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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00818	The curse of corne-horders with the blessing of seasonable selling. In three sermons, on Pro. II.26. Begun at the general sessions for the county of Cornwall, held at Bodmyn, and continued at Fowy. By Charles Fitz-Geffrie.	Fitz-Geffry, Charles, 1575?-1638.	1631 (1631)	STC 10939; ESTC S115075	43,052	70

to enioy the fruits of the earth then sinfull and vnthankfull man sometimes euen when the Corne is not yet reaped but expecteth the hooke or while it standeth in the field awaiting to be housed in the Barne God sends airie threshers violent windes to beat it out of the eare the furrowes of the field doe become the threshing-floore the Wheat is sowed where it grew and that without the helpe of hand plow or harrow thus haruest threshing and seed-time doe vntimely meet together as they did some few yeers since Our crying sinnes particularly the vile abuse of the creature by Drunkennesse and riot haue called for vengeance and we haue deserued to be scourged not only with famine but with the other two rods with sword also and with pestilence But this Dearth is not inflicted immediately by the hand of God but enforced by wicked mens cruell couetousnesse God hath not broken the staffe of bread but churlish Nabals haue gotten it into their owne fists and with-hold it from the people who should be supported by it We cannot complaine The field is wasted and yet the Land mourneth the Corne is not wasted but with-held God hath not sent want of bread but couetousnesse hath caused cleannesse of teeth God hath not smitten vs with blasting nor sent Caterpillers nor Canker-wormes but the Diuell hath raised vp Caterpillers and Locusts those Catchers at the Dearth of Corn as the Father stileth them and these doe make a priuate gaine of a publike detriment improuing that as a profit to themselues which God ordained as a plague for sinners The Lord hath heard the heauens and the heauens haue heard the earth and the earth hath heard the corne but those earth-wormes will not heare the voice of the Lord nor the crying complaints of the poore The earth hath answered the expectation of the sower but cannot answer the vnsatiable greedinesse of the seller Many Mens Barnes are full of Corne but their brests are empty of compassion their Garners are stuffed and stored two yeeres graine vnder hand in many mens keeping yet they still gape for a greater dearth and doe their best or rather worst to procure it They suffer their Mow-hayes to stand laden with corne neere the high-wayes in the open view of the poore the more to anger their hunger Thus they bring vpon their brethren on earth a torment much like that which Poets deuised for Tantalus in Hell to haue faire apples at his lips and yet to pine with hunger and in the midst of faire water vp to the chinne to perish with thirst These arrowes of famine that haue wounded our sides had lesse afflicted vs had they beene shot directly from the iust hand of God him wee could haue entreated with our prayers mollified with our teares pacified with our repentance But nothing can preuaile with impenitrable Auarice O let vs fall into the hands of God for his mercies are great but let vs not fall into the hands of mercilesse men If our sinnes must needs be scourged let not greater sinners be the Beadles Who hath giuen you commission to be the Countries hangmen where is your warrant to thrust your selues into the seat of Gods iustice or to take his quiuer and to shoot against his children those arrowes which hee keepeth against his enemies You may indeed for a while be the rods of Gods wrath as Ashur was to Israel but vpon our true repentance God will turne his wrath from vs vpon you and the childe being humbred the rod shall be cast into the fire O insatiable Auarice Doth not the earth yeeld thee sufficient encrease what meanest thou to plow and harrow the very guts of thy poore brother for greater gaine Now it is farre worse then they said it was in the beginning of the iron-age for then Couetousnesse went but into the bowels of the earth but now men digge into the bowels of their brethren yea they delue into the bowels of Christ himselfe for coyne Call ye me this Vsurie or rather Fellonie Vsury it selfe is charitable in respect of this Vsury yet sends abroad money for money this rurall sacriledge will not sell corne for coyne Vsury indeed biteth but this killeth by keeping away that which should sustaine life Vsury by money stealeth money out of mens purses as one by powring a little water into a dry Pumpe forceth out a great deale more but this Burglary breaketh into mens bowels and robbeth them of that which should maintaine them Is not this gaine more odious more base then that of the Emperour who extracted gold out of Vrine I perceiue that among our Pagan-Christians it holds as currant as it did among the Pagans Sweet is the scent of Siluer out of what sinke soeuer it be raked seeing to these Horse-leeches gaine is sweet though sucked out of the bowels of their brethren Oh if you haue any bowels your selues or haue not drunke vp that obdurate riuer which is reported to turne the bowels of the drinker into hard marble looke once ouer the threshold of your poore neighbour some poore coater some daily labourer for his groat or three pence a day groning vnder the burthen of an heauy house-rent with a house full of small children on the bargaine and if you will not enter in yet stand without a while and become officious Eues-droppers listen to the pittious complaints that are among them There may you see or heare the wofull mother with her eldest daughter the one carding or knitting the other spinning a sorry threed and singing to her turne an heauy tune of some sorrowfull Psalme as O Lord consider my distresse or O Lord how are my foes increast or Helpe Lord for good and godly men doe perish and decay Then awakes the poore sucking Infant and crying interrupts both worke and musicke The mother takes it vp and giues it sucke with teares for with milke she cannot Alas how can the infant draw milke from the breast when the Nurse cannot get meat for the belly Mother saith another childe when shall we eat Mother saith another where is bread O mother saith another I am so hungry I know not what to doe Thus the feeble children doe call vpon the wofull mother shee complaines to the sad father he answers her with pittious complaints against the pittilesse neighbours Alas What shall I doe I haue beene at goodman such a ones house from him I went to goodman such a one good men with a mischiefe that haue not a mite of goodnesse in them because no compassion on their miserable fellow-members I haue beene ouer the Parish I haue beene out of the Parish with money in my hand and cannot get a pecke of Barley they haue it but they say they cannot spare it O miserable condition the poore man is put to a double labour first to get a little money for Corne and then to get a little Corne for