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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	city_n	great_a	village_n	1,731	5	9.2720	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68930	The vnrighteous iudge, or, Iudex cretensis, the iudge of Crete a sermon preached within the iurisdiction of the arch-deaconry of Norwich, at a generall court, in April last past, 16. 1621 / by Mr. Yonger of South-Walsham.	Yonger, William, b. 1572 or 3.	1621 (1621)	STC 26098.3; ESTC S121841	20,261	30

of the iust They must haue an honest and conscionable intent to aduance the glory of God and punish vice and not be Aucupes Nummorum coursing vp and downe in their Circuits and Iurisdictions abirding after money yet is this the maine disease of many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Other vertues are required in a Iudge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as wisedome vnderstanding Deut. 1.15 but neyther these nor any other before rehearsed were in this Iudge yet was it very fit they should for he was in a place of eminencie he was in a Citie In a certaine Citie In a certaine Citie Which is not onely to be taken for the fabricke position scituation habitation charters liberties all which make a Citie but for the people and inhabitants as 1 Sam. 14. When newes came to Shilo that Hophni and Phinehas were slaine and the Arke of God taken All the Citie that is all the inhabitants of the Citie cryed out Nay thirdly a Citie also is taken for the whole body of a Country as Marlorate vpon that place of the Psalme The Lord keepeth the Citie he speaketh there saith he de Reipublicae statu politia of the policy and state of the Common-wealth Take the word Citie here in any of these sences I am sure it noteth thus much that Cities are the speciallest and most remarkeable places of a Country and most commonly containe vnder their iurisdiction the Villages thereabout 2. They are the seats of great men and of great offices and men in them preferred to office and dignity are the more eminent and conspicuous 3. They are the ciuilest places and fullest of knowledge and good manners 4. which is not the least they are the most religious too Now all these makes against this Iudge that hauing his residency and abode in a City a place of eminencie a place of ciuility and good manners a religious place and where perhaps he needed haue gone but a few steps to his Temple to haue worshipped yet that hee should be so irreligious as not to feare God or haue so little ciuility or good manners as not to regard man And so I come to his Qualities 1 Ex parte Dei He feared not God But before I goe further I pray doe but note This is a very strange Testimony that Christ here giues of a Iudge There was a Iudge in a certaine City who feared not God neither regarded man I should rather haue thought it had beene a good Testimony to haue beene giuen of an Vsurer or a Drunkard And if Christ had said There was an Vsurer in a certaine City or There was a Drunkard in a certaine City and either of these neither fearing God or regarding man this had beene somewhat nay very probable But to speake thus of a Iudge who beares an office of Honour of Antiquity of Necessity one who sits in the roome of God to execute his Iudgements horresco referens I tremble to speake it O thou blessed Sonne of God the eternall Wisedome of thy Father I that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heauen-dropping dew whose words are as Aples of gold with pictures of siluer inwardly rich inwardly precious euermore to singular and speciall purpose whatsoeuer thou diddest whatsoeuer thou spakest was for our instruction For surely hereby he would teach vs that 1. whatsoeuer their persons or their places be if they be wicked and doe wickedly let it not bee concealed but declared spoken of and spoken of so that posterity may take notice of it For to this end are the sinnes of good men and bad men too in Scripture recorded and related Let their faces be made ashamed who knoweth whether the diuulging and publishing of their faults may bring them to repentance as being humbled and stricken through with sorrow and contrition Excellent is the speach of that Heathen man Sireprchēdi fers aegrè reprehendēda ne feceris If they thinke much to heare of their wickednesse let them abhorre to doe it Yea let others heare and feare by their example Why should the Scholler be spared for hope of his learning or the Gentleman for his birth or the Doctor for his dignity or the Iudge for his authority if they be shamelesse or exorbitant And if we may not spare our right eye or our right hand if they be causes of offence why should we then spare the offences of others who should be eyes and hands to ouersee order and settle vs in a good course by their discipline and example I confesse greatnesse thinkes it selfe much priuiledged and the sinne of a great man like mount Sinai may not be touched Yet are the Prophets commanded to cry aloud and not to spare and the Minister of God he must be veronensis and not placentinus As Gedeons Souldiours had in one hand a Lampe in another hand a Trumpet so wee must haue a comfortable shine to enlighten some a shrill and warlike sound to rouze vp others Yea let euery good Minister know that he is as the Arke wherein was as well the rod of Correction as the Manna of Consolation 2. He speakes this to let vs see that sometimes wicked and vile men men voyd of Gods feare and of all goodnesse are promoted to places of office and dignity And this is as great a plague as may be dishonorable to God disgracefull to the place impatible and grieuous vnto the people What a storme of dreadfull imprecations doth the Prophet call for from heauen Psal 109. like a raine almost of fire and brimstone a very tempest of euils vpon wife children posterity goods or what else were more deare smiting all these as with the stings of Scorpions The first of them all that leadeth the daunce as Iudas lead the cursed band of Souldiers is Set thou a wicked man to be ruler ouer them I thinke there could not be a wickeder then Hee this for first He feared not God Who feared not God And here I pray consider first the Quality feare which in Scripture is taken many wayes especially two 1. For the worship and seruice of God as Psal 33.11 I will teach you the feare of the Lord that is I will instruct you rightly concerning the true worship of God And Esay 29.13 Their feare saith God towards me was taught by the precepts of men that is their religion and manner of worship was learned by mans doctrine and not by my Word And our Sauiour Christ Mat. 15. interpreteth this place after the same manner In vaine doe they worship me teaching for doctrine the precepts of men The oath that Iacob tooke Gen. 31.42 was by the feare of his father Isaak As if hee should say I sweare by that God whom my father worships For God is sometime called by names effectiuè as when he is called Our health our strength our saluation Sometime obiectiuè as when he is called Our ioy our hope our feare because he is the obiect of all these and the scope and end of all our