who is here called Solomon as he is called David elsewhere The children of Israel shall return and seeke the Lord their God Hosca 3.5 and David their King And therefore it is Genebrard that he approves of another making it a patronymie In Solomonidem for the Son the Nephew one sprung from Solomon or is willing to allow it an Appellative speaking no more then Peace-maker and so is eminently the due of the Lord Jesus Christ Heb. 7.2 who is King of Salem that is King of Peace But I cannot list under this opinion to cut Solomon quite out of this Psalm to which the Inscription gives him so clear a Title I know a greater then Solomon is here but yet Solomon is here too Solomon in the figure and Christ in the perfection of Kingly administration Solomon's kingdome shall be a mapp of Christ's And as David was a type of him in his encounters with and triumph over the Churches enemies so shall Solomon be in the calme and happy dayes of the Church when Christ shall give his beloved rest and finde a repose for the daughter of Zion making peace within her walls and plenteousness within her palaces In short those blessings that flow in with the rule of Christ shall not be wanting to the Reigne of Solomon onely he shall governe by and compose to this modell He shall judge the poore of the People c. The Text seems to have some little dependance upon the first verse wee 'l quit it of that and then we shall come clear to it The threed of connexion runs through both it and the two former verses thus Give the King thy judgements O God c. v. 1. And then He shall judge thy people in c. v. 2. And The mountaines shall bring peace to c. v. 3. And He shall judge the poore of the c. in the Text. The connexion then is plain The King prayes heartily Give she King thy judgements O Lord c. The Kings son proves accordingly He shall judge the poor of the people c. The Kings Son and the Kings Subjects and all fare the better for the prayers of pious Kings We are the happy witnesses of this truth this day I am very confident the peace the plenty the prosperity the rich confluence of mercies we are now entring upon and do in some good measure enjoy are the sweet fruits of his late Majesties prayers He sowed in teares what we are now reaping in joy That Princely Martyr was excellent at those spirituall wrestlings such another devout duellist as Jacob his faith made him more then man a Match for the Angel Hos 12.4 And though his Treaties on Earth were sadly successesse yet his entreaties with Heaven were of invincible strength and urgency as a Prince he had power with God Gen. 32.28 and prevailed God hath heard the Kings prayer for the Kings Son and given him such a returne of Judgement and Righteousnesse that we may promise our selves in the confidence of the Text He shall judge the poore of the people c. The Psalme being Depositum Davidis as it is called because of the last words of it Davids Testament the Text is one of those Legacies which he bequeaths to Solomon and in him to those happy people which should live in the peaceable plenteous dayes of his flourishing Reigne looking also through the Perspective of Faith at their incomparable condition which should see the most desirable dayes of the Son of Man and follow the conduct of the Prince of Peace in the glorious administration of his Kingdome Wherein David as else-where sings of Mercy and Judgement Mercy He shall judge the poore of the people he shall save the children of the needy Judgement And shall break in pieces the Oppressour Or if you please Here is all distributive justice sum'd up and comprised in two particulars 1. Defensive justice let me so call it He shall judge the poore of the people that 's one piece of it and the second is like unto it He shall save the children of the needy 2. Offensive justice and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour Each of these hath an Agent Act Object The Agent He the same in all The Act diverse as it meets with an object judge save breake in pieces The Object diversifying this Act The poore of the people the children of the needy the Oppressour He shall judge the poor of c. I begin with the Agent his first Act and Object He shall judge the poore of the people He But who is that is he invested with Authority is he qualified for so great a worke Is he commissioned first that 's a question would be asked We have had many invaders of late some have taken Aarons honour upon them Heb. 5.4 and never were called of God as Aaron was Others have climbed Moses his Chaire by strange steps of their owne laying who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the quicke and the dead 1 Pet. 4.5 when they shall be asked the Hebrews question to Moses Exo. 2.14 Quis constituit te Principem judicem Who made thee a Prince and a Judge And is he sufficient let that be asked too For we have had some whose names and places have been of the greater print and themselves of little or no letters How many have possessed themselves of Gamaliel's seat that never did nor were ever worthy to sit at his feet of whom we may say as St. Paul of the Gentiles in another case That having not the Law Rom. 2.14 they were a law unto themselves I and to others too who have cause enough to complaine they feel it yet How many have been set on high like the Idols of the Heathen Psal 115.5 6 7. of whom the Psalmist They have eyes and sea not eares and heare not it had been well if they had been like them in that other defect too that they had hands and handled not But they were too active with them it is to be thought and that makes so many poore of the people at this day And hence it was that Judgement like Jordan's streams was turned backward or as the Prophet complains Am. 5.7 Judgement was turned into wormwood Righteousnesse was left off in the earth Oh! but the He in the Text is infinitely furnished for his employment Col. 2.3 having all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge bid in him knowing the Law exactly even as he kept it in every title of it Jam. 4.12 being that one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy He is a Judge that sees without evidence and knows without witness He that can read the dark letters of the heart as if they were written with a beam of the Sun upon a wall of chrystall He that can discerne a false cause through a faire varnish He that shall bring every worke into judgement with every secret
JUS POLIET FORI OR GOD and the KING Judging For RIGHT Against MIGHT As it was delivered in a Sermon before the Honourable His Majesties Judges of Assize in the Cathedrall Church of LINCOLNE Septem 10. 1660. By Edward Boteler sometimes Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge and now Rector of WINTRINGHAM in the County of LINCOLNE Isa 28.5 6. In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people And for a spirit of judgement to him that sitteth in judgement and for strength to them that turne the battel to the gate LONDON Printed for G. Bedell and T. Collins at the Middle Temple gate in Fleetstreet 166◠TO THE Right Worshipfull Sir WILLIAM TROLLOP Baronet High Sheriff OF The County of Lincoln SIR DVring the late Whirlewinde in Church and State in which He that could not hold his tongue could not hold his peace I studied to Comment practically upon that Text of the Prophet Am. 5.13 The prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evill time Privacy was then a priviledge nothing so safe as solitude and I could not but hug my self and applaud my condition in obscurity No tyes of Interest no flatteries of the Times could draw me out of my recesses or court me to make a step on that publique Theatre where I perceived little acted but what would put ingenuity to the blush and make honesty ashamed But now that by the goodnesse of God the clouds are scattered our day cleares up and we seeme to sit under the smiles of Heaven I have adventured abroad under the Conduct of your name to salute our new-borne Peace and bid that desirable Stranger welcome into our more then wearied world and this I have done in the great Congregation Nor have I done yet but that you may see how my obedience strives to be as large as your Commands I have followed them from the Pulpit to the Presse And though I thought these worthlesse conceptions publique enough before as having delivered them in the face of the Country yet since your selfe and others neither the least nor least considerable and intelligent part of the Auditory are pleased to thinke otherwise I submit what ever I thinke my selfe They are now no longer mine but yours the Dedication makes them so designe them your protection they begg it they need it I heard some whisperings as if I were too tart I value it not errour must needs be the sore where truth makes the smart I shall not so much as Epistle the Reader to be courteous the candid and cleare brow'd will be so as for the tetricall and angry generation let them go Rumpatur si quis rumpitur invidia I am Sir Your most humble most obliged Servant E. BOTELER PSAL. 72.4 He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the Oppressour In our other Translation He shall keep the simple folke by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer IT is not long since we were in as sad a case as the poor captive Jewes Psal 137.1 2. who sate by the waters of Babylon weeping to remember our sometimes happy Zyon Hanging our harps upon the willows and being out of tune for any song unlesse to descant upon our miseries with the lamenting Prophet Lam. 2.1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast downe from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel Amos 4.9 and remembred not his foot-stool in the day of his anger And we are now as a fire-brand pluckt out of the burning seasonably pluckt out For Isa 1.9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant we should have been as Sodome and we should have beene like unto Gomorrah and the glory of this flourishing Church and Kingdom had been like that of the materiall Temple at Hierusalem which fell from courting the clouds to kisse the dust So that when I recognize what we lately were and take a view of what we now are when I behold our captivity turned as the rivers in the South Ps 126.4 1 K. 10.9 fully suddēly unexpectedly The Lord delighting in the King Isa 1.26 to set him on the throne of Israel restoring our Judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning Jer. 30.21 Our Nobles being of themselves and our Governour proceeding from the midst of us Num. 16.2 Our Tribunals and seats of justice furnished with Princes of the Assembly famous in their congregation men of renown Isa 30.20 Our Teachers no more removed into corners but our eyes seeing our Teachers When I consider all these me thinks I cannot keep my Meditations from running those numbers of David To climbe the heavens Psal 148.1 2 3 c. and call in the glorious Inhabitants and powerfull Hosts thereof the Angels Sun Moon and Stars of light To range the Ayr and summon thence the Fire and Hayle Snow Vapours and stormy winds To dive the Abysse of waters and bring up the Dragons and all Deeps To traverse the Earth and gather the mountains and all hills fruitfull trees and all Cedars Kings of the Earth and all people Princes and all Judges of the Earth both young men maidens old men and children that all may beare a part in the rejoycings of this day and joyn in praises to the God of Jeshurun Deut. 33.26 who rideth upon the Heavens in our help who giveth salvation unto Kings Ps 144.10 who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword Ps 78.71 that he may feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance That he may judge the poore of the people that he may save the children of the needy and breake in pieces the Oppressour The Psalme like the Times presents us with a most pleasant and delicious prospect full of blessings both what 's written in the one you may read in the other The Travailer who in his observations of severall Countreys reports he found in one Pulchrum Regem and in another Pulchrū Regnum might here see both a gracious King and a flourishing Kingdom If you take a view of the Psalm you may finde 1. God pray'd to to blesse the King v. 1. Give the King thy judgements O God c. 2 The King made by God a blessing to the people He shall judge the people c. to v. 18. 3 The King and people blessing God in the following verses I would not stumble at the threshold by engaging in a quarrell about the Title which some have left worse then they found it perplexing it with more whilest they pretend to free it from some difficulty A Psalme for Solomon Lovinus in loc Not for Solomon the son of David Bathsheba saith one but for Christ
or preserve He shall keep the simple folke by their right And the following words are exegeticall or expository tell us what it is to judge he shall save To save to keep to deliver this is to judge to judge for to judge in the first sense Oppressos liberare He shall judge the poore of the people 2. There is a judging against and in the severer sense and that is all one with condemning Heb. 13.4 Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge that is in plaine English condemne So St. Chrysostome and other Fathers understand that of the Apostle Know you not that we shall judge Angels 1 Cor. 6.3 that is evill Angels whom we shall as glorious Co-assessors with the righteous Judge arraign sentence and damne to their miserable eternity Quae res Daemonibus superbissimis molestissima erit poena sayes the learned Suarez It will be a cutting tearing torment to the proud Devils to see the victorious insultings of the Saints that they of whom they have been the accusers shall now be their Judges and sit upon their Condemnation and this is judging in the second sense to judge against Oppressores coercere To breake in pieces the Oppressour So that these two sorts of judging sute with the two sorts of men in the Text. Here is the judgement of comprobation of deliverance of salvation and that 's for the poore of the people and children of the needy And Here is the judgement of Condemnation that 's for the wrong doer the Oppressour And shall break in pieces the Oppressour And that both these judgings may be regular and right they must be made up of these three principall Ingredients The Judge must Examine Discern Execute 1. The Judge must examine which is so necessary that without it he cannot be a Judge Qui statuit aliquid parte inauditâ alterâ aequum licet statuerit Seneca ipse hand aequus fuerit To do right without hearing is to do wrong What an ingratefull Traytor was Mephibosheth whilest Zibah's story was told onely 2 Sam. 16.3 But let him have a hearing and how faithfull was he his words are the very breath of Loyalty Let him take all Chap. 19 30. forasmuch as my Lord the King is come againe in peace into his owne house Lud. de vita Christi p. 1. c. 83. n. 2. John 8. Judex igitur qui audit accusantes non debet statim sententiam dare sed discutere sayes Ludolphus upon our Saviour's writing on the ground at the accusation of the woman for adultery The Judge is to take discussion in his way to determination The Judge of all the Earth hath cut us out this method in his own proceedings in the case of Sodome who though he sees the most secret prevarications of the heart the very first tendencies to sinne and so seeing those monsters in their conceptions cannot but know them in their growth and height And though those wretches were both Accusers and Witnesses and gave in a Declaration against themselves insomuch that impudent sinners are after said to declare their sins as Sodome Yet Isa 3.9 I will goe downe saith God Gen. 18.21 and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me and if not I will know Nicodemus gave check to the whole force and fury of the chief Priests and Pharisees against our Saviour with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth our Law judge any man before it heare him John 7.51 And well had it been if some had had either the courage or the conscience to have said as much for our Law We all know who complained sadly that he could not be heard But the just and righteous God hath heard him and now he is making inquisition for blood Psal 9.12 He remembreth him he forgetteth not the cry of the humble But I would touch that sore gently To examine that 's the first ingredient in judging 2. The Judge must discerne see into the substance as well as heare the sound of the Cause Though he must have no eye for persons yet he should be all eye for Causes that he may look through all those Tinctures and complexions which are laid on with so much art upon the face of falshood It was Saint Pauls happinesse that he might make his defence before Agrippa Acts 26.3 whom he knew expert in all customes and questions which were among the Jews When poore Truth comes to the Bar assaulted by all the powers of wit and art perplexed with difficulties and doubts and intricacies then well fare a sagacious Judge that can expedite her and set her free The word of my Lord the King shall now be comfortable 1 Sam 14.17 saith the woman of Tekoah for as an Angell of God so is my Lord the King to discerne good and bad It is no small comfort to a People when their King and the Kings Ministers are terrestiall Angels for their knowledge and intuition 1 K. 10.9 Blessed be the Lord his God which delighteth in the King to set him on the throne of Israel because the Lord loved Israel for ever therefore hath he made him King to do judgement and justice And blessed be God for a more knowing and learned Magistracy that the Judges of the Earth are more instructed then formerly never more need of them Time runs low the very dregs and all come Impostors Hypocrites Pretenders these over-run us sagacious Judges are necessary are seasonable To discern that 's the Judges second ingredient 3. The last but not the least is Execution The Scire justitiam we have spoken of discerning knowing Justice that 's something but that 's not enough no nor Diligere justitiam neither which goes further to love justice so must every one Nor doth Quaerere justitiam to seek justice carry it high enough for the Jury must do so as well as the Judge but to execute it that all that is his charge Execution though sometimes the death of the Offender is always the life of the Law When we read of Idolatry Rape and other wilde exorbitances in the book of Judges the holy Ghost that we might not misse the cause of such misdemeanours Judg. 18.1 Ch. 19.1 Chap. 21.25 gives us it no lesse then three times non erat Rex In those dayes there was no King in Israel none to invigorate and put life into the Lawes all was either dead or dormant they had no head to discerne no hand to execute justice there was no King in Israel Execution in a Judge is like Elocution in an Oratour it is primū secundum ultimum it is all in all Travailers tell us of a law in Rhodes that none should shave and yet observed that none or few in the Isle were unshaven It was vox praeterea nihil a Law talked of but was nothing for want of execution And is not our Island a transcript of that have we not
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a respecter of persons so neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an accepter of presents It is the glory of a Judge but how few attain it when it may be said of him non ditior sed clarior evadit A Lap. Com. in Exod. he leaves not such a name for being rich as being righteous When he can make Samuel's challenge 1 Sam 12.3 Witnesse against me before the Lord and before his Annointed whose Oxe have I taken or whose Asse have I taken or whom have I defrauded whom have I oppressed or of whose hands have I received any bribe to blinde mine eyes Jud. 16.21 25. What a sad spectacle was Judge Sampson without his eyes but a bribe-blinded Judge is so much the worse because his owne hands put out his owne eyes Oh! this sententia venalis as St. Ambrose phraseth it a sale sentence is one of the worst bargains a man can make and the very next to that in the Gospel of taking the world in exchange for the soule We have read and heard of strange sales Venalesque Lucan Phars manus Sale-Armyes Forces let out Mercenary souldiers though that be no rarity now We have seene stranger the King the Church I had almost said Religion and all exposed to sale The Law was at stake too for company therefore you that are the Professors of it adde not to the number of monstrous sales by making any unconscionable sale of it now it is confirmed in your hands again have not Os venale sell not your speech your silence your cause your Client and all for advantage Let not God complain Mic. 3.11 Hesiod as of old that the heads of Israel judge for reward The Poet tels us of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bribeeater and a Bribe-devourer but the time will come when every such devourer that runs open-mouth'd at gifts and swallows all that comes with so much greedinesse shall be sick of his Morsels and they shall not stay with him Job 20.15 He hath swallowed down riches and he shall vomit them up again Rain is good saies one and the earth is good Tr. in Prov. sed ex eorū commixtione fit lutum mixe them two together and they make dirt To give is laudable and to receive allowable but the unequal mixing of them two often makes foul and dirty the clean and fair paths of justice Let me therefore for a close of this lay the practice of holy David before you I was upright before him Ps 18.23 and I kept my selfe from mine iniquity therefore hath the Lord recompenced me according to my righteousnesse according to the cleannesse of my hands in his eye-sight Keep your hearts right your hands clean and the Lord recompence you accordingly that 's your integrity the fourth and last of the Requisites wherewith he must be furnished that will judge the poor of the people I have done with the first particular in the defensive part of justice the Agent with his first Act and Object The Act judge the Object poor He shall judge the poor of the people Let us on to the second He shal save the children of the needy Which is not another Act and Object but rather the same under other expressions For pauperes filii pauperū the poor and children of the needy Aug. l. 4. Cont. Marc. c. are all one as Zion and the daughter of Zion so St. Augustine And so the children of the needy are but the poore in the lowest sense and to save is but to judge in the best signification to employ and lay out the judiciary power in maintaining the cause of the poore and being an Helper to the friendlesse Ps 10.14 The words then being exegeticall and declarative of the former will need little discussing I shall be brief very brief in their dispatch He shall save In the other Translation defend And indeed where the Rich are Plaintiffs the Poor had need of a better Defendant then themselves Ps 82.1.3 And therefore God standing in the Congregation of the mighty and judging among the Gods gives them this in charge Defend the poore and fatherlesse do justice to the afflicted and needy Defend them be their shield to keep off the thrusts of the mighty Be a strength to the poore Isa 25.4 a strength to the needy in their distresse a refuge from the storme a shadow from the heat that the blast of the terrible ones may be as a storme against the wall Interpose betwixt them and danger bear off the blowes which are made at them He shall defend the children of the needy But if you please wee 'l keep to our owne Translation He shall save Which if we understand of Eternall safety of that impregnable inexpugnable security of the Saints upon the holy hill when they shall be out of Gun-shot and beyond the reach of the spoyler and hands of violence then is it the alone worke of the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 4.12 Isa 63.1.3 5. Neither is there salvation in any other Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah This that is glorious in his apparell travailing in the greatness of his strength I that speake in righteousnesse mighty to save Ego torcular calcavi folus I have troden the winepresse alone and of the people there was none with me I looked there was none to helpe therefore mine owne arme brought salvation Chap. 45.15 He that thus saves is a Saviour alone the God of Israel the Saviour But if we take it for temporal saving as we have most reason in this place then doth this great Saviour communicate his name and admit of partners Judg. 3.9 thus Judge Othniel is called a Saviour And Nehemiah sayes as much of the the other Judges Neh. 9.27 According to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them Saviours So that the salvation of the Text is from both hands Christ's and Solomon's Gods and the King 's It is a proper worke for a God for a Judge for both for either of them each hath to do in it He shall save the poore of the people God shall save that 's the best the first let 's look a little at that And we can look no wayes but we see it We of this Nation are the most joyfull witnesses of this glorious truth we have reason to make it our Motto for ever Salvos faciet He shall save the children of the needy Our King miraculously preserved graciously restored and that when hope seemed to be posed and expectation non-plust and his case little lesse desperate then theirs which Heman bemoans to God Psal 88.3 4 5. His soule full of troubles and his life drawing nigh to the grave counted with them that goe downe into the pit as a man that hath no strength Free among the dead like the slaine that lye in the grave whom thou
thing Eccl. 12.14 whether it be good or whether it be evill He shall judge the poor of the people c. And he is commissioned too in answer to the other querie He brings his authority with him for on his vesture and on his thigh he hath a name written King of Kings Lord of Lords Rev. 19.16 Isa 9.6 It is He whose name is called Wonderfull Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Lu. 1.32 33. It is He who is great and called the son of the Highest to whom the Lord God hath given the throne of his father David and he shall reigne over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdome there shall be no end Psal 19.6 It is He whose going forth like that of the sun is from the end of Heaven and his circuit to the ends of it Mat. 24.30 Chap. 25.31 It is He who shall come in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory and all the holy Angels with him Rev. 20.9 It is He who shall sit on the great white throne from whose face the Earth and the Heaven shall flee away and there shall be no place found for them It is He before whom the dead small great shall stand Rev. 20.12 and be judged out of those things which are written in the books according to their works It is He to whom the Father hath given authority to execute judgement John 5.27 because he is the son of man Jesus Christ as Mediator hath had the Scepter and rule in his hands ever since the fall and the last and great act of his Regall power shall be to judge the world to settle the eternall and unalterable estates of men and Angels 1 Cor. 15.24 and then he shall deliver up the Kingdome to God even the Father that God may be all in all This is He the first He He in the Antitype and by way of Eminency He shall judge the poor of the people c. But lest some of St. 2 Pet. 3.4 Peters scoffers should question this Judge and say Where is the promise of his coming Or some desperate daring wretch should argue himselfe into folly from the distance of the day Eccl 8 11. and because sentence against an evill worke is not executed speedily his heart should be fully set in him to do evil Here is an He in the Type too another He deputed authorized commissioned from Heaven and in trusted with the management of judgement till that day and He also shall judge the poore of the people And if you aske who he is though the matchless iniquity of the late times interdicted all mention of him with that honour due unto his Name forcing men either to cancell or conceale it and pouring contempt upon it yet blessed be God we may now speake out this He is the King He shall judge the c. Judgements is the King 's He hath it from good hands he comes fairely and freely by it Give the King thy judgments O Lord The power of judging is in the King is from him so St. Paul tells us Acts 25 10. I stand at Caesars judgement seat where I ought to be judged And Absalom as great a Rebell as he was grants this 2 Sam. 15 3. Thy matters are good but there is none deputed of the King to heare thee The hearing Causes is proper to the King and whom he shall depute It is said of Samuel when he held the Kingly power ingrossed in the Judiciary that He went from yeare to yeare in circuit to Bethel 1 Sam 7.16 and Gilgal and Mispeh and judged Israel in all those places But because as Jethro told Moses Exod. 18.18 ultra vires tuas est negotium the thing is too heavy for one Deut. 1.12 And Moses himself complaines Non valeo solus how can I my selfe alone bear your cumbrance and your burden your strife If you please wee 'l follow that Model of Jethro and take in wise and understanding men known in our Tribes that they may take off part of the burden by subjoyning with the He in the Text and helping to judge the poor of the people And the He will be He the King and He the Judge The King in person and the King in proxy The King in himselfe and the King in his substitute He that hath the primitive and he that hath the derivative power The supreme and the subordinate Magistrate the Co-Assessor Counsellor every one that is commissioned to act in matters of Justice He is the man it is He shall judge the poore of the people And that for the Agent He of whom we shall speak no more single but as he falls in with the severall Acts and Objects to which we now proceed beginning with the First Judge He shall judge And here we shall not make a stirre about judging To judge in its highest signification imports to Rule to exercise the supreme power to hold the reines of Government in the hand and stit at the Stern To command in chiefe and give Laws Victorque volentes Per populos dat jura So the Chieftaines in the polity and Common-wealth of Israel in the nonage of Kings or in the inter-regnum rather Deu. 33.5 betwixt Moses who was King in Jeshurun and Saul the first annointed are said in their several Generations to have governed Israel But we shall wave this and other significations lesse of kinne to our purpose and speak of such onely as may goe along with our sense and be of concernment to us The whole business of judging takes up in these two Oppressos liberare Oppressores coercere to support the poor and oppresse the proud that 's judging Or thus there is judicium comprobationis condemnationis a judging for and against 1. There is a judgement of comprobation a judging for in the safer sense a laying out of intrusted power for the behoofe of those that want it Judicare aliquem Ribera in Hos a p. 3. n. 95. est sententiam pro illo ferre To judge a man is to give sentence for him to appeare for his rescue Isa 1.17 Or let the Prophet english it Seeke judgement relieve the oppressed judge the fatherlesse plead for the widow This is a judging for and is sometimes rendred a delivering As David in his compurgatory speech and selfe-vindication against the cruel causeless and unhandsome persecution of Saul The Lord be judge 1 Sam. 24 15. and judge between me and thee and see and plead my cause and deliver me out of thine hand They that are skilfull in the left-handed language Plurimi ln bonam parte interpretantur judicandi vocabulum ut sit defendere ac tueri destitutos opisque indigentes Lovin in loc render it indifferently judge or deliver or by judging deliver And therefore what is here judge in the other Translation we have keepe