Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	2,562	5	4.9092	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14732	Balme from Gilead to recouer conscience In a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, Octob. 20. 1616. By Samuel Ward, Bach. of Diuinitie, and preacher of Ipswich.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1618 (1618)	STC 25036; ESTC S119469	52,024	176

of God which Dauid hauing found true in his life a little before his death recordeth to al ages The spirit of the Lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue The God of Israel spake to me the strength of Israel sayd thou shalt beare rule ouer men being iust and ruling in the feare of God Euen as the morning light when the sunne riseth the morning I say without clowds so shall mine house be and not as the grasse of the earth is by the bright raine For God hath made with mee an euerlasting couenant perfect in all poynts and sure Let the Diuell the world storm and burst with enuy one of these is worth a thousand of the common sort though men will see no difference but say Are not all honest and sufficient men Let men talke of their quiet and peaceable neighbours and good house-keepers good Common-wealths men though these be good things yet if religion com not in as a number to make them of some value they are but all as cyphers in Gods account Now if God thinke so meanely of these who are either meere ciuil and politique men or idle pleasurable Gentlemen what reckoning doe we thinke hee makes of such prophane vncircumcised vice-gods as I may in the worst-sense best terme them that sell themselues to work wickednesse that giue themselues to all good fellowship as they call it and to all excesse of riot as the Apostle calls it and that hate to be reformed such I meane as hold religion a disparagement to Gentry and feare nothing more then to haue a name that they feare God who thinke when they haue gotten an office they may swear by authority oppresse by licence drinke and swill without controll What shall I say of such are these Gods and children of the most high or the charracters of his most holy Image Diuels are they rather then Deputies for him Imps of his Kingdome farre better becomming an Ale-bench then a Shire-bench and the barre then ● Iudgement seat But what shall I say to such mock-god-like Esau's● shall I take vp the words of Moses if thou wilt not feare this glorious name The Lord thy God I will make thy plagues wonderfull and of great continuance Or those of Dauid which perhaps will fit them better and these times of imminent changes They know not and vnderstand nothing they walke in darknes albeit the foundations of the earth be mooued I haue sayd ye are Gods but yee shall die like men and fall like others Or wil they suffer the Prophets exhortation who art thou that dreadest a mortall man whose breath is in his nostrils whom the moth shall eat like a garment and the worme like wooll And forgettest thy maker that hath spred the heauens laid the foundations of the earth that giueth the first and latter raine that hath set the bounds to the sea c. Or will they heare Salomons end of all Feare God that will bring euery secret to iudgement or a greater yet then Salomon Feare him that is able when he hath killed the body to destroy the soule also in hell fire for euermore Well the Lord cause them to heare that hath planted the eare and plant his feare in their hearts where it is not increase it where it is that there may bee more holy Magistrates and that the holy may yet be more holy And then we hope the other two properties following will more abound and we shall spend the lesse time and labour about them For men fearing God truely will be also Men of truth Without which shew of religion is but lying vanity a glorious profession but plaine hypocrisie And courage if it bee not for the truth and in the truth is but either Thrasonicall audacity or wicked impudency And therefore this character added to the former ioynes those which are in the forme of Iurates and ought to bee in all Offices good men and true This stile men of truth admits two interpretations both compatible with the text and theme A man of truth is either a true Israelite a true Nathaniel voyd of guile as truth is opposed to hypocrisie or else a louer of the truth as truth is opposed vnto falshood One that in particular cases suites controuersies betweene man man counts it his honour to sift out the truth maintaine the truth stick to it not suffering himselfe to be misinformed by Tale bearers Prompters and Sycophants nor misled and peruerted by the false pleading and colouring of consciencelesse Counsellors But brings iudgement to the ballance and rule of righteousnesse delights as the hound doth naturally in senting out the hare to search and trace out the truth out of all the thickets and dens of iuggling conueyance labouring as much to boult it out by examination in Hypothesi as the philosophers by disputations in Thes● being of his temper that worthily sayd Plato is my friend Socrates my friend but the truth is my dearest friend Or like Iob who couered himselfe with Iustice to whom Iudgement was as a robe crowne who when he knew not the cause sought it out diligently And for this purpose a man of truth keeps men of truth about him and with Dauid abandons all lyers out of his houshold whereas of a Prince that harkneth to lies all his seruants are Liers And of such Iustice which is in truth and for truth I say as of old it was sayd neither the euening nor the morning star equalls it in brightnesse But withall I must complaine as o● old that truth is fallen in the streets and vtterly perished from among men Iudgement failes and stands a farre off equity enters not The cōmon trade of the times being to weaue hes in all cases esepecially against the true seruants of God And the common weaknesse of the times to receiue the slāders which are broa●hed and bruited by tongues set on fire from hell so that he that refraines from cunning makes himselfe a prey the Latin whereof was all that Lewis the eleuenth would haue his sonne to learne and is al● the policy that most ●udy and practise Insomuch that the common by words are that when men sweare by faith and truth they swea●e by Idols that are not names they are and notions things they are not nor substances Iewels they are but such as vse them ' die beggers honourable Ladies and Mestresses they are but such as follow them close at the heeles may haue their teeth dashed out of their heads Well let deceiuers thus deceiue themselues let cunning heads and glozing tōgues make as much as they wil of Tiberius his Art or the Diuels rather the father of the Art of dissimulation In the end they shall proue it to bee most pernicious to the Students and Masters of it Let the children of truth iustifie their mother which hath the reward of honour in her right hand and of wealth in the

highest and greatest to the lowest least Instrument of Iustice from the Gouernour of the thousand to the Centurion from him to the Tithing-man or Decinour To the which ancient diuision of the Iewish Cōmon-wealth our platforme agrees in substance Their Sanedrim or Senate of seuenty to our Parliament Counsell-Table Starr-chamber Exchequer-chamber c. Our Iustices of Assises in their Circuit and Iustices of peace in their general commission or dominion High Sheriffs in their Shires answering to the Rulers of thousāds Our Iustices in their seuerall diuisions Iudges of hundred Courts and Turnes to their Rulers of hundreds to whom I may adde high Constables in their places our Court-leets and Court-barons to the rulers of fifties to whom I add ordinary Constables in their offices our cheefe Pledges Tything-men or Deciners to their rulers of tens Now all these Iethro meanes and speakes of euery one of them in their station and degree conceiuing the Common-wealth as an instrument not well in tune ●but the lest of these strings be false or naught Contrary to the common and dangerous opinion of the vulgar who to their owne iniury thinke say that it matters not for petty officers Constables and Bayliffs c. though they be of the lees and dregs of men nay they hold that for some offices It is pitty any honest men should come into them Alas alas the more subiect to tentation vice it is the more needfull it is that none other should haue them Oh but say they a good Iudge or Iustice may help all they erre are deceiued it is no one beame though neuer so bright that enlightens all It is not the light and influence of the fixed starres though the greatest and highest but of the Sun and Moone and the lowest and neerest Orbs that gouerne the world It is the ground-wind not the rack-winde that driues mills and ships It is the Ciuill as in the Ecclesiasticall body if Bishops be neuer so learned and the parishi●nall Minister negligent worldly proud or blind Sr. Iohns the people perish for want of vision What can the Superiour doe if the Inferiour informe not what can the eye doe if the hand and foot be crooked and vnserviceable yea not onely if such as be organs of Iustice such as haue places of Iudicature but if the media and spectacles of the sense will yeeld a false report how shall the common sense make a right iudgement If Pl●aders and Attourneyes will colour and gloze if the Clarkes and Pen-men make false records may not any of these disturb or peruor Iustice if the least finger or toe of this body be distorted I meane Iaylor or Sergeant or any other that should execute Iustice be remisse and slacke then must the Dutch-mans prouerb be veryfied Looke what the bell is without the clapper such are good lawes and iudgements without d●e execution Thus we see in this curious clock-work of Iustice the lest pin or whee●e amisse may distemper disorder all but if care were had to frame all ●hese parts of the building according to the plat-forme of this skilfull Architect what an absolute ●armony of the parts what an exact perfection of the whole yea what golden times should we liue to see Hearken o yee mountaines and little hills you Rulers of thousands you Rulers of tens you reuerēd Sages of the Lawes you worshipfull Knights and Gentlemen of the Countrey yee listen to this charg of Iethro ye of the meanest place of the common-welth weigh not things nor persons at the common beame of custome opinion but as the golden standart of Gods Sanctuary with these Goldsmiths waights of my text which if I shall perswade you to doe I feare that wee must say with the Psalmist that sonnes of men Beni-Adam yea the cheefest men Beni-ish to be layed vpon the ballance will bee found lies and lighter then vanity heere money will not make the man nor craft carry it away Euery Nabal of mount Carmel nor euery Achitophel may not bee admitted This text saith to euery timorous prophane falseharted couetous person as Samuel to Saul God hath rent thine office from thee and bestowed it on thy better or as the Scripture of Iudas let another more worthily take his place if this order rule of triall might take place how many would bee turned out of commission how many would bee effici● perdae how would benches Shire-houses bee ●hinned As for this present to the which God hath called me to speake for if I had called my selfe I could not nor durst not speake giue me leaue without offence to speake that plainly and openly which I conceiue inwardly when I haue come into the Shire-house sometimes to obserue the state of it it hath presented it selfe to my view not vnlike to that image of Dan●el or picture in Horace or table of the Popes of Rome which for memories sake I reduce to these two Disticks Ex auro caput est argentea brachia vēter Aeneus admisto ferrea cruraluto Diuino capiti ceruix humana ferinus Assuitur truncus Daemonijque pedes The head of gold And with such honourable Iudges God hath vsually for a long time blessed this circuit If I had euer heard other of these present I durst not giue titles lest my maker should condemne me yet being vnknowne to me but by fame which hath spoken all good I desire you to proue and weigh your selues by Iethro's weights and accordingly to haue peace and approofe in your owne consciences before the Iudge of all Iudges The shoulders of siluer A worthy Bench yet mingled with som drosse and not so refined as I haue knowne and seene it like the skie in a cleere euening bespangled with bright stars Many such there bee at this present God be praised religious able Iustices and so many as I beleeue few other Benches are furnished withall yet in this siluer I feare some drosse some whose skill ability the Countrey doubts of being conceiued to be either so simple or so timorous that they dare meddle with none that dare meddle with them or else so popular they will displease none The Diuell himselfe they say may keepe an Ale-house vnder their nose Others whose religion they call into question at lest for the truth and for the power of it vnlesse religion may stand with common swearing with drinking with familiarity with Papists Recusants with vngouerned and vngodly families voyd of all exercises of religion fraught with spirits of the buttery Ruffians Ale-house hunters and such as are the Sin-tutours and sin-leaders to all the Countrey about them I hope there bee but few such I could wish there were none at all The brest and belly of brasse the strength of the Countrey in which ranke I account the great Inquest Iury-men and Constables of which number how few make a conscience to present disorders according to oath or that know and regard the bond of an oath