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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67833	Two assize sermons preached at Winchester the first Feb. 26, 1694, James Hunt of Popham, Esq. being sheriff of the county of Southampton : the second July 14, 1686, Charles Wither of Hall, Esq. being sheriff, &c. / by E. Young ...	Young, Edward, 1641 or 2-1705.	1695 (1695)	Wing Y70; ESTC R3087	24,328	64

usually so Indulgent to themselves as not to reach the Measures of such a Repentance but to take up with that which is slight and deceiving upon this Consideration I say Kind and Friendly is the Force of Publick Justice that does oftentimes terrifie and compel Men to Repent Happy is the Necessity that procureth Vertue But especially Adorable is the Mercy that will accept of that Vertue which Necessity doth procure Thus I apprehend my self to have sufficiently cleared my first Proposition And now the Remainder of my Business is to shew that this Consideration is of Great Importance to make Men act as they ought to do in every Relation they bear to Publick Justice And this I shall do Distinctly according to the Method of my former Positions shewing what Arguments for Integrity do Naturally arise from the Consideration of Each of them I. The Doctrine of the First Position was this That the Magistrate in Judgment Sustains the Person of God and acts for Him Now this Consideration is of a Reasonable Force to keep the Magistrate Just and Upright in his Determinations and no other but this For let the Magistrate suppose himself to sustain any other Person or to act by or for any other whatsoever but only God he shall find himself immediately faln under the power of such Reasons as will pervert him from being Just because there is no Person in the World but God alone whose Ends may not sometimes be better served by Injustice Gods Ends are always served by Justice and no bodies always so but His. And hence Springs the Great Difficulty of being Just and the necessity of that Caution which we find so frequently inculcated to Magistrates in the Holy Scripture viz. That they should be Strong Couragious very Couragious Because it is but Needful that He whose Duty will not permit him to Oblige in what is Unjust should arm himself against the possible Malevolence of Many who will account themselves Disoblig'd by the Direct Issues of Justice He therefore that will be Just must harden himself against all the Impressions of Interest tho in that he may seem Imprudent against all the Impressions of Affection though in that he may seem Ill-natured against all the Impressions of Benefits though in that he may seem Ingrateful nay against all the Impressions of Vulgar Pity though in that he seem Hardhearted He must render himself disengaged from all the World and from Himself above all Because Self is undoubtedly the greatest Byass to Human Prevarication But these in the mean time are Difficulties which I think no other Consideration can enable a Man to surmount but only the Respect of God and the Conscience of doing that service which God himself doth both Require and Reward I know indeed that to be Just is in it self a very glorious thing without any farther Religious Prospect And therefore there are some Spirits naturally Generous which though it shall happen that they have not much of Religion will yet despise all the Temptations of Interest and be Just for the very Glory of being so But then we must observe that Glory it self is another Byass and can draw Men from their Integrity as well as any other Passion And so it sometimes happens that a Man that could not have been bribed with Gold will yet be bribed with Air that is the Affectation of a Popular Fame An Instance of this kind is intended in that Precept Ex. xxiii 3. where 't is said Thou shalt not countenance a poor man in his cause Intimating that when a Poor Man has a Bad Cause though there can be no Other Temptation yet there may be that of Vain-glory to be Unjust Because a Sentence given in behalf of a Poor Man is so Popular and Specious that though it should be Unjust yet it may gain a Man the Reputation of a more Impartial Justice And indeed when a Man comes to affect Glory from any thing though from Vertue it self he is faln into the Temptation of preferring the Glory above the Vertue and so of Leaving the Vertue for the Glory's sake if at any time they shall happen to be Divided So Important a Reason there is for that Precept of the Apostle Let him that glorieth glory in the Lord To which let me subjoin Let him that will be just be just for the Lord Because it is impossible for any one to be accurately Just for any other Prospect II. The second Position was this That the Matter of Judgment is Gods Cause And this Consideration is very forcible to engage all Others to bring in their Respective due Assistances to Publick Justice 'T is a Notion to be met with more than once among the Heathen Moralists that A Good Man is a Perpetual Magistrate and that though he be not made so by the Governing Power he is made so by Nature that is A Good Man cannot but be a Friend and Patron to the Laws His Love to Vertue and the Publick Good will not suffer him to be Unconcern'd when he sees them broken and contemned And if it be so with a Good Man I am sure it cannot be otherwise with a Good Christian It is impossible that such a one should see and bear with Indifference that the Concerns of Truth the Offices of Morality and Religion which I say are the general Matters of the Law those Duties wherein Gods Honour and the Common Welfare nay the Common Salvation are so nearly concerned should be broken and neglected without a proper Animadversion We all conclude that He wants Compassion and sins against the Law of Humanity who will suffer the Poor to perish for want of Relieving But if the Perishing of Souls be of greater Moment than the Perishing of Bodies I am sure he has less Compassion and sins more against the Law of Humanity who will suffer Good Manners to be run down for want of Asserting I do not say that every Good Christian should rise up like Phineas and execute the Judgment of Zeal as the Rabbins call it but this I say that every Good Christian ought to have a constant Regard to the Ends of Publick Justice which are the Restraint of Vice and the Maintenance of Good Manners and to these Ends he ought never to be wanting in any sort of Prudential Assistance And in this Point I humbly wish that the Gentlemen would be pleased to hear me as their Particular Remembrancer Whether they are Magistrates or no let them always bear in mind that an Awful Example carries Magistracy in it self and he that lives Christianly is the Best Justiciary he gives the Best Assistance to Publick Justice and cures most Crimes among the People God has given this Precept among other Judicial Laws Lev. xix as that which has a most direct Influence upon the Affairs of Publick Justice viz. Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him The Charge is given to All but it obliges the Gentleman most whose