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A94072	The trust and the account of a stevvard, laid open in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster; upon Wednesday the the [sic] 28. of April 1647. being the day of their publique humiliation. / By William Strong.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing S6009; Thomason E385_12; ESTC R201462	31,291	38

keept hitherto from running first into a Common and then into a Wildernes A hedge ad seperationem ad munitionem which hedge never any did attempt to breake but a Serpent did bite him which boundstones never any did attempt to remove but they were hurt therewith Eccles 10.8 These Lawes are the common inheritance and patrimony of every free-borne Subject the common refuge and Asylum of every oppressed soule These are committed to you as Stewards in a double respect in the legislative and the Judiciary power The legislative power I say is yours because in you all the Lawes of the Land begin they are by you propounded by you desired Flet al. 1 ●7 Sect. 6. Rex Anglia leges sine subditarum ass●nsu mutare non potest nec subjectum populum renitentem o nerare imp●sitionibus peregi●●is quare papulus ejus libere fru●tur bonis su● legibu● quas cupit regulatus c. Fo●●escue de laud legum Angl. c 9 Rex meliut per altos quam per se●psum judiciaredd●t quo proprio ●●e nullus regum Angliae juduiumprese reusus est ibid. c. 8. p. 24. Esay 58.6 Amos 5.21.24 Iosh 7.10 And Laws they cannot be unlesse by you consented to Lex Regia non est quicquid de voluntate Regis tantummodo praesumptum est sed quod magnatum suorum consilio assensu definitum fuerit Take heed therefore that you leave no unjust or unnecessary Lawes unrepealed Take heed there bee no unjust or dangerous Lawes enacted lest you establish iniquity by a Law The Iudiciary power also is yours See that Iustice be executed according unto Law without partiality without delay God expects that in your fastings you should loose the bands of wickednesse unty the heavie burdens let the oppressed goe free and that you should breake every yoke God will not smell in your solemne Assemblies unlesse Justice run downe like water and judgement as a mighty streame Seeke judgement releeve the oppressed then come pray to me and reason with me this is the Lords order Esay 1.15 or else God will answer you as he did Joshua praying Wherefore lyest thou upon thy face Israel hath sinned in the accursed thing What accursed things there are among you God knowes There is a great cry of accursed things in the Nation The children call for bread and there is none to breake it to them The Subjects cry for justice and there is none to dispence it It is an honorable title indeed for Magistrates to be called the shields of the earth but very dishonourable for them to become scuta praedatorum as the ordinary Glosse renders that place shields of Psal 74.9 and shelters for Robbers Mountaines of prey Ps 74.20 that the high places of the Earth should be full of the habitations of cruelty Secondly God hath be trusted you with the lives liberty and property of this Great people Lam. 4.20 Sub cuju cutela sperate adluc respirare possumus Tarnov in loc Esa 2● 23. 24. Esa 32.1.2 Nah. 2.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Testudo militaris sub qua milites tecti murumsubcunt Drus in loc Hab. 1.14 and for all these you must give an account Ye are the breath of our nostrils the naile fastened in a sure place upon which the vessells of all quantities hang. If our liberties be to be defended ye are our hiding place If they be to be vindicated ye are our covering under whose shadow next under the shadow of the wings of the Almighty we hope to be safe If the lives of the Subjects of England be not protected if their Property be not preserved if their liberties be not vindicated but they are left even as fishes of the Sea that have no King but the great ones devoure the lesse without controll truly at your hands will the Lord require it And though you may be able by your power now to preserve your selves from those violences and oppressions which formerly you were liable to equally with other men yet know that not only your owne good Esa 22.24 but the good of the whole depends upon you There must hang upon you cups as well as flaggons A good Magistrate ought to bee in the Common-wealth as the soule in the body which is tota in qualibet parte Thirdly God hath betrusted you with the Religion Ordinances and worship of God in this Kingdome and in an especiall manner with this great worke of Reformation which he did so unexpectedly begin and hath so far made bare his Arme to carry on against the highest opposition that could be made by the power or policie of this and the neighbouring Kingdomes Rom. 3.2 The Apostle saith The Oracles of God were committed to the Jews 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so committed that they were concredited not for their owne persons only but that they might bee transmitted by them to their posterity So are the Ordinances of God committed unto you that you may transmit them Surely the stability of the Kingdom stands in the Religion of it If the Lord cast the house which he hath sanctified for his name out of his sight 2 Chron. 7.20 he will quickly pluck you up by the roots out of the land which he hath given you Ezek. 16.39 If he throw downe your eminent place Ezech 10.2 they shall quickly strip you of all your cloaths take away your faire Jewells and leave you naked and bare Iniqua nonquam regna perpotuo ●●anent Sen. Thyest 2.1 for the fire that burnes the City is taken off the Altar Vbi non est sanctitas pietas fides instabile regnum Wisdome and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation the feare of the Lord is his treasure Esay 33.6 If you would not have the Kingdome to be rooted up let not Religion be rooted out Let it be only Mariana's opinion ut nihil princeps de Religione statuat And let it ever be thought an evil consequence amongst reasonable men that because Magistrates cannot constraine mens consciences Revel 17.5 therefore they may not restraine their actions their errours Surely Rome is Mystery Babylon the Great mother of the Harlots Rev. 17.13.14.16.17 Quam ●up●o atā habeti 〈…〉 ●●tam consensione Imperato 〈◊〉 obs quium●●am certa sit 〈…〉 r●● aliena● 〈…〉 nerum tan demilla ult●●● vastatio 〈◊〉 idemest a 〈◊〉 utriusque Brightin in Revel 17. Downames Treat concern Antichrist l. 1. c 9 and as it was the sinne of the ten Kings to give their Kingdomes to the beast to receive his mark in their right hand and in their fortheads Submit themselves and use their power to cause those under their authority to do the like So when the Lambe shall overcome them which shall be by their conversion not their destruction and they shall hate the where eat her flesh and burne her with fire they shall then use their power against her in the same way that they

seemingly to such a Port with a full gale and yet with a side winde turne about to a quite contrary point of the Compasse Some men there are whose words are full of homonon yes various acc●ptations Ier. 9.5 who have taught their tongues to speake ambuiguities that no man can tell what they say Ps 58 2. because he cannot know what they meane And whose actions are full of intricacies and perplexities like some hurtfull beasts they love confusa vestigia They weigh the violence of their hands Psal 94.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Th●s 2.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. ● 2 that they may be sure to doe it within compasse So as to have for it a faire pretence they commit evill artificially and by rule they frame mischeife by a Law they doe nothing but under a cloake of covetousnesse or malicionsnesse according to the hidden things of dishonesty that men may have nothing directly against them and so they wrap it up Of all this abuse of parts yee shall give an account in that day 3. Yee shall give an account of all that power and authority that God hath given you among the people and how it hath beene improved by you to win men unto God to advance his honour to countenance holinesse and discountenance profanesse and blasphemies in the Nation Yee are not Gods by Condition but by Commission only therefore yee must rule with God and for him it is an evill that proceeds from the Ruler Miche● 5. Eccles 10.6 Rom. 1 32. Psal 12.8 Duo fit●t genera cuslo●om Al● circuneuat per civitatem quibus esse cu●a debet ne q●il turbetur inter Caves Alii excabias aguntiun cen bus ut pat●rum sit piae●●●m adver●●t ext●●●num hostem ●●ud m●●eris obeunt Ecclesiaslici hoc eiwlis Wagistrattis Bright● in l.c. Rev. 4● when folly is set in great dignity and the rich sit in low place not to honour men according to their worth is evill but to exalt men for their wickednesse is abominable for the wicked walke on every side when the vilest men are exalted Wee reade Cant. 5.7 that the Church of God in her desertion is evill intreated by two sorts that should have succoured her the Watchmen that gee about the City some interpret the Ministers whose watch is mainely conversant about those within for what have wee to d ee to judge them them that are without And the Reepers of the walls the Magistrates who are to watch for the Church against enemies without for their safety and protection the Church of God is wounded by the one and disgraced by the other if this use be made of power whether Civill or Ecclesiasticall men shall surely given an account thereof to him who is ready to judge the quicke and dead 4. Yee shall give an account how under your Government Religion hath beene reformed or corrupted There are in Ordinances different degrees of purity sometimes the sea is of Glasse cleere as Christall Rev 15 2. Rev 16 〈◊〉 Ezech 47.3 4. sometimes it s of glasse mixed with fire and sometimes it becomes as the bloud of a dead man And there are different degrees of growth and beauty in Ordinances sometimes when the Lord measures the waters that issue out of the Sanctuary they are to the knees and are to the loines and sometimes they are but to the ancles Now Magistrates are watchmen and as their great care should be to keepe God in the Nation so their vigilancy should especially be exercised in observing by what steps the glory of the Lord departs Ezech. 10 4 18 11 23. Therefore the Lord doth exactly set downe in Scripture how far Religion was corrupted in every Kings Reigne and how far that corruption was by authority countenanced how Jeroboam had his Idolatry and that unto this were added the statutes of Omri and the workes of the house of Ahab sc Mich. 6.16 in the worship of Baal and they did cause the people to walke in their counsells that the Lord might make them a desolation And how afterward the women mourned for Tamuz Ezech. 8.10 11.14 16. Videntur hi 70 fuisse Senatores concilii Sanhedrim erat hic summus Iudaeorum Senatus A Lap. 2 Kin. 10.30 31 1 Kin. 15.14 and the ancients of the people worshipped the Sun and all sorts of creeping things even all the abominations of the Gentiles And the Lord in Scripture exactly records how far the Reformation went in every Kings reigne Jehu tooke away the Idolatry of Baal but yet he retained the Calves Asa went far in a Reformation yet the Lord observes that the high places were not taken away 2 Cron. 17.6 In the dayes of Jehosophat the Reformation rose higher and he tooke away the high places and the groves out of Judah And in Josias time when there was the throwest Reformation that wee reade of in the Scripture yet the Lord observes that there were remnants of Baal Zeph. 1 4 5 6. and the Chemarions with the Priests some that did worship the host of heaven worshipping and swearing by God and by Malcham those that turned backe from the Lord and that sought not the Lord nor inquired after him It s recorded to the dishonour of the ten Kings that through their inadvertency and by their authority Rev 17.13.17 I 〈◊〉 sed 〈◊〉 p●e●atis ●o●in● palliata they countenanced Popery and gave their power and their Kingdomes to the beast to set up that ly And there is a mistery of iniquity in all ages under the forme of godlynesse to destroy the power unto which Magistrates if they be not very vigilant may easily concurre and of this also yee shall give an account 5. Yee shall give an account how the publique justice of the Kingdome hath beene administred Next unto Gods owne immediate honour he hath taken care that justice be dispenced betweene man and man next to holynesse he loveth righteousnesse and judgement Ps 33.5 And this he hath committed into your hands as he hath put the word into the hands of his Ministers and they only in a publique way are to dispence it in Gods name So hath he put the sword into the hands of the Magistrates and as it is Gods word that is preached by the one so it is the justice of the Lord that is executed by the other Dent. 33.21 This is the way to remove evill from the Nation then stood up Phineas and prayed say some Ps 106.30 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interpellarit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P●jud●e●rit Montan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S●pt Es●y 1.15 and executed judgement say others for the originall word will beare both so the plague ceased The best prayers of Magistrates for the remooving of evill from a Nation are by letting justice run downe speedily and they will surely finde that all their prayers are ineffectuall unlesse this concur with them the