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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65266	Regicidium Judaicum, or, A discourse about the Jewes crucifying Christ their king with an appendix, or supplement, upon the late murder of ovr blessed soveraigne Charles the first / delivered in a sermon at the Hague ... by Richard Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1093; ESTC R31816	23,015	28

passe away like the dawing of the morne Anger driueth furioussie like the Sun up to the meridian of his rage Doth sorrow sigh and sob it in a corner or whisper in the secrecie of a wood Anger cries aloud in the streetes and clamours to a tumult in the mercate What had been stillie dropt by tender-hearted pitie in a teare Anger raiseth in the noyse of an earthquake and throwes about the world in a a tempest Wrath is cruel and anger is outragious sayth the Wiseman Prov. 27. 4. Chrysostom renders this ' ecráugesan ' epebóon which is they bellowed it out like an oxe And otherwhere paraphrasing upon my text saith he pros ' aptoistéran mâllon ' apotauroúmenoi gnómen they were raised in their mindes up to the fiercenesse of a bull A similitude very expressive of a licentious headie multitude in a rage which sayth Tullie non dilectu aut sapientia ducitur ad judicandum sed impetu is not lead to judgement by discretion and wisdome but hurried by the violence of their passion With such beastes as these was good King David encompassed Ps. 22. Many oxen are come about me fat bull of Basan close me in on every side Vituli tauri 't is renderd by St. Hierom as if young and old had been all of this temper all in a crie and a terrible one too They gape upon me with their mouthes Sicut leo rapiens rugiens as it were a ramping and roaring lion Vers. 13. If you observe the historie of their actions who are crying in my text they all speake the fiercenesse of their wrath and most irrational extremitie of their passion First for the surprisal of his person they must have no lesse then a band of armed men and other Officiers of the Pritstes and Pharises with swords and staves when he was onelie with a few Disciples in a garden Then whereas they had him daylie in the Temple they must come with this power of darkenesse in the night And in this night thought as the learned Grotius observes at the time of full moon too bright for such an interprise as theirs they must blaze their furie metà phanôn kaì lampádon in lanternes and torches and feigne a senselesse difficultie in the search When they have got his person in their power they must binde him before they carie him away scarce trusting him with the libertie of his legs when Pilate demands their accusation against him faine would they have sentence passe with out a charge upon Pilates implicite fayth in their honest word that had he been no malefactour they would not have delivered him to the Iudge And after many passages of this kind when Pilate presseth upon them that he was their King they make an open sepulcher of their mouth and burie Royal Majestie in a crie But this crie of theirs was not merelie a confus'd nothing to stop Pilates mouth about their King ' athetoûsi dôxas as St. Jude speakes They set aside or despise dominions Away with him away with him are words of scorne contempt and derision by which they doe as it were spit Regal aurhoritie in the face St. Cyprian calls them violenta suffragia Tertullian in the abstract suffragiorum violentiam which I will English no otherwise then the madmens verdict This is gladius linguae the sharpe sword of the tongue that cuts off the legal processe of a Court pierceth law and justice to the heart When the Herald calls for the cap and knee for due reverence to be render'd to the King these raging waves fome out no thing but their owne shame Away with him away with him is all can be got from the madnesse of this people When the Judge commands silence in the Court and would have a quick hearing of the cause as in the 59. Isai. By the strength of their crie is judgement turn'd away backward and justice bid to stand afarre off Non juris ordinem quaerunt sed furore vincere volunt sayth one They looke not after the method of the law they will cast him not in judgement but furie That the Prophecie in the 53. of Isai. might be fullfilled De judicio sublatus est He was taken away from prison and from judgement Thus in the propriety of Davids expression was our Saviour made a scorne of men and the King of the Jewes an out cast of his people And what was done by the Jewes unto the King was afterward by the Romans to his subjects decreed to the death and when their owne sinnes had draw'n downe vengeance upon their heads when any publike calamitie toke hold of them Christianos ad leones it was solemne with them to surround their Magistrates in tumults and crie to have the Christians cast unto the lions And not onelie so but as if they had learn'd their lesson from the Jewes and desired to maintaine as well their words as their actions Christiani tollantur Away with the Christians was a second forme of their tumultuarie clamours But there remaines yet a third aggravation of their furie in my text They are not content to have him taken out of their sight they are not satisfied with the nullitie of his power the imprisonment of his person they must quench the thirst of their malice in his bloud not onelie Tolle but Crucifige Away with him crucifie him Death and life are in the power of the tongue sayth the Wiseman Prov. 18. 21. Which power never playes the tyrant more then when it gets into those habitations of crueltie the mouthes of a rebellious multitude in a crie These if any are the madmen he speakes of Prov. 26. who out of their burning lips and wicked heart cast not words but firebrands arrowes and death St. Austin makes the mouthes of the Jewes fiercer executioners then their hands and their tongues sharper instruments then the nailes that fastened our Saviours bodie to the crosse Vnde occidistis gladio linguae Et quando percussistis nisi quando clamâtis crucifige Now the two principles of popular furie are for the most part ignorance and malice By the one they are not able to judge of the species or kinde much lesse the degree of that which they take to be a crime and being jealous that what may be bad is the worst they proportion revenge by their illimited sensitive appetite never weigh it in the ballance of reason By the other they become exquisite inventours and as curious about the circumstance or forme as violent about the substantial part or matter of their mischiefe Such is this jurie of raging Jewes in my text who doe not onelie outrun judgement in their hast Away with him away with him nor in their rage throw mercie out of the Court by crying kill him or put him to death but specificate execution at their pleasure and exercise the tyrannie thereof as wel in the shame as the torment by