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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36104	A Discourse of the necessity of encouraging mechanick industry wherein is plainly proved that luxury and the want of artisans labour became the ruin of the four grand monarchies of the world in the former age, and of Spain and other countries in this : and the promoting of manual trades the rise of the Dutch, Germans, &c. : parallel'd and compared with, and shewn to be practicable under the present constitution of England.		1690 (1690)	Wing D1606; ESTC R12440	24,102	42

would not be so still and unconcerned upon this Subject as they appear to be By our preposterous distributing of Charity we seem to invert that of the Apostle Not many mighty c. but the poor of this world are chosen In this Kingdom it is quite otherwise for we take only the same Care of them that we do of Brutes to prevent their starving but alass have too small a regard of what becomes of their Souls Now there can be no effectual way of doing this but by laying a good Foundation in taking up the younger sort and putting them to Trades and as for the Elder and decrepit that are capable of no Employment such to be maintained by the Parish but so as to have no liberty for Begging and the Effects of this will be That there will hardly be any aged or decrepit Poor most of which are made so either by Fraud and Design of Vagrants themselves or by being the Children of such and so for want of Care or Attendance are become deform'd or maim'd It is also remarkable That Mechanicks prevent Famin in a Nation this at first sight will appear a Paradox that the multiplying of Mouths that eat Corn whose Hands sow none should yet increase Food which Matter of Fact demonstrates the Truth of notwithstanding For whoever saw a Famin in Holland on the contrary they who sow none yet supply other parts of the World with Corn which they effect by means of their Arts and Trade which drives the more profitable Plough of the two that of the Sea It is observed That no places are more frequently afflicted with Famin than those Countries which are employed in Tillage and the reason of this Scarcity is very plain For if their Corn fail they have no other way whereby to supply their Want but it is otherwise with those who depend upon Arts and Trade for the extent of their Harvest reaches the utmost Confines of the Christian if not known World and if one Place fails they can easily have recourse to another Again Labour and Arts are a means to purchase to us one of the greatest Blessings of this World length of Daies for it both prolongs Life and prevents untimely Death And for the proof of the first of these it is observed as a Matter of common Experience That there are more old Men who from their Infancy have been employed in Labour and Trades than there are of Gentlemen which is agreeable to what the Physicians affirm with a great deal of Reason and Truth That the Work of the Body is not so destructive of nor decaies not the Vitals so much as the Study and Labour of the Head or the Intemperance of the Appetite which Men who consult their Ease and sensual Complacencies are too too apt to indulge And in the second Place That they prevent untimely Death is a Truth so undeniable as needs no Arguments to confirm it every Daies Experience sufficiently evincing it unto us That when Youth are educated in the way and course of Business their Heads are employed as well as their Hands which leaves no room for vitious Plots and Designs nor for pinching Necessity to enforce their breaking through the Laws of God and Man to make Provision for those Lusts and Exorbitances that at last bring them to the Gibbet I now come to the last part of this Discourse to shew the Mischiefs that attend and 't is reasonably to be feared will fall upon this Kingdom for the want of a good and regular Discipline in the Manners and Lives of the People I shall begin with those ill Effects and Consequences which Idleness produces in Religion It is the Care of most Parents to educate their Children in some Religion or other of whatever Shape or distinct Profession it be entituled to for he may be reasonably accounted a Monster in Nature and a common Enemy to Humanity that professes the Christian Religion himself and could patiently suffer his Child to be bred up in Mahometanism yet perhaps we want not thousands who do worse than this it being easier to convert and proselyte a Man to Christianity that believes a Deity but is zealous in his erroneous Apprehensions of his Divine Nature and Worship than to peswade one to embrace the Faith who denies that prime and received Principle of the Existence of a God and consequently disowns all the subordinate Tenets and Articles of Religion Now alas too many there are of this Kind whose Parents bring them up without Trades and consequently having no Employment will naturally have recourse to those which are Vitious and Unlawful which the evil Spirit that acts them will be sure not to be deficient in supplying them with an abundant variety of as being conscious of the hazard he incurs of losing them if he affords them leisure for serious Thoughts and Reflections And as men bred up to no Trade or Employments have rarely any Religion so neither are they demeanable to the Laws of the Land to which Religion is the most lasting and surest Tye or Obligation and subordinately to that Business and Employment have the next prevailing Force with them for these naturally beget a Property which requires Protection and Security by the law whereas he that hath nothing to lose nor endeavors to acquire any thing but by a manifest Violation and Infringment of the Laws his sinister Interests are such as strongly encline him to destroy them Hence it is that we frequently find That Men of no Business are and have been the publick Disturbers and Incendiaries of a Nation no Plots or Rebellions are brought upon the Stage but are managed and projected by this sort of Men who are the most considerable Party among the Actors who take no greater Pleasure in any thing than in fishing in troubled Waters by which means they not only become destructive to themselves but allure and entice others inveigling and drawing in those that are in a way of Trade and Business to their Mischievous and evil Practices to the irreversible Destruction of many Families And as they thus ruin divers in their Estates so also in their Lives It is a Subject of great Grief and Lamentation to consider what Numbers are every year brought to violent Deaths by the Hand of the Executioner and yet more numerous they are by much who destroy themselves by Debauchery and Intemperance so that it may be said by by a moderate Computation That as the Sword of Justice hath slain its thousands so a complication of Diseases contracted by idle and loose Men without Employments have slain their ten thousands And to sum up all these are the Men that in the present Juncture of Affairs are the Plague and Pest of the Nation that as Locusts swarm in all Places echoing out the most extravagant Panegyricks upon their Defender the abdicated King they go by the Name of Sharpers in London and are so formidable a Body that none dares oppose their assaulting any that