Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	good_a	lord_n	1,970	5	3.5728	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05581	A briefe relation of certaine speciall and most materiall passages, and speeches in the Starre-Chamber occasioned and delivered the 14th. day of Iune, 1637. At the censure of those three famous and worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne. Even so as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes, by one present at the said censure.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber.	1638 (1638)	STC 1570; ESTC S101052	21,742	33

particular act when no accusation of any particular act can bee brought against mee This were most unjust and wicked Here I tender my aunswere to the Information upon my oath My Lord you did impose impossibilities upon me I could doe no more then I was able L. Keeper Well holde your peace your answere comes too late Speake you Dr. Bastwick Dr. Bast My Honorable Lords Mee thinks you looke like an Assembly of Gods and sit in the place of God yee are called the Sonnes of God And since I have compared you to Gods give me leave a little to paralell the one with the other to see whither the comparison betweene God and you doth hold in this noble and righteous cause This was the car●iage of Almighty God in the cause of Sodome Before hee would pronounce sentence or execute judgement he would first come downe and see whether the crime was altogether according to the cry that was come up And with whom doth the Lord consult when he came downe With his Servant Abraham and hee gives the reason for I know saith hee that Abraham will commaund his children household after him that they shall keepe the way of the Lord to doe Iustice Iudgment My good Lords thus stands the case between your Honours and us this day there is a great cry come up into your eares against us from the Kings Attourney bee novv pleased to descend and see if the crime be according to the cry and consult vvith God not the Prelates being the adversary part and as it is apparant to all the World doe proudly set themselves against the vvayes of God and from vvhom none can expect Iustice or Iudgement and vvith righteous men vvill be impartiall on either side before you proceed to censure which censure you cannot passe on us vvithout great unjustice 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 we have done that deserves a Censure this day in this Honourable Court but that vve have ever laboured to maintaine the Honour Dignity Prerogative Royall of our Soveraigne Lord the King let my Lord the King live for ever Had I a thousands 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 judgement 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 mee 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 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 shew 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 D. Bastwicke My Lord a long time since I tendred it to your Honour I failed 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 M. D. you should have beene briefe you tendred in too large an Answer which as I heard is as Libellous as your Bookes D. 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 M. D. Are you guilty or not guilty Answer yea or no you needed not to have troubled your selfe so much about so large an Answer D. Bastwicke I know none of your Honours have read my Booke 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 D. Bast 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 D. Bast That was none of mine I will not father that which was none of my owne L. Dorset Did not you send that booke as now it is to a Noble mans house together with a Letter directed to him D. Bast Yea my Lord I did so but withall you may see in my Epistle set before the booke I did at first disclaime 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. D. Bast My noble Lord of Arundell I know you are a noble Prince in Israel a great Peere of this Realme There are some honourable 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 field The one being a coward goes to the Magistrate by vertue of his Authority disarmes the other of his weapons 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 bid us fight My Lord doth not his savour of a base cowardly spirit I know my Lord there is a Decree gone forth for my Sentence vvas 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 D. Bastwicke My Lord I am able to proove it and that from the mouth of the Prelates ovvne Servants that in August last it vvas