CL.p., cMt, f..:nH WW1 till W,..,r, AP i vide for their good, as if they -were their children. In a well- govern'd Common-wealth there's no want of Fathers : VVhere there are good Magifirates,there are no0 phins, AsGcd himfelf is,fo are they,in their place,fathers to the fatherlefs.And of right, all that want fathers, fhould have free acceffe to the Magitirate, as to their common Father.His watchfulnefs fhould be as a guard upon every houfe. And his care fhould be every mans fecurity. omniumdomoe Heathen Magitirates have owned this as their duty; 'tis the fhame tRfus vigilia of tholewho profefs themfelves Cbrifiians, if they do nor. And defendu, ómnr'_ woe to thofe Princeswho, look upon their iubje&s rather as their u orim aura fives then their children, who are rather devourers then fathers B[ev. Sen of their Country. As if their fubje&s were made only to royle for them,and not they to provide for their fr bje&s. Such Magi- finites are the mountainsand the hills, the high towers and fenced walls, with whom the Lordwill content in the day when be ari- fethto fhake terribly the earth (Ifa. 2. 19.) VVhat will become of chofe Magifirates who deign more to opprefs and fleece the rich, then to helpand prote& the poor 1.1 (faith Job) was. a Father to the poor. , And thecaefe which Iknew not 1 f archedout. Magiftratesare called Gods, yet they arenot omnifcient ;they fhould knowmuch, but they cannot know all things. Many cau- fes come before them which they know not to the bottom, and ti's their duty to [catch that they may know the bottome of every caufe, The caufe which I knew not ..(faith Job) 1fearchedour. As if he had Paid, When any dif}icult cafe was brought !before me in Judgment, Iwas careful to çinquire . into it, to informs my felt a- boat it, and to attain a right underffanding óof it, I fought it out, rrut® Theword 4i 1 gnifies not only to leek, but co leek our, to make an rui t crum- exa& fearch of and fcrutiny about thole things which are mots ab- nut, ;remora- firuce and remore,which lye wrapt up in the dark, or are furtheR et ó,trurae from our fight. Job did not cart anoverly look upon hard cau- fes, but he laboured to look through them, and to lift them to the very bran; he took pains to find the truth, he digged for that fpecial wifdome,and [embed for it as for hidden treafures. The Great work of a Minitier is to fearch out the truths of do&rines and opinions which he knowsnot, and the Great bumnefs of a Magifirate is to fearch out the truth of cauces and a&ions which he.
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