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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	appear_v	moses_n	75	3	7.3023	4	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

both which are ridiculous Againe that the damned ghosts should be zealous of Gods glory in the furtherance of mans saluation vpon the earth For Abraham is entreated by the Rich man that Lazarus might be sent to admonish his fiue brethren and to worke their conuersion that so they might avoid those insufferable torments Saint Augustine therefore giueth a good rule whereby to interpret Parables not according to the letter but according to the sence The scope intent of Parables is wholy to be regarded As in that of the Rich man and Lazarus the intent is to set forth the seuerall and diuers estates of two men in this life and their seuerall and diuers estates in the life to come by reciprocall proportion So this Parable holds not in all but in the scope and intent wherevnto it was vttered as before is declared But for the Person There was a Iudge whose office was a Iudge There was a Iudge and thus far I like it very well yea that he should be in a City too for an eminent place is fit for an eminent person The Office of a Iudge is of great Honour of long Antiquity of great Necessity First of Honour because they are Gods deputies ordained of him vpon earth to be next vnder him Iudges and Magistrates shalt thou make in all thy Cities throughout thy Tribes sayth God to Moses Deut. 16.18 There is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Rom. 13.2 God assumeth vnto himselfe the title of a Iudge else would not Abraham haue beene so bold Shall not the Iudge of the whole world doe right Gen. 18.25 God sitteth on their bench and iudgeth amongst them Psal 82.1 Their honour must needs be great when he layes vpon them his owne name God standeth in the assembly of gods and hee auoucheth it with his owne mouth Ego dixi dii estis I haue sayd ye are gods Moses is called Pharaohs god and Constantine called his Bishops gods Christ expounding that place of the Psalme before rehearsed saith Hee called them gods to whom the word of God was Iohn 10.34 which is not to bee vnderstood of the generall doctrine directed to all the sons of God sed de speciali dominandi mandato as Caluin well interpreteth it of the speciall charge of gouernment whether it be Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall And they are so called Ne quid admittant quod eos dedeceat qui loco Dei sedent that they might doe nothing iniuriously basely or otherwise vnbeseeming because they sit in his place are gods vnder God 2. Their Antiquity appeares partly by that which I haue said before they are as ancient as Moses who was both a Temporall Iudge and an Ecclesiasticall and so continued till after he resigned his Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction to Aaron And after the death of Moses and Iosuah the Gouernors ouer Israel for many yeares together were called Iudges of whom Samuel was the last The Ephori among the Lacedemonians and the Areopagitae among the Athenians were Iudges and these long since determined weighty matters concerning their gouernment and punished offenders 3. The Necessity of their office appeares many wayes but especially two First in that Paul saith They are the Ministers of God for our wealth Rom. 13.4 For where good Iudges and Magistrates are there commonly good causes thriue and prosper Godly lawes are conscionably administred the glory of God is aduanced and the kingdome of God is inlarged and such haue speciall right and due interest in their places Secondly necessary for they are the Ministers of God to take vengeance on them that doe euill to bridle and represse the corruptions and misdemeanours of wicked men to punish the loosenesse and exorbitancy of their liues to suppresse their insolencies root vp their vices and righten the wrongs of the oppressed And there are three seuerall species or kinds of punishment which they may inflict as Plato sets them downe Either first to punish them in their bodies or secondly to punish them in their purses or thirdly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to put to open shame Now as God placeth them in their seats of Iustice which are called the Seats of the Mighty but not that they should be ouer mighty in their seats obstreperous and combersome and alloweth them also Princely or priestly Roabes ad gloriam ornatum Exod. 28.2 not so much for their owne carcasses which are but earthly and mortall as for the honour of their places As Seneca wrote to the wife of Nero the Emperour Indue te delicatè non propter te sed propter honorem imperij So God also hath ordained and required that they should be adorned not onely regijs vestibus sed regijs egregijs virtutibus which according to Iethro's aduice to Moses are these 1. To be men of courage to goe through their affaires with a wise and a stout resolution For I doe not thinke that Iethro's meaning was onely that they should be pollentes armis but valentes ingenio industrious and able to expedite causes with good dexterity and wit and so they shall be sure to doe nothing either incautè or inconsultè rashly or vnaduisedly 2. They must feare God which is both the beginning of wisedome and the foundation of all vertue and they are wofull Magistrates and Iudges in whom this feare of God is wanting 3. They must be men of Truth not onely speculatiuè in knowing discerning and iudging but also practicè in following a right iudgement and obseruing the rules of truth For there is as well veritas vitae the truth of life when the conuersation is framed according to the rule of truth as veritas iustitiae the truth of Iustice in discerning right from wrong 4 They must hate Couetousnes For that will quench and destroy all good vertues in them Paul saith it is the roote of all euill as that which giues sap and nourishment to all other sinne And where this growes to the height it beares downe all yea this detestable and accursed hunger of gold what doth it not effect nay whom doth it not affect The Poets faine of Venus that she commits adultery in chaines but I am out of doubt much wrong and wickednesse may Iudges doe in their places who are eyther drawne on or fast bound with the golden chaine of Couetousnesse Hence it is that they are long-handed after bribes which Father Latimer cals a Princely kinde of Theenery Sure it was not for nothing that as in old time the Iudges of Thebes were painted or carued out sitting which argued a setled moderation a treatable deliberate gentle proceeding for they should not be like euill Spirits in their places onely to vexe and torment and with eyes shut or turned another way as hauing no respect of persons So also were they portrayed without hands vt à donis essent alieni that they should not reach after gifts and bribes which blinde the eyes of the wise and peruert the wayes