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Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate…
Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate as it was presented in a sermon at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on August 2, 1653 / by George Swinnocke ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As some sin in their words by uncivil language, so others in their works, by their unseemly carriage towards the Magistrate. Surely the world is near its end, that there are so many dregs appearing, such brutish persons in it that have not only banished piety but humanity. They neither reverence the rulers nor honour the ancient. How many are in ⟨p. 221⟩their principles antiministerial, and in their practices antimagistratical. As Nazianzen observeth of the Arians, they began in blasphemous language against the Deity of Christ, but ended in tumultuous carriage against the peace and tranquillity of the Common-wealth. They plead for a Christian liberty with their mouths, but the vote of their hearts carrieth it for an Antichristian licentiousness.
As some sin in their words by uncivil language, so others in their works, by their unseemly carriage towards the Magistrate. Surely the world is near its end, that there are so many dregs appearing, such brutish persons in it that have not only banished piety but humanity. They neither reverence the rulers nor honour the ancient. How many are in ⟨p. 221⟩their principles antiministerial, and in their practices antimagistratical. As Nazianzen observeth of the Arrians, they began in blasphemous language against the Deity of Christ, but ended in tumultuous carriage against the peace and tranquillity of the Common-wealth. They plead for a Christian liberty with their mouths, but the vote of their hearts carrieth it for an Antichristian licentiousness.
The time was when a Magistrate came by, the young men that saw him hid themselves (either for reverence of Jobs person, or least they should fail in their respectful behaviour towards him, or least he should spy somewhat amiss in them) and the aged arose and stood up (in token of honour and to show respect to him,) Job 29.8. but now the tide is turned. We are fellow-creatures say some, and therefore we must be fellow-beasts, taking no notice of, nor showing any respect to one more then another. But now saith Job, they that are younger then I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flocks, and now I am their Song, yea their by-word: they abhor me, they flee from me, they spit in my face,