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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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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.
Use 1 In the first place,let us make this use; is it so that Magistracy is appointed of God for our good? Government, is it for our good? Then it may reprove all those opinions and errors that are about Government; either in the defect, or in the excess of it: In the defect, Anabaptists and Socinians that question the Authority of Magistracy: and so likewise Papists, though they question it not, yet notwithstanding have many destructive opinions about it.
Ʋse 1 In the first place,let us make this use; is it so that Magistracie is appointed of God for our good? Government, is it for our good? Then it may reprove all those opinions and errours that are about Government; either in the defect, or in the excesse of it: In the defect, Anabaptists and Socinians that question the Authoritie of Magistracie: and so likewise Papists, though they question it not, yet notwithstanding have many destructive opinions about it.