The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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Title: The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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CHAP. XVII. A just Iudgment. (Book 17)

CRantzius the Denmark Historian as he hath many delightsom passages of story, so this especially, I could not but copy out at my reading of it, wherein I see God just, and murder heavy. One was hired for a sum of money to murder an innocent Dane. He does the bloody fact, and presently receives in a purse his wages of iniquity. A heavy purse of gold for a while, makes a light heart, but where the guiltiness grones heavy too, the gold is worth nothing. At last the murderers conscience accuseth and con∣demns him like both witness and Judge for his bloody fact. His heart and eyes are both cast down, the one as far as Hell, whither the fact had sunk, and the other to the Earth, whither the blood. He is now weary of his own life, as erewhile he was of anothers. He ties his purse of gold (which had hired him to kill the other) about his neck, and offers it to every one he meets as his reward if he would kill him. At last he is paid in his own coin, and hires his own murderer with that price wherewith he himself was hi∣red. And so perish all such whose feet are swift to shed-blood, and he that strikes with an unlawful sword, be strucken with a lawful again. This mans case makes me to think of Cain the old grandsire of all murderers. Of his heavy doom and misery, and burden and banishment. David once groaned under the burden of blood guiltiness, but God at his repenting eased him: Psal. 51. Judas takes a worse course than even Cain did to be released of the sting of bloodshed, Matth. 27. God grant I never know what it is to be guilty of shedding of blood, but only by reading.