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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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And secondly,they are to do it, because God hath a special care of them; who keeps thee that art in Authority and Government, that the wicked rise not up, and that the ungodly conspire not as one man to destroy Magistracy? who keeps this, but the Lord, that keeps the waves of the sea that they do not overflow.
And secondly,they are to doe it, because God hath a speciall care of them; who keepes thee that art in Authoritie and Government, that the wicked rise not up, and that the ungodly conspire not as one man to destroy Magistracie? who keeps this, but the Lord, that keepes the waves of the sea that they doe not overflow.
A third reason is,because their guilt will be the greater: Oh! beloved, it may be God is never more angry with a man, then when he puts him into a high place; then when he puts him into some great Office, that which he is glad of, (it may be) and that which he studies for, and plots for, and desires for; the Lord says he shall have it, but he shall have it in anger; he shall have it as the occasion wherein he will vent his sins the more, and as the advantage wherein he will destroy his own soul; it may be God may never be more angry with a man, then when he lets him come into a place of Public trust; and therefore he ought the more to tremble and to quake under the consideration of this.
A third reason is,because their guilt will be the greater: Oh! beloved, it may be God is never more angry with a man, then when he puts him into a high place; then when he puts him into some great Office, that which he is glad of, (it may be) and that which he studies for, and plots for, and desires for; the Lord sayes he shall have it, but he shall have it in anger; he shall have it as the occasion wherein he will vent his sinnes the more, and as the advantage wherein he will destroy his owne soule; it may be God may never be more angry with a man, then when he lets him come into a place of Publike trust; and therefore he ought the more to tremble and to quake under the consideration of this.