com.9. Offalfe wiineiling. in judgment; Chap. 3; 505 do thus, it may be faid, ,Ruando ju/ütia revertiturad judiciumimhenrighteoufnefrfball Pfalm99.:5. return to judgment, when Chriff the true righteoufncfs (hall come to judgment, they (hall anfwer for it. ' 3. For the Accufer, hemay be guilty of the breach of this Commander:lent Horo the Aceu- three wayes. fir moy be i. Calumniando,, by flandering, whenbe bringsa falfe Accufation, as Haman, g%lty` who flandered the Jews, that they were not obferverr ofthe Kings Laws, upon which EfiI.3.$ falteaccufetion, the King gave temerarium judicium , rafh judgment againft the Jews. 2,When he accufes any upon uncertain grounds,as thofe that accufed S,Paul, As 24.13s' and atleadged fundry things againfk him,which they could not prove,and yet he was hill detainedptifoner, till further proof could be made. 3. By prevaricating, prevaricando;. whendiereis collufion ufed inpleading,fo that he which acculespleads faintly against another,beingreconciled to him un- derhand.It is a Metaphor taken from thofe that were (vari) fuch as had crooked legs,bending inward towards the knees,the feet being far aftinder,who bywear.- iag long garments downto their Piet (as was the ufe of old in.Come Common- wealths) might eafilÿ deceive thofe that looked upon them , the garment co- vering their deformity, as if their knees had been as far afundér, as their feet. Hence thofe ehatdid contend , and ftrive together in publiek, and yet were friends privily,were called pravaricatores,prevaricators ; thus when a manfeems to accufe; and yet is friends withhim whom he accufes, he-prevaricates, and is a meer mockeryof the place of judgment. And as the Plaintiffhimfelf, fo he that is Advocates Alloris, the Advocatefor the Plaintiff, is guilty in like manner ofprevarication, when he betrayes the caufe of the partywhom he reprefents,by weak proofs andgrounds. We read in Lzra,that there were Counfellers about Ezra 4. Sr Artaxerxes, that made f sew of fuch as would advife him for the publickgood, whereas they had been hired and bribed against the Jews, by their enemies, to binder the building of the Temple, which was not for the good of Artaxerxes e and fo he thatis to reprefent another, and is to advife for his good, and yet is corrupted to do the contrary, is juftly to be blamed forprevaricating. 4. For the Defendant, or the party accufed, hemay be guilty threewayes: How the De- i. If being demandedor required to anfwer in due form oflaw, he ufe excu- fondant t guiF fes, or tergiverfation to avoid the matter objefled against him , though it be oy ofht the breach true, or which is as old, if he feek to exude himfelf byaerating others.This was fmdement. Adams fault tergiverfari, to ttfetergiverfation. The queflion was, whether he pfalm 14i. 4< had eaten or no, he makes no direct anfwer,but layes the fault upon theWoman. Gen.3. The woman which thou gave.FE me,Jhhegaveme ofthefruit, &c. Yob therefore makes it part of his righteoufne(s, that he hadnot,hid his fn, as Adam did, concealing iniquity Job 3I. 33, inhis bofom, Being lawfully commanded therefore to anfwer, in matters where there is publick fame and probable ground precedent,we murk anfwer,for we muft not adde one evil to another; to be evil is evil, and to teemgood when a man is evil , is evil all'o : and therefore he that being evil would (eemgood, by denying the truth, adds one evil to another. But yet a man is not bound to accufehimfelf, when he is not lawfully pro,- ceeded againfl, nor before -a competent Judge : when the High Prieik interró- John 09, 9. gated Christ concerninghis doctrine, he bids himask thofe that. heard him. If any could accufe him, let himcome forth , but he wouldnot accufe himfelf ; and whenPilate asked him fome queflions, he would give him no anfwer, or no di- Joh, 8.zo,ii redanfwer, becaufe his questions proceeded notexpublica infamia, nor . ex femi- plena probations, upon -publick fàme,nor upon probablegrounds,but were to make him accule himfelf : in fach cafes a man may not anfwer. And again in tome cafes, if therebe two things in the accufations and both true, he may anfwer to the one, and occultare partem veritatie , hide orconceal the other part, as S. Paul AÈB a3 a; did when he was accufed for perceiving that part were Sadduces, who de- nyed the Refurredion, and part Pharifees, who held the Refurredion,he cry- ed out, that he was a Pharifee, and held the Refurrelìion , and for that was queftioned , which was true, for that was one thing for which he was called in queftion ; but it was not that alone. So if a man have dicerie wayes to .de- S . f f fend
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