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A10657	The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges, Sir Richard Hutten, and Sir George Crooke, at the assizes holden at North-hampton: February 25. 1634. By Edward Reynolds, rector of the church of Braunston in North-hampton shire.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 20932; Wing R1287A; ESTC S115831	19,787	53

them in pieces Your Tribunals should bee Reorum scopulus as hee said of Cassius or as Salomon speakes You should scatter the wicked Prov. 20. 26. If a man bee Impius ad mortem Guiltie of high crimes capitall both by municipall and divine Law too there the rule is peremptorie Non parcat oculus non accipias pretium No pitie no price must ransome there Deut. 13. 8. Numb 35. 21. Fourthly Remember a Shield is an honourable weapon none more Taking away of Shields was a signe of victorie 2 Sam. 8. 7. Preserving them a signe of glory Ezek. 27. 10. They used to inscribe their Armes and Ensignes of Honour upon their Shieldes To raise their Princes and to shew them to the people upon their Shields Doe you so too The mercie righteousnesse and pietie of our dread Soveraigne can no better way shine forth with sweete influence and gracious benignitie upon his people than by your Iustice. As CHRIST was crucified before the eyes of the Galatians in Saint Pauls ministery so I may say A Prince is honoured before the eyes of all his subjects in a Iudges integritie Fifthly Remember a Shield must ever have an eye to Guide it You the Shieldes and the Law the Eye GOD himselfe when hee judgeth maketh speciall use of his Eye Being I have seene in the case of Israel Exod. 3. 7. I will goe downe and see in the case of Sodome Gen. 18. 20. Hee did it not to informe himselfe Hee did it to instruct you There are many intricacies and perplexities in businesse wicked men are like harmefull beasts they love confusa vestigia There are nimble and cunning Fencers men that weigh violence Psalm 58. 2. that they may doe it within compasse men that plow lyes as Syracides speakes Ecclesiasticus 7. 13. that are Artificers at it and teach it their tongues Ierem. 9. 5. That lay nets and contrive injurie with cunning Ier. 5. 26. That use all the art that may bee as Tully boasted of himselfe to cast a mist before the eyes of the Iudges In this case Innocence may quickely suffer injurie except the Shields bee guided by a curious and perspicacious eye Therefore States-men and Ministers of Iustice amongst the Persians were called The eyes of the King by whom hee did dispence the affaires of his Kingdome with wisedome and righteousnesse In this point GOD is very strict in his charge to the Iudges of Israel not to huddle or slubber businesses over with an halfe hearing but to inquire and make search and aske diligently and finde out the truth and certaintie of a thing before they proceed to sentence It were good to Remember you of one thing more before wee leave this point it will preserve you humble upright and mercifull and that is this As you are Scuta Terrae so you are Scuta Terrea too Shieldes of the Earth but yet Shields of Earth Nothing better in the warre to dead the Cannon than a mound of Earth but yet it will moulder and decay of it selfe The gods of the Earth must die like men Psal. 82. 6. The Kings of the Earth must vanish like foame upon the waters Hos. 10. 7. And when they are gone from their owne Tribunals they must appeare before a Greater I will now begge but one inch of your time and patience more to Remember you of our third particular Exaltatus est never better can the Trumpet sound or the people say Amen to any thing then to that When the Rulers of the Earth doe belong to God doe submit their Crownes and consciences to his Kingdome doe countenance restore and advance his Truth and worship when they are Shields to administer justice and protect the Land then never more Vehementer Exaltatus est Is the GOD of Israel highly Exalted When the Rulers and Princes that rid on white Asses and sate in Iudgement offered willingly to the Lord Then praise yee the Lord Blesse yee the Lord Awake awake Debora rise Barak and lead thy captivitie captive Iudg. 5. 2. 8. When David and his Nobles offered willingly to the House of the Lord Then Vehementer Exaltatus Thine O Lord is Glory and victory and Majestie and thou art exalted as Head above all 1 Chron. 29. 6. 11. When Kings stand up and Princes worship because of the Lord. Then sing O Heaven and reioyce O Earth and breake forth into singing O yee mountaines Isai. 49. 7. 13. When the Kings of Tarshish and the Isles offer gifts and fall downe before him Then let all the world be filled with his glorie Amen and Amen Psal. 72. 10. 19. As on the other side when it came to this Aedificantes reprobarunt And doe any of the Rulers beleeve on him Iohn 7. 48. When it came to Herods Illusit to Caiphas his Expedit to Pilats Tradidit that they gathered together not unto him but against him Act. 4. 26. Then I confesse there was an Exaltatus still but like that of the Brazen Serpent Ioh. 3. 14. On a Pole not on a Throne and wee know what a few yeares after produced even wrath to the uttermost Consult the Prophecies of it Matt. 24. Or the storie of it in Iosephus and Egesippus you shall finde that there was never sorrow like the sorrow of that Nation who made their Messiah a man of sorrow If I should bee asked the reason of that long uninterrupted and most blessed Tranquillity which these our Kingdomes have to the envie and astonishment of other Nations so long enioyed when our neighbours doubtlesse as good as we for we are a repining and unthankefull people have had their Land fatted with the bloud and dunged with the carkasses of its owne inhabitants next to the most free and most wonderful favour of our good God other reason I would not alleage but this Principes popa●i congregati sunt ad Dium Abraam Our Gracious Princes our wholsome Lawes our Iosiah our Debora our David our Salomon have supported and maintained the Throne of Christ and the faith of the Gospell Our Nobles and Worthies of Church and State have in their Assemblies offered willingly and made mounds about the worship and House of GOD to establish it in the Beautie of Holinesse and of Peace and therefore the 〈◊〉 hath beene the Shields of our Nation because the Shields of our Nation have belonged to the Lord. And now what remaines but that we the people praise the LORD for these mercies past And make prayers and supplications for the Shields of the Earth that under them still wee may lead an holy and peaceable life and the GOD of Abraham may be still exalted And that you the Reverend Ministers of Iustice who goe about ad inquirendum fermentum to search and purge out the leaven and to make up the breaches of the Land may be so zealous for GOD so faithfull to our Soveraigne so valiant for the Truth so wise righteous and mercifull in Iudgement That the Eye which