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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	let_v	lord_n	see_v	4,698	5	3.6890	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04981	A warning-piece to repentance presented in an assize-sermon preached in the cathedral chruch of Lincoln. Aug. 15. 1664. / By William Reresby doctor in divinity.	Reresby, William, d. 1670.	1664 (1664)	Wing R1123; ESTC R182680	27,476	70

the persons Exod. 23.3 Thou shalt not countenance a poor man in his cause And if not a poor man much less a rich for if the person of any should be accepted certainly in all Equity the person of the poor doth bespeak pity rather than the person of the potent but then see here is a strict Command against this Again Justice is pictur'd with a balance to shew that Judges should scan those Causes exactly that are brought before them It was the practice of holy Job Chap. 29.16 Job 29.16 The cause which I knew not I searched out It is not safe to ride Post over matters for that Judge doth ill purchase to himself the Title of a man of expedition and dispatch that overhastens Causes and ends them before they be ripe Not that Causes are to be spun out with unnecessary Demurrs and Protractions to mens great charge and vexation but only that a Judge should with all possible pains and patience hear both Parties search Writings and Evidences weigh every Information and Circumstance examine Witnesses and not suffer a bold Lawyer to dash plain men out of countenance though may be they cannot give in their Testimony in a fluent language but according to their breeding are only able to lisp out the Truth in a home-spun speech ' I was good counsel which the good King Jehoshaphat gave unto his Judges 2 Chron. 19.6 2 Chron. 19.6 He said to the Judges Take heed what you do Rush not at things by guess but weigh them deliberately exactly And if you read the remainder of this verse and then afterwards the seventh Ver. 6 7. you will see three Motives to stir up Judges to this exactness He said to the Judges Take heed what you do now observe for ye judge not for man but for the Lord that 's the first Who is with you in judgment that 's the second Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts there 's the third 1. Judges ought to look diligently at the justness of the Cause and to proceed very carefully because they judge not for man but for the Lord. Did you only judge for man though you should act negligently injustly yet you might do it with so much untrivance as you might come off well e●ough but since you judge for the Lord you had need to behave your selves circumpectly faithfully for there is nothing though never so closely carried that can scape his eyes Hebr. 4.12 He makes 〈◊〉 search with Candles Zeph. 5.12 Nay 〈◊〉 himself is a light beyond Ten thousand Candles so that he can with ease make 〈◊〉 discovery of all your Actions though ●hey should be covered with an Egyptian ●arkness Quantascunque tenebras factis tuis superstruxeris Lib. de Poenitentia c. 6. Deus lumen est saith Tertullian And as God sees what 's done amiss so certainly if he be not prevented by Repentance he will punish it The day will come when you shall be again ungodded for he that hath said Ye are gods hath also said Ye shall dye like men Psal 82.7 Dye you must and come to judgment All the Lyons of the World must bow before and give account to the Lamb of God He hath appointed a day Cornelius à Lapide calls it Horizon Temporis Aeternitatis in which he will judge the World in righteousness Acts 17.31 And shall the World be judged and shall you be exempted surely no. And how severely the Lord Jesus Christ shall exercise his power the same à Lapide tells you Ipse à Vobis rationem vel praestitae vel neglectae justitiae severam exiget ac pro merritis praemiabit vel puniet 2. Judges ought diligently to mind the justness of the Cause and to give sentence accordingly because God is with them in judgment He stands in the Congregation of gods Psal 82.1 stands with attention stands with power He takes notice of the whole behaviour of the Judge all the while he sits upon the Bench not 〈◊〉 word not a smile not a frown passeth from him but he observes it There is a saying That the King is vertually present in his Courts as long as they continue his Courts God is really present in these Courts of Justice In Eccles 8.10 The ●eat of Judicature is called the place of the ●●ly I saw the wicked buried who had ●ome and gone from the place of the holy ●agnin renders it à loco sancto from the ●oly place Junius reads è loco sancto out of ●he place of the Holy And why the place of he Holy I cōceive this may be said because ●e who is Holiness it self sits chief Justice ●here Apud R●bbinos Deus dicitur Makom locus quia omnia in se comprehendit nullo loco comprehenditur Bithner in Exod. 21.13 The Rabbins as Buxtorf tells ●●s put Makom which signifies ●lace amongst the Names of God ●●thner brings them expounding that Text in Esther 4.14 Deli●erance shall arise to the Jews from another place i. e. from God They ●alled him place because he is in every ●lace There is not any place whether Sacred or Profane whether Private 〈◊〉 Publick but we may say of it as Jacob ●●d of Bethel Gen. 28.16 Surely God 〈◊〉 in this place and we were not aware ●t though we cannot go from Gods Spirit Psal 139.7 or flee from his presence because he is present everywhere yet in his own Court● and in yours he is present more eminently and more perspicuously When the AEthiopian Judges were set in their Seats of Judicature certain empty Chairs were set at the upper end of their Consistories wherein they imagined the Holy Angels came to sit Angels are very frequent in and observant of such Solemn Conventions Hoc judicium animos ad vigilantiam reverentiam inflecteret saith Quintus Pius This they thought and so it ought would work an awe and fear in their Magistrates a resolution and care in them to do Justice exactly He who is greater than any of the Cherubins or Seraphins He whose Center is everywhere and Circumference nowhere He who fills Heaven with his glory the Earth with his mercy and Hell with his fury how full soever your Hall anon be thwacked and thronged will find a room among them and this should make all from the Judge to the Witness to beware of wrong-doing in such a dreadful presence 3. Judges ought diligently to look to the justness of the cause because there is no iniquity with our God no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not injustice so the Seventy therefore let there be none in you Non tam mei quam ●ei estis Vicarii c. as C. à Lapide You are not so much the Deputy of the King ●s of the King of Kings As therefore the Lord is righteous in all his wayes and ●●ly in all his works Psal