Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	according_a	good_a	law_n	2,744	5	4.6392	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20980	Cæsars penny, or A sermon of obedience proving by the practise of all ages, that all persons ought to be subiect to the King, as to the superiour. Preached at St Maries in Oxford at the Assises the 24 of Iuly 1610. By Iohn Dunster Master of Arts and Fellow of Magdal. Colledge.	Dunster, John.	1610 (1610)	STC 7354; ESTC S119403	21,169	46

Zibah insinuate into Mephibosheths wealth if at any time by errour you haue done wrong in this kinde 2. Kings 16 as sometimes no doubt you doe Nō voluntate nocendi sed necessitate nesciendi as S. Aug. pleadeth for you not of purpose to doe wrong but because you cannot come to the knowledge of the right recall and cancell your former acts put Zibah out of Mephibosheths possessiō let not your laws be like printers characters that with the same leters cā print heresy principles of the true religiō let it not be double tonged to speake to the Protestant in his lāguage the language of Hierusalem and to the Papist as kindely in his language the languag of Ashdod Let it not haue mensuram mensuram a measure and a measure pōdus pondus a waight a waight one waight for great men at the court another for poore of the Country one for your kinsman and freind another for your enemie one for the Laity another for the Clergy Let it not be said of you as of some iudges in S. Aug. time alienus animus alienum tribunal tha● if the iudge fauor you not the law shall not favor you or if so yet let it not ' ô let it not be said of you that you are some of those iudges in the Psalme Ps 93 Qui fingunt afflictionem pro lege who giue wormewood and bitternesse insteed of iudgement and turne Mispat into Mispah ●udgement into a snare to ensnare the simple ●nnocent And you the Gent. of the Country doe not end your countenance to strengthen the arme of sinne And you Councellours doe not lende ●our tongues to varnish over the rotten body of sinne And you I urers doe not lend your ●oules which you haue impaned by oath to set ●inne loose out of fetters Againe you Gent. of the Country do not lend your countenance ●o the discountenance or oppression of the in●ocent And you Councellors doe not lend ●our tongues to make vertue ilfauored or iu●tice guilty And you Iurers doe not lend your ●ouls either in favor of the Iudge or some great man on the Bench to finde a wounde for the stroake of iustice where there is none And I beseech you my L. for the honour of your Christian profession for the peace securitie of our King and Gospell vnder him for the glory of your God which may be hence il●ustrated Let not the equiuocating Iesuite slippe ●rom vnder or out dare your laws let not Recusants beare false witnesse anie longer against ●heir own soules in complaining with Crocodils ●eares of imprisonment and losses Let the statute as far forth as it was intended you may make them speake truth Let not women by priviledge of their sexe haue impunity to do wha● they list in the matter of Religion Againe let not Ahab range at loose without a hooke in his nostrells Let not nobility vnderproppe it selfe with titles to oppresse Let not the wealthy increase their gaines by swallowing vp the poore and beggaring the laborers of the Land Let not Officers strippe and grinde the people with trickes and devises of cosnage Let not Naboth loose his vineyard or if his vineyard must needs goe let him not loose his life for crying out of wrong and oppression Da propriam Thymbraee domum da moenia fessi● Let equity be mingled with iustice both put in practise according to the law and Christian charity and a good conscience let sinne beare its burden and haue his wages punishment Let vertue haue her reward impunitie acceptance praise so shall hee who made you iudges on earth make you Angells in heauen and shall bring you out of these Courts on earth to the assemblies of the first borne which are in heauē to God the Iudge of all and Christ the Iudge of the world to come FINIS