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A28303	A caveat for magistrates in a sermon, preached at Pauls before the Right Honorable Thomas Atkin, Esquire, Lord Major of the city of London, November the third, 1644, being the first day of his coming thither after his entrance upon his majoralty / by Elidad Blackwell ...	Blackwell, Elidad.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3090; ESTC R200137	30,169	52

be accountable to God too Remember that You must one day come to your Redde rationem Give an account You must appear before that exact and unavoidable and unappealable Tribunall of the Judge of all the world and he 'll heare all over again and judge the Cause and judge the Iudge Iudge you and judge all And would you give any sentence now that should then be reversed Would you give any sentence now you would then be ashamed to own Consider that you must give account to God Not only to Gods Deputie that little God in your bosomes Conscience which will sentence you severely if you doe amisse but to the great God the judge of all the World and Iesus Christ the Iudge of quick and dead God will bring to judgement every work with every secret thing whether it be good or evill Take heed therefore what you doe You will never be able to give up your account with joy else Again The nature greatnesse and waightinesse of the work you have to doe The easinesse of miscarrying in it The exceeding great danger if you do miscarrie All these call upon you to take heed what you doe 1 The nature greatnesse and waightinesse of the worke you have to doe 1 It is Gods work and therefore requires your utmost circumspection I have provided with all my might says David Why The house is not for man but for the Lord 1 Chron. 29.1 2 It is a great worke A worke of the greatest and mightiest concernment and importance that ever did or ever can come under your hands 3 It 's a perplex intricate difficult worke So many knots many Cases so intricate ô what a Labyrinth you will be in sometimes Your thoughts how they 'll be perplext twisted as it were intwin'd one within another how you will be troubled to discover your way to finde your rule to know what to do 4 It is an excellent work 5 An important work too Your eternall salvation lyes upon it Your and our temporall salvation also Lawes Liberties Lives Gospell Religion Church State Kingdome all lyes upon it According as you manage your work even so may it fare with England for ought I know and the children that are yet unborn will have cause either to stand up and blesse you or to stand up and curse you 2 The easinesse of miscarrying in the work Take heed what you doe A thousand to one but you will miscarry else For why First you are but men Gods indeed but yet but earthen gods Men weak men frail men flesh and bloud You have the same carnall principles in your hearts that are in the hearts of others You have a principle of pride in you a principle of self-love in you a principle of base slavish fear in you a principle of ambition a principle of covetousnesse c. 2 You have the same Devill and the same World to draw forth those principles too Such temptations from Satan such solicitations from men such evasions in offenders to avoid justice friends intreatie enemies obloquie such a world of snares so many respects to worke upon your affections so many occasions to turne you out of the way so many impediments to justice This relation and that relation kindred acquaintance feare favour hope of reward frownes smiles If they be rich ones and great ones that offend ô they must be spared they will sit upon my skirts else another time they 'll be even with me And if poor ones yet if great ones become suitors for them ô I must gratifie such a great man c. Oh how hard it is for a Iudge to deale justly uprightly impartially Take heed therefore what you do You will certainly miscarrie else 3 And if you doe Oh how dangerous it is that 's the third thing The exceeding great danger if you doe miscarrie Danger to your selves danger to others First to your selves To erre in judgement especially wittingly and willingly Oh it is a fearfull sin Called a manifold transgression and a mighty sin Amos 5.12 And you are said herein even to exceed the deeds of the wicked Jer. 5.28 How many dreadfull woes stand registred in the book of God against this sin See Esay 5.20 c. No sin more sharply threatned no sin more severely punished in persons in Nations It 's a sin that makes you guiltie of other mens sins A man may be guiltie of other mens sins not onely positively when he consents to them councels them incourages them countenances them and the like but privatively also when he indulges them connives at them c. In this case all the wickednesse others doe it 's You that doe it you be the murtherers and you be the Saboth-breakers and you be the swearers and you be the drunkard c. It 's not they that doe it it 's you that doe it it 's the Court of justice that doth it It 's a sin of bloud The sin of bloud oh it 's a fearfull sin if you erre in judgement if you condemne whom God would absolve or absolve whom God would condemne you pull upon your selves the guilt of bloud you take the bloud that lies upon others and lay it upon your own heads Because thou hast let goe a man whom I appointed to destruction therfore thy life shall goe for his life and thy people for his people sayes the Lord to Ahab 1 King 20.42 2 Danger to others too to the State to the Kingdom Take heed what you doe you 'l indanger the whole Kingdome else involve the whole Kingdom in bloud be State murtherers Kingdome-destroyers And whereas if you had carried your selves religiously piously sincerely in your worke you might have quenched the fire of Gods wrath Psal. 146.31 you will kindle it more And whereas had you executed judgement you might have removed the judgements that are upon the Land you will pull down yet heavier and sorer judgements It 's a dreadfull place that Amos 5. Yee who turne judgement to wormewood and leave off righteousnesse in the earth ver. 7 I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins You afflict the just you take a bribe you turne aside the poore in the gate from their right c. ver. 12. well and what follows Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts Wailing shall be in all streets and in all high places they shall cry Alas Alas and they shall call the husbandmen to mourning and such as are skilfull in lamentation to wailing ver. 16. And the day of the Lord shall be darknesse and not light even very darknesse and no brightnesse in it ver. 20. So Jeremiah 4. They judge not the cause of the fatherlesse and the right of the needy doe they not judge ver. 28. well and what follows Shall I not visit for these things sayes the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ver. 29. The want of due execution of judgement puls down Gods heaviest judgements upon a Land Take heed

A CAVEAT FOR MAGISTRATES In a SERMON preached at PAULS before the right Honorable Thomas Atkin Esquire Lord Major of the City of London November the third 1644. Being the first day of his coming thither after his entrance upon his Majoralty By ELIDAD BLACKWELL Master of Arts and Preacher of Gods Word at ANDREW UNDERSHAFT Published according to Order PSAL. 101.8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the Land that I may cut off all the wicked doers from the City of the Lord 2 SAM. 10.12 Be of good courage let us play the men for our people and for the Cities of our God and the Lord doe what seemeth him good LONDON Printed by Robert Leyburn for Richard Wodenothe at the signe of the Star under Peters Church in Cornhill 1645. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS ATKIN Esquire LORD MAJOR Of the City of LONDON Right Honourable THis Sermon had waited upon you sooner had not some interveening accidents and occasions hindred At length such as it is It here humbly presents it selfe unto your Honour And truly my Lord you have all the reason in the world to own it for it 's more yours then mine It was your desire which with me hath and ever shall have the force of a command that brought it first into the palpit then into the presse yea so much as the very Text and all was your choice which to me is a mighty rock of confidence that you earnestly desire to know what it is God requires of you in your place being willing to doe it and I am sure you have power And these three compleat a good Magistrate Skill to govern Power to manage that Skill will to actuate both Much of that blessed work I was then such an earnest and humble suiter for I already see happily accomplished Your pious care for the more strict observation of the Lords Day Your unparalleld zeale for the suppressing of swearing drunkennesse and other the like God-provoking Land-devouring Soul-damning abominations your vigorous activity fidelitie sinceritie for the Reformation preservation good every way of this great Citie shall stand upon record to your everlasting Honor When I think of it I cannot choose but say with Ezra Now blessed be God who hath put such a thing as this into your heart And then pray with David Keep this for ever Lord for ever in the thoughts of the heart of thy servant To be instrumentall in the reformation though but of a family yea though but of a particular person 't is the most choicest and most glorious piece of service that can possibly be accomplished by the sonnes of men but to be instrumentall in the reformation of a City and such a City so populous so exemplary so influentiall into the whole Kingdom Oh the heighth the depth the breadth the length of this dignity The Lord give you an humble heart that you may not be exalted above measure through this aboundant honour he hath put upon you which is such that truly my Lord were there no other end for which you live but this yet in this you have great cause to blesse your selfe in God and in his name we blesse you And now what remaines but that you gird your sword upon your thigh and ride on that you advance still forward and do nobly for your selfe your people and your God Consider I beseech you how great the trust is this Citie hath committed to you It has given you the Keys the Sword The Safetie the Government They have all cast themselves as it were at your feet saying This is the man we will have to rule over us Thus shall it be done unto the man whom London will honour and thus has it been done to you And now will not you honour London my Lord that has thus honoured you And wherein can you honour it more then in reforming it It was the honour of that Citie Jerusalem above all other Cities in the World that it was the Holy Citie Oh that it might be Londons honour To say London is rich or London is wise or London is strong this is something But to say London is holy this is more then all Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome nor the strong man glory in his strength nor the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understands and knows me saith the Lord This will make it honourable in the eyes of God in the eyes of the Saints of God yea and in the eyes even of the verie enemies of God You cannot honour the Citie more then by endevouring to make it a holy Citie And my Lord as ever you seriously minded and intended any thing I beseech you mind and intend this It s the thing wee looke for at your hands It s the thing you must doe or doe what you will what you can you doe just nothing Doe nay you undoe every thing Reform us my Lord or you ruine us what a perfidious thing were it for your Honour to betray the Citie My Lord reform it or you betray it And your late solemne Covenant and the Oath upon Oath you have taken since ô what mightie ingagements should they be upon your spirit The vows of God are upon you my Lord so that it s no arbitrary thing Necessitie is laid upon you and wo to you if you doe it not Yet again reforme London my Lord and you reforme England If London be wicked ungodly prophane how will prophanesse flow from it as from a fountain into the whole Kingdom And on the other side if London be pious religious well ordered well governed reform'd how will all the Counties Cities Villages Places round about by its example be encouraged likewise to a Reformation Once more and I will use the mightiest argument in the world and that which so raisd the brave spirit of that great Apostle to such invincible patience unwearied activeness for Gods glorie and the Churches good Let the love of Christ constrain you I read of holy Job that being a man in authoritie as you are he was such a terrour to wicked and ungodly men that they durst not shew their heads but were glad to flie into woods wildernesses solitary places and there hide themselves in clifts and rocks and holes of the earth and cut up mallows among the bushes and Juniper roots for their meat It 's a copie penn'd for you my Lord by Gods own hand write after it I know you feare not the face of man Your Honour knows what it is to lie in a prison for your Countries good Beare not the sword in vain Draw it and cut off those that wil not otherwise be reclaim'd Make wicked and ungodly men affraid of you Let not Drunkards dare to goe reeling and staggering in the streets nor Swearers dare to open their mouthes in oaths and blasphemies in the streets nor children others dare