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	judge_n	law_n	4,882	5	5.2868	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90394	Light or darknesse, displaying or hiding it self, as it pleaseth, and from or to whom it pleaseth: arraigning, judging, condemning, both the shame and glory of the creature, in all its severall breakings forth from, and appearances in, the creature. / Held forth to publike view in a sermon, a letter, and severall other inward openings. Through Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1177; Thomason E602_1; ESTC R206404	25,799	39

altogether unable to resist it otherwise it is likely at this time I should not have troubled thee One word more There was a Passage in that Book last set forth which I hear hath administred offence to divers The Passage was about Pure Sporting with Sin which they think cannot be I will not say that I spake that upon a deeper ground then Man usually speaks upon yet this I cannot but say It is my interest and I must stickle for it though not with men yet in mine own spirit Some questioned with me whether I meant the act of Sin I confess my eye or thoughts was little upon the act but upon the inward Nature of it which must not remain in perpetual enmity but at last be owned as an excellent Servant to him by whom and for whom all things were made out of whom they came and into whom they return according to his own Will and Guidance And Sin could never have done him that service that it has if it had not had that Nature that it has And Sin must have its due from the Righteous Judg who will as well be glorified in being just unto Sin as in shewing his Wisdom and Power in conquering of it In a word To the Creature in the present state of the Creature under the present Law of the Creature according to the Judgment of the eye of the Creature every thing is unlovely and he that sees them not to be so falls short of the perfection of the creaturely eye But come deeper beyond this state beneath this Law Look with a true eye and there you shall finde all this unloveliness pass away and an excellency appear that the Creature could never so much as imagine or dream of And now come back with this eye into the present state of all things and behold them through the true glass and you shall see them all new here also and very far differing from what you did or could take them to be in your creaturely apprehension If this may tend to afford satisfaction to any concerning the further discovery of my minde in this respect it will be pleasing to me who delight not to have it hid but would fain have it opened and presented to the view of all not as desiring either their approbation or condemnation but to satisfie the desire it self This is all I have to express by way of Preface A SERMON TO All Sorts of People FROM JOB 9. 22. This is uniform thereupon I speak He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked JOb was a very excellent spirited man and very exact in his practice so exact under that present Administration wherein he was set that his life temper and motions were exceeding pleasing to him who had so formed and acted him in so much as he was not ashamed to boast of him even to the face of the great Opposer Disturber and Destroyer of such kinde of buildings This Job as he was perfect under that Administration so he was in a proportionable manner blessed with Children Sheep Camels Oxen Asses and a very great Family In a moment all these blessings are snatched away rich Job made poor by being stripped of all which he takes very patiently retaining as sweet a temper of spirit under his affliction and misery as had attended him in the time of his prosperity After this as if there had been a design to wear him out his whole body is smitten with disease and pain and his mind wounded to purpose too and yet at first he takes this kindly also his spirit not at all deviating out of that path of perfection wherein hitherto he had walked But at length anguish overcoming him it opens the very depths and causes that to come forth which had long layn hid in him if not also from him Certain friends of his in this state of his come to visit him sit silent by him as astonished at him not knowing what to think of him nor what to say to him But at length foolishly and weakly take occasion from some distemper in his words to nourish in themselves groundless jealousies concerning him and with all the strength of arguments they can lay hold on to impose them upon his belief Jobs state they know not neither in the nature of things nor in their own experience yet a great mind they have to say somewhat to him with an intent to help and relieve him but for want of a true bottom of light they fall to imagining and ghessing and feeding these their imaginations with reasonings that flow in upon them and take it very ill that these dark conceptions of theirs cannot overbear that more illuminated principle that was in Job They take it for granted That sin must be the cause or God would never have dealt so with Job They urge this from the Justice of God from the experience of all ages and therefore wish Job to look to himself to acknowledg his sin and humble himself before God and not to fly out into such extravagant self-justifications or accusations of God as his present distemper might dispose him to Job here endeavors to take them off from these excursions and draws the point between him and them to an head He denies the bottom whereupon they go and lays down his own bottom This is uniform This is every way true That which ye speak is true It is true That Sinners are met with Oppressors must have a time to be themselves oppressed Hypocrites shall not always flourish The Righteous shall be blessed c. But this will not hold so far as ye extend it that every one that is thus dealt with must needs be such an one But that which I lay down is uniform has no such exception is a deeper a fuller Truth Perfect and wicked he destroyeth How exact soever a man be under his administration yet it is in the power of him who made him and formed him into what he is in that administration to bring him to destruction in it at his pleasure He that bringeth both the perfect and the wicked upon the stage may turn either of them off from the stage when he will There is no more to hinder him from destroying the perfect then there is to hinder him from destroying the wicked They are both equally his They are both at his dispose They are one and the same under several Representations and he has appointed them both to one and the same end which is destruction This is it I will stand to overthrow it if ye can He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked Perfect and wicked Perfect are such as are upright under that administration under which they are set who in their state and motions suit with the Law of it God has a Law for every thing he brings forth in this state of weakness He that suits with the Law of his administration that administration which he is set under is perfect He who deviates wholy from it is wicked