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A30271 Causa Dei, or, Counsel to the rich of this world to the highest part of the dust of the earth : to which is prefixed an humble address to the King's Majesty. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1697 (1697) Wing B5696; ESTC R15481 49,787 144

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Is Religion open-handed and liberal Yes and its Liberality is a laying up Treasure in the safest Bank A lending it out upon the best Interest Making Friends in the Court of Heaven with it and making the continual Feast of a good Conscience with it Which doth as little tend to Poverty as scattering of rich Seed in the most fertile Soil Doth Vice appear a plain way to Opulence It doth so Sordid Living Fraud and Oppression are the beaten Road and do seem to be the Direct one But they are the quite contrary For commonly they do make Poor and lastingly they do never make Rich. Penury starves a Thousand for every one that it does fatten Fraud is a Partridg that sits upon Subventaneous Eggs and hatcheth not Or if otherwise the infamous Brood is but short liv'd The Gain of the Oppressor hastens to the Collectors for the Poor Oftime's Mens Malice or Justice but always Divine Vengeance crusheth all three And let the Mines of one India and the Spices of the other be gained by a loose Man he shall still be a poor One But It will be asked And are not the Communion of Saints the Poor of this World also The answer is easy Comparatively they are Poor of lower Condition than you whose abundance is generally your Destruction But absolutely they are Rich. For their little is Good and better than your great Riches Their Appetites are Healthful yours are Canine and Dropical Their Enough is a Feast and your Feasts are not Enough They are as Having nothing yet Possessing all Things And besides the Poverty of Good Men is not always owing to their Goodness Defect of Diligence and of Providence and of various Duties brings them into their Straits Nor would they be so needy if they were more holy Drowsiness bringeth some to their Rags And prevailing Pride giveth others a Fall Rarely it is that Saints do want Necessaries and that they lay the Blame on any thing so much as on their Sin when they do want them 5. Health the Life of Life must needs be a Pearl and precious with you And will you nor believe your Eyes Or can you chuse but see Religion gives Health to the Navel and Marrow to the Bones In its Hand is the length of Days with the Sweetness of them Youth it beautifies and sweetens and it makes the most and the best of Old Age Puts a rare Balsam into all Blood Mortifies the VICE that by natural Efficacy works Disease Prevents wild Passions of Mind and all intemperance of Body which give the Humours a Ferment that sometimes createth present Sickness and always disposeth for future A Chearful Mind it imparts which doeth good like a Medicine And if any such be is a Catholicon both for Cure and Prevention All Experience doth verify this Theory The best Learned King of Israel makes his Appeal Who hath Wo Who hath Sorrow Who hath redness of Eyes They that tarry long at the Wine In the Old Testament he was the Meekest Man whose Eye when Old was not Dim and his Natural Force was not abated In the New Testament he was the Disciple whose Thoughts and Writings ran all upon Divine Love who enjoyed a more vigorous Old Age than his Brethren All Ages are witnesses how generally vitious Lives are short Ones How Surfeits and Debaucheries inflame Blood spend Spirits and cut Lives in halves You do know that much will not be given you for a Lease of a Lewd Man's Life Temperance is the best Physick saith Bishop Sanderson And the Precepts of Christ well observed would prevent as many Diseases as his Miracles cured saith grave Mr. Lukin 6. Courage to look dangers in the Face is a covetable Excellence This World is a rough Sea The vicissitudes of Calm and Storm are as constant as those of Night and Day And it is an ill thing to be without this Anchor when Billows do roar But except a Religious one there is no Spirit of Boldness and of a sound Mind It is true a Wild Man may have the Metal of a Blind Horse Yet the most of them do fear the Deity in a Tempest which they deny in a still Weather And it 's only the Righteous Man who is bold as a Lion i. e. with a Strength and Sagacity sufficient to his safety Vice raiseth Tumults in your Minds and cannot lay them It is a thing too exorbitant to be other than impotent Religion as it is a Heavenly Wisdom and Strength to prevent Causes of distracting Fear so it carries in it a Power to overrule the blind Passions which otherwise will distract us without any Cause Vice doth darken deform and debilitate your Spirit Religion enlarges your Mind exalts your Wills eradicates your base Passions Maketh your Souls to bear the change of Affairs as a sound Body doth the change of Weathers without much Prejudice and Impatience For what an ill Man can never be a Good Man is satisfied from himself His Heart not condemning him he hath Confidence toward God! A Confidence excelled by nothing but the beatifical Vision And such as gives the sublimest Comforts in the lowest Conditions Whereas in all such wicked Mens Fears do use to be proportionable unto their Guilts It is certain that a Galaxy was never found in their Globe Furies in the Pagan-dialect do haunt and scourge them Terrors are upon them as the Sacred Scripture speaks Darkness is hid in their secret Places a Fire not blown shall consume them Indeed Wit and Courage are the things whereof vicious Men do singularly make their Boasts As thô their Minds were the Clearest and their Hearts the Stoutest of any But alas no Geese are so filly no Hares of such Pusillanimity Where is their great Wit who know nothing of their true Interest And do pursue no higher Delights than the inglorious ones of Swine and Goats Proud of their fat Quails and not ashamed of their famished Souls Where is their Valour who fear and fly from Vertue 's warfare Tho they must suffer a present Hell and a Future for their running from it Who dare not say Nay to a Lust or to a loose Companion no tho they bid them to run upon the Pikes of their Conscience and the Mouth of Heaven's Cannon and upon more Deaths than one Their Wit and Courage if they must be said to have either are just like an Ulcer the bigger the worse Being no other than Diseases and Reproaches 7. Finally is Happiness in the next World desired you have no Lucid interval in this World but without doubt it is so For tho while you are dozed you may dream and when best awaked you may wish there were no Future State you are not able to dispossess your selves of the Belief that there is one Noctu Sibi saith Seneca In the Night and when you are Alone when you and your Selves do and must come together you cannot think Atheists to be Orthodox and Religious Men to be Fanaticks No more than