Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	authority_n	law_n	power_n	2,872	5	4.6226	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32841	The children's petition, or, A modest remonstrance of that intolerable grievance our youth lie under in the accustomed severities of the school-discipline of this nation humbly presented to the consideration of the Parliament.		1669 (1669)	Wing C3869A; ESTC R25344	14,244	69

much less such who are the Sons of Gentlemen and Nobles Besides that if you change the consideration of the Age for the most part it is most manifest injury and wrong In the next place If there be any whose disposition is so illiberal as that it will not be amended by reproof and ingenuous notices it is to be expected it should become but the worse for blows and grow the more obdurate In the third place There will be no need of castigation if the Master be so diligent as he ought to see the task which he sets to be done by his own sedulity and inspection Nunc ferè negligentia paedagogorum sic emendari videtur ut pueri non facere quae recta sunt cogantur sed cur non fecerint puniantur That is The matter now a-days is ordinarily so carried the Boy is beaten to make amends for his Masters carelesness and sloth Add unto this that there is many times a hared brain a stammering tongue or the like very grievous ill habit or gesture introduced through terror or there may be at least according to this same Author some deformed passages or uncouth words which do fall from or happen to those that are beating which leave such impressions of shame and surprize on the more ingenuous and bashful that no advantage which can be obtained by any Master is able to recompence the mischief already suffered if it be onely in the debasing the Spirit and rendring themselves vile in their own imaginations Above all in the last place he has these words Jam si minor in deligendis custodum Praeceptorum moribus fuit cura pudet dicere in quae probra nefandi homines isto coedendi jure abutantur Non morabar in parte hac nimium est quod intelligitur We will not English this last of his Reasons because it is the very fore upon which we touch and the rise of this Address onely thus far It is too much already sayes he which is understood The habitation of the Muses are fancied by the Poets to be Amoena Loca pleasant Groves delightful Hills chrystal Fountains where Joy and Gladnesse and the Graces dwell And what is it these signifie Hath their Pernassus and such fictions no meaning Is it the steep toyl onely Learning requires in those that will climb to it or the refreshing prospect they intend by it to intice us up What is it the Antients here would represent Are their high Hills nothing indeed but Difficulty and their Groves Birch Is Helicon the Boys Tears and Pegasus the blind Horse Alas that when we should be invited to Learning as to a Banquet a pleasant Feast and the desire of our Souls it is presented to us never but in torment and dread Alas that the Muses should be put thus in the shape of Erinnis and Thalia's Lute-strings be made to yeeld no Sounds but Screeches and Cries That when we go to School we should be driving to the Shambles when we go to our Books we should be carrying unto paines Et ubi tor quentur jam non membra sed vulnera in Cyprians expression Alas how wide must the World needs be here to think that Children in their tender Nature should be made to love that and who would not have Children love their Books which is never offered them but with hate You should imbitter to us our pleasure and our sin that will do us hurt but you should sugar to us our learning which is for our good The Nurse should never put Wormwood on that Brest from which she would not have the Child to be weaned We read of Marcus Portius in the Roman Story who established a Law That no Roman Citizen should be beaten by the Magistrate with Rods. He should be a Tribune of the People by our Vote that could prefer a Lex Porcia in our Schools and some Work-houses where poor Children are imployed in this Nation If Solomon will have the Boys beaten and the Maids beaten let it be with a Wand or such a way as becomes the Vertuous as well as the Severe If Solomon will name a Rod too it is a Rod for the Back Let it be a chast stripping but what need is there for making the Child good to have the Master made naught Solomons Corrections are spoken to Parents which he advises too toward Children for their faults and not Masters for their Books Furthermore we have bad Parents sayes the Apostle that have chastned us after their own pleasure signifying that we are yet to be in subjection as to them but if we have Masters that do so it is a thing to be abhorred seeing God does not and the Good consequently should not correct any but only for their profit Especially seeing moreover Quod aetatem infirmam injuriae obnoxiam as the aforesaid Quintilian farther has it nemini debet nimium licere It is a thing here orderly worth the enquiry what that power the Master hath over his Scholars is and whence he hath it All power we must know is either natural or derived The power of the Master is not of Nature For what hath one man of himself to do with the Child of another The power which is derived is either Supream or Subordinate The Supream Authority is that which lies in the chief Magistrate whether it be derived to him immediately from God as in this state or by consent of the people as in some others The Subordinate Power is that which is derived from the Supream to the inferior Officers who act in his Name and from his Authority The power of the Master now is no such power neither deriving from the Magistrate or the Laws of the Nation for he acts not over the Boyes in the Kings Name as the Justice and the Constable and the like Officers do What then is this adventitious strange power Why this power the Master hath over the Scholar is that right of ruling him which is given him by the Father It is no power therefore Supream but Subordinate and not natural but derived from that which is natural and consequently is no other nor no more or to any other purpose then what the Parents do allow him If a Father therefore shall commit his Child to a School for Learning but shall not give the Master leave to strike him or if he does yet not use this sort of coercion upon him for the reasons mentioned The Master cannot serve any such Child in this said fashion but he is unjust not to say also what is worse because he usurps an authority he hath not committed to him and so is accountable both before God and Man for such an action Let not him that is unjust be unjust still let not him that is filthy be still filthy Not that we intend by this to diminish the least tittle of that reverence which is due to our Masters For when we derive their Authority from this Fountain we do think it a part