EXOD.
18.
21.
22.
23.
Moreouer
,
thou
shalt
prouide
out
of
all
the
people
able
men
,
such
as
feare
God
,
men
of
truth
,
hating
couetousnes
,
and
place
such
ouer
them
,
to
bee
rulers
of
thousands
,
and
rulers
of
hundreds
,
rulers
of
fifties
,
and
rulers
of
tens
.
And
let
them
iudge
the
people
at
all
seasons
:
and
it
shall
bee
that
euery
great
matter
they
shall
bring
vnto
thee
,
but
euery
small
matter
they
shall
iudge
:
so
shall
it
bee
easier
for
thy selfe
,
and
they
shall
beare
the
burthen
with
thee
.
If
thou
doe
this
thing
,
and
God
command
thee
so
,
then
thou
shalt
bee
able
to
endure
,
and
all
this
people
shall
also
goe
to
their
place
in
peace
.
IF
Iethro
were
,
as
the
fashion
of
those
times
,
and
the
nature
of
his
stile
will
beare
,
and
(
as
some
conceipt
)
both
Prince
and
Preist
;
Moses
,
becomes
of
good
policie
,
sound
diuinity
;
of
priuate
counsell
,
a
generall
oracle
:
ruling
for
the
substance
of
it
,
all
ages
and
persons
.
Venerable
it
is
for
the
very
antiquity
of
it
.
What
price
do
men
set
vpon
olde
copies
,
Chro.
19.
5.
Iob
his
character
,
cha.
29.
Dauids
vow
,
Psal.
101.
The
scattered
Parables
of
Salomon
,
and
passages
of
the
Prophets
,
cheefly
that
round
and
smart
one
Isai.
33.
14.
are
they
not
all
branches
of
this
root
?
In
which
respect
it
must
needes
bee
of
soueraigne
vse
for
the
discouering
and
reforming
of
whatsoeuer
error
time
hath
soyled
gouernment
withall
.
How
are
defaced
copies
and
disfigured
pictures
better
amended
,
then
by
reducing
them
to
their
originall
?
if
the
pipe
faile
,
goe
we
not
to
the
head
?
Heere
is
the
Archetype
or
first
draught
of
Magistracy
,
worthily
in
this
regard
chosen
by
Iudicious
Bucer
to
presse
vpon
Edward
the
sixt
,
for
the
purgation
of
his
offices
and
lawes
,
from
the
drosse
and
filth
contracted
vnder
the
Romish
confusion
:
which
considering
,
that
worthy
Iosiah
of
ours
tooke
in
such
good
part
,
and
practised
with
such
good
successe
.
Yea
,
Moses
himselfe
learned
in
all
good
literature
,
trained
vp
in
Court
,
the
greatest
Law-giuer
that
euer
was
,
and
father
of
all
Law-giuers
,
of
the
thrice
great
Hermes
,
Lycurgus
,
Solon
.
Plato
,
Iustinian
,
&
the
rest
.
Yea
,
Gods
familiar
fauorite
,
faithfull
in
his
house
,
knowen
by
name
and
face
,
honoured
with
miraculous
power
,
&c.
And
that
at
the
hands
of
one
(
age
and
fatherhood
excepted
)
his
inferiour
.
I
trust
that
none
will
dare
to
reiect
or
sleight
it
of
,
remembring
that
Diuinity
,
as
the
mistresse
taketh
vpon
her
to
direct
her
hand-mayd
,
and
that
the
Scripture
is
the
best
man
of
counsell
for
the
greatest
Statesman
in
the
world
:
This
little
portion
therof
containing
in
it
more
then
all
Lipsius
his
Bee-hiue
,
or
Machiauels
Spider-web
.
All
which
will
best
appeare
by
the
opening
of
this
rich
cabinet
,
and
viewing
the
seuerall
Iewels
in
it
,
which
are
these
.
The
parts
of
the
Text.
It
first
giues
order
for
the
care
and
circumspection
in
the
choyce
,
Prouide
.
Secondly
,
it
directs
this
choyce
by
foure
essentiall
characters
of
Magistrates
.
-
1.
Men
of
ability
.
-
2.
Fearing
God
.
-
3.
Men
of
truth
.
-
4.
Hating
couetousnesse
.
Thirdly
,
it
applies
these
foure
to
Magistrates
of
all
degrees
,
in
an
exact
distribution
of
them
,
by
way
of
gradation
descending
step
by
step
,
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
.
And
place
such
ouer
them
to
be
rulers
.
1.
of
thousands
.
2.
of
hundreds
.
3.
of
fifties
.
4.
of
tens
.
Fourthly
,
it
prescribes
to
the
Magistrates
,
thus
qualified
and
chosen
,
their
offices
;
viz.
to
iudge
the
people
in
the
smaller
causes
,
&c.
and
their
assiduity
and
industry
therein
.
And
let
them
iudge
the
people
at
all
seasons
,
&c.
And
it
shall
bee
that
they
shall
bring
euery
great
matter
to
thee
,
but
euery
small
matter
they
shall
iudge
.
Lastly
,
it
propounds
the
blessed
fruit
and
emolument
that
will
necessarily
ensue
thereupon
.
First
,
to
Moses
himselfe
,
So
shall
it
be
easier
for
thy selfe
,
and
they
shall
beare
the
burthen
with
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
bee
able
to
endure
.
Secondly
,
to
the
people
,
And
all
this
people
shall
goe
to
their
place
in
peace
.
The
first
point
,
Techezeh
,
Prouide
,
or
looke
out
.
Inspection
,
circumspection
,
inquisition
,
suspition
,
information
,
deliberation
,
comming
of
Chozah
,
to
see
or
contemplate
,
whence
the
Prophets
were
called
Chosi
,
Seers
.
It
is
in
a
manner
translated
by
a
word
of
the
like
force
in
a
businesse
of
the
like
nature
.
Acts
6.
5.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
suruey
the
whole
body
of
the
people
,
and
chuse
the
best
you
can
cull
out
.
It
were
somewhat
strict
and
strange
to
say
,
that
prayer
and
fasting
must
be
vsed
:
And
yet
this
I
finde
practised
in
such
cases
,
Acts
1.
and
Numb.
27.
16.
Let
the
Lord
God
of
the
spirits
of
all
flesh
set
a
man
ouer
this
Congregation
.
Yea
,
Iethro
himselfe
sanctified
this
his
aduice
with
a
prayer
,
verse
19.
God
bee
with
thee
.
And
good
reason
hee
should
bee
called
to
counsell
whose
the
iudgement
is
,
and
whose
prouidence
is
alwayes
very
speciall
in
those
elections
,
whether
sought
or
no.
If
God
supravise
not
,
Samuel
the
Seer
shall
take
seuen
wrong
before
one
right
.
Ne
fit
qui
ambit
.
Let
him
neuer
speede
that
sues
.
Lay
hands
on
none
rashly
.
They
that
are
fit
and
able
,
must
and
will
bee
sought
to
;
yea
,
haled
out
of
their
ease
and
priuacy
into
the
light
of
employment
:
the
charge
and
danger
whereof
they
weighing
,
as
well
as
the
credit
,
or
gaine
,
and
knowing
them
to
bee
callings
,
will
not
meddle
with
them
,
till
they
bee
called
to
them
.
Which
ambitious
Inconsiderates
not
being
able
to
ponder
,
much
lesse
to
sustaine
,
thrust
their
shoulders
vnder
,
and
either
by
hooke
or
crooke
come
in
,
or
climbe
into
the
chaire
of
honor
,
more
tickle
then
the
stoole
Eli
brake
his
necke
off
:
whither
when
they
haue
aspired
with
much
trauaile
and
cost
they
sit
as
in
the
top
of
a
mast
in
feare
and
hazard
,
and
often
fall
with
shame
&
confusion
.
Not
vnlike
to
some
rash
youth
,
that
hauing
gotten
an
horse
as
wilde
as
himselfe
,
with
much
adoe
backes
him
,
sits
him
in
a
sweat
,
and
comes
downe
with
a
mischeefe
.
For
the
preuention
of
all
which
euils
vnauoidably
attending
ambition
,
lighting
partly
vpon
the
intruders
themselues
,
partly
vpon
the
admitters
,
but
most
heauily
vpon
the
common-weale
,
see
how
needefull
Iethro's
counsell
was
and
euer
will
bee
;
That
such
be
prouided
,
not
as
would
haue
places
,
but
as
places
should
haue
.
Which
care
,
as
Iethro
commits
to
Moses
,
so
both
the
Scripture
and
reason
imposeth
vpon
the
superiour
Magistrate
,
in
whose
power
and
place
,
it
is
either
to
nominate
or
constitute
inferiour
Authorities
:
and
whose
fault
cheefly
it
is
,
if
they
be
otherwise
then
they
ought
,
or
the
people
iniured
in
in
this
kinde
.
How
circumspect
and
religious
ought
such
to
be
,
in
the
performance
of
this
greatest
and
waightiest
duty
.
Vnlesse
you
will
reply
,
as
I
feare
many
a
Fox
doth
in
his
bosome
;
Thus
indeede
you
haue
heard
it
sayd
of
olde
,
but
those
times
were
plaine
,
and
Iethro
a
simple
meaning
olde
man
.
A
beaten
Politician
of
our
times
,
learned
in
the
wisdome
of
newer
state
,
and
acquainted
with
the
mysteries
of
the
market
,
that
knowes
how
to
improoue
things
to
the
best
,
for
his
owne
time
and
turne
,
and
to
let
the
common
body
shift
for
it selfe
,
would
haue
proiected
Moses
a
farre
more
commodious
plot
,
after
this
or
the
like
manner
:
Now
you
haue
offices
to
bestow
,
a
faire
opportunity
in
your
hand
,
to
make
your selfe
for
euer
,
to
raise
your
house
,
to
pleasure
your
friends
,
either
proclaime
it
openly
or
secretly
,
set
it
abroach
by
some
meanes
or
other
,
see
who
bids
fairest
,
waigh
the
sacrifices
,
chuse
the
men
of
the
best
and
greatest
gifts
.
Oh
gall
of
bitternesse
,
oh
root
of
all
euill
to
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
when
authorities
and
offices
of
Iustice
shall
bee
bought
and
solde
,
as
with
a
trumpet
or
drum
to
the
candle
or
outrope
.
Whose
soule
bleedes
not
to
see
mens
soules
bought
and
solde
,
like
sheep
at
the
market
to
euery
Butcher
?
of
this
you
Lawyers
much
complain
against
the
Clergy
men
,
for
buying
of
benefices
:
which
you
might
doe
the
more
iustly
,
if
your selues
were
not
often
the
sellers
of
them
.
I
would
the
fault
rested
onely
in
benefices
,
and
reached
not
into
offices
and
ciuill
dignities
.
Indeede
that
kinde
of
purchase
we
call
not
simony
,
it
may
from
his
other
name
be
fitlier
stiled
magick
:
for
by
I
know
not
what
kinde
of
witch-craft
,
men
sinne
by
leaue
and
law
in
these
ciuill
purchases
.
The
lawes
and
statutes
prouided
for
the
remedie
of
the
euil
in
some
cases
,
tolerating
it
in
other
,
and
the
practise
by
meanes
of
this
allowance
growing
intolerable
.
Some
of
them
(
as
the
world
reports
)
offices
for
life
&
at
pleasure
,
amounting
to
the
rate
of
lands
and
inheritances
.
I
am
not
ignorant
of
the
distinction
of
Iudicature
,
trust
and
paines
;
but
are
they
not
all
offices
of
Iustice
?
doe
they
not
prepare
to
Iudicature
,
and
lies
it
not
in
them
to
guide
or
misguide
,
to
hasten
or
delay
Iustice
,
&c.
which
how
can
they
freely
giue
,
which
buy
dearely
.
Doth
not
Bucer
deale
faithfully
with
his
Soueraigne
?
Offices
are
not
liuings
and
salaries
;
but
charges
and
duties
:
not
preferments
for
fauourites
;
but
rewards
of
deserts
,
&c.
Doth
Iulius
,
Iustinianus
,
or
Theodosius
their
lawes
giue
allowance
to
any
?
See
then
how
prouidently
Iethro
prouides
against
this
Hemlock-root
of
Iustice
?
out
of
whose
prouiso
I
conclude
that
which
Augustine
saw
in
his
time
,
and
deere
experience
confirmes
in
others
:
And
not
this
onely
,
but
another
neere
of
kinde
to
this
,
Among
all
the
people
Micol
Hagnam
.
)
Where
Iethro
restraines
not
Moses
to
his
owne
Family
,
to
any
particular
Tribe
,
or
to
the
richer
sort
:
but
requires
this
freedome
,
as
well
as
the
former
circumspection
.
Generality
and
impartiality
being
requisite
to
the
good
being
of
a
choyce
:
and
limitation
and
restraint
the
very
banes
of
Election
;
yea
,
contradictions
to
it
.
As
if
one
should
say
,
you
shall
chuse
amongst
twenty
,
but
you
shall
chuse
this
or
that
one
:
Doth
he
not
in
effect
say
you
shall
not
haue
your
choyce
?
will
a
man
when
hee
goes
to
Market
be
confined
to
any
shop
or
stall
,
if
hee
meane
to
prouide
the
best
?
How
grossely
is
the
countrey
wronged
and
befooled
,
cheefly
in
the
choyce
of
such
,
as
into
whose
hands
they
put
their
liues
and
lands
at
Parliaments
,
by
a
kinde
of
Conge
defliers
,
vsually
sent
them
by
some
of
the
Gentry
of
the
Shires
,
perswading
(
if
not
prescribing
)
the
very
couple
they
must
chuse
.
Thus
haue
we
seen
Naturalls
tied
to
a
poste
with
a
straw
,
which
they
durst
not
breake
.
This
text
bids
you
know
and
stand
fast
in
your
lawfull
liberties
of
election
,
which
that
you
may
not
abuse
,
I
come
to
the
second
part
of
the
Text.
The
second
part
.
It
teacheth
you
how
to
order
and
direct
it
by
these
foure
markes
following
:
which
I
reckon
as
foure
supporters
of
the
throne
of
Iustice
,
not
altogether
vnlike
to
those
foure
in
Christs
throne
,
so
often
mentioned
in
the
olde
and
new
Testament
,
which
being
properties
of
Angels
,
are
symbolls
both
of
Magistrates
and
Ministers
.
These
foure
whosoeuer
is
compounded
of
,
is
a
man
after
Gods
owne
heart
,
and
a
starre
in
his
right
hand
.
Hee
that
wants
any
of
them
,
is
but
a
blazing
comet
,
how
high
soeuer
hee
seemes
to
soare
.
These
will
not
onely
serue
for
the
triall
of
such
as
are
Candidati
,
and
to
bee
chosen
:
but
also
of
such
as
are
inuested
and
already
in
in
place
to
approoue
or
reprooue
their
condition
.
And
for
this
end
and
purpose
,
let
vs
vse
them
this
day
,
as
foure
waights
of
the
Sanctuary
,
wherunto
whatsoeuer
Officer
heere
present
,
from
the
Iudges
to
the
Bayliffes
,
shall
not
answer
:
This
Text
(
as
the
hand-writing
on
the
wall
)
shall
say
vnto
him
from
God
;
Thou
art
waighed
in
the
ballance
,
&
found
too
light
,
and
thine
office
(
at
least
ought
to
bee
)
taken
from
thee
.
The
first
Character
or
weight
.
Abilitie
.
The
first
and
prime
marke
is
Abilitie
(
Anishi
Chaijl
)
.
So
our
new
translation
expresseth
it
well
in
a
comprehensiue
word
,
and
so
I
finde
it
in
Scripture
signifying
and
comprising
all
the
seueralls
that
belong
to
facultie
or
abilitie
:
whereof
I
number
first
three
complementall
for
conveniencie
;
secondly
,
three
substantiall
and
of
necessitie
.
First
Chaijl
includes
strength
of
body
and
manhood
,
Vespasian
,
our
Alfred
,
Hardicanutus
,
Ironsides
,
&c.
Which
our
straight
buttoned
,
carpet
and
effeminate
Gentry
,
Woe
to
the
people
(
saith
Salomon
)
whose
Princes
are
children
and
eat
in
the
morning
;
and
blessed
are
the
people
whose
Gouernors
eat
in
time
and
for
strength
.
Eccles.
10.
Secondly
,
neither
is
wealth
to
be
excluded
:
That
Diana
of
the
world
,
which
it
onely
accounts
Abilitie
,
and
calls
it
opes
&
potentia
,
which
yet
is
better
called
value
than
valour
,
yet
may
it
concurre
to
make
vp
that
which
our
Law
terme
calls
mieulx
vailiant
;
and
though
at
the
beame
of
the
Sanctuary
money
makes
not
the
man
,
yet
it
adds
some
mettall
to
the
man
.
And
besides
there
is
some
vse
of
these
trappings
to
the
common
sort
,
Ad
populum
phaleras
,
which
taught
Agrippa
to
come
to
the
Iudgement
seat
with
pompe
,
state
,
and
attendance
,
like
that
of
our
Sheriffs
not
to
be
neglected
,
as
that
which
procures
some
terror
and
awe
in
the
people
:
which
Alexander
well
aduised
of
,
left
his
Gigantique
armour
behinde
him
among
the
Indians
,
and
vsed
more
state
then
at
Greece
.
Yet
remembring
that
these
complements
without
the
substance
are
but
empty
gulls
and
scarbuggs
of
maiestie
,
Iosiah
,
Thinkest
thou
to
rule
because
of
thy
large
building
,
Cedar
seeling
,
painted
with
vermilian
,
did
not
thy
Father
prosper
when
he
did
execute
Iudgment
and
Iustice
?
which
is
indeed
the
truth
and
substance
,
th'
other
but
the
flourish
.
Thirdly
,
I
exclude
not
birth
and
blood
,
Blessed
is
the
land
whose
Princes
are
the
sonnes
of
Nobles
.
Manasse
,
and
he
the
least
in
his
fathers
house
,
a
poore
thresher
.
Dauid
was
taken
from
the
sheepefold
&c.
yet
both
mighty
men
of
valour
,
and
speciall
Sauiours
of
their
people
.
And
the
wisdome
of
some
of
our
neighbour
Nations
is
much
to
be
commended
in
this
,
that
if
they
discerne
an
excellent
spirit
and
facultie
in
any
man
,
they
respect
not
his
wealth
,
or
birth
,
or
profession
,
but
chuse
him
into
their
Magistracie
and
weighty
imployments
.
But
these
three
are
but
of
the
by
and
well
being
,
Chaijl
,
as
first
wisdome
and
experience
,
which
the
Preacher
tels
vs
is
better
then
strength
,
And
indeede
without
this
what
is
a
Magistrate
,
Polyphemus
,
or
a
monster
without
an
eye
.
If
hee
want
either
skill
in
the
lawes
,
or
obseruation
of
his
owne
,
must
hee
not
bee
tutored
by
his
Clarke
,
as
it
often
falls
out
?
or
shall
hee
not
bee
misled
by
some
Counsellor
,
crossed
and
contradicted
by
euery
stander
by
,
that
shall
tell
him
this
you
cannot
doe
by
Law
,
or
I
take
it
you
are
besides
your
book
.
The
second
is
strength
of
minde
,
to
gouerne
and
manage
passion
and
vnruly
affections
,
Very
requisite
in
a
Iudge
,
who
must
not
suffer
his
affection
to
disquiet
his
iudgement
and
vnderstanding
,
in
rising
at
the
first
complaint
;
nor
at
any
accident
or
present
miscarriage
of
either
party
,
suddenly
occasioned
,
which
is
collaterall
to
the
cause
,
and
impertinent
to
the
question
,
but
hee
must
bee
patient
and
meeke
towards
their
personall
weaknesse
.
Likewise
long-minded
,
to
endure
the
rusticity
and
homelinesse
of
common
people
in
giuing
euidence
after
their
plaine
fashion
and
faculty
,
in
time
,
and
multitude
of
words
,
happily
with
some
absurdities
of
phrase
or
gesture
,
nor
impatient
towards
their
foolish
affected
eloquent
termes
,
nor
any
thing
else
whereby
the
truth
of
their
tale
may
be
ghessed
at
.
Lastly
and
principally
,
I
vnderstand
with
the
Geneua
translation
,
that
fortitude
,
Mars-street
.
Reuel
.
12.
the
Churches
male
or
man-childe
:
others
apply
it
to
Luther
:
others
to
Christ
,
the
true
Lyon
of
Iuda
.
And
though
I
regard
not
the
Salick
Law
,
because
the
God
of
spirits
hath
often
put
great
spirits
into
that
sex
;
yet
I
mislike
not
Theodorets
obseruation
vpon
that
in
Leuiticus
,
This
ability
is
so
requisite
,
that
it
is
often
put
for
the
onely
quality
,
as
if
this
alone
would
serue
,
as
in
Moses
charge
to
Ioshua
,
and
Dauids
to
Salomon
.
And
experience
hath
taught
,
that
where
this
one
hath
abounded
,
though
the
other
haue
beene
wanting
in
some
Magistrates
:
they
haue
done
more
good
seruice
to
their
Countrey
,
then
many
others
who
haue
had
some
tolerable
measure
of
the
rest
,
but
haue
failed
onely
in
this
.
Had
not
the
principall
posts
of
an
house
neede
to
be
of
hart
of
oake
?
are
rulers
&
standarts
that
regulate
other
measures
,
to
bee
made
of
soft
wood
,
or
of
lead
,
that
will
bend
and
bow
at
pleasure
?
doe
men
chuse
a
starting
horse
to
lead
the
teeme
?
had
not
hee
neede
be
of
Dauids
valour
,
and
Sampsons
courage
,
that
must
take
the
pray
out
of
the
Lyons
mouth
,
and
rescue
the
oppressed
from
the
man
that
is
too
mighty
for
him
?
had
not
he
need
to
bee
of
some
spirit
and
resolution
,
that
must
neglect
the
displeasure
and
frownes
,
reiect
the
letters
and
suits
of
great
men
and
superiours
?
It
is
incredible
to
those
that
know
it
not
,
what
strength
great
men
will
put
to
(
especially
if
once
interested
)
for
the
vpholding
of
a
rotten
Ale-house
,
countenancing
of
a
disordered
retainer
,
&c
,
the
resistance
wherof
requires
it
not
some
spirit
?
had
not
the
braine
neede
to
bee
of
a
strong
constitution
,
that
must
dispell
and
disperse
the
fumes
ascending
from
a
corrupt
liuer
,
stomacke
,
or
spleene
?
I
meane
the
clamours
,
rumours
,
and
sometimes
the
flatteries
of
the
vulgar
,
which
often
intoxicate
able
men
,
and
make
them
as
weake
as
water
,
yeelding
and
giuing
as
Pilate
,
when
hee
heard
but
a
buzze
that
he
was
not
Caesars
friend
,
and
saw
that
in
dismissing
Christ
,
he
should
displease
the
Iewes
.
What
heroycall
spirit
had
he
neede
haue
,
that
must
encounter
the
Hydra
of
sinne
,
oppose
the
current
of
times
,
and
the
torrent
of
vice
,
that
must
turne
the
wheele
ouer
the
wicked
;
especially
such
roaring
monsters
,
and
rebellious
Chora's
,
such
lawlesse
sons
of
Belial
,
wherwith
our
times
swarme
,
who
sticke
not
to
oppose
with
crest
and
brest
,
whosoeuer
stand
in
the
way
of
their
humours
and
lusts
?
Surely
,
if
Iethro
called
for
courage
in
those
modest
primitiue
times
,
and
among
a
people
newly
tamed
with
Aegyptian
yokes
:
what
doe
our
audacious
and
fore-headlesse
Swaggerers
require
?
our
lees
and
dregs
of
time
;
not
vnlike
to
those
wherein
God
was
faine
to
raise
vp
extraordinary
Iudges
,
to
smite
hip
and
thigh
,
&c.
What
Atlas
shall
support
the
state
of
the
ruinous
and
tottering
world
,
in
these
perilous
ends
of
time
?
For
all
these
fore-named
purposes
,
how
vnapt
is
a
man
of
a
soft
,
timorous
,
and
flexible
nature
?
for
whom
it
is
as
possible
to
steere
a
right
course
without
sweruing
to
the
left
hand
or
right
,
for
feare
or
fauour
,
as
it
is
for
a
cock-boat
to
keep
head
against
winde
and
tide
,
without
helpe
of
oares
or
sailes
:
experience
euer
making
this
good
,
that
cowards
are
slaues
to
their
superiours
,
follow-fooles
to
their
equals
,
tyrants
to
their
inferiours
,
and
winde-mills
to
popular
breath
,
not
being
able
to
any
of
these
to
say
so
much
as
no.
Wherfore
this
text
proclaimes
and
speakes
,
as
Gedeon
in
the
eares
of
all
the
faint-hearted
.
Whosoeuer
is
fearefull
and
timorous
,
let
him
depart
from
mount
Gilead
,
It
were
excellent
for
the
Common-wealth
,
if
such
a
substraction
might
bee
made
:
and
the
weake-hearted
would
resigne
their
roomes
to
able
men
.
For
what
haue
seruile
cowards
to
doe
with
the
sword
of
the
Lord
,
and
Gedeon
,
with
God
and
the
Kings
offices
.
On
the
contrary
,
it
sayth
to
all
men
of
ability
,
as
the
Angell
to
Gedeon
,
The
Lord
is
with
thee
thou
mighty
man
of
valour
,
goe
on
in
this
thy
might
to
saue
Israel
,
&c.
What
is
our
office
that
are
Ministers
,
but
as
Gods
Trumpetters
and
Drummers
to
encourage
,
hearten
and
put
life
in
those
that
fight
his
battles
and
doe
his
worke
.
By
the
vertue
then
of
this
my
text
,
I
say
to
euery
good-hearted
Magistrate
,
proceede
and
goe
on
from
strength
to
strength
.
And
if
any
aske
mee
,
who
then
is
sufficient
for
these
things
?
or
where
shall
we
get
this
strength
,
that
are
but
flesh
and
bloud
,
and
men
as
others
?
I
answer
with
Iob
,
Siluer
hath
his
veine
,
and
gold
his
mine
where
it
is
found
,
iron
is
taken
out
of
the
earth
,
and
brasse
moulten
out
of
the
stone
,
but
the
place
of
this
ability
is
not
to
bee
found
in
the
land
of
the
liuing
.
Nature
saith
it
is
not
to
be
found
in
me
;
Wealth
and
Honor
sayes
not
in
mee
:
It
is
falsely
sayd
of
Cato
and
Fabricius
,
that
the
Sun
might
sooner
be
stayed
or
altered
in
his
race
,
then
they
in
the
course
of
Iustice
.
The
stoutest
and
the
richest
will
yeeld
.
But
Dauid
tells
his
sonne
Salomon
on
his
death-bed
,
where
hee
shall
finde
it
.
Thine
,
o
Lord
,
is
greatnesse
and
power
,
thou
art
the
head
of
all
riches
,
honor
and
strength
are
in
thy
hands
,
it
is
in
thee
to
make
great
,
&c.
This
God
hath
taught
Dauid
to
breake
a
bow
of
steele
with
his
hands
:
It
is
hee
that
looseth
the
coller
of
Princes
,
girdeth
their
loines
,
&
vngirdeth
them
again
,
befooles
the
Counsellor
,
the
Iudge
and
the
spokesman
:
He
it
was
that
made
the
shooes
of
Ioseph
as
strong
as
brasse
,
Ieremiah
as
a
wall
of
brasse
,
Caleb
as
strong
at
fourescore
and
fiue
as
at
forty
;
if
Sampsons
haire
be
off
,
and
God
departed
from
him
,
he
is
as
other
men
,
and
he
can
strengthen
him
againe
without
his
lockes
at
his
pleasure
.
If
any
man
want
wisdome
or
strength
,
let
him
pray
,
and
hee
can
make
him
wiser
then
the
children
of
the
East
,
and
stronger
then
the
Anakins
:
wherefore
bee
strong
in
the
Lord
,
faint
not
,
be
not
weary
of
well-doing
,
for
feare
of
opposition
and
crossing
:
though
in
rowing
this
ship
,
the
windes
blow
,
and
the
seas
rage
,
Christ
can
straight
send
an
Halcion
,
and
set
it
on
shore
.
It
is
the
fault
of
many
Christian
Magistrates
,
euer
to
be
complaining
and
groning
vnder
the
burthen
:
as
if
ease
and
delicacie
were
to
be
sought
for
in
gouernment
.
What
if
there
be
a
Lyon
in
the
way
?
the
righteous
is
bolder
then
the
Lyon
:
what
if
thou
bee
weake
?
is
not
God
strength
?
and
doth
not
hee
perfect
his
strength
in
our
weaknesse
?
what
if
there
be
many
opposites
in
the
way
,
true
courage
is
strong
as
death
,
Yea
,
but
what
if
an
host
come
against
thee
,
and
as
Bees
encompasse
thee
?
true
faith
sees
more
on
Gods
side
then
against
him
,
euen
guards
of
Angels
,
as
plainely
as
men
doe
the
Sheriffs
halberts
,
and
doubts
not
,
but
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
to
vanquish
them
all
.
One
concluding
place
for
all
,
out
of
a
Preachers
mouth
,
Fearing
God
.
Iethro
must
be
vnderstood
not
of
the
poore
bastardly
slauish
feare
,
Felix
,
Balshazzar
&
Caligula
were
not
voyd
of
,
and
yet
neuer
the
better
Magistrates
:
But
such
a
filiall
feare
,
as
faith
and
the
assurance
of
Gods
loue
and
saluation
breeds
;
such
as
awed
Ioseph
,
Cornelius
,
Dauid
,
&c.
This
is
the
feare
required
by
Iethro
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
quae
parit
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
godlinesse
which
breedeth
an
heedfulnesse
in
all
our
wayes
and
actions
.
Without
this
feare
of
God
,
what
is
ability
but
the
Diuels
anuile
,
whereon
he
forgeth
and
hammereth
mischiefe
?
what
is
wisdome
but
subtilty
?
what
is
courage
vnsanctified
,
but
iniustice
?
wherein
is
such
skill
in
the
lawes
commonly
employed
,
but
in
colouring
and
couering
bad
causes
and
persons
,
and
in
making
the
lawes
a
nose
of
wax
to
priuate
ends
?
other
men
haue
other
bits
and
restraints
;
but
men
in
authority
,
if
they
feare
not
God
,
haue
nothing
else
to
feare
.
Wherefore
Christ
ioynes
them
well
in
the
vnrighteous
Iudge
,
that
hee
feared
neither
God
nor
man
.
If
hee
bee
a
simple
coward
,
he
feares
all
men
,
if
a
man
of
ability
,
he
feares
none
at
all
.
What
are
the
nerues
and
sinewes
of
all
gouernment
,
the
bonds
and
commands
of
obedience
,
but
an
oath
?
and
what
are
oaths
to
prophane
men
,
but
as
Sampsons
cords
,
which
hee
snapt
asunder
,
as
fast
as
they
were
offered
him
.
The
common
sort
of
our
people
count
the
oathes
that
men
take
when
they
take
offices
,
no
other
then
formall
:
so
they
distinguish
them
(
a
strange
distinction
)
from
other
oathes
of
contract
,
and
dally
with
them
accordingly
.
They
discerne
God
no
more
in
oathes
,
then
Christ
in
the
Sacraments
:
and
therefore
take
them
,
and
breake
them
rashly
and
regardlesly
,
which
when
they
haue
done
,
the
Diuell
enters
into
them
,
as
into
Iudas
;
and
runs
them
headlong
into
all
periured
courses
:
which
makes
the
land
to
mourne
for
the
contempt
of
oathes
,
and
neglect
of
duties
.
What
is
the
ground
of
all
fidelity
to
King
and
Countrey
,
but
religion
?
welfare
Constantius
his
maxime
,
He
cannot
bee
faithfull
to
mee
,
that
is
vnfaithfull
to
God
.
Why
then
,
what
are
oathes
for
Atheists
and
Papists
,
other
then
collers
for
monkies
neckes
,
which
slip
them
at
their
pleasure
?
such
neither
are
nor
can
be
good
subiects
:
muchlesse
good
Magistrates
.
Papists
will
keep
no
faith
with
Protestants
,
Finally
,
what
is
the
principall
scope
of
Magistracy
in
Gods
intention
,
whose
creature
and
ordinance
it
is
;
but
to
promote
his
glory
,
countenancing
the
Gospell
and
the
Professours
of
it
,
safe-gard
of
the
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
the
first
and
second
table
,
and
principally
the
two
former
.
Now
for
all
these
,
cheefly
for
the
cheefest
,
what
cares
a
Cato
or
a
Gallio
,
who
beares
the
sword
in
vaine
for
God
and
his
ends
;
who
neuer
minds
any
thing
but
his
owne
Cabinet
,
or
the
ship
of
the
Common-wealth
at
the
best
:
for
the
other
,
sincke
they
swim
they
,
all
is
one
to
him
,
he
tooke
no
charge
,
nor
will
hee
take
notice
of
them
.
Wherefore
I
conclude
,
that
the
feare
of
God
is
the
principall
part
,
as
of
my
Text
,
so
of
a
good
Magistrate
,
whom
Christ
calls
a
Ruler
in
Israel
,
Paul
Gods
Minister
and
sword-bearer
:
Hee
is
one
that
came
into
his
place
by
Gods
doore
,
and
not
by
the
Diuels
window
:
when
he
is
in
,
hee
eyes
him
that
is
inuisible
,
euen
God
in
the
assembly
of
Gods
:
and
therefore
sits
on
the
Iudgement
seat
in
as
great
,
though
not
in
so
slauish
a
feare
of
offending
,
as
Olanes
vpon
the
flead
skin
of
his
〈…〉
,
nayled
by
Cambyses
on
〈◊〉
Tribunall
:
or
as
a
Russian
Iudge
that
feares
the
boiling
caldron
,
or
open
battocking
:
or
the
Turkish
Senate
,
when
they
thinke
the
great
Turke
to
stand
behinde
the
Arras
,
at
the
dangerous
doore
.
Who
hath
alwaies
,
(
as
God
enioyneth
,
Deut.
17.
18.
)
a
copy
of
the
law
of
his
God
before
him
,
and
reads
it
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
,
that
he
may
learne
to
feare
the
Lord
his
God
,
and
to
keep
the
Commandement
without
turning
aside
,
either
to
the
right
hand
or
left
.
If
at
all
he
be
glad
of
his
place
,
it
is
not
as
a
chaire
of
honour
,
or
farme
of
commodity
,
nor
sword
of
reuenge
:
but
onely
as
a
meane
of
furthering
his
reckoning
,
and
pleasuring
his
Countrey
.
For
his
oath
,
he
remembers
it
,
and
trembles
,
lest
if
carelesly
he
transgresse
it
,
the
winged
flying
booke
ouertake
him
before
he
get
home
:
if
he
cut
but
the
skirt
or
lap
of
Iustice
,
his
heart
smites
him
with
a
priuy
pinch
,
till
hee
sets
all
right
againe
with
God
and
man
.
Hee
dares
not
so
much
as
by
countenance
offend
any
of
Gods
little
ones
,
nor
affoord
a
good
looke
to
a
varlet
,
nor
yet
so
to
respect
their
persons
,
as
to
wrong
their
cause
;
for
he
knowes
all
these
to
be
abhomination
to
his
Lord
,
into
whose
hands
he
dreads
to
fall
,
as
knowing
him
a
consuming
fire
,
and
one
that
hath
prouided
Tophet
for
Princes
.
When
an
vnlawfull
suit
is
commenced
by
power
or
by
friendship
,
his
heart
answers
if
not
his
tongue
)
with
Iob
:
How
shall
I
doe
this
,
and
answer
God
when
hee
comes
to
iudgement
.
As
for
bribes
,
hee
dares
not
looke
on
them
,
lest
they
blinde
his
eyes
before
he
be
aware
:
such
pitch
he
dares
not
touch
,
nor
receiue
into
his
bosome
,
lest
it
defile
him
in
the
open
sunne
,
if
tendered
in
closet
or
chamber
,
he
feares
the
timber
and
stones
in
the
wall
would
be
witnesses
against
him
.
When
he
comes
in
court
,
he
fixeth
his
eye
,
neither
before
him
on
that
person
,
nor
about
him
on
the
beholders
,
nor
behinde
him
for
bribes
,
This
is
the
godly
man
,
whom
the
Lord
chuseth
and
guideth
,
whose
praise
and
reward
is
of
God
:
which
Dauid
hauing
found
true
in
his
life
,
a
little
before
his
death
,
recordeth
to
all
ages
.
Let
the
Diuell
and
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
bee
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
of
meanely
of
these
,
who
are
either
meere
ciuill
and
politique
men
,
or
idle
pleasurable
Gentle-men
,
what
reckoning
doe
we
thinke
hee
makes
of
such
prophane
vncircumcised
vice-gods
(
as
I
may
in
the
worst
sence
best
terme
them
)
that
sell
themselues
to
worke
wickednesse
?
that
giue
themselues
to
all
good
fellowship
(
as
they
call
it
)
and
to
all
excesse
of
ryot
(
as
the
Apostle
calls
it
)
and
that
hate
to
bee
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
characters
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
a
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
sit
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
said
ye
are
Gods
,
but
yee
shall
die
like
men
,
and
fall
like
others
.
Or
will
they
suffer
the
Prophets
exhortation
,
who
art
thou
that
dreadest
a
mortall
man
,
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
,
encrease
it
where
it
is
,
that
there
may
bee
more
holy
Magistrates
,
and
that
the
holy
may
yet
bee
more
holy
.
And
then
we
hope
the
other
two
properties
following
will
more
abound
,
and
wee
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
:
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
:
Hypothesi
,
as
the
Philosophers
by
disputations
in
Thesi
:
being
of
his
temper
that
worthily
sayd
,
Plato
is
my
friend
,
Socrates
my
friend
,
but
the
Truth
is
my
dearest
friend
.
Or
like
Iob
,
And
for
this
purpose
,
a
man
of
truth
keeps
men
of
truth
about
him
:
and
with
Dauid
,
But
withall
,
I
must
complaine
as
of
olde
,
that
truth
is
fallen
in
the
streets
,
and
vtterly
perished
from
among
men
,
Well
,
let
deceiuers
thus
deceiue
themselues
,
let
cunning
heads
and
glozing
tongues
make
as
much
as
they
will
of
Tiberius
his
Art
,
or
the
Diuells
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
left
.
And
if
it
should
be
attended
with
hatred
and
crosses
for
a
time
,
yet
hee
that
is
Amen
,
the
true
witnesse
,
yea
truth
it selfe
,
will
reward
them
in
the
end
:
when
hee
shall
shut
out
with
the
dogs
,
all
such
as
loue
and
make
lies
;
with
whose
exhortation
I
close
vp
this
lincke
,
and
knit
with
the
following
,
Buy
the
truth
and
sell
it
not
,
which
hee
that
meanes
to
doe
must
be
A
true
hater
of
couetousnesse
,
Else
will
Salomons
seuerall
prouerbs
meet
in
him
.
Which
being
an
inordinate
loue
of
money
,
Zedekiah
.
Eyes
you
know
are
tender
things
,
and
small
motes
annoy
them
,
euen
handfulls
of
barley
and
morsels
of
bread
make
such
men
to
transgresse
:
There
is
such
a
strange
bewitching
power
in
Balaams
deceiptfull
wages
,
that
he
that
will
admit
them
for
Iustice
,
But
thou
oh
man
of
God
flie
these
things
,
and
hate
couetousnesse
with
a
perfect
hatred
.
Hate
it
as
Ammon
did
Thamar
,
first
thrust
it
out
of
thy
heart
,
and
shut
and
locke
the
doore
after
it
.
Secondly
,
Shake
thy
lap
of
bribes
with
Nehemiah
.
Consider
as
Bernard
counsels
Eugenius
,
But
what
doe
I
making
my selfe
ridiculous
to
this
olde
doting
couetous
age
of
the
world
:
this
theme
only
made
the
Pharisies
laugh
at
Christ
his
woes
,
because
they
were
couetous
:
And
so
doe
they
serue
all
our
caueats
against
couetousnesse
,
applauding
themselues
and
laughing
in
their
sleeues
,
when
they
behold
their
bags
in
the
chest
,
and
their
lands
from
off
their
Turrets
,
saying
to
themselues
,
What
is
a
man
but
his
wealth
?
What
is
an
office
but
the
fees
?
There
is
a
text
in
Esay
,
that
if
Paul
had
the
preaching
of
it
,
Bring
you
;
such
as
the
Countrey
calls
Capon-Iustices
:
as
also
such
mercenary
Lawyers
,
as
sell
both
their
tongues
and
their
silence
,
their
clients
causes
and
their
owne
consciences
:
who
only
keep
life
in
the
law
,
so
long
as
there
is
money
in
the
purse
;
and
when
this
golden
streame
ceaseth
,
the
mill
stands
still
,
and
the
case
is
altered
:
such
extorting
Officers
of
Iustice
,
as
inuent
pullies
and
winches
for
extraordinary
fees
,
to
the
miserable
vndoing
of
poore
suitors
:
such
false
periured
Sheriffs
,
Stewards
of
liberties
and
their
Deputies
,
as
for
money
falsifie
their
charges
:
such
corrupted
Iurates
and
witnesses
of
the
post
,
which
are
as
hammers
and
swords
,
and
sharp
arrowes
in
their
brethrens
hearts
:
such
cheese-bayliffs
and
lamb-bayliffs
,
as
vex
the
poore
Countrey-men
with
vniust
summons
to
the
Assises
and
Sessions
,
with
the
rest
of
that
Rabble
.
These
Muck-wormes
of
the
world
,
which
like
the
Gentles
breede
of
putrefaction
,
&
Beetles
fed
in
the
dung
,
relishing
nothing
else
but
earthly
things
:
thinke
there
is
no
other
godlinesse
but
gaine
,
no
happinesse
but
to
scrape
and
gather
,
to
haue
and
to
hold
.
Let
such
consult
shame
to
their
houses
:
let
such
make
their
offices
as
casting
nets
for
all
fish
that
come
:
till
they
get
the
Diuell
and
all
:
Let
them
heap
vp
treasures
of
wickednesse
and
treasures
of
wrath
withall
.
But
where
there
is
any
feare
of
God
and
loue
of
the
truth
,
let
Iohns
counsell
preuaile
with
them
,
to
bee
content
with
their
due
wages
:
Let
Paul
perswade
them
,
that
godlinesse
is
gaine
with
contentation
:
Salomon
,
that
Gods
blessing
maketh
rich
,
and
adds
no
sorrow
therewith
:
So
shall
they
follow
Iethro's
aduise
the
better
,
and
and
prooue
compleat
Magistrates
&
Officers
:
Men
of
courage
,
men
of
religion
,
men
of
truth
,
hating
couetousnesse
.
These
are
the
foure
Cardinall
vertues
of
Magistrates
,
of
which
if
all
were
compounded
,
and
were
as
eminent
for
them
as
for
their
place
:
and
did
(
as
the
great
Dictator
of
reason
speakes
in
his
Politicks
)
as
far
exceede
the
vulgar
sort
in
those
heroycall
vertues
,
as
the
statues
of
the
gods
,
the
statues
of
men
:
then
would
people
become
voluntary
subiects
,
put
the
scepters
into
their
hands
,
and
the
law
of
commanding
and
obeying
become
easie
,
things
thought
irreparable
would
easily
be
reformed
.
The
third
part
.
But
before
I
come
to
make
vse
of
what
hath
beene
sayd
,
let
mee
,
as
the
third
part
of
my
text
,
and
the
distribution
of
Magistracy
requires
,
tell
you
to
whom
all
this
hath
beene
spoken
:
not
to
Iudges
and
Iustices
of
peace
onely
,
as
I
feare
most
haue
imagined
in
hearing
it
:
but
to
all
from
the
highest
and
greatest
,
to
the
lowest
and
least
Instrument
of
Iustice
,
from
the
Gouernour
of
the
thousand
,
to
the
Centurion
,
from
him
to
the
Tithingman
or
Decinour
.
To
the
which
ancient
diuision
of
the
Iewish
Common-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
generall
commission
or
dominion
,
&
High
Sheriffs
in
their
Shires
,
answering
to
the
Rulers
of
thousands
.
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
adde
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
,
if
but
the
least
of
these
strings
be
false
or
naught
.
Contrary
to
the
common
and
dangerous
opinion
of
the
vulgar
,
who
to
their
owne
iniury
thinke
and
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
and
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
Sunne
and
Moone
,
and
the
lowest
and
neerest
orbs
that
gouerne
the
world
.
It
is
the
ground-winde
,
not
the
rack-winde
,
that
driues
mills
and
ships
.
It
is
in
the
Ciuill
,
as
in
the
Ecclesiasticall
body
:
if
Bishops
be
neuer
so
learned
,
and
the
parishionall
Minister
negligent
,
worldly
,
proud
,
or
blinde
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
vnseruiceable
?
yea
,
not
only
if
such
as
be
organs
of
Iustice
,
such
as
haue
places
of
Iudicature
:
but
if
the
media
and
spectacles
of
the
sense
will
yeelde
a
false
report
,
how
shall
the
common
sense
make
a
right
iudgement
?
If
Pleaders
and
Attourneyes
will
colour
and
gloze
,
if
the
Clarkes
and
Pen-men
make
false
records
,
may
not
any
of
these
disturb
or
peruert
Iustice
?
if
the
least
finger
or
toe
of
this
body
be
distorted
,
I
meane
Iaylor
or
Sargeant
,
or
any
other
that
should
execute
Iustice
,
be
remisse
and
slacke
,
then
must
the
Dutch-mans
prouerb
bee
verified
,
Looke
what
the
bell
is
without
the
clapper
,
Thus
we
see
in
this
curious
clock-work
of
Iustice
,
the
least
pin
or
wheele
amisse
may
distemper
&
disorder
all
:
but
if
care
were
had
to
frame
all
these
parts
of
the
building
according
to
the
plat-forme
of
this
skilfull
Architect
,
what
an
absolute
harmony
of
the
parts
,
what
an
exact
perfection
of
the
whole
;
yea
,
what
golden
times
should
we
liue
to
see
?
Hearken
ô
yee
mountaines
and
little
hills
,
Iethro
:
ye
of
the
meanest
place
of
the
common-welth
,
weigh
not
things
nor
persons
at
the
common
beame
of
custome
and
opinion
,
but
at
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
,
Beni-ish
,
to
be
layd
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
,
falsharted
,
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
worthy
take
his
place
:
if
this
order
&
rule
of
triall
might
take
place
,
how
many
would
bee
turned
out
of
commission
?
how
many
would
bee
offici
perdae
?
how
would
benches
and
Shire-houses
bee
thinned
?
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
Daniel
,
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
,
venter
Aeneus
,
admisto
ferrea
crura
luto
Diuino
capiti
,
ceruix
humana
,
ferinus
Assuitur
truncus
Daemonijque
pedes
.
The
head
of
golde
.
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
vnknowen
to
mee
but
by
fame
,
which
hath
spoken
all
good
:
I
desire
you
to
prooue
and
waigh
your selues
by
Iethro's
waights
,
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
some
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
and
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
cal
into
question
,
at
least
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
Country
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
rancke
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
?
The
legs
and
feet
of
iron
and
clay
,
or
mire
.
Indeed
the
very
mire
and
dirt
of
the
Countrey
,
the
Bayliffs
,
Stewards
of
small
liberties
,
Bum-Bayliffs
,
Iaylours
,
&c.
if
Beelzebub
wanted
officers
,
he
needed
no
worse
then
some
of
these
:
what
mysteries
haue
they
to
vex
the
poore
Countrey-men
with
false
arrests
?
and
by
vertue
of
that
Statute
tying
euery
Free
holder
of
forty
shillings
per
annum
,
to
attend
the
Assises
,
but
I
list
not
to
stirr
this
sediment
of
the
countrey
too
vnsauoury
to
be
raked
vp
in
a
sermon
.
Oh
that
some
Iehosophat
would
visit
and
reforme
,
or
that
you
Iudges
in
these
your
dayes
of
visitations
,
would
redresse
some
part
of
these
greeuances
,
and
reduce
all
to
this
Idaea
of
Iethro's
,
which
indeed
would
make
an
Heauen
vpon
earth
amongst
vs
.
An
Vtopia
I
feare
some
will
say
,
too
good
to
be
true
,
Cato
,
that
hee
not
discerning
the
times
hee
liued
in
,
looked
for
Plato's
Common-wealth
in
the
dreggs
of
Romulus
.
And
so
that
these
Magistrates
thus
limbed
out
,
might
be
found
in
Moses
golden
age
of
the
world
,
but
not
in
these
lees
of
time
.
To
which
I
answer
,
There
being
nothing
else
remaining
to
your
perfection
,
and
the
peace
of
the
Common-wealth
,
but
this
one
Item
following
in
my
Text
,
requiring
assiduity
and
diligence
.
Let
them
iudge
the
people
at
al
times
,
A
most
needefull
caueat
in
times
that
loue
ease
and
priuate
employments
,
with
neglect
of
publique
.
Sitting
in
the
gate
is
perpetually
needefull
.
Diligence
in
hearing
and
ending
causes
would
preuent
that
greeuance
of
delayes
,
which
occasioned
Iethro
his
discourse
.
How
doe
you
thinke
it
would
haue
affected
him
,
to
haue
seen
six
or
seuen
I
haue
heard
sixteene
sums
set
vpon
one
suit
.
These
our
English
delayes
being
(
as
Marnixius
complayned
)
worse
then
the
Spanish
strappadoes
.
And
it
is
fit
,
though
publique
and
generall
courts
haue
their
Termes
,
yet
that
particular
audience
of
petty
greeuances
should
haue
no
vacation
.
Many
are
the
suits
and
controuersies
,
many
are
the
criminall
offences
that
neede
continuall
inspection
.
Let
him
therefore
that
hath
an
office
,
attend
to
his
office
with
cheerefulnesse
;
hee
that
hath
no
leisure
to
heare
his
neighbours
causes
:
Let
him
(
as
the
woman
said
to
Philip
)
haue
no
leisure
to
beare
office
.
Cursed
is
he
that
doth
the
work
of
the
Lord
negligently
,
and
with
holdeth
his
hands
there
from
.
You
Gentle-men
complaine
often
of
Idoll
shepheards
,
dumb
dogs
,
&c
,
in
the
Ministery
.
But
how
many
such
in
the
Magistracy
?
Some
in
commission
,
that
neuer
sit
on
the
Bench
but
for
fashion
:
Constables
that
are
but
cyphers
in
their
place
.
Forsooth
they
will
be
no
pragmaticall
fellowes
,
no
busi-bodies
to
trouble
the
Countrey
.
Is
there
no
mean
between
busi-bodies
and
tell-clockes
,
between
factotum
and
neant
.
From
this
neglect
comes
that
wrong
and
iniury
to
the
Assises
,
that
such
petty
causes
,
trifling
actions
and
complaints
trouble
these
graue
and
reuerend
personages
,
which
a
meane
Yeoman
were
Iudge
fit
enough
to
end
in
a
chaire
at
home
:
when
the
whole
Shire
must
be
troubled
to
heare
and
iudge
of
a
curtesie
made
out
of
the
path
,
or
a
blow
giuen
vpon
the
shoulder
vpon
occasion
of
a
wager
,
or
such
like
bawble-trespasses
which
I
shame
to
mention
.
And
to
punish
euery
petty
larceny
,
euery
small
ryot
or
disorder
,
which
lighter
controuersies
and
faults
,
if
particular
Officers
would
comprimize
&
redresse
in
their
Spheares
,
these
greater
Orbs
should
not
be
troubled
with
them
.
Then
indeed
would
that
follow
,
which
Iethro
assures
Moses
of
in
the
last
part
of
my
Text
,
An
admirable
emolument
of
Magistracy
&
sufficient
reward
of
all
the
paines
of
it
:
that
they
and
the
people
may
go
home
in
peace
,
sit
vnder
their
vines
and
fig-trees
,
follow
their
callings
,
and
that
which
is
the
cheefe
Iewell
of
all
,
may
lead
their
liues
in
all
godlines
and
honesty
.
That
the
gold
,
blew
and
purple
silke
might
shine
and
glister
within
the
Tabernacle
,
the
outside
was
couered
with
red
skins
and
goats
haire
,
such
a
shelter
is
Magistracy
to
Gods
Church
and
Religion
.
Nebuchadnezzar
was
a
great
tree
,
and
euery
particular
Magistrate
a
little
one
vnder
whose
boughs
people
build
&
sing
,
and
bring
vp
their
young
ones
in
religious
nurture
,
euen
foster-fathers
as
Ioseph
in
Aegypt
.
Such
were
the
rich
&
religious
times
vnder
Dauid
&
Salomon
,
&
vnder
such
as
are
described
,
Esa.
32.
which
whole
chapter
is
worth
the
reading
,
as
a
iust
Commentary
vpon
this
poynt
:
setting
foorth
the
felicity
,
quietnesse
,
plenty
,
vertue
and
piety
of
iust
Gouernors
,
as
are
hiding
places
from
the
winde
,
and
refuges
from
the
tempest
,
riuers
of
waters
to
to
dry
places
,
and
as
raine
to
the
new
mowen
grasse
,
&c.
Such
also
were
the
times
enioyed
by
the
Church
vnder
Constantine
,
deciphered
as
I
take
it
,
Reuel
.
8.
when
there
was
silence
in
the
heauen
about
halfe
an
houre
,
the
golden
vialls
filled
with
sweet
odors
,
the
prayers
of
the
Saints
ascending
as
a
pillar
of
smoke
vp
to
heauen
.
Of
these
times
see
Panegyricall
Sermons
,
and
Encomiasticall
discourses
storied
of
olde
,
Eusebius
,
which
whole
booke
is
nothing
but
an
Elogium
of
those
peaceable
dayes
,
wherein
the
Church
was
edified
&
multiplied
.
The
Common-wealth
being
to
the
Church
,
as
the
Elme
to
the
Vine
,
or
as
the
garden
to
the
Bees
;
the
flourishing
of
the
one
,
the
thriuing
of
the
other
;
and
the
disturbance
of
the
one
,
the
disquiet
of
the
other
.
How
can
men
either
attend
Gods
seruice
or
their
owne
worke
,
when
they
are
molested
at
home
with
drunkards
,
barretors
,
quarrellous
persons
,
when
hurried
vp
to
London
with
suits
.
As
I
haue
knowen
a
Constable
molested
with
fiue
or
six
actions
,
for
an
act
of
Iustice
,
in
punishing
vice
according
to
his
office
.
With
what
bitternesse
of
spirit
do
men
groane
vnder
delayed
and
peruerted
Iustice
,
when
it
is
turned
into
Hemlocke
,
and
turnes
them
out
of
their
wits
,
some
of
them
swouning
at
the
sight
of
their
orders
,
as
I
haue
heard
from
credible
eye-witnesses
,
others
ready
to
destroy
themselues
,
their
aduersaries
,
yea
and
somtime
their
Iudges
.
Oh
the
benefit
of
good
Magistrates
,
It
is
an
vnknowen
good
,
as
the
Country-man
in
an
ancient
Poet
,
when
hee
had
met
with
all
,
feelingly
cries
out
,
that
hee
had
found
that
summum
bonum
,
which
the
Philosophers
so
much
sought
after
,
hee
now
enioying
more
sweetnesse
of
little
,
then
of
great
reuenues
in
troublous
times
.
Surely
,
wee
Christians
ought
to
prize
it
as
the
meane
of
our
greatest
good
,
of
our
peaceable
frequenting
of
our
Churches
,
and
our
seruing
of
God
.
Marchants
make
a
higher
vse
,
&
are
more
glad
of
a
calme
then
common
passengers
:
so
should
wee
Christians
then
Heathens
,
by
how
much
wee
may
and
ought
to
improoue
it
for
richer
ends
of
Gods
glory
,
and
the
saluation
of
our
soules
.
Lord
what
manner
of
persons
ought
wee
to
bee
in
all
godlinesse
and
honesty
,
which
enioy
such
length
and
latitude
of
Halcion
dayes
,
as
wee
doe
;
the
tithe
whereof
,
not
onely
former
dayes
,
but
our
neighbour
Nations
would
now
be
glad
of
.
God
giue
vs
the
vse
and
fruit
of
them
,
continue
and
encrease
them
,
which
will
then
bee
,
when
this
Text
shall
bee
most
studied
and
practized
.
Then
(
as
Amos
speakes
)
shall
iudgement
flow
as
waters
,
and
righteousnesse
run
downe
as
a
mighty
torrent
;
or
as
Dauid
,
Then
shall
the
earth
encrease
,
all
people
shall
praise
God
,
and
God
euen
our
God
shall
blesse
vs
,
and
all
the
ends
of
the
earth
shall
feare
him
.
And
so
I
make
Iethro's
preface
my
conclusion
.
I
haue
giuen
you
counsell
this
day
:
Hearken
to
my
voyce
,
and
the
Lord
God
bee
with
you
all
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.