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A67763	Philarguromastix, or, The arraignment of covetousnesse, and ambition, in our great and greedy cormorants that retard and hinder reformation, (all whose reaches, are at riches) that make gold their god, and commodity the stern of their consciences, that hold everything lawful, if it be gainful, that prefer a little base pelf, before God, and their own salvations, that being fatted with Gods blessings, do spurn at his precepts : dedicated to all corrupt cunning, and cruel [bracket] governours, polititians ... : together with the lively, and lovely characters, of [bracket] justice, thankfulnesse ... : being a subject very seasonable, for these atheistical, and self-seeking times / by Junius Florilegus.	Younge, Richard.	1653 (1653)	Wing Y172; ESTC R39194	47,748	48

as he stole away the peoples hearts so these steal their estates And no cause so bad but they will undertake it either for gain or glory as he gets most fame and the greatest practice that can make a bad cause good and a good bad Whence it is they bend their tongues like Bowes for lyes As Ieremy hath it Chap. 9.3 that they may overthrow the right of the poor in his suit As Moses hath it Exod. 23.6 see more Esay 32.7 For they will devise some wicked counsel or other if they be paid thereafter to undo the adverse party with lying words And commonly they are like Caelius that could plead better against a man then for him as Plutarch speaks Yea some of them fall not far short of Carneades of whom wise Cato confest that while he disputed scarse any man could discern which was the truth So they turn judgment into wormwood Amos 5.7 and forge wrong for a Law as the Psalmist speaks Psal. 94.20 Have you not heard of a Lawyer that pleaded a case very strongly on the one side yet before the Tryal of it being advanced to the Bench he adjudged it on the other But had he been like Ioseph the Counseller whom the Holy Ghost stiles a good man and a just Luke 23.50 he would neither refuse to plead a just cause as they will do when great ones are concerned in it nor prefer one that is unjust Because he that justifies the guilty or refuseth to vindicate the Innocent in this case transfers the guilt to himself Or if this wretch finds it more for his profit he will see an end of the Clyents money before the Client shall see an end of his cause He will delay the Hearing untill he hath inriched himself and beggered his Clyent perswading him his Title is good till his patrimony be consumed And he hath spent more in seeking then the thing is worth Or the other shall get by the recovery One asking how he should have a Suit last him seven years was answered You may have a Suit in Chancery that will last you twenty years Another delivered in a Petition to King Iames I was four years compassing the World with Sir Francis Drake and there was an end of that I was three years with my Lord of Essex in Ireland Wars and there was an end of that I have had a Suit in Chancery this seventeen years but I fear I shall never have an end of that Which conceit procured him a quick dispatch but no thanks to the Lawyers He that goes to Law hath a Wolf by the eares if he prosecute his Cause he is consumed if he surcease his Suit he loseth all what difference There are not a few procrastinating or rather proterminating Attorneyes and Advocates that like him Prov. 3.28 will say unto a Clyent every day come again to morrow and yet procure his strife from Term to Term when this Term he might procure his peace Because he hath an action to his Clyents purse as his adversary hath to his Land That can spin one Suit throughout three generations and lengthen the threed of a mans cause till he shall want weft Or if he weave the Web to day he can by craft like Penelope unweave it as much to morrow Dealing with his Clyent as some Chirurgions do with their patients who will keep the wound raw and open that they may draw out of it the more money So that often the recovery of a mans right by Law is as dear as if he had bought it by purchase CHAP. 12. O The unsufferable knavery and wickednesse of such Lawyers were I able to tell it you For to me Law latine a kind of Canting is more irksome then either Irish or Welch They will sell both their speech and Silence their Clients Causes their own consciences and soules While the golden stream runneth the Mill grindeth when that spring is dry they advise them to put it to Compremise and let their Neighbours end it The fooles might have done so before saved so much money and shewed themselves Christians 1 Cor. 6.5 to 9. For a Christian indeed is like him that said to a Lawyer offering to right his wrongs and revenge him of his adversary by Law I am resolved rather to bear with patience an hail shower of injuries then seek shelter at such a Thicket where the Brambles shall pluck off my fleece and do me more hurt by scratching and tearing then the storm would have done by hailing I care not for that Physick where the remedy is worse then the disease And yet abundance of men as if they were bereaved of their very senses are more eager to cast away their money then Lawyers are to catch it being like so many Fishes that will contend for a Crum which falls into the water Nor will they ever give over untill an empty purse parteth the fray Yea they will spend their goods lives fortunes friends and undo one another to in rich an Harpie Advocate that preyes upon them both Or some Corrupt Iudge that is like the Kite in AEsop which when the Mouse and Frog fought carried them both away Which made one Lawyer build an Hospital for Fooles and Mad-men saying of such I gat my means and to such will I give it And generally Lawyers get the greatest Estates if not the devil and all of any men in the Land They are like the Butlers box which is sure to get though all the gamesters lose And it were good these earthen boxes were broken that their goods got by bribery wresting the Law and delaying of suits might be brought within a Premunire and they made to disgorge themselves As a Fox which goeth lank into the Henroost at a little hole when he hath well fed is forced to disgorge himself before he can come forth again Or that they were hanged up as Galeaze Duke of Millain caused a Lawyer to be served for delaying a Suit against a manifest and clear debt Or rather that the whole Number of such Lawyers might be pitcht over the bar and turned out of Courts without hope of ever returning And happy it were for the Nation for were this course taken and all contentious Sutes spued out as the surfeit of Courts it would fare with us as it did with Constantinople when Bazil was Emperour who coming to the Iudgement seat found neither plaintiffe to accuse nor defendant to answer for want of suites depending Or as it did in our Chancery when Sir Thomas Moor sate there as Iudge who made such quick dispatch in hearing causes that after two years and an half having one day heard and dispatcht the first cause calling for the next answer was made that there was no more causes to be heard As is there upon record still to be seen It were well for England if it had more Sir Thomas Moores whom all the riches in the world could not draw to do the least peece of injustice As is recorded of

then the poor Iob 34.19 And were Princes so wise as they should be they would blesse God that they had such impartial Iudges Henry the fourth of England when the Prince his eldest son was by the Lord Chief Iustice for some great misdemeanure committed to prison he thanked God that he had a Son so obedient and a Iudge of such impartial and undaunted courage And when a Iudge is once found to be so impartial no man will dare once to sollicite him in any dishonest or unjust cause As Cicero writes of Cato Censorius to his eternal praise But for want of such Princes and Iudges Iudgment is turned backward and justice standeth afar off For Truth is fallen in the Streets and equity cannot enter As God complaines Isay 59.14 As a roaring Lyon and an hungry Bear so is a wicked Ruler over the poor people As wise King Solomon makes the resemblance Prov. 28.15 16. And the Prophet Micha Chap. 3. They eat also the flesh of my people and flea off their skins from their bones vers 3. But Thirdly as these covetous Iudges and Officers will do any wicked act for Great ones out of fear so they will do the same for friends or Allyes out of love and to save their own purses Or against Enemies out of malice He that puts on a publick Gown should put off a private person like Cleon the Lacedemonian who when he undertook publick affairs called all his friends together and told them that he now discharged himself of all friendship in that it too often caused men to swarve from Justice and equity But how common is it with these corrupt Magistrates to make a bad cause good or a good bad either to revenge a wrong or to do a pleasure To speak or act partially according to the interest he hath in the Cause or the patient But what saith Solomon It is not good to have respect to any person in Iudgment for that man will transgresse for a peece of bread Prov. 24.23 28.21 He that God hath deputed as Umpeer between party and party should say to Fathers Brethren and Children whether Natural or Political I know ye not That is neither nighnesse nor Highnesse shall make me play the Huckster with God the Law or my Conscience Neighbourhood is my friend Alliance is my friend bounty is my friend But Iustice is my friend a good Conscience is my friend and God is my friend above all Wherefore without respecting the person Or expecting the gifts of any I will do what these friends would have me Like Papinian who being commanded by the Emperour Caracalla whose Steward and familiar he was to defend him in an unjust cause would not do it Or like Phocion who refused to help his son in law Carillus in judgment being accused for bribery saying he had made him his friend and Ally in all just and reasonable matters and in them onely Or Sir Thomas Moor who upon the like occasion told his son in Law that were he to decide a cause between his Father whom he loved dearly and the Devil whom he hated extreamly he would deal impartially and do the Devil right if his cause were good And when another of his sons in law that had a cause depending before him in Chancery and presumed too much on his favour when he would not be perswaded by him to agree to any indifferent composition he made a flat decree against him Or Seleucus who when his son was taken in Adultery to satisfie Justice and in some sort the people who intreated for him caused one of his sons eyes and another of his own to be puld out The law requiring both of the party 's offending Or Antonius Venerius Duke of Venice who suffered his son to dye in prison because he had ravished a maid Or Mardus who sate in judgment upon his son Cartanes and would have put him to death but that Artaxerxes seeing his Justice pardoned his son Or lastly Noah and Abraham Abraham would sacrifice his son rather then displease God Noah did curse his own sonne rather then he would displease God Shewing that we should not spare our own bowels when God would have them punished But do as the Fathers and Mothers of Idolaters Drunkards and Blasphemers did in the Law who brought the first stone to put their sons to death Deut. 21.18 19 20 21. And indeed he onely whom neither Clamor nor Rumour nor Terrour Neither furious passion nor melting compassion can divert from Iustice is fit to be a Iudge He who resembles Philip and Alexander his son who when any came to complain stopped one of their eares which they reserved for the defendant As Plutarch affirms And such an one in good turnes will not owe more then he must in evil owe and not pay Yea he hates and scorns to pay private wrongs with the advantage of his Office and if ever he be partial it is to his Enemy Observing well what God saith Exod. 23.3 Levit. 19.15 I might in the fourth place be as large in shewing how these Covetous and corrupt Iudges and Officers will do any evil or omit any good in the discharge of their places to content Or for fear of the People But I study brevity Though what I speak to I love to prove fully Because he which throwes his dagger at a Theef must be sure to hit him home otherwise he disarmes himself and strengthens his Adversary You may please to read Mark 6.26 27. 11.18 15.15 Matth. 14.3 4 5. 21.45 46. Luke 20.19 22.1 2. Iohn 19.12 to 17. Act. 25.8 9. where are notable examples of Governours omitting good and doing mischief to please or for fear of the people Which our own experience at home may serve to amplifie CHAP. 11. NOw besides these there are many others that without controle rob the Common wealth gull the people and are no whit ashamed of it I mean Corrupt Lawyers who are also Merchants in this Trade of Covetousnesse and selling of men As come to this Covetous Wretch if he be a Lawyer He fits in his study like a Fox in his Burrough glad to spye a Goose that hath feathers on his back declare unto him your cause ask him what he thinks of it he will perswade you it will bear a strong action be it never so weak As he is like to have good counsel that fees the Devil A simple swayne went to a Lawyer and told him Sir And it shall please your Gentlemanship I would have proces for one that hath called me a Mechanick fellow So you shall quoth the Lawyer for that will bear a very good action The Lawyer that careth not to deal unfaithfully is like some Christall Glasse which flatteringly sheweth every man a fair face how ilfavoured soever it be These are Abettors that set men on their Cockpit is Westminster Hall and while their Clyents peck out each others eyes they pull their feathers Absaloms tongue is in their heads and

Did they not make their greatness a Supersedeas to sin and a Protection against the arrest of judgement Did they not think that because they were great on earth they might be bold with heaven Did they not make it lawful to prophane the Lords Day and justle out Gods honour which should be more deer to Princes then their Crowns and lives with their own and chink to bear off the judgements of God by vertue of their high places Was not vice countenanced aud vertue discouraged until God resisted their pride and made them to know that be they never so great even Kings Monarchs Emperours though they are gods among men and many made gods of them yet they are but men with God who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Psal. 82.6 7. Revel 19.16 And scarce so do the good esteem themselves Constantinus Volentinianus and Theodosius three Emperours called themselves Christs vassals Such is the distance between him and the greatest Potentates on earth CHAP. 15. WHerefore be wise now O you most noble Protector be instructed ye his honorable Counsellors Serve the Lord with fear you whom God hath so highly honored as to make you together with thrice noble Fairfax never to be forgotten the happy deliverer of your Countrey Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Ps●l 2. Seek the publick good and not your own private gain as your place engageth you For the chief Magistrate is a mixt person the Physician of the Common-wealth the Father of the Countrey the Spouse of the State who was wont by a Ring to be married unto the Realm at his Coronation Make Epaminondas your President whom all the riches of the world could not withdraw from the least duty to his Countrey as AElian reports Yea love your Countrey as Ziska did who wisht that his skin might serve the Bohemians in their wars when his body could no longer do it Imitate Mordecay who was great among the Iews accepted among the multitude of his brethren procured the wealth of his people and spake peaceably to all his seed Ester 10.3 With good Nehemiah be not chargeable to your people neither let your servants domineer and rule over them as hath been the manner of former Governours Nehem. 5.15 If some special occasion requires as occasion enough there is or necessity urges you to borrow let it be of those you have enriched and done good to rather then of such as have already suffered as the manner hath been Be able with Samuel to justifie your self before all the people 1 Sam. 12.3 4. And with Moses the same Numb 16.15 nor could any one of the people tax either of them in the least And happy is that man that can be acquitted by himself in private in publick by others by God in both For in all likelihood there is no danger of that soul that will not bite at a golden hook And indeed it is too base and sordid for honour to be covetous Though multitudes there are in these degenerate times wherein men generally worship the Golden Calf that imitate Themistocles who before he was elected to bear authority in the Common-wealth was little worth but when he had once swayed the place of superiority when he was banished his very moveables being praised did amount to an hundred Talents Receive no gifts for whosoever receiveth a benefit selleth his own liberty Besides it is Gods express command Thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise Exod. 23.8 and destroyeth the heart Eccles. 7.7 In choosing of Officers Iudges c. let God be consulted without whom Samuel himself will take seven wrong before one right 1 Sam. 16.6 to 13. And how contrary Gods method and that of mans is may be seen Acts 7. This Moses whom they forsook saying Who made thee a Prince and a Iudge the same God sent for a Prince and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel which appeared to him in the Bush Verse 35. Let all places be given and not sold to the most deserving and not to such as will give most for them viz. not to the covetous and ambitious who make preferment their god and Mammon their Mediatour who study more to be advanced then to be worthy of that advancement The godly and consciencious can make no such gain or profit of places and offices as others do that buy them at high rates they dare not take bribes to make up their money again Nor enrich themselves by making others poor they will be so honourable as they may still be honest And in all reason if a man be not worthy of a place why should he have it if deserving why should he buy that which in justice piety and true policie is due unto him Do not think every one sufficient that thinks himself so yea Ne sit qui ambit Let him never speed that sues They that are worthy must be sued to Let such be preferred not as would have places but such as places would have That think it better to be worthy of honour then to have honour I most admire the humility and grace of those whose vertues and merits are visible whiles their persons are obscure it is secretly glorious to shine unseen Good men know Offices to be Callings and so will not meddle with them until they be called unto them Ambitious and unworthy men are like Absalom who with a great deal of subtilty insinuated and intruded himself pretending what great matters he would do if he were made Iudge in the Land or deputed of the King to hear Causes when he intended nothing less 2 Sam. 15.2 to 7. Or like Pope Boniface who meek-minded man would eat only a dry crust until he had gain'd the Popedom In the vacancies of the See of Rome the Cardinals use to compose certain capitulations to reform the Papal Government and with all sware to perform if they shall be chosen to the Popedom though it appeares by all precedent examples that every one sweareth with a minde not to keep their oath in case he shall be Pope Forwardness argues dishonisty or insufficiency When Iesus perceived that they would come to take him to make him a King he with-drew himself and departed Iohn 6.15 None in all Egypt or Middian was comparably so fit for that Ambassage to Pharaoh as Moses which of the Israelites had been brought up a Courtier a Scholar an Israelite by blood by education an Egyptian learned wise valiant experienced Yet Who am I sayes he The more fit any man is for whatsoever vocation the lesse he thinks himself The un-worthy think still Who am I not but modest beginnings give hopeful proceedings and happy endings With Moses Abraham and Iob relieve the oppressed judge the fatherlesse and defend the widow when they cry unto you and such as are ready to perish but have none to help them Break the jawes of the unrighteous and pluck the prey out of his teeth Genes 14.14 15 16. Job 29.12