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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96073	A modest discourse, of the piety, charity & policy of elder times and Christians. Together with those their vertues paralleled by Christian members of the Church of England. / By Edward Waterhouse Esq;	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1049; Thomason E1502_2; ESTC R208656	120,565	278

in Oxford and then founded and endowed S t Johns College Built also Grammar Schools at Bristol Reading and a College at Higham Ferryes Gave great Legacies to poor Clothiers Good Stocks to 18 great Towns in England And other things he did of like remark But give me leave to mention the charitable Foundation of Sion College which truly was a very gallant work and much an Ornament to this Metropolis and would be a greater were the Library capacious enough to contain Books more filled with them and when I consider the diffusivenesse of such a work and how much to oblige the publique a bounty of this nature doth import I cannot but much encourage men to think no expence of money more provident for preservation of their memory then this I judge men to live in the fame of a bountifull charity more then in Children or in any Escocheon of honour But I proceed to the numerous Hospitals and Houses of Relief in the trust of the most faithful Trustees of this Nations Charity the worthy Societies of London the charitable distributions that they make the compassionate hearts they expresse to their poor precisely according to the will of the Testators and the bounty of their Legacies encrease testifies their fidelity I should swell too bigge to name the Charities of the Lord Viscount Cambden Sir John Ramsey M r Kenrick M r Lamb M r Randolph Alder. Hayden M r Blundell M. Chilcot M r Rogers M r Fuller M r Russell M r Gale M r Palin M r D●ve M Iones M r Goddard M r Aloworth Sir William Cockain and memorable S t Paul Pindar And herein they shame those of whoever they are who distort things charitably given to other uses then the Donor appointed which causes that of Ennius to be verified Benefacta malè locata malefacta arbitror This for a short View ef Reformation-Charity I come now to assert the Reformations imitation in point of policy Policy not of fraud but necessary preservation and that in the point of Laws which are the Tropicks upon which weal and woe wheel and move wisedom commended and made and courage preserved them so made from contempt That I have to adde is my Observation that good Laws were chief in the care of the best times It was wont to be the ambition of Governours to serve the Church first and respect her security most The Learned Vivaldus speaking of the Excellency of the Kings of France saies Semper pro legibus juribus Ecclesiae Dei summorumque Pontificum soli fideliter decertarunt and in times past with us Acts of Parliament began with something like this In honorem Dei sanctae matris Ecclesiae statuimus So begins in effect Magna Charta pr o West 25. Ed. 1. 1 2 Ed. 3. the 5. 15. 25. 28. Ed. 3. and many others yea to secure the Church was the first care of the Parliament Ed. 6. ann 1. c. 1. 1 El. c. 2. 1 K. James 4. 3 of the same King c. 4. 5. And it was a brave Speech of Sir Edward Deering in the Parliament 10 Nov. 1640. had it been hearkened to Let the Sword reach from the North to the South and a general perdition of all our remaining rights and safety threaten as in open view It shall be so farre from making me to decline the first setling of Religion that I shall ever argue and rather conclude it thus The more great the more eminent our perils of this world are the stronger and quicker ought our care to be for the glory of God and the pure Law of our souls I neither may wholly omit nor shall I write much of our Laws though I think they make the best judgement of happiness who rely on that foundation which the experience of many hundred years hath given proof of and deservedly ought they to be admired while they assert property and abhor injustice yea when they are so necessary to keep Subjects up to the duty of Loyalty that a great Master of them wrote not long since He that takes away the Laws takes away not the allegiance of one Subject alone but of the whole Kingdom and therefore corrupt Judges and he●dy Parasites who desgrace the good Laws of this Nation and misguide Governours who with reason and warrant enough enquire of and are conducted by them as men of skill and as they think conscience have ever been severely punished and by few ●ober persons pitied as by name Hubert de Burgh Pierce Gaveston and the Spencers Trifilion and the Earl of Oxford Henry de la Pool Lord Hastings Catesby and the Duke of Buckingham Empson and Dudley Card. Wolsey yea for injustice all the Judges in H. 4. time but M●tingham and Beckingham were removed and f●ned so that he that considers the punishment of Trea●on● Murther Rapes Riots and all kindes of injury that weighs the ●ecurity of trials for life and livelihoods by Juries of Gentlemen and Free-holders of fortune and fidelity he that views the Judges in their circuits the Justices of Peace in their Shire● Mayors and Bayliffs in their Corporations and Constables in their Liberties would wonder any disorder should arise much more passe unpunished But alas men are but men and God suffers some to give their conscience challenge to disturb them Judges who are men of years fortune and learning sworn to do right and to preserve men in so doing are highly accountable to God if fear or favour make them warp they should remember what that Noble Virgin Queen said when her Attorney Generall came near her and the Lord Burleigh told her Here is your Graces Attorney General Qui sequitur pro Domina Regina No said she I 'le have the words altered Qui sequitur pro Domina Veritate and when they do not as they ought between Prince and People man and man they deserve the judgement which Judge Belknap spake of and which they often adjudge lesser offenders to then themselves and if by craft or the favour of men they escape punishment here God sometimes suffers them to run the course of Morgans and Hankeford and others yea of one who a little before his end dreamed that he saw all the devils in hell haling and tugging him in peeces and all those whom he had murthered crying out for vengeance against him which the historian saith Non esse somnium sed conscientiam scelerum I know there are great temptations on brave men even in the best times Man is altogether vanity and acted by motives altogether unworthy him yet ought good men to eye God and consider his commands which bound Governours to rule justly and soberly as well as Subjects to obey loyalty and will take account of the errors in both and in both punish them Thus m●ch for the goodnesse of our Laws and the zeal of our Countreymen to them After the example of Antiquity this Nation hath been very observant of their habits