Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	abraham_n	lord_n	way_n	1,660	5	5.7908	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08236	A Briefe relation of certain speciall and most materiall passages, and speeches in the Starre-Chamber, occasioned and delivered Iune the 14th. 1637. at the censure of those three worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton and Mr. Prynne, as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one present at the sayd censure..		1637 (1637)	STC 1569; ESTC S126020	21,885	34

execute judgement hee would first come downe and see whither the crime was altogether according to the cry that was come up And with whom doth the Lord consult when hee came downe with his Servant Abraham and hee gives the reason for I know sayth hee that Abraham will commaund his children and household after him that they shall keep the way of the Lord to doe Iustice and Iudgement My good Lords thus stands the case betweene your Honours and us this day There is a great cry come up into your eares against us from the Kings Attorney why now be you pleased to descend and see if the crime be according to the cry and consult with God not the Prelates being the adversary part and as it is apparant to all the World doe proudly set themselves against the wayes of God and from whom none can expect Iustice or Iudgement but with righteous men that will be impartiall on either side before you proceed to Censure which Censure you cannot passe on us without great injustice before you heare our Answers read Here is my Answer which I here tender upon my oath My good Lords give us leave to speake in our owne defence wee are not conscious to our selves of any thing wee have done that deserves a Censure this day in this Honourable Court but that wee have ever laboured to maintaine the Honor Dignity and Prerogative Royall of our Soveraigne Lord the King Let my Lord the King live forever Had I a thousand lives I should thinke them all too little to spend for the maintenance of his Majesties Royall Prerogative My good Lords can you proceed to Censure before you know my cause I dare undertake that scarce any one of your Lordships have read my Bookes And can you then Censure me for what you know not and before I have made my defence O my Noble Lords Is this righteous Iudgement This were against the Law of God and man to condemne a man before you know his crime The Governour before whom S. Paul was carried who was a very Heathen would first heare his cause before he would passe any Censure upon him And doth it beseeme so Noble and Christian Assembly to condemne me before my Answer be perused and my cause knowne Men Brethren and Fathers into what an age are wee fallen I desire your Honours to lay aside your Censure for this day and inquire into my cause heare my Answer read which if you refuse to doe I here professe I will cloath it in Roman Buffe and send it abroad unto the view of all the World to cleare mine innocency and see your great injustice in this cause Lord Keeper But this is not the busines of the day Why brought you not in your Answer in due time Dr. Bastwicke My Lord a long time since I tendred it to your Honour I sayled not in any one particular And if my Counsell be so base and cowardly that they dare not signe it for feare of the Prelates as I can make it appeare therefore have I no Answer My Lord here is my Answer which though my Counsell out of a base spirit dare not set their hands unto yet I tender it upon my oath L. Keeper But Mr. Dr. you should have beene briefe you tendred in too large an Answer which as I heard is as Libellous as your Bookes Dr. Bastw No my Lord it is not Libellous though large I have none to answer for me but my selfe and being left to my selfe I must plead my conscience in answer to every circumstance of the Information L. Keeper What say you Mr. D. are you guilty or not guilty Answer aye or no you needed not to have troubled your self so much about so large an Answer Dr. Bastwicke I know none of your Honours have read my Bookes And can you with the Iustice of the Court condemne me before you know what is written in my Bookes L. Keeper What say you to that was read to you even now Dr. Bastw My Lord He that read it did so murther the sence of it that had I not knowne what I had written I could not tell what to have made of it L. Keeper What say you to the other Sentence read to you Dr. Bastw That was none of mine I will not father that which was none of my owne L. Dorseit Did not you send that Booke as now it is to a Noble mans house together with a Letter directed to him D. Bastw Yea my Lord I did so but withall you may see in my Epistle set before the Booke I did at first disclayme what was not mine I sent my Booke over by a Dutch Merchant who it was that wrote the addition I doe not know but my Epistle set to my Booke made manifest what was mine and what was not and I cannot justly suffer for what was none of mine L. Arund My Lord you heare by his owne speech the cause is taken pro confesso L. Keeper Yea you say true my Lord. Dr. Bastw My noble Lord of Arundell I know you are a noble Prince in Israel and a great Peere of this Realme There are some honorable Lords in this Court that have beene forced out as combatants in a single duell it is betweene the Prelates and us at this time as betweene two that have appointed the feild The one being a coward goes to the Magistrate and by vertue of his Authority disarmes the other of his weapons and gives him a Bullrush and then challenges him to fight If this be not base cowardice I know not what belongs to a Souldier This is the case betweene the Prelates and us they take away our weapons our Answers by vertue of your Authority by which we should defend our selves and yet they bidd us fight My Lord doth not this favour of a base cowardly spirit I know my Lord there is a Decree gonne forth for my Sentence was passed long since to cut of our eares Lord Keeper Who shall know our Censure before the Court passe it Doe you prophesy of your selves Dr. Bastw My Lord I am able to proove it and that from the mouth of the Prelates owne Servants that in August last it was decreed that Dr. Bastwicke should loose his eares O my Noble Lords Is this righteous judgement I may say as the Apostle once sayd What whipp a Roman I have beene a Souldier able to lead an Army into the field to fight valiantly for the honour of their Prince Now I am a Physitian able to cure Nobles Kings Princes and Emperors And to curtolize a Romans eares like a Curre O my honorable Lords is it not too base an act for so noble an assembly and for so righteous and honorable a cause The cause my Lords is great it concernes the glory of God the honour of our King whose Prerogative wee labour to maintaine and to set up in a high maner in which your Honours Liberties are engaged And doth not such a cause deserve your Lordships