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land_n	great_a	justice_n	king_n	1,506	5	3.4849	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09254	The charge of God and the King to iudges and magistrates, for execution of iustice. In a sermon preached before Sr Henry Hobart Knight and Baronet, Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas: and Sr Robert Haughton Knight, one of the iudges of the Kings Bench, at the Assises at Hartford. By William Pemberton B.D. and minister at high-Ongar in Essex.	Pemberton, William, d. 1622.	1619 (1619)	STC 19568; ESTC S103437	46,028	130

meditation is the argument of that heauenly hymne compiled by Dauid for his son Salomons vse or by Salomon himself Psal 127. instructed of God with deep wisdom-politicall for his owne v. 1. Except the Lord build the house they labour in vaine that build it except the Lord keep the Citie the watchman waketh but in vaine It is in vaine for you to rise vp early to sit vp late to eat the bread of sorrowes for so he giueth his beloued sleepe The building of the house the watching of the Citie early vp-rising and late downe-sitting assiduous labour and carking care are all in vaine vnles God assist and giue a blessing And so doth Gregory Nazianzene most elegantly paranomaze the summe and substance of that diuine Psalme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which memorable Distick I thus in homely English expresse If God giue good successe enuie can not preuaile If God denie successe labour can naught auaile If God from heauen shall blesse and prosper what force or fraud below can crosse or controll But if God from heauen shall crosse and curse what power or wit of man shall not proue vaine and frustrate The fencing of Kingdomes and safe-guarding of Countries with wholsome lawes and politicall constitutions with Armies and Nauies with trenches bulwarks with leagues and alliances yea with infinite heapes of gold and siluer which Dionysius esteemed the adamantine bonds of Empires is all in vaine Adamantina vincula imperiorum vnlesse God assist and giue a blessing Most deliberate counsels and best designed attempts faile of good successe for want of Gods blessing to rebuke the pride of mans presuming weaknesse And weaker meanes vsed in want of stronger through diuine assistance work wonderfull effects to correct mans diffidence and to worke dependance on God according to those precepts and promises Psal 37. v. 3. Trust in the Lord and doe good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed v. 4. Delight thy selfe also in the Lord and he shall giue thee the desires of thine heart Commit thy way vnto the Lord v. 5. trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe And according to that most memorable practise we know not what to doe but our eyes are vpon thee And that the flourishing state of Common-wealths springs out rather from the blessing of Gods diuine prouidence then from the best fore-cast of humane prudence History the witnes of times and light of truth doth plainly testifie To which also Heathens doe giue their suffrages from the dim sight of humane obseruation Vbi non Deus sed mortalis aliquis prae st ibi malorum nullū est effugium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. Dei ope auxilio multò magis R●mpubl Remanam quam ratione hominum consilio gubernari Cic. pro Rabitio For so Plato professeth of Common-weales in common Where not God but some mortall man is president there 's no auoydall of any euill And Cicero of the Romane state in speciall The Romane state was prosperously gouerned much rather by the aide and helpe of God than by mans reason and counsell humane And in a word that nothing can be well done and happily succeede in Citie or familie Church or Common-wealth without the good will and good worke of God Ephes 1.11 who worketh all things after the counsell of his own will S. Paul doth intimate when he earnestly exhorts That first of all supplications 1 Tim 2. v. 1. v. 2. prayers intercessions and giuing of thanks be made for all conditions of men for Kings and for all that are in authoritie that through Gods good blessing on their good indeuours we their subiects in our inferior condition may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie The summe of all in short is this Kings as supreme and other gouernors as sent by God and them 1 Pet. 2.13 14. doe receiue their high places and princely graces their function and execution vocation and dispensation authoritie and abilitie and all happy successe and good fruit in gouernment for the weale and welfare of themselues and theirs from that all-wise and all-ruling Monarch great Counsellor and Law-giuer the essentiall wisdome the son of God Isal 9.6 Jam 4.12 who with the Father and Holy Spirit one true God is the blessed and onely Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim 6.15 the King eternall immortal invisible and only wise 1 Tim. 1.17 to whom from them all in all their designes is to be giuen as the maine end of their gouernment all honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Now Right Honorable Lord and Reuerend Sages most wise and worthy interpreters of Law and Dispensers of Iustice great Guardians vnder God and King of Church and Common-wealth as I freely acknowledge to the glory of God and honour of the King for which I blesse God on the knees of my heart that God hath blessed this Land with many true Worthies on Benches in Courts of equitie and iustice bright-shining stars restlesse in motion in their orbe of gouernment so I most humbly beseech you to giue leaue to me your seruant in the Lord without your censure from sincere affection and dutifull respect to your persons to put you in minde of that which you know right well being so well furnished with wisdome humane and diuine and I am well assured on my small obseruation and short experience you endenour to practise through the spirit of grace inspiring and inabling you for discharge of that trust reposed in you in your publike imployments in this body politique by our gracious GOD and our religious KING The thing is this Sith the God of heauen and earth is the first mouer in his supreme orbe of gouernment all you his secondarie mouers in this your orbe of gouernment in this heauen of our politie ought to moue after the will and ordination of God and not as in that other Heauen by any rapt motion from your priuate affection nor yet irregular from inordinate passion nor by that of trepidation for feare of mortall man You must in your motion run the same course or vse the same end with God himselfe namely the glory of God in our good of Church and Common-wealth which as the lower earth are preserued and cherished with heauenly influence through your well-ordered and well-ordering motion And such subordination will surely cause an heauenly harmony and heart-pleasing consent in a circular reuolution thus God is the ordeyner of our King the King the image of God the Law the worke of the King Iudges interpreters of our Law Magistrates with them dispensers Iustice our fruit of Law dispensed this fruit of iustice the good of the people the good of the people the honour of our King this honour of our King the glory of God the ordeiner orderer and blesser of all And so in