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A34713	England's restoration parallel'd in Judah's, or, The primitive judge and counsellor in a sermon before the honourable judge at Abington assizes, for the county of Berks, Aug. 6. 1689 / by Francis Carswell ...	Carswell, Francis, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing C649; ESTC R222147	22,865	40

and fourth General Heads proposed at first to be discoursed on viz. 3. The Order and 4. The Nature of a Church or Nation 's Restauration or Ruine And how far Judges and Counsellors Influence and are Instrumental Causes of both 1. The Influence of good Counsellours on a Church or Nation 's Prosperity is and ever has been most visible in every Age and in all Nations and may be most convincingly demonstrated from the sad Effects dismal and satal Consequences Nations have smarted under by the Conduct and Advice of wicked ones to the utter ruine both of Prince and People What a flourishing Kingdom was Egypt when the Nations round about were like to perish through the faithful Counsel and Conduct of Joseph Whilst Jehoiadah lived to advise King Joash himself and his Kingdom flourished but after his death following the wicked Advice of his flattering Counsellors never greater Calamities befel a People Wicked Counsellors ruined the Kingdom of Ahab and Ahaziah His Mother was his Counsellor to do wickedly after the death of his Father to his destruction and subversion of the Government by Athaliah But most famous and remarkable is the Case of Rehoboam who upon the Death of Solomon his Father went up to Sichem to be crown'd King where multitudes of his Subjects went also to attend the Solemnity and so took that opportunity of presenting their humble Addresses That those Invasions made upon their Liberties as Freemen and Rights as Subjects might be redress'd Which the old faithful Counsellors of his Father advised him to do But he rejected these and followed the advice of the young men viz. To insist upon his Prerogative to check their Insolence in daring to petition and threaten them the higher for it and tell them He was resolved to make their Yoke heavier That his little Finger should be heavier than his Father's Loins And whereas before they were chastised with Whips he would henceforth lash them with Scorpions When his Subjects heard this and found that their humble Address was become their greater Crime and a Reason for heavier Oppressions they make a general Revolt and unanimously cry out What Portion have we in David neither have we Inheritance in the Son of Jesse Now see to thy own House O David to thy Tents O Israel that is Though Rehoboam be the Grandchild of David the King that God himself chose and set over us and he be the indisputable Heir Apparent to the Crown of Israel and to the House of his Father David yet if he pervert the Ends of Government which are to protect relieve and defend and is resolved to go on to enslave and oppress What is he to us more than another Or his Descent or House We have no part or portion in him Let him look to himself and his own House and we will go home and look to our selves and ours To thy Tents O Israel And so they unanimously left and deposed him and made Jeroboam the Son of Nebat King over Israel And this God in this case seems to encourage and approve of as his own Act 1 Kings 12. 24. This is from me saith the Lord therefore oppose it not And what the dreadful Church and Kingdom distracting Effects are of wicked Counsellors about a Prince is fresh in our Memories having so lately experimented the result of Conclave Romish French and Italian inslaving Counsels from abroad Petrean and Jesuitical undermining Counsellors at home which had reduced us to such Circumstances that we were all at the very brink of Destruction And it was the Lord's Mercies we had not been all consumed Wherefore Forerius tells us Mallet iniquum Regem optimis Consultoribus Reipublicae praeesse quàm justum sapientem iniquis Concilliariis constipatum And blessed be that God who has turned all the Counsels of these Ahitophels into Folly broken the Snare in pieces and we are escaped and restored unto our Faithful Counsellors 〈◊〉 at the beginning But remembring I am not preaching to these at Court or to the Senate at Westminster but to Judges at an Assize this little shall suffice And I shall now address my self more closely and particularly to my second General which is 2. What Influence the Restauration of Primitive Judges have upon the Prosperity of Church and State. 1. Upon our State and Civil concerns After or upon the Restauration of these it follows That our Cities shall be called Cities of Righteousness faithful Cities Countries and Cities were usually called by the Names or at the pleasure of their first Discoverers Inhabiters or Founders so Judea from Judah Britain from Brutus Rome from Romulus London or Ludstown from King Lud Jerum or rather Jebusalem from the Jebusites Yet after many places have received superadditional Epithets and Denominations new Names from Acoidents Customs Virtues or Vices predominant amongst their Inhabitants Thus degenerate Rome in the Scripture is frequently called Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Fornie●atib●s because she is become the habitation of Devils and of every foul Spirit and a Cage of unclean Beasts Thus Jerusalem is called Sodom and Gomorrah a Harlot and treacherous City when the sins of those places were committed and tolerated in her Hence it comes to pass that from good or bad Judges places may be denominated and accordingly change their Names Where Religion is profaned Wickedness abounds Vice flourishes Sins are impude 〈…〉 ly committed and Judges being Atheists or Galleo's that care for none of these things to punish or reform Such Cities or Places may be called Sodom and Gomorrals treacherous and perfidious in forsaking God. But where by the impartial strict Administration of Justice by upright Judges the good are encouraged the wicked punished Vice is asham'd or dares not to be seen Sin sculks in corners 5 and though cloathed in Scarlet yet openly exposed and whipped the streets Religion Piety and Vertue being encourag'd flourish the Poor the Widow and the Orphan rejoyce and no Clamours for Injustice and Oppressions are heard in the high places Here Cities may be called Faithful Cities Cities full of Righteousness But to prevent Mistakes here know that though Denominations are usually à major● yet they are not so in this case For though the Stigmatizing Pilloring and Whipping of some and Executing of others be duly observed every Assizes and a Judge has done ten thousand just Acts yet he shall not be hence denominated a just Judge ad totum but only ad tantum for the whole but for so much But if he has done but one unjust Act in the whole course of his Judgship he shall be thence denominated an unjust Judge As a Man who has conversed with Thousands in the whole course of his life and never did the least injury to any Soul breathing yet if after all he kill but one Man he is denominated a Murtherer for ever For those common Acts of Justice on certain Malefactors being so absolutely necessary for the preservation of