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The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurence Jury, London, the…The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurencejury, London, the…
The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurence Jury, London, the 28. day of Sept. 1644. at the election of the Lord Major. / By Anthony Burgess, sometimes fellow of Immanuel College in Cambridge; now pastor of Sutton Coldfield in Warwick shire, and a member of the Assembly. Imprimatur Thomas Gataker.The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurencejury, London, the 28. day of Sept. 1644. at the election of the Lord Major. / By Anthony Burgesse, sometimes fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now pastour of Sutton Coldfield in Warwick shire, and a member of the Assembly. Imprimatur Thomas Gataker.
London: printed by George Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1644London: printed by George Miller for Thomas Vnderhill, 1644
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Then again in the next place, another Quality is diligence,and attending unto the office, making it to be their whole business: for so you may see here, the Apostle adds at the sixth verse, Attending continually upon this very thing: the word is emphatical: they attend only to this, and they attend wholly to this, they make it their business: Beloved! you ought to see the Laws be executed: it is a vain thing to have good laws, unless Governors be diligent to see them executed; a good Law without execution, is like a Bell without a Clapper: and therefore the good Laws that are against Swearers, and against Drunkenness, and breaking of the Sabbath, and the like; these things Governors are to be diligent in the executing of them: he ought to be [Greek or Hebrew], a walking and a living Law, diligent in this, Woe be to thee, saith he, in Eccles. 9. when thy Princes eat in the morning: implying, that all the morning, all the day (almost) it ought to be taken up in the public business, and that it ought to be your day-care, and your night-care, and your morning-care, even the Common-wealth.
Then againe in the next place, another Qualitie is diligence,and attending unto the office, making it to be their whole businesse: for so you may see here, the Apostle addes at the sixth verse, Attending continually upon this very thing: the word is emphaticall: they attend onely to this, and they attend wholly to this, they make it their businesse: Beloved! you ought to see the Lawes be executed: it is a vaine thing to have good lawes, unlesse Governours be diligent to see them executed; a good Law without execution, is like a Bell without a Clapper: and therefore the good Lawes that are against Swearers, and against Drunkennesse, and breaking of the Sabbath, and the like; these things Governours are to be diligent in the executing of them: he ought to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a walking and a living Law, diligent in this, Woe be to thee, saith he, in Eccles. 9. when thy Prinoes eat in the morning: implying, that all the morning, all the day (almost) it ought to be taken up in the publike businesse, and that it ought to be your day-care, and your night-care, and your morning-care, even the Common-wealth.