Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	aaron_n	israel_n	sin_n	18	3	4.1118	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57906	A remedie against dissention, or, A help to settle mens mindes in these unsetled times, and to make up the rents made, and likely to be made through the late lamentable increase of opinions and practices as it was delivered in a sermon of Rom. 16,17 / by I.R. ...	I. R., Minister of the Gospell.	1644 (1644)	Wing R22A; ESTC R13056	17,577	24

betrayer gulfe of many honorable patrimonies uncleane sincke of sinne I beseech you marke and avoyd all such with how real a blessing should I dismisse this cōgregation if this one particle were fixed in the heart and affection of every present auditòr how happy a church and state should we presently see if the innocent would withdraw themselves from the company of corrupting Corahs Satan could never prevaile did he not plow with our heifer make men decoyes to betray men What is that which precipitates young prodigals to famin nakednesse and so many illegall and impious wayes to releive themselves therein what filleth your prisons and brings so many good mens children to shame and untimely ends but ill company Indeed God made man a sociable creature and said t is not good for man to be alone there 's no good without communion ego ne in coelo solus the most blessed being is in a sacred society but whereas God hath set by thee so many good men in whose society thou mightst be happy how wilfully dost thou perish whom none but wicked company can please Vse My t Prov. 1.10 c. Son if sinners intice thee consent thou not avoid them if they say come we will lay waite for blond fill our houses with spoyle cast in thy lot among us my sonne walke not thou in the way with them refraine thy foot from their path if the harlot tell thee of peace u Prov. 7.15 offerings let not thy heart decline to her wayes avoyd them which cause divisions and offences Wee are next to consider the delinquents 5 Who cause concerning whom this vehement caution is used those who cause divisions They that cause evill are most pernitious theeves harlots murderers all offenders are worthy to be marked nigro carbone with the charact of iustice but especially they who like the w Ionah 4.7 worme of Ionahs gourd bite the very root of law and policy by causing divisions and offences these two like x Gen. 34.25 Simeon and Levi come upon the republique and destroy all masculine vertue of religion and policy by y discurrendo de domo in domum adulantes quibusdam aliisvero detrabētes concitantes unum adversus alterum per detractiones Remig sisit eius in Rom. running from house to house flattering some calumniating others so fomenting contentions these Sallamanders live in the fire of strife which they industriously kindle these are the pestes ecclesiarum incendiaries of state Hells master workemen who make Bethel the house of God z 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cant. 2.17 a Bether montem divisionis In fault are they who being seduced become an accession to a tumultuous seperating or offending party but they are worst who cause the mischiefe in every offence worst is he who causeth others to be bad To make the people naked as Aaron did is a great sinne but a greater sinne was Balaams who taught them to cast stumbling blockes to make Israel fall To cause others to sinne is to be a Devill or his factor the most fearefull instance of Gods justice is he who causing others to sinne becommeth impardonable It hath ever beene a great wisdome in greatest interests to meete mischiefs with timely preventions by removing their causes therefore the prudent heathen made sundry lawes of prevention Such was that of Lentulus to punish a matron paenâ stupri who was seene in publike without her a Sine stolâ Tertul Apol. c. 6. vaile 't was to prevent whoredome Such was the Calparnian law and the Ostracisme to prevent ambition and oppression such their Licinian law to prevent intemperance in dyet Such was Piso's law b quas à provincialibus quispiam nequiter extorfit Alex. ab Alexand l. 4.175.6 a.m. de pecuniis repetundis to prevent extortion oppression and seditions thence arising Such their Censorian law punishing him that neglected to prune his vines or take the best season to sow spendthrifts prodigalls and company-keepers by sequestring the wife and childrens part to prevent the many mischiefes flowing into the state through the ruine of private families Vse If thou wilt truely serve the State have a speciall eye to them who cause offences abetters barraters authors of Libels and seditious Pamphlets causers of quarrels men of unclean tongus and provoking language corrupters of youth receivers of stolne goods lewd houses enticing harlots drunkards forcing or alluring others to excesse and those Seminaries of innumerable evils unnecessary and ill ordered Victualling-houses maintained by the sinnes of ill husbands and misery of famished wives and children The man that c Prov. 6.16 raiseth contentions among brethren God abhorreth the man that perswaded to serve other gods was to be stoned without pitty sinne is most venemous in the root I beseech you marke them principally which any wayes cause it in others Here are the faults to be marked 1. dissention 6. Divisions which is as d Sueton. vit Iul. Caes Sulla said many Marii in one Caesar all offences in one Dissention is a fault against God the God of peace Religion the Doctrine of peace and community and the publike weale for division importeth plurality of united parts division pernicious to those parts whose life and safety is in unity Unity the e unitas enim coërcet omnia regit Ambros in Psalm 118. prolog Salsedo combinans of the body politick the sacred bond of peace the nerves of State the state of the blessed but f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys qo. s Iusidiarum magistrum vocat Theodoret. ib. division is the subversion of Church and State no kingdome g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naziam orat 34.540 D. divided no not Satans the grand master of divisions can stand Dissensions are the States Paralysis pollicies dissenterie bellows of devouring sedition therefore marke them that cause divisions 1. Betweene God and man h Peccata enim sola separant inter beminem Deum August de pec mer c. 20. all sinnes are within this latitude for these cometh the anger of God upon the children of disobedience for these the Lord hath a controversie with the land for these he forsaketh a people and counsell perisheth from the ancient valour from the strong and equity from the Iudge retró que feruntur res Danaum such was Israels case in their Apostacie whither soever they went out the hand of the Lord was sore against them 2. Betweene Gods vicegerents and his people mischeivous practicers whispering jealousies into the facred eares of Princes to i Qui à populo amicis Principem submovent qui internuacii sunt aliud quā respondetur referentes claudentes Principem suū agentes ante omnia ne quid sciat Æl●us Lampr●d Alex. sever alienate their affections from the people to divide the head from the body whereas the strength and securest treasuries of Princes are their Subjects loves and scattering doubtfull speeches and seditious murmurings