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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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2. Concerning Justice (which is the Ark of a peoples safety) how woeful have the actions of wicked Rulers been against it? Justice is like that goodly spreading Tree, spoken of in Daniel, The leaves whereof were fair, and the fruit thereof 1much, and in it was meat for all, the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it; yet wicked Rulers are (in this respect only) like him that cried aloud, Hew down the 2Tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches. Whatsoever tends to the utter subversion of Justice, the same hath been done by wicked men when they bare rule: At your leisure peruse the Scripture, and that will report unto you
2. Concerning Justice (which is the Ark of a peoples safety) how woful have the actions of wicked Rulers been against it? Justice is like that goodly spreading Tree, spoken of in Daniel, The leaves whereof were fair, and the fruit thereof 1much, and in it was meat for all, the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it; yet wicked Rulers are (in this respect onely) like him that cryed aloud, Hew down the 2Tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches. Whatsoever tends to the utter subversion of Justice, the same hath been done by wicked men when they bare rule: At your leisure peruse the Scripture, and that will report unto you
- 1Dan. 4. 12.
- 2Ver. 14.