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The best and the worst magistrate
The best and the worst magistrate: or, The people's happiness and unhappiness, laid open in a sermon preached at the late election of the Lord Major for the famous City of London, Sept. 29. 1648. / By Obadiah Sedgwick B. in D. and minister at Covent-Garden.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1648
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The Best and the Worst MAGISTRATE: OR, The Peoples Happiness and Unhappiness, Laid open in a SERMON UPON Prov. 29. 2. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
The Best and the Worst MAGISTRATE: OR, The Peoples Happiness and Unhappiness, Laid open in a SERMON UPON Prov. 29. 2. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoyce: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
You are met this day (Right Honourable, Right Worshipful, and Beloved) about a very solemn work, The choice of a Magistrate, of a chief Magistrate for a City, for the chief City of this Kingdom; and the more weighty that this business is, the more commendable is your custom, that you first begin with God, from whom alone all Wisdom and Blessing flows.
YOu are met this day (Right Honorable, Right Worshipful, and Beloved) about a very solemn work, The choyce of a Magistrate, of a chief Magistrate for a City, for the chief City of this Kingdom; and the more weighty that this business is, the more commendable is your custom, that you first begin with God, from whom alone all Wisdom and Blessing flows.
There are three things for which God should be earnestly sought; one is, A good Christ: The second is, A good Conscience: And the third is, A good Magistrate. For Magistrates are like the Prophets figs, Those that were good, were