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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13966	An apologie, or defence of our dayes, against the vaine murmurings & complaints of manie wherein is plainly proued, that our dayes are more happie & blessed than the dayes of our forefathers.	Trigge, Francis, 1547?-1606.	1589 (1589)	STC 24276; ESTC S103280	42,588	50

The Lorde be praised for that his excellent gift which so well disposed the heartes of a great manye our countrie townes and villages sent their contributions and collections to our Cities Our gentlemen some of them sent waynes loaden with corne of their owne to the markets to be solde onely to the poore and that by a smaller price than the common rate was Others which had not so good store of their owne bought corne in the market that they might helpe to supplye the wantes of their poore neighbours at home which stoode in need and that also by an indifferent price Such buyers and sellers our Lincolne shire and other shires adioyning famous gentlemen worthie of eternall memorie had in that harde time Then it was woorth God haue mercie to helpe the poore Then it was acceptable to the Lorde Then it was thanke worthie when all thinges were deare scarce and harde to be gotten Here was tryall of mercie here was commendation of liberalitie Here the poore widdowes myte in the Gospell and the little barrell of Oyle and flower of the widdowe of Sarepta shined and came againe into the world These men gaue more in this penurie and euen of their owne scarcitie and want than all these Monkes of their aboundance and great superfluitie neither of that yeare onely but of euerye yeare the same nowe may truely be pronounced The earth nowe waxeth olde and barren it doeth not giue his increase as vnder that blacke horse in the sixth Chapter of the Reuelation of Saint Iohn When all things were plentifull Apoc. 6. when it was in his flourishing youth his vertue his strength his force nowe decayeth And as the decaying vading and death of olde men is sudden euen so is it of the worlde it selfe of the earth and of the Heauens nowe they all waxe olde as doeth a garment and are chaunged suddenly from their olde glorie fruitfulnesse and fertilitie Wherefore these yeares next going before our husband-men haue not reaped so great plentie of corne as they were wont to doe And yet we all must needes confesse the number of poore to increase Wherefore our liberalitie is of a morsell with Iob not of a Barne stuffed full for many yeares Iob. 31 17. of the Widowes myte not of thousand thousandes of Munkish reuenues of the little Oyle of the Widowe of Sareptha not of the superfluitie of the Pharistes And in this great scarcitie and dearth of all thinges in the frosen charitie of a great manye no man perished for hunger No man dyed for want as wee haue read in their Histories manye haue done in that bountifull and liberall kingdome which they commende so highly In Englande here in the dayes of king Henry the sixth there was such a dearth that some were compelled to make bread of Beanes and bracking or Fearne rootes which cast manye their liues In the latter ende of Queene Marie her raigne in that great dearth which was then as I haue heard manye of the poore had perished for hunger if the funeralles of the riche had not reléeued them better than their almes or giftes And as I haue hearde the Acornes that they did eate then killed manye for all that But amongest vs this I can truely report that I heard saye verie many were not ashamed to confesse that they coulde gett more by begging from dore to dore weekely than they coulde yearne by working for wages continually The Lorde doeth so open the heartes of his secrete ones that his poore shoulde be releeued that his Gospell shoulde be fruitefull euen nowe also as in the dayes of the Apostles And that his name should be glorified But in the former cheapenesse of all thinges in their great plentie and in not so great number of pouertie What was it to giue their bread and cheese for they seldome gaue money and such like And such were those dayes they themselues being witnesses But to returne to our Monasteries againe It is pittie saith one that the houses were pulled downe the houses might haue stande the abuses might haue beene taken awaye But whosoeuer speaketh thus they speake vnaduisedly for they open their mouth against the Lorde The pulling downe the defacing the sacking of these houses was the Lords doing It was not the power of anye Prince of any mortall man These men were famous sinners against the Lorde as were the men of Sodomah and their sinnes as it were heaped one vppon another reached euen vp to Heauen although they were perchaunce to them selues and their neighbours bountifull and beneficiall The sinnes of Sodomah raigned amongest them Such sinnes Ezechiell describeth vnto vs that is to saye Pryde Idlenesse Ezech. 16. fulnesse of breade and vnmercifulnesse In so much that the fatnesse and haughtinesse and idlenesse of Monkes came into a Prouerbe amongest all men In so much that idle persons were called Abbey lubbers fatt men were saide to haue Abbots faces But there was greater sinnes than these amongest them Idolatrie the first sinne in the tenth commaundement Blasphemie of the name of God the next sinne also by their vaine rash othes by things of no value as by the Mouse foote and such like which they counted no sinne yea the thirde sinne also was amongst them the breaking and prophaning of the Lords Sabaoth whose obseruation and keeping is chiefely in preaching and hearing the worde of God As our Lorde Iesus himselfe being here on earth taught vs to keepe it Hee preached euery Sabaoth daye Luke 4. Luke 4. v. 16. For so he spent his Sabaothes In doing good to our neighbours not in idlenesse of the bodie as the Pharisies taught not in singing Odes Himnes without vnderstanding as they were wont What shal we recken vp here their other sinnes beside these There was one amongest them notable and deadly sinne as they terme it and chiefe of all other both against God and against man which truely they shall neuer wash away with any sacrifice And that is this that vnder shewe of holines for couetousnes of gaine they seduced the people teaching a false way of saluation they threwe headlong as much as in them lay into hell euen thousands of soules without the great mercie of God Through couetousnes making merchandise of men as S. Peter sayeth 2. Pet. 7. and selling soules as saith S. Iohn This selling of saluation of Masses of pardons shall condemne the couetous deceiuers before the Lorde If they had giuen these freely perchaunce their simplicitie might haue made a place of pardon for them but now their couetousnes must needes be condemned Should God haue let these remaine Nay should he suffer their houses to stand Their crye now euen as of Sodome was great and had ascended into the eares of the Lord of hostes They were sinners against him though they seemed simple and beneficiall to others Although what liberalitie I pray you call you this To fill the bellie and to kill the soule Such surely was