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_v	truth_n	2,178	5	5.6964	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02538	Heauen vpon earth, or Of true peace, and tranquillitie of minde. By Ios. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1606 (1606)	STC 12666; ESTC S119001	38,487	228

Others may talk of mirth as a thing they haue hard of or vainly fancied Only the Christian feeles it and in comparison therof scorneth the idle ribaldish and scurrilous mirth of the prophane Sect. 24. AND this resolution which wee call for must not onely exclude manifestly euill actions but also doubting and suspension of minde in actions suspected and questionable wherein the iudgement must euer giue confident determination one way For this Tranquillity cōsisteth in a steddines of the mind and how can that vessell which is beaten vpon by contrarie waues and windes and tottereth to either part be said to keepe a steddy course Resolution is the onely mother of securitie For instance I see that Vsurie which was wont to be condemned for no better then a Legall theft hath now obtained with many the the reputatiō of an honest trade is both vsed by many by some defended It is pittie that a bad practise should finde any learned or religious Patron The summe of my patrimony lieth dead by me sealed vp in the bag of my father my thriftier friends aduise me to this easy sure improuemēt Their counsel my gain preuaile my yearly sums come in with no cost but of time waxe parchmēt My estate likes it well better then my conscience which tels me still he doubts my trade is too easy to be honest Yet I cōtinue my illiberall course not without some scruple and contradiction so as my feare of offēce hinders the ioy of my profit the plesure of my game hartens mee against the feare of iniustice I wold be rich with case and yet I would not be vncharitable I would not be vniust All the while I liue in vnquiet doubts and distraction Others are not so much entangled in my bonds as I in my owne At last that I may bee both iust and quiet I cōclude to referre this case wholly to the sentence of my inward iudge the Conscience the Aduocates Gaine and Iustice plead on either part at this barre with doubtfull successe Gaine informes the Iudge of a new and nice distinction of toothlesse and biting interest brings presidents of particular cases of vsury so farre from any breach of charity or iustice that both parts therein confes themselues aduantaged Iustice pleades euen the most toothlesse vsury to haue sharpe gummes finds in the most harmelesse and profitable practise of it and insensible wrong to the common body besides the infinite wracks of priuate estates The weake iudge suspends in such probable allegatiōs demurreth as being ouercome of both and of neither part leaues me yet no whit more quiet no whit lesse vncertaine I suspend my practise accordingly being sure it is good not to doe what I am not sure is good to be done and now Gaine solicites mee as much as iustice did before Betwixt both I liue troublesomely Nor euer shal doe other till in a resolute detestation I haue whipped this euil merchant out of the Temple of my heart This rigour is my peace Before I coulde not bee well either full or fasting Vncertainetie is much payne euen in a more tollerable action Neither is it I thinke easy to determine whether it be worse to doe a lawfull acte with doubting or an euill with resolution since that within it selfe is good is made euil to me by my doubt and what is in nature euill is in this one point not euill to mee that I do it vpon a verdict of a Conscience so now my iudgement offends in not following the truth I offend not in that I follow my iudgement Wherin if the most wise God had left vs to roue onely according to the aime of our owne coniectures it should haue beene lesse faulty to be Sceptickes in our actions and either not to iudge at all or to iudge amisse but how that he hath giuen his a perfite rule of eternall equity and truth wherby to direct the sentences of our iudgement that vncertainty which alloweth no peace to vs will aforde vs no excuse before the tribunall of heauē wherfore then onely is the hart quiet when our actions are grounded vpon iudgement our iudgement vpon Truth Sect. 25. FOR his estate the quiet minde must first rolle itself vpō the prouidence of the hyest For whosoeuer so casts himselfe vpō these outwarde thinges that in their prosperous estate here ioyceth cōtrarily is cast downe in their miscarriage I know not whether hee shall finde more vncertaintye of rest or more certaintye of vnquietnesse since hee must needes bee like a light vnballanced vessell that rises and falles with euery waue and depends only on the mercy of wind water But who relyes on the ineuitable decree all-seeing prouidence of God which can neither bee crossed with second thoughts nor with euēts vnlooked for layes a sure grounde of Tranquillity Let the world tosse how it list and vary it selfe as it euer doth in storms calms his rest is pitched alo●t aboue the sphere of changeable mortality To begin is harder then to prosecute What coūsell had God in the first molding of thee in the womb of thy mother what ayde shall hee haue in repairing thee from the womb of the earth if he could make shall restore thee without thee why shall hee not much more not without thy in deuor dispose of thee Is God wise enough to guide the heauens to produce all creatures in their kindes and seasons and shall he not bee able to order thee alon Thou sayst I haue friendes and which is my best friend I haue wealth to make both them and mee and wit to put both to best vse O the broken reedes of humaine confidence Who euer trusted on friendes that could trust to himselfe Who euer was so wise as not sometimes to be a foole in his owne conceit ofte times in the conceit of others Who was euer more discōtent then the wealthy Friends may bee false wealth cannot but be deceitfull wit hath made many fooles Trust thou to that which if thou wouldst cannot fail thee Not that thou desirest shall come to passe but that which God hath decreed Neither thy feares nor thy hopes nor vows shall either for slow or alter it The vnexperienced passenger when hee sees the vessell go amisse or too farre laies fast hold on the contrary part or on the mast for remedy the Pilot laughs at his folly knowing that what euer ●e labors the barke will goe which way the winde and his sterne directeth it Thy goods are embarked Now thou wishest a direct Northwinde to driue thee to the Straytes and then a West to runne in and now when thou hast emptyed and laded againe thou callst as earnestlie for the South and Southeast to returne and lowrest if all these answer thee not As if heauen and earth had nothing else to doe but to wayte vpon thy pleasure and serued onely to bee commaunded seruice by thee Another that hath