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For the former: Private men must be admonished, what their course must be, when courses of justice fail, and they cannot have it at mans hand, at the hand of the Magistrate: To rise instantly in arms, and seek to right themselves either by public rebellion, or by private revenge? No: ^xExurge Deus; Arise, ô God; and, ^yExurgat Deus; Let God arise. Not that upon every slight wrong, and every trifling occasion, men should be making of their moan in that manner unto God, and craving justice at his hand; as ^zSarah with Abraham, when her maid Hagar having conceived by him, carried her self malapertly towards her: ^ait is very poor patience that is so easily worn thread-bare. But ^bwhen their wrongs shall be great and grievous, & they can have no redress of them with those that should do them right, then to make this ^csacrā anchorā, their sheet anchor, their utmost refuge, to fly unto God, to betake themselves unto him, make their appeal to him, commence their suit before him, commit their right to him, and so leave it with him.

For the former: Priuate men must be admonished, what their course must be, when courses of iustice faile, and they cannot haue it at mans hand, at the hand of the Magistrate: To rise instantly in armes, and seeke to right themselues either by publike rebellion, or by priuate reuenge? No: ^xExurge Deus; Arise, ô God; and, ^yExurgat Deus; Let God arise. Not that vpon euery slight wrong, and euery trifling occasion, men should be making of their moane in that manner vnto God, and crauing iustice at his hand; as ^z