Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	cause_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	1,980	5	10.2033	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77281	A letter to His Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax from Captaine Lieutenant Bray, concerning the charge and proceedings against him at a Councell of Warre, about the late differences in the Armie. With some strange discoveries or predictions by the said Capt. Leiut. Bray, in relation to the Generall, and some eminent Commanders of the Armie. Also a Letter of the Parliaments Commissioners, presenting the 4. bills to his Majesty, at the Isle of Wight, and his Majesties answer to the same. Together with the Declaration of the Commissioners of Scotland to his Majesty, against the 4. bills presented by the Parliaments Commissioners. Also a true relation of the designe and mutynie in the Isle of Wight, for carrying away of the King, the prevention thereof, and the Order of Parliament for securing hia [sic] Majesties person in Caresbrook Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.; Scotland. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4305; Thomason E421_27; ESTC R204775	3,650	8

A LETTER To His EXCELLENCIE SIR Thomas Fairfax From Captaine Leiutenant BRAY concerning the Charge and proceedings against him at a Councell of Warre about the late di●●erences in the ARMIE With some strange discoveries or Predictions by the said Capt. Leiut BRAY in relation to the Generall and some eminent Commanders of the ARMIE Also a Letter of the Parliaments Commissioners presenting the 4. Bills to his Majesty at the Isle of Wight and his Majesties Answer to the same Together with the Declaration of the Commissioners of SCOTLAND to his Majesty against the 4. Bills presented by the PARLIAMENTS COMMISSIONERS Also a true relation of the designe and mutynie in the Isle of Wight for carrying away of the King the prevention thereof and the Order of Parliament for securing hi● Majesties person in Carisbrook Castle LONDON Printed By Francis Leach Anno Dom. 1647. A Letter to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax from Captaine Lieutenant Bray c. May it please your Excellency I Can give you the title but so that I must superlatively acknowledge the highest I have written to you in the integrity of my heart I honour you so far as the Lord will make mee to honor you In the businesse for which I was imprisoned this is my comfort that I have the testimony of a cleere conscience and I did continue with the Regiment in their distempretures and dissatisfactions out of received and acknowledged conscientious grounds and principles according to my Letter to your Excellency in the time of the distempature I have made my last plea to you and your present Counsell of War and in it I have demonstrated as in my judgement that the present dealings with mee passes an inevitable censure upon your selfe I have yet a little hopes that you have a minde or desire to be subject unto truth for indeed truth and righteousenesse is as purely Lord of you as it is of mee or any one else to judge and condemne I was almost three weeks imprisoned before I had any charge exhibited which is contrary to the forme of your owne proceedings I have declared in my narrative the explanations and naturall causes of the Regiments distemper which if you or any godly impartiall man do well weigh you will finde that fawning temporizing person had no just cause to father the distemper upon mee because I own the Agreement of the people in my judgement which some Officers of the Regiment subscribed at St Albans and such who have carried themselves ●●strously perfideously and treacherously towards mee in charging mee with A private discours● and judgement as in my plea is expressed and who did not carry themselves in an honest conscientious care to your Excellencie and the Regiment as is expressed in my plea God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the word in righteousnesse at which time wicked deeds shall have no glory in power and rules God will destroy Machavell more and more even by a Law which is like unto fire which shall enter into the inmost parts God will recompence vengeance into the bosome of oppressers or of those that conspire in power nay indeed your power to persecute defame and destroy I am and have been very much troubled not so much in relation to my selfe for the Lord upholds me in integrity and much comfort in more then an ordinary care for you and the Lord hath acquainted mee in my conversation with him in an inward testimony That I must tell you these words viz. That unles his hand be against some that are about you and his understandings be against their understandings and his mouth against their mouth your power shall not be established in righteousnesse I did desire of God whither it should be so with you and I heard an absolute voice answearing in these words It is the pure and and un-defiled voice and he said further how wouldst thou have comfort if my voice were not near thee But I feare to write it so positively but God said feare not for this shall be a token to thee that I give thee power in particular to call thee my God But I said I am weake and sinfull as considered in the flesh but he said thou art certainly refining and to be gloriously refined what a sad thing will it be when the Lord will make inquisition for them that have been hurt unjustly by the unrighteousnesse of men who are suffered to walke in divers pleasurable waies to the destruction of others This is my comfort that I can reasonably really say whatsoever men or Devills may think of mee though I am not without temptation that I had rather be ●●d to the slaughter then betray my judgement and understanding to my owne or any mans lust I have read of certaine Alsachins chiefe Judges in Italy that were to determine causes and were to have one onely Cause set downe and were never to know the person as Plaintiffe and Defendant that they might do judgement without partiality How excellently would you appeare if you would or could declare your selfe positively to owne the God of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego and not to owne faces countenances titles and persons but truth equally and impartially to all you should as well heare the meanest Souldier or Officer as well as your owne heart or anie person about you suredlie you cannot chose but think you may as well as other powers of old have Astrologers Magitians Southsayers that would betray all those that would not submit to their subscription or to the Image that they have set up they would have the furnace heat seaven times hotter then before rather then to loose the designe and J cannot read that they could find out 3. men in the province of Babilon that looked another way I have desired you to hear my busines your selfe in a former Letter but I am satisfied that God hath not made you free to it I also desired a publique audience though not on a Scaffold as some have faied God condiscends in some nature or other to the meanest creature your highest glory will be if God shall make you free to condiscend to heare any one and see to come downe from your throne or power and manifest you owne the God of the whole earth who will certainly judge the world I have read of a heathen King Artaxerxes who had a Hammon with him that took in hand to practice against those that did the King good that were most faithfull to him and at length God made the King see and confesse the practises of Haman that he was lifted up with the glorious words of lewd persons that were never good who thought to have scaped the justice of God because they were great who seeth all things and hateth evill which causeth many in authority to be partakers in innocent bloud and to be enwrapped in remediles calamities beguiling with falsh●●d and deceipt the innocency and goodnesse of Princes and therefore Artaxerxes did take care that his