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A45330	The beauty of magistracy in an exposition of the 82 Psalm, where is set forth the necessity, utility, dignity, duty, and mortality of magistrates : here many other texts of Scripture occasionally are cleared, many quæries and cases of conscience about the magistrates power, are resolved, many anabaptistical cavils are confuted, and many seasonable observations containing many other heads of divinity, are raised : together with references to such authors as clear any point more fully / by Thomas Hall ... ; with an additional sermon on verse 6, by George Swinnock.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.; Swinnock, George, 1627-1673. Men are gods.	1660 (1660)	Wing H427; ESTC R18061	228,882	316

thee then God against thee He is the best friend and the saddest foe As he is great and grea●ly to be praised so he is great and greatly to be feared He is a consuming fire There is no abiding when he is angry The Lord most High is Terrible and it is dangerous provoking him Psal. 47. 2. 78. 56. Observation 6. Magistrates are the Sons of the most High If they are true believers then they are his Adopted Sons but if wicked yet in respect of their office they are Nuncupative and Nominal Sons Thus God is pleased to stile them 1. To mind them of their Duty to him 2. To mind us of our Duty to them 1. He calls them Sons to the end they might walk worthy of such a Father by loving fearing serving and obeying him M l. 1 6 A son honours his Father and a servant his Master but God is not only a Fa●her and a Master but he is a King a Creator a Counsellour a Protector and Assister of Magistrates and if one of these Relations call for respect and love what Reve●●nce and respect is due to that God in whom all these Relations coucenter and meet Let such then improve the Power which they have received from God unto his praise Uphold his Worship advance his Scepter promote his Interest defend his people pitty h●s poor do justice to all if you thus Honour God who hath honoured and exalted ●ou he will be a Father and a Friend to you he will be a Sun for Consolation and a Shield for Protection he will be your God and Guide unto death 2. Doth God call you Sons then wo them that call you Satans and Revile the Rulers of Gods people It becomes us to honour those whom God honours This shews what spirit leads the fifth Monarchy men and their adherents who have so grosly and that in Print reviled the Rulers of Gods people Objection But they are wicked men Answer Be it so yet if a wicked man be set in Power by God for the sins of a people even that wicked man must be honoured for his place but if a godly man rule he is to be honoured for his person Some kind of honour is due to a Magistrate as a Magistrate and Gods Vicegerent but all kind of honour and subjection is due from all sorts of men to good Rulers 3. As Magistrates are Sons by Office so all believers are Sons by Adoption which is a choycer Priviledge Iohn 1. 12. Gal. 3. 26. 4. 5 6. So that now every true believer may say with David The Lord is my Shepherd yea the Lord is my Father and I shall not want Psal. 23. 2. Thou art now sure of 1. Dilection 2. Direction 3. Correction 4. Protection 5. Provision 1. All the children of God are sure of Dilection and love Fathers have a natural affection to their children and love them with a Paternal love How tender was David over Absalom Touch not the young man Absalom and when dead how doth he take on Oh Absalom my son my son that I had dyed for thee O Absolom my son If David were thus tender over a rebellious Absolom how tender is God over his obedient children and though thou hast many Infirmities yet God will pity thee and spare thee as a man that spareth his son that serveth him Psal. 103. 13. Mal. 3. 16 17. 2. Direction Fathers will teach their children the way which they should go so will the Lord do his Psal. 25. 9. It is a part of the New-Covenant That all believers shall be taught of God In all their doubts his Spirit shall be as a Voyce behind them saying This is the way 3. Correction Fathers that love their children will correct them God loves his and therefore he chastiseth them for their profit Heb. 12. 10. Revel 3. 19. 4. Protection Fathers will defend their children and God will defend his He is their shield and bu●kler Psal. 84. 11. Prov. 2. 7. In six troubles he will be with them and in the seventh he will not leave them Iob 5. 19 20 21 22. 5. Provision Fathers will provide for their children and if earthly parents who have but a drop of goodness will give good things to their children how much more will God give his Spirit to them that ask it the Lions natural the Lions Metaphorical may lack and suffer hunger but such as fea● the Lord shall lack nothing that may be for their good God hath prepared an Inheritance for them Luke 12. 32. he hath given them his Son and with him he hath given them all things Rom. 8. 32. Verse 7. Observation 1. Men in high places are apt to have high conceits of themselves It is an hard thing to be in Honour without Tumor and swelling thoughts The Lord who knows our frame better then we our selves foresaw this and therefore in the precedent Verse having told them of their Dignity in this Verse he tells them of their mise●y and mortality that they might not have the least ●ime to be puft up with Pride and high conceits of their high places he presently adds an Humbling and abasing But But ye shall die what is that Why Synecdochically it includes all those miseries with are Antecedent to Death as Sickness Weakness Pains Aches Old age and Death and also Subsequent miseries after death then must great ones as well as others be brought to Judgement stand at Gods bar and give an account as well as the poorest Son of Adam Those that now judge others must shortly be judged themselves Observation 2. Magistrates are mortal as well as others or those who live like Gods yet must die like men The most Potent Emperour must take his leave of this life as well as the poorest beggar No Titles of honour nor Places of honour can Priviledge men from the grave Their divine constitution cannot free them from their native condition Princes and great men must fall and that in Israe● 2 Sam. 3. 38. The truth of this is seen by daily experience It is so decreed in the High Court of Heaven rhe Statute is Universal and admits of no exception It is appointed for men for all men the indefinite is equivalent to an Universal once to die Heb. 9. 27. Death is the great Leveller of all the world it makel all equal Irus and Croesus Dives and L●zarus Princes and Peasants cannot be known asunder in the grave As at a game at Chess when it is ended not only Pawns but Kings Queens Knights are tumbled into the bag together so when the race of this life is finisht Noble as well as ●gnoble are tumbled into their graves together hence death is called the way of all the earth because all flesh on earth must go that way Iosh. 23. 14. It is the greatest road in all the world it is never without many Travellers of all sorts ranks and Degrees The grave is the house appointed for all the

but they must cry unto God for aid We must spread our case and our cause before him who is the Judge of all the world and who hath promised that the rod of the wicked shall not for ever lie on the lot of the righteous Psal. 125. 3. Caut. This is spoken against Private persons taking up arms and not against the inferiour Magistrates defending Religion and the godly when the Superiour is an enemy to both o● this Judgement was the learned B Bilson a man free enough from Sedition or Faction I will not rashly pronounce saith he all th●t resist to be Rebels c●ses may f●ll out even in Christian Kingdoms where the people may plead their right against the Prince and yet not be charged with rebellion E. G. If a Prince go about to subject his Kingdom to a forr●in Realm or change the form of the Common-w●●lth from I●p●ry to Tyranny or neglect the Laws ●stablisht by common consent of Prince and People to execu●e his own pleasure In these and other cases which might 〈◊〉 n●●ed If the Nobles and the Commens joyn togeth●r to defend their anci●nt and accustomed Liberty Regiment and Laws th●y m●y not w●ll be accounted Reb●ls This and more you may see in the place quoted which excellently clears the justness of the late Parliament Wars If any desire further satisfaction he may see 44 Questiors learnedly debated by Mr. Rutherford in his Lex Rex where he stro●gly asserts the Lawfulness of Defensive Wars and takes off all Cavils that are brought to the contrary But what ever means be used yet Prayer may in no wise be neglected It is it that blesseth all means obtains all Grace and brings comfort to us in all our distress So that A Prayerless man is a Graceless man Useless man Cursed man Comfortless man 1. A Prayerless man is a Graceless man Grace is obtained by Prayer Ask and have Ezek 36. 37. A man of much Prayer is usually a man of much Grace as we see in Daniel and David who was a man composed as it were of Prayer Psal. 109. 4. But I Prayer or I give my self to prayer as being much in that work and making it his only fence and refuge When Paul was converted then he Prayes Acts 9. 11. No doubt but he being a strict Pharisee prayed before I but sayes the Lord go to him now for behold he prays i. e. feeling●y fervently and effectually and not coldly cursorily and formally as the Pharisees did which was no praying in Gods esteem Hence the Spirit of Grace and the Spirit of Supplication are joyned together Zach. 12. 10. and they are branded for Irreligious Atheists that call not upon God Psal. 14. 4. Let thy outside be never so civil or smooth yet if thou be a Prayerless man certainly thou art a Graceless man 2. An Vseless man Unfit for any service of God a burden to the place he lives in like Ieremiahs girdle good for nothing Ier. 13. 7. As a Praying Saint is a publick good even the Chariots and the Horsemen of Israel so a Prayerless sot is a wen a blemish and burden to the Church and State he lives in 3. A c●rsed man As food rest riches labour a●d all other things are sanctified to us by Prayer so on the contrary without prayer all is cursed you may rise early and yet labour in vain Psal. 127. 1 2. and get riches but they will prove snares unto you 4. A comfortless man He hath no God to make his moan to in his troubles and thence it is that wicked men though in prosperity they be very high yet in adversity none so despondent and amort as they But a man of Prayer is still the same in all his distresses he hath a God to go to he hath hidden Mannah which the world knows not off By this he gets strength from God either to overcome the Tentaton or to undergo it patiently it either removes the affliction or else gets it sanctified Prayer hath Virtutem pacativam a settling and composing power it stills the distempers of the soul as sleep composeth the distempers of the body Christ by Prayer overcame his agony and cheerfully goes forth to meet even those that sought to crucifie him Mat. 26. 44. 46. Hannah that before was in bitterness of spirit yet after she had been at prayer her countenance was no more sad 1 Sam. 1. 18. This made Luther call Prayer the Leeches of his cares and Christ bids his Pray that their joy may be full Iohn 16. 24. As Moses when he came from the Mount the people discerned that he had been with God so a gracious soul never comes from God but he carries away somewhat of God with him Prayer is a Catholicon it is a Panacea an universal remedy for every malady if any be afflicted internally or externally let him pray Iames 5. 13. It is a special and eminent part of Gods Worship in which we draw nigh to God and he to us By it we glorifie him in all his Attributes in his Truth Wisdom Mercy Omnipotence Omniscience Omnipresence c. Hence it is oft put for the who●e Worship of God Synecdochically or Virtually containing much of Gods Worship in it So Mat. 21. 13. My House shall be c●ll●d the House of Prayer Not that Prayer should justle out other Ordinanc●s as some would have had it but it is spoken by way of Eminency because Prayer must accompany every Ordinance So oft in Script●re calling on Gods name is put for tht whole Worship of God Gen. 4. 26. Psal. 50. 15. Rom. 10. 12. This se●s all our Graces on work as Knowledge Faith Love Patience Th●s sets the Crown on Gods head as Ioab when he had taken R●bbah sent for David to take the glory of it so Prayer gives all the glory of what it hath or doth to God and therefore it is that God loves to do such great things for his praying people hence their Prayers are called Incense there is no incense so pleasing to our smell as the Prayers of the faithfull are to God Psal. 141. 2. and Swe●t od●urs Rev. 5. 8. Insomuch that God even begs their Prayers Cant. 2. 14. L●t me hear thy voice for it is sweet This is a special preservative 1. Against sin we live in an in●ectious world and we had need to Antidote our selves against sin by Prayer before we go forth of our doors Watching and Prayer is a special preservative against the power of temptations Mat. 26. 41. 2. It is a special help against the c●ncomitants of sin Many are the miseries that attend on sin as Sword Plague Famine Prayer he●ps against them all 1 Kings 8. 33. to 38. The Psalmist tells us of Travellers Seamen Sick men and Captives that cried to the Lord on their trouble and he delivered them Psal. 107. This is 1. A Sure Helper 2. A Secret Helper 3. A Speedy Helper 4. A Strong Helper 1. Prayer is a