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A07548 The custumers alphabet and primer Conteining, their creede or beliefe in the true doctrine of Christian religion. Their ten commandementes, or rules of ciuill life and conuersation, daily grace, generall confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such, as eyther in iest or in earnest, seeming doubtfull themselues, would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping. All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties customes, without possibility of fraude or couyn. Alwaies prouided, in reading read all, or nothing at al. Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627? 1608 (1608) STC 17927; ESTC S114606 45,944 46

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haue done the things we ought not to doe and there is no health in vs. But thou O Lord haue mercie vpon vs miserable offenders spare thou vs O Lorde which confesse our saultes and restore them that are penitent according to thy promises declared vnto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and graunt O most mercifull Father for his sake that wee may héereafter liue a godly a righteous and a sober life to the glory of thy holy Name ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Maiestie O Lord our heauenly Father high and mightie King of Kings Lord of Lords the onely Ruler of Princes Customers daily and Christian Prayers which doost from thy Throne behold all the dwellers vpon Earth wée humbly beséech thee with fauour to behold our most gracious and Soueraigne Lord King IAMES per se and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that hee may alwaies encline to thy will and walke in thy way Endue him plentifully with heauenly gyfts graunt him in health and wealth long to liue that finally after this life he may attaine to euerlasting ioy and felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ A Prayer for the Queene and Prince and other the King and Queenes Children ALmighty God which hast promised to be a Father of thine Elect and of their séede wee humbly beseech thee to blesse and preserue our gracious Queene ANNE Prince HENRIE and all the King and Queenes royall Progenie Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich thē with thy heauenly Grace prosper them with all happines and bring them to thine euerlasting kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour A Prayer for the Clergie Lords of the Counsaile all Magistrates all Nations and the Common-People ALmighty euerlasting God we most humbly beséech thée to illuminat all Bishops Pastors Ministers of the Church with the true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and liuing they may set it foorth and shew it accordingly To endue the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable PREVY-COVNSELL all the Nobility with grace Con per se wisedome and vnderstanding To blesse and keepe our Magistrates giuing them grace to execute Iustice and mainetaine Truth To giue all Nations Vnitie Peace and Concord And finally to giue vs an hart to loue and dread thée and diligently to liue after thy Commandements Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Aduocate onely Mediator Christ Iesus THe Customers of the Out-Ports prostrate Petition to the KING our Soueraigne for his Sonne the PRINCES sake to be made but as able as they are euery way willing to do their Duties that eating the Bread of good Conscience daily and freed from temptations of Obloquy and shyfts his Kingdome beeing come may still continue and his Will performed in all Places alike Forgiuing all as they would be forgiuen Conclude this their PRIMER with the sanctified words and enclude their Petition within the compasse of that effectuall Prayer which our Lord Sauiour the Sonne of GOD hath cōmaunded and taught saying OUr Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdome come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heauen Giue vs this day our daily Bread and forgiue vs our Trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs Let vs not be led into temptation but deliuer vs from euill For thine is the KINGDOME Tittle tittle tittle Est Amen the POVVER and the GLORIE for euer and euer SO BE IT Amen ¶ The Publicans humble Confession and priuate Prayer Nil sum nulla miser novi solatia Massam Humanam nisi quod tu quoque CHRISTE geris Tume sustenta fragilem tu CHRISTE guberna Fac vt sim Massae surculus Ipse tuae Magna Magnus perficit DEVS
third time though ONCE for all Whom onelie to know is euerlasting Life and Ioy but to heare and make mention of his Name beeing a law to himselfe of his owne Perfection doth likewise perfect all he wills or doth His Goodnes beeing the Forme of all thinges from which to swarue is to returne to Nothing and which in him as the Fountaine we must admire most affect and desire in our selues GOODNES then is the glorious center of DEITIE it selfe frō whence all Circumferences both in Heauen and Earth deriue not onely Essence but happines in Beeing From hence it is that out of Learning and Zeale to Religious Rights some godly-disposed haue seemed to obserue a kind of Trafficke and free Commerce betweene the Throne of Heauen and the Church vpon Earth by Doctrine Prayer for the vse of Goodnes All heauenly Inspirings downeward and all holie Desires vpwards beeing as Angels or Marchants betweene GOD and vs. That as his Doctrine doth teach vs our supreame Truth so our Prayers might confesse him our soueraigne Good But this height and depth of Goodnes we leaue to Diuines The length breadth thereof must lay forth our Lesson by giuing GOD his Honour and our Soueraigne KING his Right For Caelum Caelorum sibi ipsi assumens Terram dedit silijs hominum As therefore at first we prayde God for our speede So now in Goodnes God graunt we proceede Tu mihi summe Opifex rerum Cor fingitio purum Et Recti inspira renouatum pectore amorem Os mihi tute aperi Tu dirige labra loquentis Vt Tibi promeritae persoluant laudis honores ¶ We haue speld already how our Customes and Subsidies liue die with Trafficke as Effects that follow theyr Efficient Cause In which respect first Trades and Tradesmen must be sought for made of and at all hands nourisht Then Marchants of all sorts must be kindly entreated and by freedome encouraged in euery Common-wealth All Trafficke is either Outward and Inward of Things bredde at home or set from abroad and three things there are that by the Spirit of Goodnes giues it three degrees of lyfe and thrice-happy beeing Viz. Commodities Money and Exchange The first as the BODY vphelde the World in the infancie of Trafficke by bartering Good-things for Good-things Commodities to supply Necessities till Fraude came in The second Money as the SOVLE in the Body Olim. Cum non esset Monetae vsus nec aliud Merx aliud pretium dicereter pro temporū rerumque ratione vtilia vtilibus permutabant bomines Sed ob difficultatem contrabentium electa est Materia cuius publica et perpetua estimatio premutationum difficultatibus aequabilitate quantitatis subueniret beeing a weight of supreame woorth to maintaine Equalitie and preuent Aduantage by cōsent or Nations first made Good-thinges vendible The third as the SPIRIT in the Soule Exchange is seated euery where in the Soueraignes owne bosome to direct and controll by iust proportions of length and breadth weight content the truth worth and vse of Goodnes both in Money and all Things els Kata panta Regula Veritatis The first whilst Goodnes in plaine dealing lay open to all like knew not the Titles of Kings nor Kingdomes Kat ' auto Regula Iustitiae The second is the right hand of Iustice which crowning Kings first layde the foundation of that preheminent Dignitie that shewes the difference and distinction of Soueraignes and Subiects Ius monetae proprium est Principis et inter Regalia Magna censetur Kath ' olou Proton Regula sapientiae vel ordinis The third is that forme of Maiestie and transcendent Power that of Mortall-Men makes Gods on Earth Thus in Trafficke Commodities both Barterable and Vendible by Trades and Mysteries are layd out for Subiects Post ipsam Legem nil aeque vtile est ac necessariū Reipub vt Nūmorū vsus Proinde Grecis Nomos merito appellatur Quasi dicas gubernandi Regula Vel gubernaculum Money as the weight to value the woorth and Exchange the Measure to sette forth the vse of Goodnes by belongs onely to PRINCES the sacred Ministers of heauenly Iustice Each supporting other by mutuall supplyes for Reciprocke Endes The PRINCE graciously beholding the prosperity and wealth of his loyall Subiects as the onely Mirror of his owne Greatnes and Honor. And the Subiects religiously admiring the Maiestie of their Soueraigne as the glorious Obiect of their Welfare and Good And thus it appeares by the course of our spelling set poynts of our Lesson lynes of this our Primer That our Kings Trade is Coyning and his Mysterie is Exchange His * The KINGS Proprium and peculiar Right Right therefore vni soli et semper By the rules of all Truth all Iustice and all Order must be Gold and Siluer Materialls of Bullion ¶ The motyue of this worke was a naturall defence of poore despised and contemned Customers The motyue of this ALPHABET and mayne dryft of this PRIMER by whose disgrace the King receiues such losse and the State more wrong But the mayne dryft Scope of all is an orderly aduancing of our Soueraignes Reuenewes in his duties of Customes that so many haue vndertaken and so few haue set forward Wherein all that hath beene said might passe but for conceit and contemplatiue discourse without the hand of some Ministeriall function Customes therefore beeing Effects of that great Cause vvhose Actions are conuersant about no meaner Obiects then the Soueraignes Honour and Subiects happinesse requires Collectors of choyse respect and absolute trust Men truly Religious and honest in deede as Customers are euery way entended to be And such were they some-times reputed till Neglect in theyr Choyce and Contempt of theyr Persons made Ielousie begin to suspect their endeuours whilst Ignorance and Impudencie in countenaunce and maintenaunce supplanted their Credites First by Controllers then Superuisors and lastly by Farmers and Vndertakers besides Searchers and Wayters God knowes how many I come therefore now to speake of that Function which vnderlying the charge of so great a trust none should obtrude on at aduenture or vndertake in iest but such as Nature hath fitted Authoritie admitted in lawfull manner For how-soeuer the Name of Customers seeme now out of fauour as the Obiects of Disgrace and publique Slaunder the curious eye of the Lawe still constant in his choyce The Customers onely knowne to the Lawe call them kindly by their Names and culls them all as curiously forth as Shriefes in their Shieres from among the best and most sufficient that Wisedome can find The intention of the Lawe in choosing Customers or choyce affoord as men most fit to attend vpon Trafficke and in collecting Customes most likely of all others To deals iustly betweene the Prince and People Giue therefore cheerefully collect vprightly and aunswere truly as vnto GOD himselfe all his due honour in Oblations and Tythes so