Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things, death ...

70 The fecondwiththeirheads; but if private mens enormitiesand abominations pafTe unpuniihedjbe borne with,or boulftred out by authority 3 if the wicked bejuftified, and the juft condemned, if execution benotdoneupon^^^^^/^ifhebefavedjwhom Godhath appointed to die, if publicke power be villanouAyabufed to private revenge, profit, or pleafuringofgreat oncs> if good Lavves be no: executedfor the protection of the innocent, and punchingofthewicked. In a word, if publicke Tribunals,and feates of Juftice, be any wales corrupted, ifJuftice,that glorious cement ofall focieties,be neg-Icded or perverted, iftruthfallinthe ftreete, andequity grow lame, I fay then the offence grovvespublicke, even the (innc of the whole Kingdome^and caufeth G o d to enter into judgement, notwith the Elders of his people, and Princes alone,but with the whole Land, even with the State ingenerall. Heare the Prophets of old, expreffingGods mind herein. Efayahj'yg,T/^,i$yi6ji'j, Letus take notice, and tremble, ludgement is turned4rvay backward, andlufiice ftandeth afarre ojf-^fortruth isfatten in the fir eete Jand equity cannot enter.Nay ytruthfaileth^ andhe that departeth from evill ma*keth himfelfe a prey, and the Lord faiv it, andttdffpleafedhim^that there waism judgement, ^nd hefarv there was no man ,and wondered that there wasno Intercejfour. Therefore his arme brought falvattontinto him,and ri^hteoufie(fej it fastaimd him. For heput onrighteoufneffe as abreft-platej and an helmet offalvation upon hts head, andhe put on the garment ofvengeance fir floathing, and was clad with zcale, as acloake^