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A94759	The palace of justice opened and set to veiw [sic], in a sermon at Margarets Westminster before the Honorable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, upon the 12th of May, 1646. Being the day of their solemn thanksgiving, for regaining and taking in the several garisons, of the city of Exeter. Barnstable. Michaels Mount in Cornwall Ruthen Castle. Ilford-Combe. Aberystwyth in Wales. [double brace] Dunster Castle. Titbury Castle. Woodstock Mannor. Castle of Bridgnorth. Banbury Castle. Newarke. / By Sam. Torshel.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1940; Thomason E337_12; ESTC R200826	21,000	29

may use to you this day Honoured and Beloved the last words which this great man Moses spake publickly to Israel which are mentioned in the 33. Chapter of this Book ver 29. Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thine excellency thine enemies shall be found lyars unto thee and thou shalt tread upon their high places You are a people saved this day your enemies crouch flatter and lie unto you you have trod upon their high and fortified places Besides all heretofore regained now of late you have trod upon their high place the fortified Mount in Cornwall upon the strong Citie of Exeter upon Barnstable her neighbour upon the Fort of Ilford-Comb upon the Castles of Ruthein Aberistwith Dunster Titbury and Bridgnorth upon the garison'd Manner of Woodstoock specified in the first Order of your Honourable House for calling this Assemblie together besides what is in your Additionall Order of yesterday you have trod upon the strong Castle of Banbury and the most considerable in land Garison of Newark And that I may reflect upon my Text You live and God be praised that you doe live after so many attempts against you and at last it may now be rightly said Yee inherit the land May I have liberty if not to expresse my conceit upon the place which yet I know some wise and learned men doe that it is in a sense literally to be applyed to these times the warres of which they think doe tend toward the preparing of the Kingdome of the Saints here on earth yet at least to allude to that Text Luk. 22.28 29. and to apply to you that have been faithfull in this great cause in hand what our Lord said Yee are they which have continued with mee in my tentations and I appoint unto you a kingdome This kingdome possessed in great part of late by the sonnes of violence now is in your hand and lyes before you in a free view Let mee have the honour in your happy company as one of the meanest in your train to goe up with you this day to the top of Pisgah that from thence we may look over All the land of Gilead unto Dan and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all the land of Judah unto the utmost sea and the South and the plain of the valley of Jericho the Citie of palm-trees unto Zoar You know the story from whence I borrow the description Deut. 34.1 2 3. You may this day see all in a manner yours from the Mount in Cornwall even unto Berwick the utmost English limit May wee with thankfull hearts a little survey the Land which the Lord our God hath given us as it were this day to inherit Michaels Mount brings you in the riches of the Tinne-mines in Cormwall Great Exeter neat Barnstable and the Comb restore and secure unto you the Cloth-trade of well-affected Devonshire Dunster Castle the last pawn of the enemy in Somersetshire delivers you the quiet possession of that temperate and fertile County If from thence over the stately Severn you look into Wales there Aberystwyth in Cardigan and Ruthin Castle in the rich and pleasant Vale of Cluyd doe this day present you with service of that mountanous Countrey and couragious people Shall wee thence passe thorow the pleasures of Shropshire to Bridgenorth and so to Titbury the lock of two Shires Stafford and Derby and to Newarke the darling of the enemies hope wee may see all in a manner yours and Oxford almost desolated like a lodge in a wildernesse having lost the prospect of Woodstock Mannor and Banbury Castle her left arm being now cut off But take heed that you forfeit not all this mercy and yet lose that good land which is given you to inherit Receive therefore the words of this exhortation Justice justice or That which is altogether just shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee I reade the words so Justice justice The Text opened because in the Originall Text the word is doubled Tsedek Tsedek and in the Chalde likewise Kushtha Kushtha Tremellius renders it Justissimam justitiam The Greek Translation of the Septuagint reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Vulgar Latine followes them Justè quod justum est Thou shalt follow that which is just justly Our learned Interpreters in our last English have given us the full sense That which is altogether just all manner of justice and nothing but justice thou shalt follow exactly carefully constantly That thou mayest live that is safely comfortably for so the phrase is used ordinarily I know not whether I need to observe it that the Vt in the Text is to be taken not causaliter but consecutivè the meaning is that the following of justice is not the cause of this comfortable life but onely that this comfortable life is the consequence of the following of justice There is nothing difficult in these or the next words And I chose a plain Text that I might not need to spend time upon explication but employ it more usefully I shall therefore onely consider these two parts I. An Exhortation Justice justice or That which is altogether just shalt thou follow II. Two arguments of perswasion 1. That thou mayest live 2. That thou mayest inherit the land I shall not so much as name those Propositions into which this Text might be resolved but onely attend the main drift that Moses had who having much conversed with this people and knowing them to be perverse and injurious as they had many principles of injustice among them which a Professour of Jewish Controversies at Leiden namely Constantin l' Emperour hath observed and hath given instance of in his learned piece De Legibus Ebraeorum Forensibus upon the First Code cap. 9. sect 11. to whom I referre the learned Reader hee having now conducted them to the borders of the land of Canaan which they were shortly to possesse that they might happily injoy it in a secled and secure state hee leaves with them this advice Justice justice thou shalt follow c. And from this as the full scope of the words I shall draw forth and insist upon this one Doctrine Publick Justice is the foundation of Publick welfare The Doctr. Moses himself had been a notable and good Justicer among the people of the Jewes and they were so farre convinced of the benefit of his administrations that at that time when hee was forty dayes absent from them to receive the Law from God me thinks the people speak in Exod. 32.1 as if they thought the want of a wise and good Magistrate could not be supplied but by having God in his stead Vp say they to Aaron Make us gods which shall goe before us for as for this Moses that man that brought us up out of the land of