And by all of them, when business is delayed and protracted through their respective accession to it, as well as when justice is more manifestly wronged; this is the end of Je••ros advice to Moses, Exod. 18. 23. that the people may return home, being quickly, and with all convenient diligence dispatched; which, to their great loss and prejudice many ways, the unnecessary lengthening of Processes obstructeth, and maketh Law and Lawyers, appointed for the ease and relief of the people, to be a grievous and vexatious burden to them; for which men in these stations and capacities will have much to answer to God, the righteous Judge of all the Earth, when they shall be arraigned before his terrible Tribunal, where there will be no need of leading witnesses to prove the guilt, since every mans conscience will be in place of a thousand witnesses, neither will the nimblest wit, the eloquentest tongue, the finest and smoothest pen of the most able Lawyer, Judge, Advocate, Notary or Litigant that shall be found guilty there, be able to fetch himself fair off. O▪ then all the fig-leaves of their fairest and most flourishing, but really frivolous pretences, wherewith they palliate themselves, will be instantly blown away by the breath of that Judges mouth, and so be utterly unable to cover the shame of their nakedness in the manifold breaches of this Command; then the greatest stretches of Wit, and highest strains of Eloquence made use of to the prejudice of truth and justice, will be found and pronounced to be poor, filly, and childish wiles, yea, very fooleries and babblings; after which, they will not speak again, but laying their hands on their mouths, eternally keep silence; It will therefore be the wisdom and advantage of the guilty in time to take with it, and resolving to do so no more, to betake themselves, for the pardon of it, to that Advocate with the Father, even Jesus the Righteous, who throughly pleadeth, and without all peradventure or possibility of loosing it, doth always carry the Cause he undertaketh to plead.
And by all of them, when business is delayed and protracted through their respective accession to it, as well as when justice is more manifestly wronged; this is the end of Je••ros advice to Moses, Exod. 18. 23. that the people may return home, being quickly, and with all convenient diligence dispatched; which, to their great loss and prejudice many wayes, the unnecessary lengthening of Processes obstructeth, and maketh Law and Lawyers, appointed for the ease and relief of the people, to be a grievous and •exatious burthen to them; for which men in these stations and capacities will have much to answer to God, the righteous Judge of all the Earth, when they shall be arraigned before his terrible Tribunal, where there will be no need of leading witnesses to prove the guilt, since every mans conscience will be in place of a thousand witnesses, neither will the nimblest wit, the eloquentest tongue, the finest and smoothest pen of the most able Lawyer, Judge, Advocate, Notary or Litigant that shall be found guilty there, be able to fetch himself fair off. O▪ then all the fig-leaves of their fairest and most flourishing, but really frivolous pretences, wherewith they palliate themselves, will be instantly blown away by the breath of that Judges mouth, and so be utterly unable to cover the shame of their nakedness in the manifold breaches of this Command; then the greatest stretches of Wit, and highest strains of Eloquence made use of to the prejudice of truth and justice, will be found and pronounced to be poor, filly, and childish wiles, yea, very fooleries and bablings; after which, they will not speak again, but laying their hands on their mouths, eternally keep silence; It will therefore be the wisdom and advantage of the guilty in time to take with it, and resolving to do so no more, to betake themselves, for the pardon of it, to that Advocate with the Father, even Jesus the Righteous, who throughly pleadeth, and without all peradventure or possibility of loosing it, doth alwayes carry the Cause he undertaketh to plead.