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…

Secondly, Inhumanity and cruelty, The faces of the Judges being covered, they will not look upon the case of a poor man.¹ It is usual for an oppressed petitioner to say to the Judge, Look upon me, good my Lord, cast an eye upon me; the Judge who will not see, is covered with incompassion.

Secondly, Inhumanity and cruelty, The faces of the Judges being covered, they will not look upon the case of a poor man.¹ It is usuall for an oppressed petitioner to say to the Judge, Look upon me, good my Lord, cast an eye upon me; the Judge who will not see, is covered with incompassion.

1. 1Solebant judices intra cortinas se co•tinere cum contra reum capitis sententiam pronunciabant. Fined.

Thirdly, Covering of the face imports the affected partiality of Judges; many do as if they could not see, as if their faces were covered. Affection blinds the judgment, and none are so blind as they that will not see. The reason why the Heathen pictured their Fortune blind, was, because she distributed things, as if she ⟨p. 330⟩affected blindness, giving good to those that were evil, and evil to those that were good;¹ when Judges give rewards to those that should be punished, and punish those that should be rewarded, their faces are covered, they are blind. Judges were anciently portrayed or pictured, without hands and without eyes; without hands, as noting that Judges must not receive or take gifts: And without eyes, because they must not see friend or neighbour, great or small, kinsman or stranger; they were to distribute justice according unto every mans cause, and not with respect to any mans state or relation. It is said of Christ (