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A19234	A dyall of dayly contemplacion, or deuine exercise of the mind instructing vs to liue vnto God, and to dye vnto the vvorld. First colected & published in Latin, at the request of a godly Bishop, and Reuerent Father, Richard, sometime Byshop of Dirham, and Lorde Priuie Seale. Novv nevvly translated into Englishe, by Richard Robinson, citizen of London. Seene, and allowed.; Contemplacyon of synners.	Touris, William, attributed name.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1578 (1578)	STC 5644; ESTC S119753	81,912	254

pouerty and oppression Murmure discord and desolation Confiskes many a Kingdome ane huge Impery From theyr late former good condicion For want of Iustice through iniquity ESAI CAP. 59. THEY haue wrested iudgement backwardes and Iustice hath stoode a farre of because trueth hath fallen downe in the streetes and equitie coulde not enter there and trueth was made a guste of forgotten freendship and the man that departed from dooing euill felt the smart of a prized spoile IEREMI CAP. 21. BEholde I deliuer before you the way of life and the way of death doo your iudgement in due time and bring the oppressed soule out of violence least that my displeasure and wrath doo haply depart from me towardes you as a consuming fyre and so burne you that there ve none to quenche the same by reason of the malice of your inuentions ISIDOR WIcked Iudges euen after the maner of Woolues do rauen and make hauocke of all thinges IEREMI CAP. 51. NAbuchodonozor eateth me vp and greedely dooth as it were deuoure me ECCLESIAST CAP. 20. BRibes and rewardes doo blind the eyes of Iudges and as a gift in the mouth dooth stoppe their reprehencions In England then trueth shewe thy stately style And Iustice thou thy Baner brode display All leagerdy maynes from hence quite exile Graunt God that good meaning mainteined be may All subtyll shiftes to conuince and bewray VVherewith the couetous encombred bee Least that the great flee the small eatyng alway Doo the same deuoure by lawles libertee MICHEA prophet CAP. 3. HEARE this ye Princes and Rulers of the house of Iacob and you Iudges of the house of Israel whiche haue abhorred to doo iustice in iudgement and doo peruert all thinges that are good because you build vp Sion with bloodshed and Hierusalem with iniquitie their Princes shall geue iudgement for rewardes for this cause shall Sion be furrowed vpon euen as a feelde ISIDOR THE simple people are more greeuously torne in peeces of the euyll Iudges then of their most cruell enimies For there is no robber so greedy of other mens goodes as a wicked Iudge is amongst those whom he hath aucthoritie of AVGVSTINVS IN so much as the mischeefe of couetousnesse waxeth nowe so ripe that euen of custome the very lawes are bought and solde iudgementes are corrupted the very sentence it self is set to sale for mony there can be no cause without care and vexation tryed ESAI CAP. 5. WOO be vnto you whiche iustifie the wicked for bribes and rewardes and doo wrest the iust mans cause from him Farre from vs O God expell corrupt iustice VVith couetousnesse and false affection That goodnesse of eache cause may full suffise To try it selfe cleare in the action Of euill buddes let no bitter abusion Make crooked causes cloked to bee In Consistory Court or Ciuill Session But graunt O GOD to trueth the victory ESAI CAP. 49. HEARE me O ye of hard harts which haue sequestred your selues farre from Iustice Expositio Matth. 22. YOV haue forsaken those two most graue respects of the law that is the one iudgement the other mercie PATRONIVS FOR nowe Iustice is made none other thyng but a common marchandize PSALME 2. NOW O ye Kynges be wyse and learned you that iudge the earth ECCLESIASTICVS CAP. 47 IT is the office and duety of kinges to keepe vnder those that are euil and aduance such as are good subiectes 1. MACHABES CAP. 15. ANtiochus saide I wyll be reuenged vppon them whiche haue corrupted the land c. AVGVSTINVS IN this poynt doo Kinges serue God yf in theyr kingdomes they commaund and establishe that whiche is good and forbid that which is euil not in matters only parteyning to humane society but as concernyng deuine religion for neither liue they at ease free from cares of mind and trauels of the body but bestowe their tyme in great disquietnesse and labour vntill such time as they haue accomplished their functions and dueties to all perfections SAPIENCIA 6. THE hardest iudgement shall be ministred vnto them whiche beare aucthoritie ouer others To Kyng without colour that lyst to keepe Iustice The nearest way most honorable and easie Ys corrupt men to suffer in no wyse By false affection or parcialitie To execute the office of Iustice duely And yf in this poynt a Prince be negligent His mind perswaded may be fully He shall incurre Gods dreedfull iudgement ECCLESIASTES CAP. 10. BLessed is that land whose King is of noble race ARISTOTLE primo Politico VErtue and malice doo determine and handle matters betweene bondmen and freemen betweene noble men and those of base degree Idem 5. Politicorum NObilitie and Vertue are in few persons to be found remayning togeathee PSALME 101. MY song shal be of mercy and iudgement to thee oh lord Idem I haue done indifferent iustice and executed iudgement I haue hated the workes of iniquitie c. IOB CAP. 29. I Haue clothed me with Iustice and with my iudgement haue I apparrelled me as it were with a garment and Dyadem of honour I haue been in steade of an eye to the blind man and as a foote to helpe the lame A father haue I also been of the poore and such cause as I was vtterly ignorant in haue I diligently searched for the certeyne trueth thereof I haue destroyed the labours of the vniust man and out of his Iawes haue I taken the spoyle MATTHEA 5. BLessed are they whiche hunger and thyrst after righteousnesse because theirs is the kingdome of Heauen AVCTHOR FOR as from day to day there is a continuall thirst and hunger renewed in our stomackes after meates and drinkes corporall so ought there appeare in vs a freshe and new appetite or affection inseperable after iustice in correcting of offences committed Nowe Princes Lordes and Nobles of renowne VVhom it pleaseth to vse Iustice with mercie Take Iob and Dauid examples to your crowne VVhen to the poore they had a piteous eye And of mighty offenders punisht peruersitee VVhom Gods good grace hath remunerate VVith blessinges moe then may expressed bee In lasting fame ay to be Lawreate SEleucus Prince of Locria on a time being in the cheefe Citie thereof whiche he had established protected with most wholsome and profitable lawes when as his sonne was condemned for adulterie accordyng to the lawes whiche he him selfe had ordeyned that such offender should be depriued of both his eyes and that the whole Citie for the honour of their Countrey did for a certayne space withstand and gaynesay to dispence with necessity of punishment in this respect The father being throughly ouercome with the instant requestes of the people because he would doo some moderation of iustice and borowe the lawe in some part executing it at full in an other first causing one of his owne eyes to be quite pluckt out and then afterwardes one of his sonnes eyes left vnto them both but two eyes to see with So farre dyd he perfourme a due measure of punishment with a

His whole empyre by his great diligence He causd to keepe the lawe of God duely 1. REGVM CAP. 2. WHO so euer honoureth me I wyl honour him and they also that doo despise me shal be brought lowe ARISTO Politi libro primo AS that man which obserueth the lawe is the best liuing creature so is he the woorst of all creatures liuing whiche liueth without order of lawe and digresseth from iustice 2. PARALIPO CAP. 24. IOiada made a league betweene all the people and the kyng that they should become the seruantes of God. ESAI CAP. 32. THERE shall be a reuerence vnto iustice euen of those whiche are layde a sleepe and a safety vnto them for euer ARISTOT Politi 2. IT is best for a Citie to liue in vnitie and concord after the rules of amity and frendshippe Idem Politicorum 3. WIthout iustice it is impossible for men to dwell togeather 2. q. 7. c. THAT man can not be faythful towards men which sheweth him selfe vnfaythfull to GOD. ECCLESIASTICI CAP. 6. THERE is no comparison to be made vnto a faythfull freend 1. PARALI 13. c. FOR Dauid and all the whole house of Israel delighted in GOD with all vertue and godlinesse Then should God in eche state honoured bee Hereby might men both grace and glory obteyne Iustice should raigne with peace and policee And trouth returne with triumph home ageyne VVhich is exilde and almost forlore cleane Thus might men liue in great securitie And loue theyr God which doth eche state sustayne VVere Vertue captayne of theyr cheualry IT is better to be gouerned by a good king then by a good lawe ARISTO in Epistola ad Alexandrum EVEN as the captayne is the defender of the hoste so reason with skil and knowledge is the guide of humane lyfe ARISTOT de Regimine Princi MEN were woont to feare theyr kyng when they sawe that he feared GOD. Ibidem THE cheefest poynt in a Kyng of wysedome is that he be able to gouerne hym selfe 3. REGVM CAP. 1. MY Lord and Kyng vppon thee are the eyes of all Israel wholy bent to beholde thee The Queene of Saba sayth vnto Salomon as it is written 3. REGVM CAP. 10. FOR that cause that the Lord hath loued Israel for euer therefore hath he annoynted thee to be kyng ouer them to the ende thou shouldest execute iudgement and iustice PSALME 63. BVT the Kyng shall reioyce in GOD and the daughter of Sion shall reioyce in their King. IEREMI CAP. 23. THE King shall raigne and he shal be endued with wysedome and shall execute iudgement and iustice vpon earth 1. TIMOTHEI 2. YOV shall pray for all men fyrst and specially for all Kinges and for all suche as are appoynted to beare cheefe rule vnder them Doctor Nicolaus Lyra. EVEN as there are ordeyned ouer vs both Princes and Prelates for whom we ought specially to pray for of and by theyr good disposition and well gouernement dependeth the common wealth of eache estate so is it of good right that we encline our selues to liue quietly and peaceably vnder their gouernement in all godlinesse and chastitie And not only ought we thus to pray for Christian Princes but also for the Infidels vnder whom Christians remayne captiued 2. ESDREA CAP. 6. THERE shal be offered sacrifices of thankesgeuing vnto the mighty GOD for the Kyng and his chyldren and the people shall pray for their liues c. Eche Subiect should ay For his Soueraigne pray Thus sythen in earth amongst men mortall The weale and woe of euery region Dependes vpon the Kyng most principall Therefore we should with true intention Beseeche Christe Iesu with deuotion All mortall sinne that he may put aside And efte in heauen as with his benediction So eake on earth would eache good prince guide ARISTOTLE lib. 5. Polit. THE Prince ought to be a woorshipper of GOD because men doo lesse feare that the Prince can away with that which is euyll yf they thinke he be a man that feareth GOD. Lactancius Firmianus THE fyrst duety of Iustice is to be ioyned with the ordinance of GOD the second is to be ioyned with the lawe of man Let the Iudge therefore so execute iustice that he doo not offend GOD and iniurie his neyghbour SENECA ad Lucillum AND wylt thou haue all thinges subiect vnto thee doo thou then submit and yeeld thy selfe to reason for euen reason shall gouerne many Kinges and thee also AMBROSIVS HE shall haue to iudge of an other mans offence whiche hath not in him selfe that he may condemne by equitie least when he iudgeth an other man he geue sentence vpon him selfe also GREGORIVS IT happeneth for the most part that he sitteth in seate of iudgement whose lyfe is leaste agreeable vnto the woorthynesse ●f that place and it oftentimes comes to passe with him that he condemneth the guiltles and saueth those that are guilty PROVERBES THE Kyng which in trueth iudgeth the poore shall haue his throne established for euer MICHEAS CAP. 3. HEARE O ye Princes and Rulers of Iacob and you Captaynes of the house of Israel is it not your part to knowe what iudgement and iustice is which do hate that that is good and loue that which is euill But where some Princes and leaders of the lawe Breake fayth to God by lost alleageance Their ciuill iustice must suffer ouerthrawe This vertue Iustice is made intemperance VVhom grace not guiding keepes none obseruance VVhat Prince to Poore keepes Iustice without lesing Hearing complaint with good deliuerance In Heauen and Earth he shall be floreshing ▪ ARISTOTLE 5. Politicorum THE greatest policies are dissolued and violated by reason of the transgression and offence committed in dooing iustice M. Tullius Cicero IVstice is the Lady and Mistresse of all thinges and the Queene of Vertues CIPRIANVS THE iustice of the Kyng is the peace of his people the sauegard and defence of his countrey the ioy of men the solace of poore men the inheritance of children and vnto him selfe this iustice is the very hope of blessednesse in time to come M. Tullius Cicero THE lawe is nothing els but a straight and perfect reason whiche proceedeth from the cleare light of the day commaunding such thinges as are honest and prohibiting suche thinges as are contrary Therefore we ought as Virgil saith to obserue the fidelitie or faithfulnesse in the lawes prescribed AVGVSTINVS TAKE away Iustice and what els are Kingdomes but great spoyles of robberies ESAI CAP. 32. PEace shal be the woorke of Iustice and there shal be a reuerence vnto Iustice euen of them whiche are layd to sleepe and they shall dwell in safetie for euer ECCLESIASTICVS 10. THE Kyngdome shal be translated from one nation vnto an other by reason of their iniust dealinges and iniuries and by meanes of their reproches and because of the diuers deceiptes which they practize As Iustice is cause of peace and policie And VVell of welfare in euery Region So without Justice Kingdomes feele contrarie For robberie theft