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The practise of the banckrupts of these times in whom are considered, 1. Their fraudulent and deceitfull actions. 2. The evills accompanying their courses. 3. Laws and punishments ordain'd to curbe them. 4. The charitable cure of so great an evill. A worke now very necessaary. Written in Latine by Mr Dainel Sauterius, and made to speake English for the generall good of all commerce.
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Sauter, Daniel.
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STC 21779; ESTC S101653
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very act yet soone after it they feele grievous stings and whips which for their frauds and wicked shifts like tormentors doe gore and lash them For no e Sen. epist man can long joy in the successe of his fraudulent Courses fall out it will sooner or later that evill men shall find how they have purchased a prey little worth with great losse and heavy discommodity But thou wilt say thy laugh and rejoyce I confesse it but their joy at their bankets is not a true and right joy Surely t is no other than joy of such as lying in prison adjudged to death sometimes play at cards and dice and think to beguile their griefe but cannot for the terror of the punishment shortly to be inflicted is so deep imprinted in their minds that it cannot bee removed The representation of pale death still attendeth in their sight so the punishment due to the wicked dealings of unjust Banck rupts insolvent tradesmen sticketh fast in their mindes and suffereth them not to rest The conscience privy to their wicked fraudulent and injurious dealing doth disquiet and terrify them with restlesse and distracting thoughts These are the continuall g Cic. and home-bred furies which day and night hale wicked men to punishment which trouble the fraudulent and impure heart that it can be quieted neither sleeping nor waking O most wretched men whose h Juvenal minds a guiltie conscience lasheth with stripes which others heare not 3. Divine punishments upon Banckrupts after this life 3. There are grievous punishments after this life to be by Gods Justice layd upon Banckrupts Now goe too you Banckrupts howle and lament for the miseries which shall come upon you you have done a Gualt in Hab. much evill unto other men but yet yee have robbed them of nought but transitory and momentary riches whose losse may bee repaired sundry wayes but in this Circumvention of others you have defrauded your selves of endlesse happinesse and plunged your selves into hell For God b Psa 5.7 abominateth the deceitfull man and will destroy all workers of iniquity and denounceth that the wicked shall not possesse the Kingdome of Heaven But what is that I heare you say who c Eccles 23.24 seeth us darknesse encompasseth us the walls hide us and no man seeth us what should we feare God on high remembreth not our sins Be not deceived certaine it is that we must all appeare before d Act. 10. 2 Cor. 5. the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive according to that which he hath done in his body whether good or evill your inward and your outward actions all your sins shall be ballanced behold e Jud. 11 14 the Lord commeth with thousands of Angels to bring all men to judgment and to judge all wicked men for all their impious works your words whether they be idle or deceitfull must bee accounted for and your thoughts whatsoever must come to Judgment and then your conscience shall beare witnesse and your thoughts accuse or excuse one another in that day in which God shall judge by Jesus Christ all the secrets of men according to the Gospell Then fourthly in a word account shall be taken of you for all the extent of your whole lives in what manner you have spent it Woe to you poore souls Whither will yee goe if yee be found in your sins where will bee your refuge And fifthly whereas in times past offenders fled to Temples and Altars and debtors might not be taken thence by their Creditors and at this day there be priviledged places which as Sanctuaries keep Banckrupts and insolvent men from molestation in the last day the fraudulent cannot escape there will be no Sanctuary to protect them And sixthly there will be no escape no starting-hole no shifting for malefactors there can be no colour to cloake their lies and cheating no pretence sufficient to boulster out their frauds guile Such as had nothing truly their owne but a tongue to lie and forsware and fraudulent cunning tricks and wicked devices to rend and teare in peeces other mens estates and leave them with bare and naked corps shall truly appeare themselves and shew what they are Seventhly let them consider that f 1 Pet 4.5 God the Judge of quicke and dead is most just that he will put on righteousnesse for a brest plate and true judgment insteed of an helmet and so adjudge all men that g Matth. 5. every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be bewen downe and cast into the fire And if h Fulgent in Matt. barrennesse and want of doing good be cast into hell fire what will false dealers and robbers of other estates deserve If hee bee i Aug. de verb. Dei cast into the fire who hath not been liberall in giving his owne goods into what shall he be throwne that hath taken away other mens goods if hee burne with the divell that clothed not the naked where shall he burne that tooke away his clothing They k Hugo B. 2. of the Soule are justly punished who abuse their owne lawfull goods So Satan lost Heaven and Adam Paradise but more justly shall they be plagued who unjustly rob others of their estates Thus have you heard what will be the punishments of Backrupts In due time take heed and avoid unjust dealing and conceive that what is here spoken is as a bitter pill not to please but to profit you distastfull to your eares but serving for the Cure of your hearts that yee may be drawne to repentance by the feare of danger and punishments hanging over your heads and so to l Luk 21.36 be counted worthy to escape miseries to come and to stand before the Son of man THE PRACTISE OF THE BANCKRVPTS OF THESE TIMES The fourth Part Concerning the remedy of their practises T Is now full time to come to the remedies of Banckrupts practises For we have layd open their wounds not out of a desire to hurt them or shame them but to better them and cure their maladies Now as Physitians having found the causes of a disease Tuscul qu. 3. thinke the cure also found So wee having found the causes of this mischiefe and sicknesse will atempt to discover the remedies And because b Senec. ep old diseases and so ill manners of men inveterated and habituated require the more care in their cure We also for the cure of the spreading disease of Banckrupts will with all care imitate the guise of the Egyptian c Galen 5 epidem and Grecian Priests who set up notes for the cure of common diseases in publick places Let us then in like manner publish holy Antidotes and preservatives for the cure of Banckrupts diseases which we wil borrow from the sacred Scriptures For Gods d Prov. 6.23 Commandement is a Lanthorne and Instruction is a light and reproofs duely applied are the way of life