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Avaritia coram tribunali: or, the miser arraign'd at the bar of scripture and reason for his sinful neglect of charity, in this present lamentable and dreadful visitation of the plague. By a gentleman that loves men more than money.
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Gentleman that loves men more than money.
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1666
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Wing A4266; ESTC R223581
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Thonsands then the Plague that Attila of Diseases harases City and Country and Michael the Angel of Vengeance in spight of the Rabbins Proverb has two Wings as well as Gabriel and strikes whole Legions cum Flagello Domini with the Scorpions of incensed Justice Imprinting Botches under the Ears and about the Neck Blains of a Straw-colour and Bronish Blew fiery and corroding Carbuncles Party-colour'd spots on the Breast Back c. All which may be termed not onely Ingravescentis Morbi sed Peccatorum Indices not onely the symptoms of a Spreading and Depopulating Plague but the Tokens of Indignation upon a stiff-necked and stubborn Generation whom odious and unnatural Broyls could not terrifie from the superfluity of Naughtiness nor the Olive-branch of Peace and a return from Captivity allure to a Spiritual well if to a Vocal Te Deum Laudamus But let us Rentour Hearts and not our Garments acknowledge our Transgressions and set our Iniquities before us doubtless we that have cumbred the Ground long though Glory be to God on High we are not yet cut down are as great sinners as those buried under the Rubbish of this Tower of Shilo Let Phinehas execute Judgement that the Plague may be staid Let the Priest cry mightily betwixt the Temple and the Altar and the peoples amendment say Amen Let the Rich Scribe and Pharisee bring their Talents the middle sort their Shekels the poor Widow her two Mites to provide Bread and Triacle Meat and Medicine Pest-houses and Keepers and all other Materials which may serve Religiously to Exorcise the Spirit of Desperation out of those whom the deplorable Mortality have inforc'd to want Doctor Apothecary Chirurgeon c. or another Lues Epidemica an Universal deadness of Trading has put into the Furnace of Affliction and made like Narcissus in Tacitus Certa sibi pernicies seu Britannicus rerum seu Nero potiretur Fore-seeing approaching destruction to them and their Families if not by the Plague yet by Famine Surgunt indocti coelum rapiunt cum nos cum Doctrina nostra mergimur in Gehennam The unlearned practical Christian rakes Heaven by violence whilst the speculative Master in Israel with all his Quidlibets and Quodlibets of a dead Faith is plung'd into Hell Those Heathen that were deservedly Renown'd in their several Ages for Improving the Light of Nature to a severe vertuous Life shall find the Day of Judgement an easier-to-be entreated and propitious Audit then the Prophane Dissolute or Scraping penurious Professors of the Doctrine of the Holy Jesus who will not be perswaded to work out their Salvation with Fear and Trembling Although they may have a Light to their Feet and a Lanthorn to their Paths the glad Tidings of the Gospel which shines clearly and beautifies every corner of our Horizon This made Cyrus the Persians Death-bed soft and stufft his pillow with Down I have been Merciful and Munificent cast continually a good Aspect and made it my business to benefit and contrive the felicity of all Regions under my Influence and now I expect to finde favour and receive my Dividend of his Loving-kindness who is a great God from whom Men challenge their Original and Mercy flows in a deep Channel and perpetually refreshing Streams O si hoc esset pugnare O how happy might we count our selves if this were to fight hum'd out the sleepy Souldier inamour'd of his Nest stretching his hands over his head and opening his eyes by halves Balaam an Inchanter wish'd that he might die the death of the Righteous and that his last end might be like his He durst not curse Israel and in those dayes 't was not the fashion to curse themselves But not a syllable fell from him expressing an inclination not so much as a whimsical Velleity to live the Life of the Righteous But notwithstanding the Ass was smitten three times yet she deserv'd better of her Master then either that son of Beor or any of the sons of Belial do of their God For though she turn'd aside out of the way crush'd his foot against a Wall and at last fell under him yet she has a far better Apologie for her self then the presumptuous sinner Numb 22.30 Am not I thine Ass A dutiful acknowledgment of property Upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day A frequent service and probably for a considerable part of the Life of that short-liv'd Animal Was I ever wont to do so unto thee 'T was a rare contingent a single instance no incorrigible fault no inveterate Jadishness And he said Nay A great truth sure that anger had not the face to deny If God be God then serve him set resolutely upon the whole duty of Man Open your hands wide unto the poor and needy Thou shalt do no murder No why then does Abels bloud sume up into the third Heaven and sue an Appeal against malicious execrable Cain Homo Homini Deus is no repeal'd Statute though vanity and sordidness wave the Reading upon it Am I my Brothers keeper This froward and contumacious Answer was given But trace the Dialogue a little further God had no sooner examin'd the cause and pronounc'd Cursed art thou from the Earth But the Murtherer makes this rueful Reflection My punishment is greater then I can bear Forum nactus sylvam suam Testem mortuum Apparitorem Umbram Carnificem Culpam Judicem Deum London is the Shire-house those who die for default of seasonable Administrations Witnesses Conscience the Accuser God the Judge the Devil the Executioner Semper ego Auditor tantum nunquamne reponam Shall I hear Sermon after Sermon and not make my life the practice of Piety Turn over Volumes of Devotion and not be converted Walk through Hospitals and never merit the truly Honourable style of a Benefactor Make thy Chest sweat whilst the Poor quake for cold My sin and luxury Hydropick while the indigent starve Wallow in the complacency of Honour and Riches when my Saviours side is pierced through with a spear His forgotten and despised Members cry out O my head my head My heart my heart And pine and languish and die God is not mocked and God forbid but that we should be able immediately to digest the sincere Milk of the Word S. Jam. 1.27 Pure Religion and undefiled before God even the Father is this To visit the Fatherless and Widdows in their Afflictions and to keep himself unspotted from the World And then Procul hinc procul ite Prophani I am none of your Tribe ye Nimrods ye mighty Hunters and Unsatiable Birds of prey And Nabal I magnanimously defie you in the words of the same Apostle Chap. 2. v. 18. Yea a man may say Thou hast Faith and I have Works Shew me thy Faith without thy Works and I will shew thee my Faith by my Works FINIS