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             Dr.
             Carswell
             ,
          
        
         
           THE
           Gentlemen
           of
           the
           Grand-Jury
           for
           this
           County
           ,
           are
           all
           come
           to
           give
           you
           their
           hearty
           Thanks
           for
           your
           Sermon
           ,
           and
           do
           request
           ,
           you
           would
           be
           pleas'd
           to
           Print
           it
           .
        
         
           
             Abington
             Assis
             .
             for
             Berks
             ,
             
               Aug.
               6.
               1689.
               
            
          
           
             Humphrey
             Forester
             ,
             Bar.
             Foreman
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           
             England's
             Restoration
          
           PARALLEL'D
           IN
           JUDAH's
           :
           OR
           ,
           THE
           Primitive
           Judge
           and
           Counsellor
           .
           IN
           A
           SERMON
           BEFORE
           THE
           Honourable
           Judge
           at
           
             Abington
             Assizes
          
           ,
           for
           the
           County
           of
           
             Berks
             ,
             Aug.
          
           6.
           1689.
           
        
         
           By
           FRANCIS
           CARSWELL
           ,
           
             D.
             D.
          
           
        
         
           The
           Second
           Edition
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ;
           
             Printed
             for
          
           Awnsham
           Churchill
           ,
           
             at
             the
             Sign
             of
             the
          
           Black
           Swan
           ,
           near
           Amen-Corner
           .
           1689.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           Right
           Worshipful
           James
           Paul
           Esq
           ;
           High
           Sheriff
           of
           the
           County
           of
           Berks
           ;
           Sir
           Humphrey
           Forester
           Bar
           ▪
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Knights
           ,
           Baronets
           ,
           and
           Gentlemen
           of
           the
           Grand
           Jury
           for
           the
           said
           County
           .
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           YOVR
           Integrity
           ,
           Conduct
           and
           Zeal
           for
           the
           Honour
           and
           Interest
           of
           your
           Country
           ,
           the
           due
           Administration
           of
           her
           Affairs
           ,
           Engrandizing
           her
           Publick
           Assemblies
           ,
           and
           Courts
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           hath
           been
           evidenc'd
           by
           your
           Care
           ,
           in
           singling
           out
           and
           returning
           ,
           for
           the
           Grand-Inquest
           ,
           Gentlemen
           ,
           for
           Quality
           ,
           Estates
           ,
           Integrity
           and
           Parts
           ,
           the
           most
           Eminent
           Berks
           can
           boast
           of
           :
           Remark'd
           on
           as
           a
           fit
           President
           to
           be
           followed
           ,
           and
           best
           Expedient
           to
           prevent
           ,
           for
           the
           future
           ,
           such
           kind
           of
           persidious
           Addresses
           as
           were
           (
           of
           late
           )
           wont
           to
           be
           hatched
           at
           the
           Assizes
           ,
           by
           Men
           of
           as
           desperate
           Faith
           as
           Fortunes
           ;
           and
           sent
           from
           thence
           to
           the
           Court
           to
           flatter
           and
           deceive
           their
           Prince
           (
           with
           their
           own
           Senses
           instead
           of
           his
           Peoples
           )
           ,
           betray
           their
           Religion
           and
           Country
           ;
           in
           hopes
           by
           those
           sordid
           Crafts
           ,
           to
           raise
           themselves
           on
           the
           Ruins
           of
           both
           .
           A
           second
           Lustre
           beamed
           on
           this
           our
           Restoration-Assize
           ,
           was
           the
           appearance
           of
           so
           many
           Noble
           Lords
           ,
           as
           also
           other
           Persons
           of
           Quality
           ,
           who
           ,
           as
           abhorring
           ,
           or
           ashamed
           of
           late
           Lycaonick
           Pranks
           ,
           had
           for
           some
           time
           ,
           with
           Astrea
           ,
           withdrawn
           or
           hid
           themselves
           ,
           but
           now
           appear
           again
           with
           joy
           ,
           to
           welcome
           her
           Return
           .
           My
           Part
           being
           in
           the
           Temple
           ,
           to
           publish
           and
           amplifie
           
           our
           great
           Deliverances
           ,
           and
           cry
           Hosannah
           to
           their
           Author
           ;
           I
           was
           in
           hopes
           ,
           when
           my
           Breath
           and
           Glass
           were
           both
           out
           ,
           my
           Task
           had
           been
           done
           too
           ,
           until
           surpriz'd
           by
           your
           joint
           repeated
           Requests
           ,
           I
           found
           my self
           run
           on
           this
           Dilemma
           ,
           either
           to
           bid
           you
           Defiance
           ,
           and
           proclaim
           my
           Rudeness
           (
           to
           all
           the
           World
           )
           ,
           by
           a
           churlish
           Denial
           ,
           or
           my
           Weakness
           in
           granting
           your
           Request
           ;
           which
           latter
           part
           I
           have
           chosen
           ,
           to
           let
           you
           see
           what
           a
           high
           Valae
           I
           set
           on
           your
           Merit
           and
           Friendship
           ,
           whilst
           I
           am
           thus
           content
           to
           expose
           ,
           and
           so
           renounce
           my self
           to
           serve
           your
           Commands
           ;
           and
           therefore
           (
           
             factum
             defendite
             vestrum
          
           )
           you
           have
           herein
           your
           Request
           .
           Now
           I
           pray
           God
           and
           you
           (
           Gentlemen
           )
           to
           grant
           me
           mine
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
        
         
           That
           Berks
           and
           her
           Gentry
           may
           ever
           do
           worthily
           ,
           and
           faithfully
           serve
           their
           God
           ,
           their
           Prince
           ,
           Religion
           and
           Country
           ,
           be
           Famous
           ,
           and
           flourish
           ,
           which
           is
           and
           shall
           be
           the
           Prayer
           of
           ,
        
         
           
             Gentlemen
             ,
          
           
             Your
             Faithful
             Orator
             ,
             and
             Servant
             in
             Christ
             ,
             Fran.
             Carswell
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           
             Isaiah
             I.
             26
             ,
             27.
             
          
           
             
               And
               I
               will
               restore
               thy
               Judges
               as
               at
               the
               first
               ,
               and
               thy
               Counsellors
               as
               at
               the
               beginning
               ;
               after
               thou
               shalt
               be
               called
               ,
               The
               City
               of
               righteousness
               ,
               The
               faithful
               City
               .
            
             
               Sion
               shall
               be
               redeemed
               with
               Judgment
               ,
               and
               her
               Converts
               with
               Righteousness
               .
            
          
        
         
           THESE
           Words
           are
           part
           of
           that
           Vision
           we
           read
           of
           (
           ver
           .
           1.
           )
           which
           Isaiah
           saw
           in
           the
           Reigns
           of
           Vzziah
           and
           Jotham
           ,
           concerning
           Judah
           and
           Jerusalem
           ,
           (
           that
           is
           )
           the
           City
           or
           Nation
           ,
           and
           their
           Inhabitants
           .
        
         
           The
           fulfilling
           whereof
           
             Piscator
             ,
             Menopius
          
           and
           Lyra
           ,
           refer
           to
           the
           restauration
           of
           their
           Temple
           and
           Nation
           in
           their
           Sacred
           and
           Civil
           Rites
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           ancient
           Government
           both
           in
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           after
           their
           return
           from
           their
           
             Babylonish
             Captivity
          
           ,
           which
           was
           about
           240
           years
           yet
           to
           come
           .
           And
           this
           sence
           is
           favoured
           by
           the
           Septuagints
           rendring
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           as
           also
           the
           Syriack
           and
           Arabick
           Versions
           ,
           
             Salvabitur
             Captivitas
             ejus
          
           .
        
         
           But
           Forerius
           and
           others
           look
           500
           years
           beyond
           this
           time
           ,
           and
           refer
           the
           fulfilling
           of
           this
           Vision
           to
           the
           flourishing
           and
           happy
           Condition
           of
           the
           Christian
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           as
           both
           in
           After-Ages
           should
           be
           restored
           and
           fixed
           by
           Christ
           himself
           ,
           their
           hoped
           for
           Messiah
           ,
           who
           they
           believed
           ,
           when
           he
           came
           ,
           would
           restore
           all
           things
           ,
           and
           sit
           upon
           the
           Throne
           of
           David
           ,
           and
           upon
           his
           Kingdom
           ,
           
           to
           order
           and
           establish
           it
           with
           Judgment
           and
           with
           Justice
           from
           thenceforth
           and
           for
           ever
           .
           So
           that
           under
           his
           Reign
           the
           Righteous
           should
           flourish
           ,
           Sion
           should
           be
           redeemed
           :
           Judges
           ,
           Counsellors
           ,
           and
           all
           things
           be
           restored
           as
           at
           the
           first
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           Now
           if
           we
           understand
           these
           words
           in
           the
           first
           sense
           ,
           of
           their
           Restoration
           after
           their
           return
           from
           Babylon
           ,
           the
           time
           was
           so
           remote
           ,
           they
           could
           administer
           no
           more
           of
           comfort
           to
           the
           Jews
           ,
           than
           it
           would
           to
           us
           ,
           if
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           dismal
           Distractions
           one
           should
           prophesie
           ,
           That
           300
           years
           hence
           our
           Nation
           should
           flourish
           ,
           or
           at
           the
           Day
           of
           Judgment
           all
           should
           be
           restored
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           If
           we
           understand
           them
           in
           the
           second
           ,
           of
           the
           Restoration
           by
           Christ
           under
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           that
           could
           not
           concern
           the
           present
           State
           of
           the
           Jews
           at
           all
           ,
           but
           the
           future
           of
           the
           Gentiles
           :
           Besides
           ,
           this
           time
           being
           more
           remote
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           less
           of
           support
           under
           their
           pressing
           Calamities
           .
        
         
           Neither
           in
           truth
           was
           their
           Temple
           ,
           Nation
           ,
           Government
           ,
           or
           ancient
           Governours
           then
           restored
           ,
           but
           rather
           quite
           dissolved
           ,
           and
           broken
           in
           pieces
           by
           the
           conquering
           Romans
           ,
           and
           themselves
           thenceforth
           enslaved
           ,
           and
           ,
           as
           an
           accursed
           People
           ,
           scattered
           upon
           the
           face
           of
           the
           Earth
           to
           this
           very
           day
           :
           for
           
             when
             Shilo
             came
             ,
             the
             Scepter
             departed
             from
             Judah
             .
          
        
         
           Therefore
           I
           intend
           to
           consider
           and
           remark
           upon
           these
           words
           ,
           as
           (
           Apoc.
           1.
           3.
           
           )
           a
           Revelation
           of
           things
           that
           were
           at
           hand
           ,
           and
           speedily
           to
           come
           to
           pass
           :
           As
           a
           Message
           sent
           to
           Judah
           in
           the
           latter
           end
           of
           
           Vzziah's
           Reign
           ,
           and
           fulfilled
           (
           about
           Three
           Years
           after
           )
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           
           Jotham's
           ;
           which
           will
           appear
           ,
           if
           we
           consider
           the
           present
           juncture
           of
           Affairs
           and
           Calamities
           the
           Jewish
           Church
           and
           Nation
           then
           laboured
           under
           ,
           and
           how
           occasioned
           ;
           which
           was
           as
           follows
           .
        
         
         
           Joash
           ,
           the
           present
           King's
           Grand-Father
           ,
           being
           an
           Excellent
           and
           Religious
           Prince
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           his
           Reign
           ;
           but
           after
           the
           Death
           of
           Jehoiadah
           ,
           following
           the
           wicked
           Counsel
           of
           his
           cringing
           Favourites
           ,
           he
           forsook
           the
           true
           Established
           Worship
           ,
           
           and
           turned
           Idolater
           ,
           which
           thing
           so
           highly
           provoked
           God
           ,
           that
           he
           gave
           him
           up
           in
           Battel
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           his
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           his
           own
           Subjects
           slew
           him
           .
        
         
           Amaziah
           ,
           his
           Son
           ,
           succeeding
           in
           the
           Throne
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           first
           things
           he
           did
           ,
           was
           to
           try
           and
           execute
           those
           Regicides
           who
           had
           murthered
           the
           King
           his
           Father
           .
           And
           farther
           we
           read
           of
           him
           ,
           
           that
           
             he
             did
             that
             which
             was
             right
             in
             the
             sight
             of
             the
             Lord
             ,
             but
             not
             with
             a
             perfect
             heart
          
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           he
           outwardly
           for
           a
           long
           time
           still
           professed
           and
           pretended
           to
           protect
           the
           true
           Worship
           and
           Worshippers
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           then
           professed
           amongst
           the
           Jews
           ,
           (
           which
           thing
           was
           right
           in
           God's
           sight
           )
           
             but
             not
             with
             a
             perfect
             heart
          
           ;
           for
           his
           heart
           was
           after
           the
           Gods
           of
           
             Mount
             Seir
          
           ;
           
           and
           privately
           
             he
             burnt
             incense
             to
             them
          
           .
           But
           knowing
           the
           Hatred
           his
           Subjects
           bore
           to
           that
           Idolatrous
           Religion
           ,
           he
           durst
           not
           openly
           enjoyn
           it
           them
           .
           However
           ,
           we
           find
           ,
           when
           his
           Subjects
           began
           to
           discover
           his
           former
           dissembling
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           fearing
           he
           had
           designs
           ,
           and
           would
           in
           time
           attempt
           to
           introduce
           Innovations
           into
           the
           Temple
           of
           God
           ,
           
           they
           plotted
           and
           
             conspired
             against
             him
          
           ,
           and
           so
           at
           last
           made
           him
           away
           too
           .
        
         
           Thus
           these
           two
           Princes
           grasping
           at
           an
           absolute
           and
           arbitrary
           power
           ,
           or
           to
           make
           themselves
           like
           to
           the
           great
           King
           of
           Assyria
           ,
           their
           Neighbour
           ,
           as
           the
           most
           proper
           Expedient
           ,
           endeavoured
           first
           to
           introduce
           his
           Idolatrous
           Worship
           .
        
         
           It
           being
           the
           Nature
           of
           all
           False
           and
           Idolatrous
           Religions
           ,
           which
           come
           from
           the
           Devil
           ,
           to
           make
           all
           Monarchs
           ,
           like
           himself
           ,
           their
           Author
           ,
           
             Arbitrary
             Tyrants
          
           .
        
         
         
           And
           all
           their
           Subjects
           ,
           like
           those
           in
           his
           Kingdom
           of
           Darkness
           ,
           
             Miserable
             Slaves
          
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           Nature
           of
           the
           true
           Religion
           ,
           which
           comes
           from
           God
           ,
           is
           to
           render
           all
           her
           Kings
           ,
           being
           (
           his
           anointed
           )
           like
           himself
           ,
           
             Indulgent
             Fathers
          
           .
        
         
           And
           all
           her
           Subjects
           ,
           like
           those
           in
           his
           Kingdom
           of
           Glory
           ,
           
             Children
             and
             Free-born
          
           .
        
         
           By
           these
           Methods
           (
           I
           say
           )
           they
           made
           a
           miserable
           Exit
           ,
           losing
           both
           their
           Lives
           and
           Kingdoms
           too
           :
           For
           that
           ,
           like
           the
           Romans
           ,
           
           who
           being
           abused
           by
           
             Tarquinius
             Superbus
          
           ,
           their
           last
           King
           ,
           would
           never
           after
           endure
           the
           Name
           of
           another
           .
           So
           here
           the
           States
           of
           Iudah
           (
           their
           King
           being
           destroyed
           )
           seized
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           turned
           themselves
           into
           a
           Commonwealth
           for
           about
           11
           or
           12
           years
           .
        
         
           But
           after
           that
           time
           they
           unanimously
           restore
           Vzziah
           ,
           their
           last
           King's
           Son
           ,
           
           to
           the
           Throne
           ,
           in
           hopes
           that
           his
           Predecessor's
           Misfortunes
           ,
           in
           attempting
           to
           alter
           or
           corrupt
           the
           Established
           True
           Worship
           ,
           might
           prove
           a
           fair
           warning
           to
           him
           .
        
         
           And
           this
           King
           ,
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           his
           Reign
           ,
           God
           always
           prospered
           in
           Battel
           ,
           and
           delivered
           his
           Enemies
           that
           rebelled
           against
           him
           into
           his
           hands
           .
        
         
           The
           Philistines
           ,
           the
           men
           of
           Ashdod
           and
           Gath.
           
        
         
           
             And
             his
             Name
             spread
             amongst
             the
             Neighbour-Princes
             ;
             he
             built
             Forts
             ,
          
           and
           raised
           a
           mighty
           Army
           ;
           he
           invented
           and
           proivded
           all
           manner
           of
           warlike
           Magazins
           and
           Engines
           ,
           Shields
           ,
           Spears
           ,
           Helmets
           ,
           Habergions
           ,
           Bows
           and
           Slings
           ,
           
             and
             God
          
           marvellously
           helped
           him
           till
           he
           was
           strong
           ,
           2
           Chron.
           26.
           13
           ,
           14.
           
        
         
           But
           now
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           all
           this
           Grandeur
           ,
           warlike
           provision
           ,
           and
           mighty
           Army
           ,
           he
           seems
           to
           forget
           his
           Kingly
           Office
           ,
           and
           nothing
           will
           satisfie
           him
           but
           he
           must
           turn
           Priest
           ,
           and
           offer
           up
           Sacrifice
           .
        
         
           And
           instead
           of
           employing
           all
           these
           warlike
           preparations
           against
           the
           common
           Enemy
           ,
           in
           defence
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           
           their
           Laws
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           Countrey
           and
           Religion
           ,
           it
           now
           appears
           he
           only
           designed
           to
           secure
           himself
           in
           such
           a
           Power
           (
           as
           his
           Predecessors
           wanted
           )
           that
           might
           enable
           him
           to
           go
           through
           in
           the
           Corrupting
           that
           Worship
           of
           God
           about
           which
           they
           had
           failed
           .
           
           And
           in
           order
           to
           it
           ,
           at
           last
           he
           picks
           a
           quarrel
           with
           Azariah
           ,
           the
           
             High
             Priest
          
           ,
           who
           ,
           with
           other
           Priests
           assisting
           ,
           opposed
           the
           King
           in
           his
           attempts
           .
        
         
           But
           presently
           hereupon
           in
           the
           heighth
           of
           all
           this
           greatness
           and
           glory
           ,
           it
           follows
           ,
           that
           his
           mighty
           Army
           answers
           none
           of
           his
           ends
           ,
           but
           turned
           to
           his
           shame
           and
           roproach
           :
           His
           Spirit
           and
           Courage
           sinks
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           his
           Forces
           ,
           and
           himself
           ,
           between
           being
           thrust
           or
           affrighted
           out
           of
           his
           Kingdom
           ,
           run
           away
           and
           left
           it
           ,
           as
           we
           read
           ,
           2
           Chron.
           26.
           20.
           
           
             He
             made
             haste
             to
             be
             gone
          
           ;
           living
           after
           about
           four
           years
           ,
           
           and
           at
           last
           died
           with
           grief
           and
           discontent
           ,
           and
           was
           buried
           in
           his
           Garden
           .
        
         
           Hereupon
           the
           States
           of
           Judah
           convened
           ,
           and
           their
           King
           having
           thus
           left
           them
           ,
           for
           the
           present
           juncture
           they
           set
           Jotham
           ,
           the
           King's
           Son
           ,
           
             over
             the
             king's
             house
             ,
             to
             administer
             the
             government
          
           ;
           and
           finding
           him
           an
           Excellent
           Prince
           ,
           
           in
           a
           short
           time
           after
           they
           advance
           him
           to
           the
           Throne
           (
           during
           the
           Life
           of
           his
           Father
           .
           )
        
         
           Thus
           by
           the
           Male-administration
           of
           Three
           succeeding
           Princes
           ,
           and
           their
           several
           attempts
           to
           introduce
           an
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           and
           an
           Idolatrous
           Worship
           .
           The
           Foundations
           of
           the
           Jewish
           Church
           and
           State
           had
           been
           miserably
           shaken
           ,
           and
           almost
           dissolved
           :
           so
           that
           it
           was
           hard
           for
           the
           most
           discerning
           amongst
           them
           to
           determine
           ,
           whether
           the
           Worship
           of
           the
           true
           God
           ,
           or
           that
           of
           Baal
           ,
           was
           like
           to
           prevail
           .
        
         
           Which
           so
           much
           perplex'd
           the
           anxious
           thoughts
           of
           such
           
           Ely's
           ,
           
             whose
             hearts
             trembled
             for
             fear
             of
             the
             Ark
             of
             God.
             
          
        
         
         
           And
           so
           highly
           dissatisfied
           those
           who
           were
           well
           affected
           to
           the
           peace
           and
           prosperity
           of
           their
           Countrey
           ,
           that
           what
           between
           the
           Concernment
           and
           Zeal
           of
           some
           for
           their
           Religion
           ,
           the
           Discontents
           of
           others
           for
           their
           distressed
           ,
           tottering
           State
           and
           Government
           ,
           a
           general
           Neutrality
           and
           Supiness
           possessed
           most
           ,
           as
           careless
           of
           the
           issue
           ,
           the
           support
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           or
           who
           govern'd
           ,
           concluding
           it
           could
           not
           be
           worse
           .
        
         
           
             Their
             Country
             and
             Religion
             lay
             bleeding
             ,
             as
          
           Isaiah
           1.
           5
           ,
           to
           23.
           
           Their
           head
           is
           sick
           ,
           their
           heart
           faint
           ,
           their
           country
           was
           desolate
           ,
           their
           cities
           burnt
           with
           fire
           ,
           their
           land
           strangers
           devoured
           in
           their
           presence
           :
           Sion
           was
           left
           as
           a
           cottage
           ,
           as
           a
           besieged
           city
           :
           the
           faithful
           city
           Ierusalem
           is
           become
           a
           harlot
           :
           she
           that
           was
           full
           of
           judgment
           ,
           and
           righteousness
           lodged
           in
           her
           ,
           is
           filled
           with
           malefactors
           ;
           their
           king
           and
           princes
           make
           wicked
           counsellors
           their
           companions
           ,
           their
           judges
           are
           made
           for
           oppression
           ,
           they
           judge
           not
           the
           fatherless
           ,
           nor
           house
           of
           the
           widow
           ,
           but
           they
           love
           gifts
           ,
           and
           follow
           after
           rewards
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           these
           Distractions
           and
           Convulsions
           both
           of
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           unless
           the
           Lord
           of
           Hosts
           had
           compassion
           on
           them
           ,
           they
           must
           have
           been
           as
           Sodom
           and
           Gomorrah
           ;
           but
           
             in
             the
             mount
             of
             the
             Lord
             is
             God
             seen
             :
          
           He
           arises
           and
           resolves
           to
           rescue
           his
           people
           out
           of
           the
           jaws
           of
           so
           imminent
           destruction
           ;
           and
           tho
           all
           looks
           desperate
           ,
           yet
           to
           prevent
           their
           despondency
           ,
           he
           sends
           Isaiah
           in
           this
           comfortable
           Message
           ,
           and
           commands
           him
           to
           prophesie
           ,
           and
           tell
           them
           ,
           that
           notwithstanding
           all
           their
           present
           fears
           and
           confusions
           ,
           yet
           the
           time
           was
           just
           come
           .
        
         
           That
           I
           will
           restore
           thy
           Judges
           as
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           thy
           Counsellors
           as
           at
           the
           beginning
           :
           after
           thou
           shalt
           be
           called
           ,
           The
           city
           of
           righteousness
           ,
           The
           faithful
           city
           :
           Sion
           shall
           be
           redeemed
           with
           judgment
           ,
           and
           her
           converts
           with
           righteousness
           .
        
         
           Which
           Prophecy
           seems
           to
           be
           made
           good
           in
           the
           very
           next
           Prince's
           Reign
           ,
           who
           was
           Jotham
           ,
           of
           whom
           Josephus
           writes
           ,
           
           (
           
             Huic
             Regi
             nulla
             virtus
             defuit
             erga
             Deum
             ,
             pro
             justo
             
             erga
             homines
             &
             reipublicae
             studioso
             ;
             quicquid
             enim
             instauratione
             opus
             habebat
             diligenter
             sarciendum
             curavit
             in
             tantúmque
             Regnum
             auxit
             ,
             ut
             tam
             domi
             felix
             esset
             quàm
             foris
             formidabilis
          
           )
           That
           he
           was
           a
           most
           Excellent
           Prince
           ,
           deficient
           in
           no
           Virtue
           ,
           but
           devout
           towards
           God
           ,
           just
           towards
           Man
           ,
           and
           willingly
           employ'd
           himself
           to
           redress
           all
           that
           was
           amiss
           both
           in
           Church
           and
           State.
           He
           fortified
           his
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           made
           War
           upon
           the
           great
           King
           of
           Ammon
           his
           Neighbour
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Enemies
           of
           their
           Religion
           and
           Nation
           round
           about
           ,
           and
           overcame
           them
           in
           Battel
           ,
           and
           made
           them
           Tributary
           to
           him
           ,
           being
           happy
           amongst
           his
           Subjects
           at
           home
           ,
           and
           formidable
           to
           his
           Enemies
           abroad
           ,
           
           ever
           waxing
           mighty
           ,
           
             because
             he
             prepared
             his
             way
             before
             the
             Lord.
             
          
        
         
           Now
           since
           the
           Apostle
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             No
             Scripture
             is
             of
             private
             interpretation
             ,
          
           this
           Prophecy
           may
           concern
           us
           of
           England
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Judah
           and
           Jerusalem
           .
        
         
           Their
           Case
           seems
           to
           be
           our
           President
           we
           have
           copied
           after
           .
        
         
           And
           our
           Circumstances
           their
           Parallel
           .
        
         
           Both
           are
           so
           obvious
           ,
           that
           there
           needs
           no
           Application
           ,
           or
           more
           to
           be
           said
           ,
           than
           what
           our
           Saviour
           did
           when
           he
           stood
           up
           in
           the
           Temple
           to
           preach
           ,
           
           and
           having
           read
           his
           Text
           out
           of
           this
           very
           Prophet
           ,
           he
           closed
           his
           Book
           ,
           and
           sat
           down
           ,
           having
           said
           no
           more
           .
        
         
           Then
           ,
           
             This
             day
             is
             this
             Scripture
             fulfilled
             in
             your
             ears
             .
          
           So
           may
           I.
           
        
         
           I
           will
           restore
           thy
           Judges
           as
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           thy
           Counsellours
           as
           at
           the
           beginning
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           
             This
             day
             is
             this
             Scripture
             fulfilled
             in
             your
             ears
             ,
          
           in
           your
           Eyes
           ,
           in
           all
           your
           Senses
           ,
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           our
           Towns
           and
           County
           .
        
         
           After
           all
           our
           Distractions
           ,
           just
           Fears
           ,
           Apprehensions
           ,
           and
           Threats
           of
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           Subversion
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           Laws
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           even
           Justice
           it self
           .
        
         
         
           Behold
           our
           Judges
           as
           at
           the
           first
           in
           our
           respective
           Counties
           throughout
           the
           Kingdom
           at
           a
           General
           Assize
           gone
           forth
           to
           judge
           the
           People
           .
        
         
           Behold
           our
           Counsellors
           as
           at
           the
           beginning
           in
           the
           Court
           to
           advise
           our
           Prince
           .
        
         
           In
           our
           Grand
           Senate
           ,
           both
           House
           of
           Parliament
           sitting
           ,
           advising
           ,
           and
           enacting
           according
           to
           our
           ancient
           Rights
           ,
           Freedoms
           and
           Priviledges
           .
        
         
           Behold
           our
           Religion
           ,
           our
           Church
           ,
           which
           is
           our
           Sion
           ,
           redeemed
           from
           Romish
           Superstitions
           .
        
         
           Behold
           her
           Converts
           Protestant
           Proselytes
           and
           Professors
           of
           this
           Pure
           ,
           Holy
           ,
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           redeemed
           from
           all
           Fears
           of
           
           Rome's
           bloody
           Inquisition
           ,
           or
           
           France's
           Dragooning
           for
           Conscience
           sake
           .
        
         
           Behold
           our
           Universities
           and
           Colledges
           ,
           our
           Cities
           and
           Corporations
           with
           their
           Free-holds
           ,
           Charters
           ,
           and
           Immunities
           restored
           as
           at
           the
           first
           .
        
         
           To
           Crown
           all
           ,
           behold
           a
           King
           reigning
           in
           Righteousness
           ,
           the
           Support
           of
           our
           present
           ,
           and
           Pledge
           of
           our
           future
           happiness
           ,
           even
           
           England's
           Jotham
           ,
           Warring
           with
           the
           great
           King
           of
           Assyria
           his
           Neighbour
           ,
           the
           grand
           Enemy
           of
           our
           Religion
           and
           Country
           ;
           God
           grant
           him
           also
           a
           
           Jotham's
           Success
           ,
           to
           overcome
           them
           in
           Battel
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           them
           Tributary
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           may
           ever
           wax
           mighty
           ,
           because
           he
           prepares
           his
           way
           before
           the
           Lord.
           
        
         
           What
           remains
           now
           ,
           but
           that
           our
           Cities
           shall
           in
           a
           short
           time
           become
           Cities
           of
           Righteousness
           ,
           faithful
           Cities
           :
           And
           our
           Sion
           ,
           which
           is
           our
           Church
           ,
           be
           redeemed
           with
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           her
           Converts
           with
           Righteousness
           .
        
         
           In
           Summ
           then
           ,
           this
           Vision
           discovers
           these
           four
           things
           .
        
         
           
           
             Of
             a
             Church
             and
             Nation
             's
             Restauration
             and
             Deliverance
             from
             the
             Smart
             of
             such
             Calamities
             as
             they
             felt
             for
             the
             present
             ,
             or
             feared
             for
             the
             future
             .
          
           
             1.
             
             The
             Author
          
           
             2.
             
             The
             Instruments
          
           
             3.
             
             The
             Order
          
           
             4.
             
             The
             Nature
          
        
         
           1.
           
           
             The
             Author
          
           ,
           and
           Principal
           Efficient
           Cause
           of
           the
           Prosperity
           and
           Restauration
           of
           a
           sinking
           Church
           and
           Nation
           ,
           is
           God
           alone
           :
           
             I
             will
             restore
          
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           
             The
             Instruments
          
           ,
           and
           Essential
           parts
           of
           a
           People's
           Restauration
           are
           ,
        
         
           (
           1
           )
           Judges
           as
           at
           the
           first
           .
        
         
           (
           2
           )
           Counsellours
           as
           at
           the
           beginning
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           
             The
             Order
          
           and
           Method
           of
           a
           People's
           Prosperity
           (
           after
           that
           )
           :
           For
           before
           that
           Judges
           and
           Counsellours
           are
           restored
           ,
           a
           Nation
           cannot
           flourish
           ;
           but
           they
           first
           ,
           then
           after
           that
           the
           other
           follows
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           
             The
             Nature
          
           and
           Comprehensiveness
           of
           a
           compleat
           Restauration
           ;
           it
           must
           be
           in
           Sacred
           as
           well
           as
           Civil
           Rights
           .
        
         
           (
           1
           )
           Civil
           and
           Political
           Prosperity
           :
           Cities
           shall
           flourish
           ,
           and
           become
           Cities
           of
           Righteousness
           .
        
         
           (
           2
           )
           Sacred
           and
           Religious
           Prosperity
           :
           The
           Church
           and
           her
           Proselytes
           must
           be
           saved
           .
        
         
           Sion
           shall
           be
           redeemed
           with
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           her
           Converts
           with
           Righteousness
           .
        
         
           As
           the
           result
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           I
           infer
           ,
        
         
           5.
           
           That
           whenever
           a
           People
           are
           thus
           restored
           ,
           they
           are
           highly
           obliged
           ,
           without
           murmuring
           ,
           to
           rejoyce
           in
           ,
           and
           to
           bless
           that
           God
           ,
           who
           is
           the
           Author
           of
           all
           ,
           for
           it
           .
        
         
           These
           five
           Generals
           shall
           bound
           my
           present
           Discourse
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           God
           alone
           is
           the
           Principal
           Efficient
           Cause
           of
           all
           Mutations
           of
           Government
           ,
           whether
           they
           tend
           to
           the
           Destruction
           or
           Restauration
           of
           a
           Church
           or
           Nation
           .
        
         
         
           He
           sets
           up
           ,
           and
           he
           pulls
           down
           at
           his
           pleasure
           .
           He
           deliver'd
           Israel
           out
           of
           Egypt
           ,
           and
           destroyed
           the
           Egyptians
           in
           the
           
             Red
             Sea.
          
           He
           rooted
           out
           the
           Canaanites
           ,
           and
           planted
           his
           own
           People
           in
           their
           Cities
           .
        
         
           He
           took
           Saul
           from
           the
           Herd
           ,
           and
           David
           from
           the
           Flock
           ,
           and
           seated
           them
           on
           the
           Throne
           .
        
         
           And
           he
           pulled
           down
           the
           High
           and
           Mighty
           Nebuchadnezzar
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           all
           his
           Glory
           ,
           and
           turned
           him
           to
           graze
           with
           the
           Beasts
           of
           the
           Field
           .
           
        
         
           
           Alexander's
           and
           
           Caesar's
           may
           build
           
           Alexandria's
           and
           
           Caesarea's
           ,
           like
           great
           Babylon
           ,
           for
           their
           Honour
           and
           Glory
           ,
           when
           as
           all
           the
           while
           ,
           
           except
           the
           Lord
           build
           and
           keep
           the
           City
           too
           ,
           the
           Builder
           and
           the
           Watchman
           take
           care
           in
           vain
           .
        
         
           These
           may
           arrogantly
           think
           ,
           that
           by
           their
           Power
           ,
           Policy
           and
           numerous
           Armies
           ,
           they
           have
           founded
           Empires
           and
           Dominions
           ,
           when
           as
           he
           that
           sits
           in
           the
           Heavens
           derides
           the
           vanity
           of
           their
           thoughts
           ,
           and
           frequently
           brings
           to
           nought
           their
           mighty
           Designs
           and
           many
           Devices
           .
        
         
           For
           't
           is
           
             the
             Counsel
             of
             the
             Lord
             that
          
           at
           last
           
             shall
             stand
          
           ,
           
           and
           his
           Purposes
           shall
           come
           to
           pass
           .
        
         
           All
           the
           Powers
           on
           Earth
           are
           but
           as
           Tools
           in
           his
           hand
           to
           work
           out
           his
           good
           pleasure
           .
        
         
           The
           mighty
           Cyrus
           was
           but
           his
           Shepherd
           ,
           and
           shall
           fulfil
           all
           his
           good
           pleasure
           ,
           saying
           to
           
             Jerusalem
             ,
             Thou
             shalt
             be
             built
             ,
          
           
           and
           to
           
             Sion
             ,
             Thy
             Foundation
             shall
             be
             laid
             .
          
        
         
           And
           when
           his
           Ends
           are
           accomplished
           ,
           their
           Dominions
           are
           determin'd
           ,
           as
           the
           great
           
           Belshazzar's
           was
           by
           his
           Hand-writing
           .
        
         
           MENE
           ,
           
           
             MENE
             ,
             TEKEL
             UPHARSIN
          
           ,
           Thy
           Kingdom
           is
           weighed
           ,
           numbred
           ,
           and
           finished
           ,
           and
           being
           found
           wanting
           ,
           is
           divided
           and
           distributed
           .
        
         
           Thus
           he
           made
           Zerzes
           with
           his
           2500000
           ,
           Zenacharib
           and
           Siserah
           ,
           with
           Hosts
           as
           numerous
           as
           the
           Sands
           by
           
           the
           Sea
           ,
           to
           return
           with
           shame
           and
           dishonour
           ,
           and
           sent
           the
           great
           Bajazet
           about
           the
           World
           in
           a
           Cage
           for
           a
           show
           .
        
         
           And
           again
           ,
           gave
           glorious
           Victories
           to
           a
           single
           Sampson
           with
           a
           Jaw-bone
           of
           an
           Ass
           .
           To
           David
           with
           a
           Sling
           and
           a
           Stone
           .
           To
           Gideon
           with
           the
           noise
           of
           Pitchers
           ,
           Rams-horns
           ,
           and
           but
           300
           Men.
           
        
         
           It
           is
           He
           that
           makes
           a
           fruitful
           Land
           to
           become
           a
           barren
           Wilderness
           ,
           and
           depopulates
           Cities
           by
           the
           Sword
           ,
           Famine
           and
           Pestilence
           .
        
         
           And
           't
           is
           the
           same
           hand
           that
           made
           the
           Wound
           that
           applies
           the
           Remedy
           ;
           cures
           all
           our
           Diseases
           ,
           and
           makes
           the
           noise
           of
           the
           Drum
           and
           Trumpet
           to
           cease
           ,
           and
           restores
           Peace
           in
           all
           our
           borders
           .
        
         
           For
           as
           Clay
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Potter
           ,
           
           so
           are
           all
           Nations
           in
           his
           .
        
         
           And
           't
           is
           no
           more
           but
           for
           him
           to
           speak
           the
           word
           ,
           and
           they
           are
           made
           ,
           or
           utterly
           undone
           .
        
         
           He
           can
           destroy
           or
           save
           as
           he
           pleases
           ,
           either
           by
           or
           without
           means
           ;
           but
           his
           usual
           methods
           are
           by
           Instruments
           and
           second
           Causes
           ,
           as
           here
           in
           my
           Text
           ,
           by
           restoring
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           ,
           who
           are
           both
           Instruments
           and
           Essential
           parts
           of
           a
           Nations
           Restoration
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           
             Which
             is
             the
          
           2d
           .
           
             thing
             in
             order
             to
             be
             discoursed
             of
             ,
          
           (
           viz.
           )
           That
           the
           Restoration
           of
           Primitive
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           are
           both
           the
           necessary
           and
           essential
           parts
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           instrumental
           Causes
           of
           a
           Peoples
           Restoration
           .
        
         
           And
           here
           my
           first
           enquiry
           ought
           to
           be
           ,
           Who
           and
           what
           those
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           were
           at
           first
           ?
        
         
           1.
           
           Neg.
           It
           is
           not
           Judges
           in
           general
           :
           no
           matter
           who
           or
           what
           they
           are
           ,
           provided
           they
           are
           but
           Judges
           ;
           for
           of
           these
           we
           never
           wanted
           ,
           such
           as
           they
           were
           ;
           but
           they
           must
           be
           such
           as
           were
           at
           first
           .
        
         
           For
           there
           are
           a
           sort
           who
           are
           so
           far
           from
           being
           a
           blessing
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           the
           greatest
           Scourge
           and
           Plague
           as
           can
           befall
           a
           Nation
           .
        
         
         
           There
           are
           a
           sort
           of
           
             High
             Commission
             Judges
          
           ;
           there
           are
           
             Arbitrary
             Dispensing
             Judges
          
           ;
           there
           are
           Judges
           who
           (
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           )
           
           
             neither
             fear
             God
             ,
             nor
             regard
             Man.
             
          
        
         
           Who
           live
           on
           Orphans
           Tears
           ,
           sacrifice
           and
           sell
           the
           Blood
           of
           some
           ,
           the
           Estates
           of
           others
           ,
           their
           Country
           ,
           their
           Laws
           ,
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           their
           own
           Consciences
           ,
           to
           purchase
           their
           Places
           ,
           and
           their
           Maker's
           Favour
           ;
           whom
           that
           you
           may
           know
           ,
           I
           shall
           name
           one
           ,
           John
           19.
           12.
           
           
             If
             thou
             let
             this
             Man
             go
             ,
             thou
             art
             not
             Caesar's
             Friend
             .
             When
             Pilate
          
           (
           the
           Judge
           )
           
             heard
             that
             ,
             he
             sate
             down
             in
             the
             Judgment
             seat
             ,
             and
             condemned
             the
             most
             innocent
             ,
             holy
             and
             just
             ;
             (
             i.
             e.
             )
          
           when
           he
           heard
           he
           was
           like
           to
           lose
           Caesar's
           Favour
           and
           Friendship
           ,
           farewel
           to
           Justice
           to
           purchase
           its
           continuance
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           whole
           Creation
           ,
           there
           is
           not
           one
           Creature
           more
           like
           a
           God
           than
           a
           Primitive
           Judge
           .
        
         
           Nor
           a
           Monster
           more
           like
           a
           Devil
           ,
           than
           a
           corrupt
           degenerate
           one
           from
           his
           Original
           Pattern
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           let
           pass
           this
           Pilattick
           Sect
           of
           Judges
           ,
           and
           leave
           them
           to
           repent
           ,
           or
           their
           Names
           to
           rot
           ,
           and
           Memorials
           to
           perish
           ,
           being
           the
           Antithesis
           and
           Reverse
           of
           those
           my
           Text
           speaks
           of
           .
           I
           proceed
           ,
        
         
           2.
           
           
             To
             consider
             and
             determine
             what
             Primitive
             Judges
             and
             Counsellors
             are
             .
          
           And
           here
           ,
           1
           st
           .
           what
           are
           Primitive
           Judges
           ,
           
           
             Homines
             in
             naturali
             statu
             liberi
             nascuntur
             &
             pares
             ,
             in
             quâ
             parietate
             semper
             remansciscent
             ,
             nisi
             necessitas
             quaedam
             politica
             illos
             in
             ordinem
             co●gisset
             ,
             ut
             alii
             praesint
             ,
             alii
             subsint
             ,
             in
             totius
             salutem
             &
             primô
             idem
             fuit
             Imperator
             &
             Judex
             .
          
           Liberty
           and
           Freedom
           being
           the
           Universal
           and
           Natural
           Birthright
           of
           all
           ,
           and
           their
           Security
           and
           primary
           end
           of
           all
           Government
           ,
           need
           no
           more
           proof
           than
           to
           prove
           the
           Tooth
           in
           a
           Man's
           Head
           ,
           his
           Eye
           ,
           or
           his
           Senses
           are
           his
           own
           .
        
         
         
           But
           whosoever
           pretends
           to
           exercise
           any
           power
           over
           others
           ,
           must
           prove
           every
           Tittle
           ,
           and
           shew
           his
           Commission
           ,
           how
           and
           which
           way
           he
           came
           by
           it
           ,
           and
           take
           care
           to
           answer
           the
           End
           and
           true
           Reasons
           which
           first
           gave
           Birth
           to
           Empire
           and
           Dominion
           .
        
         
           Which
           were
           not
           to
           invade
           or
           destroy
           ,
           but
           to
           protect
           and
           defend
           their
           Subjects
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           if
           at
           any
           time
           they
           act
           contrary
           in
           it
           ,
           they
           renounce
           the
           ends
           of
           their
           being
           ,
           and
           overthrow
           the
           Foundation
           on
           which
           they
           stand
           .
        
         
           Exposing
           their
           Authority
           to
           be
           stripped
           Naked
           ,
           subverted
           and
           trampled
           on
           .
        
         
           For
           tho
           some
           self-designing
           men
           ,
           to
           flatter
           (
           and
           abuse
           )
           Princes
           ,
           and
           promote
           themselves
           ,
           may
           have
           tortured
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           screwed
           up
           Conscience
           and
           Religion
           to
           such
           heighths
           ,
           as
           to
           infer
           thence
           Obligations
           to
           an
           extravagant
           unreasonable
           sort
           of
           Obedience
           .
        
         
           Yet
           't
           is
           as
           impossible
           for
           men
           in
           general
           to
           act
           contradictory
           to
           their
           true
           Interest
           ,
           their
           Natural
           Principles
           of
           Freedom
           and
           Self-preservation
           ,
           or
           to
           stand
           by
           and
           assist
           any
           Power
           in
           abusing
           themselves
           .
           As
           it
           is
           to
           be
           mad
           with
           Reason
           .
        
         
           And
           't
           is
           as
           foolish
           ,
           if
           not
           impious
           and
           contradictory
           ,
           to
           pretend
           to
           fetch
           Arguments
           from
           a
           Religion
           that
           comes
           from
           God
           ,
           to
           cheat
           men
           of
           those
           Natural
           Rights
           which
           himself
           (
           and
           Nature
           )
           has
           given
           them
           .
        
         
           Whereby
           they
           represent
           God
           ,
           as
           tho
           repenting
           or
           recalling
           his
           Gifts
           ,
           and
           so
           acting
           contradictory
           to
           his
           goodness
           ,
           which
           is
           himself
           ,
           and
           dividing
           his
           Kingdom
           against
           it self
           ,
           like
           that
           which
           cannot
           stand
           .
        
         
           Let
           then
           their
           mistaken
           sense
           of
           Government
           be
           what
           it
           will
           ,
           it
           was
           ,
           no
           doubt
           ,
           instituted
           for
           the
           defence
           and
           preservation
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           and
           at
           first
           the
           Emperor
           and
           the
           Judge
           was
           the
           same
           ,
           with
           his
           Sword
           in
           one
           hand
           to
           defend
           against
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           his
           Scepter
           in
           the
           other
           to
           determine
           Controversies
           .
        
         
         
           But
           the
           weight
           of
           Government
           ,
           and
           number
           of
           Subjects
           increasing
           ,
           the
           Emperour
           withdrew
           from
           the
           Tribunal
           ,
           
           and
           substituted
           Judges
           .
        
         
           And
           this
           was
           the
           course
           that
           Moses
           took
           ,
           by
           the
           advise
           of
           Jethro
           ,
           whose
           Books
           and
           Writings
           being
           the
           most
           ancient
           and
           authentick
           that
           we
           can
           rely
           on
           ,
           I
           shall
           from
           them
           collect
           what
           those
           Original
           Judges
           were
           ,
           according
           to
           whose
           pattern
           a
           Restoration
           is
           here
           promis'd
           .
        
         
           By
           Judges
           (
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           as
           the
           
             Septuagint
             ;
             ut
             antea
          
           ,
           as
           the
           
             Syrriack
             Version
             ;
             ut
             erant
             antiquitùs
             ,
             ut
             olim
             ,
          
           as
           the
           Arrabick
           and
           Caldee
           Paraphrase
           )
           ,
           as
           at
           first
           ,
           as
           before
           ,
           as
           anciently
           ,
           as
           in
           times
           past
           :
           I
           understand
           either
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           Such
           as
           God
           himself
           was
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           he
           at
           first
           extraordinarily
           qualified
           and
           sent
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Or
           such
           as
           Moses
           was
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           he
           commissioned
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Or
           such
           as
           the
           best
           of
           the
           Kings
           of
           Israel
           and
           Judah
           were
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           they
           commission'd
           in
           their
           respective
           Reigns
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           
             Such
             as
             God
             himself
             was
          
           .
           For
           tho
           by
           his
           Universal
           Power
           and
           Providence
           ,
           he
           at
           first
           planted
           ,
           and
           still
           governs
           all
           the
           Kingdoms
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           has
           given
           them
           to
           the
           Children
           of
           Men
           ,
           yet
           Israel
           was
           his
           peculiar
           Care
           and
           Government
           ;
           and
           therefore
           when
           they
           clamoured
           for
           a
           King
           ,
           like
           other
           Nations
           ,
           God
           in
           anger
           replied
           by
           
             Samuel
             ,
             They
             have
             not
             rejected
             thee
             ,
             but
             they
             have
             rejected
             me
             ,
             that
             I
             should
             not
             reign
             over
             them
          
           ;
           because
           that
           himself
           ,
           as
           Isa
           .
           9.
           7.
           was
           their
           King
           ,
           their
           Judge
           and
           their
           Lawgiver
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           was
           common
           for
           them
           to
           bring
           such
           Causes
           as
           they
           could
           not
           determine
           ,
           
           and
           spread
           them
           before
           the
           Lord.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           Or
           such
           as
           God
           extraordinarily
           qualified
           ,
           and
           sent
           
             to
             judge
             his
             People
          
           Israel
           ;
           
             such
             were
          
           Othniel
           ,
           Shamgar
           ,
           Deborah
           and
           Samuel
           ;
           
             and
             thus
          
           he
           gave
           them
           Judges
           for
           the
           space
           of
           450
           years
           ,
           and
           God
           was
           with
           the
           Judge
           ,
           Acts
           13.
           20.
           
           
        
         
         
           2.
           
           Or
           such
           as
           Moses
           himself
           was
           ,
           or
           as
           he
           commissioned
           .
        
         
           Moses
           was
           the
           first
           we
           ever
           read
           of
           that
           sate
           upon
           the
           Bench
           in
           a
           judicial
           way
           of
           Over
           and
           Terminer
           ,
           
           and
           he
           is
           the
           first
           too
           that
           issued
           out
           Commissions
           to
           other
           Deputy-Judges
           to
           bear
           part
           of
           the
           burthen
           with
           him
           ,
           
             and
             to
             judge
             the
             people
             at
             all
             seasons
             .
          
        
         
           3.
           
           
             Or
             such
             Judges
             as
             the
             best
             ,
             wisest
             ,
             most
             renown'd
             and
             religious
             of
             the
             Kings
             of
          
           Israel
           and
           Judan
           were
           :
           As
           
             Jehosaphat
             ,
             Solomon
          
           and
           David
           ,
           whose
           Throne
           for
           Righteousness
           and
           Judgment
           ,
           was
           a
           Type
           of
           the
           Throne
           of
           the
           Messiah
           ,
           who
           is
           to
           judge
           the
           World
           in
           Righteousness
           ,
           and
           the
           Nations
           in
           Equity
           ,
           so
           famed
           for
           Justice
           ,
           that
           it
           revived
           the
           hearts
           of
           his
           Subjects
           but
           to
           talk
           of
           appearing
           before
           his
           Tribunal
           :
           
           
             Our
             feet
             shall
             stand
             within
             thy
             gates
             ,
             O
             Jerusalem
             :
             for
             there
             are
             set
             thrones
             of
             judgment
             ,
             even
             the
             throne
             of
             the
             house
             of
             David
             .
          
        
         
           Or
           such
           as
           Solomon
           his
           Son
           ,
           so
           famed
           for
           Wisdom
           and
           Judgment
           ,
           in
           that
           righteous
           and
           critical
           decision
           of
           the
           Controversie
           between
           the
           Two
           Women
           about
           the
           dead
           and
           the
           living
           Child
           .
        
         
           Or
           such
           as
           Jehosaphat
           sent
           into
           all
           the
           Cities
           of
           Judah
           ,
           
           in
           Circuit
           ,
           City
           by
           City
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           We
           may
           learn
           what
           these
           Judges
           at
           first
           were
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           From
           the
           Rules
           laid
           down
           for
           their
           Choice
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           From
           the
           Charge
           given
           them
           upon
           Admission
           ,
           for
           the
           Execution
           of
           their
           Office.
           
        
         
           I
           shall
           only
           instance
           in
           Two
           ,
           Moses
           and
           
           Jehosaphat's
           Rules
           and
           Charge
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           
           Moses's
           Rules
           for
           Choice
           ,
           or
           Qualifications
           he
           requires
           in
           a
           Judge
           ,
           are
           reduceable
           to
           these
           Four
           ,
           recorded
           Exod.
           18.
           2.
           
        
         
           1.
           
           
             Chuse
             able
             men
             ;
             (
             i.
             e.
             )
          
           Men
           of
           Parts
           and
           Understanding
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           
             Such
             as
             fear
             God
          
           :
           Not
           the
           Face
           of
           Man
           in
           the
           Judgment
           .
        
         
         
           3.
           
           
             Men
             of
             Truth
          
           :
           Men
           of
           Integrity
           ,
           hating
           False
           Judgment
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           
             Such
             as
             hate
             Covetousness
          
           :
           If
           not
           ,
           they
           'l
           take
           Bribes
           ,
           and
           sell
           Justice
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Moses
           '
           
             s
             Charge
          
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           
             His
             Universal
             Negative
          
           ,
           Lev.
           19.
           5.
           
           Ye
           shall
           do
           no
           unrighteousness
           in
           judgment
           :
           you
           shall
           not
           respect
           persons
           :
           you
           shall
           not
           fear
           the
           face
           of
           man.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           
             His
             Universal
             Affirmative
          
           ,
           Deut.
           16.
           18.
           19.
           and
           1.
           15
           ,
           16.
           
           I
           charged
           the
           judges
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           saying
           ,
           You
           shall
           judge
           the
           people
           with
           just
           judgment
           :
           hear
           the
           causes
           of
           your
           brethren
           ,
           judge
           righteously
           between
           every
           man
           and
           his
           neighbour
           :
           hear
           the
           small
           as
           well
           as
           the
           great
           :
           fear
           not
           man
           ,
           for
           the
           judgment
           is
           God's
           .
        
         
           But
           more
           particularly
           he
           charges
           these
           Four
           things
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           
             That
             Judges
             shall
             not
             speak
             in
             a
             Cause
             to
             decline
             after
             many
             to
             wrest
             judgment
             :
             (
             i.
             e.
             )
          
           Not
           pervert
           Justice
           ,
           out
           of
           Popularity
           ,
           to
           gratifie
           a
           Multitude
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           
             Thou
             shalt
             not
             countenance
             a
             poor
             man
             in
             his
             cause
          
           ;
           
           (
           that
           is
           ,
           )
           Do
           no
           unjust
           thing
           out
           of
           pity
           :
           Let
           not
           Compassion
           blind
           neither
           :
           The
           Rich
           may
           not
           be
           favoured
           in
           oppressing
           the
           Poor
           ,
           nor
           the
           Poor
           (
           because
           such
           )
           rob
           or
           injure
           the
           Rich.
           
        
         
           3.
           
           Thou
           shalt
           not
           wrest
           the
           judgment
           of
           the
           poor
           ,
           nor
           take
           gifts
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           They
           shall
           not
           condemn
           the
           innocent
           ,
           nor
           acquit
           the
           guilty
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Jehosaphat
           '
           
             s
             Famous
             Charge
             ,
             recorded
          
           2
           Chron.
           19.
           5
           ,
           6
           ,
           7.
           
           He
           said
           unto
           the
           judges
           ,
           Take
           heed
           what
           ye
           do
           ,
           for
           ye
           judge
           not
           for
           man
           ,
           but
           for
           the
           Lord
           ,
           who
           is
           with
           you
           in
           the
           judgment
           ;
           and
           let
           the
           fear
           of
           the
           Lord
           be
           upon
           you
           :
           Shun
           all
           iniquity
           ,
           have
           no
           respect
           of
           persons
           ,
           nor
           take
           any
           gifts
           :
           that
           in
           all
           things
           you
           may
           be
           like
           unto
           God
           ,
           the
           judge
           of
           judges
           ,
           with
           whom
           there
           is
           no
           iniquity
           ,
           nor
           respect
           of
           persons
           ,
           nor
           taking
           of
           gifts
           .
        
         
         
           Now
           such
           as
           those
           Primitive
           Rules
           were
           for
           the
           Election
           of
           Judges
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           the
           Charge
           was
           ,
           such
           were
           Judges
           at
           first
           .
        
         
           (
           2.
           )
           What
           were
           Counsellors
           at
           the
           beginning
           ?
        
         
           I
           do
           not
           understand
           this
           Name
           at
           all
           to
           relate
           to
           the
           Practitioners
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           whom
           we
           so
           call
           ;
           but
           to
           Counsellors
           of
           State
           at
           Court
           about
           the
           Prince
           ,
           or
           the
           Grand
           Senate
           or
           Parliament
           of
           a
           Nation
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           first
           primitive
           Pattern
           of
           a
           Counsellor
           of
           State
           to
           a
           Prince
           was
           Jethro
           to
           Moses
           ,
           
           who
           gave
           him
           wise
           and
           faithful
           Counsel
           .
        
         
           Such
           another
           was
           Hushai
           the
           Archite
           to
           David
           .
           
        
         
           Such
           was
           Nathan
           to
           King
           Solomon
           ,
           to
           the
           saving
           of
           his
           Life
           and
           Kingdom
           .
           
        
         
           Such
           were
           the
           good
           old
           Men
           ,
           who
           stood
           before
           him
           during
           his
           whole
           Reign
           ,
           by
           whose
           Conduct
           and
           good
           Advice
           himself
           and
           his
           Kingdom
           so
           flourished
           ,
           
           that
           Silver
           and
           Gold
           was
           as
           plenty
           as
           stones
           in
           the
           streets
           of
           Jerusalem
           .
        
         
           Or
           such
           Counsellours
           as
           David
           consulted
           with
           ,
           even
           God's
           Oracles
           .
           
             Thy
             Testimonies
             are
             my
             Counsellors
          
           ,
           Psal
           .
           119.
           14.
           
        
         
           Now
           from
           that
           time
           that
           a
           Nation
           hath
           such
           Judges
           restored
           ,
           and
           a
           Prince
           follows
           the
           Advice
           of
           such
           Counsellors
           ,
           may
           she
           begin
           to
           date
           her
           Restauration
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Indeed
           these
           are
           both
           the
           Instrumental
           Causes
           and
           Essential
           parts
           of
           the
           Restauration
           it self
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           second
           Position
           I
           proposed
           to
           discourse
           of
           ,
           after
           I
           had
           enquired
           out
           and
           stated
           who
           and
           what
           those
           Primitive
           Judges
           and
           Counsellours
           were
           .
        
         
           As
           an
           Exquisite
           Master
           in
           a
           Ship
           ,
           that
           knows
           how
           to
           make
           his
           Observations
           ,
           and
           perform
           his
           Course
           ,
           as
           a
           provident
           Steers-man
           at
           the
           Helm
           :
           or
           the
           Skilful
           experienc'd
           Pilot
           ,
           who
           knows
           how
           to
           avoid
           Sylla
           and
           Charibdis
           ,
           contribute
           all
           to
           the
           safety
           of
           the
           Vessel
           .
        
         
         
           Such
           are
           Primitive
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           to
           conduct
           a
           Nation
           into
           Harbours
           of
           Tranquility
           amd
           Rest
           .
        
         
           There
           are
           other
           Subordinate
           Judges
           which
           help
           to
           compleat
           a
           Restauration
           ,
           had
           I
           time
           to
           speak
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           High
           Sheriff
           ,
           though
           the
           Grand
           Executioner
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           yet
           he
           is
           a
           Judge
           too
           ,
           and
           hath
           his
           County-Court
           to
           sit
           in
           .
        
         
           The
           County-Justices
           are
           Judges
           too
           (
           as
           Jethro
           advises
           )
           of
           smaller
           Matters
           that
           are
           not
           too
           hard
           for
           them
           :
           
           For
           such
           they
           are
           to
           bring
           before
           you
           who
           are
           as
           Moses
           himself
           .
        
         
           These
           are
           all
           necessary
           ,
           and
           may
           shine
           in
           their
           proper
           inferiour
           Spheres
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           Diogenes
           said
           ,
           
             Were
             it
             not
             for
             the
             Sun
             ,
             it
             would
             be
             night
             for
             all
             the
             Stars
             .
          
        
         
           You
           are
           this
           Sun
           that
           must
           irradiate
           and
           dart
           beams
           on
           them
           to
           reflect
           again
           on
           the
           People
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           set
           
           Moses's
           Primitive
           Pattern
           and
           Charge
           before
           you
           to
           imitate
           ,
           which
           if
           you
           observe
           and
           follow
           ,
           it
           will
           suffice
           that
           you
           set
           your selves
           as
           Originals
           for
           these
           to
           copy
           after
           .
        
         
           Notwithstanding
           the
           great
           Rivers
           ,
           which
           run
           through
           a
           Country
           ,
           may
           contain
           water
           enough
           to
           refresh
           and
           fructifie
           all
           the
           Fields
           they
           pass
           by
           ;
           yet
           without
           trenching
           smaller
           Rivulets
           ,
           to
           convey
           and
           apply
           them
           to
           the
           remoter
           corners
           of
           the
           Pastures
           ,
           they
           may
           parch
           and
           be
           barren
           for
           all
           the
           Streams
           passing
           by
           .
        
         
           Your
           passage
           and
           circuiting
           through
           a
           Land
           ,
           is
           as
           Rivers
           of
           Righteousness
           and
           mighty
           Streams
           of
           Judgment
           running
           down
           :
           However
           these
           ,
           as
           the
           smaller
           Channels
           and
           Trenches
           ,
           must
           be
           also
           opened
           and
           cleansed
           ,
           or
           else
           we
           cannot
           flourish
           .
        
         
           And
           can
           we
           reflect
           upon
           our
           Circumstances
           ,
           but
           the
           very
           last
           years
           Assizes
           for
           this
           County
           ,
           without
           a
           
           profound
           Concernment
           ,
           and
           almost
           Tears
           of
           Joy
           for
           our
           Deliverance
           and
           present
           Restauration
           .
        
         
           Then
           a
           false
           Prophet
           on
           the
           Bench
           for
           a
           Judge
           :
           
           For
           what
           he
           there
           prophesied
           never
           did
           ,
           nor
           is
           like
           to
           come
           to
           pass
           .
        
         
           A
           Romish
           Idolater
           for
           a
           High
           Sheriff
           ,
           ready
           upon
           a
           fair
           opportunity
           ,
           with
           his
           Posse
           ,
           to
           execute
           our
           Laws
           ,
           Religion
           ,
           and
           her
           Protestant
           Professors
           ,
           to
           introduce
           his
           worse
           than
           Pagan
           Superstitions
           .
        
         
           For
           the
           most
           part
           a
           Crew
           of
           perfidious
           Justices
           (
           of
           the
           same
           stamp
           )
           who
           to
           capacitate
           themselves
           for
           the
           Bench
           ,
           had
           in
           effect
           promised
           by
           the
           27
           th
           of
           November
           following
           to
           betray
           both
           God
           and
           Man
           ,
           their
           Country
           ,
           Laws
           ,
           Religion
           ,
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           or
           to
           cull
           out
           such
           men
           for
           the
           Senate
           ,
           as
           would
           certainly
           do
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           O
           happy
           Change
           !
           here
           our
           Judges
           in
           their
           several
           Stations
           now
           restored
           as
           at
           the
           first
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           is
           not
           the
           whole
           of
           a
           Nations's
           Restauration
           .
           But
           ,
        
         
           2.
           
           There
           must
           be
           concomitant
           with
           Judges
           ,
           Counsellors
           too
           as
           at
           the
           beginning
           :
           
           Therefore
           Forerius
           commenting
           on
           the
           words
           ,
           writes
           ;
           
             Ad
             foelicitatem
             Reipublicae
             non
             satis
             putavit
             ,
             si
             Judices
             integri
             essent
             ,
             nisi
             tales
             &
             Consilliarios
             forent
             :
          
           They
           must
           be
           both
           restored
           ,
           or
           almost
           as
           good
           neither
           .
           For
           if
           these
           always
           at
           the
           Spring
           head
           shall
           continually
           poison
           the
           Fountain
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           difficult
           for
           a
           Judge
           to
           make
           Judgment
           in
           its
           uncorrupt
           purity
           to
           stream
           down
           in
           a
           Country
           .
        
         
           For
           what
           by
           their
           interposition
           for
           Bribes
           ,
           out
           of
           Malice
           ,
           Favour
           ,
           or
           Friendship
           ;
           procuring
           Sentences
           against
           the
           Innocent
           ;
           Reprieves
           or
           Pardons
           for
           the
           Guilty
           ,
           the
           most
           enormous
           Crimes
           in
           a
           Kingdom
           shall
           frequently
           escape
           unpunished
           ;
           and
           the
           lesser
           (
           who
           are
           Friendless
           )
           as
           often
           suffer
           .
        
         
         
           The
           most
           righteous
           Sentence
           shall
           often
           take
           no
           Effect
           .
           Innocent
           Blood
           shall
           cry
           unrevengd
           :
           Glorious
           Vices
           connived
           at
           ;
           and
           Sins
           ,
           when
           cloathed
           in
           Scarlet
           ,
           brave
           it
           out
           in
           the
           face
           of
           the
           Sun.
           
        
         
           
             Therefore
             as
          
           Calvin
           
             on
             the
             words
          
           ,
           Ordinem
           illum
           purgabo
           in
           quo
           fontem
           malorum
           esse
           dixi
           .
        
         
           Hitherto
           I
           have
           consider'd
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           as
           a
           necessary
           essential
           part
           of
           a
           People's
           Restauration
           .
           It
           remains
           now
           to
           cousider
           them
           as
           Instrumental
           Causes
           ,
           which
           I
           shall
           treat
           of
           under
           the
           third
           and
           fourth
           General
           Heads
           proposed
           at
           first
           to
           be
           discoursed
           on
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
        
         
           3.
           
           The
           Order
           and
        
         
           4.
           
           The
           Nature
        
         
           of
           a
           Church
           or
           Nation
           's
           Restauration
           ,
           or
           Ruine
           .
        
         
           And
           how
           far
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           Influence
           ,
           and
           are
           Instrumental
           Causes
           of
           both
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           Influence
           of
           good
           Counsellours
           on
           a
           Church
           or
           Nation
           's
           Prosperity
           ,
           is
           and
           ever
           has
           been
           most
           visible
           in
           every
           Age
           and
           in
           all
           Nations
           ,
           and
           may
           be
           most
           convincingly
           demonstrated
           from
           the
           sad
           Effects
           ,
           dismal
           and
           satal
           Consequences
           Nations
           have
           smarted
           under
           by
           the
           Conduct
           and
           Advice
           of
           wicked
           ones
           ,
           to
           the
           utter
           ruine
           both
           of
           Prince
           and
           People
           .
        
         
           What
           a
           flourishing
           Kingdom
           was
           Egypt
           (
           when
           the
           Nations
           round
           about
           were
           like
           to
           perish
           )
           through
           the
           faithful
           Counsel
           and
           Conduct
           of
           Joseph
           ?
           
        
         
           Whilst
           Jehoiadah
           lived
           to
           advise
           King
           Joash
           ,
           himself
           and
           his
           Kingdom
           flourished
           ;
           
           but
           (
           after
           his
           death
           )
           following
           the
           wicked
           Advice
           of
           his
           flattering
           Counsellors
           ,
           never
           greater
           Calamities
           befel
           a
           People
           .
        
         
           Wicked
           Counsellors
           ,
           ruined
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           Ahab
           and
           
             Ahaziah
             :
             His
             Mother
             was
             his
             Counsellor
             to
             do
             wickedly
             ,
             after
             the
             death
             of
             his
             Father
             ,
          
           
           
             to
             his
             destruction
          
           ,
           and
           subversion
           of
           the
           Government
           by
           Athaliah
           .
        
         
         
           But
           most
           famous
           and
           remarkable
           is
           the
           Case
           of
           Rehoboam
           ,
           who
           upon
           the
           Death
           of
           Solomon
           his
           Father
           ,
           went
           up
           to
           Sichem
           to
           be
           crown'd
           King
           ,
           where
           multitudes
           of
           his
           Subjects
           went
           also
           to
           attend
           the
           Solemnity
           ,
           and
           so
           took
           that
           opportunity
           of
           presenting
           their
           humble
           Addresses
           ,
           That
           those
           Invasions
           made
           upon
           their
           Liberties
           as
           Freemen
           ,
           and
           Rights
           as
           Subjects
           ,
           might
           be
           redress'd
           .
           Which
           the
           old
           faithful
           Counsellors
           of
           his
           Father
           advised
           him
           to
           do
           :
           But
           he
           rejected
           these
           ,
           and
           followed
           the
           advice
           of
           the
           young
           men
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
           To
           insist
           upon
           his
           Prerogative
           ,
           to
           check
           their
           Insolence
           in
           daring
           to
           petition
           ,
           and
           threaten
           them
           the
           higher
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           tell
           them
           ,
           He
           was
           resolved
           to
           make
           their
           Yoke
           heavier
           ;
           
           That
           his
           little
           Finger
           should
           be
           heavier
           than
           his
           Father's
           Loins
           :
           And
           whereas
           before
           they
           were
           chastised
           with
           Whips
           ,
           he
           would
           henceforth
           lash
           them
           with
           Scorpions
           .
        
         
           When
           his
           Subjects
           heard
           this
           ,
           and
           found
           that
           their
           humble
           Address
           was
           become
           their
           greater
           Crime
           ,
           and
           a
           Reason
           for
           heavier
           Oppressions
           ,
           they
           make
           a
           general
           Revolt
           ,
           and
           unanimously
           cry
           out
           ,
           
             What
             Portion
             have
             we
             in
             David
             ,
          
           
           
             neither
             have
             we
             Inheritance
             in
             the
             Son
             of
             Jesse
             :
             Now
             see
             to
             thy
             own
             House
             ,
             O
             David
             ;
             to
             thy
             Tents
             ,
             O
             Israel
          
           ;
           (
           that
           is
           )
           Though
           Rehoboam
           be
           the
           Grandchild
           of
           David
           ,
           the
           King
           that
           God
           himself
           chose
           and
           set
           over
           us
           ,
           and
           he
           be
           the
           indisputable
           Heir
           Apparent
           to
           the
           Crown
           of
           Israel
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           House
           of
           his
           Father
           David
           ;
           yet
           if
           he
           pervert
           the
           Ends
           of
           Government
           ,
           which
           are
           to
           protect
           ,
           relieve
           ,
           and
           defend
           ,
           and
           is
           resolved
           to
           go
           on
           to
           enslave
           and
           oppress
           ,
           What
           is
           he
           to
           us
           more
           than
           another
           ?
           Or
           his
           Descent
           ,
           or
           House
           ?
           We
           have
           no
           part
           or
           portion
           in
           him
           .
           Let
           him
           look
           to
           himself
           and
           his
           own
           House
           ,
           and
           we
           will
           go
           home
           and
           look
           to
           our selves
           and
           ours
           :
           
             To
             thy
             Tents
             ,
             O
             Israel
             .
          
        
         
           And
           so
           they
           unanimously
           left
           and
           deposed
           him
           ,
           
           and
           made
           Jeroboam
           the
           Son
           of
           Nebat
           King
           over
           Israel
           .
        
         
         
           And
           this
           God
           (
           in
           this
           case
           )
           seems
           to
           encourage
           and
           approve
           of
           as
           his
           own
           Act
           ,
           1
           Kings
           12.
           24.
           
           
             This
             is
             from
             me
             ,
             saith
             the
             Lord
             ,
             therefore
             oppose
             it
             not
             .
          
        
         
           And
           what
           the
           dreadful
           Church
           and
           Kingdom
           distracting
           Effects
           are
           of
           wicked
           Counsellors
           about
           a
           Prince
           ,
           is
           fresh
           in
           our
           Memories
           ,
           having
           so
           lately
           experimented
           the
           result
           of
           Conclave
           
             Romish
             ,
             French
          
           ,
           and
           Italian
           inslaving
           Counsels
           from
           abroad
           ,
           Petrean
           and
           Jesuitical
           undermining
           Counsellors
           at
           home
           ,
           which
           had
           reduced
           us
           to
           such
           Circumstances
           ,
           that
           we
           were
           all
           at
           the
           very
           brink
           of
           Destruction
           :
           And
           it
           was
           the
           Lord's
           Mercies
           we
           had
           not
           been
           all
           consumed
           .
           Wherefore
           Forerius
           tells
           us
           ,
           (
           
             Mallet
             iniquum
             Regem
             optimis
             Consultoribus
             Reipublicae
             praeesse
             ,
             quàm
             justum
             &
             sapientem
             iniquis
             Concilliariis
             constipatum
             .
          
           )
           And
           blessed
           be
           that
           God
           ,
           who
           has
           turned
           all
           the
           Counsels
           of
           these
           Ahitophels
           into
           Folly
           ,
           broken
           the
           Snare
           in
           pieces
           ,
           and
           we
           are
           escaped
           ,
           and
           restored
           unto
           our
           
             Faithful
             Counsellors
             〈◊〉
             at
             the
             beginning
             .
          
        
         
           But
           remembring
           I
           am
           not
           preaching
           to
           these
           at
           Court
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Senate
           at
           Westminster
           ,
           but
           to
           Judges
           at
           an
           Assize
           ,
           this
           little
           shall
           suffice
           .
           And
           I
           shall
           now
           address
           my self
           more
           closely
           and
           particularly
           to
           my
           second
           General
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
        
         
           2.
           
           What
           Influence
           the
           Restauration
           of
           Primitive
           Judges
           have
           upon
           the
           Prosperity
           of
           Church
           and
           State.
           
        
         
           (
           1.
           )
           Upon
           our
           State
           and
           Civil
           concerns
           .
           After
           or
           upon
           the
           Restauration
           of
           these
           ,
           it
           follows
           ,
           
             That
             our
             Cities
             shall
             be
             called
             Cities
             of
             Righteousness
             ,
             faithful
             Cities
             .
          
        
         
           Countries
           and
           Cities
           were
           usually
           called
           by
           the
           Names
           ,
           or
           at
           the
           pleasure
           of
           their
           first
           Discoverers
           ,
           Inhabiters
           or
           Founders
           :
           so
           Judea
           from
           
             Judah
             ,
             Britain
          
           from
           
             Brutus
             ,
             Rome
          
           from
           
             Romulus
             ,
             London
          
           or
           Ludstown
           from
           King
           
             Lud
             (
             Jerum
          
           ,
           or
           rather
           )
           Jebusalem
           from
           the
           Jebusites
           .
        
         
         
           Yet
           after
           many
           places
           have
           received
           superadditional
           Epithets
           and
           Denominations
           ,
           new
           Names
           from
           Acoidents
           ,
           Customs
           ,
           Virtues
           ,
           or
           Vices
           predominant
           amongst
           their
           Inhabitants
           .
        
         
           
             Thus
             degenerate
          
           Rome
           
             in
             the
             Scripture
             is
             frequently
             called
          
           Babylon
           ,
           
           the
           Mother
           of
           Harlots
           and
           Fornie●atib●s
           ,
           because
           she
           is
           become
           the
           habitation
           of
           Devils
           and
           of
           every
           foul
           Spirit
           ,
           and
           a
           Cage
           of
           unclean
           Beasts
           .
        
         
           Thus
           Jerusalem
           is
           called
           
             Sodom
             and
             Gomorrah
          
           ,
           
           
             a
             Harlot
             and
             treacherous
             City
          
           ,
           when
           the
           sins
           of
           those
           places
           were
           committed
           and
           tolerated
           in
           her
           .
        
         
           Hence
           it
           comes
           to
           pass
           ,
           that
           from
           good
           or
           bad
           Judges
           ,
           places
           may
           be
           denominated
           ,
           and
           accordingly
           change
           their
           Names
           .
        
         
           Where
           Religion
           is
           profaned
           ,
           Wickedness
           abounds
           ,
           Vice
           flourishes
           ,
           Sins
           are
           impude
           〈…〉
           ly
           committed
           ,
           and
           Judges
           being
           Atheists
           or
           Galleo's
           ,
           that
           care
           for
           none
           of
           these
           things
           to
           punish
           or
           reform
           .
           Such
           Cities
           or
           Places
           may
           be
           called
           Sodom
           and
           Gomorrals
           ,
           treacherous
           and
           perfidious
           in
           forsaking
           God.
           
        
         
           But
           where
           by
           the
           impartial
           ,
           strict
           Administration
           of
           Justice
           by
           upright
           Judges
           ,
           the
           good
           are
           encouraged
           ,
           the
           wicked
           punished
           ;
           Vice
           is
           asham'd
           ,
           or
           dares
           not
           to
           be
           seen
           :
           Sin
           sculks
           in
           corners
           5
           and
           though
           cloathed
           in
           Scarlet
           ,
           yet
           openly
           exposed
           and
           whipped
           the
           streets
           .
        
         
           Religion
           ,
           Piety
           ,
           and
           Vertue
           being
           encourag'd
           ,
           flourish
           ;
           the
           Poor
           ,
           the
           Widow
           ,
           and
           the
           Orphan
           rejoyce
           ,
           and
           no
           Clamours
           for
           Injustice
           and
           Oppressions
           are
           heard
           in
           the
           high
           places
           .
        
         
           Here
           Cities
           may
           be
           called
           
             Faithful
             Cities
             ,
             Cities
             full
             of
             Righteousness
             .
          
        
         
           But
           to
           prevent
           Mistakes
           here
           ,
           know
           ,
           that
           though
           Denominations
           are
           usually
           
             à
             major●
          
           ,
           yet
           they
           are
           not
           so
           in
           this
           case
           .
        
         
         
           For
           though
           the
           Stigmatizing
           ,
           Pilloring
           ,
           and
           Whipping
           of
           some
           ,
           and
           Executing
           of
           others
           ,
           be
           duly
           observed
           every
           Assizes
           ,
           and
           a
           Judge
           has
           done
           ten
           thousand
           just
           Acts
           ,
           yet
           he
           shall
           not
           be
           hence
           denominated
           a
           just
           Judge
           (
           
             ad
             totum
          
           ,
           but
           only
           
             ad
             tantum
          
           )
           for
           the
           whole
           ,
           but
           for
           so
           much
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           he
           has
           done
           but
           one
           unjust
           Act
           in
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           his
           Judgship
           ,
           he
           shall
           be
           thence
           denominated
           an
           unjust
           Judge
           .
        
         
           As
           a
           Man
           who
           has
           conversed
           with
           Thousands
           in
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           his
           life
           ,
           and
           never
           did
           the
           least
           injury
           to
           any
           Soul
           breathing
           ;
           yet
           if
           after
           all
           he
           kill
           but
           one
           Man
           ,
           he
           is
           denominated
           a
           Murtherer
           for
           ever
           .
        
         
           For
           those
           common
           Acts
           of
           Justice
           on
           certain
           Malefactors
           ,
           being
           so
           absolutely
           necessary
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           common
           Good
           ,
           humane
           Society
           and
           Interest
           ,
           that
           they
           cannot
           ordinarily
           be
           omitted
           ,
           without
           rendring
           our
           Cities
           and
           Country
           Colonies
           of
           Caniblas
           ,
           Wildernesses
           for
           the
           Owl
           and
           Satyr
           to
           dance
           in
           ;
           Desarts
           fill'd
           with
           Lions
           and
           Tigers
           to
           prey
           upon
           ,
           and
           devour
           each
           other
           .
        
         
           No
           Civis
           or
           Civitas
           can
           ,
           without
           divesting
           themselves
           of
           their
           Names
           and
           very
           Essence
           ,
           Interest
           ,
           Sence
           and
           Reason
           ,
           be
           so
           degenerate
           ,
           as
           frequently
           to
           protect
           these
           from
           the
           hands
           of
           Justice
           ,
           without
           being
           devour'd
           themselves
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           against
           common
           notorious
           Malefactors
           ,
           the
           most
           Barbarous
           Nations
           have
           enacted
           Laws
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           most
           unjust
           Judges
           must
           ,
           and
           do
           ordinarily
           give
           Sentence
           .
        
         
           So
           that
           for
           a
           judge
           to
           do
           common
           Acts
           of
           Justice
           ,
           as
           he
           cannot
           avoid
           ,
           does
           not
           denominate
           him
           a
           Primitive
           Judge
           ,
           nor
           a
           City
           restored
           or
           righteous
           .
        
         
           But
           these
           Names
           are
           obtain'd
           when
           Justice
           is
           universally
           administred
           ,
           without
           the
           least
           exception
           ,
           as
           
           to
           any
           one
           individual
           Act
           ,
           Time
           ,
           Place
           or
           Person
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
           For
           by
           One
           unjust
           Act
           the
           Judg
           has
           lost
           his
           Name
           ,
           and
           is
           undone
           for
           ever
           .
        
         
           Thus
           in
           that
           one
           piece
           of
           Injustice
           ,
           contrived
           and
           managed
           between
           Ahab
           the
           King
           ,
           Jezehel
           the
           Queen
           ,
           and
           their
           corrupt
           Judges
           ,
           against
           the
           Life
           and
           Freehold
           of
           Naboth
           ,
           to
           seize
           both
           ,
           under
           the
           specious
           pretence
           of
           a
           legal
           Trial
           ;
           the
           Judg
           of
           Judges
           thunders
           out
           a
           dreadful
           Sentence
           :
        
         
           Hast
           thou
           killed
           ,
           
           and
           taken
           possession
           ?
           in
           the
           place
           where
           dogs
           licked
           the
           blood
           of
           Naboth
           ,
           shall
           dogs
           lick
           thy
           blood
           ,
           even
           thine
           ,
           O
           Ahab
           :
           and
           I
           will
           rent
           the
           kingdom
           from
           thy
           posterity
           ,
           and
           cut
           off
           from
           thy
           house
           every
           one
           that
           pisses
           against
           the
           wall
           .
           
             And
             as
             for
             the
             Queen
          
           ,
           Dogs
           shall
           eat
           the
           flesh
           of
           Jezebel
           by
           the
           wall
           of
           Jezreel
           :
           (
           i.
           e.
           )
           
             The
             Wall
             that
             enclosed
          
           Naboth
           '
           
             s
             Vineyard
          
           .
        
         
           For
           one
           Barbarity
           committed
           by
           the
           Citizens
           of
           Gibeah
           ,
           and
           connived
           at
           by
           their
           Judges
           ,
           their
           City
           was
           burnt
           with
           Fire
           ,
           their
           Citizens
           slain
           with
           the
           Sword
           ,
           and
           25000
           Benjamites
           ,
           Men
           of
           Valour
           ,
           cut
           off
           .
        
         
           For
           one
           Wickedness
           committed
           by
           two
           of
           their
           Nobles
           ,
           Zimry
           and
           Cosby
           ,
           not
           punished
           by
           the
           Judges
           ,
           God
           cut
           off
           24000
           by
           the
           Plague
           ,
           
           and
           would
           not
           be
           pacified
           until
           Justice
           was
           done
           on
           them
           both
           by
           Phineas
           .
        
         
           Eli
           ,
           for
           the
           most
           part
           a
           Righteous
           Judg
           ,
           yet
           forgetting
           his
           Integrity
           and
           Duty
           ,
           as
           such
           ,
           but
           in
           one
           act
           ,
           out
           of
           a
           Fatherly
           fondness
           ,
           in
           not
           punishing
           the
           wickedness
           of
           his
           Children
           ,
           God
           threatned
           to
           judg
           his
           House
           for
           ever
           ,
           and
           to
           do
           such
           a
           thing
           upon
           it
           in
           Israel
           ,
           as
           would
           
             make
             the
             ears
             of
             them
             that
             heard
             it
             to
             tingle
             :
          
           
           
             and
             that
             this
             his
             iniquity
             shall
             not
             re
             purged
             by
             sacrifice
             or
             by
             offering
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           if
           for
           one
           unjust
           unpunished
           Wickedness
           committed
           by
           the
           Citizens
           of
           Gibeah
           ;
        
         
           For
           one
           suspence
           of
           Justice
           on
           the
           Nobles
           ,
           Zimry
           and
           Cosby
           ;
        
         
         
           For
           one
           partial
           fond
           neglect
           in
           the
           good
           old
           Judg
           ,
           Eli
           ;
        
         
           For
           the
           unjust
           seizure
           of
           but
           one
           
           Naboth's
           Freehold
           ,
           or
           Vineyard
           ,
           in
           the
           whole
           Reign
           of
           Ahab
           ;
        
         
           For
           the
           shedding
           of
           but
           one
           innocent
           
           Vriah's
           Blood
           in
           the
           whole
           Reign
           of
           David
           ,
        
         
           Themselves
           ,
           their
           Families
           ,
           their
           Cities
           ,
           and
           People
           were
           made
           Monuments
           of
           Divine
           Justice
           ;
           what
           can
           we
           expect
           the
           dreadful
           fatal
           Consequences
           should
           be
           of
           such
           variety
           of
           repeated
           acts
           of
           injustice
           in
           one
           Reign
           ?
        
         
           Between
           High-Commission
           Judges
           ,
           who
           bidding
           defiance
           to
           all
           Law
           and
           Conscience
           too
           ,
           can
           boldly
           dare
           to
           seize
           more
           than
           40
           
           Naboth's
           Vineyards
           ,
           or
           Freeholds
           ,
           in
           a
           Morning
           ;
           and
           dispensing
           Judges
           ,
           who
           can
           encourage
           Witnesses
           ,
           help
           Pact
           Juries
           ,
           and
           by
           (
           for
           ever
           to
           be
           abominated
           )
           wicked
           Innuendo's
           ,
           infer
           what
           Evidence
           they
           please
           ,
           to
           shed
           the
           Innocent
           Blood
           of
           
             Russels
             ,
             Sidneys
          
           ,
           or
           Cornishes
           ,
           or
           whomsoever
           else
           they
           have
           a
           design
           to
           murder
           ;
           and
           commit
           the
           greatest
           of
           Robberies
           in
           the
           Face
           of
           the
           Sun
           ,
           on
           Cities
           and
           Towns
           ,
           in
           violent
           wresting
           from
           them
           their
           Immunities
           and
           Charters
           ;
           on
           the
           Estates
           of
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Commons
           ,
           by
           unreasonable
           ,
           illegal
           ,
           exorbitant
           ruining
           Fines
           ;
           and
           commit
           the
           most
           unheard-of
           execrable
           Barbarities
           on
           the
           Persons
           of
           others
           ,
           by
           inhumane
           ,
           merciless
           torturing
           ,
           and
           slavish
           punishments
           ,
           ever
           abhorr'd
           by
           the
           compassionate
           Genius
           of
           the
           English
           ;
           foreign
           to
           their
           Laws
           ,
           and
           Anteslavish
           Constitution
           of
           their
           Government
           ;
           destructive
           to
           their
           Birthright
           and
           Freedom
           ,
           and
           undigestable
           to
           their
           generous
           Tempers
           ;
           who
           can
           easily
           submit
           to
           due
           and
           regular
           Chastisements
           ;
           but
           being
           unaccustom'd
           to
           over-heavy
           slavish
           Burdens
           ,
           can't
           endure
           
           Rehoboam's
           lashing
           with
           Scorpions
           .
        
         
           Tho
           there
           were
           some
           ,
           who
           either
           out
           of
           Interest
           ,
           or
           through
           ignorant
           ,
           indiscreet
           and
           intemperate
           Zeal
           ,
           were
           ever
           pressing
           for
           an
           absolute
           Obedience
           without
           reserve
           ,
           
           (
           no
           ,
           not
           for
           Religion
           or
           God
           himself
           )
           tho
           without
           any
           other
           effect
           on
           the
           People
           ,
           than
           to
           render
           both
           themselves
           and
           their
           Arguments
           equally
           ridiculous
           and
           despicable
           ,
           and
           prompt
           them
           almost
           to
           throw
           off
           that
           Obedience
           which
           was
           really
           due
           ,
           because
           they
           contended
           for
           one
           which
           was
           most
           absurd
           .
           For
           whilst
           they
           mounted
           and
           stretched
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           
             Passive
             Obedidience
          
           as
           high
           as
           that
           of
           the
           Bow-string
           ,
           they
           sunk
           Christianity
           as
           low
           as
           Mahometanism
           :
           and
           yet
           even
           these
           will
           not
           always
           submit
           themselves
           to
           this
           their
           own
           Doctrine
           ,
           as
           is
           manifest
           by
           their
           last
           Years
           deposing
           their
           Legitimate
           
             Grand
             Signior
          
           .
        
         
           And
           these
           very
           Men
           amongst
           us
           have
           also
           hereby
           dashed
           their
           Prince
           from
           that
           Precipice
           on
           which
           they
           vainly
           pretended
           to
           mount
           him
           ,
           and
           brought
           both
           our
           Church
           and
           Nation
           into
           such
           a
           desperate
           forlorn
           Condition
           ,
           that
           a
           clear
           Stage
           was
           offer'd
           for
           Rome
           and
           the
           Jesuits
           once
           more
           to
           play
           a
           Prize
           for
           Three
           famous
           Kingdoms
           ,
           as
           Booty
           for
           St.
           
           Peter's
           Patrimony
           ,
           or
           the
           
           Virgin
           's
           Dowry
           ,
           (
           as
           they
           say
           England
           is
           )
           ;
           which
           being
           a
           small
           branch
           of
           their
           Revenue
           ,
           might
           do
           well
           to
           buy
           Tackle
           ,
           Hooks
           and
           Lines
           for
           the
           Fisherman
           at
           Rome
           to
           angle
           for
           more
           Kingdoms
           ,
           or
           Pins
           to
           dress
           the
           Lady
           at
           Loretto
           so
           amiably
           ,
           as
           to
           to
           allure
           more
           Rivals
           .
        
         
           In
           these
           Circumstances
           ,
           was
           it
           not
           a
           Miracle
           of
           Mercy
           and
           Goodness
           that
           prevented
           our
           being
           as
           Admah
           and
           Zeboim
           ,
           our
           Land
           a
           Desolation
           ,
           and
           our
           Cities
           a
           heap
           ,
           because
           we
           were
           already
           become
           as
           Babylon
           ,
           
           
             a
             habitation
             of
             Devils
             ,
             and
             a
             Cage
             of
             unclean
             Birds
          
           ;
           and
           so
           might
           have
           been
           properly
           denominated
           
             a
             treacherous
             Harlot
          
           ,
           rather
           than
           by
           such
           a
           Restoration
           ,
           as
           this
           now
           vouchsafed
           us
           of
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           as
           at
           first
           ,
           gone
           forth
           to
           settle
           our
           Foundations
           ,
           so
           long
           out
           of
           Course
           ;
           to
           cleanse
           both
           Bench
           and
           Court
           ,
           and
           all
           our
           Borders
           from
           all
           their
           Impurities
           and
           Injustice
           ;
           to
           help
           up
           our
           Laws
           again
           ,
           to
           
           trample
           on
           their
           Dispensers
           ,
           to
           take
           care
           that
           Punishments
           and
           Rewards
           may
           run
           in
           their
           proper
           Channel
           ,
           the
           Life
           and
           Soul
           of
           Government
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           Publick
           Administration
           of
           Affairs
           in
           such
           Hands
           as
           will
           never
           rob
           Caesar
           of
           his
           due
           ,
           nor
           his
           Subjects
           of
           all
           that
           is
           dear
           to
           them
           .
           Whereby
           we
           have
           a
           fair
           prospect
           ,
           and
           grounded
           hopes
           ,
           that
           our
           Cities
           in
           a
           short
           time
           will
           become
           ,
           and
           may
           really
           be
           called
           
             Cities
             of
             Righteousness
             ,
             Faithful
             Cities
             .
          
        
         
           2.
           
           I
           come
           now
           to
           consider
           what
           influence
           the
           Restoration
           of
           Primitive
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           have
           on
           our
           Religious
           Concerns
           ;
           for
           they
           conduce
           not
           only
           to
           the
           prosperity
           of
           Jerusalem
           the
           City
           ,
           but
           also
           of
           Sion
           the
           Church
           .
        
         
           For
           
             cum
             factum
             fuerit
             in
             eâ
             Judicium
             ,
             redimetur
             Sion
             :
          
           
           When
           Judgment
           shall
           be
           administer'd
           in
           her
           ,
           Sion
           shall
           be
           redeemed
           ;
           Or
           ,
           as
           the
           
             Arabick
             Version
             ,
             Post
             Judicium
             ,
             salvabitur
             Sion
             :
          
           After
           Judgmen
           texecuted
           ,
           Sion
           shall
           be
           saved
           .
        
         
           So
           that
           't
           is
           plain
           there
           must
           be
           Judges
           restored
           before
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           that
           Judgment
           must
           be
           executed
           before
           Sion
           can
           be
           redeemed
           .
        
         
           And
           't
           is
           repugnant
           to
           Sense
           and
           Reason
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Religion
           ,
           that
           since
           not
           a
           Nation
           ,
           much
           less
           a
           Church
           ,
           can
           be
           restor'd
           and
           flourish
           ,
           but
           by
           executing
           Judgment
           in
           Righteousness
           ,
           
           because
           sin
           and
           injustice
           are
           the
           dishonour
           and
           shame
           of
           a
           People
           .
        
         
           Every
           unjust
           Act
           is
           a
           blow
           at
           the
           Root
           ,
           and
           high
           affront
           to
           the
           true
           Religion
           ,
           which
           was
           planted
           in
           Righteousness
           ,
           and
           must
           be
           built
           up
           in
           Judgment
           .
        
         
           Rapines
           ,
           Perjuries
           ,
           Violence
           and
           Injustice
           ,
           are
           proper
           Materials
           for
           the
           building
           up
           of
           Babel
           ,
           the
           Synagogue
           of
           Satan
           ;
           not
           of
           Sion
           ,
           the
           Temple
           of
           God.
           
        
         
           Truth
           and
           Falshood
           ,
           Good
           and
           Evil
           ,
           Light
           and
           Darkness
           ,
           Righteousness
           and
           Injustice
           ,
           will
           never
           Cement
           ,
           but
           like
           contrary
           Qualities
           ,
           they
           'l
           dissolve
           or
           blow
           up
           the
           whole
           Fabrick
           .
        
         
         
           We
           may
           as
           easily
           bring
           together
           in
           a
           Building
           the
           North-Pole
           and
           the
           South
           ,
           and
           raise
           it
           up
           by
           heaping
           on
           Banrels
           of
           Gunpowder
           ,
           intermix'd
           with
           flaming
           Fire-brands
           ,
           instead
           of
           Bricks
           ,
           and
           cement
           it
           with
           Pitch
           and
           Sulphur
           for
           Mortan
           .
        
         
           False
           Religions
           (
           I
           know
           )
           are
           founded
           and
           propagated
           on
           Maxims
           and
           Practices
           of
           Injustice
           and
           barbarous
           Cruelties
           .
        
         
           Thus
           the
           Worshippers
           of
           Baal
           are
           bound
           to
           launce
           themselves
           
           with
           knives
           .
        
         
           The
           Worshippers
           of
           Moloch
           must
           make
           their
           Sons
           pass
           through
           the
           Fire
           for
           Burnt-Offerings
           to
           him
           .
        
         
           The
           Americans
           sacrifice
           Men
           to
           their
           Viracoca
           .
        
         
           And
           most
           of
           the
           Islanders
           in
           the
           Bay
           of
           Mexico
           ,
           
           did
           both
           eat
           and
           sacrifice
           Men
           to
           their
           Idols
           .
        
         
           And
           at
           this
           day
           
           Mahomet's
           Alcoran
           instructs
           his
           Votaries
           by
           Fire
           and
           Sword
           ,
           Devastation
           of
           Cities
           and
           Kingdoms
           ,
           with
           all
           manner
           of
           inhumane
           Barbarities
           ,
           to
           force
           Men
           to
           embrace
           his
           impious
           execrable
           Religion
           .
        
         
           But
           above
           all
           ,
           the
           Romish
           in
           these
           things
           seem
           to
           exceed
           .
        
         
           Their
           
             Purgatory
             ,
             Penances
             ,
             Whippings
             ,
             Fastings
             ,
             Pilgrimages
             ,
             Watchings
             ,
          
           with
           multitudes
           of
           other
           childish
           ,
           senseless
           ,
           unwarrantable
           Fopperies
           of
           the
           Devil's
           invention
           ,
           to
           plague
           or
           imploy
           their
           Votaries
           about
           ,
           tho
           intolerable
           in
           themselves
           ,
           yet
           are
           as
           nothing
           when
           compared
           with
           their
           bloody
           Inquisition
           ,
           their
           Heretick-burning
           Doctrines
           ,
           and
           bloody
           Massacres
           :
           As
           of
           Scores
           of
           Thousands
           at
           Rochel
           and
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           
           in
           the
           Vallies
           of
           Piedmont
           and
           England
           too
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           other
           places
           in
           the
           Ages
           just
           past
           .
        
         
           Their
           yesterdays
           brutish
           Cruelties
           in
           Savoy
           and
           in
           Franoe
           ,
           by
           Sword
           ,
           by
           Fire
           ,
           by
           Tortures
           ,
           by
           Imprisonment
           ,
           by
           Banishment
           ,
           by
           Dragooning
           Men
           out
           of
           their
           Houses
           ,
           Lands
           ,
           Estates
           ,
           Country
           and
           Lives
           too
           .
        
         
           And
           he
           knows
           little
           of
           Rome
           ,
           that
           doth
           not
           know
           ,
           that
           Death
           and
           She
           are
           like
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           one
           spares
           no
           Man
           Living
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           no
           Heretick
           breathing
           ,
           as
           she
           calls
           the
           best
           of
           Christians
           .
        
         
           A
           Religion
           so
           diametrically
           opposite
           to
           the
           true
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           the
           very
           reverse
           of
           all
           that
           the
           holy
           Jesus
           instituted
           ,
           taught
           or
           practised
           ,
           of
           whom
           it
           was
           prophesied
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           
             judge
             the
             People
             with
             Righteousness
             ,
             and
             the
             Poor
             with
             equity
             ,
             and
             break
             in
             pieces
             the
             Rod
             of
             the
             Oppressors
             ;
             so
             that
             the
             Mountains
             should
             bring
             Peace
             ,
             and
             the
             little
             Hills
             Righteousness
             .
          
           
           Which
           was
           fulfilled
           when
           he
           came
           :
           For
           the
           Angels
           celebrating
           his
           Birth
           ,
           proclaimed
           
             Perce
             on
             Earth
          
           ,
           and
           
             good
             Will
             towards
             Men.
          
           
        
         
         
           And
           after
           he
           himself
           declar'd
           
             his
             Burthen
             to
             be
             light
             ,
             his
             Yoke
             easie
          
           ;
           That
           he
           came
           not
           to
           destroy
           ,
           but
           to
           save
           Mens
           lives
           ,
           by
           destroying
           the
           works
           of
           Darkness
           ,
           and
           bringing
           in
           a
           holy
           spiritual
           Worship
           of
           the
           one
           only
           living
           and
           true
           God
           ,
           to
           the
           utter
           extirpation
           of
           all
           Idolatry
           ,
           and
           final
           destruction
           of
           all
           their
           
           Apollo's
           and
           
           Jupiter's
           Temples
           ,
           and
           silencing
           their
           Oracles
           ,
           and
           from
           thenceforth
           to
           establish
           a
           more
           entire
           union
           between
           Man
           and
           Man
           ,
           
           founded
           in
           Innocence
           ,
           Charity
           ,
           Mercy
           and
           Justice
           .
           So
           that
           it
           plainly
           appears
           from
           the
           Nature
           ,
           Principles
           ,
           Doctrine
           and
           Practices
           of
           true
           Religion
           and
           false
           ,
           being
           so
           contradictory
           to
           each
           other
           ,
           that
           the
           proper
           Methods
           and
           Instruments
           for
           the
           building
           up
           of
           the
           one
           ,
           are
           and
           must
           be
           destructive
           to
           the
           oother
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           true
           being
           founded
           on
           principles
           of
           Truth
           ,
           Righteousness
           and
           Judgment
           ,
           the
           Restoration
           of
           such
           Judges
           as
           duly
           execute
           these
           ,
           must
           influence
           and
           conduce
           to
           the
           prosperity
           of
           the
           true
           Church
           :
           for
           
             Sion
             must
             be
             redeemed
             with
             Judgment
             ,
             and
             her
             Converts
             with
             Righteousness
             .
          
        
         
           As
           the
           Result
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           I
           descend
           to
           my
           Fourth
           and
           last
           Inference
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           Since
           both
           Church
           and
           State
           reap
           so
           great
           Advantages
           by
           the
           Restoration
           of
           primitive
           Judges
           and
           Counsellors
           ,
           a
           People
           are
           highly
           obliged
           ,
           when
           thus
           restor'd
           ,
           without
           Murmuring
           ,
           to
           bless
           God
           for
           both
           .
        
         
           And
           our
           Nation
           being
           thus
           restor'd
           from
           such
           forlorn
           Circumstances
           as
           we
           were
           lately
           in
           ,
           a
           Man
           would
           think
           there
           was
           no
           room
           left
           for
           Murmur
           or
           Scruple
           about
           this
           our
           blessed
           Restoration
           ,
           urged
           by
           Necessity
           ,
           carried
           on
           by
           Miracle
           ,
           and
           perfected
           by
           the
           Universal
           Consent
           of
           all
           that
           love
           God
           ,
           their
           Religion
           and
           Country
           :
           Wherefore
           Justice
           ,
           Equity
           and
           Gratitude
           calls
           upon
           us
           to
           give
           the
           Glory
           ,
           Honour
           and
           Praise
           to
           that
           God
           who
           is
           the
           primary
           Author
           of
           all
           ;
           and
           next
           under
           him
           ,
           to
           acknowledg
           that
           glorious
           Instrument
           in
           his
           Hand
           ,
           by
           which
           he
           hath
           wrought
           for
           us
           so
           great
           Salvation
           ,
           and
           teach
           us
           a
           ready
           submission
           to
           one
           ,
           who
           under
           God
           hath
           snatched
           us
           out
           of
           the
           Jaws
           of
           so
           great
           Destruction
           ,
           and
           put
           us
           into
           the
           actual
           possession
           of
           our
           Laws
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           Religion
           and
           Properties
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           was
           dear
           to
           us
           in
           this
           World
           ,
           and
           we
           hope
           may
           make
           us
           happy
           in
           the
           next
           ;
           and
           still
           weilds
           the
           Sword
           ,
           to
           support
           and
           defend
           us
           in
           the
           enjoyment
           of
           all
           that
           he
           has
           thus
           acquir'd
           for
           us
           .
           Is
           it
           now
           possible
           ,
           that
           from
           Dan
           to
           Beersheba
           ,
           from
           Berwick
           to
           the
           Mount
           ,
           there
           should
           be
           found
           amongst
           us
           one
           Tobias
           ,
           or
           Sanballat
           ,
           who
           when
           they
           heard
           ,
           that
           the
           Walls
           of
           Jerusalem
           were
           to
           be
           made
           up
           ,
           and
           the
           House
           of
           the
           Lord
           to
           be
           repair'd
           
           should
           conspire
           to
           hinder
           and
           repine
           at
           it
           ?
           
             O
             my
             God
          
           (
           saith
           
             Nehemiah
             )
             think
             thou
             upon
             Tobias
             and
             Sanballat
             .
          
        
         
           Had
           the
           greatest
           Deliverance
           which
           ever
           God
           vouchsafed
           to
           Mortals
           ,
           wanted
           such
           ,
           it
           would
           have
           been
           too
           strange
           to
           have
           been
           believ'd
           now
           (
           
             O
             horrendum
             infandum
             Nefas
          
           )
           !
        
         
           But
           as
           there
           are
           a
           sort
           of
           Men
           ,
           that
           no
           Man
           ,
           nor
           themselves
           ,
           know
           what
           they
           would
           have
           ,
           or
           what
           to
           make
           of
           ,
           so
           not
           Heaven
           what
           to
           do
           with
           ,
           how
           to
           satisfy
           or
           humour
           .
        
         
           If
           they
           are
           distress'd
           ,
           they
           groan
           ,
           complain
           ,
           and
           cry
           for
           Deliverance
           .
        
         
           But
           when
           deliver'd
           ,
           they
           clamour
           at
           the
           Method
           ,
           Manner
           or
           Means
           ,
           That
           God
           deliver'd
           them
           in
           his
           own
           way
           ,
           not
           in
           theirs
           .
        
         
           Thus
           Naaman
           is
           angry
           at
           the
           Means
           of
           his
           Cure
           ,
           why
           God
           would
           not
           make
           the
           Waters
           of
           Damascus
           as
           effectual
           as
           those
           of
           Jordan
           .
        
         
           
             Dathan
             ,
             Abiram
          
           and
           Corah
           ,
           quarrel
           with
           the
           Instruments
           of
           their
           Deliverance
           ,
           Moses
           and
           Aaron
           ,
           why
           they
           must
           be
           the
           Men
           rather
           than
           others
           .
        
         
           When
           Israel
           was
           in
           Egypt
           ,
           they
           groan'd
           under
           their
           slavish
           Burthens
           .
        
         
           When
           deliver'd
           ,
           ungratefully
           said
           ,
           
             Would
             to
             God
             we
             had
             not
             come
             up
             thence
             .
          
        
         
           When
           they
           began
           to
           want
           ,
           they
           repined
           and
           wish'd
           they
           had
           died
           in
           Egypt
           .
        
         
           When
           reliev'd
           ,
           and
           fed
           with
           Quails
           and
           Manna
           ,
           Angels
           Food
           ;
           they
           loath'd
           it
           ,
           and
           long'd
           for
           the
           Offals
           of
           Egypt
           .
        
         
           When
           the
           Army
           of
           Israel
           was
           defied
           by
           Goliah
           ,
           they
           cry
           for
           help
           .
        
         
           God
           sends
           them
           David
           ,
           to
           deliver
           them
           ,
           but
           they
           despise
           the
           Stripling
           .
        
         
           Before
           he
           fought
           the
           Champion
           ,
           Saul
           will
           give
           him
           his
           Daughter
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           ,
           if
           he
           conquer
           .
           When
           he
           had
           destroy'd
           him
           ,
           and
           saved
           both
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Kingdom
           ,
           he
           throws
           his
           Javelin
           at
           him
           to
           kill
           him
           .
        
         
           Thus
           when
           lately
           Rome
           threatned
           our
           Church
           with
           Idolatry
           ,
        
         
           France
           our
           Nation
           with
           Slavery
           ;
        
         
           A
           corrupt
           pack'd
           Bench
           ready
           to
           decree
           it
           ;
        
         
           An
           Army
           encamp'd
           ready
           to
           enforce
           it
           ;
        
         
           A
           Prince
           resolute
           enough
           to
           attempt
           it
           ;
        
         
           Then
           all
           ,
           as
           fill'd
           with
           Discontent
           ,
           and
           sunk
           in
           Despair
           ,
           murmur
           out
           their
           Complaints
           ,
           That
           their
           Religion
           is
           lost
           ,
           their
           Laws
           dispens'd
           with
           and
           gone
           ,
           the
           Government
           Arbitrary
           ,
           
           the
           Nation
           ruined
           ,
           and
           themselves
           all
           undone
           ;
           and
           cry
           out
           ,
           
             Help
             ,
             Lord
             ,
             or
             else
             we
             perish
             .
          
        
         
           God
           heard
           ,
           and
           sent
           his
           Angel
           ,
           and
           deliver'd
           us
           ,
           and
           we
           are
           restor'd
           as
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           beginning
           ,
           in
           so
           transcendent
           a
           manner
           ,
           far
           beyond
           what
           in
           Reason
           we
           could
           wish
           or
           hope
           for
           ,
           without
           Effusion
           of
           Blood
           ,
           or
           Devastation
           of
           our
           Cities
           ,
           that
           all
           must
           say
           ,
           
             It
             was
             the
             Lord's
             doing
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             wonderful
             in
             our
             Eyes
             .
          
        
         
           And
           we
           being
           thus
           deliver'd
           ,
           what
           is
           the
           meaning
           of
           all
           these
           Lowings
           and
           Bleatings
           in
           our
           Ears
           ,
           Discontents
           and
           Murmurings
           ,
           as
           tho'
           we
           design'd
           to
           confront
           Heaven
           ,
           stubbornly
           to
           rebel
           against
           Providence
           ,
           charge
           the
           most
           High
           with
           Injustice
           ,
           and
           dare
           his
           Vengeance
           ?
        
         
           'T
           is
           just
           as
           if
           when
           God
           sent
           Samuel
           to
           tell
           Saul
           ,
           that
           for
           his
           ill
           Government
           He
           had
           this
           day
           rent
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           Israel
           from
           him
           ,
           and
           given
           it
           to
           David
           his
           Son-in-law
           ,
           that
           was
           more
           righteous
           than
           himself
           ,
           by
           whose
           hands
           He
           was
           resolv'd
           to
           save
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           they
           had
           again
           replied
           ,
           
             We
             will
             not
             be
             saved
             after
             this
             manner
             ,
          
           by
           God's
           deposing
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           setting
           up
           his
           Son
           :
           
             Save
             us
             by
             Saul
             in
             our
             own
             way
             ,
             as
             best
             agrees
             with
             our
             Humours
             ,
             or
             save
             us
             not
             at
             all
             .
          
        
         
           How
           must
           this
           have
           provoked
           the
           holy
           One
           of
           Israel
           to
           have
           destroy'd
           until
           he
           had
           made
           an
           end
           ,
           and
           their
           Land
           a
           Desolation
           !
           Yet
           such
           as
           these
           may
           be
           found
           amongst
           us
           ,
           as
           Fighters
           against
           God.
           For
           ?
        
         
           (
           1.
           )
           There
           are
           some
           Repiners
           ,
           who
           ,
           biass'd
           by
           a
           Corrupt
           Religion
           ,
           bear
           no
           good
           Will
           to
           our
           Sion
           ;
           For
           they
           know
           if
           the
           Ark
           of
           God
           be
           restor'd
           and
           set
           up
           ,
           their
           Dagon
           must
           be
           removed
           and
           thrown
           down
           .
        
         
           (
           2.
           )
           There
           are
           others
           repine
           ,
           because
           our
           common
           Restauration
           is
           not
           their
           private
           Interest
           ;
           as
           those
           that
           made
           Silver-Shrines
           for
           Diana
           ,
           and
           by
           that
           Craft
           get
           their
           Wealth
           ,
           may
           not
           be
           wondred
           at
           in
           being
           so
           zealous
           to
           support
           her
           Temple
           .
           The
           ground
           of
           that
           grand
           Uproar
           at
           Ephesus
           ,
           and
           it
           may
           be
           the
           true
           Reason
           of
           our
           present
           Discontents
           at
           home
           .
           Tho'
           't
           is
           Conscience
           and
           Sacrifice
           ,
           with
           Saul
           ,
           that
           are
           the
           pretended
           Reasons
           of
           their
           murmuring
           Disobedience
           ;
           yet
           these
           will
           no
           more
           justifie
           their
           Rebellions
           against
           God's
           Providential
           Acts
           and
           Deliverances
           ,
           than
           
           Saul's
           did
           .
           Nor
           render
           their
           Crimes
           better
           than
           his
           ,
           even
           as
           the
           Sin
           of
           Witchcraft
           ,
           because
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           being
           a
           Doctrine
           of
           Submission
           and
           Obedience
           to
           the
           Powers
           that
           are
           ,
           doth
           not
           involve
           the
           Consciences
           of
           private
           Christians
           about
           the
           Title
           of
           Princes
           ,
           but
           
           only
           assure
           them
           ,
           that
           the
           Powers
           that
           are
           ,
           they
           are
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           therefore
           must
           be
           obeyed
           .
           Neither
           can
           their
           Pretensions
           (
           with
           the
           Jews
           )
           of
           being
           bound
           under
           an
           Oath
           to
           (
           kill
           Paul
           )
           murther
           their
           Religion
           ,
           Laws
           ,
           and
           Country
           ,
           or
           stand
           by
           one
           that
           will
           ,
           which
           is
           all
           one
           ,
           justify
           them
           in
           so
           villanous
           an
           Act
           ,
           or
           give
           them
           the
           least
           Merit
           or
           Reputation
           by
           their
           refusal
           to
           renounce
           such
           Obligations
           ,
           and
           to
           promise
           Faith
           ,
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           Assistance
           to
           that
           Glorious
           Instrument
           sent
           by
           God
           to
           save
           us
           .
           And
           is
           therefore
           just
           ground
           to
           conclude
           what
           their
           Designs
           are
           ;
           and
           Reason
           for
           the
           Government
           to
           reject
           them
           not
           only
           as
           useless
           ,
           but
           pernicious
           and
           dangerous
           (
           
             ne
             pars
             sincera
             trahatur
          
           .
           )
        
         
           But
           in
           truth
           ,
           I
           rather
           believe
           all
           to
           proceed
           from
           Caution
           and
           Interest
           ,
           than
           Conscience
           .
        
         
           Things
           may
           be
           of
           doubtful
           Issue
           ,
           not
           being
           yet
           fully
           decided
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           bare
           Suspension
           ,
           they
           undergo
           no
           greater
           loss
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           than
           what
           the
           Hearts
           of
           some
           could
           wish
           for
           to
           turn
           their
           Charges
           into
           sine
           Cures
           .
           And
           having
           yet
           time
           enough
           to
           prevent
           any
           loss
           by
           a
           deprivation
           for
           the
           future
           ,
           in
           hopes
           before
           that
           time
           all
           may
           settle
           ,
           and
           they
           enabled
           to
           make
           the
           wiser
           Choice
           ,
           and
           effectually
           secure
           their
           Interest
           ,
           let
           the
           Issue
           be
           what
           it
           will.
           
        
         
           But
           if
           there
           be
           any
           that
           can
           at
           last
           for
           sake
           all
           upon
           so
           gross
           a
           mistake
           ,
           I
           will
           towards
           such
           exercise
           the
           Charity
           due
           to
           weaker
           Brethren
           ,
           and
           hope
           the
           best
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           lay
           aside
           the
           gilded
           Pretensions
           of
           some
           ,
           the
           blinded
           Passions
           and
           corrupt
           private
           Interests
           of
           others
           ,
           as
           no
           Guides
           for
           us
           to
           walk
           by
           ;
           it
           will
           become
           us
           in
           Duty
           with
           all
           humble
           and
           grateful
           Acknowledgment
           ,
           Hearts
           full
           of
           Joy
           ,
           and
           Mouths
           filled
           with
           Hosanna's
           ,
           to
           ascribe
           the
           Praise
           ,
           the
           Honour
           ,
           and
           Glory
           of
           all
           to
           that
           God
           ,
           by
           whose
           right
           Hand
           we
           have
           been
           hitherto
           preserv'd
           and
           restor'd
           both
           in
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           lest
           that
           by
           murmuring
           on
           ,
           their
           Doom
           become
           ours
           ,
           who
           after
           all
           their
           miraculous
           Deliverances
           out
           of
           the
           Hands
           of
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           were
           sentenc'd
           at
           last
           to
           die
           in
           the
           Wilderness
           ,
           there
           to
           perish
           ,
           and
           never
           enter
           into
           his
           Rest
           .
        
         
           I
           come
           now
           to
           apply
           the
           whole
           ,
           and
           conclude
           .
           Having
           hitherto
           endeavour'd
           to
           parallel
           our
           present
           Restauration
           ,
           and
           to
           shew
           the
           Influence
           Primitive
           Judges
           and
           Counsellours
           may
           have
           on
           it
           :
           As
           also
           to
           characterise
           ,
           limn
           ,
           and
           present
           you
           with
           their
           Pictures
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           't
           is
           your
           part
           ,
           if
           (
           as
           I
           hope
           )
           you
           are
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           to
           shew
           us
           the
           Substance
           of
           this
           Shadow
           ,
           the
           very
           Life
           it self
           .
        
         
           You
           are
           come
           forth
           in
           this
           the
           time
           of
           our
           universal
           Restauration
           ;
           the
           Eyes
           of
           the
           People
           are
           upon
           You
           ;
           they
           hope
           for
           ,
           
           and
           expect
           better
           and
           greater
           things
           .
           Disappoint
           them
           not
           ;
           so
           as
           that
           when
           they
           look
           for
           Judgment
           ,
           behold
           Iniquity
           ;
           for
           Righteousness
           ,
           but
           behold
           Oppression
           .
        
         
           Let
           it
           be
           no
           longer
           proverbially
           said
           ,
           (
           
             Visim●
             C●l●stum
             terra●
             Astrea
             reliquit
          
           )
           That
           Justice
           is
           fallen
           asleep
           ,
           or
           hath
           forsaken
           our
           Country
           .
        
         
           Jericho
           was
           a
           pleasant
           Scituation
           ,
           but
           the
           Waters
           ,
           we
           read
           ,
           were
           naught
           and
           bitter
           .
        
         
           England
           is
           such
           another
           Scituation
           :
           let
           every
           one
           of
           you
           be
           as
           another
           Elishah
           ,
           to
           sweeten
           and
           meliorate
           our
           Waters
           ,
           so
           that
           our
           Rivers
           may
           be
           as
           Streams
           of
           Righteousness
           and
           Judgment
           running
           down
           .
        
         
           You
           have
           heard
           the
           dismal
           ,
           fatal
           Consequences
           of
           but
           one
           Act
           of
           Injustice
           in
           a
           Judg's
           Life
           :
           Be
           then
           universally
           Righteous
           ,
           lest
           you
           provoke
           a
           greater
           than
           He
           ,
           who
           swore
           by
           the
           Rivers
           ,
           and
           said
           ,
           (
           
             Qui
             Fulm●n
             ,
             Qui
             vos
             habeóque
             reg●qu●
             .
             Perdendum
             est
             mortale
             Genus
          
           )
           I
           will
           rend
           the
           World
           in
           sunder
           ,
           and
           ruine
           Mortals
           .
        
         
           Wherefore
           put
           on
           Zeal
           as
           a
           Cloak
           ,
           and
           Righteousness
           as
           a
           Breast-plate
           ;
           quit
           your selves
           like
           more
           than
           Men
           ;
           like
           Gods
           ,
           whose
           Name
           you
           bear
           ,
           and
           whom
           you
           personate
           :
           Be
           holy
           as
           he
           is
           holy
           ;
           be
           just
           as
           he
           is
           just
           .
           Loose
           the
           bonds
           of
           Wickedness
           ;
           undo
           the
           heavy
           Burthens
           ;
           let
           the
           Oppressed
           go
           free
           .
        
         
           Hold
           not
           the
           Sword
           in
           vain
           :
           Be
           a
           Terrour
           to
           evil
           ,
           repining
           ,
           invidious
           Murmurers
           at
           our
           Prosperity
           :
           (
           Such
           as
           could
           say
           ,
           
             Aha
             ,
             so
             would
             we
             have
             it
             ,
          
           when
           our
           Jerusalem
           was
           like
           to
           have
           lain
           in
           the
           Dust
           )
           that
           at
           length
           all
           the
           Wicked
           may
           be
           asham'd
           and
           confounded
           ,
           but
           the
           Righteous
           may
           lift
           up
           their
           Heads
           and
           rejoice
           :
           (
           
             Surgat
             Gens
             Aurca
          
           )
           Begin
           the
           Golden
           Age
           again
           .
        
         
           Thus
           shall
           you
           build
           up
           the
           old
           waste
           places
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           and
           raise
           them
           for
           many
           Generations
           to
           come
           :
        
         
           Thus
           shall
           you
           make
           an
           Atonement
           for
           our
           Land
           ,
           the
           Inheritance
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           that
           his
           Wrath
           may
           be
           turned
           away
           .
        
         
           Thus
           ,
           if
           your
           Righteousness
           go
           before
           you
           ,
           the
           Glory
           of
           the
           Lord
           shall
           be
           your
           Rearward
           .
        
         
           Thus
           ,
           if
           you
           come
           up
           to
           the
           Primitive
           Patern
           set
           before
           you
           ,
           your selves
           will
           become
           as
           Originals
           to
           all
           who
           in
           After-Ages
           shall
           survive
           you
           .
        
         
           Thus
           you
           will
           make
           our
           Cities
           not
           only
           be
           called
           ,
           but
           really
           become
           
             Cities
             of
             Righteousness
             ,
             Faithful
             Cities
             .
          
        
         
           Thus
           you
           will
           be
           the
           happy
           Instruments
           to
           redeem
           our
           Sion
           ,
           our
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           with
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           all
           her
           Converts
           with
           Righteousness
           .
        
         
           Since
           ye
           know
           these
           things
           ,
           happy
           shall
           ye
           be
           ,
           if
           ye
           do
           them
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A34713-e400
           
             2
             Chron.
             24.
             17
             ,
             18
             Jos
             .
             lib.
             ●
             .
             c.
             8.
             
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             25.
             2
             ,
             3.
             
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             25.
             14.
             
          
           
             Jos
             .
             lib.
             9.
             c.
             10.
             2
             
             Chron.
             25.
             27.
             
          
           
             All●n
             .
             pag.
             163.
             
             Brough
             .
             Chron.
             Hen.
             Clap.
             pag.
             84.
             
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             25.
             4
             ,
             5.
             
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             26.
             18.
             19.
             
          
           
             Jo
             〈…〉
             .
          
           
             2
             Kings
             14.
             5.
             
             Jos
             .
             lib.
             9.
             c.
             11.
             
             Allen.
             pag.
             117.
             
          
           
             Lib
             9.
             cap.
             11.
             
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             27.
             5
             ,
             6.
             
          
           
             Luke
             4.
             19.
             
          
           
             Dan.
             4.
             32.
             
          
           
             Psal
             .
             127.
             1
             ,
             2.
             
          
           
             Prov.
             19.
             21.
             
          
           
             Isaiah
             44.
             28.
             
          
           
             Dan.
             5.
             25
             ,
             26
             ,
             27.
             
          
           
             Jer.
             18.
             6
             ,
             7
             ,
             8.
             
          
           
             Luk.
             18.
             2.
             
          
           
             Seld.
             dejur
             .
             li.
             7.
             c.
             6.
             &
             de
             Syned
             .
             lib.
             1.
             c.
             15.
             
             Dr.
             Iones
             .
             de
             Jud.
             p.
             27.
             
          
           
             Seld
             de
             Syned
             .
             lib.
             1.
             c.
             15.
             
             Exod.
             13.
             7.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             18.
             19.
             
          
           
             Judg.
             2.
             16
             
          
           
             Exod.
             18.
             13.
             
             Exod.
             18.
             25
             ,
             26.
             
          
           
             Psal
             .
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             19.
             5.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             23.
             2
             ,
             3.
             5
             ,
             6.
             7.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             18.
             19.
             
          
           
             2
             Sam.
             17.
             14.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             1.
             12.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             12.
             6.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             18.
             25
             ,
             26.
             
          
           
             Alliborn
             at
             Reading
             foretold
             ,
             that
             in
             a
             short
             time
             they
             would
             hear
             their
             Minister
             preaching
             up
             the
             King's
             Right
             to
             dispence
             with
             Laws
             .
          
           
             For.
             pag.
             129.
             
          
           
             Gen.
             14.
             39.
             
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             24.
             1.
             17.
             
             Jos
             .
             lib.
             9.
             cap.
             8.
             
          
           
             2
             Chron.
             22.
             3
             ,
             4.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             12.
             1
             ,
             1.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             12.
             16.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             12.
             18
             ,
             19.
             
          
           
             Rev.
             7.
             5.
             
             &
             8.
             2.
             
          
           
             Isai
             .
             1.
             10.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             21
             ,
             19.
             
          
           
             Numb
             .
             25
             ,
             8
             ,
             14
             ,
             15.
             
          
           
             1
             Sam.
             3.
             13.
             11.
             12.
             
          
           
             Apoc.
             
          
           
             Cal.
             Pa●●p
             .
          
           
             Prov.
             14.
             24.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             18.
             28.
             
          
           
             Pot.
             Ma●
             pag.
             97.
             
          
           
             Sir
             
               Sam.
               Mor.
            
             Embass
             .
          
           
             Psal
             .
             72.
             2
             ,
             3
             ,
             4.
             
             Luke
             2.
             9.
             
          
           
             Chi.
             Hist
             .
             P.
             253.
             
             Hebrai●●
             puer
             injungit
             Divum
             do
             minatur
             ,
             ergo
             tacens
             ,
             &c.