Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	brother_n	danger_n	fool_n	1,488	5	9.9269	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06131	A briefe conference of diuers lawes diuided into certaine regiments. By Lodowick LLoyd Esquier, one of her Maiesties serieants at armes.	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1602 (1602)	STC 16616; ESTC S108780	93,694	158

money vsurie of meate or vsurie of any thing that is put to vsurie thou shalt take no vsurie or aduantage of him but thou shalt feare thy God that thy brother may liue with thee if thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne goe downe ye shall not oppresse the poore with vsurie An example therof in the Gospell a seruant ought to his maister ten thousand talents and vpon intreatie his maister loosed him and forgaue him the debt but that seruant went out and found one of his fellowes that ought him an hundred pence laid hands on him tooke him by the throate and cast him into prison without compassion vntill the debts were payd There is an other kinde of theft which is not the least to steale the good name and fame of any man by scandalous tongues and therefore it was not lawfull in Athens not so much as to reach the longest finger towards any man for it was a note of infamie as though he should call him Catapygos a dog or a beast Likewise if any would call a man Hodidocos or Sycophant in Athens he might haue an action by the lawe of Solon before the Iudges called Areopagitae So to call a man in Egipt an asse an action might bee had by the lawe of Bocchoris against the partie The like lawe was in Persia against those that would call a man a coward The lawe of Christ set downe in the Gospell is that whosoeuer calleth his brother Racha or a foole is in danger of iudgement so it is commaunded by the lawe of Moses that none shall goe vp and downe with slaunderous tongues to tell tales among the people for the punishment of this fault is stripes or amerciaments by the same lawe And therefore he that will see good dayes must refraine his tongue from euil and his lips that they speake no guile saith the Prophet Liber a animā meam à labijs iniquis lingua dolosae The tongue is fire yea a world of wickednesse it defileth the whole body it setteth on fire the curse of nature wee put bittes into the horses mouthes that they should obey vs and we turne them about as we list And therfore saith Xenophon Omnibus animalibus facilius est quàm hominibus imperitare all creatures are more obedient to the lawe then man Shippes which though they bee so great yet are they turned about with a very small rudder our of one mouth proceedeth blessings cursings with the which we blesse God and curse men which are made after the similitude of God all things are tamed by man but the tongue can no man tame for it is an vnruly euill full of deadly poison Thou shalt not slaunder thy neighbour neither shalt thou hate thy brother in thy heart These and many such iudiciall lawes are set downe in the lawe of Moses Therefore said Salomon he that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but the wicked mans tongue is full of slaunder and shame Futiles in vtiles and therefore it is great wisedome not to beleeue any thing rashly for it was euer good counsel Caue cui credas neruus sapientiae est and therefore the punishment of the tongue was in diuers countries diuersly punished And therefore Alexander the great reading certaine secret Letters suffered his onely friend Ephestion to read the same Letters and after Ephestion had read them Alexander tooke his signet laide it on Ephestions mouth as a seale to keep silence and said Anima consilij secretum And therefore the punishment of the tongue was in diuers countries diuersly punished In Persia the tongue should be cut off and nailed to a post or to a pillar in the market place In Egipt the tongue should be cut off and sowed vpon the souldiers helmet in offending the lawe of armes or for offending the state hangd vpon their hats or caps In other places for their blasphemy itshould be hangd vpō pinnacles of temples or on walles of cities to be eaten of fowles of the aire The like lawe made Plato for the hand that kild it selfe that it should not be buried Yet Augustus Caesar being perswaded by his friends that one Aelianus that spake hard of the Emperor should be punished for his ill tongue answered No more but Aelianus shal know that Caesar Augustus hath also a toong The like answere gaue Phillip of Macedon to an ill tongued man whom when his Councell would haue him banished out of Macedonia God forbid said Philip he will speake worse of me in a straunge country then in his owne But Ramyrus king of Spaine being so soft and so gentle of nature that many of his Nobles had him in contempt for his softnesse but he at length in the midst of their contempt and of his softnesse caused eleuen of them to be beheaded in the citie of Osca saying Nescit vulpecula cā quo ludat for it is an old saying It is dangerous to plaie with Lyons Leonē vellicare periculosum est Yet many slaunderous tongues with wicked counsell euer practised mischiefe as Doigs counsell to Saul against Abimelich Achitophels counselto Abs●…on against Dauid his father But the counsell of Daniel to Nabuchodonozer was to hate sinne by righteousnes and his iniquitie by mercy towards the poore such was the counsell of Ioseph to Pharao in Egipt in prouiding against the famin to come Many with the false prophet Balaam haue theyr tongues with Israel but their hearts with Balaac Multi malum sub lingua non in lingua habent Many there be like Laban that deceiued Iacob for his wife and gaue Leah for Rachel too many there be like the Samaritans that seemed in publique shewe to helpe the Israelites to build the Temple and yet secretly in what they could hindred them Many such say with Sigismundus the Emperour that he which cannot dissemble cannot liue like Tiberius who onely preferred and commended his dissimulation before all other his vertues for it was euer Tiberius saying Nullam ex suis virtutibus magis quam dissimulationem diligebat Vlixes dissembling to be beside himselfe least hee should go out of Greece with Agamemnon to the warres Palamides tried him with this stratagem laid Vlixes child before the plough share whereby Vlixes dissimulation was found out by Palamides So Gedeon found out the Ephraimites not to be true Giliadites by pronouncing the letter Schiboleth who slaundered the Gileadites to be runnagates of Ephraim and therefore Gedeon commaunded that none should passe ouer Iorden vnlesse he could pronounce Schiboleth The Gibionites very cunningly dissembled how farre they came what paine and trauell they tooke to feeke the fauour of Ioshua and the Israelites Yet Plato allowed dissimulations in Princes and Gouernours to effect some purpose for said he Mendatie fraude vti imperantes debere ad comodum subditorum There is nothing so necessary in a