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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07312	The golden art, or The right way of enriching Comprised in ten rules, proued and confirmed by many places of holy Scripture, and illustrated by diuers notable examples of the same. Very profitable for all such persons in citie or countrie, as doe desire to get, increase, conserue, and vse goods with a good conscience. By I.M. Maister in Arts.	Maxwell, James, b. 1581.	1611 (1611)	STC 17700; ESTC S120331	125,557	228

THE GOLDEN ART OR The right way of Enriching Comprised in ten Rules proued and confirmed by many places of holy Scripture and illustrated by diuers notable examples of the same Very profitable for all such persons in Citie or Countrie as doe desire to get increase conserue and vse goods with a good conscience By. I.M. Maister in Arts. 1. Sam. 2.7 The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich bringeth low and exalteth ECCLESIASTIC 11.14 Prosperitie and aduersitie life and death pouertie and riches come of the Lord 2. Cor. 9.8 Yee know the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ that hee beeing rich for your sakes became poore that yee through his pouertie might be made rich LONDON Printed for William Leake and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Holy Ghost 1611. To the two most Famous Ancient and Opulent Sister-Cities of the Ocean-walled-world of Britaines Ile the Augustious Chambers of our most gracious King IAMES the Concorder and the first Christian Vniter thereof LONDON the Lady of Cities and Load stone of Strangers EDINBVRG the bright Eye of the North. And to the Honourable GOVERNOVRS ALDERMEN and SHERIFFES BAILLIES and DEANE of the Guild With the whole Worshipfull CORPORATIONS COMPANIES therof A Britaine for a perpetual testimonie of his obseruancy doth in right humble and hearty maner dedicate the Golden Art of Enriching being the first Art that euer was written vpon this subiect and likewise the first that euer was written originally in the Britannish Tongue IAMES MAXVVELL To the Right Honourable SIR WILLIAM CRAVEN Knight Lord Mayor of the Augustious Citty of LONDON and the flower of all Noble minded Merchants SIR IOHN ARNOT Knight Lord Prouost of the Royall City of EDINBVRGE and Collector of the Crowne-rents of Scotland All desirable Felicity Right Honourable I BEING of late in reuoluing and reuiewing the confused Masse of mine vnpolished papers among mine other exercises and essayes I found the proiect and platforme of this present Art and hauing taken some paines about the polishing and finishing thereof I was loath it should perish or yet lye any longer shut vp in the obscure corner of a coffer And therefore partly presuming and partly hoping that it might do some good vnto such as labour either to get goods with a good conscience or to vse their goods already gotten in a good and godly manner I was somuch the more willing to set it out to publicke veiw And because it was mine hap to prosecute my studies and to run my Philosophicall course in the Noble Citty of EDINBVRGE whereby my small capacity hath herein been furthered and my fortune to write and finish this present Arte in this famous Citty of LONDON where now I liue therefore I thought it my duty to dedicate the same vnto the foresaid two most Honourable Citties of this I le and that for a testimony of mine obseruancy and gratefull affection towards them both Being somuch the more moued to implore and imploy their honourable patronage therein as for because that the subiect thereof doth especially concerne Citties and Citizens and genenerally all such in Citty or country as labour to be rich in the right way In it truely is contained whatsoeuer thing the Sacred Scripture dispersedly doth afford concerning pouerty and riches and the vertues and vices which are incident or conuersant about the same Out of the which holy Booke I haue collected the whole rules reasons probations and exemplifications of this Arte and therfore I haue not amplyfied nor enlarged my discourse as I might haue done with the forraine stuffe of humane testimonies and that for these three reasons First because that the holy Scripture beeing diligently searched is no lesse-sufficient to shew a man the right way of Enriching then it is of Beleeuing that the reasons and testimonies thereof are of vncontroullable authority Secondly because I did foresee how that this Arte by such enlarging would arise to such a volume that it should bee both hardly reade ouer of rich men who haue too little time to peruse large bookes and hardly compassed or got of poore men who haue too little money to buy big bookes And lastly because it is my purpose God willing to discourse both Theologically and Philosophically in the Arte of Flying how that no lesle then these ten Schoolemaisters 1. Almighty God 2. The glorious Angels 3. The holy Pen-men of sacred Scripture Prophets and Apostles 4. The reuerend Doctors of the Church 5. The wise Philosophers of the Heathen 6. The Worlds frame in the Heauens Starres and Elements 7. The Fowles of the Aire 8. The Fishes of the Sea 9. The Beasts of the Field 10. And the creeping things of the earth do all of them coniunctly concurre to teach Man how to become a Bird of Paradise that is to say how to flie from all vices to all opposite vertues Accept therefore Right Honourable in good worth in the name of your foresaid two flourishing Citties the Golden Arte of Enriching such as it is being the first Arte that euer was written vpon this subiect yea and the first Arte that euer was originally written in the common language of this most noble I le and as I suppose the first booke that euer did beare this Vnionall kind of Dedication Grace it therefore with your fauourable visage and guarde it with your worthy patronage So shall it bee secured vnder your shadow and I encouraged to offer God-willing one day vnto the honour of these your two most Honourable Sister-citties our IAMES ANNA that is the patterne of a perfite Citty That which resteth is my thrise hearty wish vnto God who hath planted peace in your Borders Psal 147.13.14 strengthned your gates and satisfied you with the floure of wheate that it would be his gratious pleasure to crowne you more and more with all kind of Spirituall and Temporall blessings that your Sonnes may be as the plants Psal 144.12.13.14 growing vp in their youth and your Daughters as the corner-stones grauen after the similitude of a Palace Psal 65.9.10.11.12.13 that your corners may be ful and abounding with diuers sortes and the furrowes of your fieldes may be made soft with showers and filled with fatnesse That your pastures may be replenished with dewy grasse and clad with sheepe bringing forth thousands in your Territories together with kine sending forth the soft streames of sweet milke and likewise with oxen strong to labour your land That your vallies may be couered with corne Psal 132.15 Zach. 9.17 and your trees and orchards loaden with fruite so that your Poore may be satisfied with bread and your Yong-men and Maids for ioy may shoute and sing Psal 144 14. That there be no inuasion from without nor sedition from within nor no crying in your streetes Isay 23.58 and circumiacent townes That your Merchants may be as Princes and your Chapmen and Shopmen as the Nobles of the earth that

suffer any void roome therin so it crosseth the law of grace which enioyneth men to be gratious and charitable and commandeth such as haue more to giue cheerefullie or to lend freelie a part of their goods to such as haue lesse Giue to euery man that asketh of thee saith our Sauiour doe good Luke 6.30.35.38 and lend looking for nothing again and your reward shall be great and yee shall be the children of the most high Giue and it shall be giuen vnto you Giue and giue chearefullie 2. Cor. 9.7 for God loueth a chearefull giuer lend and lend freelie looking for nothing again Psalm 37.21.26 for God loueth a free and a frank lender And the righteous man saith Dauid is mercifull and giueth and like mercifull and lendeth and his seed enioyeth the blessing Psalm 15.1.5 And in expresse termes he telleth vs that the vsurer shall not dwell in Gods tabernacle nor rest in his holy mountaine So that the Christian must beware of vsurie and of getting or increasing goods by any such meanes So must hee likewise not onely in his owne person flee whoredome but also all sorts of whoremongerie in regard of others that he vse no such abominable meanes to come by money Deut. 23.17.18 The Lord expresly forbiddeth there should be any whorekeeper among his people and telleth vs that both the whore and her price are an abomination vnto the Lord. Let the whoremonger gather neuer so much goods by his whoremongerie yet both he and his wealth shall perish Eccles 23.17 All bread saith Iesus the sonne of Syrach is sweet to a whoremonger he will not leaue off till he perish Ephes 5.3 And the holy Apostle forbiddeth couetousnesse and vncleannesse once to be named amongst Christians and therefore exhorteth vs to mortifie our earthlie members fornication Colos 3.5.6 vncleannes and euill concupiscence inordinate affection and couetousnesse 1. Thes 4 3.4.5.7 for the which things saith he the wrath of God commeth on the children of disobedience for this is the will of God euen your sanctification and that yee should abstaine from fornication that euerie one of you should know how to possesse his vessel in holinesse and honour and not in the lust of concupisence euen as the Gentiles which know not God 1. Cor. 6.9.10.15 Heb. 13.4 for God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse but vnto holinesse And as for whores and whoremongers and adulterers such God will iudge neither can they inherit the Kingdome of God saith the same Apostle That is as the blessed Apostle S. Iohn expoundeth it Reuel 21.8.27 they shall not enter into the great citie holy Ierusalem but shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Now if Christians bee commanded by God by his Sonne Iesus Christ and by his seruants to mortifie flie abhorre and shunne all vncleannesse and concupiscence doth it not thence most necessarily follow that Christian magistrates may not permit any place for the exercise thereof And if whoredome is not to bee once named amongst Christians how much more ought it not to bee practised by priuate men or permitted by the Prince in the common-wealth for anie respect whatsoeuer and if God will iudge whooremongers and not suffer them to enter into his holy Citty and kingdome then they that are called Gods ought likewise to punish them and not suffer any such persons to haue any place in their citties or kingdome But rather with godly Iehoshaphat 1. King 22.40 2. King 23.7 and Iosiah they ought to put cleane out of the land all whooremongers and whoorekeepers and breake down burne all their brothel-houses as an abhomination vnto the Lord. Far be it from all such as are called Gods and ought to represse and punish sinne to permit any place in their Citties or kingdomes for the increasing of sinne and the dishonouring of God by the professed practise of sinne Neither doth it suffice to say that Magistrates and Princes for the preuention of the greater euils of priuate Sodomites of vnnaturall copulations and priuate fornications may permit and tolerate the lesser euill of a publicke brothel-house in some place remote from the Citty for besides that the Magistrates care and vigilancy ought to be such that there be no enormious sinne or hainous offence priuately or publikely committed or at least left vnpunished it can not bee otherwise but that one whore-house publickly permitted is more able to pull downe Gods indignation and iudgement against the whole Citty or kingdome aswell Prince as people then an hundreth priuate houses being defiled can do being either not knowne vnto the Magistrate or being punished by him if they be knowne For a smaller sinne being permitted to bee publickely professed practised prouoketh God more then a greater sinne doth if it be by the Magistrate repressed and punished It is not in the Princes power to keep sinne out of his Citty or Kingdome neither is he liable to iudgement punishment for that which commeth not within the compasse of his possibility But it lyeth in his power to keepe out of his kingdome a schoole-house for sinne and a worke-house for wickednesse and therefore if hee doe otherwise for any respect whatsoeuer hee in so doing maketh himselfe and his kingdome obnoxious vnto Gods indignation In one word it is an intolerable shame that Christians who are called to study and learne in Christs schoole mortification and sanctification of the flesh should haue a schoole of sinne opened vp to them wherein they can learne no other thing but to offend God to slay their owne soules to consume their bodies and to wast their substance and in one word to make shipwracke at once of godlinesse goodnesse and their goods Hereunto also it belongeth that no amorous or voluptuous books ballads or songs nor no lasciuious and prophane plaies or representations ought or are to suffered in a Christian Commonwealth For as the whore-house is the diuels schoole-house and whoremongers are the keepers and vshers of the schoole vnder the great maister thereof the spirit of vncleannes so amorous and lasciuious bookes ballads and songs are the bookes that this vncleane schoolemaister maketh his scholers buy to teach them how to defile their bodies and to slay their soules that in the end they may be made fit fewel for hell-fire And lasciuious stage-playes and representations are the same vncleane school-maisters sports pastimes and plaies which he appointeth vnto his schollers for to quicken and encourage them in the study and exercise of sinne Not that I meane to condemne all exercises of stage-playings minstrelzies or musicke for I doubt not but in themselues they are all lawfull and may bee so vsed that men may bee much furthered thereby in the way of vertue But onely that in a Christian Commonwealth great care ought to be had least that any of them be abused to the stirring vp inticing or alluring of men