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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

much rather with alacrity and cheerfulness have posted on to his Sepulchre then to his greatness And lastly when some egged Dioclesian forward to re-enter again into the Empire he answered them that having once escaped the Plague he would no more drink Poyson and was contented to become a Gardiner To couclude this reason besides all this a Prince is alwayes in great danger and fear of his life by treason especially a good one as the Life of Queen Elizabeth may inform us To omit many examples of the Kings of Israel and Iudah as being well known ' as also a cloud of examples out of other Histories we read that in the Imperial Seat in the space of an hundred yeers in vvhich vvere threescore Emperours there were but three that died in their beds by sickness all the rest suffering violent deaths So that how great and glorious soever they may seem to men of the World they are but in a sad condition As suppose a man arrayed and apparelled in Tissue or Cloth of gold set in a Chair of State having before him a Table furnished with all dainty delicates his servants Monarchs and Princes his riches the very choicest and chiefest treasures and Kingdoms of the World but withall that there were one standing by with a naked sword to cut his throat or a wilde Beast ready to pull him in pieces we cannot otherwise say but his condition is rather to be pitied then envied Now it fares not so with other men the mean Cottage of a Swain stands in more safety then the Palace of a Prince Furthermore the greatest Princes cannot so clip the wings of prosperity or victory but she may flie away before they dream of it Riches honours pleasures are so transitory that the same day hath seen the knee bowing to the head and again the head stooping and doing reverence to the knee Yea as in fairest weather a storm may suddenly arise so one houre may change the greatest King into the most miserable captive as every age gives instance For men are both more sensible of their present misery by remembring their former happiness and also more tender and delicate and so less able to bear it The memory of former happiness makes the present misery more deplorable which like dead Beer is never more distastful then after a Banquet of Sweet-meats For Bajazet to change his Seraglio for a Cage for Valerian to become a footstool to his proud soc are calamities able to sink a soul deep in sorrow Yea commonly their change is not more sudden then it is doleful Who but Adrianus Emperour of the East for many yeers but at length he was set upon a scabbed Camel with a Crown of Onions platted on his head and in great mockery carried in triumph thorough the City And the like of Polycrates King of the Samians Dionysius Henry the Fourth that victorious Emperour Gelimer that potent King of the Vandals Adonibezeck and many others of whom I might muster up a multitude And no fewer of them whose life and happiness have ended together as it fared with Pharaoh Herod and Belshazzer who was sitting at a Feast merry while on a sudden death came like a Voider to take him away with many the like though that one example of Haman and Mordecay might serve in stead of all to shew that as men honour and obey God in their places so God will bless or curse them We see how Haman whose comand ere-while almost reached to Heaven was iustantly adjudged to the Gibbet while Mordecay who was condemned to the halter was all of a sudden made second in the Kingdome What stability is there then in earthly greatness when he who in the morning all knees bowed unto as more then a man now hangs up like a despised vermine fot a prey to the Ravens and when he who this morning was destined to the Gallows now rules over Princes Ester 6 and 7 Chapters But CHAP. 18. SEcondly good men know and well consider that the greatest places are subject to the greatest temptations as the highest boughs of a tree are most subject to be shaken with the winde That greatest men have the greatest biasses to draw them away Riches honours pleasures are such thorns that for the most part they even choke the good seed of G●ds Word formerly sowen in mens hearts Matth. 13.22 They are to Religion as is the Ivy to the Oke that even eats out the heart of it The pleasures of the body are the very po●●ons of the soul. And the more any man hath the more cause he hath to pray Lord lead us not into temptation Nothing feeds pride nor keeps off repentance so much as a prosperous condition If I could be so uncharitable as to wish an enemies soul lost this were the onely way let him live in the height of the worlds blandishments For temptations on the right hand have commonly so much more strength in them above the other as the right hand hath above the left They are more perillous because they are more plausible and glorious Whence the Devil did not appear to Christ in a terrible form threatening the calamities of earth or torments of hell but makes fair promises to him of many Kingdomes and much glory Neither hath God worse servants upon earth then are the great ones of the earth If adversity hath slain her thousand prosperity hath slain her ten thousand Commonly where is no want is much wantonaesse and as we grow rich in temporals we grow poor in spirituals We use Gods blessings as Iehu did Iehorams messengers David Goliahs sword we turn them against their owner and giver and fight against Heaven with that health wealth honour friends means mercies that we received thence and commonly so much the more proud secure wanton scornful impenitent by how much the more we are enriched advanced and blessed Saul was little in his own eyes before God made him great but when he was made great God was less esteemed by him Honour and Greatness will so swell some mens hearts and make them look so big as if the River of their blood could not be banked within the channel of their veins They spend their dayes in wealth therefore they say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes And what is the Almighty that we should serve him Job 21.13 14 15. Yea with the rich Glutton in the Gospel they scarce ever think of Heaven till they be in Hell It is the misery of the poor to be neglected of men it is the misery of the rich and great men of the World to neglect their God The poor saith Christ receive the Gospel Luke 7.22 But the Kings of the earth sayes David set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed saying Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us Psal. 2.2 3. All the life of Solomon was delicious resplendent and

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

against him the best obedience is to deny obedience and to turn our backs upon Herod Matth. 2.12 Again there is an active obedience and a passive I may not execute a Magistrates impious commands I must suffer his unjust punishments One may desire other Magistrates but we must obey those we have and haply it is more commendable to obey the wicked then the good observing the former caution And I wish men yea Ministers unless it be in their presence would trouble themselves less with the Magistrates duty look more to their own However for private persons to question the lawfulness of that Government under which they desire protection is insolent stupid and intolerable But sure I am when Moses is praying Ioshua leading Israel obeying and God blessing and prospering all O happy are the people that be in such a case Psal. 144.15 But if men cannot have their wills to invade the Inheritance which the right heir keeps from them Or suppose they be injuried and may not have redress in that manner and measure themselves prescribe presently maledicunt Principibus they murmur against the Magistrate Yea what can a Magistrate do acceptable to the good but lewd men will misinterpret it Every tongue is ready to speak partially according to the interest he hath in the cause or patient or according to the wickedness that is in his own heart CHAP. 22. ANd so they would do had we the rarest and uprightest Governours that ever the World could boast of As what Magistrate can hope to be free from their malice and murmurings when Moses himself could not escape the same nor faithful Samuel as observe how the Israelites dealt with Moses They no sooner want water to quench their thirst but they murmur against him and say to his face being ready to stone him wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and cattel with thirst Exod. 17.3 4. As if Moses had been a God yea not long after they gather themselves together and are agreed to cast off both him and his government and why forsooth What 's the matter he never had done them the least wrong he stays a little longer with God in the Mount then they expected Exod. 3● 1 But fools as they were hovv could they finde out a better Governour among all their twelve Tribes Had they been asked this question it would have shewn them their folly As Pacuvius at Capua when the people would have had their Magistrates massacred desired them first to agree upon the election of new Officers then they nominated divers but could agree upon none whereupon the Massacre was delayed and after forgot We have too many such fools when the Duke of Buckingham reigned ô if he were taken away all would be well when he was dispatcht and sent to his long-home they murmured as much and no less complained of their oppression under the King Prelats Council-Table Star-Chamber High-Commission and Court of Honour now they are all removed and God hath given us since better Governours then I am sure we deserved they thought themselves worse then ever Yea they did not spare to curse their Governours and could have eaten their very hearts as they gnawed their own tongues for spight And how could better be expected from such sons of Belial 1 Sam. 19.24 27. that have more rage then reason For their words are but the light froth of an impotent anger wherein they accuse others unrighteousness and profess their own An end of the second Part or Division