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A15387	The stripping of Ioseph, or The crueltie of brethren to a brother In a sermon before his Maiestie at White-Hall, by Robert Wilkinson, Doctor in Diuinitie, chaplaine in ordinarie to his Maiestie, and late pastor of Saint Olaues in Southwarke. With a consolatorie epistle, to the English-East-India Companie, for their vnsufferable wrongs sustayned in Amboyna, by the Dutch there. Published and presented vnto them, by Tho. Myriell pastor of Saint Stephens in Walbrooke.	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.; Myriell, Thomas, d. 1629. aut	1625 (1625)	STC 25663; ESTC S120036	28,103	54

time spoyled the Christians of their Goods affirming it was good for them to be poore that so they might goe to Heauen without hinderance But surely it had beene more sutable if Ioseph comming as a messenger from their Father these men had with reuerence saluted him for Ambassadours are entertayned Princely for their Princes sake and a good Sonne beholdeth with reuerence euen the dead Picture of his Father But here is no one of them regardeth him as comming from their Father nay heere is no one of them who once openeth his mouth to aske or inquire of the health and welfare of their Father but enuy to their Brother makes them cleane forget they had a Father and like rauening Beasts they runne at once vpon him Wherein besides their lacke of Humanitie they are likewise touched with lacke of wit to carry their mischiefe cleanely They might haue spiced their Brother a Drinke and sent him home I meane to his long home but Poysoning it should seeme was not then in vse And therefore they fall to play the Lyons not a shamed to hurt their Brother forceably And indeed it is a principle in Machiauels Diuinitie that when the Foxes skinne will not serue wee may piece it out with the Lyons But hee that hurteth his Brother secretly is either afraid of something or ashamed of something but hee that wrongeth his Brother forceably as the Prophet Micha speaketh Mich. 2.1 Because his hand hath power he doth it freely because he can do it easily It seemeth God hath taken from him both shame and feare that hee hath cast the raynes in his necke that he might runne to the Deuill without resistance And in truth these men were of a scandalous occupation for when Pharaoh asked of them their Trade or Occupation they said they were Shepheards Thy Seruants are Shepheards Gen. 47.3 Vngentle Heardsmen of so gentle a Beast They were Shepheards indeed but not as CHRIST said of himselfe Ego sum Pastor ille bonus Ioh. 10.11 They were farre from good Shepheards They had somewhat of Abel for they kept Sheepe well but they had somewhat of Cain too for they made little conscience to kill their Brother And though Stripping or Sheering were a part of their occupation being Shepheards yet I will not say it was long of their occupation But in truth Shepheards and Sheepmaisters are growne cruell men of late for they throw downe Townes and Townships Houses and Churches they strip men out of their Houses yea out of their Coates and put out Men Gods owne image to bring in Sheepe Nero Dioclesian destroyed but men but these men destroy Humanum genus Mankinde it selfe Now surely if such bee let alone Shepheards will shortly bee more abhominable to English Christians then euer they were to the Aegyptians But to come to the matter Ioseph sustayned in this conflict foure kindes of afflictions For first they mocke him secondly they strip him thirdly they hazard his life fourthly in the end they sold him in all which hee was a famous figure of Christ Now hee that kills a man doeth him lesse harme then he that strips him or spoiles him for hee that killeth him makes an end of his miserie at once but hee that robbeth and spoileth and maketh him pine he giueth him his life in patience which is worse then death And hee saith in effect as Saul to Dauid Goe and serue other gods that is asmuch as in him lyeth he driueth him to make shipwrack of Conscience Religion Saluation and All. And there is no crueltie like that to practise to bee rich by wringing small matters from the Poore And therefore whereas in the Law theft was not death it should seeme to bee meant of poore hungrie Theeues such as Solomon speaketh of Prouerb 6.30 Which steale through strong necessitie for when Dauid heard of a rich Thiefe that had stollen a poore mans sheepe there was no way with him but Hic vir mortis filius 2. Sam. 12.5 This man shall die the death And great reason for one rich Thiefe makes a great many poore Theeues as in the Gospell one foule Spirit one Deuill brought in seuen other And therefore great reason the rich should bee punished for the poore as they that haue giuen occasion of sinne to other O therefore take heede of stripping take heede of oppression He that gathereth riches wrongfully shall leaue them saith Ierem. 17.11 in the midst of his dayes A memorable lesson for great and wealthy men It oftimes comes to passe that great and honorable Houses are strangely and suddenly made desolate by a cause not considered of in the World but secret in God and that is for some oppression either in the Father in the Sonne or in the Grand father for Nullum tempus occurrit Deo It is all one to God But when they build as Genes 11.3 with bricks in stead of stone and slime in stead of morter that is by indirect and vnmercifull meanes God himselfe will giue that House a name and call it Babel a Castle of confusion Therefore be sure yee get your wealth by warrantable meanes for if yee strip poore Ioseph Ioseph will crie and that crie shall enter in at the eares of the Almightie and then looke what yee haue gotten a secret Worme shall fire and consume it Either your selues shall liue to see it pull'd out of your teeth by an higher or mightier tyrannie or your sonnes 〈◊〉 waste it with riot and prodigalitie or some 〈◊〉 posteritie shall forfeit it by some treason 〈…〉 but yee shall finde it true which is 〈…〉 ●gaudet tertius haeres Three whole Gene● 〈…〉 neuer inioy it 〈…〉 which they tooke from Ioseph was 〈…〉 considered first barely as a garment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him of his Coate and then secondly 〈◊〉 ●●nament Euen the party-coloured Coat that 〈◊〉 upon him They stripped him of his Coate they tooke not from him gold or siluer as Exod. 12. the Iewes did from the Egyptians for gold and siluer were not then desired nor yet adored as they bee now but they tooke away his garment Neither did they take from him a cloake or a loose garment as in the next Chapter Thamar ranne away with Iudahs cloake Much in our attire hangeth loose about vs much in our attire is meerly accidentall for Potest adesse abesse It may bee allowed and in truth it might aswell bee spared But they came yet nearer him and stript him of his Coate neither did they take from him a part of his Coat 2. Sam. 10. as Hanun tooke Dauids Embassadors and cut off their coates at the waste He that takes some and leaues some is counted now an honest Thiefe but they stript him of his Coate euen of his whole Coate yea the Iewes thinke they stript him starke naked and so made him at vnawares a figure of Christ vpon the Crosse But the first Coates that euer our first Parents vsed were made of the skinnes of dead beasts Gen. 3. Gen.