The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Thirdly, in hearing both parts, incline not to the right-hand of affection, or to the left of hatred: as to believe arguments of persuasion for a friend, before arguments concluding for a foe.

Thirdly, in hearing both parts, incline not to the right-hand of affection, or to the left of hatred: as to believe arguments of perswasion for a friend, before arguments concluding for a foe.

Fourthly, deny not Justice, which is Regia mensura, to the meanest Subject: but let the Cause of the poor and needy ⟨p. 183⟩come in equal balance with the rich and mighty. If thou perceivest on the one side in a cause, the^* high hills of cunning advantage, powerful combination, and violent prosecution; and on the other side, the low valleys of poverty, simplicity, and desolation: prepare thy way (as God doth) to judgment, by^† raising Valleys, ³and taking down Hills, equally inequality: that so thou mayest lay the Foundation of thy sentence upon an even ground. In matters of right and wrong 'twixt party and party, let thy Conscience be careful, rather ^*Jus dicere, to pronounce the Law that is made, secundùm allegata & probata; than Jus dare, to make a Law of thine own, upon the authority of sic volo, si jubeo, fearing that fearful Malediction,⁵ Cursed be he that removeth his Neighbour's Land-Mark. ⁶In Trials of Life and Death, let Judges, like Elohim, in justice remember mercy; and so cast the severe Eye of Justice upon the Fact, as that they look with the pitiful eye of Mercy upon the Malefactor, wresting the favour of Law, to the favour of Life, where Grace promiseth amendment: but if Justice requireth, that