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Gods parley with princes with an appeal from them to him. The sum of…Gods parley vvith princes with an appeale from them to him. The summe of…
Gods parley with princes with an appeal from them to him. The sum of two sermons on the 3. last verses of the 82. Psalm; preached at Sergeants-Inn in Fleet-Street. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Gods parley vvith princes with an appeale from them to him. The summe of two sermons on the 3. last verses of the 82. Psalme; preached at Sergeants-Inne in Fleet-Streete. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edw, 1620
AN APPEAL TO THE PRINCE OF PRINCES.AN APPEALE TO THE PRINCE OF PRINCES.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When private men do wrong, the sin is their own, it is their personal offence, and they must answer it with their heads. But when private mens abuses and enormities are borne with or bolstered out by authority, are not duly redressed and condignly ⟨p. 77⟩punished by those that be in authority, when either justice is denied to those that be wronged, or injustice is done them by those that should do them right, then the offence becometh public, even the sin of the whole State: And maketh God enter into judgement not bcum senioribus populi & principibus eius, With the Elders of his people and their Princes alone; but cum terra universa, with the whole Land, with the state in general. cThey execute no judgement, neither for fatherless nor poor. And what followeth thereupon? And should not I then visit my self? saith the Lord: should not my very soul be a avenged on such a nation? not on them alone, but on the Nation it self. And, dHear this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye Princes of the house of Israel: ye that abhor judgement, and pervert justice, and judge for gifts, and give sentence for bribes: Therefore, Vestri causa, for your sake shall Zion be made a ploughed field, and Jerusalem a wast heap, and the Temple a wild forest.
When priuate men doe wrong, the sinne is their owne, it is their personall offence, and they must answer it with their heads. But when priuate mens abuses and enormities are borne with or bolstred out by authority, are not duly redressed and condignely ⟨p. 77⟩punished by those that bee in authority, when either iustice is denied to those that bee wronged, or iniustice is done them by those that should doe them right, then the offence becometh publike, euen the sinne of the whole State: And maketh God enter into iudgement not bcum senioribus populi & principibus eius, With the Elders of his people and their Princes alone; but cum terra vniuersa, with the whole Land, with the state in generall.