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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10738	A sermon against oppression and fraudulent dealing: preached at Paules Crosse, the eleuenth of December, by Charles Richardson, preacher at Saint Katherines neare the Tower of London	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1615 (1615)	STC 21017; ESTC S121051	31,098	45

there was nothing but a crying And the Prophet Amos saith Amos. 5.7 6.12 that they had turned iudgement into worme-wood gall and the fruit of righteousnes into hemlocke And the Prophet Zephaniah is not afraid to affirme Zeph. 3.3 that their Princes were as roaring Lions and her Iudges as rauening Wolues But it may bee the times are better now what then mean those Prouerbs that are so rise amongst vs As a man is friended so is his matter ended And (a) Cui vis est ius non metuit ius obruitur vi might ouergoeth right As Aesops wolfe said to the sheepe when they were in contention Thou hast a better cause then I but I haue stronger teeth then thou And as the Orator said of Verres (b) Pecuniosus damnari non potest A money man can hardly be condemned be his cause what it wil be There were certain sacred pictures in the court as Thebes representing the persons of the Iudges which were al made without hands the chiefest of thē wāted eyes also wherby was signified that Iudges should be free frō bribes void of partiality that they should be led neither by fauor nor affectiō that they should respect neither loue nor hatred in determining of causes whether criminall or iudiciall And let vs conceiue the best Let vs take it for granted that our Iudges are most incorrupt and that as Iustinian said they can lift vp their hands cleane to God to the King and to the law yet wrangling Lawyers if they may haue their wils will cause iudgement to bee peruerted They will continue sutes as once saith (c) Lites no● tantum lustrales sed seculares facient not for diuers yeares onely but for diuers ages that if a man should liue as long as Nestor did and beginne a fute in his youth hee should hardly make an ende of it in his olde age nay it is like hee should be constrained to leaue it to his heyre to finish and this they doe that they may enrich themselues by spoyling their poore Clients Is it not a grieuous oppression to cause a poore man to come trotting or trudging vp hither from the furthest part of the land Terme after Terme and still his cause as far from being ended as it was at the first he in the mean while doth nothing but empty his purse by paying fees first to one Mar. 5.26 then to another As it is said of the woman in the Gospell that had beene sicke of an issue of bloud twelue yeares and had spent all that shee had vpon Physitians yet it auayled her nothing but shee beeame much worse So it fareth with most men that goe to law in these dayes A. Gell. lib. 5. cap. 1. Idem lib. 11. cap. 9. for the Lawyer eyther with Protagoras with glosing speeches will make the worse cause seeme the better or with Demosthenes by mercenary silence will betray the good cause which he hath taken vpon him to defend or with Penelope as much as he hath brought the cause forward one Terme hee will bring as farre backe againe the next Terme or will draw out the webbe of a suite so long till the poore Client want weft to prosecute it and so after all his labour and trauel he must bee inforced to let it fall or if hee doe at the last recouer and haue the matter goe on his side yet he shall bee no great gayner by the match for as one sayeth (a) Maior est expensarum sumptus quam sententiae fructus Aelian l. 9. c. 18 the charges of the suite are greater then the costs that shall be awarded him This made Themistocles say that if a man should shew him two wayes one to hell the other to the barre hee would rather chuse that that went to hell I do not speake nor I haue not a thought to speake against the vse of the Law I acknowledge it as necessary for the common wealth as the sunne is for the world (b) Est fundamenrum libertatis fons aequitatis Cic. pro A. Cluent It is the foundation of liberty the fountaine of equity and as the body is without the soule so would the commonwealth be without the Law (c) Est propugnaculum mutique tranquilitatis Cic. in L. Pisonem It is the very bulwarke and fortresse of our safety the eye whereof is Prudence the hand Fortitude the beauty Iustice and the foundation of it is laide in Iustice And I doubt not but there are many conscionable Lawyers who deale faithfully in the causes committed to their trust But I speake against those base degenerate professors of the law which are a blemish and staine to the rest and which like Vultures doe nothing but gape after the prey By all these meanes the poore people are grieuously oppressed To which I might adde our (d) Non missura autem nisi plena cruoris hirudo Horat. Psal 14.4 cutthroate vsurers our bloud-sucking brokers our griping extortioners which eate vp the people as they would eate bread but the time would faile mee And they haue beene so often cryed out vpon both here and in other places as there is now no hope of their reformation They haue got them an whores forehead Ier 3.3 as the Prophet sayth they cannot be ashamed And thus much for the first branch of the exhortation And defraud This is the second branch As the former is referred to manifest and open violence so this is referred to fraud and deceit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caluin ad locū 2. Cor. 2.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Cor. 7.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 12.17.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The word that is here vsed doth signifie in the Originall by a couetous desire to circūuent or defraud a man And so it is vsed in other places The Apostle applyeth it to the wiles which the Deuill vseth to beguile the godly withall Lest sayeth he we should bee circumuented of Sathan for we are not ignorant of his enterprises And in another place he sayeth of himselfe Wee haue defrauded no man And againe Did I make a gaine of you by any of them whom I sent vnto you I desired Titus with him I sent a brother Did Titus make a gaine of you The meaning then of it is this for a man by couetousnesse or other euill meanes to rayse his owne benefite out of another mans losse Doctrine From hence we obserue in the next place that fraudulent and deceitfull dealing is a sinne against the will of God and cannot stand with sanctification This is confirmed by the testimony of the Apostle to the Romanes where reckoning vp the sinnes of them that are giuen ouer to a reprobate sense among other things hee sayth Rom. 1.29 1. Pet. 2.1 they are full of deceit And therefore the Apostle Peter exhorteth all Christians to lay aside all guile and dissimulation