Not to be over hasty in the desire of Justice, for wrongs sustained. [ XXV]
AS one that hath been either robbed himself,* 1.1 or that hath his friend murthered, If he have the party apprehended,* 1.2 and said fast in prison, is not presently out of patience,* 1.3 because he ••eeth him not instantly executed, but is well content qui∣etly to expect the time of the Assizes,* 1.4 though it be half a year after, as long as he is sure, that he shall then have Iustice against him. So ought we not presently to flye out, because evill doers prosper, or grow impatient, i•• we see not justice done instantly, so soon as our hasty hearts shall require it, upon those we suppose have wronged us; but rest content to stay God's leasure, and to expect that day of his great Assize, when we shall be sure to have justice done us, according to that which the equity of our cause shall require;* 1.5. remembring withall, that all wicked ones are in the mean while in this world,* 1.6 as in God's Jayle, under the chaynes of a guilty conscience, out of which there is no possible means of escape, without judgment.