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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	judge_n	judge_v	judgement_n	2,891	5	6.1190	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62323	Jethro's character of worthy judges an assise-sermon preached at Northampton, March 22, 1663 / by Antonie Scattergood.	Scattergood, Antony, 1611-1687.	1664 (1664)	Wing S842; ESTC R38218	23,301	44

the handling of which points there is no better method then to take the words as they lie in order I. ABLE MEN. There is a threefold Ability requisite in Magistrates They should have 1. able Heads 2. able Hearts 3. able Hands They ought to be 1. men of Wisdom and Discretion 2. men of Courage and Activity 3. men of Power and good Estate 1. Wisdom saith the Wise-man Prov. 4.7 is the principal thing Therefore he exhorteth us to get wisdom and with all our getting to get understanding Whatever our profession or employment be Eccl. 10.10 wisdom is profitable to direct This will teach us to follow our callings and to order all our affairs with discretion Through this is the house builded and furnished too Prov. 24.3 4. This instructeth the plowman to sow and order his corn Isa 28. And this teacheth the artificer how to handle his tools In this book of Exodus they are often said to have been wise-hearted and filled with wisdom that wrought about the Tabernacle And if those lower trades cannot be rightly menaged without Wisdom how necessary an ornament and accomplishment will it be to those whose art it is as the Prince of Poets speaketh regere imperio populos Virg. Aen. 6.851 pacíq imponere morem Parcere subjectis debellare superbos to maintain Justice and Peace amongst the people to protect the innocent and to suppress the oppressour Certainly Wisdom is needful either here or nowhere The word KING which in our language signifieth the supreme Magistrate is derived they say from cyning which in the Saxon tongue signifieth Cunning Skill Knowledge Wherein Kings especially should abound This will be unto them an ornament better then rubies and a defence better then strength or then weapons of war Prov. 8.11 Eccl. 7.11 9.16 18. It was therefore one of the wisest acts that we find recorded of the wisest of Kings that being put to his choice what he would receive of the Giver of every good and perfect gift he said Give thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad 1 King 3.9 But because as Jethro telleth Moses the administring of justice to a whole nation is a task too heavy for any one man to perform himself alone Who is able to judge saith Solomon there this thy so great a people therefore it is an especial point of Kingly prudence to substitute as Moses is here advised well-qualified and worthy Persons to dischage that office under him And blessed be God our Moses who hath been wonderfully hid by the care of females too and graciously preserved from bloud-thirsty Tyrant who hath escaped as Moses did perils by water and perils by land and who hath been brought out of exile as Moses out of Midian to rule and govern this our Israel This our Moses I say hath shewn his Princely wisdom and care over his people in providing able men to judge them at all seasons Men well versed in the Law of God men well learned in the Laws of the Land men of mature age and deep experience who have fresh in their memories the Reports of ancient Sages responsa prudentum sententias judicum who having been acquainted with trials of all sorts know how to receive informations examin witnesses sift out the truth put a quick end to suits without unnecessary demurrers and protractions who can pluck off the fair disguise that is sometimes put upon a foul cause lay open the falshood of subtile and cunning men and so defeat the crafty and clear the innocent who have the Balance of Justice in one hand as well as the Sword in the other and having exactly weighed what is brought before them can tell when to use the rigour of the Law and when mitigation and equity should be exercised Such able men are the reverend Judges of this land Such I am sure all Judges ought to be And not only they but also all others proportionally who have any thing to do in Courts of Justice all that be Assessours on the Bench or Pleaders at the Bar or empannelled for the Jury they should be all able men in this first sense men of good skill and judgment in such matters as they take in hand men of wit and dexterity to expedite and dispatch them Then they may be able to promote justice But otherwise they cannot but be perverters or hinderers of it For none can be competent judges of what they understand not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Philosopher Arist Eth. 1. Knowledg is a necessary help to Judgment They must be able men that judge To blame then are they who having empty heads but ambitious or covetous hearts say with Absalom 2 Sam. 15.4 Oh that I were made judge in the land that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me and I would do him justice They would have the credit and profit of the place but are void both of care and ability to discharge it Vain men that gape after Honour which is but a bubble Prov. 23.5 and catch at Riches which are nothing and consider not what a fearful Wo would hang over their heads if they had their wish namely that in the Prophet Isa 5● 20 Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter A gross mistake But thus undoubtedly would these men mistake if once set in the seat of judgment being destitute of the main qualification of a Judge the spirit of judgment and discerning 〈◊〉 23. They would justifie the wicked and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him Beloved the right way to Honour is Virtue And it is better far to deserve preferment and yet not have it then to have it and not deserve it Labour then for real worth and wait for reward till he who is the fountain of honour shall think fit to bestow it To do otherwise to look for advancement and advantages without desert is as absurd and preposterous as if a man should exspect to reap when he hath not sown to receive wages without doing his work and to see a shadow where there is neither light nor substance So much of the first sort of Ability that is requisite in Magistrates They must have able Heads Next they must have 2. Able Hearts that is Hearts full of courage and resolution to do what they know is their duty A good Second this unto the former Skill without Will Wisdom in the brain without Freedom in the breast is altogether unactive and to no purpose like a good weapon that is never drawn out but still resteth and rusteth in its scabbard or like a man who having a journey to go hath eyes to see his way but no legs to walk in it On the other side Courage not guided by Knowledge is like metall