Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

4. From the end of the Office, and the business incumbent upon persons called to it, which is singularly good and greatly necessary, being designed for and tending to the preventing of vice, and promoting of virtue, and this is the argument used in my Text, for Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. [Greek or Hebrew], Princes, Magistrates, they into whose hand the Sceptre is put, or the Sword of Justice, whether they be Supreme or Subordinate, whatsoever place they hold in the Political Body. These are not [Greek or Hebrew], a terror, a scare a fright, they ought not to be, it doth not become them to be; It is no part of ⟨p. 338⟩their Office and place to be: And so long as they act conscientiously, wisely, so long as they observe the rules given them, and carry in their several Stations as they should, they will not be a terror [Greek or Hebrew], to good works or to them that do them, whom they ought to defend by their power, and encourage with their smiles; but only [Greek or Hebrew], to those which are evil. It is the latter part of these words which falls under my present consideration; My work is to take a view of Magistrates, & to discourse about them as they ought to be terrors unto evil works, all of them so far as they come to their knowledge and fall under their cognizance. The Question, which I am desired to speak unto being this:

4. From the end of the Office, and the business incumbent upon persons called to it, which is singularly good and greatly necessary, being designed for and tending to the preventing of vice, and promoting of virtue, and this is the argument used in my Text, for Rulers are not a terrour to good works, but to the evil. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Princes, Magistrates, they into whose hand the Sceptre is put, or the Sword of Justice, whether they be Supream or Subordinate, whatsoever place they hold in the Political Body. These are not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a terrour, a scare a fright, they ought not to be, it doth not become them to be; It is no part of ⟨p. 338⟩their Office and place to be: And so long as they act conscientiously, wisely, so long as they observe the rules given them, and carry in their several Stations as they should, they will not be a terrour , to good works or to them that do them, whom they ought to defend by their power, and encourage with their smiles; but only , to those which are evil. It is the latter part of these words which falls under my present consideration; My work is to take a view of Magistrates, & to discourse about them as they ought to be terrours unto evil works, all of them so far as they come to their knowledge and fall under their cognizance. The Question, which I am desired to speak unto being this: