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A45330	The beauty of magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psalm, where is set forth the necessity, utility, dignity, duty, and mortality of magistrates : here many other texts of Scripture occasionally are cleared, many quæries and cases of conscience about the magistrates power, are resolved, many anabaptistical cavils are confuted, and many seasonable observations containing many other heads of divinity, are raised : together with references to such authors as clear any point more fully / by Thomas Hall ... ; with an additional sermon on verse 6, by George Swinnock.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.; Swinnock, George, 1627-1673. Men are gods.	1660 (1660)	Wing H427; ESTC R18061	228,882	316

sure helper a right qu●lified Prayer for Man Matter Manner never misseth but ever obtains either the blessing prayed for or some better thing God alwayes answers his ad Vtilitatem si n●n ad V●luntatem e. g. David prayes for the life of his child God denies him in that thing but gives him a S●lomon which was legitimate and every way better for him So Paul he prayes for deliverance from the messenger of Satan God suffers the trial to abide but gives him grace to improve it for good which was better for him then if it had been removed Though God be the principal Actor yet Prayer is causa adjuvans 2 Cor. 1. 11. y●u also helping me with your pr●yers q. d. if you will but help me with your prayers I doubt not of deliverance 2. It s a secret helper It secretly undetermines the plots and reveals the projects of wicked men and they know not who doth it One while they curse such a man and anon they curse such counsell and such instruments when it is the Prayers of Gods people that do them all the mischief Davids prayers turn Achitophels policy into folly 1 Sam. 15. 31. 3. A speedy helper It brings sudden deliverance Hester doth but pray and suddenly Haman comes down This pierceth the Clouds and brings us present aid Nehemiah chap. 2. 4. he darts a prayer to heaven and hath present help God gave him favour in the sight of the King 4. T is a strong helper Nothing like prayer for strength As David said of Goliahs sword there is none like that Luther was wont to say Est quaedam precum omnipotentia Prayer hath a kind of omnipotent power Like the Sword of Saul and the Bow of Ionathan which never returned empty from the battle 2 Sam. 1. 22. It binds God and holds his hands that he cannot destroy a people hence the Lord intreats Moses to let him alone Exod. 32. 10. and when the Lord would destroy a people he forbids his servants praying for them Ier. 7. 16. This commands the Commander of all things Isa. 45. 11. it is stronger then any charm Isa. 26. 16. in their trouble they poured out a prayer or made a soft muttering to thee you need not go to charms in your troubles prayer can do that which they cannot do It is stronger then Iron at the Prayers of the Church the Iron gates fly open and Peters fetters fall off Acts 12. 5 6. The prayer of one Iacob is too strong for four hundred men that come against him Gen. 32. 6. 9. 33. 4. One Moses in the Mount praying is too strong for all the Armies in the Valley fighting Iehosophat when surrounded with enemies by prayer overcomes them By this Hezekiah overthrew the great Army of Senacherib By Prayer Asa with a few in comparison of those that came against him overcame an army of a thousand thousand men and three hundred Charets 2 Chron. 14. 9 10 11. By this Theodosius overcame the potent Armies of his adversaries and turned their darts upon their own heads The Queen of Scotland affirmed that she did more fear the prayers of Mr. Knox and his Assistants then an Army of ten thousand men There are five Keyes in the hand of God and Prayer turns them all There is 1. The Key of the Heart 2. The Key of the Womb. 3. The Key of the Grave 4. The Key of Heaven 5. The Key of Hell 1. There is the Key of the Heart and Prayer turns this Key Esau came against Iacob with an intent to kill him but God so changed his heart at the prayer of Iacob that he fell upon his neck and kissed him 2. The Key of the Womb. Hannah that was barren prayed and the Lord gave her a Sam●el and Manoah prayed and had a Sampson 3. The Key of the Grave Hezekiah prays and hath his life prolonged The Prophet by Prayer raised the dead child 2 Kings 4. 32. Ionah by prayer is raised out of the Whales belly and Christ by prayer raiseth Lazarus 4. The Key of Heaven Elias prayed and it rained and again he prayed that it might not rain and it did not rain he could turn this Key which way he pleased by his prayers Iames 5. 17 18. So it is said of Luther the Elias of his time Vir iste potuit quod voluit He could but ask and have 5. The Key of Hell By prayer and fasting the Devil is cast out Mat. 17. 21. By Luthers prayers one was recovered who had given his soul to the Devil Thus we have seen what great encouragement we have to Pray and in all our straits to cry Arise O Lord and help us If any would see more concerning the power of Prayer let him peruse Mr. Rob. Bolton his comforting afflicted Consciences p. 6 7. Dr. Harris Peters Enlargement Dyke Righteous mans Tower p. 77 c. Mr. Ford on Iames 5. 13. at the end of his Spirit of Bondage p. 590. and for Prayer in General Bishops A●drews his Catechism chap. 11. mihi p. 142. Perkins C. Consc. l. 2. c. 6. p. 63. folio Dr. Prestons Saints daily exercise on 1 Thes. 5. 17. Mr. Cobbet on Prayer Tactica Sacra l. 3. c. 1. p. 241 c. Ambrose his Media p. 305. D. Pet. Smith Fast Sermon on Psal. 107. 6. Preacht 1644. Dyke on Conscience chap. 4. p. 53. Capel on Tentation l. 1. cap. 6. sect 5. p. 92. Boltons Comfort to afflicted Consciences P. 1. c. 4. p. 375. Fenners Practical 〈◊〉 Barlow on Timothy p. 47. Clerks Mirror chap. 100. Iudge the earth Observation God is Iudge of all the earth All other Judges are but Substitutes and Surrogates to this Judge of Judges They are confined to their Circuits but all the world is his Circuit Hence he is called the Judge of all the earth Gen. 18. 25. Psal. 94. 2. Heb. 12. 23. A man may appeal from other Judges Paul appealed from Felix to Caesar but God is the Supre●m Judge there is none higher then he and so no appeals can be made from him but all must end in him and therefore the Saints when they could have no Justice on earth have made their final Appeals to him who Judgeth righteously So did David 1 Sam. 24. 13 14. and Ieremiah Chap. 18. 19. 20. 12. and Christ 1 Pet. 2. 23. Take heed then of displeasing him who is King of Kings and Judge of Judges Men are carefull to get the favour of great men Pr●v 29. 26. but what will it avail us to have all the great ones of the world for us if the great God be against us chuse rather to displease all the world then to displease him and this concerns great ones they must remember still that there is a greater then they to whom they must shortly give an account of their Stewardship and at whose Bar they must stand to be judged themselves who here have judged others Rev. 6. 15. 20.

walls and hedges will sting them God will make men know that it is a dangerous thing to confound rule and subjection and to break down the partition wall which he hath set up between Magistrates and people When these sharp instruments which they run against wound them deep they will believe that it is bad medling with edged tools and that there is a truth in those words of the Apostle They that resist procure to themselves damnation Rom. 13. 2. that is both corporal punishment and eternal torment saith Peter Martyr If thou wouldst not therefore suffer with others take heed of sinning with others Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked persons saith Moses to the Congregation upon the conspiracy of Corah Dathan c. against their rulers and touch nothing of theirs leaft ye be consumed in all their sins Numb 16. 26. They that join in common rebellions must expect to be joyned in common destructions Be not imparient of rule as thou desirest to avoid that ruine which Gods mouth doth threaten and his hand will execute on such rebellious ones Let those many examples which are in Scripture and other Authors mentioned of them that are hung on Gibbets as monuments of Gods sury fright thee from their acts least thou partake of their ends Believe it no King can possibly be so tender of his own honour as God is of his own Officers Do not therefore shoot-off thy guns of opposition against the Gods least they reco● and kill thy self Reviling of natural parents was banishment by Plato's Law death by Gods Law Exod. 21. 17. Those then that revile civil parents shall not alwayes go unpunished Thirdly Consider thy felicity and welfare doth under God depend much on the Gods The Apostle enforceth this use by this very Argument For he is the Minister of God for thy good Rom. 13. If he labour to do thee good why shouldst thou imagine evil against him To render 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 is God-like Mat. 5. ult but to render evil for good is devilish Magistrates are shields Psal. 47. 9. they defend their subjects from the darts and bullets with which the sons of violence would wound them Shepherds Numb 27. 17. to defend them from the devouring mouths of ravenous creatures They are called the foundations of the earth because they support the building from ruine and sinking Prov. 10. 25. Coverings Ezek. 28. 16. which importeth that Engine under which Souldiers used to be protected in assaulting the walls of an enemy against the stones and darts which were thrown down upon them Guides Prov. 6. 7. because they lead and direct the people Angels 2 Sam. 14 15. in that they defend and protect the people The Fathers and Mothers of the Countrey Gen 41. 43. Iudges 5. 7. because they take care of and provide for their people Healers Iob 34. 17. because they cure their wounds and make up their breaches They deliver the poor that cryeth and the fatherless and him that hath none to help They are eyes to the blind and feet to the lame Fathers to the poor and helpers to the needy Iob 29. 11 15. They are born not for themselves but for the good of many as Bucers Physitian told him And they govern not seeking their own wealth but the Common-wealth as Aelius Adrianus Emperour of Rome would say They are as Trees whose leaves are fair whose fruit much and in them is meat for all in their shadow the beasts of the field dwell and in them the fowls of the heaven have their habitation Dan. 4. 12. 21. They are the keepers of our liberties the preservers of our lives the safety of our persons the security of our possessions the terrors of sinners the defence of Saints the Nerves and Sinews yea the Vital spirits of the body Politick without whom all things would run to ruine and quickly fall to confusion How much then do they for us and how much then should we be subject to them Surely as little as many value them they will find much cause to celebrate the funerals of these civil Fathers with many tears Our comforts as well as our consciences call upon us to be subject To wish them harm that watch to be our helps is horrid ingratitude Cicero saith he that killeth his Father committeth many sins in one because he sinneth against many obligations His Father begat him nourished him brought him up Magistrates are the Fathers of their Countrey he that resisteth them or doth violence to them committeth several sins in one because he sinneth against so many engagements to subjection We owe all the comforts we enjoy for this world nay somewhat of them that relate to a better world under God to the Magistrate We could not sleep quie●ly in our beds one night we could not eat one meal peaceably in the day without them we could not call either children or estates or lives our own without them we could not enjoy such liberties for our souls such frequent communion of Saints without them How great then is our obligation and how great should our subjection be to them These many cords of kindness should bind us to them He was possessed with a Devil whom no cords would hold Mark 5. 3. and surely they are little better that against the Law of God and this protecting love of the Gods will not learn to be loyall Trees receive moisture from the earth and within a while pay it back in those leaves that fall to the earth again the Rivers receive their waters from the Ocean and they acknowledge it in emptying themselves into it Sheep that are fed by us acknowledge it in serving us with their flesh and fleeces And shall man be more brutish then the beast I s●all end this exhortation with the words of the Holy Ghost a little varied Obey them that have the rule ●ver you and submit your selves for they watch for your bodies as Ministers for your soul as they that must give an account Heb. 13. 17. My second Exhortation will be to the Gods If the God of heaven have appointed you to be Gods on earth then it may exhort you to walk as Gods and to work as Gods amongst men First Walk as Gods among men your calling is high and therefore your carriage should be holy Every calling hath a peculiar comliness belonging to it A Courtier hath another manner of behaviour then a Countrey man a Scholler then a Scullion a Prince then a Peasant The greater your priviledges are the more gratious your practices should be Remember whose livery your wear whose image you bear whose person you represent whose place you stand in and walk worthy of that calling whereunto you are called Eph. 4. 1. Some would have us give no names to children but such as should mind them of their duty The spirit of God hath given you a divine name which should mind you of the divine nature Since your compellations are according

a dirty pickle his children are in Suppose he seeth the dirt of drunkenness of uncleanness of squeezing tenants of prophaning the Sabboth of scoffing at godliness of irreligion and atheism in your houses and immediately carryes your cloaths to God as the Patriarchs did Ioseths coat For he accuseth men before God day and night Revel 12. 10. Saying Lord is this thy sons coat Know now whether it be thy sons coat or no. Gen. 37. 32. Do thy children use to carry themselves as my children Surely these are of their father the Devil Can you imagine that God should own you No certainly as the Pope disowned the Bishop when the Emperour had sent the Buffe-coat in which he was taken prisoner and deliver●d him up to justice he will not dishonour himself by owning you Nay how can you expect but that Jesus Christ who sitteth by and heareth the indictment against you who useth to appear as an Advocate for others when the Accuser of the Brethren pleadeth against them should even second the Bill against you and say to God as Moses Deut. 32. 5. They have corrupted themselves their spot is not the spot of Gods children they are perverse and crooked persons Father these are sins not of weakness but wickedness they are not infirmities but enormities they are not the spots of thy children Those that cast thee out of their hearts and let the flesh have the Supremacy there that cast thee out of their houses and let the world have the Superiority there Those that make no conscience of thy day and their duties whose whole care is to be honoured and enriched whose heat and fervour is for credit and profit and put thee off with a few fragments of time and a few scraps of their estate which they can spare from the world and flesh those sin like wretches like rebels not like Saints like sons Their spots are not the spots of thy children There are spots which may be and spots which cannot be the spots of Gods children All sins are unsutable to but some sins are inconsistent with sonship yea the preheminence of Adoption doth absolutely deny the predominancy of any corruption When Antigonus was to go to a place that might probably prove a temptation to sin he asked counsel of Menedemus what he should do He bade him only remember he was a Kings son So say I to you that walk every day in the midst of many snares of temptations and therefore should have the greater care and circumspection Remember that ye are the sons of rhe King of Kings and do nothing unworthy of the name by which he calleth you or the place to which he hath called you It might have been a cutting word to the heart of Brutus whose hand was then stabbing Caesar What thou my son Brutus I could not have expected better from a slave but little looked for this from a son How think you can the Lord take it that you who are his children should wound the Body of his Son with oaths and curses his sacred laws by wickedness and wilful disobedience I beseech you be exceeding holy that ye may shew your selves to be children of the most High In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil He that doth not righteonsness is not of God I Iohn 3. 10. If ye therefore call on the Father who without respect of persons will judge every man according to his works pass the time of your sojurning here in fear 1 Pet. 1. 17. forasmuch as ye know ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold from your vain conversations received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without spot and blemish vers 18 19. It is written of Boleslaus one of the Kings of Poland that he still carryed about with him the picture of his Father and when he was to do any great work he would look on the picture and pray that he might do nothing unworthy of such a Fathers name So when you set about any busines desire and labour that you may do nothing while on earth unworthy your Father who is in heaven Nay further the Holy Ghost calleth you Gods How godly then should you be how unsutable are the works of the Devil to them that have the name of God! God is light and in him is no darkness at all and should not the Gods shine brightly with the light of holiness and abhor all deeds of darkness The Gods of the Heathen were taxed with several crimes Iupiter with uncleanness Iuno with passion c. Hence saith Austin the Heathen took liberty to sin because their Gods were represented to them as patterns or approvers of such actions As Charaea in Terence Non ego facerem quae Jupiter fecit Should I be backward to what the God himself was forward But the God of Heaven is far from such things He is the holy One of Israel holy in all his wayes and righteous in all his works His Nature is the pattern of holiness his Law is the rule of holiness Holiness is his Essence his glory himself Psal. 89. 13. A God of truth without jniquity just and right is he Deut. 32. 4. There are many spots in our Moons but not the least spot in this Sun of Righteousness Now therefore you that have his Name should get his Nature and be pure as he is pure The Name of God is an honour to yon O be not you a dishonour to it Iames 2. 8. Do not O do not blaspheme that worthy name by which ye are called How holy should you be in your hearts how watchful over your words how wary in your works how faithful in your families how conscientious in all companies for the most High hath said Ye are Gods Alexander having a souldier of his name that was a coward bid him either learn to be valiant or be no more called Alexander So say I to you that have the Livery and Name of God and do the drudgery of Satan either learn to be holy to be good or be no more called Gods Sir observe it is it comely for a God to swear for a God to wrong his neighbours for a God to prophane Gods day for a God to despise godliness and godly men for a God to keep company with those that are of their father the Devil for a God to live without God in his affections house and conversation Blush O guilty Justice or Ruler and be ashamed and either amend thy life and nature or disown this name of God I have sometime read of Luther that he used to repel the darts of temptations with this shield I am a Christian. I cannot do it O would you but think when your hearts or lives are swerving from God I am called a God and cannot may not do the work of the Devil I may not do any thing unworthy the name of God it might be helpful to