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A32795 A memorial for magistrates a sermon preached at Christ-Church in the city of Bristoll on the twelfth day of October at the assizes or goal-delivery / by John Chetwynd. Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692. 1682 (1682) Wing C3797; ESTC R23993 23,802 38

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they may find written Prov. 1. from the 24th ver to the end of the Chapter 2. A retaining in their heads minds and memories to know and understand them To hear without understanding is but lost labour and therefore God hath set up Masters of Assemblies whose work it is and whose care it ought to be to do as those we read of in Ezra 8.7 That caused the people to understand the Law And we our selves ought to pray as David Ezra 8.7.9 Psal 119.27 Make me to understand the way of thy Precepts 3. A keeping in our hearts to affect us and operate upon us and to change us into its own likeness as the graft doth the nature of the stock as the loave doth the meal to leave in it a rellish of it self This David tells us Psal 119.11 that he had hid Gods word in his heart that he might not sin against God And this Saint Paul adviseth us to let the word of Christ dwell in us Col. 3.16 not as a guest or stranger pass through but as a dweller making its abode with us 4. A frequent having them in our mouths to speak of them and declare them and Communicate the knowledge of them to others and this is not only the duty of Gods Ministers who are to d clare the whole Counsel of God But likewise of private ●hristians who are so admonish one another Col. 3.16 Deut. 4.10 6.7 to teach their Children and to talk of them But especially to keep them 5. In our deeds and works to practise them and this indeed is the perfection of all the rest For all the rest may be done and we never the better If you know these things then happy are ye if ye do them Other things are necessary but yet without this of no avail yea mischievous and dangerous heightning our sin to a presumptuous contempt and so encreasing our stripes He that knows his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with more stripes Only they know profitably that practise Conscionably and shall be blessed in their doing The Psalmist tells us Psal 15.5 He that doth these things shall never be moved It s not he that knoweth them or speaketh of them but he that doth them For as we judge of the corporal health of the Heart not by the words of the Mouth or colour of the Countenance but Pulse of the Arm. So judgment is to be made of the Spiritual soundness and uprightness of the Soul not so much by words or looks as by the fruits of the hand Mat 7.21 Joh. 13.17.15.8 9. Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven And if ye know these things then happy are ye if ye do them And herein are ye my Disciples if ye bring forth much fruit So that if a man had as great skill in Divinity as Varro is reported to have in Philosophy who read so much that it was admired that he could write any thing and yet wrote so much that another could hardly read though he should speak with the tongue of Men and Angels 1 Cor. 13.1 yet if without Charity which is the fulfilling of the Law all would be worth nothing 2. The Object His Commandements Now Gods Commands are made known unto us by 1. Ro. 2.14 The Law of Nature Engraven in mens hearts 2. The Scriptures written and so Gods Commandements revealed in them are either 1. Moral The Ten Commandements comprehended in these two things 1. Love to God 2. Love to our Neighbour 2. Evangelical Such as are 1. Repentance 2. Faith 3. Self-denyal 4. Taking up the Cross 5. Imitations of Christ All which Commands both Moral and Evangelical cease with time except the first but that runs Parallel with Eternity God will be our God for ever all the other will cease For in the World to come their will be no humane Policy or Government or External Worship 3. Gods Deputies Gods will and commands are made known to us by those Rulers and Magistrates Rom. 13. which he hath ordained to rule over us whose determination of things indifferent left in their power to dispose and order is and ought to be esteemed as Gods will made known by their Mouth and obeyed for Conscience The Particular Rules of Government and Methods in judicial proceedings are Gods will made known by them when they are not contrary to Gods express will and are to be obeyed for Conscience sake which calls for a Ready Compliance in an Actual Performance and knows no such contradictory chimaera as a Passive Obedience It was a Rule of St. Bernard's and is a most true one and of excellent use Eum quem pro Deo habemus in terris debemus audire in iis quae non sunt contra Deum That is him whom we have for a God on earth we ought to obey in all things not contrary to Gods will Our Saviour Christ into who hands all power is committed and who is made the head of all things Mat. 28.18 Eph. 1.21 22. Did not himself institute either 1. The particular modes of Judicials as to the Government and Regulation of matters in the Civil State but only the general Rules of Justice and Equity which particulars he left to the disposal of Kings and Governours which Rule by him under him and for him Neither did he tye them up to the Judicials of Moses but left them at liberty as to the circumstances of Policy to their own Prudence and Wisdom Or 2. The particular ceremonies and circumstances of Divine Worship but left them to the prudence and power of the Apostles to set in order as St. Paul said he would in the several Churches which they should plant and so to all succeeding Governours in all Ages in their several Churches to appoint according to expediency in their several Precincts And this appears by 1. The different Ceremonies of the several Churches which were not uniform but various as the Observation of Easter in the Greek and Latin Churches c. 2. By St. Ambrose's direction to conform to those external rites which they found in the several Churches they had occasion to have Communion with And there are very good reasons rendred by some why Christ who took care for all the Substantials of his Worship did not himself institute the Circumstantials As 1. To grace and gain authority unto the Apostles in the Churches which they planted 2. Because Moses his Dispensation did not nor was not to cease till our Blessed Saviour was ascended 3. That the circumstance of Christian Worship that should be after our Redemption wrought by him might not be Vmbra futurorum the Shadow of things to come but Memoria praeteritorum The Memorials of things past 4. The different fashions of divers Countries as to the external modes of expressing their Reverence Whereas the Laws which our Blessed