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The sins of private Offenders bring wrath upon themselves: But the winking at them or partaking with them in those whose place and calling is to punish them, maketh them the sins of the State; and so draweth down the wrath of God upon the whole land: it is ^sVestri causa, For them that Zion is ploughed, and Jerusalem sacked, and the whole Land dispeopled and destroyed. It is their not doing of justice or their doing of injustice, that enforceth God to arise and judge the whole State.

The sinnes of priuate Offenders bring wrath vpon themselues: But the wincking at them or partaking with them in those whose place and calling is to punish them, maketh them the sinnes of the State; and so draweth downe the wrath of God vpon the whole land: it is ^sVestri causa, For them that Sion is ploughed, and Ierusalem sacked, and the whole Land dispeopled and destroied. It is their not doing of iustice or their doing of iniustice, that enforceth God to arise and iudge the whole State.

1. sMica. 3. 12.

But what is the reason, why God should so take to heart the poor peoples oppressions as to stand up and judge himself in this sort? For all people, saith the Psalmist, are thine inheritance They are all ^tthy people, ^uthy possession, ^xthy portion, ^ythy poor; and therefore their cause it is in some respect ^z