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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62113	Timē kai timōria, A beautifull swan with two black feet, or, Magistrates deity attended with mortality & misery affirmed & confirmed before the learned and religious Judge Hales, at the assize holden at Maidstone, July 7, 1657, for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons ...	Symons, Henry, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6360B; ESTC R22380	23,504	38

the spring-head of grace the Lord Jesus Christ who by them conveighs much of himself into the soul Joh. 1. 16. Suffer no uncircumcised Philistines to poyson those wels of salvation Isa 12. 3. Let no Elephants puddle those springs because they cannot endure to see their ugly bodies let them see by your practise and punishment that the Harts do not more bray after the water-brooks then your hearts breath after the living God in the enjoyment of Ordinances Psal 42. 1 2. V. The Ministers of God those legati a latere legeir Embassadors that lye to keep peace between heaven and earth 2 Cor. 5. 20. those dispensers of mysteries 1 Cor. 4. 1. the Mercuries from heaven that bring you glad tydings Rom. 10. 15. Christs Paranymphs and spokesmen to woe and win souls to him Joh. 3. 19. In a word the very saviours of your souls instrumentally 1 Tim. 4. 16. do you save them succour them support them supply them do for them whatever lies in your place and power it was one of the main ends of the institution of Magistrates at first Exod. 4. 16. Thou shalt be to him in stead of God It was a noble speech of a Prince to his Minister T● me calamo ego te gladio Defend me with thy Pen and I will defend thee with my Pike Be you Protectors to us and we will be Preachers for you as well as to you VI. The People of God Those Columbae and Columnae of the world of whom the world is not worthy Heb. 11. 38. The saviours of Nations Job 22. 30. the apples of Gods eyes Zech. 2. 8. the Commanders of God Isa 45. 11. the glory upon which shall be a defence Isa 4. 5. Take them to your care custody compassion You are called the shields of the earth Psal 47. 9. that you may shelter and safeguard Gods Hephzibahs You are nursing fathers and mothers Isa 49. 23. that you should dance Gods darlings in your arms and dandle them on your knees Give me leave to back this Use of Exhortation with some Motives Motive 1. God hath exalted you from very low to very high places he hath lifted you up as nature did Saul higher by the head and shoulders then the rest of your brethren hath put you into his seat placed his Name on you called you Gods commanded all your brethrens sheaves to bow before you and obey you that you may say as Iphicrates the Athenian Captain in all his glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from what am I raised to what am I exalted Arist Rhet. lib. 1. cap. 9. May not a little inversion of Davids words agree with you Ps 113. 7. He hath raised up the poor out of the dust and lifted the needy out of the dunghill and set you with Princes even with the Princes of his people Or else the words in the Magnificat Luke 1. 52. He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree What strong engagements are these upon you to exalt him that hath exalted you to act for him that hath put you into his place to improve those talents of place and power for his interest who hath intrusted you it would be horrible ingratitude as bad as the Jews thus to requite the Lord as to scoff his Word crucifie his Son prophane his day pollute his Ordinances slight his Ministers abuse his people Mot. 2. The great good you might do if you would live Judge defend as Gods what golden yea what glorious opportunities and prizes are put into your hands if God would give you hearts to employ and improve them If the Magistrates of England would make Religion their businesse and not a design how easily might they suppresse sin and prophanesse advance the power of godlinesse exalt Christ and his Ordinances to their place power and purity encourage and increase those that are sincere and godly take off the disguises and vizards of hypocrites I dare boldly say there is nothing needfull honourable creditable comfortable for the bodies souls estates names liberties consciences of the people but they might easily attain it either by their Precept President or Punishment 1. By Precept How easily might they stop the muse-holes in good Laws through which drunkards swearers c. do use to creep What holy and wholsom Laws might the Protector with his Parliament make and see observed for suppressing all manner of loosenesse and lewdnesse and encouraging purity and holinesse against scoffers and scorners They might make such Laws as should make the proudest and prophanest in the Land to stoop to their Scepters and so reform Old that it would become New England How prosperous were the Heathen Magistrates as Numa Lycurgus Solon in this way of new making their Country and why might not Christian Magistrates be much more What made the Israelites be so highly esteemed by the Canaanites for a wise and understanding people but the keeping of those righteous Laws and Statutes And what made the Israelites keep those good Judgements but Moses and succeeding Magistrates pressing and perswading yea perforcing them to observe them Deut. 4. 2. By President There is a very great magneticall power and vertue in the examples of godly Magistrates when they are good all their followers relations acquaintance neighbours will be either seriously or seemingly good they will be either out of subtilty or sincerity like the Ruler The primum mobile causes all the other spheres to move and the Sun draws many flowers to be followers of him so people are much guided and directed by their Magistrates Ethelbert a Christian King of Kent made that whole Kingdom godly by his being godly and countenancing of such as were godly And Cassiodore tels us the like story of Theodabad But why should I trouble you with humane when Divine story abounds with instances of this nature both in the time of the Judges as also of the Kings who made that of the Poet true Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis 3. By Punishment Those who will not by fair perswasion nor sweet example be brought on to godlinesse must be by severe means forced to compliance David found many of Sauls old Courtiers so wedded to their old sins and superstitions that he found in them Immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum which made him protest Psal 101. 8. that he would early destroy all the wicked of the land and cut off all evil doers from the City of God and so will every godly Magistrate do Prov. 20. 26. A godly Magistrate scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them Those who strike with the fist of violence Isa 58. 4. he will strike them with the sword of Justice Rom. 13. 4. We account it a glory for Magistrates to be attended with a great train here on earth how much more glory would it be to see them attended with a train to heaven Mot. 3. The great expectations of Gods people When David was exalted to the throne after