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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66487	God's court wherein the dignity and duty of judges and magistrates is shew'd in a sermon preached at the assises held at Kingston upon Thames, July 26, 1683 / by Thomas Willis ...	Willis, Thomas, 1619 or 20-1692.	1683 (1683)	Wing W2818; ESTC R7864	25,324	48

wont to make the Statues of their Judges without Hands Plut. de Isid Osir to note they should take no Bribes but he cannot possibly be a good Judge who as it is said of the Sword-Fish is without Heart who wants Courage and Resolution to Execute Justice and Judgment A Judge must have an Eagles Eye and a Lyons Heart He must have a Quickness of Sight to detect mens Crimes and a Courage sufficient to condemn the Guilty We read in our Chronicle Sir Rich. Baker that Henry the Fifth being Prince coming to rescue one of his Servants that was indicted was resisted by the Lord Chief Justice whom he struck in the Face for which the Lord Chief Justice committed him to the Fleet. The Prince suffer'd himself to be led to Prison The King his Father hearing of it was exceedingly pleased that he had a Judge of such Courage and a Son of such Submission Justice is indeed a Heroicall Virtue in a Judge which elevates him above all Fears of Danger and Degradation all Regard to Riches and Honours all Respects to Relations and Allies it raises him to a true Greatness of Mind and Sublimity of Spirit and sets him above all Terrours and Temptations it assimilates him in his Judiciall Proceedings to the impassible Divinity And such a Judge shines in Honour as a God among men and in the Renown of his Justice will be immortall Thus Fortitude and Magnanimity must enoble the Minds of those who sit upon the Tribunall and elevate their Spirits to such an Heroicall Height as is proportionable to the Greatness of the Power wherewith they are intrusted for the Administration of Justice and Judgment To complete their Character and Conformity to GOD Exo. 18.21 Judges and Magistrates must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men of Truth Truth is an essential Excellency of GOD the Rector and Judge of the World Deut. 32.4 For a GOD of Truth and without Iniquity Just and Right is He. The Truth of Things is their Reality or reall Existence as they are represented to be the Truth of Persons is their Integrity or faithful Management of their Affairs in Answer to and Discharge of their Obligations A Judge or Magistrate must be Faithfull in the Discharge of his Trust and make Truth as far as it can be discern'd the very Basis of all his Proceedings Among the Egyptians the chief Judge wore about his Neck a certain Jewel Aelian var. Hist l. 14. c. 34. wherein the Image of Truth was ingraven in a precious Stone This was design'd certainly not so much for an Ornament as a Memoriall that he might proceed in Judgment according to Truth And surely RIGHTEOVSNESS and TRVTH as the VRIM and THVMMIM in the Breast plate of Aaron should be engraven on the Soul of the Judge Exo. 28.30 For he that has not Truth and Justice seated in his very Soul as the Father speaks * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil cannot rightly execute Judgment Truth is the Soul of Justice without which Courts of Judicature are but Shops of Cruelty If a Ruler hearken to Lyes saith Solomon all his Servants are wicked Then the Righteous will be defam'd the Guilty absolv'd the Innocent condemn'd Justice and Judgment will be perverted to the high Dishonour of GOD and horrid Oppression of men but when the Ruler and Judge with David hates and abhors Lying Prov. 29.12 Psal 119.163 loves the Truth preserves it inviolable in himself and prizes it in other men he will earnestly endeavour to find out Truth in all Matters before him that all his Proceedings may be in Righteousness and Truth Happy is the State of that Land Psal 85.8 wherein Mercy and Truth are met together Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other When Truth shines with a clear Ray Justice will appear in a conspicuous Glory Thus we have seen what the Virtues are wherein Judges and Magistrates are oblig'd to excell upon Account of that Honour which the most High GOD hath conferr'd upon them in giving such Glorious Titles to them They are stil'd the Mighty the Gods and therefore that they may express a Similitude to the Eternal Divinitie they ought to excel in Wisdom Justice Mercy Fortitude and Truth Then as their Names are a Titular Honour these Virtues will be their Reall Glory These Virtues will not only gild their Names but put such a Lustre upon their Persons as will make them appear as Gods among men Where-ever they live they will be had in Honour especially when these judiciary Virtues are conjoin'd with a constant Practice of true Pietie attended with the Actions of a good Life and animated with a great Zeal for the Glory of GOD. And truly he that is GOD's Substitute authoriz'd to act his Part among men should be zealous for His Glory and he that by the Hand of GOD is exalted to Eminency of Place and Power above others should excell in Piety and be exemplary to others in the Virtues and Actions of a good Life He should live above this World in Contempt of sordid Gain and secular Glory and uncontaminated with those sensuall Pleasures and vicious Impurities which wofully debase the Minds of men A corrupt Judge that oppresses the Poor Psal 10.18 is stil'd a man of the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sorry man who is but a Son of the Earth But as for the Mighty Psal 82.1 6. who are called Gods and all of them Sons of the most High Col. 3.2 20. how does it become them to mind the Things that are above and to have their Conversation in Heaven from whence their Power and Glory descends For where should a God live but in Heaven And if for the Good of men he abide on Earth he should by a Great Virtue turn Earth into Heaven and the Place wherein he moves and acts in to a Sphaere of Glory Such ought Magistrates and Judges who are the living Images of GOD to be in this World And then the more they excell in Virtue and Piety here the brighter shall they shine in Glory hereafter For they must at length leave this World and be divested of their secular Power and Greatness Psal 82.6 7. Tho' Titular Gods they are indeed but Mortall men I have said ye are Gods and all of you Children of the most High but ye shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes You who sit as Gods upon the Tribunall in this World and judge others shall at length how soon ye know not stand before the Tribunall of the most High GOD to be judg'd your selves according to your Works Then shall all the Actions of Humane Courts be scann'd again and all the Errours and Obliquities of Judiciall Proceedings openly detected Then the Wrongs of all the oppressed of all that have been injur'd by an unjust Sentence the Tears of Orphans and the Bloud of Innocents shall with loud Clamours cry for Justice and sollicit the