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cause_n	death_n	sin_n	sting_n	2,094	5	13.1353	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01473	Ientaculum iudicum: or, A breake-fast for the bench prepared, presented, and preached in two sacred seruices, or sermons, the morning sacrifice before the two assises: at Thetford, at Norwich: 1619. Containing monitory meditations, to execute iustice and law-businesse with a good conscience. By Samuel Garey, preacher of Gods word in Win-farthing in Norff.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1623 (1623)	STC 11598; ESTC S102832	18,427	42

oppressed from the hand of the oppressour vex not the stranger the fatherlesse nor widow doe no violeuce nor shed innocent bloud Thus I haue a little touched the office and dutie of the Iudges of the earth their peculiar properties wherein I may be said to me as q 1 King 10.7 Sheba to Salomon Lo the one halfe thou hast not told vs. I confesse I haue no skill in the politickes I only doe remember the Ethicks to shew what is good and what the Lord doth require of you Surely to doe iustly to loue mercy to humble your selues to walke with God as the Lord by r Mich. 6.8 Micah And now as ſ Sam. 2.23 Ioabs men who did follow the chase vpon Abners hoast when they came to the place where Asail lay dead there made a stand in wonder and pitie thinking how so braue a man came to so bloudy a death So here I will make a little pause and stand and ouer-looke a while these fore-named properties of faithfull Iudges and worthy Magistrates To be wise learned men of good courage of good conscience vnpartiall in Iustice and vpright in Sentence These ornaments ennoble Iudges more then their Robes wherewith a lorned or their troupes wherewith attended And these properties Right Honourable are your ornaments who may say of them as Cornelia did to a certaine woman of Campania boasting of her brauery of her sons the Gracchi Et haec sunt ornamenta mea these Sonnes are my ornaments So you are wise learned of courage of good conscience vpright and equall in Iustice These things afford our Countrie comfort that now you come with Alexanders sword to cut a sunder the knot of sin and sinners which swarme in euery place It were enuious yea infinite to arraigne the seuerall sinnes of this Age Let me name but three wormes which gnaw the belly and bowels of the Common-wealth The Slow-worme the Glow-worme and the Wild-worme wormes worthy to be crushed with the sword of Iustice The Slow-worme Drunkennesse Idlenesse swift to the Alchouse but slow from it they runne to it but reele from it Multa pocula multi morbi Many cups breed many corruptions These drunken drones dote on the two t Pro. 30.15 daughters of the horse-leach which sucke out all their thrift the Flemish hop the Indian weede These Alehouses which nourish them begin like Hydras heads to multiply and there these Malt-wormes make their nest saying of the Taphouse as Peter of u Matt. 17.4 Tabor Bonum est esse hic It is good for vs to be here Vbi nec deus nec daemon Where they thinke both God and the deuill are a sleepe Thus they wast their daies their health their wealth abuse the creatures profane Gods name Loue the Tauerne better then the Tabernacle It were to be wished these common Drunkards might stand forth at the barre and be punished as the Samians did their captiues brand them with the figure of an Oule ashamed of the light who liue out their daies in louing the workes of darknesse The Glow-worme Cozenage Cheating the shops of Cities full of these Glow-wormes and yet there is another Glow-worme Popery is a Glow-worme and can cozen the Law and come with their Statute-legs once a moneth to the Church Lunae vituli Moone-Calues whose religion is mutable like the Moone caried like the * Acts 3.2 Creeple to the Temple vpon the crutches of Law or custome or come a little before the Assises more for feare of Law then loue to God Let such remember Austens counsell Quando timore non amore fit bonum nondum benè fit bonum Where for feare and not for loue they doe good their good is not well done Of these kinde of Popish Glow-wormes I may say as Lactantius of the Pagan gods Nascuntur quotidie a daily breed of them These non serendi veriùs feriendi not sufferable lukewarme parasites to God and man and since the Gospell cannot make them blush the Law should make them bleede Haeretici corrigendi ne pereant reprimendi ne perimant Punish them lest they perish and correct them lest they corrupt others Moses and Aaron the Magistrates and Ministers of God like the x Ger. 3.24 Cherubins set to keepe the way to the forbidden Tree they should waue the blade of the shaken sword the one the sword of Iustice to correct the carcase the other the sword of the Spirit to conuert the conscience It was the royall speech of our gratious y Star Chamber Speach Soueraigne saying My heart is grieued when I heare Recusants increase Ecce gladius Domini et Gedeonis nostri Behold the sword of the Lord and of our z Iudg. 7.14 Gedeon and these able to make them decrease and herein Primaque suscipite pro Ioue bella patres First and before all draw forth your sword in defence of Gods Word let this be your primum Agite as it should be euery mans primum quaerite A godly Magistrate is custos vtriusque Tabulae an happy instrument for the glory of God and good of men to punish all contemners of Gods worship and Anti-Sabbatarians who haue no care to serue the Lord in feare and to vse the words of the Psalmist * Psal 45.3 4. Gird thy Sword vpon thy thigh O most mightie ride on because of the word of truth of meekenesse of righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things I would not be thought too bitter I speake in generall I accuse none in particular with a Acts 28.19 Paul I accuse not my Nation Yet hony was no b Leuit. 2.11 offering for gods Sacrifice neither must the sweet waxe of Bees burne within the Tabernacle of the Temple Wholsome Admonitions like c Iohn 10.10 Iohns booke Sweete in mouth and bitter in belly and the Lord commands d Esay 58.1 clama Cry aloud and spare not to tell Iacob their offences and the people of Israel their sinnes The Wilde-worme Contention the cares of Magistrates too often verberated with her querulous noises Oppression is a Wild-worme and stings to death Specially if the worme be great This Sinne Oppression like e 1 Sam. 15.14 Sauls fatlings bleates in the eares of Samuel and cryes Quousque f Reu. 6.10 Domine how long Lord Auenge our cause against these Oppressors Faction is a Wild-worme furious and fierce in profession Saint Cyprian doth report of Nouatus a seditious and pernitious Wild-worme that he would not allow his owne Father bread being aliue or bury him being dead because he would not consent vnto him in his hereticall opinions Iesuites Brownists Anabaptists Arminians Separatists all Wild-wormes What should I name any more of these Babylonian brats I say with the Psalmist g Psal 137.9 Blessed is he who takes them and dasheth them against the stones The song of the Angels is the summe of all your labours and of our desires h Luke 2.14 Glory be to