Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	commission_n	peace_n	session_n	2,574	5	10.6777	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43381	A priest to the temple, or, The country parson his character, and rule of holy life. The authour, Mr G.H.	Herbert, George, 1593-1633.	1652 (1652)	Wing H1512; ESTC R215187	60,883	240

into a Calling if they be fit for it and it for them or else to examine with care and advice what they are fittest for and to prepare for that with all diligence But it will not be amisse in this exceeding usefull point to descend to particulars for exactnesse lyes in particulars Men are either single or marryed The marryed and house-keeper hath his hands full if he do what he ought to do For there are two branches of his affaires first the improvement of his family by bringing them up in the fear and nurture of the Lord and secondly the improvement of his grounds by drowning or draining stocking or fencing and ordering his land to the best advantage both of himself and his neighbours The Italian says None fouls his hands in his own businesse and it is an honest and just care so it exceed not bounds for every one to imploy himselfe to the advancement of his affairs that hee may have wherewithall to do good But his family is his best care to labour Christian soules and raise them to their height even to heaven to dresse and prune them and take as much joy in a straight-growing childe or servant as a Gardiner doth in a choice tree Could men finde out this delight they would seldome be from home whereas now of any place they are least there But if after all this care well dispatched the house-keepers Family be so small and his dexterity so great that he have leisure to look out the Village or Parish which either he lives in or is neer unto it is his imployment Hee considers every one there and either helps them in particular or hath generall Propositions to the whole Towne or Hamlet of advancing the publick Stock and managing Commons or Woods according as the place suggests But if hee may bee of the Commission of Peace there is nothing to that No Common-wealth in the world hath a braver Institution then that of Justices of the Peace For it is both a security to the King who hath so many dispersed Officers at his beck throughout the Kingdome accountable for the publick good and also an honourable Imployment of a Gentle or Noble-man in the Country he lives in inabling him with power to do good and to restrain all those who else might both trouble him and the whole State Wherefore it behoves all who are come to the gravitie and ripenesse of judgement for so excellent a Place not to refuse but rather to procure it And whereas there are usually three Objections made against the Place the one the abuse of it by taking petty-Countrey-bribes the other the casting of it on mean persons especially in some Shires and lastly the trouble of it These are so far from deterring any good man from the place that they kindle them rather to redeem the Dignity either from true faults or unjust aspersions Now for single men they are either Heirs or younger Brothers The Heirs are to prepare in all the fore-mentioned points against the time of their practice Therefore they are to mark their Fathers discretion in ordering his House and Affairs and also elsewhere when they see any remarkable point of Education or good husbandry and to transplant it in time to his own home with the same care as others when they meet with good fruit get a graffe of the tree inriching their Orchard and neglecting their House Besides they are to read Books of Law and Justice especially the Statutes at large As for better Books of Divinity they are not in this Consideration because we are about a Calling and a preparation thereunto But chiefly and above all things they are to frequent Sessions and Sizes for it is both an honor which they owe to the Reverend Judges and Magistrates to attend them at least in their Shire and it is a great advantage to know the practice of the Land for our Law is Practice Sometimes he may go to Court as the eminent place both of good and ill At other times he is to travell over the King's Dominions cutting out the Kingdome into Portions which every yeer he surveys peece-meal When there is a Parliament he is to endeavour by all means to be a Knight or Burgess there for there is no School to a Parliament And when he is there he must not only be a morning man but at Committees also for there the particulars are exactly discussed which are brought from thence to the House but in generall When none of these occasions call him abroad every morning that hee is at home hee must either ride the Great Horse or exercise some of his Military gestures For all Gentlemen that are not weakned and disarmed with sedentary lives are to know the use of their Arms and as the Husbandman labours for them so must they fight for and defend them when occasion calls This is the duty of each to other which they ought to fulfill And the Parson is a lover and exciter to justice in all things even as Iohn the Baptist squared out to every one even to Souldiers what to do As for younger Brothers those whom the Parson finds loose and not ingaged into some Profession by their Parents whose neglect in this point is intolerable and a shamefull wrong both to the Common-wealth and their own House To them after he hath shewd the unlawfulness of spending the day in dressing Complementing visiting and sporting he first commends the study of the Civill Law as a brave and wise knowledg the Professours whereof were much imployed by Queen Elizabeth because it is the key of Commerce and discovers the Rules of forraine Nations Secondly he commends the Mathematicks as the only wonder working knowledg and therefore requiring the best spirits After the severall knowledg of these he adviseth to insist and dwell chiefly on the two noble branches therof of Fortification and Navigation The one being usefull to all Countreys and the other especially to Ilands But if the young Gallant think these Courses dull and phlegmatick where can he busie himself better then in those new Plantations and discoveryes which are not only a noble but also as they may be handled a religious imployment Or let him travel into Germany and France and observing the Artifices and Manufactures there transplant them hither as divers have done lately to our Countrey's advantage CHAP. XXXIII The Parson's Library THe Countrey Parson's Library is a holy Life for besides the blessing that that brings upon it there being a promise that if the Kingdome of God be first sought all other things shall be added even it selfe is a Sermon For the temptations with which a good man is beset and the ways which he used to overcome them being told to another whether in private conference or in the Church are a Sermon Hee that hath considered how to carry himself at table about his appetite if he tell this to another preacheth and much more feelingly and judiciously then he writes his rules of