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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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When Herod bare rule, he made it a mournful time, for he slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem, and all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under; And now there was 1a voice heard in Ramah, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning.
When Herod bare rule, he made it a mournful time, for he slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem, and all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under; And now there was 1a voyce heard in Ramah, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning.
And truly, if you consider either the persons, or their dispositions in Authority, or their Actions, or the consequences of 1their evil Government, it will plainly appear, That there is nothing in wicked Rulers, or from them, but what is very mournful.
- 1Four Demonstrations of the Point.
1. Consider the persons themselves; Wicked persons are filled with woeful Principles: When Hazael came to the Prophet Elisha, Elisha wept, and Hazael said, Why weepeth my 1