ciall : The firft which is called Celeftiall, is defined to be a true and exact confideration with an humble & dutifull acknowledgement of God. Natural Justice is that which is borne with us, and every man hath in himselfe by nature ; that which we call Civill, confifteth either of what our owne beft condition ftirrs and prompts us to doe, or what the fuffrage of the people, the the confultation of the Senate ; the will and po- wer of Princes, or the Authority of grave and wife men, inioynes us to keepe and obferve. Ju- ditiall is that which propperly belongeth to the Bench, & is grounded upon Statutes & Lawes ; inftituted and made for the benefit and profit of the Common weale, to the depreffion of vice, and incouragement of vertue.
Now to fee thefe things faithfullys and pun- ctuall kept, were the Lawes firft devifed and ordained ; the vertues whereof, are to beare fway powerfully to reftraine and forbid things gently, to punifh and chaftice Malefactors fe- verely ; but errors committed by ignorance, to cenfure mercifully : under thefe foure heads may our inioyned obedience to the Law be compre- hended, which is alfo by the Law ftrictly im- pofed : namely, to live honeftly, to hurt no man |