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heart_n	bring_v	good_a	treasure_n	13,062	5	10.6433	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27244	Two sermons preach'd at St. Maries in Bury St. Edmunds, at the assizes the first upon the seventh of April 1698, before the Honourable Sir Thomas Rokeby, Kt. ... : the second upon the 16th of August 1698, before the Right, Honourable Sir Edward Ward, Kt. ... / by William Bedford ...	Bedford, William, b. 1652 or 3.	1698 (1698)	Wing B1671; ESTC R5177	24,433	58

consider not that they are not to oppress the Widow nor the Fatherless the Stranger nor the Poor Oppress not out of these Prohibitions we must look to do their contraries since the Lord of Hosts in the Text hath commanded us for to shew Compassion every Man to his Brother and that none of us should imagine Evil against his Brother in his heart In the Text you have seen there are four Precepts two Imperative and two Prohibitive The first two of Judgment and Mercy the second of Oppression and Malice The Imperative Precepts are Execute true Judgment and shew Mercy and Compassion every Man to his Brother The Prohibitive Precepts Oppress not the Widow not the Fatherless the Stranger nor the Poor and let none of you imagine evil against his Brother in your heart The Author of them both is God Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying I have finished all the Parts except the very last which prohibits Malice And let none of you imagine Evil against his Brother in your heart I shall for order sake now in the Conclusion speak of this branch of the Text and somewhat the more largely because it is to be presumed that Insolence and crossness of Temper brings many Persons hither and that their Prosecutions are rather the Effects of Malice than Desires of Right such Mens impertinent but evil and mischievous Imaginations give unnecessary Trouble to the Court and Country and deserve the Magistrates Reproofs and to meet with Derision and Disappointment from all men As the Heart is the beginning of Life and the Elaboratory of the vital Spirits so it is the Magazine and Store-house of Humane Cogitations whither good or bad and whereon as upon an Anvil are forged those Thoughts which the Tongue its Instrument brings to light for so our Blessed Lord informs us Matt. 12.34 That out of the abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaketh A good Man out of the good Treasure of the Heart bringeth forth good things and an evil Man out of the evil Treasure bringeth forth evil things Out of the Heart saith our Lord proceed evil Thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts False-witness Blasphemies therefore the Holy Prophet shut up his Exhortation with a Prohibition from such Offences nominating the place wherein they have residence and let none of you imagine evil against his Brother in your heart Here observe first The Offence and Imagination of Evil made apparent by Blasphemy Envy Calumny Revenge False-witness Murder Secondly The Residence of that Evil in the Heart let none of you imagine evil against his Brother in your heart 'T is a Negative Precept whereby we are here first and by St. Paul afterwards commanded to abstain from all appearances of Evil here from evil Thoughts there from evil Actions for seldom doth a perverse Imagination set a Brood but it hatcheth some dismal Exploit Thus he that gives himself to imagine Evil will at last proceed to give False-witness first privately and then publickly in Judgment and in Judicial Acts this is diversly committed First By the false and unjust Accuser and therefore the Law admonisheth Lev. 19. Thou shalt not stand against the Blood of thy Neighbour thou shalt not accuse him wrongfully and bring his Life in danger Secondly By the Magistrate who pronounceth an indirect Sentence Thirdly By corrupt Advocates that patronize false Titles as Tertullus abused his Eloquence in disgracing St. Paul Acts 24. any way to be a False Witness is a grievous thing he commits Sin in the Violation of Justice and by Lying and Perjury in every false Testimony a Man Sins against God oppresseth the Innocent and condemneth his own Soul For False-witness the Punishment by the Law of God was Retaliation If the witness be a False-witness and shall testifie falsly against his Brother then shall you do unto him as he thought to have done unto his Brother Deut. 19.18 19. So Haman was justly hanged on the same Gibbet that he had set up for Mordecai and Daniel's Accusers were cast into the Lion's Den whither he was before condemned False Witnesses were by the Edict of the ancient Romans thrown down as Malefactors from the Tarpeian-hill This Malady hath its original in the Heart of Man but the Searcher of Hearts can find all out there is no dissembling with him that knows the very Thoughts thereof Though Joshua could not yet God can immediately see through the most curious Umbrages and lying Testimonials which the most Politick Gibeonites can invent though Falsities were never so cunningly couched he will find them out though a French Tongue conspired with a Spanish Arrogance to frame a Greekish Lye Therefore God will avenge the Hurt that we do to an Innocent Neighbour if we Blaspheme him either in Name or in Person as Jezebel procured Naboth to be thought a Blasphemer of God and the King and thereupon had him-Murthered Of this sort of Calumny or Backbiting there are four kinds First Men begin with Evil Suspicions of which Eliab was guilty when he said to his Brother David I know thy Pride and the Naughtiness of thy Heart 1 Sam. 17.28 for thou art come down that thou mightest see the Battel Secondly They proceed therein having itching Ears ready and open to receive Detractions such were Saul's who leaned to those Promoters that informed against David till David demonstrated them to be false Men by his sparing of Saul's Life in the Cave at Engaddi The third procedure in this Vice is by Rashness in Judging but this our Lord forbids in these pregnant words Judge not and you shall not be judged And this Evil is finished by a continual but an unhappy Inclination or malicious Desire of Backbiting the Laws utterly forbids this Lev. 19.16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a Tail bearer amongst thy People These being the most Pestilent sort of Vagabonds should be whip'd from every House He that Back-bites his Neighbour hath Satan in his Mouth he that hears the Calumny hath him in his Ear and he that believes it hath him in his Heart having cast out Charity which is the Bond of Peace The Punishment that the Witty Comedian a lots them is That all Libellers should hang the Hearers by the Ears and the Detractors by the Tongues To credit False Reports and Seditious News is a sign of malevolent Manners or of childish Conditions And therefore the Philosopher being asked what Beast did bite the soarest answered Of wild Beasts a Detractor and of tame a Flatterer Therefore hath our Great God forbidden all evil Surmises yet having an Eye to our Frailty he would stint us betimes lest we should proceed to wicked Practices therefore he stops the next Issue of an evil Heart saying Thou shalt not bear False-witness against thy Neighbour forewarning us against all Untruths and false Evidences We must not admit of evil Thoughts for these are the first Actors of our Brothers Tragedy for out of the Heart proceed evil Thoughts False-witness Murthers