The English scholar's library of old and modern works Volume 1-6

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...thou sonne of man, iS 34 shalt thou not iudge? shalt thou not iudge, I say, the citie of blood? and also: behold, I shall iudge betwixt beast and beast. And such places in great nombre, are to be founde thrughout the hole scriptures, and yet I trust no man wilbe so foolish, as to thinke that any of the Prophetes were apointed by God to be politike iudges, or to punishe the sinnes of man, by corporal punishment. No the maner of their iudgement is expressed in these wordes: Declare to them all their abominations, and thou shalt Ezech-TM say to them: Thus saith the Lorde God: a citie shedding blood in the middest of her, that her time may approche and which hath made idoles against her selfe, that she might be polluted. Thou hast transgressed in the blood which thou hast shed, and thou are polluted in the idoles, which thou hast made. Thus, I say, do the prophetes of God iudge, pronouncing the sentence of God against malefactors. And so I doubt not but Debora iudged, what time Israel had declined from God: reBBking Iheii dtfccljurj,..aridexhorting them to repentance, without vsurpation of any ciuill authoritje. And if the people gaue vnto her' for a time any reuerence or honour, as her godlines and happie counsel did well deserue, yet was it no such Note. empire, as our monstres claime. For which of her sonnes or nerest kinsmen left she ruler and iudge in Israel after her. The holie ghost expresseth no such thing. Wherof it is euident, that by her example God offreth no occasion to establish any regiment of women aboue men, realmes, and nations. But now to the second obiection. In whiche women tecmd recluire (as to them appeareth) nothing but equitie Mtctim. and iustice. Whilest they and their patrones for them, require dominion and empire aboue men. For this ...