Magistrates: should Judge Righteously

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Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Deuteronomy 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
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Library

'A Mirror for Magistrates'
... which he gives to these peasant magistrates bears on ... To judge righteously, to vote
honestly, is as much worship ... ecclesiastical and civil, as we should say, the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/a mirror for magistrates.htm

Coming Judgment of the Secrets of Men
... to day, like that of our local magistrates; but this ... It were a pity that such deeds
should be left ... secret part of the action he would not judge righteously. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 31 1885/coming judgment of the secrets.htm

The Way of Life and the Way of Death.
... 3354] And whatsoever thou wouldest not should be done ... is just is reserved to the
magistrates alone. ... Between Those that Quarrel, to Judge Righteously, and Not ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i on the two ways.htm

Touching the First Subject of all the Forementioned Power of the ...
... given to them: or if they should agree, and ... of power, to determine and judge errours
and ... But Magistrates addresse themselves thereto, partly by commanding, and ...
/.../chap vii touching the first.htm

Of Civil Government.
... causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every ... teach others why
there are magistrates, and to ... and tranquillity, so that it should be their ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of civil government.htm

Titus ii. 14-Nov
... subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ... speak evil of no
man." Our lips should be pure ... us to utter them, but for the Judge to enquire ...
/.../homily v titus ii 14-nov.htm

On the Article, and in one Holy Ghost, the Comforter, which Spake ...
... And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and the magistrates, and authorities ...
soul of Daniel, that young as he was he should become a judge of Elders ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/lecture xvi on the article.htm

Psalm XCIV.
... how great that rest will be; do thou judge with what measure of toil it should be
bought. ... and cities, who gave information to the magistrates of notorious ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xciv.htm

Of the Power of Making Laws. The Cruelty of the Pope and his ...
... is, that human laws, whether enacted by magistrates or by ... for the edification of
the Church, should be accommodated ... Charity is the best judge of what tends to ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 10 of the power.htm

Covenanting a Duty.
... Judges, and magistrates, and kings, having power in civil ... that inculcate the service
in general, should be interpreted ... for joy; for thou shalt judge the people ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter iii covenanting a duty.htm

Subtopics

Magistrates

Magistrates are Appointed by God

Magistrates are Ministers of God

Magistrates are not a Terror to the Good, But to the Evil

Magistrates: Good: Daniel

Magistrates: Good: Gideon

Magistrates: Good: Job

Magistrates: Good: Joseph

Magistrates: Good: Nehemiah

Magistrates: Good: Samuel

Magistrates: Purpose of Their Appointment