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judgement_n	action_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	9,017	5	10.6970	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75934	Milk for babes; or, A mothers catechism for her children Wherein chief saving principles of Christian religion, through the body of it, fit first to inform children in; are 1. propounded. 2. expounded. 3. applied. The sum of which is set down in the following pages; together with the questions and answers which are the grounds of the catechism. Whereunto also annexed, three sermons; preached at Andrews Holborn at a publike fast, and at Covent-Garden, upon severall occasions. By Robert Abbot preacher of Gods word at Southwick in Hantshire.	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1646 (1646)	Wing A69aA; ESTC R229746	144,259	361

person in this word Thou thou child thou man thou woman Vse Therefore my child stirre up thy strength to keepe thy vessel in holinesse and honour What miserable pollutions are among men in eyes as they that had their eyes full of adultery 2 Pet. 2. in speech as Judah to Thamar Gen. 38. Let me lye with thee in gestures Jer. 5. 2 Sam. 13. as they that neighed after their neighbours wives By fornication as Amnon by adultery Joh. 8. Gen. 49. as the woman taken in adultery by incest as Reuben and that incestuous man 1 Cor. 5. Rom. 1. 1 Cor. 6. and by unnaturall sinnes How doe men and women provide for it by Drunkennesse Gluttony Wanton apparell and Idlenesse Oh let thy heart bleed to thinke of these sins committed in secret and watch over thy nature crush thy thoughts quench thy burnings with the bloud of Christ rested on by faith that lust never come to delight or tyranny 16. Q. What is the eighth Commandement Exod. 20.15 What is required in the eighth commandement A. Thou shalt not steale The next precious thing among men is goods See carefully that first we must live next we must live honestly next honest persons must live by honest means they must not steale Here God requires the preservation of thy owne and thy neighbours goods God would have every man have his owne and that we might maintaine a just possession to our selves and others there God saith to every man woman and child Thou shalt not steale To Steale strictly taken here is closely to convey away the goods of thy neighbor without his privity but it is to be extended to all unlawfull depriving thy selfe or others of their goods All men condemn open theft and the sword of a Magistrate doth reach to such theft therefore God is pleased to use that word which signifieth close theft and under that to comprehend all This theft ariseth from a distrust of Gods providence it increaseth by love of money covetousnesse and the crafty invention of a thousand deceits and couzenages to bring in but it breaks out both against thy selfe and others Thou mayst be a thiefe to thy selfe by penuriousnesse prodigality and idlenesse If thou refuse to take the comfort of what God hath given thee or dost prodigally lash out in a day what would serve a weeke or art idle and slothfull to get what God offers in the ordinary course of his providence thou art a thiefe to thy selfe Thou mayst be a thiefe to others by sinnes of commission or omission If thou trust in wrong or robbery by deceiving any man woman or child in bargaining either by word or deed or by secret or open deceiving them of their goods to the hurt of Church Common-wealth or Family If when thy selfe or thy neighbor are wronged in their goods thou do not discover and punish and rescue when thou canst and cause restitution to be made if thou be able thou art a thiefe before God Vse Therefore my child doe thou give every man his right in that proper state which God hath cast upon him Our good God hath allotted to every man his owne and therefore he hath appointed buying and selling letting and hiring borrowing and lending and hath given bounds to every one He would have this justly preserved that thou Rom. 13.7 Luk. 3.14 Luk. 1.75 and all men might have just maintenance by just getting keeping and spending If thou erre from this course the rack of conscience will so pursue thee that thou wilt not have peace in any thing thou doest enjoy 17. Q. What is the ninth Commandement A. Exod. 20.16 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour This is the fourth precious thing would have in a well ordered world What is required in the ninth Commandement First he orders the world into severall ranks of Governours and governed Next he would have a care of life Next he would have men live honestly Next he would have honest men maintained by honest meanes and here that men may have their honour in the fifth Commandement their life in the sixth Commandement their honesty in the seventh Commandement and their goods in the eighth Commandement he would have truth If falshood may prevaile men shall neither have their goods nor their honesty nor their life nor their honour Therefore God requires in this Commandement The preservation of our owne and our neighbours truth God is pleased to look upon that order which he hath set in the world that some are in the throne to be honoured and some at the footstoole to honour He saw that much disorder and sinne would arise about mans life his honesty his goods and his good name therefore he commands that all falshood be banished and that Justice be carried by allegations and proofes according to truth Witnesse may be given either by word Josh 24.22 Job 16.8 when the tongue speaks it or by work when some doing or suffering speaks it False witnesse is when it is not agreeable to the thing spoken of to the minde of him that speaketh it or to the end of speaking it that is Justice and Charity To beare false witnesse is either to receive speake or doe any thing that may prejudice charitable truth Against thy neighbour is concerning thy neighbour in Gods language whether it be for him or against him And this thou mayst happen to doe in the root of false witnesse and in the fruit of it The root and foundation of false witnesse may sometimes be uncharitablenesse to the person thou witnessest against or flattery and partialitie to the person thou witnessest for sometimes suspition of worse then thy neighbour deserves but alwayes an inclination to hunt after that which is thy neighbours This will breed a digging deepe to hide the truth a judgeing uncharitably and an augmentation of the report making a little to be a great deale more The fruit of it is when we doe not maintaine the truth of things and persons but fall into many sinnes both against truth and against truth and charity Thou mayst sinne against truth simply by falshood in speech by denying the truth by betraying the truth and by counterfeit and fained actions Thou mayst sinne against truth and charity both publiquely and privately Publiquely in the person of a Judge or Arbitratour when thou nourishest strife among neighbours by delaying sentence beleeving the oathes of wicked lyers or by passing rash or unjust judgements In the person of the Jurie when thou findest not according to the truth In the person of the Plaintife when thou accusest falsly In the person of the Defendent when thou accusest thy selfe unnecessarily or colourest or deniest a bad cause In the person of a Lawyer when thou pleadest knowne bad causes or any cause before thou understand it In the person of a witnesse when thou doest pervert truth conceale truth or testifie falshood and in the person of a Register when