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A86325	The glory and beauty of Gods portion: set forth in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at the publique fast, Iune 26. 1644. / By Gaspar Hickes, Pastour of Lanracke in Cornwall, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Hickes, Gaspar, 1605-1677.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1838; Thomason E2_10; ESTC R2493	29,927	47

stand acquitted before the supreme Tribunall Upon whomsoever the spirit of judgement which is the Spirit of the Lord hath fallen let them goe in this their might let them put forth their strength and exercise their facultie the Lord cals and sends them and will do great things by them 4. The spirit of judgement is impartiall As the soule in the body it diffuses it self in a just proportion thorough the whole into each part according to its severall need and capability Who so small or inconsiderable who so high or uncontroleable as to be without it influence or reach by it rulers must governe by it the governed must be ruled The Lord gives a charge and prescribes a method to the executioners of his justice Ezek. 9.5 6. he commands them to strike home and to spare none that bore not his owne caracter or marke and to begin at his Sanctuary at the ancient men before the house T was the Popes old trick to exempt his Clergy from the Civill which detractingly he cals the Secular power but the Popes patronage now I hope will nothing help our bad Ministers Oh that they might feele the most speedy and heavy hand of justice as they have had the deepest hand in occasioning our decay and misery Charles the fifth was wont to say wittily If the shavelings had been good Si Sacrificuli frugi essent non indige●ent Luthere there had been no need of Luther Let the guilty hang the head they that are faithfull and conscionable need not feare nor decline the decisions of a Parliament the censures of righteous Magistrates If any say that I seek the ruine and publish the shame of men of mine own calling I answer no they are the proud the persecuting the prophane the popish the temporizing the insufficient the lazy the drunken the scandalous Prelates and Ministers that disgrace the holy function and make us asham'd of them as Gentlemen are of their beggarly kinred or rather as an honest man is to see his brother goe to the gallowes And as they have troubled our Israel so let the Lord trouble them Let their owne dung be spread upon their own faces but let Gods Sanctuary be purged of them Moreover why should the spirit of judgement shrinke or be abashed at the stout looks of any overgrowne great one Criminosior cu●pa est ubi honestior status Salvian li. q. de Guber Dei any blustring Belialist let such feele the force the omnipotency of justice 'T is a true saying The higher the condition of the sinner the baser alwayes is the sin What! will men steale murther oppresse commit adultery sweare falsely or blasphemously drinke drunke live dissolutely and debauchedly and thinke they are delivered to doe these abominations Jer. 7.9 10. because they are great in the world Methinks noble spirits should hold it more base to deserve then to suffer sharpe and shamefull penalties of just lawes which they breake If you improve your greatnesse to quit your selves from them your priviledge is no other then theirs who run mad unchained and post to perdition without controll 5. The spirit of judgement is uniforme It casts mens minds and aimes and actions into one mould or fashion Jam. 4.5 The spirit that is in the world lusteth to envie a distorting distracting evil Corrupt men differ as much in minds as faces or if they accord they meet only in evill Great spirits are lyable to great impulsions violent concussions when they are whirled by excentrique passions or wheeled by byassed and selfe respects their motions must needs be disordered and turbulent But when this blessed principle in my text is the Primum mobile the first mover then all the spheares whether superior or inferior in place swifter or slower in motion hold on their owne course evenly and constantly and accord with others in an exact correspondence and the harmony is really by farre more sweet then the imaginary musique of the heavens was fained to be There are diversities of gifts 1 Cor. 12.4 5 7. and differences of administrations but one and the same spirit and the manifestation of that spirit is given to every man to profit withall all tends to mutuall helpfulnesse to the common good of all and every one that partake of that Spirit hence all gifts become serviceable and contributary each to other and 't is a most blessed and beneficiall intercourse or trade that passes betweene sanctified abilities It hath ever been a rich blessing to good Magistrates to be instructed and abetted in their most glorious acts by faithfull Ministers David had his Seers so had Salomon Asa his Azariah 2 Chr● 15.1 19.2 2 Ki. 19.2 ●2 14 Iehoshaphat his Iehu besides a number of teaching Priests and Levites whose Catalogue we find registred 2 Chron. 17.7 8. Hezekiah had his Isaiah Iosiah his Huldah Zorobabel his Ioshua the Elders of the Jewes brought out of captivitie to reedifie the City and Temple built and prospered thorough the prophecying of Haggai and Zachariah the sonne of Iddo Temple-work Church-work never goes up without such hands I should be sorry that any here present should judge the Prophets uselesse or burdensome or intermedling without their verge in weighty holy affaires A Reformation pretended without the Councell and Consociation of men of God would be like Adonijahs feast 1 King 1. ● ● 9 10. to which Abiathar the temporizing Priest and bloudy Ioab and other such like were called Courtiers perhaps and Souldiers and Politicians enough but faithfull Zadok and Nathan the Prophet and Salomon the Kings son and true-hearted Benaiah being left out the meeting proved both sinfull and sad it began in conspiracie and ended-in confusion But oh happy meetings-where all sorts of gifts are met together and joyntly improved to mutuall and publique good 'T is the good Spirit of God that joynes and keeps men unanimous in and for that with good and whatsoever tends to the setting of good men or good gifts at oddes though it be never so covertly or speciously carried suspect it as proceeding from the envious one the evill spirit of confusion I need not adde any thing for application of this point 'T is the spirit of judgement which hath been described that fits every man for the weighty affaires of Civill Administration that is intrusted and imployed in the same You see hence Noble Patriots what it is that you should mainly strive for and cherish in your selves and we find what we should most importunately beg for you of Heaven The work before you is glorious the power in your hands ordinate the way of dispensing it the best in the world most sutable to equity and to our spirits wherein as just Soveraignty is not bounded unworthily so community hath some stroke according to its ranke in matters of highest publique concernment Oh then let this spirit of judgement animate and sway all your consultations and proceedings let it season them with sanctitie