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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86579	Sinne's discovery and revenge. As it was delivered in a sermom [sic] to the Right Honorable House of Peers in the Abbey Church at Westminster, on Wednsday [sic], December 30. 1646. Being the day of the monethly publick fast. / By Thomas Horton B. D. Reader of Divinity in Gresham Colledge, and Pastor of Colechurch in London. Published by the order of the said House.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing H2882; Thomason E369_4; ESTC R17539	41,013	45

of Justice in the Sword of the Publique Magistrate The Magistrate is said not to bear the Sword in vain to be a terror to evill works to be the Minister of God Rom. 13.3 4. a Revenger to execute his wrath upon him that doth evill c. To shew both him what is his office and others what to look for from him In those Kingdoms and Cities and Common-wealths where Justice flourishes and the execution of good and wholsome Laws is in any force sin will be sure to find men out in this regard Secondly II. By the hand of violence By the Hand of Violence in the sword of the Common Enemy Those which scape the executions of peace they meet sometimes with the punishments of warre and common invasion And the Souldier here does that though it may be upon other principles which the Magistrate should have done afore him There 's many a one has been a prisoner of warre which should have been a prisoner of Common-justice Many one has been plundred who should have been confiscated And many an one has lost his life by a Bullet which it may be if he had had his due should have lost it another way In the prosecution of these late bloody warres amongst our selves as God has punisht the whole Kingdom in generall for the common abominations so he has met with some persons in particular no question for their particular miscarriages which in so great a number on either side may be well supposed without any uncharitablenesse Thirdly III. By the hand of Falshood By the Hand of Falshood in the sword of strange Children As God meets with men by common Enemies so also by false friends whom he makes sometimes Instruments of Justice As Benhadad slain by Hazael Sennacherib by his own two sons Ishbosheth by his servants c. Fourthly IV. By the hand of Despair By the Hand of Fury and Despair in the sword of Men themselves 〈◊〉 then sin shall not find some men out God will make it to find them out now and then even by their own wicked hands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Saul and Achitophel and Judas and such as these so fearfull a thing is it for any to take liberty in any sinfull course upon hope of escaping punishment Though they might be safe from others yet they are not sure to be safe from themselves And this for the Means of Accomplishment Now further yet for the Designation of the persons The Designation of the persons It is said here in the Text Your sin will find you out You Who 's this you Surely if we take it historically it is no more but Reu'en and Gad the two Tribes which are here mentioned in the Chapter But if moreover we take it morally as indeed we ought to take it so it reaches to many more even to all sinners whatsoever And that under All the Priviledges and Qualifications which may seem to exempt them and to make for the discharge of them As briefly these First you though never so Great The sin of Noblemen and Princes Secondly you though never so wise The sin of Statesmen and Politicians Thirdly you though never so good the sin of godly men and Saints Fourthly you though never so many The sin of an whole Land and Nation You in All these acceptions will sin be sure to find out First I. Great men You though never so Great The sin of Noblemen and Princes I do not come hither Right Honourable in a cynicall humour to reproach or in the least manner to detract from outward greatnesse whether greatnesse of Birth and Parentage or greatnes of Authority and place I honour them and esteeme them as I ought Neither do I come hither to deny or cast a Veyl upon the Graces and Vertues which are in divers great Honorable persons I acknowledge them and rejoyce in them That there are those in this number which are a great ornament to Religion which are a great blessing to the Kingdom which are a great incouragement of godlinesse in others of inferiour condition But yet with all give me leave to adde this as a Minister of Christ that if there be any which are not thus but rather the quite contrary as I would with all my heart it were uncharitable once to suppose their greatnesse can be no shelter to their wickednesse Sin will find us out though never so great under a coat of Velvet as well as under a garment of Ragges under Tissue as well as under sackcloth Kings and Princes and Nobles and all the Great ones and Honourable of the earth their sin without repentance will be sure to fall heavy upon them as well as on any other There 's but one way to heaven both for great and meaner persons And the same wayes and means of salvation which are necessary for either Ye see that Nature makes no difference of you and why should ye expect it from Grace If ye be sick it is the same Physick must cure you if you be wounded it is the same Balsam must heal you which must also other men you must be purged and blooded and lanced and scarified and blister●d as occasion serves as well as those of meaner condition And is it not so in spirituals as well as in corporals Yes out of all question that so you may the better entertain these ministeriall awakenings For though ye may be above the Preacher yet ye are not above the Ordinance and though the speaker be inferior to you yet the Word has a command over you Alas my Lords what do we speak of greatnesse when we think of the Great God 2 King 10.4 and that Majesty which is in Him who if he do but let a sparkle of his wrath fall upon the conscience the greatest that are cannot subsist or hold up their heads Two KINGS could not stand before him as was once said of Jehu how then shall We stand Oh let Great men stand in awe of this Great God let Great men take heed of Great sins and yea of little ones too which in them are greater then in others and so are easier found out * S●honoratior est persona peccantis peccati qu●● major invidia ubi sublimior est prerogativa major est culpa Salvian you though never so Great Secondly 2. Wife men Eccles 7.12 you though never so wise The sin of Statesmen and Politicians Wisdome sayes the Preacher is a defence and so indeed it is It keeps off many an evill which might fall either upon a State or upon a person But it is still wisdome in a right and good way Where there is not Piety as well as Policy there can be no absolute safetie Prov. 21.30 There 's no wisdome nor counsell nor under standing against the Lord. Men may use all the tricks that may be to shift themselves from the searchings of sin 2 Sam. 16.23 but it will at last for all this