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A01627	The regiment of the pouertie. Compiled by a learned diuine of our time D. Andreas Hyperius. And now seruing very fitly for the present state of this realme. Translated into Englishe by H.T. minister	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1572 (1572)	STC 11759; ESTC S103064	57,526	158

waxed so cold in mens myndes that as often as the poore mans case is called to mynd no man thinketh that it is his part to vnderstande it but one turns it on an others shoulders The ministers of the churches complain that they can doe nothing in so great a businesse alone and in some places the whole right of disposing the church goods is not in their power in some places they are not able to rule the multitude to forbid valiant beggers to reduce the ydle persons to an order and to performe other things of lyke fort Contrarywyse the ciuile magistrates pretende that this whole matter was always committed to the Churches on whom great riches and large priuiledges were therefore bestowed bycause it is their propre office to nourishe the poore other such things those whiche are willing to drawe backewarde do alledge But when by this meanes all men doe put from them this godly woork innumerable poore people must néedes perish and by neglecting or more truely to be sayd contempt of these miserable creatures or rather of Christ himselfe who hath ordeined the the poore shold remain alwais with vs in his stead in finite euils must needs daily spring vp in mans societie But beleue me these men shall neuer be able thus to satisfie their dueties all such exceptions are emptie and barrain it is but vaine to séeke suche starting holes For this cause of the pouertie is not layde on a fewe mennes shoulders only but it apertaineth equally to as many as professe the name of Chryst The diuine promises and preceps of liberlalitie towards the poore whiche are extant in the sacred Bible yea the threatnings or punishementes agaynst those whiche despise the pouertye and in them Christ hym selfe are proposed to all men which are able to do any thing in that behalfe and are to be embraced as well of the politike magistrates as of the Ecclesiastical gouernours And in deede a great and worthy worke can neuer be fynished by a fewe Therefore it behoueth all men ioyntly to lay to their healpe and bandes and to laboure togyther for the same stoutly whiche we wishe may redounde to the glorye of God and to the vtilitye of the whole multitude That thing cannot long eudure which is not established by the vnitie of the mindes and publique consente of all menne Finally wée sée by daylye experience that the godly preachers in the Churche doe laye theyr foundation in dayne as long as the magistrates doe not vouch safe to lay to their healping hands to make vp the rest of the building Therfore on the one side the elders of the Churche as if were gauderobearers on the other syde the gouernours of the cōmon welth muste meete in one place and consulte togither how 's they may honestly prouids for the pouertie within their circuites Chapter 2. Hovve many things there be in these vvretched tymes vvhich ought to moue vs to helpe the Poore BUt I hope that al mē of what so euer degrée but especially they whyche haue the chiese rule in the cities wil then more chéerefully take paynes in deliberatyng for the publike liberalitie towards the poore whē I shal haue set before their eyes how many things are offered in these wretched tymes which ought of good right to drawe compel men therto First I mind to explicate how needful it is the al mê but espectaily they the are of greatest anthoritie in the cōmon welth be as diligent as possible they may in furthering the poore peoples cause The Apostle Paule going aboute to exhore the Corinthians to sende reléese to the brethren at Hierusalem whiche were oppressed with scarcitie in the latter Epistle Chap. 8. speaketh to them in this wise Therefore as you abound in euery thing in faith and worde in knowlege and in al diligence and in youre loue towards vs euen so sée that you abound in this grace also Forsothe the Apostle wold signifye that in them whyche are commended for their faith and other worthy gifts and vertues a singular liberalytie towards the poore ought also to shine neither can these former vertues cōsist without this wherfore it lyketh me now to vse the same reason almost and to speake thus to all godly magistrates There is none of you all most worthy magistrates whiche doths not professe before all men that he reposeth his faith vó his whole harte in Christ Iesu our Sauiour and would be reckened among suche as reuerence the name of Christ If therefore you haue faith and desire that other shoulde accoumpte you so then truly it is necessary that you declare that faith in she wing forth al manner duties of charitye but especiallie liberalitye towards your domesticall pouertie It can not be chosen but that suche frutes muste néedes follow a true and liuely sayth Beside this there is no subiect whiche dothe not fully account that you doe sufficientely know what you ought to doe in the affaires of the common wealth which is committed to your truste and specially in the behalfe of the poore and innocent and that both you can and wil chéerefully performe those things which appertayne to your office whiche are both iustly commaunded and straightely exacted by the lawe of almightie God and whereof you make an inuiolable promise at suche tyme as by othe and certain vsuall ceremonies you are openly admitted to your office And in the meane tyme you are not ignoraunt that that seruant which knoweth his masters will and dothe it not shall be beaten fore with many stripes Wherfore make your account that your iutegritie and diligence in doing youre office shall neuer be approued of God or godly men before you haue prouided a means in youre cōmon wealth to reléeue the poore whiche are alway the greater part in any societie Men may be deceyued and moked but God will not suffer him selfe to be deluded Neyther is there beleue me any more commodious way whereby you may which also of dutye you oughte to prouide for withholde from your owns heads and your subiects the punish nēts which God offended with our synnes dayly threatneth yea which we do presently sée and foele then if you by yours counsels and examples as wyth a watche worde do excitate al other to a redines to lyghten the miseries of the poore Certes the same counsell which that wise Daniell gaue long since to Nabuchadnezar the king of Babylon to wit That whē the wrath of God dyd hang ouer hym he shoulde endeuour to redéeme his synnes with giuing almes his iniquities with compassiō on the poore so should his faults be sauled or healed Let all magistrates thinke that the same counsell is now giuen them and if they desire to turne gods wrath from them then let them followe that without delaye Howe many complaints of honest Citizēs are euery where dayly heard tending to the same effect Some complayne that they are molested at their dores wyth the importunate and shamelesse petitions and perpetuall

The Regiment of the Pouertie Compiled by a learned diuine of our time D. Andreas Hyperious And now seruing very fitly for the present state of this realme Translated into Englishe by H. T. minister DEVT. XV. Omnino indigens mendicus non eritinter vos There shall vtterly bee no begger among you PSALM ●LI Beatus vir qui prospicit egeno pauperi c. Blessed is hee that prouideth for the poore and the needie c. ¶ Imprinted at London by F. Coldock and H. Bynnneman ANNO. M.D.LXXII To the right reuerende father in God Edmunde L. Bishop of Rochester high Almner to the Queenes maiestie Henry Tripp wisheth prosperous successe of his labors in Gods Churche IF the partiall affection of Philautia or selfe loue and the vnsatiable desyre or appetite of our own priuat cōmoditie vver once rooted out of mens mindes and the cōtrary persuasion settled to vvit that it is as vnlauful to liue as to our selues not profiting our brethren as it is to seeke our cōmoditie by an other mans hinderance me thinks I see right reuerend father what a cheerful shevv and countenaunce of all things vvhat mutual loue in mās societie vvhat securitie and quietnesse to the common vvelth shuld therby ensue Sure I am that neither Plato Aristotle c. nor any other that haue trauailed most to bring the politique gouernmēt to perfection vvere euer able to describe or paint out such a liuelike patterne of a common vvealth as this one errour once reformed wold restore vnto vs Erasmus in Encomie Mariae placeth Philautia first amongst the traine of foolish ladies vvho doth hold eche mans eyes in a preposterous admiration of himselfe yea and that in the vievv oftentimes of the vvorst parte euen of the bodie vvhile he curiously seketh to serue the delicacie and to support the frayltie of the same to decke pamper and cherish it But I vvould to God vve did so consider and vevv our ovvn bodies that vve might lern ther by the better cōceiue vvhat belōgeth to the cōmon vvealth or the churche of God vvherof the one by the Philosophers the other by the Apostle is compared to a bodie vvherein as in eache of our bodies symetria sympathia id est due proportion and right placing of eche member in respect of the vvhole bodie and a mutual passion or sense of feeling diffused thorovv euery part must be preserued For vvhether soeuer of these tvvo shall happē to be empaired or disturbed forthvvith ther folovveth eyther griefe or a deformitie or vtter confusion to the vvhole bodie as vvitnesseth the Apostle Rom. 12 1. Cor. 12. c. For this cause also the Apostle Romans 14 sayeth Nullus nostrum sibi ipsi viuit None of vs liueth to himselfe c. The vvhiche Plato and the Stoickes did affirme vvhose assertions are cited by M. C. Officiorum 1. Non nobis solum nati sumus c. VVe are not borne only to our selues but some parte of our birth our countrey doth chalenge some parte our parentes some parte our friendes VVhat coulde haue ben sayd more fully if he had among these reckened the Churche of God Item These things vvhich the earth doth bring foorth are all created for mannes vse but man was made for mannes cause that they among themselues might profite one an other O that he had added here also that all shoulde ioyntlye seeke Gods glorie Againe he sayth Herein we must followe nature as a guide and bring to light that which may serue for the weale publique by enterchangeable duties by giuing and receiuing and bothe by our artes trauail faculties to knit the felowship of menne one with an other As often as this assertion of the Philosophers or doctrine of the Apostle is effectually consydered of good and godlie natures it is apparant with what cheerefuluesse they endeuour to imploye what so euer giftes or blessyngs corporis fortunae aut animi GOD hath endued them vvith to the benefite of Gods churche their countrey and brethren And truely I am persuaded and I suppose also that all men vvill yelde no lesse that this only care hathe so often assembled all the vvysest counsellours and chiefe magistrates from al parts of this realme vnto one high courte of parliamente there by good aduise prouidently to decree and enact vvhatsouer mighte bee deemed auaylable for reformation of enormities or the establishing of good orders in the cōmon vvealth Many of these and prosperous parliaments haue ben assembled within the happie reign of the Queenes maiestie but none of them all beleeue me hath eyther ben begonne or ended with better successe thā this last session holdē at VVestminster the eight of May in the .xiiij. yeare of the reigne of our moste gracious soueraigne Lady E. c. Of vvhich it may truly be sayd if euer it might be sayd of any that it was holdē to the highe pleasure of almightie god and the weale publike of this realm Among the procedings of vvhich parliament that before al things can not but be approued bothe by god and godly men which is conteined Chap. 5. entituled An act for the punishment of vacabundes and for the releefe of the poore and impotent In vvhich acte the whole matter of the Pouertie as serueth best for the state of this realm is so charitably vvisely and prouidently decreed and enacted that nothing can in so fevve vvordes bee more piththily defined I say in so fevv wordes for as it seemeth bicause so vvaightie and laborsome a businesse coulde not fully be discussed vvithout a greate many more vvoordes therefore the chiefest pointes of that businesse are onely expressed in that acte wherby a vvay is prepared to the Magistrates and Iustices of the peace to vvhose good discretion the other lighter circumstances are committed And I praye vnto God that euery of them vvithin their circuites and limittes may carefully diligently and cheerefully performe and execute not only that vvhich is expresly conteyned in the sayd act but also vvhatsoeuer may seme expedient for the places vvhere they dvvel as far forth as shall be not repugnant or contrary to the godly and charitable meaning of the sayd act I vvish also most earnestly that eche faithfull subiect may so account and iudge of those proceedings that not only ther be no murmuring or grudgīg but also that ech one in his calling may endeuor to further them that a prosperous luckie effect may ensue thereof The which care and charge vvhen I acknowledged to apperteyne of duetie in sundry respectes vnto my selfe also and that bothe the church of God and the common vvelth might of good right chalenge and exact of me the vttermost that I am able to do for their benefit I thought I vvoulde rather offer it vvillingly and of mine ovvne accord in season than defer til it vvere after a sort craued of me or some other by extreme necessitie Gratia enim ab officio quod mora tardat abest For dutie whiche is slacked is