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[O Vtinam 1 For Queene Elizabeths securitie, 2 for hir subiects prosperitie, ...]
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Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
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compassed about with presumptions and shewes of probabilities to inchant the iudge with such magicall trumperies And although hereby your profit shall be somewhat lessened yet your praise amongēst good men shall bee greatly augmented So shall ye please God who will preuent these calamyties and euery man posses his own in safety to inioy this moste ioyefull and gladsome tranquility YOu Marchants trades-men and Citizens of London for to you especially I direct my speech ô carrie a conscience to speake the truth much more to sweare the truth though your oth ought to be but yea yea and naie naie Make not fraud your broker to vtter your wares but when true meaning cheapeneth them let plaine dealing price them at a reasonable rate for a computent gaine Imploie not your heapes of coine to vserie no although it bee as your fleshely reason iudgeth for meane profit and such as our statutes tollerateth yet know the statutes of God doo vtterlie disanull the ninth parte of a farthing to bee so taken and pronounceth them accurssed that setteth out their money for such considerations But lende thy money to thy needie brother freely releeue his wants with thy necessaries and God will repay it thee againe in his high Exchequer of heauen Nor vtter your wares and commodities to yong gentlemen vpon statute Marchant assurance for double and treble vallue whose forwardnes many times to run into your debt and danger to maintaine their prodigalitie and inordinate expences is the cause of the ruine and vtter extirpation of them and their houses yet you think it iustifiable before god man to make y e most of your wares in what sort soeuer O deceiue not your selues by practizing to deceiue him that neither canne deceiue nor bee deceiued your thoughts are knowne vnto him much more your deedes In a word GOD here with is greeuouslie offended poor gentlemen and others greatly impouerished and these calamities violent lie hastened Therefore if not for shame and conscience sake yet for feare of Gods vengeance forsake this manquelling mischeef think not that well gained that is euill gotten and thogh you could be content to offend your Prince and oppresse hir people for your priuate profit yet greeue not God for any earthly benefit Be sorie for what is past and make amends by restitution So shall they not need to feare executions but inioyethis tranquility without molestation YE Angel-like youths ofEngland in whose beautifull formes the wōderful workmanship togither with the vnspeakeable glorie of the creator shineth oh seeing he hath so richelie adorned you with the ornamentes of nature doe nothing vndeacent or ill beseeming your comlines But alas it is to true the more it is to be lamēted that what God hath formed you haue by your brutish behauiors and reckles insolence deformed for what vngratiousnes is resident on earth vnto which you are not inclined yea and vnto what lewdnes maye the sons of Adam be inclined but you in the fullest mea sure and highest degree are therto addicted bearing your selues on hande with a vaine perswasion that all your faults are taken and imputed perfections al your bad properties are estemed as good qualities if so they be as I nothing doubte but so they are it is with those whose faults are as great as your follies whose affections are full fraught with all imperfections and whose lusts are as lewd as your liues And though thorough the corruption of this age things that are not are cal led and reputed as if they were for ech proud man termed a proper man ech murderous manqueller a couragious cauilere and each blasphemous swearer a man of good demeanure yet shal these trim titles falslie giuen nothinge auaile in the day of visitation the naked truth of things not the painted shew of thinges shall then be in high est regard My hearte as being plunged in the deapth of dole is ouer whelmed with waues of woe yea and my soule is sore vexed and vnquiet within mee when I consider amongest the multitude of euill customes wherewith this vngra tious age is polluted the impious odious and moste damnable custome of swearing the wrong whereof the Sauiour of the world sustaines in requital of his vnutterable good wil towards vnkind mankind and art thou ô sacred sauiour thus iniuriously delt withall in recompence of all the iniuries suffered in thy pretious passion Naie haue I wretche that I am that presumeth nowe to reprehend others with suche monstrous impietie so aquitted thy great kindnesse than which none can bee greater for greater loue can no man shew than to suffer death yea a moste odious bitter and reprochfull death to testifie his loue then ô my soule my ouersinfull soule by whome during the good pleasure of him thou so offendest my bodie hath his motion and being crucifie thy selfe with anguishe and sorrowe and seeing thy power hath such dominiō in my wretched truncke expresse thy sorrow by sending to mine eies a fountaine of teares wherewith I may wash awaie in some measure thy lothsome filthinesse if thou doo it not the verie steele adamant yea and stones of hardest temper shall rise against thee in iudgement For had they reason they neyther would or could refraine frō teares yea and that in great aboundance to behold thy wilfull and outragious insolence O Gentlemen and louing countrimen what furie so inchanteth me and you that we make no conscience of so great a sinne that so greatly greeueth the holieghost for though before I haue in the vexation of my soule reprehended in sorte the enormities of our time yet no one before touched in extremitie of euill is to this iniquitie comparable For here with the king of glorie is eftsoones tormented and crucified in heauen as before he was by the cruell Iewes on earth that heart whiche before Longious speare wounded is hereby again violently rented The pretious bloud wherewith miserable man was from the misery whervnto he was fallen redeemed is thorough our wilfulnesse in this respect rigorously effused the woundes pearsed againe the face buffeted again the body scourged againe the head pricked againe and in disdaining the rebuke of the godly whiche in the zeale of his soule for this sinne of sinnes hee giueth we spit on him againe and contemteously mock deride him again How commeth it to passe the deuill so preuaileth that for euerie trifling occasion we vomite vp such execrable othes against the harmlesse and innocent lambe of God in whose precious bloud and holie woundes the sinnes of the whole world are coueted from the wrath of his father alasse how happeneth it that that blessed bodie whiche in the heauinesse and dolour of his spirite swet the most vnkinde sweate of bloud and water for our health is so vnkindly dealt withal by vs we are to our shame I speake it wee are more cruell then the Iewes against the Lord of glorie For they crucified him but once but wee euerie daie yea euerie