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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
A79865	The wise taken in their craftiness, and their wisdom made manifest to be foolishness with God; and their actions discovered to be contrary to the pure law of righteousness given forth by the pure law-giver, Christ Jesus the light; by which light some one judge, or judges of this nation are made manifest, how he, or they have acted contrary to the law of God, and the law of this nation; and contrary to all the kings, rulers, and judges, spoken of in Scripture; by setting fines upon men, and sending them to prison till payment of the same, for not putting off their hats, and stand bare-headed before them in their court of assises, and goal-delivery. Also, here is shewed, that it is no sin for a man to stand with his hat on his head, before any emperor, king, ruler, judge, justice, or other magistrate, either alone, or in open court; neither is the putting the hat off, and standing, bare-headed before them, the honour that is due unto magistrates, which the Scripture speaks of. / VVritten by, me who am known by the name of Henry Clark.	Clark, Henry, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4459; Thomason E882_3; ESTC R207280	20,416	20

said Iacob if the Lord will give me bread to eat and rayment to put on And Moses said The Lord loveth the Stranger in giving him rayment now the hat is one part of the rayment which God hath given to man to cover his nakedness for which it is to be put and kept on the body which is for the Lord so likewise the rayment is to keep the body from the cold and the wet and also from the parching heat of the Sun Now seeing that God hath given unto all man-kind rayment for these causes to put on to cover the body with then why should one man command another to take it off and to uncover himself or any part of his body for which his rayment is given to him to be a covering thereof Now all you who take mens hats from off their heads and make them to stand bare-headed at your pleasure you act contrary to God and his command who saith Do violence to no man God he clothes man and will you unclothe him or any part of him God he loves the Stranger in giving of him rayment and will you make a profession of God and Christ and when a Stranger comes before you will you cause his hat which is pair of his rayment to be pulled off from his head and to stand bare-headed to take cold or to be over-heat with the heat of the Sun or to be wet with the rain or snow and will you have him to suffer these things or any of them by standing bare-headed in respect to your persons if ye wil leave off making a profession of God for God is not mocked But some of you it is like will say that he may put on a cap or two caps on his head Is not that all one For is not the cap or caps made to cover the head and to keep it warm as well as the hats And why are you more offended with a man that stands before you with a hat on his head then you are with another that stands before you with a cap or two caps upon his head seeing that there is no law for one to transgress more then the other Do not you shew your selves to be partial herein And again every man it is like is not provided with a cap ready to put on his head and some are poor and have not money to buy a cap or two with and why should the poor man be compelled to stand bare-headed to get cold more then the rich Or again Why should one that fears God and cannot for conscience towards God put off his hat and stand bare-headed before you in respect to your persons be compelled to stand bare-headed when it is taken off from him as the Swearer Drunkard Thief Robber and Murderer can do who transgress the Law onely to please you and do it not out of any fear or Obedience to God And again some have said That to put off the hat and to stand bare-headed before the Magistrate is the custome of this Nation and therefore it is to be kept and observed before the Magistrate But God he commands the contrary as the Scripture with me doth witness For saith the Lord Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment neither shalt thou do after the works of the Canaanites the Hivites the Perizites the Hittites and the Iebusites And Solomon said The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord And If sinners entice thee consent thou not to them Therefore those that are the Servants of the Lord God are not to to do after the manner of the Heathen nor to follow a multitude to do evil nor to fashion thmselves according to the World and as they did in the time of their ignorance according to their former Lusts when they walked in a vain conversation received by tradition from their Fathers By following of which Traditions they transgressed the Commandments of God Mat. 15.3 but being called to holiness of conversation in obedience to God they are to observe no such Traditions But some have said that the Custome of the Nation is law and likewise that the Law maintains the Nations Customes If the putting off the hat and standing bare-headed before the Magistrate either alone or in open Court be a Custome and that the Law of the Land maintains it for a Custome then let any of the Judges or Counsellors of the Land make known that Law that maintain it for a Custome or let them shew one President for it or whose Case it was in law that was so fined and sent to prison till payment of the said Fine of twenty Marks or whatever parties goods were ever distrained of for not paying the said Fine or whether ever any Fine was brought into the Exchequer for such a thing and in what King or Queens Reigns it was in since VVilliam the Conquerors time that any man or men were fined twenty Marks a piece and sent to prison till payment of the same by any Judge of justice of the English Nation or let them shew me any Example from any one Judge Ruler or King that judged or ruled over Israel or from any of the Heathen Kings that the Scripture speaks of For Moses he was a Ruler and a Judg over Israel and the Scripture doth not anywhere testify that he set a Fine upon any man for not putting off his hat and standing bare-headed before him nor sent any ●an to prison for any such thing neither did he give any charge or Command to the Judges that judged the People at all seasons so to do For said Moses I charged your Iudges at that time saying Exod. 18.25 26. Hear the Causes between your Brethrens and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him ye shall not r●spect persons in judgment but you shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of man Deut. 1.16 17. for the judgment is Gods And the Cause that is too hard for you bring it before me and I will hear it and in this charge there is no mention made of hats to be put off by the people nor standing bare-headed before them neither do I find that Ioshua who was a Ruler over Israel after Moses that he fined any man and sent him to prison for not putting off his Hat and not standing bare headed before him neither did he give any charge to the heads of the people the Rulers Judges and Officers so to do for Ioshua called them together and said to them I am old and stricken in age be ye therefore very couragious to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the Law of Moses Josh 23.2.6 11 ver that ye turn not aside there-from to the right hand or to the left take good heed therefore unto your selves that you

submit to every O●d●nance of man for the Lords sake and to honour all men and to honour the K●ng ●ow to honour all men is not to rise up and bow down to them as the fashion of this world is and to stand bare-headed before men as it is the practise of the world so to do one to another upon every occasion that ●hey have to do with those that are greater in the worlds estimation in riches and have higher places and titles of honour in the world then themselves and so have their persons in admiration for their advantage sake Nay this is not honouring all men nor no man but meer flattery for all this a man may do and yet at the very same time hate the man in his heart and seek his Neighbours hurt therefore said Solomon Pro. 20.19 26.28 29.5 Meddle not with him that hath flattering lips for a man that flattereth his Neighbour spreadeth a Net for his feet and sayes he A flattering mouth worketh ruin therefore said Elihu Let me not I pray you accept any mans person Iob 22.21 Iob 17.5 neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I know said he to give flattering titles in so doing my Maker would soon take me away and Iob said He that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of his children shall fail and such flattery was used by Saul to David and likewise by Sauls servants to David to be the Kings Son in-law and to have his eldest Daughter to his wife to be a snate to him as you may read 1 Sam. chap. 18. toward the latter end And so Iudas came to Christ and said Hail Master and kissed him and for money the same time betrayed him to the Iews Mat. 26.47 48 49. And so a Thief a Robber or Murderer he will put off his hat and stand b●r● headed before a Magistrate Judge or Justice who could finde in his heart at the same time if he had but the Magistrate Judge or Justice upon Black-Heath or Salisbury-Plain to rob and take all he hath from him and his life too And is this honour nay To honour all men consists in doing good to all men as we would be done unto our selves by others and in loving all men even our neigbour as our selves and in doing good to all men and se●king every mans good for said Christ if ye love them that love ●ou Mat. 5.46 what reward have you do not even the publicanes the same Did the Publicanes honour all men nay but their friends only and what reward had they the world loves its own therefore they honour not all men but they that honour all men love continually pray for their enemies ●o good ●o them that hate them and overcom evil with good when they see their enemies hungry they give them meat when they see them thirsty they give them drink and naked they clothe them and they that honour all men are no backbiters nor slanderers nor false accusers nor ●peak evil of any man for love thinketh no evil but seeketh all mens good and not their own nor are they easily provoked nor b●have themselves unseemly but are gentle enduring all things and rejoyc●ng in the truth NEither doth the honour which is to be given unto the Magistrate ●hether it be to a King as supreme or to a Lord Protector as chief or to any Ruler Governor Judge or Justice or other Officer either alone or before them in open Court of Judicature consist in standing up and bowing down the body to them nor in putting the hat off and standing bareheaded before them but the honour which is to be given to the Magistrate consists in love obedience and fear for he that doth evil is to be afraid seeing that the Ruler is set up of God to be a terror to evil doers therefore he that ruleth must be just ruling in the fear of God and not to bear his sword in vain but to lay it upon the evil-doers who are to fear the Ruler because they have done the evil and he is set up of the Lord to be a terror to them but he that doth no evil needs not to fear For doing that wh●ch is good he is to have praise of the same for the Ruler is set up of God likewise for the praise of them that do well Therefore he that is in the well-doing needs not fear the Rulers sword for Perfect love casts out fear and The righteous is bold as a lyon So likewise the honour which is to be given to the Magistrate consists in love he that is in the well-doing loves the Magistrate because he is set up of God to be a terror to the evil doers and a protection to them that do well and love to the Magistrate consists in seeking his good always and in giving to him his due that God requires to give unto him and those that give to the Magistrate his due speak not evil of the Ruler of the People nor revile the Judges no nor curse the Magistrate or Ruler in their thoughts which is contrary to Gods Command But for the Lords sake he loves the Magistrate and dares not rise up in his own will against him for conscience sake and for that cause pays tribute and so likewise is subject to what is required by the Magistrate that comes from God and for conscience sake that which comes from God by the Magistrate is not gain-said but submitted to by them that honour the Magistrate for the Lords sake And herein the People of Israel shewed their willingness to obey that of God that came from God to them by Moses their Ruler For said they to Moses Go thou neer and heare all that the Lord our Go● shall say D●ut 5.27 28. and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee and we will hear it and do it and the Lord said This People have said well in all that they have spoken So likewise the chief of the Fathers and the Princes of the Tribes of Israel and the Captains over thousands and hundreds with the Rulers over David the kings work joyned with David and offered willingly to the Lord and gave for the service of the house of God gold silver iron and pretious stones 1 Chro. 29. and with a perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord and rejoyced and David the king rejoyced also with great joy because the thing was of the Lord which was so willingly done by them according to the Command of the Lord God who saith Hea● O Israel VVhat doth the Lord require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God and to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and to keep the Commandments of the Lord and his Statutes which saith the Lord I command thee this day for thy good Now whatsoever comes from any