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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	corruption_n	evidence_n	great_a	71	3	2.0661	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67833	Two assize sermons preached at Winchester the first Feb. 26, 1694, James Hunt of Popham, Esq. being sheriff of the county of Southampton : the second July 14, 1686, Charles Wither of Hall, Esq. being sheriff, &c. / by E. Young ...	Young, Edward, 1641 or 2-1705.	1695 (1695)	Wing Y70; ESTC R3087	24,328	64

Fortunes give him the Advantage of Executing it with the happiest success For in Matters of Duty Our Power is always the Measure of our Obligation It is an Ill Crisis when Mens Religion comes to be so Modest that they will not Rebuke sin or keep Vertue in Countenance for fear of Invading the Preachers Office as if it were pure Officiousness in Others and exceeding the Measures of their Obligation But tell me ye Men of Quality and Power superior to those that are about you Tell me how God who is the Equal Father of All came to distinguish You from the Crowd of Indigents and to prefer You to such an Unequal Distribution Can you say it is for Services already done I must say it is for Services to be Done It is not for Nought God has put your Fortunes as a Tryal and Opportunity into your hands Your Fortunes are the Means of your Influence upon Men and your Influence upon Men is your Power of doing Good and your Power of doing Good is your Debt to do it And if you do it not you run into Debt even for that which is your Own It would trouble me to doubt of any of your Zeal for that Religion which You and the Laws profess Look where you will you will never find any Constituted of a more saving Wisdom than that is But be pleased to bear in mind That to appear for Religion and not to appear against Vice is in effect a Contradiction and he that will not assert his Religion better than so is in the nearest hazard of losing it III. The third Position was this That the Issue of Judgment is Gods End And this Consideration does most Effectually discover the Great Iniquity of Perverting Judgment We know that Christianity permits no Evil to be done tho softned with the Issue of never so Good a Consequence But much more Inexcusable is the Evil whose Product is likewise evil this is a Double Sin And so is every Iniquity interposed in the Administration of Justice It is a solemn Evil in the Act and yet a Worse in the Effect it produces Ex. Gt. All Corruption or Falshood in Evidence is a Solemn Evil It is a great Affront to the God of Truth especially considering that God himself is called in to be Witness to the Affront All Partiality of Verdicts is a Solemn Evil It is a breach both of Truth and Trust and an Implicit Defiance of the Christian Faith which is there plight and pawn'd as a Pledge of Integrity All Prevarication in Pleadings is a Solemn Evil wherein Parts and Learning are imployed to elude Right and Colour Frauds which is no other than a Profane prostituting the Talents of God to the service of Mammon Torturing the Laws to make them speak Contrary to the Intention of the Makers is a Solemn Evil It is the Extremest Violation and Contempt of the Governing and Legislative Power which if not held Sacred in one Point it has no security of being so in Any All these are Solemn Deliberate Iniquity in the Act And yet the Effect of them is Worse for it tends to no other Issue to the Publick than this viz. to Harden Men in their sins by the Means of Impunity For the only End of Publick Justice is to Correct ill Men and make them do Right whether they will or no to bring Criminals to Repentance and meliorate the World by the Example of their Punishment Whereas All those Artifices through which Men aim at Impunity directly frustrate this Good End and render Men secure in the pursuit of their Ill Inclinations which they must stand Accountable for who might have hindered it IV. The Last Position was this That the Sentence of Judgment is Gods Sentence i. e. It is espoused by God and taken into his Own Account and shall be so Imputed at the Judgment which shall be Universal And this Consideration may serve as Effectually to discover the Folly of perverting Judgment The Traveller when overtaken by a Storm gets himself to a Tree and when he is there he pleases himself with the Commodiousness of his Shelter but if the Shower happen to be so strong as once to break through the Boughs then he finds to his disappointment that the Standing wherein he lately pleased himself is Now become more Insufferable than any part of the Open Road And just so it happens when any Man meets with Protection or Covert from any Unjust or Misguided Sentence of Judgment when either his False Titles are Confirmed or his Injuries Concealed by any Favour or Misrepresentation of the Court The Foolish Litigant hugs himself that now he is safe because he has a Verdict on his side because his Penny is saved or his Credit unexposed by reason of those Practices which have past on his behalf But he thinks not in the mean time that by and by the Storm will certainly beat through the Covert and then his Station will be able to afford him no safety Then he will complain of that Success which now he calls his Good Fortune and wish that either Force had brought him to Right or Shame to Repentance that so he might have taken Refuge under some more Durable Shelter You therefore whosoever pretend to have Favour for Any whose Faults have made them Obnoxious to the Laws shew your Friendship in this Help to clear them against the Great Assize Help to bring them to Repentance and Satisfaction and Remember that it is absolute Cruelty to assist a Man from being Just and Good And You My Lords give me Leave to offer You One Advice which is this That You would look upon Your selves and Your Assistants as the most Lively Resemblance that the World affords of our Saviour Christ coming in the Clouds with his Holy Angels Be pleased therefore but to think this of Yourselves and to act in Contemplation of this Resemblance And then we doubt not but All You do will tend to the Publick Welfare and to the Glory of Him for whom You are to Judge To whom be Glory and Thanksgiving for ever and ever Amen FINIS