Laws against God.
Now if a law be made over the conscience that is pure, that law is against God.
(C. J., I., p. 96.)
An Unjust Judge.
How hast thou strengthened the hands of the evil doers and been a praise to them and not to them that do well. How like a mad man and a blind man didst thou turn thy sword backward against the saints, against whom there is no law. How wilt thou be gnawed and burned one day when thou feels the flame, and hast the plagues of God poured upon thee, when thou beginnest to gnaw thy tongue for the pain, because of the plague. Thou shalt have thy reward according to thy work. Thou canst not escape. The Lord’s righteous judgments shall find thee out the witness in thy conscience shall answer it.
(C. J., I., Letter to Justice Sawrey, 1652, p. 78.)
True Justice.
None is worthy to have the name of a magistrate that is proud, peevish, selfish, crabbed; or that is wilful or wicked or that is heady or high-minded; for the higher power is to chain such from their intents and mischievous ends that they would do and wrong the innocent with their unrighteous intents; and such as touching judgment are blind, that be perverse and full of ambition and pride, such forgets God and he is not in their thoughts, these feel not the burden that the innocent bears and groans under; for such as be there be in that nature that burdens the just in particular and in the general; before whose eyes the fear of God is not, who makes a prey upon the just....
So as ye all, magistrates, be kept in the fear of God and in the higher power, in the true understanding and true wisdom which is pure, gentle, from above, easy to be entreated. It will bring you to the true instructions and there, being in them, it will bring you to instruct all others wherever you come.
(C. J., I., Letter to the Long Parliament, pp. 84, 85.)