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A19673	The way to wealth wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for sedicion. Wrytten and imprinted by Robert Crowley the .vii. of Februarye in the yere of our Lorde. a thousand fiue hu[n]derd [et] fiftie. In Elie rentes in Holburne cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.	1550 (1550)	STC 6096; ESTC S105142	14,029	36

¶ The way to wealth wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for Sedicion Wrytten and imprinted by Robert Crowley the .vii. Of Februarye in the yere of our LORDE A thousand fiue hūderd fiftie ☞ In Elie rentes in Holburne ¶ Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ☞ Who so thou be that doest desyre to liue and good dayes se Loke that in thy tonge and thy lyps none yl or disceite be Fle from yl and do that good is whereof commeth no blame Seke thou for peace diligently and then ensue the same Psalm xxxiiii ¶ By what meanes Sedicion maye be put awaye and what distruction wil folow if it be not put away spedely Consultatio Robert Crolei COnsidering that al mē maye playnely perceiue the greate hurte that of late daies Sedicion hath done in thys realme that all wyse men maye esilye gather what greater hurte is lyke to ensue if it be not spedely sene vnto it shal be euery true Englyshmans duty forth wyth to employe his whole study to the remouynge so greate an euel oute of so noble a realme and commone wealth leste haply if throughe negligence it growe and take deper rote it be shortly to stronge and more suerly grounded thā that it maye be rooted oute wythoute the vtter destruction of the whole realme For what can be more true then that whych the trueth it selfe hath spoken Euery kyngdome sayeth Christe that is deuided in it selfe Mathew xii shall be broughte to nought Intendynge therefore to playe the parte of a true Englyshman and to do all that in me shall ly to plucke thys stincking wede vp by the rote I shal in thys good busines do as in their euell exercise the diseplayars that gladlye woulde but haue nothynge to playe for do Holde the candle to them that haue wherewyth and wyll sette lustily to it And so doyng I shal be no lesse worthy the name of a true herted Englishman then the trumpettar is worthy the name of a man of war thoughe he do not in dede fyght but animate and encourage other Sedition therfore beinge a daungerous disease in the bodie of a commen wealth muste be cured as the expert Phisicians do vse to cure the daungerous diseases in a naturall bodie And as the moste substanciall waye in curinge diseases is by puttinge awaye the causes wherof they grewe so is it in the pullinge vp of Sedition For if the cause be once taken awaye then muste the effecte nedes faile If the rote be cut of the braunch must nedes die The boughes cannot budde if the tree haue no sappe Geue eare therfore o my countrey men geue eare And do not disdaine to heare the aduise of one of the leaste of poure brethren for the matter requireth euerie mans counsell Daniel xiii and God reueiled vnto younge Daniell that whiche the whole counsell of Babilon perceiued not Geue eare I saye and if I tell you trueth be not ashamed to do that I bid thoughe ye knowe me to be at youre commaundement Gene. xxi For Abraham was contented to do at the biddinge of Saraie his wife because he knewe that hir biddinge was gods will And the Niniuites did at the biddinge of pore Ionas Ionas iii. sit in sackecloth ashes because they perceiued that he tolde them the trueth Yea cruell Herode did not refuse to heare Iohn Baptiste because the thinge whiche he told him was true marcke vi Leaste you therfore shulde be more loftie then the Babilonians more shamefast then Abrahā more stubborne then the Niniuites more cruell then Herod geue eare and patientlye heare what I shal saye The causes of Sedition muste be roted oute If I shuld demaunde of the pore man of the contrey what thinge he thinketh to be the cause of Sedition I know his answere ▪ He woulde tel me that the great fermares the grasiers the riche but hares the men of lawe the marchauntes the gentlemen the knightes the lordes and I can not tel who Men that haue no name because they are doares in al thinges that ani gaine hangeth vpon Men without conscience Men vtterly voide of goddes feare Yea men that liue as thoughe there were no God at all Men that would haue all in their owne handes men that would leaue nothyng for others men that would be alone on the earth men that be neuer satisfied Cormerauntees gredye gulles yea men that would eate vp menne women chyldren are the causes of Sedition They take our houses ouer our headdes they bye our growndes out of our handes they reyse our rentes they leauie great yea vnreasonable fines they enclose oure commens No custome no lawe or statute can kepe them from oppressyng vs in such sorte that we knowe not whyche waye to turne vs to lyue Very nede therefore constrayneth vs to stand vp agaynst them In the countrey we can not tarye but we must be theyr slaues and laboure tyll our hertes brast and then they must haue al. And to go to the cities we haue no hope for there we heare that these vnsaciable beastes haue all in theyr handes Some haue purchased and some taken by leases whole allyes whole rentes whole rowes yea whole streats and lanes so that the rentes be reysed some double some triple and some four fould to that they were wythin these .xii. yeres last past Yea ther is not so much as a gardē grownd fre from them No remedye therfore we must nedes fight it out or else be brought to the lyke slauery that the french men are in These Idle bealies wil deuour al that we shal get by our sore labour in our youth and whē we shal be old and impotent thē shal we be driuen to begge and craue of them that wyl not geue vs so muche as the crowmes tha● fall from their tables Such is the pytie w● se in them Better it were therfore for vs to dye lyke men then after so great misery in youth to dye more miserably in age Alasse poore man it pitieth me to se the myserable estate that thou arte in Both for that thou arte so oppressed of them by whō thou shouldest be defended from oppressiō and also for that thou knowest not thy dutye in thys great misery Thou art not so much oppressed on the one side but thou art more destituted on the other syde They that should norish and defend thy body in thy labour do oppresse the they that shuld fede thy soule strengthen thy mind to beare al this paciētly do leaue the alone If thy shepherde had bene a diligent watchman had espied the woulfe comyng vpon the before thou hadst bene wtin his reach he wold haue stepped betwene the thine enemi enstructed the in such sort that though he had come in nine shepe skinnes yet he shoulde not haue deceiued thy syghte The deuell shoulde neuer haue perswaded the that thou myghtest reuenge thyne owne wronge The false prophetes shoulde neuer

haue caused the to beleue that thou shouldeste preuaile againste them with the swerde vnder whose gouernaunce God hath apointed the to be He would haue told the that to reuenge wronges is in a subiect to take and vsurpe the office of a kinge and cōsequently the office of God For the king is goddes minister to reuenge the wronges done vnto the innocent As he that taketh in hande therefore or presumeth to do anye office vnder a kinge not beinge lawfully called vnto it presumeth to do the office of a kinge so he that taketh in hand to do the office of a king taketh goddes office in hand We reade that oure sauioure Christ beinge in the estimation of the worlde but a priuate man Luke x● wold not walke out of the boundes of that vocacion But whē a certaine mā came vnto him desired that he would cōmaund hys brother to deuide the enheritaūce wyth him he axed who had appointed him to be iudge in suche matters And againe when the woman takē in adultery was broughte vnto hym he shoulde not geue sentence of the lawe againste her but axed hir if any man had comdemned hir and vpon hir deniall let hir go If these examples Iohn viii with the terrible stories of Corah Dathā Abira and Absolom had ben diligently beatē into thine heade Numeri xvi thou wouldeste no doubte haue quieted thy selfe ii Reg. xviii and haue suffered thy selfe rather to haue bene spoyled of al together yea and thy bodie toren in peces rather thē thou wouldest haue taken on the more then thou art called vnto For no cause can be so great to make it lawful for the to do againste goddes ordinaunce But thy shepeherde hathe bene negligent as alas the while all shepeherdes be at this daie and hath not enstructed the aright He espied not the wolf before he had woried the or happlye he knewe him not frome a shepe But it is moste like he was but an hirelinge and cared for no more but to be fedde with the milcke fatlinges and cladde with the woule as the greateste numbre of thē that beare the name of shepeherde in Englande be at this daie Yea perchaunce he had many flockes to kepe therfore was absent from them al leauing with euerye flocke a dogge that woulde rather worye a shepe then driue away the woulfe wel brother these be greate plages it behoueth the synnes to be greate that haue deserued these so great and intollerable plages at goddes hande Returne to thi conscience therfore and se if thou haue not deserued all this and more to Consider firste if thou haue loued thy neighboure as thy self cōsider if thou haue done nothing vnto him that thou wouldeste not that he shoulde do vnto the. Loke if thou haue not gone about to preuent him in any bargen that thou hast sene him about loke if thou haue not craftely vndermined him to get some thing out of his hand or to deceiue him in some bargein Loke if thou haue not laboured him oute of his house or ground Se if thou haue not accused him falsely or of malice or else geuen false euidence againste him Se if thou haue not geuen euell counsell to his wife or seruauntes which might turne him to displeasure Consider if thou haue not desired and wished in thine herte to haue his commoditie frō him if thou mightest without blame of the worlde haue broughte it aboute For God loketh vpō the herte and if thine herte haue bene infected with ani of these euilles then haste thou bene abominable in the sight of God and haste deserued these plages at goddes hād Now if thou befoūd abhominable in thy be hauoure towardes thy neighboure what shalt thou be founde trowest thou in thy demaners to god ward God requireth thine whole hert thyne whole mynd and al the powers of thy body and soule Thou shalt loue thy Lord God wyth all thy lyfe wyth al thy mynd and wyth al thy strēgth That is to say Math. xxii ther shal be nothynge in the whych thou shalt not apply wholly to the loue of thy Lord God But how was it possible for the to loue God whom thou seest not syth thou louest not thy Brother whom thou seest God requireth the to loue him euer And how often hast thou gone whole dayes togither whole weakes yea whole yeres and neuer thought once to loue hym aryght How many and how great benefites hast thou receyued at goddes hand and howe vnthanckful hast thou bene for them thynckynge that thou haste gotten them by thyne owne laboure and not receyued them frely at goddes hand As though God had not geuen the thy lyfe thyne health and thy strength to laboure Yea and as thoughe it were not God only that geueth the increase of euerye mans labour But knowynge by thyne owne creacion and bryngyng vp and also by the yonge fruite that God sendeth the of thy bodi further by the frutes that God sēdeth and causeth yerely to growe out of the earth that there is a god almyghty yet thou hast not honoured him as God romaynes .l. but hast turned the glorie of God into an Image made after the shape or similitude of mortall man renuinge and ridinge from place to place to seke and to honoure thinges of thine owne makeinge crienge and callinge vpon them in thy nede and paying vnto thē thy vowes and thancking thē for thyne health receiued doinge them dayly worshipe and reuerence in the temples and bestowinge thine almes vpon them in deckinge thē and setting lightes before them Biside this thou haste put confidence of saluacion in pardones that thou haste bought in prayers that thou hast hiered or mumbled vp thy selfe in masses that thou hast caused to be saide and in worckes that thou thy selfe haste fantasied and haste not thanckefullye receyued the free mercye of God offered vnto the in Christ in whom onlye thou maiste haue remission of thy sinnes and therfore God hath geuen the vp in to a reprobate minde to do the thinge that is not beseminge Rom. i. Euen to stande vp againste God and goddes ordinaunce to refuse his holy word to delite in lies and false fables to credite false prophetes and to take weapē in hand against goddes chosen ministers I saye his chosen ministers For be they good or bad they are goddes chosen If they be good to defende the innocente ▪ If they be euell to plage the wicked If thou wilt therfore that God shall deliuer the or thy children from the tirannie of them that oppresse the lament thine olde sinnes i. Esdras .i. and endeuour emendment of life And then he that caused King Cirus to send the Iewes home to Ierusalem againe shall also stire vp our yong king Edward to restore the to thy liberty againe and to geue straight charge that non shal be so bolde as once to vexe or trouble the. Prouerb xxi For the herte of a kinge is in goddes