N00499:65
Optanda. Good men described, and good things propounded. A serious consideration of two very…
Optanda. Good men described, and good things propounded. A serious consideration of two very important cases. I. What should be our spirits, and II. What should be our studies, that so all things may go well among us. / By Cotton Mather. ; In two sermons; whereof one, was preached unto the governor, and General Court, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England; at their first session: June 9. 1692. ; Published by authority[.]Optanda. Good men described, and good things propounded. A serious consideration of two very important cases. I. What should be our spirits, and II. What should be our studies, that so all things may go well among us. / By Cotton Mather. ; In two sermons; whereof one, was preached unto the governour, and General Court, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England; at their first session: June 9. 1692. ; Published by authority[.]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1692
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But Wisdom without Justice, will […].Crafty to make Things Go well […] Recommended unto Magistr•• […] ⟨p. 48⟩they Reign in Righteousness, and Rule in Judgment. When things are misapplied, so that the Innocent are Condemned, and the Guilty Acquitted, what is there to be seen, but, An Abomination to the Lord! The Balance used there, is to weigh, not the Cash, but the Crime of Delinquents. Hence our God giving us a promise of Things Going well, He says, in Isa. 60. 17. I will make thy Officers peace, and thine Exactors Righteousnest. A Magistrate should affect rather to be called, The Just, than, The Great; and he should in his Impartial Proceedings, but Antedate the Judgment of the Great Day, when, The Lord shall Judge the World with Righteousness, and the People with Truth.
But Wisdom without Justice, will 〈…〉.Crafty to make Things Go well 〈…〉 Recommended unto Magistr•• 〈…〉 ⟨p. 48⟩they Reign in Righteousness, and Rule in Judgment. When things are misapply'd, so that the Innocent are Condemned, and the Guilty Acquitted, what is there to be seen, but, An Abomination to the Lord! The Ballance used there, is to weigh, not the Cash, but the Crime of Delinquents. Hence our God giving us a promise of Things Going well, He says, in Isa. 60. 17. I will make thy Officers peace, and thine Exactors Righteousnest. A Magistrate should affect rather to be called, The Just, than, The Great; and he should in his Impartial Proceedings, but Antedate the Judgment of the Great Day, when, The Lord shall Judge the World with Righteousness, and the People with Truth.