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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87637	Every mans case, or, Lawyers routed In seven treatises, the titles whereof you may find in the ensuing page. Written by John Jones, Gentl prisoner in the Fleet.	Jones, John, of Neyath, Brecon.	1652 (1652)	Wing J967; Thomason E1406_2; ESTC R209500	13,990	44

I find it So returning to my tenet it is the sickness and death of the Souls and bodies of all their Clyents and their Families except those of their Consorts that the Art of our modern Lawyers practiseth upon And if perchance they ease a Rich clyent of some part of his pain for their own extraordinary gain except their deed be taken for their will they shall hardly obtain heaven by their merit These are the instigations of the Devil indeavours of bad Lawyers It is the health of their patients souls and bodies that the art of Physitians worketh upon And although some Medicasters that have not the art Intrude into the profession and kill more than they cure for want of skill not good will their will being taken for their deed pleads more in mercy than Lawyers misprisions It is an Axiom which Theodectes a famous Philosopher Cited by Stobaeus in his 66. Sermon That all men endowed with natural abillities desire 2 things before they have them which many when they have them desire to be rid of That is to say old age and wives Cicero upon Cato Major maintaineth the same in effect The causes of these 2 desires are twofould That is to say in good men for divine ends In bad men for their worldly pleasures Their summum bonum beyond which they have neither hopes nor desires But for the desires of good men to be old men Ambrose Hex lib 1. saith that although old age in most men is most subject to corporal Infirmities It sooner endeth the miseries of this life and openeth the gates to a happier In good manners it is most decent In Counsel most subtile in constancy to imbrace death most stable in Repressing lusts most strong and finally the Infirmitie of the body is the sobriety of the mind In bad men their desire of old age is to prolong their earthly pleasures in their enjoyment of other mens Rights which they possess by force or fraud or both and famishing the Right heirs in dungeons while they pamper their own bodies and their Impes in their sumptuos Pallaces built upon their prisoners Inheritances Living in which Condition we may observe them in their health secure in their sickness timorous and Commonly distracted in their deaths desperate in manners riotous in counsel wicked in lusts insatiable finally the strength of their bodie is the madness of their minds And are not these the true Characters of our Lawyers and their adherents To the next point good men love to meet with good Wives like Isaac and Rebecca to be their Consorts Comforts and helpers in goodness to propagate Saints as well by their examples of life and Conversation as by their naturall endowments to accomplish the end of their Creations that is to say to fullfill the number of the elect to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven by the merits of their Saviour And in the time of their pilgrimage and way thither to indeavour the Increase of the glory of God and the Peace Love and Unity of his people in this world Bad men desire wealthy wanton mercenary Wives to be their Companions and helpers in mischiefs as Isabel was Achabs To incarnatè and multiply Devils as well by their examples of life and Conversation as by their natural endowments to accomplish the end of their miscreancie Briefly to cooperate with them in all endeavours to increase the delusions and dominion of the Devil and the sedition hatred and enmity of this world So that at last they must as brothers in Iniquity with Antichrist become possessed of hell where there is endless sorrow and gnashing of teeth a place provided for them before the world began from which God deliver us But are not these also true characters of our Lawyers Popes that have thought themselves as omnipotent as Common Lawyers never offered to divorce men from their Wives but where they Judged the marriage unlawfull for some Reason or pretence of Reason in their Laws But our Lawyers and their Goalors c by fetching men from the Remotest parts of England to Westminster and Committing and detaining of them for debts or most commonly for supposed debts or trespasses without any colour of Law while their adversaries most frequently Lawyers Attorneys c. Insinuate sollicite and at last by their diligence lies false messages from their husbands and other diabolicall practises overcome their feminine frailties and make them their Whores get their consents to possess themselves of all their husbands estates reall and personall consume part of the personall to feast their Whores at the lower end of their tables where their own Wives sit at the upper and their families between While they contrive Conveyances with fines and proclamations to assure their prisoners Reall estates to themselves and their heirs to which their bewitched Whores give way and their Imprisoned husbands never hear of the matter till too late to be remedied by our Lawyers Law Is not this more and worse than a popish divice Others they fetch from nearer parts Prisoners to their Marshallseas suffer their Wives to boord and bed with them untill they have sould beds and all and then failing to satisfie extortions their husbands are dungened and their Wives cast kept out in the street except yielding to the lust of a turn-key such as he liketh be let in to serve his turn and after turned again to the rest in the street where often they and their children starve not daring when they find any scraps to aneer their husbands and parents to relieve them with any till all be starved In streets and dungeons Husbands Wives and Children Creditors look after your debts what might have payed you part if nor all in time had you taken a lawfull Course Goalers and their partners have parted in fees usurer dye with grief not for the loss of thy debters but the debt and boast of thy Revenge thou hast dice of his bones Is not this more and worse than the Popes divorce yet more and worse then this Judges and Goalers do in diverting and restraining the Saints of God from his service and hearing of his word preached by which faith commeth and is maintained so farr as in them lieth except when in malice to some Orthodox minister not love to the prisoners they cast him amongst them not to the end to better them but to worse himself The premisses considered Let all men assure themselves God hath a greater quarrel with this Nation than can be appeased till the land be cleared of such Achans Parliament spue them out Army drag them out to quarter them is freer for thee than any free quarter in the Countrey Because their wealth filched from the Common-Wealth ought to be restored to it and to thee first that best deservest thy share therein Read the Histories of England and find Lawyers the causes of all our Civil Wars in all ages observe what success we have at this present by imploying men of that profession to