Sermons, Dedication 9 – Errata 2
To The right Honourable Sir CHRISTOPHER PACK, Lord Major of the Citie of London and the Honourable Court of Aldermen there.
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
IN compliance with your Order and my own dutie; I have imbarked into this ſervice of committing theſe Se…mons to publick view, which did both receive life at firſt, and do now begin to walk abroad by your Command, not doubting of the ſame Candour from your eye, which was afforded by your ear, there being little in them that might commend them to the world, or You, beſide their ſeaſonableneſſe to the Occaſion, and time in which they were born.
Though the Government of this Citie be worthily renowned through the world, yet it muſt be acknowledged unto the good will of Him that dwelt in the Buſh, that our eyes have ſeen, and do ſee this our Ieruſalem, a quiet Habitation.
And though the Magiſtrate be called the Corner, the Shield, the Naile the Stay, &c. of the Common-wealth, yet all things would doubtleſſe ſoone ſwerve into Anarchie and diſcompoſure: if he that puts a Bridle into the mouth of the Sea, ſhould not ſtill the querulous diſpoſition of the People, and make them ſubject.
There is one thing which makes the burthen of this great people ſomewhat more tolerable (as I hope) and that is Religion, planted within your Juriſdiction, which teacheth ſubjection for Conſcience ſake, even to the moſt Moroſe, much more to the Godly and benign Magiſtrate.
For ſober Religion, teacheth us to obey the Miniſter, and Sword-bearer, of God; both for the Lords ſake, who giveth him his Commiſſion, and for our own, who receive the benefit: And indeed, no man that is wiſe for himſelf, would if he might either lop the Tree, whoſe ſhaddow ſhelters him, or goe about to weaken ſubjection, and ſo pluck away the Ivie from the Tree that ſupports it, eſpecially, when He that climbs the Tree, doth it not to fill his own pocket, but to ſhake down the fruit to them that are under it. But (my Lord) I muſt not make too great a porch to a ſmall building, and therefore ſhall onelyonly ſay this, that a publick Spirit moſt becomes a Publicke Perſon; and that the whole work of Magiſtracie is a ſelf-deniall; ſo as if he keep that in his eye, that he is to rule propter Dominum, his example will the better teach the ſubject to obey, propter Domiminum, for the Lord, and the true Bounds and Bonds of this Relation between Magiſtrate and Subject ſhall be inviolably kept; which ſhall be the prayer of your Honours
Octob. 15. 1655. moſt humble ſervant in the Lords work, RI. VINES.
The Reader is deſired if the Printers miſtakes following be not correctted to his hand, that he will take notice of them in the reading.
In the firſt Sermon.
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In the ſecond Sermon:
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In the third Sermon.
P. 11 l. 4 foreign.
In the fourth Sermon.
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