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A11792	The proiector Teaching a direct, sure, and ready vvay to restore the decayes of the Church and state both in honour and revenue. Deliuered in a sermon before the iudges in Norvvich, at summer assises there holden, anno 1620. By Thomas Scot Batchelor in Diuinity.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 22081; ESTC S116987	26,622	45

obedient his servants as children loving intreating his servants as sonnes and so esteeming them and commanding his sonnes as seruants and so nurturing them If his sonne hath the inheritance his seruant hath the Lease his seruant shall serue his sonne but his sonne shall keepe his seruant And this is a iust man to himselfe and his at home without which he can neuer bee truly so abroad to others 2 Publike iustice is that which hee doth exercise to others in the Common-wealth in his particular calling as he is a Magistrate Minister Lawyer Phisitian Merchant Mechanicke or the like Hee makes a conscience of his calling and knowes he must giue an accompt for the imployment of his talents and therefore vseth himselfe in his place not as if the end of his vocation were onely to gather wealth and enrich himselfe and his posteritie but to doe God seruice and other men good knowing that Heathens could say Non solùm nobis nati sumus sed partim patriae partim parentibus c. and therefore followeth the rule giuen by Saint Paul to Titus and Tit. 2. 12. contracted close in three Aduerbes vt viuamus sobriè iustè piè First sobriè soberly because all iustice must begin at home it is the rule of all Loue thy neighbour as thy selfe if thou doest not loue thy selfe well first thou canst not loue thy neighbour well at all Secondly iustè iustly Doe as thou wouldest be done to 1. Ioh. 4 20. for If thou louest not thy neighbour whom thou hast seene how canst thou loue God whom thou hast not seene Thirdly piè godlily for this is the summe of all Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbor like thy selfe in these consists all the Law and the Prophets Now then a man being thus sober at home in his owne deportment iust abroad to others in publique commerce and religious towards God in his deuotions is accounted by God and Man a iust man Not as if any absolute Iustice were in him for that alone is Gods and there is none that sinnes not but iust in comparison of ● Io. 1. 8. others iust in estimation with others iust in affection to others iust if wee measure his declensions and digressions with his common conversation and iudge him not by any particular act but by the generall And thus was Abraham Lot Iob Samuel Dauid Zachary iust men not absolutely iust generally iust sed secundum quid after a sort And when a man is thus iust see what honor it procures him Other Men dare referre themselues and all that they haue to the censure of such knowing his conscience is a lawe vnto him and he will not transgresse against it for the world What an honor was it for Abraham in the contention betwixt Lots seruants and his to offer Lot though he were the younger and weaker the honor of the day the honor of the place the right or left hand chuse which he would This was Iustice and Iustice without partiality without priuate respect for it was in Abrahams Genes 13. 9 power being both the elder and stronger to haue taken which hand he would and either to haue left Lot the worst part or no part What an honor was it againe for Abraham to take Genes 14. 14. armes to redeem his Cousin Lot from thraldom doubtles he that would fight to redeeme him being taken would haue fought to keepe him from captiuity Even iust Abraham will heere bee an assaylant The Iustice of the cause is ours as it was Abrahams if the courage were ours as it was Abrahams Nay when Abraham hath ouercome see his Iustice shining more cleerely yet protesting to the king of Sodome who offered him the greatest part of the spoyle Gen. 14. 22 because he had purchased all with his sword I haue lift vp my hand to the Lord the most high God possessor of heauen and earth That I will not take any thing that is thine from a threed even to a shoe latchet lest thou shouldst say I haue made Abraham rich No man but God shall make Abraham rich especially none aduerse or diuerse in religion from Abraham as the king of Sodome was Abraham will haue no wealth but what his conscience assures him is the gift of God O iustice to be admired but too much out of date to be imitated or almost beleeued when we will most vniustly take any thing of any man by any meanes whereby we may be made rich There is no shame now amongst men but to be poore and honest Gen. 41 38. What an honor was it for Ioseph to be sent for out of the prison into the presence of Pharaoh to be advanced presently to place of authoritie and made Ruler over all the Land yea ouer his old master who had vniustly imprisoned him and what an honour was it for him to forget all old iniuries and to reuenge none and to deale so faithfully and iustly betwixt the King and his subiects that he gaue contentment to them both hee saued the peoples liues he gat the King their Lands This was a Proiector worthy of praise The Text saith he Gen. 39. 6. was a goodly person and wel-fauoured a Fauourite fit indeed for a Prince he sought not to enrich himselfe but to enrich his Master and to honour the State by his iustice Genes 41. What an honour was it for Iob both to bee and to bee accounted so iust to be reuerenced of old and young to be loued of the good feared of the euill to bee eyes to the blinde feet to the lame a tongue to the dumbe counsell to the simple a Patron to the poore a bulwark of iustice to all Iob 29. What an honour was it to Samuel that in the confident integrity of his heart he could say to all the people Whose Oxe haue I taken or whose Asse haue I taken or whom haue I defrauded whom haue I oppressed or of whose hand haue I receiued any bribe to blind mine eyes therwith I will restore it you 1. Sam. 12. And what an honour was it to heare them ingenuously confesse and say Thou hast not defrauded vs nor oppressed vs neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand So that he might iustly reply The Lord is witnesse against you and his Anoynted is witnesse this day that ye haue not found ought in my hand and they answered He is witnesse What an honour was it for Salomon to bee visited by a Queene to haue his wisedome and iustice in the managing both of himselfe his houshold and kingdome so magnified by a forraine testimonie Blessed bee the Lord thy God which delighteth in thee to set thee on the throne of Israel because the Lord loued Israel for euer therefore made he thee King to doe iudgement and iustice 1. King 10. 9. Thus then we see how a family is honoured by hauing one iust man the Master A City is honoured by

was charitable heere his house stood euer open to all strangers Abrahams bosome is inlarged there made a hauen to all commers nay a heauen to all beleeuers Rich Diues starued Lazarus heere rich Abraham feasteth Lazarus there Qui sequitur iustitiam facit misericordiam inueniet vitam iustitiam gloriam Pro. 21. 21. The righteous saith our Sauiour shall then shine forth as the Sunne in the Kingdome of their Father Mat. 13. 43. And those that exceed in justice heere shall exceed in glory hereafter as one starre exceedes an other in splendor 4. Lastly looke vpon the earth See Cain after his sinne degraded of his honor Before he was Lord of all and had his name from the possession of the whole earth If then to be rich bee glorious who could bee more glorious for who could bee more rich he was made the lord king and ruler ouer his brother Abel Gen. 4. 7. Vnto thee saith God shall his desire be and thou shalt rule ouer him Thus in killing Abel vniustly hee played the tyrant and slue all his subiects at once as Nero would haue done when he wisht all Rome one necke that hee might cut it off at a blow And was not this a shame for a King to be without subjects and so with his owne hands as it were to depose himselfe Nay was it not a shame to fall so low as from the lord of all to become a beggar a rogue a vagabond marked out to future punishment for fore-going sinne And yet more base of fugitiues the most cowardly to feare as the Psalmist faith where there is no cause of feare to feare the winde amongst the leaues as his father Adam did nay to feare Genes 3. 8. the childe vnborne for so he saith to God Genes 4. 14 It shall come to passe that euery one that findeth me shall slay me Miserable wretch there is yet none borne to finde thee to feare thee and vvhen they shal be borne wilt thou be afrayde of euery one of euery childe of euery weake woman of euery one Nay vvhen one hath kild thee art thou still afrayde that euery one should kill thee by turnes that euery one that finds thee should kill thee O see the extent of hell vpon earth where torment is endles and infinite see the lamentable case of a sinner in despayre who hath falne from instice he is afrayde of God and so of euery creature of God afrayde of euery man of euery woman and that successiuely eternally of euery lease of euery shaddow of euery imagination nay he is afrayd of himselfe as Caine vvas such as these are dead whilst they liue what 1. Tim. 5. 6 Numb 25. a shame was it for Zimri a principall man in his tribe to commit sinne openly and impudently in the sight of the Sunne euen then when the rod of affliction was vpon the back of his Nation and vvhen Moses and all Israel Et stetit Phinees placauit vel placuit So reades the vulgar were weeping and mourning for their sinnes And what a glory was it to Phineas for his zeale in the execution of iustice to haue the perpetuall Priesthood conferred vpon him to haue his act of iustice stiled a prayer Then stood vp Phinees and prayed Ps 106. 30. to haue it not only imputed vnto himselfe for righteousnes but to his Countrimen also for heere the plague ceased as if killing the sinners he had killed the sinne and killing the sinne he had killed the punishment As they were stayned by Zimries sinne so they were honored by Phineas Iustice for Iustice exalteth a Nation but sinne is a shame to any people This Balaam knew well when he taught Balaack to lay a stumbling blocke before the Israelites to cause them sinne that so shame might follow Numb 31. 16. 17. Reuel 2. 14. This Phineas knew well who therefore remoued the stumbling blocke that Iustice being executed the Nation might be exalted Psal 106. 30. The stumbling blocke heere layd was Adultery and Idolatry The Lord therefore in his mercy keepe vs from ioyning in marriage with Idolaters since wee see temporall fornication brings in spirituall and the coniunction of hearts with the bodies of such makes Salomon sinne Bodily lust blinds the eyes of spirituall loue What a shame was it for Sampson the Iudge of the people to fall by a woman Yea to haue his eyes put out and to grind in a mill as a punishment of his sinne The eyes of his iudgement were first put out then the eyes of his body He that followes lust grinds in a mill runnes in a round circle beginning where he ended and is a slaue to worse enemies then the Philistins euen to his owne base lust passions and affections and to Sathan their Captaine and Commander What a shame was it for Elyes sonnes who should haue dehorted others from sinne to be the ring-leaders to sin whilst they should haue compelled others to come in forced them out of Gods house by their scandalous offences And thus by their irregularity to occasion the losse of the Arke of God the vntimely death of their good old father and the ouer-hasty trauell of a passionate and affectionate wife who dying named the sonne of her sorrow Ichabod to witnesse that Glory was departed from Israel and shame was like sodainely to follow for their sinne 1. Sam. 4. What a shame was it for the bad sonnes of good Samuel 1. Sam. 8. whilst they should haue punished others for bribery to take bribes themselues and to set ther authority to sale for couetousnesse Peccat voluntarius sciens quando è contrario Arist lib. 8. phisic vtitur scientia And to summe vp all with a supreme example of Gods 1. Kin. 14. 7 Iustice in punishing mans Iniustice what a shame was it to Ieroboam who was placed by God in a high estate and raysed from being a servant to be a king vngratefully to leaue that God and whereas he should haue punished others for sinning to draw others to sinne by precept Ro. 1. 32. and example And to be branded with a superlatiue shame That he was the man who made Israel to sinne Yea to haue a curse denounced against him and his seed That they should bee remoued as doung like doung defiling the 1. Kin. 14 7 chaire of State O what distance is there betwixt the throne and the dounghill Yet they should be remoued as doung That dogs should eate such of them as died in the city and the foules of the ayre such as dyed in the field Lastly take for example the wise obseruer of this point of State Salomon himselfe who doing justice was honored and inriched aboue all men but declining from iustice had shame following his sinne so farre that Siracides one of his owne scholers sayth of him Thou didst Eccl. 47. 19. 20. bow thy loynes to women and wert ouercome by thy body thou didst staine thy honor