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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02386	The lawyers looking-glass: or, A cleer discovery of the dangerous snares, wherewith the practicers of law endeavour to entangle Your Highness, and to make you the patron of their injustice, and oppression, and so to lead you as the blinde ship-money judges led the late blinde king into a ditch; which God forbid. Together with some seasonable preparatives to remedy this great evill: for the glory of God, Your Highnesses honour, and the peace and welfare of these nations: and, all Gods people both ministers of the gospel, and members of the army, and others: specially in and about the cities of London, and Westminster, are earnestly desired (as they will answer it at the great day of account) to speak words in season, and otherwise use their best endeavours to strengthen the hands of Your Highness and councel in carrying on the work of the Lord against the mighty.	Corbet, Jeffrey.; Pitt, Edward fl. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6245; ESTC R171535	6,294	10

THE LAWYERS Looking-glass OR A cleer Discovery of the Dangerous Snares wherewith the Practicers of Law endeavour to entangle Your Highness and to make you the Patron of their Injustice and Oppression and so to lead you as the blinde Ship-money Judges led the late blinde King into a Ditch Which God forbid TOGETHER With some seasonable preparatives to remedy this great evill For the glory of GOD Your Highnesses Honour and the Peace and Welfare of these Nations AND All Gods People both Ministers of the Gospel and Members of the Army and others specially in and about the Cities of London and Westminster are earnestly desired as they will answer it at the great day of Account to speak words in season and otherwise use their best endeavours to strengthen the hands of Your Highness and Councel in carrying on the Work of the Lord against the Mighty LONDON Printed for Jeffery Corbet Febr. 20. 1655. The Lawyers Looking-Glasse May it please your Highnesse THe Spirit saith Do justly love mercy loose the bands of wickedness undoe the heavy burthens let the oppressed go free and break every yoke And Let judgment run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream And Execute ye judgment and righteousness and deliver the spoiled out of the hands of their oppressors And To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice And Justice exalts a Nation and the work of Justice shall be Peace Mic. 6.8 Isa 58.6 Amos 5.24 Ierem. 22.3 Prov. 14.34 Isa 32.17 And Any Cause for Debt or other Civil difference may be speedily heard and determined in weekly Courts of Equity in the several Counties and cost the people little or nothing according to the practise in the Court of Requests London which sits twice a week in Guild-Hall by vertue of a good Law made in the 3d. year of King Iames and the 15th chapter and according to the late practise in every County in Ireland where the Justices of Peace did by Comission hear and determine thousands of Causes and put the people to little or no charge the Defendant being warned to appear by strict Summons without any chargeable disgracefull or vexatious Arrests or imprisonment and both parties having liberty to plead their own Causes But the practisers of Law turn Justice and Judgment into Gall and Wormwood and extort vast treasures from the people by delay and obstruction of justice And it is most clear That the various sorts of Writs Sheriffs fees Bailiffs fees Bail fees Attorneys fees Solicitors fees Prothonotaries fees Secondaries fees Registers fees Clerks fees Lawyers fees Gaolers fees with multitude of such like are meerly chargeable impertinent and vexatious inventions to delay justice and dishonour God and pick the peoples pockets And those proceedings differ no more from absolute Robbery then Hypocrisie doth from open Prophaness for Theeves take mens money by several wayes of stealing and the practisers of Law by exacting their wages of unrighteousness And that which is worst of all they endeavour to make your Highnes● the Patron of all their fraudulent devices as the Ordinance for alteration of Names and Forms doth witness 2. The Spirit saith He that stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he shall cry and shall not be heard And Wo unto them that decree unrighteous Decrees to turn aside the Needy from Judgment and take away the Right from the poor of my people that Widdows may be their prey and that they may rob the Fatherless And As a roaring Lion and a raging Bear so is a wicked Ruler over the poor people Pro. 21.13 Isa 10.1 2. Prov. 28.15 And the practisers of Law have the cryes of your poor oppressed people continually in their ears yet are they like the deaf Adder and commonly make a prey of the Widdow and Fatherless and many Causes have depended in the Courts at Westminster some 10. some 20. yeares some more some less by the Lawyers purposed delays of justice for their own sinister ends to the utter undoing of the oppressed people Moreover the multitude of unrighteous Decrees Judgments Orders Rules and other proceedings upon Record in the Courts at Westminster will clearly demonstrate That the practisers of Law are in combination to obstruct Justice and oppress the oppressed with cunning pretences of Law and Equity and that which is worst of all they surprize and induce your Highness to be at above 20000 l. a year charge in maintaining them to be like Lions and Bears to rend and tear your poor people in pieces 3. The Spirit saith Hatred variance wrath and strife are damnable sins and The love of money is the root of all evil and The getting of treasure with a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death and Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord and He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight Gal. 5.20 1 Tim. 6.10 Prov. 21.6 Prov. 12.22 Psal 101 7. Nevertheless the practisers of Law for love of money do encourage the people to persevere in the damnable sins of hatred variance wrath and strife and they are accustomed to toss lies to and fro for filthy lucre sake and to call good evil and evil good and their custome in telling lies speaks them in no capacity to tarry in your sight But they ought rather to be an abomination to your Highness as they are to the Holy One of Israel 4. The Spirit saith Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and let them judge the people at all seasons and Judges and Officers shalt thou make thee and they shall judge the people with righteous Judgment and shall take no reward and The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them for they refuse to do judgment and Can the Aethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may yee also do well that are accustomed to do evil Exod. 18.21 22. Deut. 16.18 19. Pro. 21.7 Ier. 13.23 And the foregoing particulars intimate that the Spirit levels at such persons as Judges and other practisers of Law under the notion of wicked refusing to do judgment and that their various sorts of Fees and other Law charges are Robery in the Spirits account and that through their custome in such Robbery and refusing to do judgment they are in no capacity to do good much less are they capable of being Judges or other publick Officers 5. The Spirit saith One Achan brought the fierce wrath of the Lord upon Israel and One Haman had well nigh confounded Ahasuerus and his 127 Provinces and God abhors solemn Fasts and other transactions and counts them but tything Mint and Cummin where judgment and righteousness is neglected and Because sentence upon an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil Ios 7.19 Esth. 389. Isa 1.11 to 18. Amos 5.21 Mat. 23.23 Luke 11.43 Eccles 8.11