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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10703	The honestie of this age· Proouing by good circumstance that the world was neuer honest till now. By Barnabee Rych Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1614 (1614)	STC 20986; ESTC S115916	33,743	58

write of Scandalum Magnatum to be granted against him A common Swearer hath no excuse to pleade in his owne defence but doth shew himselfe to be abondslaue to the deuill and a fire brand of hell God himselfe hath pronounced against him The Lord will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine and the vision of the flying Booke seene by Zacharias that was twelue Cubits in length and tenne in breadth doth witnesse that the Curses are many that are written and doe hang in record against Swearers I thinke Bribery is no sinne at all or if it be it is but veniall a light offence a matter of no reckoning to account on It is like the disease Morbus Gallicus which in poore men we vse plaine dealing call it the Poxe but in great personages a little to gilde ouer the loathsomnesse wee must call it the Gowt or the Sciatica so that which amongst inferiors we call a Bribe in superiors it is called a Gift a present a Gratification If a Lawyer for a fee of tenne shillinges doe sometymes take tenne poundes it is a Curtesie a Beneuolence but these Curtesies and kindnesses are bestowed with asmuch good will as the true man when he giueth his purse to the Theefe Yet he that hath iudgement to giue a Bribe with discretion may worke wonders he may run through-stitch with any businesse Iacob by sending of presents may appease the anger of Esau Claudius by giuing of Bribes may escape correctiō though he commit sacriledge in the Temple of Minerua Thou shalt take no gifts for the gift bindeth the wise and peruerteth the words of the righteous Exod. 23. But to make an end of this text I will but adde thus much that the giuing and taking of Bribes and the buying and selling of offices are 2. such plague sores to a common wealth where they be suffered that they are no lesse hurtfull to the Prince then preiudiciall to the poore subiect Should I speake nowe of Couetousnesse of Vsury and of Pride Couetousnesse is a sin that euermore hath beene hated and Vsury is a sinne that the world hath still detested But the pride of these times if it were well considered is much more odious in the sight of God many wayes more pernicious to the common wealth then both those other of Couetousnesse and Vsury that are and haue euer bin accounted so loathsome Couetousnesse I confesse is the Curre that thinketh nothing to be vnlawfull that bringeth in gaine it is the canker that eateth and deuoureth the gettings of the poore It is the Viper that spareth neyther friend nor foe vertuous nor vicious but where there is golde to be gotten it teareth the very intrailes of whom soeuer He yeeldeth yet a reason for his scraping and pleades the feare of want alledging that his greedie heaping and gathering together to be but a Christian-like care that euerie man should haue to prouide for his family Simonides being demanded why he beganne to growe so miserable in his latter yeares to fall a hurding vp of riches when he was readie for the graue to acquit himselfe of a couetous disposition answered because sayd hee I had rather haue goods to leaue to mine enemies when I am dead then to stand in neede of my friends whilst I am aliue Thus wee may see there is not a vice so odible but they haue skill to maske it with the visard of vertue And the Vsurer on the other side he pleades not guiltie nay he will hardly be perswaded that Vsury is any sinne at all or if it be a sinne it is such a sin as it lies in his owne will and disposition what manner of sin hee himselfe will make of it whether a little sinne or a great sin or a sinne of any assize that he himselfe doth list to forme or fashion it Nowe the Vsurer doth acknowledge that the Scriptures doe prohibite the taking of Vsury and sayth hee so God himselfe hath commaunded Thou shalt not steale Now for a rich man to be a Theefe euery man can say hee deserues to be hanged but for a poore man that is ready to famish and in his necessitie hee stealeth a loafe of Bread to saue his life here is now a theft cōmitted a direct breach of Gods commandement yet to be comiserated From hence they would inferre a tolleration in some persons namely to men that be aged to widdowes and to Orphanes and there be some that publiquely in writing haue maintained a tolleration to be had in these and do thinke it a matter drawing nearer Charitie for these to make profite of their money rather then to waste or spend awaie the stocke Here is yet a second collection that is gathered by the Vsurer yet sayth he if a man be driuen into that necessitie that he is inforced to steale though it be but a loafe of bread for his reliefe yet the theft is to be accounted so much the more or so much the lesse in respect of the person from whom it is committed for in such a case to steale from him that is rich the robbery is nothing so intollerable in the eies of the world as for him that is poore to steale from another no lesse poore then himselfe therefore sayth the Vsurer we may take vse of him that is rich so we haue a conscience to him that is poore and to fortifie his conceit he alledgeth certaine places of Scripture If thou lend money to my people that is to the poore Thou shalt take no Vsury Exod. 22. Here is nowe no prohibition but that we may take vse of those that be rich it is but the poore that are only excepted And wee are yet agayne forbidden that wee shoulde take no Vsury but it is of thy brother that is falne in decay Leui. 25. When the Deuill came to tempt our Sauiour Christ hee beganne with Scriptum est and the Vsurer to salue vp that sinne that all ages hath detested all places haue denounced all good men haue euer abhorred haue learned of the Deuill to alledge the holy Scriptures But Vsury is forbidden by Gods owne mouth and therefore sinne neyther is that reliefe to be found in it that many do expect for wher it maketh show to giue there it taketh where it pretēdeth to succour there againe it doth oppresse And therefore hee that seeketh to assist himselfe by the helpe of the Vsurer is like the poore Sheepe that seeketh in a storme to shrowde himselfe vnder a Bramble where hee is sure to leaue some of his Wool behind him There hath beene question made of Vsury what it is for some woulde haue it to consist onely in the letting out of money according to the letter as it is written Thou shalt not giue to Vsury to thy Brother Deut. 23. Other some doe thinke him to be as great an Vsurer that taketh excessiue gaines in any thing as the other that taketh vse for his money He would vpholde his