The best and the worst magistrate

But, Sir, though it be some part of your unhappiness, to appear upon the Stage in divided and distempered times, yet it will be the more for your honour, if you can with your singular wisdom, and expedient meekness, calm our seas, quench our fires, steal into joint our broken bones, bind all of us up into an Unity and Love, who are started asunder so much through our own frailties, and (I fear) the more through other mens subtleties. It was the work of Jesus Christ to harmonize God and man, and it will be your praise as well as duty, to close up Christians and Brethren; But I shall spare further discourse for this. One reports of Hippocrates, That he gave an Oath unto his Scholars to look well to his children: An Oath is beyond me to impose on you, nevertheless, I would (with all humble and dutiful respect) commend (and that from God) unto your choicest care, two Children, and both of them belong to God; the mentioning of their Relation, hath raised in you already both a Reverence and a Resolution: But what are these two Children? Sir, As you have but two farthings to commend unto God (Bernard calls the one of them your Soul, and the other of them your Body) so God puts the care but of two of his Children unto you, to Nurse them for one year; the one is Religion, and the other is Justice: If you be ⟨p. 25⟩pleased to look well to them, you may be confident that God will look well to you: These are the two Legs upon which the Political Body stands, nay they are the two Pillars which hold up Heaven and Earth: These are Solomons Jachin and Boaz; These are (in their peculiar Services) that Moses and Aaron who brought the people of Israel out of Bondage: God commends and chargeth the care of these two (Religion and Justice) upon you.

But, Sir, though it be some part of your unhappiness, to appear upon the Stage in divided and distempered times, yet it will be the more for your honor, if you can with your singular wisdom, and expedient meekness, calm our seas, quench our fires, steal into joynt our broken bones, binde all of us up into an Unity and Love, who are started asunder so much through our own frailties, and (I fear) the more through other mens subtilties. It was the work of Jesus Christ to harmonize God and man, and it will be your praise as well as duty, to close up Christians and Brethren; But I shall spare further discourse for this. One reports of Hippocrates, That he gave an Oath unto his Schollars to look well to his children: An Oath is beyond me to impose on you, nevertheless, I would (with all humble and dutiful respect) commend (and that from God) unto your choyest care, two Children, and both of them belong to God; the mentioning of their Relation, hath raised in you already both a Reverence and a Resolution: But what are these two Children? Sir, As you have but two farthings to commend unto God (Bernard calls the one of them your Soul, and the other of them your Body) so God puts the care but of two of his Children unto you, to Nurse them for one year; the one is Religion, and the other is Justice: If you be