Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	forgive_v	lord_n	trespass_n	3,175	5	10.9711	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47058	The crie of blood, or, A confutation of those thirteene reasons of the felicers at Westminster for the maintenance of their illegall capias for debt by which is discovered the great benefit and freedome that will accrew to the people of the common wealth by the reformation of that destructive law / by Joht [sic] Jones of Neyath in Com. Brecon, gent.	Jones, John.	1653 (1653)	Wing J964B; ESTC R33617	21,569	96

bastard the Capias to range about by Sea and Land like its its Grandfather the Devil seeking whom it may devour Nay are not the words of the Writ of Summons at the Common Law directed to the Sheriff which any Major or chief Magistrate of any Corporation may upon complaint direct to Sheriff or Sergeant praecipe c. per bonos summonitores that is I command thee to summon A B c. by good Summonitors c. and have their names c and this Writ before mee by such a daie And to what end but that the Summonitors beeing two or more of the ablest Freemen or Pledges of the Jurisdiction undertaking the Summons undertake the goods till the Attachment ensue if they cannot end the matter before as neighbors bound in charitie so to do But these Westmonasterians abhor that and seem neither to know nor willing to admit any charitable end or other Law but their Capias to catch and bring all fish to their net 7. The seventh is but a chip of the sixth and answered before with this addition Is there no trust but where the Capias is or can thrust it self If it bee the caus of trust Justice Equitie c. and such a caus as without which none of these can subsist as they saie it is and both legal and necessarie for this Common-wealth that it seem's the onely Trustee thereof Why is it not warranted or suffered by these men themselvs to peep into their Inns of Court and Chancerie places pretended to bee egress and ingress of Law Justice and Equitie and known to take upon trust more then all the Merchants of England can tell how to recover by the Capias against their persons who make their Inns and their Gaols of the upper Bench and Fleet their Sanctuaries more privileged then those that were so called and used by such debtors as made fraudulent gifts feoffments c. and afterwards withdrew themselvs thither untill the second Statute made the second year of Richard the second granted a Capias to ferret out such Latitants out of such Latebras Such a ferret conceiv wee now to bee necessarie for the Common-wealth and especially for many undon Londoners by trusting such debtors or rather cheaters to fetch them out of their profane Asylums the Fleet Marshalsey their Inns c. instead of that by them commended for the use of the Common-wealth and yet commanded not to meddle with themselvs or their habitations as if they concluded themselvs and theirs to bee no part thereof though will known to bee all forfeited thereunto But how irrational they shew themselvs when they offer reasons to a most wise and circumspect Parlament to persuade them that can onely bee profitable to all which is so unwelcom to them that they cannot endure their own beagles that carrie it abroad to bee their Inmates an hour longer then while they slave and pump them and so make them as fit to bee their Mass-Priests as their prolling Proctors 8. The eighth sheweth these men's desires as well to pervert the Word of God as to subvert the Laws of England and declareth their right as well to the Faggot as to the Halter and their fitness as well for Hell as the Gallows They blush not to saie that they finde presidents and approbations in the Old and New Testaments of like proceedings and greater cruelties against debtors amongst the Jews then is used by them and their Capias here And those saie they were condemned neither by the Romanes that loved Justice nor by Christ The first Scripture they cite is Matth. 5.25 where whosoëver is angrie with his brother without a caus is advised to leav his gift before the Altar and bee reconciled to his brother first and then offer his gift lest at any time the Adversarie deliver him to the Judg and the Judge deliver him to the Officer and hee bee cast into prison where Christ saith unto him Verily I saie unto thee thou shalt by no means com out until thou paiest the utter most farthing wherewith agreeth Lu. 12.58.59 and both with the Parable of the non-solvent servant Mat. 18.25 all these places conclude with the rest of the Scriptures that the debt here meant to bee punished by imprisonment was not a debt of monie borrowed for need and lent for love prophesied to bee don Deut. 15.6 and commanded Matth. 5. and 42. And therefore beeing no action of sin by the Old and New Testament was liable to no action of Law tending to personal punishment or imprisonment but the debt meant here was indeed the dutie of the Usurer Extorter Deceiver Hypocrite c. to forgive their debtors their debts so accrued But Usurie Extortion Briberie c. which were such heinous offences amongst the Jews as still they are or ought to bee with us that they incurred mixt actions in Law worthie of arrests and imprisonments till the uttermost farthing were paied or restored with amends Levit. 6.2 3 4 expoundeth this debt to bee such cleerly and no other Our penal Laws for those offences which make the principal debts void and give the Plaintiff treble for damages or according to the Judge's discretion carrie shadow of that Justice The Context in Matth. 5. declaring our Savior's speeches to the Scribes and Pharisees elswhere called Lawyers Extorters Dissemblers c. and here redargued of their unrighteousness and breaking of the Commandements which they adjudged death to others accompting killing onely such as was don with the sword and him to bee subject to the judgment where they knew that by their own law men that killed in their own defence had sanctuarie that the word Judgment emphatically proceeded with the word The is always used for the general Judgment of God wherefore Christ telling them that killing extend's to him that is angrie with his brother without caus and elswhere to him that suffereth his brother to perish when hee may save him much more then to Fals Judges Extorters Usurers c. who may finde themselves sufficientlie described in him to whom his Lord forgave all his debt which in the last vers of this Chapter as frequentlie elswhere is called as well trespass as debt becaus mixt and compounded with sin more then borrowing or lending of monie until hee extorted from his fellow-servant who ought nothing to him but to his Lord upon whom he had not like compassion as his Lord had upon himself but grew angrie with his fellow-servant without caus and cast him into prison which when his Lord heard he was wroth and delivered the mad Extortor not the meek Debtor to the tormenter c whereof let Extorters Usurers c. take better notice and applie the said Scriptures to t●emselvs and know that the Devil called here emphaticallie the Adversarie is he that delivereth them as the common accuser of sinners whom hee seduceth thereunto to the Judg of Judges and King of Kings the God of Truth Justice and Mercie who except they