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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	aaron_n	call_v	holy_a	33	3	5.1277	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01020	Deuout contemplations expressed in two and fortie sermons vpon all ye quadragesimall Gospells written in Spanish by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca Englished by. I. M. of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford; Discursos para todos los Evangelios de la Quaresma. English	Fonseca, Cristóbal de, 1550?-1621.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1629 (1629)	STC 11126; ESTC S121333	902,514	708

judex nisi virtute valeas irrumpere iniquitatem If thou doest not finde in thy selfe spirit and mettall to cast downe to the ground laying aside all humane respects those grosse abuses that are not to be borne withall though the multitude should neuer so much oppose thee seeke not for the Vara or Rod of a Iudge Iob. Si expaui ad multitudinem nimiam despectio propinquorum terruit me Let this and that plague light vpon mee c. But if neither the peoples multitude nor my friends and kins folkes importunitie could preuaile with mee to make mee peruert Iustice and to faile in the execution of good gouernement why then ô Lord c. A●hish King of the Philistimes banished Dauid out of his Kingdome though hee knew how much his person did import him for feare of his Princes displeasure Viuit dominus quia rectus es sed satrapis non places Here was a cowardly King The second thing that he that gouernes may draw from this paterne is A true weight and measure in punishing To those that sold the Doues hee sayd Auferte ista hinc For this was not in it selfe an vnlawfull kind of trading had it not beene in regard of the place Besides they were poore people and if there were any indulgence or fauour to be showne in those scourges of our Sauiour it should haue beene vsed towards them But some Iudges Dan palos de ciego bestow their blowes like blind men so as they hit some bodie they care not whome The Fruiterer sels fruits that are not ripe Goe thou and root vp all the trees that are in his garden There are many in drinking wine that take a cup too much go thou presently pluck vp the Vines Plutarch in his booke of morall Vertues reports That Lycurgus commanded the same to be done in Thrace A mad-headed Colt that is wilde and kickish it is not good counsaile to kill him but to breake him of his knauish qualities and to make him tame and gentle Nor is it good aduice to destroy the Vines but that men should be brought to drinke moderately and to temper their wine with water In a word The delinquent ought not alwayes to be cut off and destroyed but to be brought to amendment And it is verie fit and conuenient that a Iudge should now and then dissemble and make as though he did not see Nonne dissimulaui nonne silui nonne quieui saith Iob. Saul in the beginning of his raigne was a verie good King Puer vnius anni erat Saul cum regnare caepisset Saul was a child of a yeare old when hee began to raigne so humble and meeke minded was he then and though hee were wronged verie much and much euill spoken of him behind his backe Dissimulabat non audire He would take no notice of it but made as if he knew of no such matter The booke of Wisedome saith That God doth dissemble our sinnes and maketh as though he saw not the sinnes of men because they should amend And the Apostle Saint Paul saith taxing the Athenians of that idolatrous Alter of theirs whereon was written Vnto the vnknowne God That the time of this their ignorance God regarded not but now hee admonisheth all men euerie where to repent But when a Iudge is forced and driuen to punish the best course is if he can to worke the offendors amendment If our Sauiour Christ should haue whipt the Doues they would haue flowne vp and downe the Temple and that was no good meanes for to driue them foorth And if a Gouernor shall at any time exceed the excesse of pittie is the lesse euill Saint Gregorie saith That false Iustice is all indignation and that true Iustice is full of compassion The glorious Doctor Saint Ambrose calleth Mercie The better part of Iustice and that out of the bowells of Iustice Mercie is begot Saint Gregorie That the one without the other is lame and imperfect In the Arke of the Testament Aarons rod and the pot of Manna were placed together Seueritie and Softnesse Iustice and Mercie which ought to be the Iudges Compasse whereby he is to shape his course One of the seuerest punishments which is in the holy Scripture is that which Zacharie painteth forth touching impietie in the Ephah which was a kind of pot or measure containing some ten pottles being stopped close with abal of lead of the weight of a Talent and a woman sitting in the midst thereof whose name was Wickednesse And lo there came out two women and tooke vp this pot by the two ears from the ground and carried it to the land of Shinar Great were the Idolatries of this his People and it was fit that they should be seuerely punished yet notwithstanding these two women that carried this pot into a strange Countrie had wings like a Kyte quasi alas Milui which make many planes and a smooth flight but the word in the originall deriue these wings from another Bird which signifieth Pittie And therefore Montanus renders it thus Ala● Ciconiae They had wings like the wings of a Storke Which is held to be a Foule full of pittie Of some rigorous Iudges the Delinquents may verie wel say Would to God that my punishments and my faul●s were weighed together in a ballance then would plainly appeare to the eye of the World with what inequalitie the Iudge hath proceeded against me The third thing for our learning which we may draw from hence is That our Sauiour proceeded more seuerely and more rigorously against your Vsurers and Money-changers breaking and throwing downe their tables and scattering abroad their money First Because in it selfe and it 's owne nature it was an vnlawfull kind of trading and therefore fit that the occasion thereof should bee taken away and haue no longer footing especially in the Temple Secondly Because money is a thing that clingeth close to the heart of man The glorious Doctor Saint Chrysostome did weigh this well in that case of his who stole the wedge of gold in the spoyles of Iericho Ioshuah turning himselfe towards the Sunne and the Moone he said vnto them Sol contra Gabaon ne mouearis Luna contra vallem Ayalon Hee made likewise a Proclamation That none should priuily conuey away any gold siluer or other prisall Achan lighted on a wedge of gold tooke it vp and hid it Where he obserueth That the Sunne and Moone obeying the order and command of this valiant Captain one of his owne souldiers refused to obey him and only because the wedge of gold was wedged too close to his heart He likewise threw their money about and scattered it all abroad in token That when the couetous man least thinkes on it Diuitias quas deuorauerat euomet de ventre eius extrahet illas Deus Hee shal vomit vp the riches which he hath swallowed and God shall plucke them out of his bellie In antient time they did stampe or ingraue