sort of people and one of the Fathers makes them poore enough In justitia judicabit mendicos Tertul. Cont. Marcion c. 14. so poor that they are scarce lesse then beggars I care not for dealing with the Allegorical senses which usually rather play with then improve truths I 'le but tell you how Euthymius taking judging in the worst sense expounds the poore of the people the rude and raffle sort of the Jewes poor in understanding Lovin in loc Qui nudae legis literae insistentes ad occultas sancti spiritus divitias prospicere non valebant Who insisting upon the bare letter of the law and their beggarly rudiments were ignorant of the hidden riches of the spirit And they have one that judgeth them John 5.45 even Moses in whom they trust And taking judging in the better sense by the poore of the people understands the Apostles mony-less for the most part John 3.6 as Peter Gold and silver have I none and at best having but one purse amongst them all And by the children of the Needy the Disciples who forsook all and followed Christ who hath therefore promised to make them ample reparatiō when he comes to judge and sit on the Throne of his glory Mat. 19.27 18 29. Every one that hath forsaken houses or friends or lands for my Names sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life Our two Translations will shew us poor enough we need not seeke or make more In the other Translation they are called the simple folke He shall keepe the simple folke by their right Not simple that is plain and down-right As Jacob was a plain man Gen. 25.27 vir simplex sayes the vulgar Latine a simple man dwelling in Tents Simple that is sincere and without guile a man made after the honest plain mode of those better times Simple folke are folke without mixture and those too familiar compositions of subtilty fraud and cunning of which the greater part of the world are made up at this day Men unsophisticated uncompounded of those semblances artifices and pretences which have put so many cheats upon the world Single-hearted and clear breasted men you may see what they are by what they do their thoughts and actions are both of a peice so single in every thing that they 'l suffer rather then double in any thing These simple ones are those our Saviour calls poore in spirit the blessed poor Mat. 5.3 poor as to possession but rich in their reversion for theirs is the kingdome of heaven Et quò longiùs affectu a terrenis distant Novarinus in Ma● p. 122. n. 126. ●R Paupertas spiritus est contemptus sui Lud. de vita Christ p. 1. cap 33. n. 4. Gen 32.10 eò coelo sunt viciniores They are so far from the earth in their affections they must needs be near heaven These are they that are poor in their own opiniō being filled with their own emptiness that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that selfe-contempt which makes them think and speak as Jacob with his minor miserationibus lesse then the least of all mercies and they are as poor in the worlds opinion too for those Filij Zion inclyti Lam. 4.2 those precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers the worke of the hands of the Potter And therefore God will judge better of them and provide better for them Ps 74.19 He will not deliver the soule of his Turtle Dove unto the multitude of the wicked nor forget the congregation of his poore for ever His poore the simple folke the poore in spirit they are the first He shall judge the poore of the people This Translation in which I have read and followed the Text 1 Tim 6.17 seems to intend another sort of poor the poor outwardly the poore of this world There are the rich in this world and the poore in this world St. Paul calls them so Jam. 2.5 St. James these such as want not only the affluence and abundance but even the conveniences and necessaries of this life Of these we may meet with three sorts There are poor by the hand of Negligence Violence Providence 1. There are some poor by the hand of negligence Act. 20.34 Whose hands minister not to their necessities And how should they when the wise man tells us Abscondit piger manum suam sub ascella Ascella idem quod Axilla Pro. 19.24 A sloathfull man hideth his hand in his bosome or under his arme hugging it because it is idle and making much on 't as it were for doing nothing given up to supiness and oscitancy Oh! that 's

JUS POLIET FORI OR GOD and the KING Judging For RIGHT Against MIGHT As it was delivered in a Sermon before the Honourable His Majesties Judges of Assize in the Cathedrall Church of LINCOLNE Septem 10. 1660. By Edward Boteler sometimes Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge and now Rector of WINTRINGHAM in the County of LINCOLNE Isa 28.5 6. In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people And for a spirit of judgement to him that sitteth in judgement and for strength to them that turne the battel to the gate LONDON Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins at the Middle Temple gate in Fleetstreet 166● TO THE Right Worshipfull Sir WILLIAM TROLLOP Baronet High Sheriff OF The County of Lincoln SIR DVring the late Whirlewinde in Church and State in which He that could not hold his tongue could not hold his peace I studied to Comment practically upon that Text of the Prophet Am. 5.13 The prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evill time Privacy was then a priviledge nothing so safe as solitude and I could not but hug my self and applaud my condition in obscurity No tyes of Interest no flatteries of the Times could draw me out of my recesses or court me to make a step on that publique Theatre where I perceived little acted but what would put ingenuity to the blush and make honesty ashamed But now that by the goodnesse of God the clouds are scattered our day cleares up and we seeme to sit under the smiles of Heaven I have adventured abroad under the Conduct of your name to salute our new-borne Peace and bid that desirable Stranger welcome into our more then wearied world and this I have done in the great Congregation Nor have I done yet but that you may see how my obedience strives to be as large as your Commands I have followed them from the Pulpit to the Presse And though I thought these worthlesse conceptions publique enough before as having delivered them in the face of the Country yet since your selfe and others neither the least nor least considerable and intelligent part of the Auditory are pleased to thinke otherwise I submit what ever I thinke my selfe They are now no longer mine but yours the Dedication makes them so designe them your protection they begg it they need it I heard some whisperings as if I were too tart I value it not errour must needs be the sore where truth makes the smart I shall not so much as Epistle the Reader to be courteous the candid and cleare brow'd will be so as for the tetricall and angry generation let them go Rumpatur si quis rumpitur invidia I am Sir Your most humble most obliged Servant E. BOTELER PSAL. 72.4 He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour In our other Translation He shall keep the simple folke by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer IT is not long since we were in as sad a case as the poor captive Jewes Psal 137.1 2. who sate by the waters of Babylon weeping to remember our sometimes happy Zyon Hanging our harps upon the willows and being out of tune for any song unlesse to descant upon our miseries with the lamenting Prophet Lam. 2.1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel Amos 4.9 and remembred not his foot-stool in the day of his anger And we are now as a fire-brand pluckt out of the burning seasonably pluckt out For Isa 1.9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant we should have been as Sodome and we should have beene like unto Gomorrah and the glory of this flourishing Church and Kingdom had been like that of the materiall Temple at Hierusalem which fell from courting the clouds to kisse the dust So that when I recognize what we lately were and take a view of what we now are when I behold our captivity turned as the rivers in the South Ps 126.4 1 K. 10.9 fully suddēly unexpectedly The Lord delighting in the King Isa 1.26 to set him on the throne of Israel restoring our Judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning Jer. 30.21 Our Nobles being of themselves and our Governour proceeding from the midst of us Num. 16.2 Our Tribunals and seats of justice furnished with Princes of the Assembly famous in their congregation men of renown Isa 30.20 Our Teachers no more removed into corners but our eyes seeing our Teachers When I consider all these me thinks I cannot keep my Meditations from running those numbers of David To climbe the heavens Psal 148.1 2 3 c. and call in the glorious Inhabitants and powerfull Hosts thereof the Angels Sun Moon and Stars of light To range the Ayr and summon thence the Fire and Hayle Snow Vapours and stormy winds To dive the Abysse of waters and bring up the Dragons and all Deeps To traverse the Earth and gather the mountains and all hills fruitfull trees and all Cedars Kings of the Earth and all people Princes and all Judges of the Earth both young men maidens old men and children that all may beare a part in the rejoycings of this day and joyn in praises to the God of Jeshurun Deut. 33.26 who rideth upon the Heavens in our help who giveth salvation unto Kings Ps 144.10 who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword Ps 78.71 that he may feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance That he may judge the poore of the people that he may save the children of the needy and breake in pieces the Oppressour The Psalme like the Times presents us with a most pleasant and delicious prospect full of blessings both what 's written in the one you may read in the other The Travailer who in his observations of severall Countreys reports he found in one Pulchrum Regem and in another Pulchrū Regnum might here see both a gracious King and a flourishing Kingdom If you take a view of the Psalm you may finde 1. God pray'd to to blesse the King v. 1. Give the King thy judgements O God c. 2 The King made by God a blessing to the people He shall judge the people c. to v. 18. 3 The King and people blessing God in the following verses I would not stumble at the threshold by engaging in a quarrell about the Title which some have left worse then they found it perplexing it with more whilest they pretend to free it from some difficulty A Psalme for Solomon Lovinus in loc Not for Solomon the son of David Bathsheba saith one but for Christ