An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

First, For the rule of judging, or for the Law whereby we judge. It is said (1 Sam. 10.25.) that Samuel (after he had anointed Saul for King) told the people the manner of the Kingdom, and wrote it in a book: this manner of the Kingdom was not the common practice and custom of the Kingdom, but (it is the word of the text) the judgements of the Kingdom, that is, those rules and laws by which the Kingdo•• ought to be governed and judged.

Secondly, Judgement is put for an ability or fitness to judge, to discern and weigh things, to scan a cause, and try out the uttermost truth of every circumstance: judgement is the ability of the person judging. And

Secondly, Judgement is put for an ability or fitnesse to judge, to discern and weigh things, to scan a cause, and try out the uttermost truth of every circumstance: judgement is the ability of the person judging. And

Thirdly, Judgement is taken for the sentence given upon the person judged, after the evidence of his cause is heard and taken. Judgement in this third sense is the result of the former two. For when by judgement, as it is the rule of judging, and an ability to judge, the Judge hath wrought and tried out what the merit of a ⟨p. 292⟩mans cause, and the truth of a business in controversy is, then the issue of both is, Judgement in this third sense; that is, an act which is passed, or a sentence pronounced upon the person that standeth in, or the cause which is brought to judgement.

Thirdly, Judgement is taken for the sentence given upon the person judged, after the evidence of his cause is heard and taken. Judgement in this third sense is the result of the former two. For when by judgement, as it is the rule of judging, and an ability to judge, the Judge hath wrought and tried out what the merit of a