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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.
Job hath a notable expression, I wish it were written on every Magistrates heart; He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with Kings are they on the throne, Job 36.7. He is totus oculus, all eye, he seeth you through and through; his eyes are with Kings on the throne, to observe what the King doth there, to see whether Justice and Judgement are the habitation of his throne; whether the Sceptre of his Kingdom be a righteous Sceptre; whether he be clothed with grace as with a garment, and arrayed with purity as well as purple; to see whether the zeal of Gods house do eat him up, Psal. 69.9. and he prefer the Spiritual before the Temporal good of his people; to see whether he will suffer them to be lawless in Religion, and allow out of hellish policy, that which is destructive to Piety, even a cursed Toleration.
Job hath a notable expression, I wish it were written on every Magistrates heart; He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, but with Kings are they on the throne, Job 36.7. He is totus oculus, all eye, he seeth you through and through; his eyes are with Kings on the throne, to observe what the King doth there, to see whether Justice and Judgement are the habitation of his throne; whether the Scepter of his Kingdom be a righteous Scepter; whether he be cloathed with grace as with a garment, and arrayed with purity as well as purple; to see whether the zeal of Gods house do eat him up, Psal. 69.9. and he prefer the Spiritual before the Temporal good of his people; to see whether he will suffer them to be lawless in Religion, and allow out of hellish policy, that which is destructive to Piety, even a cursed Toleration.
Gods eye, Sirs, may well make you look well to your walking, to your hands and hearts: Are uncleanness, injustice, oppression, lukewarmness, atheism, bribery fit objects for Gods eye? It was ordered in the Law of Moses, that when any went forth of the Camp to ease Nature, they should dig an hole with a Paddle, and cover it; and the reason is given; For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy Camp;