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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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First, By the Metaphors under which righteous and good Magistrates are set forth (in Scripture) as public Blessings, and special causes of joy unto a people: If you please to cast 1an eye upon Jotham's Parable (in Judg. 9. ver. 9. to 14.) you ⟨p. 5⟩may find good Magistrates or Rulers compared To the Olive tree, to the Fig-tree, and to the Vine-tree: Now there are three things, observable in all these Trees;
First, By the Metaphors under which righteous and good Magistrates are set forth (in Scripture) as publique Blessings, and special causes of joy unto a people: If you please to cast 1an eye upon Jothams Parable (in Judg. 9. ver. 9. to 14.) you ⟨p. 5⟩may finde good Magistrates or Rulers compared To the Olivetree, to the Fig-tree, and to the Vine-tree: Now there are three things, observeable in all these Trees;
- 1Judg. 9. 9, to 14.Iudg. 9. 9, to 14.
1. Every one of them is fruitful: The Olive-tree is Baccifera, and the Figtree is Pomifera, and the Vine-tree is Uvifera; not one of them is barren, but fruitful, very fruitful.