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A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

A PLAINE DISCOuerie of ten English Lepers verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth Setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues Published by THOMAS TIMME Minister LONDON Printed by Peter Short dwelling vpon Bredstreet hill neere the end of old Fishstreet at the signe of the Starre 1592. To the right honourable his singular good Lorde Sir William Brooke knight Baron of Cobham Lord warden of the cinque ports knight of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell Thomas Timme his humble seruant wisheth long life and eternall felicitie in Christ Iesus THe woondring Queene of Sheba right Honorable presented the most wise Salomon with the golde of Ophyr richest gifts of the land The Samnites brought with them a greate mass of treasure for the noble Romane Marcus Crassus Howe preposterous then may I seeme which presume to bring into your honourable presence Lernam malorum as it were a lazary of Leapers Pardon right Honourable my rudenesse herein and take it well in woorth though it may of some be reputed Calabrihospitis munus a trifling gift Things which haue a base and rude forme not bombasted to please the fantasie somtimes affoord more profit then is expected Happily this home-spunne webbe may be profitable to manie and therein acceptable to your Honour a principall piller of common wealth For as the soule is much more excellent then the bodie so whatsoeuer tendeth to the good thereof is farre more precious then golde and to be preferred before all bodily and earthly treasure But a secret and hidden maladie such as is sinne the sickenesse of the soule the decay of men the ouerthrow of Nations and the ruine of the whole worlde can neuer be well cured and reformed except first discouered For which cause ten capitall sinnes are in this Catalogue detected being as forcible to bring this noble Realme of England to thraule as Iosephs ten brethren were to sell him into the captiuitie of Aegypt in the which men in this age are gone backeward from God ten degrees further then the shadow of Ahaz diall out of course 2. Sam. 20.3 so as if they doe not spedily repent and sequester these ten as Dauid did his ten polluted concubines they will be vnto vs as ten women Leui. 26.26 that shall bake our bread in the ouen of scarcitie and deliuer the same to vs by waight And at the last God will say vnto vs Num. 14.22 as he said to the Israelites This people that haue tempted me with these ten temptations shal not see the land of promise Therfore right Honourable as Aesculapius temple in the city Epidaurium in Grece was to all maner diseased persons which resorted thither a meane to recouer desired health such medicines as would cure their maladics being there reuealed vnto them so the generall good which I wish all to find in the discouerie of these ten so cōmon euils that not so fewe as ten righteous persons for the which God would hauespared Sodom and Gomorrah might bee found among vs hath moued me though after a plaine and rude sort to publish the same For as of ten tribes one remained still to the house of Dauid and of ten Lepers one became a faithfull conuert and of ten virgins fiue were wise and waited for the comming of Christ so in this euil generation God will I doubt not reserue to him selfe a remnant which shall keepe themselues and their garments vnspotted of the world Further your honourable vertues shadowed with no cloudes of vice and of your wisdome correspondent to your place hath mooued me to present this to your Lordships hands yet not without feare to aduenture so base a gift to so worthie a personage But the late experience of your honourable courtesie hath imboldened me to make it a messenger of my dutie and vnfained loue towards you May it please your honour to accept it I cannot but reuerently acknowledge that it proceedeth more of your noble minde then of the worthinesse of the gift and in regard thereof holde my selfe so much the more bounde in all Christian dutie to your honour during life Thus beseeching almightie God to blesse your Honour I wish to the world the loue of God the father an vniuer sall peace at the last to his militant Church confusion of all hypocrites and to all his chosen people euerlasting life in the kingdome of heauen Amen Your Honours most humble seruant Thomas Timme The Contents of this Booke THe first Leper is the Schismatique The seconde Leper is the Church-robber The third Leper is the Simoniac The fourth Leper is the Hypocrite The fift Leper is the proud man The sixt Leper is the Glutton The seuenth Leper is the Adulterer or Fornicator The eight Leper is the Couetous man The ninth Leper is the Murtherer The tenth Leper is the Murmurer The first Leper is the Schismatique ELephantiasis or Leprosie is a disease venemous and full of poyson proceeding of Melancholie and corrupt blood inuading all the inwarde and outward parts of the whole bodie making it foule and filthie insomuch that the breath of the Leper is very contagious and infectious for the which cause it hath euer inforced a separation of such from all companie Euen so the Leprosie of sinne wherein we are borne and conceyued cleaueth so fast to our bones and is so fixed in our heart infecting all our powers and spirits that our vnderstanding cannot comprehend those things which belong to the spirit of God our wil abhorreth diuine and heauenly things and finally the whole man is set on fire with vncleane desires and most filthie cogitations And this contagion is so vehement throughout the whole life of man and doth in such wise shew foorth it selfe in all actions though they seeme to be honest that as they offend the maiestie of God so they giue occasion of sinning to others and one infecteth another by their euill example in so much as were it not for the vnspeakable mercie and great goodnesse of God which is our support and stay we must needs be excluded from his presence and Church and so perish for euer And because a Leprosie is not as euerie light disease but a fearefull lothsome contagious and separatiue maladie as is said it may aptly at this time represent not onely all sinners generally but also certaine capitall and notorious sinners whom I haue tearmed English Lepers for that they haue infected many thousands in this Christian Church and common wealth of England and will in time if the greater care be not had of the daunger that may ensue vtterly destroy the whole bodie of the same In the first place therefore as one of the most noysome I haue set the Schismatique and sedicious whose malecontent humor first of all brought the corporall leprosie vppon the Iewes as is to be seene Num. 12. Now because al actions are commonly knowne by

their obiects that is to say by the matter wherein they are imploied as the sight is knowne because it apprehendeth the light and discerneth colours and the hearing likewise in that it admitteth soundes and voyces let vs see what the effect of Schisme and sedition is It may truly be said to effect and bring in priuation and expulsion of two most excellent things that is to say of Order and of Vnitie Order according to Saint Augustines opinion is that by which all things and all persons high or lowe equall or vnequall are disposed and set in their proper places All things in the world are not equall and of like valour but then they seeme to be ordered when they are well disposed and set in conuenient places and humane actions haue then an order when things are framed according to their condition and worthines Vpon the which matter Chrisostome hath notably written in his Homilye 23. vpon Saint Paul his Epistle to the Romanes where hee saith that because equalitie of honour and condition causeth oftentimes many dissensions God hath ordained principalities and many subiections as that of the man and his wife of the father and the sonne of the olde man and the yong of the bond and the free of the master and the seruant of the teacher and the disciple and of the king and the subiect And no maruaile if God hath appointed this order among men when as he hath made the like in our bodies as the head in the highest part and therin the eyes as windowes vnder them he hath placed the mouth to take in sustenance and prouision for strength then the breast to containe the vital parts the stomach to concoct the meates then the loynes legges and feete for supporters of the whole The which being thus ordered within our view do shew forth the great wisedome of the workemaister But if the saide parts be confounded transposed and out of order they make not a man but a monster The like is to be seene among beasts as in Bees in Cranes in flocks of sheepe and among wilde beasts The Sea is not without this discipline where also innumerable sculles of fishes are defended and garded vnder one principall leader If God in the creation of all liuing things hath established such an order among the beasts deuoide of reason how much more necessarie is it that there be order for the good gouernment of men his most excellent creatures to whom he hath made subiect all other things that in God his most excellent common wealth there may be a superioritie also and a subiection a principalitie and an obedience among men according to their seuerall orders and degrees without the which there can be no gouernment but a confusion Anarchia or gouernment of states without a king is of all regiments the worst For where there wanteth a chiefe heade there the people are as sheepe readie for the butcher God gaue Israel in his wrath the choise of foure things namely whether they would haue Rehoboam a foole to be their king the Storke to rule ouer them Assur to be their king or whether still they woulde bee at this stay Nullus Rex est nobis quia non timuimus Iehouam That is We are destitute of a king because we haue not feared the Lord. To haue Rehoboam is ill to haue Ieroboam is woorse to haue the king of Asstria is worsse in the third degree but Nullus Rex No king is woorst of all When there is no king euerie man doth what liketh him best Iudg. 17. Where there is no king men be like fishes the great deuour the small Though it be ill to haue a Lion or a Woolfe to be our king yet it is better to haue one then many to feare one then many A prince is called the breath of our nostrels Iere. 20. And Daniel likeneth him to a great shadowing tree But if God send vs in steade of his good Angell an euill Angell in steade of a tree to keepe vs from the heate of the Sunne a Iuniper tree which will suffer no plant to prosper neare it in steade of light a stinking snuffe it is I confesse a great cursse but if he take both the one and the other from vs all his heauie displeasure is fallen vpon vs. When Iacob had blessed his sonnes with all good things in the end as if he had yeelded nothing without a ruler he beseecheth God to giue them a faithfull Ruler like Ioseph This order and this gouernement therfore God hath giuen vnto his people from time to time in his great loue and fauour for a blessing as the Prophet Dauid acknowledgeth in the Psalme 77. Where he sayth Thou leddest thy people like sheepe by the handes of Moses and Aaron God him selfe is the General and principall leader for the whole worlde is his Moses and Aaron are but Gods hands Gods lieutenants here in earth the one with the worde the other with the sworde They bee both Gods handes Gods guides and Gods pastors They both together may be compared to the two Cherubims with their wings spread to defend and couer the Arke It is most true that Natura non abundat in rebus superfluis nec deficit in necessarys Nature dooth not abound in superfluous things nor faile in necessarie things It is a maimed bodie where either hand Moses or Aaron do want The coniunction of both which maketh a happie gouernment For the which cause Moses was glad of Aarons companie He will be glad said God to Aron when he seeth thee 2. Sam. 24. vers 18. So Dauid had his seeing Gad to be his watchman he would not trust his owne sight onely If Gad the Prophet Dauids Seer had seene no better then Dauid at one time he and all his had beene lost The good that commeth by this coniunction made king Iehosaphat not to vndertake his warres vntil he had asked counsaile of the Priest The which Ioshua neglecting made a couenant with the Gibeonites Ioshua 9. which he afterward too late repented Aaron Gods high Priest is pro Rege Lege Grece That is He commaundeth the king to be honoured the lawe to be kept and the people to be loued The people are of great power being a multitude whom Moses cannot gouerne well without Aarons hand When Alexander came into India and saw there the great Behemoth the Elephant and Porus his little sonne riding on his backe and ruling him as he list he wondred greatly and said Sivires suas noscet non reciperet sessorem If he knew his great strength he would not so easily be backed So may it be said of the multitude that if they be not politiquely and wisely gouerned as well by the one as the other they will not be easily commaunded In simplicitie the people are like sheepe they liue by example And the people haue this propertie of sheepe that if one leape into the ditch all will follow that one Therefore they