Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	custom_n	owe_v	tribute_n	1,483	5	11.3355	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87001	Israels just jvdge; or, The maiestrats brest-plate, against the darts of pride, envy, & hipocrisie: being enemies to iustice, mercy, & humility. Presented to the jmpartial maiestrats of this nation, especialy in the western parts, from whence the author (by Gods providence) drew his first breath; wishing them health here, and all happiness hereafter. / Written by Charles Hammond.	Hammond, Charles, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing H494; Thomason E899_4; ESTC R206742	13,989	19

conjecture that when he delivered the Law to Moses it should stand for a memorial to all ages for at that time there was no poore for they were all going towards Canaan and till they came there they all far'd alike they had Manna to eat and the Wildernesse for their possession for 40 years together and when they came to Canaan it was a Land that flowed with Milke and Honey Truly the Lord know their hearts great Men would be puft up so with Pride Ambition and Envy that the Poore shall goe to wrack in after Ages as you shall find in the Prophets times I wonder where we shall heare or read in any ages the Poore and Strangers so little rewarded and less regarded then in our times the poore cries the rich says let them worke will not they worke cryes the Majestrate let them be whipt which some perhaps are not able to worke or if they can their worke is not able to maintain their charge they not giving themselves and stopping the charity of those that would gives Reflect upon your selves you great ones of the Earth you that fare deliciously every day and thinke not of the afliction of Joseph you that lays out all on your backs and bellies or hoards up all in your coffers and chests and knows not who shall injoy it But why shall I or how dare I tell you of these things yes I must if I should not speake I thinke ere long the stones would speake to some of you I speake no more but what I have the word of God for my warrant He that giveth to the Poore lendeth to the Lord saith our Saviour Christ owneth the poore and strangers too you will find it so at the day of Judgement the 25 of Mathew will shew it you strangers cries some of you why they are vagrants they hinder us of our Trading cryes the Shop-keeper doth he come further then he can goe home at night our Majestrates and we will hold together right or wrong let him not speake for himselfe no nor suffer no other to speake for him our wils shall be our Law and though we can find neither the Law of God nor the Laws of the Land to justifie our actions our lips are our owne and who is Lord over us Psalm 12.4 Now for the oppression of the needy and the sighs of the Poore I will up saith the Lord and will set at liberty whom the wicked hath snared verse 5. Solomon saith when the Righteous are in authority the People rejoyce but when the wicked beare rule the People sigh Peov. 29.2 Thou shalt doe no injury to a stranger nor oppress him ye shall not trouble the Widdow nor Fatherless child if thou vex or trouble such and so he call and cry unto me I will surely heare his cry then shall my wrath be kindled and I will kill you with the Sword and your Wives shall be Widdows and your Children Fatherless Exod. 22. v. 21 22 23 24. The Lord is just in all his Judgements he tels Man doe as thou wouldst be done by the same measure you meat shall be measured to you or yours againe Rob not the Poore because he is poore neither oppress the aflicted in Iudgment for the Lord will defend their cause and spoil the soul of them that spoil them Prov. 22 22. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all the Children of destruction open thy mouth judge Righteously and judge the aflicted and the Poore Prov. 30.8 The Lord would have Men in authority speak for those that either dare not or cannot speak for themselves many a good cause is overthrown of the poor mans for want of Men of power and knowledge to speake for them it hath been an old Proverb might overcomes right either his purse or his place overcomes the poore man how dare you goe to Law with a Majestrate cryes some one Majestrate will take anothers part if they doe let them have a care it be in a just cause if not the poore mans cause will be pleaded before that Judge that hath no respect of persons he will pannell your owne consciences for a Jury to condemn you if you doe not justice heare you Judges and Majestrates God standeth in the assembly of Gods he judgeeh amongst Gods how long will you judg unjustly and accept the Persons of the wicked doe right to the poore and fatherless doe justice to the poore and needy deliver the poore and needy save them from the hand of the wicked I have said you are Gods and you are all Children of the most high but ye shall dye as Men and ye Princes shall fall as others Psal 82. This may strike a terror both to Majestrate and People doth God tearm them Gods it will confute those that would cry downe that authority whom God gives such a Title to on Earth Let every man be subiect to the higher powers for their is no power but of Gods and the powers that be are ordained of God giue to all Men therefore their dues tribute to whom you owe tribute custom to whom you owe custome ●se are to whom you owe feare honor te whom you owe honor Rom. 13. O you Jndges and Majestrates are you Gods then let the Law of God be your guide he that turneth away his eare from hearing the Law even his Prayer shall be abominable Pro. 28 9. Heare ye O Kings and learn you that are Iudges of the ends of the Earth for the rule is given you of the Lord and power from the most high which wi I try your works and search out your imaginations because you being Officers of his Kingdom have not judged aright nor kept the Law nor walked after the will of God horibly and suddainly will he appeare unto you for a hard judgment shall they have that beare rule for he that is low is worthy of mercy but the mighty shall be mightily tormented for he that is Lord over all shall spare no Person neither shall he feare any greatnesse for he hath made the small and the great and careth for all alike but for the mighty abideth the sorer triall you may read it in the 6 chap. of the Wisedom of Solomon though it be in the Apocraphy yet St. Paul makes it good in the GosPell Acts 10. v. 3 4. Rom. 2.11 Gal. 2.6 Epbe. 6.9 Col. 3 25. What Men ost Majestrats to be then in whose hand God gives the Sword of Justice who should represent that invisible God in the visible seat of justice we find in the 18 of Exod. Iethro the Priest of Midian Moses Father in law admonisheth his Son what Men he should chuse provide thou Men among all the People Men of courage fearing God Men dealing truly hating covetousnesse O! that is a sin I am afraid too much used both by Majestrats and others to in this Narion now in these times covetousness is the root of all evill and t is no marvell so much