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A01685	A vvork vvorth the reading VVherein is contayned, fiue profitable and pithy questions, very expedient, aswell for parents to perceiue howe to bestowe their children in marriage, and to dispose their goods at their death: as for all other persons to receiue great profit by the rest of the matters herein expressed. Newly published by Charles Gibbon.; Work worth the reading	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1591 (1591)	STC 11821; ESTC S101910	36,863	70

say little of the dispositions of most Tich They say that one swallow is no argument of summer nor the Aethiopians white teeth cannot make his face faire neither may the forwardnes of a few be a generall presumption for all that be rich It were hard if amongst many blossomes all should proue blasts or amongst many rich men all shuld be misers but yet if you marke the maner of such as doo good you shall finde they either doo it grudgingly or glorionsly and that was the fault of the Pharisies one doth a pleasure and but seldome and yet he must speake of it very often hee cannot be content to doe good before God who can make restitutiō but he must haue it known to the world that laugh at his vaine ostentation to giue it is good the deede is charitable to him that hath need but not acceptable to God because he sinneth if he doth it not simplie and surely hee that braggeth or vpbraydeth where he hath done good deserueth no better amendes than his owne mouth Other there be that be wealthy that wil hardly parte from a pennie by their life but giue great promises of much after death and yet I think if they could carie it with thē they would hardly leaue it behinde It is a wonderfull thing that such men as almost haue no heires to inherite no cause to be couetous no reason to hold fast should shewe themselues so wretched to the world that they will crucifie theyr owne carkasse for want of cost and sooner die than depart with ought to doo another pleasure Alas what possibilitie of preferment is to be expected of such a person that will yeeld no likelihood of liberalitie by his life Besides doo they thinke one can feede vpon faire wordes or prosper by bare promises Why he may goe long barefoote that tarries for dead-mens shooes and yet when he hath them they wil not be worth the wearing for I haue knowen such as haue promised goldē hils by their life that haue performed but durtie daies at their death It is but a fetch of fraudulencie yea oftentimes the cause of farther incōuenience to bring one in hope of hauing a thing and then to delude him at the last with nothing These should doo well to remēber the Wisemans words to doo good before they die For it is far better they should send their workes afore them than they should follow after them it is a greater worke of charitie for them to doo good by their life freely than to doo it after their death forcibly Wel to be briefe let this suffice where there is one that doth good with his goods there are a hundred that doo hurt with them Phil. If I should make as long a description of the poore as you haue made a vayne inuection against the rich you might iustly say I vse more words than wit both because your circumstance of speech is nothing to the substaunce of the matter as also because if both their cuills were weyed together in an equall ballance although they differ in exterior estate in regard of liuing I feare me they would not be inferior in interior deserts in respect of their liues for as you say of the rich so amōgst the poore for the most part there be manie that bee leaudly addicted But because it is a needlesse discourse to discouer them I will omit that and to the matter The good man saith Salomon shall giue inheritaunce vnto his Childrens Children Prouerbs 13. 22. then it seemeth such as haue nothing to giue are vngodly But the Prophet Dauid doth make it more manifest for saith he I neuer saw the righteous forsakē nor his seed begging bread Psa 37. 25. If we conster this by the contrarie what should I say is not pouertie an argumēt of impietie Tych. It is a perillous thing to giue any peremptorie iudgement of the poore considering what the Psalmograph saith Blessed are they that iudge wiselie of such What though Salomon saith The good man shall giue inheritance c Yet that is no consequent to condemne the poore that haue nothing to part with For the Scripture saith God hath chosen such I am 2. 5. Besides that the Prophets nay the Apostles yea Christ himselfe was but poore had no worldly possessions to dispose yet we must not say they were impious therefore that position was ill put in and your latter to as little purpose For though Dauid in his dayes neuer sawe the righteous beg their bread yet since we haue seene in the Scripture an example to the contrarie for Lazarus lay begging at the rich mans gate and yet his soule did rest in Abrahams bosome Phil. You must consider there are diuersitie of pouerties Dauid was a King and yet in regard of a richer he counted himselfe but poore for saith hee to his sonne Salomon According to my pouertie haue I prepared for the house of the Lord. 1. Chr. 22. 14. Now I speake not in respect of a competent liuing for it was that the Wiseman most desired neither of him that hath but a little to liue on for with the feare of God it is better than great treasure and trouble with it Prou. 15. 16. but of such as cannot support themselues but by the beneuolence of others as the beggar doth Tych. Why hath not God ordeined such as instruments to trie the hearts of the rich and shal we so badlie accompt of beggars Phil. Yet the workman is more woorthie than the instrument if he can vse it well and why because the Apostle saith it is a blessed thing to giue rather than receiue Act. 20. 35. Tych. If the poore man bee content with his wallet shall we condemne him for want seeing we are taught that Godlines is great riches if a man be content with that he hath 1. Tim 6. 6. Phil. Yet our Sauiour Christ commaunded his Apostles to vse neither staffe nor wallet Matth. 10. nor to goe from doore to doore for as the Wiseman saith It were better to die than beg Eccle. 40. 28. It was this that made Paul labor with his owne hands rather than he would be chargeable to anie Tych. The cause of the rich-mans happines cōsists party in the poore as appears by Salomons saying He that hath mercie on the poore is blessed Pro. 14. 21. therefore the poore are most to be preferred for if the cause be adempted the effect must needes diminish Phil. This argument is not worth any thing for though I did admit your antecedent it wold make against your self if I shuld reason with you by waie of comparison in this sort If he be blessed that bestoweth on the poore what is he that hath nothing to giue them if the conclusion be made by the contrarie what say you to this yet betweene your argument and this there is neither barrell better herring as for your consequent it is vainly intruded for if the poore can effect the blessednes of the rich the cause