Sermons on Deuteronomy (continued)
On Saturday, the 9th of
November 1555 The 101st Sermon, which is the fifth upon the Sixteenth Chapter
18. Judges and Officers shall they make you in all the Cities which the Lord your God gives the throughout all the Tribes, to judge the people with just Judgment.
19. They shall not rest the Law, nor have regard of persons. They
Shall not take any reward. For gifts blind the eyes of the wife, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Ad we continued in the fame soundness of nature wherein God created us: in order of Law (as men term it) should not be so needful, because every man should carry the law in his heart, So as no man needed to be compelled to obedience, but every man should know his rule, & we should all with one accord follow that which is good & rightful. And therefore law is as a remedy against the corruption is in men. As of as there is any talk concerning earthly government, we must understand that there in we have a mirror of our forwardness, in we are sane to be compelled to following of uprightness & reason.
For they that are in authority, have the sword in their hand: and to