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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13822	The house-holder: or, Perfect man. Preached in three sermons lately by Ed: Topsell, preacher at Saint Buttolphs without Aldersgate	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1610 (1610)	STC 24126; ESTC S121017	58,032	209

the Vineyard Gehazi got the leprosie thorough Couetousnesse when hee abused Naaman in the Prophets name Iudas for Couetousnesse sold his Maister and hanged himselfe Ananias and Saphira belyed their Charity and keeping backe their portion for they had solde their Land and kept their sin were stroken dead by the Lord. Belieue it the mercifull man neuer dyed ill death the Couetous and parsimonious neuer happy death Therefore away with this monster which all men cry out against and they which loue it most are ashamed to confesse it Men are wont to desire wealth pleasures and Honours of Wealth commeth euil things of Pleasure filthy thinges of Honour vain things For riches breed Couetousnesse and Auarice Pleasures bring foorth Gluttonie and wantonnesse Honour norisheth Pride and Vaine-glory and I tell you if you receiue not the witnesse of men the witnesse of God is greater 15 Beasts all creatures hate this parsimony it is the royalty of the Lyon to eate but once of his prey the residue hee leaueth to other and commeth not againe to it The Elephantes are for that cause dispraised because they hide their teeth fallen off that no man or other creature should find them The Lizzarde that knowing her vrine to congeale into a precious stone couereth it in the sand that it might not be discerned Of what brood are these wicked men whō no example of God or Nature or Men or Beast can mooue They are surely some Satyres or strange Ethiopian brood or peraduenture sent by some of the earthly spirits of whom the Coniurers say They keepe the Treasures in the earth that no man may vse them Such spirites are these that is Deuilles but in other shapes that onely keep goods from them that would vse them better let the world sink or swim they get none from them and if God were mony they would locke him vp that none else might enioy him But they that haue this worlds good and see their Brother perish how dwelleth the loue of God in them that is there dwelleth no loue of God in them and so out of God his loue I leaue them 16 But let mee not bee vnderstood that I speake against all keeping and storing vp of money and other things as though it were vnlawfull to possesse any more prouision of meat then for a meale of Money then for a day of Garments then one for one body and so of the residue God forbid for so in time of necessity man should be vnprouided of helpe when hee shold vse it God hath euer in store There is no question of Corne and Cattle but of Iewels and money and such like Salomon in my text biddeth to look to the hee Goats that they may be a price of the fielde Money must be prouided against sicknesse sute enemies of our country and for all other necessities Iacob had money which hee sent by his sonnes into Egipt for Corne the first and second time Abraham had Money wherewith all hee bought the field of Emor The Church had her store Acts 2. and 5. and therefore let no man thinke it against conscience to be alway prouided against wants wherein the rule of Socrates was good if it could bee followed that a mans Treasure should neither be bigger nor lesser then his necessity But because that cannot be knowne it is good our store be more plentiful so our charity be neuer the lesse When Iphicrates pitched his Tents in a little open fielde and then beganne to trench and wall them his General asked why he did so and what hee feared To whom hee answered such a question became not a commander Ah undans cautela non nocet we can neuer bee enough secured against future perilles King Alexander seeing one of his Souldiers going to sharpen his Dart whē all other were going to fight cashiered him and cast him out of the Army saying Inutilis acie qui pararet arma tunc cum ijs vtendum Hee was vnwoorthy of his army who went then to prouide Armes when hee was to vse them Euen like the foolish Virgins which neither tooke Oyle sufficient when they had spent their store gaue themselues to sleepe till it was too late to prouide 17 Let vs therefore keepe our honest store for thereby did Abigail mollifie the angry and displeased heart of Dauid when hee came against her husband Nabal and if the present she brought him had not beene present and at hande it had not failed but they all had perrished before so much coulde haue beene prouided Our Cofers must not be like the sealed bags which Alexius left at Ancona when hee had compounded the warres with the King of Almanes For the Emperour Comnenus his Maister who being to leaue Hostages of mony with the Citizens hee by his Maisters direction secretly conueyed away the Money and lefte with them the empty yet sealed trunkes and Boxes bidding them keepe them safe vntill they were by the Emperor required But this deceit being discouered fared ill with the Emperor euen so pouertie will not bee long hid and then shame or sorrow will follow vntil ruine or else some strange and wofull laborious recouery of our estate And so I will conclude that seeing the Lorde maketh both rich and poore let vs with care and Conscience conserue a Store-house of well-gotten wealth as we doe releeue the well-deseruing poore for both shal meet before the Lorde together Now followeth a conclusion of all which standeth in the amplifyed distribution of the charge who they be that must be looked vnto who entertained and maintained who to be prouided for and so an end Our Flockes and Heardes Family and Maydens are many in the figure for I will allegorize them as well as handle them literally 18 And in the first place the subiect of our Wisedome Gouernment Wealth and Mercie seemeth to bee our Countrey the common parent of vs all which though it beare vs as the horse doeth the Rider and as the oxen draweth the Waine-man in his Cart yet must it be directed and defended by vs. In it wee haue all our shares and inheritances of it wee receiue our liues and breath and therefore for it we ought to apply our care and power If wee forget Ierusalem say the Iewes in Babilon then let my right hand forget her cunning Ierusalem was their countrey Babilon their place of exile banishment Therefore sweete is the name of our Country and better is the smoake thereof then the fire of another and the dust thereof then the stones of a strange nation Nehemiah also when hee heard that his Countries repayre was hindered how did hee leaue his place before the King and layed aside his Courtly garments put on sack-cloath and liued in Prayer and Fasting Saint Austen in his old age writing of his Countrey which then began to be spoiled by the Arrian and Circumcellian souldiers and Vandals saith Serio iam ac frigescentibus mēbris feruet animus

prowesse these things though at the doores yet no man durst remooue or make away Thus did they for their Honour let vs doe as much for our houses and Families and let not there bee among vs any that keepeth not his parents Lands goods Armes Cattle and Vertue that as we are known by their names so wee may bee by their Landes Honours Prowesse Frugality all other workes of Faith Hope and Charity 12. Thus haue I briefly spoken of the Housholde care to get and keepe Now of the last part of the Housholder or housekeeping which is his mercy in spending liberality in giuing foorth That which was first called his charge Flocke and Heards he now calleth his Family and Maidens which must be fedde and cloathed Whereby is first to be noted that all the care we haue spoken of is to giue to bestow to spend to distribute and feed others Hee which is the Seruant of riches doth keepe and get them like a Seruaunt but hee which is the Lorde and Maister of them doth giue and dispose them like a Maister nothing proueth a man so much the owner of his wealth as the vse and bestowing of it nothing sheweth him so much a base seruant of wealth and riches as the hoording vppe and keeping it close from the sight of the world Now the seruant doth keepe them as Seruantes do their Maisters goods and he which is a Seruant of riches is not a Seruant of Iesus Christ Beware of this wretched getting of goods to keep them not to spend them God Nature Men Beasts and all good creatures confute and denie this GOD for he which is infinite in wealth giueth all in this worlde He eateth not of our Flockes or folds or of Beasts that run wild on the hils he therfore commandeth the earth to feede man For hee openeth his hand filleth al liuing things with his blessing hee saith It is a more blessed thing to giue then to receiue He chargeth the rich in this world to be ready to distribute He threatneth that the rust of the Golde and Siluer layed vp shall consume and torment the soules of them that hoarde Hee telleth that no mans life standeth in the things it possesseth Hee sheweth thee ô man what is good Namely to do Iustice and loue Mercie And to conclude Him hee stiled a Foole which hauing plenty of Corne more then his Barnes could hold would rather builde greater Barnes to keepe it then giue away the superfluous surplusage to the poore and needy ô Foole this night they will fetch away thy soule from thee then whose shall all these goods and Bagges and Obligations bee Surely If you say your Childrens what comfort is it to a Father in hell to remember the intollerable Torments he there indureth for getting and keeping that wealth vniustly without shewing pitty to other which now his Sonnes and Daughters reuell in with all earthly pleasures I tel you such earthly pleasures haue a bitter end but such Torments haue no end For although they aske but a droppe of water yet they are not heard because they haue not heard them that begged or woulde haue borrowed of them in need 13 Nature also is an enemie to this wretchednesse to this Couetousnesse she loueth to multiply and to increase if she haue Milke in her breastes shee knoweth that like Riches it will rot therefore with it she feedeth other The trees that are laden with fruit bear them but till they are ripe and then if they be not taken off they let them fall How glad are the fields when they are couered Laetis segetibus with smiling Graine and yet they hasten to the haruest as the Pigion to her breeding that being rid of one crop may be Plowed for another The sheepe wearied with his fleece inuiteth by a panting necessity the Shepheard and Shearer to take it off The seede would bee sowne the Gardens would be gathered the Sea would bee Fished the Heauens keepe not their influence but send it downe among vs. Why then should men get goods to keepe them and yet Riches endure not alway nor the Crown from generation to generation Are they not the sonnes of Nature Why degenerate they What Tygers Milke haue they sucked What Cockatrice hath hatched them who corrupteth all that shee toucheth Let Nature teach them if they will not learne of such a Mother who as Boetius saith Dat cuique quod conuenit ne inter eunt laborat giueth to euery thing conuenient laboureth that nothing perish but these let their money perish their woods rot the moths eate their garments which might be giuen away and the Dogs and Swine that good meate which would maintaine the children The wals haue their Gold layed vppon dumbe pictures and Heathen mens shape are well cloathed by them and set forth in counterfaites but nothing commeth from them for the generall good but as it were by force of Armes 14 Men also I meane the generall and Vniuersall inclination of mankind is against the keeping of goods in priuate without some vse They keepe saith one for feare of want and yet they want the vse of that they keepe Behold a iust iudgement of God vt semper indigeat qui semper timet indigentiam They alway want which are alway in feare of want The two Persian Princes had two Titles giuen them by their people to signifie their good and ill Cyrus they called Patrem a Father because hee gaue them riches and layed vp but for their necessaries and Darius they called Negotiator a Merchant whose study is to gaine or not to lay out Valerius Auaritia indagatrix lucrorum aiudissima vorago ne que habendo fructu foelix sed cupiditate quaerendi miserrima Couetousnesse the searcher out of gain is a most greedy gulfe or swallower in keeping it is not happie but in seeking it is most miserable Tully saith Illi morbo qui permanet in venis inhaeret in visceribus nec inueteratus euelli potest nomen est auaritia That disease is called Auarice which runneth in the secret vaines and cleaueth to the inward bowels which if it bee inueterate can neuer bee pulled forth Pythagoras Couetous men which haue riches and do not vse them are like vnto Orphanes and Wardes in their Nonage which also haue houses and Landes but cannot dispose them Seneca saith Inopiae pauca desunt auaritiae omnia Pouerty wanteth some things but Couetousnesse wanteth all things and therefore the rich man that hath goods doeth not vse them doth neuer any thing well except in dying So hee Vnto all these I may adde the note of Innocentius For Couetousnesse Balaams Asse hurt his Maisters foote and reproued his rider For Couetousnesse the people of Israell stoned Achan in the valley of Achor after he was founde guilty of the Golden garment By Couetous Ahab was Nabaoth put to death for