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The best and the worst magistrate
The best and the worst magistrate: or, The people's happiness and unhappiness, laid open in a sermon preached at the late election of the Lord Major for the famous City of London, Sept. 29. 1648. / By Obadiah Sedgwick B. in D. and minister at Covent-Garden.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1648
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And their perverting of Judgement: They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from 1their right; They turn judgement into wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the Earth, saith the Prophet Amos: They justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him, saith the Prophet Isaiah: And are 2not these the things which will make a land to mourn? Amos 8. 8.
And their perverting of Judgement: They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from 1their right; They turn judgement into wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the Earth, saith the Prophet Amos: They justifie the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him, saith the Prophet Isaiah: And are 2not these the things which will make a land to mourn? Amos 8. 8.
4. Lastly, consider the Consequences which befall a people for all these things: The times of Gods Judgement upon a people are mournful times, and times of wickedness make ⟨p. 17⟩