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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02835	The paragon of Persia; or The lavvyers looking-glasse Opened in a sermon at S. Maries in Oxford, at the Assises, the 7 day of Iuly, 1624. By William Hayes, Master of Arts of Magdalen Hall.	Hayes, William, b. 1595 or 6.	1624 (1624)	STC 12973; ESTC S116667	14,691	34

assembly mine honour bee not thou vnited for in their anger they slew a man he blames their anger only not their malice yet marke what followes Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell I will diuide them in Iacob scatter them in Israel Here anger and the heat of blood could not excuse the spilling of blood They felt the rigor and full weight of Iustice yea the heaviest punishmēt that then was a Patriarchs propheticke curse And in conscience such resolute hot-spurres deserue with vs that Curse of Moses the heauiest temporal one that now is Cursed is hee that hangeth on a tree Deut. 21. Moreouer blood is importunate each drop whereof hath a tongue and cryes lowd at the throne of Heauen Or if that were silent your owne eyes are trusty witnesses of many a widdowes teares And the vntimely death of murtherd fathers bids their orphant children solicite your eares with their sad lamentations I but the death of murtherers will doe them no good admit It doe not yet let not their life doe others hurt Let not the lawes indulgence encourage their bold hands to the like attempts but ere others feele againe the extremitie of their violence let them first feele the extremity of your iustice and to the vtmost that the law inioynes let them knowe What you can doe according to law There is also the swearer whose tongue wounds the State and like a sharpe sword strikes deepe euen to the heart hence it is that the land mourneth saith the Prophet No maruell that this sinne is growne licentious for they say 't was lawlesse and without the verge of iustice Till at last that honourable assembly of Parliament which posterity shal admire no lesse for religion then for their wisdome haue restrained the freedome of this crying sinne It concern'd your Honours to further such a religious purpose not only for aduancement of Gods glory but to enlarge your owne liberty for til thē a blasphemous tongue might sweare God and you in the face you might tremble and blush you could not punish T were pitty this free crime which Chrysostome counts f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tit. Hom. 15. Ad pop Antioch worse then murther should longer violate the law of God and Magistrates not be able to say What shall we doe according to law I could shew you other offenders which haply among vs are lawlesse but with God they speed like S. Paules Gentiles which hauing not the Law are a law vnto themselues Rom. 2.14 But I must hasten to the second sense No more then the Law intends of which exceeding briefly What shall we doe according to law A depraued glosse may corrupt the Text and a corrupt Iudge may depraue the Law Thus truth that in the Oratours time had strength enough for its owne defence is enforced to yeeld vnto crafty violence Christ also that originall truth found the perverse Pharisee and petty-fogging Scribe wresting the derivatiue truth to their own bent g Lib. 2. contra Apion Iosephus may bragge of the Iews priuiledge aboue other nations in that they suffered no chāge in their laws yet by his leaue though they remain'd intire in words they were much peruerted in sense Thus could the wit of iniquity ouer-reach Gods intentions and inhance its owne advantage by the misconstruction of his precepts I wish that while we looke vpon those times in detestation God hath not cause to looke vpon ours in revenge I pray God the sword of Iustice doe neuer among vs become the Sword of Delphos h Eras Adag Chil. 2. cen 3. that serued for all purposes as those grosse flatterers abus'd it in the cause of Cambyses who desiring to marry his owne sister was aduertisd by them that there was no law which allowed that copulation but there was one that he being their King might doe what pleas'd him How doe such Iudges befoole their Ancestors intimating that they doted and spake at randome for enacting constitutions no surer then the old oracles that might admit of a double sense Wel-deseruing antiquity hath made this land of ours as happy as any by leauing vs so ample an inheritance of laws and ordināces T were shame not to preserue them as inviolable as those of Solon and the i Dan. 6.8 Medes that sufferd no repeale Now to racke them beyond their literall intention I count the highest degree of violation Seeing extreme right is extreme wrong and when a law is not executed at all it argues but too much lenitie negligence or ignorance but being wrested beyond its intent and ouer-executed to a mans preiudice it condemnes the Iudge of vnchristian-like malice Then 't is safest breaking the law in the Iews extream who hauing charge and power to giue k Deut. 25.3 fortie stripes to a malefactor would as Paule witnest of them giue but fortie lacking one 2. Cor. 11. That they came short charity may hope 't was commiseratiō of their brother in his affliction but should they exceed the law wee might suspect their mindes for bloody revenge Then let the law of Iustinian be my last exhortation l Iudex ne aliter indicet quàm legibus aut constitutionibus aut moribus proditum est Institut lib. 4. Tit. 17. Index ne aliter iudicet c. And as Balaams feare engaged his fidelity cōcerning the word of the Lord so let Iustice deale with your consciences concerning the word of the law If Balaack would giue me his house full of Siluer and Gold I will not goe beyond it to doe lesse or more Num. 22.18 In which resolution the Lord make you prosper So shall you be of their number that had their robes washt in the Revelation and made white in the blood of the Lamb. This awfull colour of State shall then turne to the pleasing lustre of glory And as you liue to glorifie God here God grant you liue with him in his glory hereafter Amen FINIS