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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97260	A precious mithridate for the soule made up of those two poysons, covetousness and prodigality the one drawn from the fathers ill qualities: the other from the sons: for the curing of both extremes, and advancing frugality, the mean. Being foure chapters taken out of R. Junius his Christian library, and are to be sold by J. Crump stationer in Little Bartolmes Well-yard, and H. Crips in Popeshead-ally.	Younge, Richard.	1661 (1661)	Wing Y174A; ESTC R230788	14,240	16

case he cannot gain by being Religious his care shall be not to lose by it and that Religion will like him best that is best cheap and that will cost him least Any doctrine is welcome to him but that which beats upon good works only that he cannot indure No if another be at the charges to serve God this Churle like Judas will cry our why is this waste Nor shall any means ever convert him No Physick is strong enough to purge out this Humour Because if ever he should repent he must restore his ill gotten estate which to him is as hard an injunction as that of God to Abraham Gen. 22.2 Or as that of our Saviour to the Young man Luk. 18.22 and therefore what hope of his yielding Covetousnesse is Idolatry Eph. 5.5 Coll. 3.5 and Money is the covetous mans god and will he part with his god No And so long as he keeps the weapon ill-got goods in his wound and will not pluck it out by restitution how is it possible he should be cured He may with that Rich man Luk. 10. have a good mind to Heaven in reversion yet for all that he will not hear of parting with his Heaven whereof he hath the present possession To other sins Satan tempts a man often but Covetousnesse is a Fine and Recovery upon the Purchase So that it is as easie to raise a dead man as to convert a covetous man A Covetous man is like a sick Patient that cannot spit whom nothing will cure Or like a crack'd Bell for which there is no remedy but the fire Or like one that hath the Plague-tokens who is past all hope and for whom all that can be done is to say Lord have mercy upon him And therefore though I had rather be a Toad then a Drunkard yet had I rather be a Drunkard then a Covetous Miser Matth. 21.31 32. Chap. 2. Now as this Merciless Miser is all for sparing so his Heir is all for wasting He lives poorly and penuriously all his life that he may die rich Psal 39.6 And what comes of it As he hath reapt that which another sowed so another shall thrash that which he hath reaped He hords up not knowing who shall enjoy it and commonly they enjoy it who lay it out as fast He takes only the bitter and leaves the sweet for others perhaps those that wish him hanged upon condition they had his means the sooner Or possible it is he may have children which if he have he loves them so much better then himself that he will voluntarily be miserable here and hereafter that they may be happy He is willing to go in a thred-bare coat to starve his body lose his credit wound his conscience torment his heart and minde with fears and cares yea he can finde in his heart to damne his own soul and go to hell that he may raise his house and leave his heir a great estate as thinking his house and habitation shall continue for ever even from generation to generation and call their lands by his name as the Psalmist shews Psalm 49.11 He is careful to provide his children portions while he provides no portion of comfort for his own welfare either here or hereafter He provides for his childrens bodies not for their souls to shew that he begat not their souls but their bodies He leaves a fair estate for the worser part nothing for the estate of the better part He desires to leave his children great rather then good and is more ambitious to have his sons Lords on earth then Kings in heaven But as he that provides not for their temporal estate is worse then an Infidel 1 Tim. 5.8 So he that provides not for their eternal estate is little better then a devil which yet is the case of nine parts of the parents throughout the Land But observe how his children requite him again and how God requites him in his children for commonly they are such as never give him thanks nor in the least lament his Loss perhaps they mourn at his funeral yet not for that he is dead but because he died no sooner Nor is it any rare thing for men to mourn for him dead whom they would by no means have still to be alive Yea for the most part it is but a fashionable sorrow which the son makes shew of at his fathers death as having many a day wisht for that hour A sorrow in shew onely like that of Jacobs sons when they had sold their brother Joseph who profest a great deal of greif for his loss when inwardly they rejoyced Have ye not heard of a prodigal young heir that incouraged his companions with come let us drink revel throw the house out at windows the man in Scarlet will pay for all meaning his father who was a Judge but he adjudged the patrimony from him to one of his younger sons more obedient And good reason he had for it for to give riches to the riotous is all one as to pour precious liquor into a Seeve that will hold no liquid substance which occasioned the Rhodians and Lydians to enact several laws that those sons which followed not their fathers in their vertues but lived viciously should be disinherited and their lands given to the most verteous of that race not admiting any impious heir whatsoever to inherit as Varro well notes But it is otherwise in this case for in regard of Gods curse upon this unmerciful Muckworm if he have more sons then one the eldest proves a prodigal and he inherits Every mans own experience can tell him that for the most part a scatterer succeeds a gatherer one that wasts vertues faster then riches and riches faster then any vertues can get them one that is as excessive in spending as the other was in scraping for as the father chooseth to fill his chests so the son is given to satisfie his lusts Nor could the one be more cunning at the rake then the other will be at the pitchfork The moneys which were formerly chested like caged Birds will wing it merrily when the young heir sets them flying And as Cicero speaks he riotously spends that which the father had as wickedly gotten The one would have all to keep the other will keep nothing at all the former gets and spends not the latter spends and gets not Yea the son being as greedy of expence as the father was in scraping he teddeth that with a fork in one year which was not gathered with a rake in twenty Yea how oft is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the son which was fourty years a getting by ehe Father Which Diogenes well considered for whereas he would ask of a frugal Citizen but a penny of a Prodigal he would beg a talent and when the party asked him what he meant to desire so much of him and so little of others his answer should be Quoniam tu habes ille habebunt because thou hast and