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The Lord the Judge (says he) be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon, Judg.xi.27.and then prosecuting, and relying on his appeal, he leads out his army to battle: and therefore in such controversies, where the question is put, who shall be judge?
It cannot be meant, who shall decide the controversy; every one knows what Jephtha here tells us, that the Lord the Judge shall judge.

Where there is no judge on earth, the appeal lies to God in heaven.

That question then cannot mean, who shall judge, whether another hath put himself in a state of war with me, and whether I may, as Jephtha did, appeal to heaven in it?
of that I myself can only be judge in my own conscience, as I will answer it, at the great day, to the supreme judge of all men..


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