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Euse. I pray you let us hear.

Euse. I praye you lette vs heare.

Phil. The office of the high powers evidently declareth, what innumerable commodities & pleasures y• christen public weal receiveth by them. Moses, when he appointed certain rulers over the Israelites,¹ commaū dead them that they should judge righteously, & that they should not be partial in their judgements, but hear all indifferently, not esteeming nor preferring the man of power and nobility before the poor & base per•on, nor yet fear the person of any man, for it is the judgement o• GOD, saith he. Again, that they should receive no gifts (for gifts do blind the eyes of the wise,² & deprave the causes of the righteous) but alway pursue & follow that, ⟨image 64⟩which is according to justice, hau• ever with them the book of the law of the LORD, read it all the days of their life, that they may learn to fear the LORD their God, and to keep all the words of his law, & ordinances thereof, that they may do them.³ The Prophet Jeremiah also commandeth kings & other rulers to minister righteousness, to deliver the oppressed from violent power, to keep equity not to grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, nor yet to shed innocent blood. Here may ye see in few words,⁴ how necessary the office of the public magistrates is for the right institution & prosperous preservation of the common weal. Howe expedient is it, think you, in matters of controversy, that all things be judged & reconciled according to equity & justice? How necessary is it, that the poor oppressed