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Let this dread, I say, of God that highest Judge, that Judge of Judges, prevail so with you to keep you in awe and within compass, as the dread of you doth the like with other inferior ones for the present. Otherwise ^sif you shall wittingly and wilfully pervert justice, and carry things away by might and main after your own pleasure, ²making your own lust your only law; or ^tif you shall suffer your selves to be overswayed by fear, seduced and led aside by favour, or corrupted with ⟨p. 66⟩gifts: ^uKnow ye for certain, be ye assured of it, that, as Solomon saith, for all these things God will bring you to judgement. And though you may carry matters here ^xso closely and so smoothly, that men cannot espy nor discover your corrupt carriage, and so you go away with the name of good Justices and just Judges, when indeed you are nothing less; yet ^yEvery one of your actions will God one day bring to trial, and ^zevery secret work be it good or bad. And so I pass to the next point.

Let this dread, I say, of God that highest Iudge, that Iudge of Iudges, preuaile so with you to keepe you in awe and within compasse, as the dread of you doth the like with other inferiour ones for the present. Otherwise ^sif you shall wittingly and wilfully pervert iustice, and cary things away by might and maine after your owne pleasure, ²making your owne lust your onely law; or