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.

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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.

Author

Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.

Publication

London :: Printed by Peter Cole, at the signe of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange,

1648.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honorable, John Warner, Lord Major of the City of London, Abraham Reynardson Lord Major Elect; AND To the Right Worshipful, the Aldermen and Sheriffs of the same City.
• The Best and the Worst MAGISTRATE: OR, The Peoples Happiness and Unhappiness, Laid open in a SERMON UPON Prov. 29. 2. When the righteous are in authority, the people re∣joyce: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.