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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16763	A treatise of christian beneficence, and of that like christian thankefulnese which is due to the same The which, as they are duties of singular account with God, so are they of as necessarie vse to all christians, for the keeping of faith and a good conscience, as are fire and water for common vse and comfort to the naturall life of all men.	Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1600 (1600)	STC 367; ESTC S112321	178,520	256

A TREATISE OF CHRISTIAN BENEFICENCE AND OF THAT LIKE CHRISTIAN THANKEfulnesse which is due to the same The which as they are duties of singugular account with God so are they of as necessarie vse to all Christians for the keeping of faith and a good conscience as are fire and water for common vse and comfort to the naturall life of all men Honour the Lord with thy riches and with the first fruits or chiefe of all thine increase Pro. 3.9 Go ye and learne what this is I will haue mercie and not sacrifice Matth. 9.13 A man that hath friends ought to shew himselfe friendly for a friend is nearer than a brother Pro 18.24 He that rewardeth euill for good euill shall not depart from his house Pro. 17.13 Printed at London by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man 1600. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR IOHN POPHAM Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of England one of her Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsell AMong the rest of the most holy and wise Prouerbes of king Salomon who both for godly policie and also for purity of Religion may worthily be esteemed the wisest of all kings all the time of his vprightnesse and sinceritie these sentences Right Honorable are expresly commēded by the most holy Spirit of wisedome it selfe to belong to the wise yea euen to those who ought to be most wise aboue all other to wit the Princes Iudges and Rulers of the people of God It is not good saith the wise king to regard the face that is the person of any man in iudgement The reasons follow Him that saith to the wicked Thou art righteous shall the people curse yea multitudes shall abhorre him But to them that rebuke him shall be pleasure and vpon them shall come the blessing of euery goodman They that is euery good man shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright words Prou. ch 24 ver 23.24.25.26 The which Sentēces do briefly very pithily giue to vnderstand these two things first how great vprightnes ought to be in all Princes Iudges and Rulers to the end they may iudge righteous iudgement secondly how great the blessing is which by the sentence of God himself doth belong to all such namely that they shall be a ioy to the people of God that the people again shal reuerence thē that God wil heare their prayers for thē They shew also herewithal that on the contrarie such as take an vniust course haue reproch and dishonour yea vengeance due vnto them So gratiously is the God of righteousnesse inclined and bent toward his righteous seruants and so wrathfully is he setled in his iudgement and decree against the rest But leauing to treate of the dutie of the Magistrate and Gouernour which is not the present purpose may it please your Honour to giue one poore Minister of the word of God in the name of manie who by the grace of God haue care of our own bounden dutie your fauorable good leaue in regarde of the premises to testifie that great ioy which we haue by you and that reuerend estimation which we haue of you with harty desire of all increase of Gods best graces and blessings vpon you the rest of our good Gouernours vnder her Highnesse because of that care of vprightnesse of iudgement wherewith God of his mercie hath honoured and graced you in the sight of vs all to the sensible and publike benefite of all seeing as it is euident from the holy sentences before rehearsed it is the will and pleasure of God that we of dutie should so do And the rather also because we perceiue that mercie is linked with iustice in your gratious and currant proceedings the which we know from the booke of God to be effectuall to helpe singularly to the establishing of the honour peace of the throne of our most gracious Queene Elizabeth whose royall souereigntie through her whole dominions we humbly beseech God of his infinite mercy euen for Iesus Christs sake long and happily to continue and aduance among vs. Amen Such right Honorable our very good Lord is the generall purpose of the present writing but yet so as the more particular intent is to testifie the late increase of our ioy reuerend estimation humble prayer with hartie thanksgiuing to God for you all other our good godly Gouernors vnder her Maiestie as also the increrase of our hūble harty thankfulnes to you and thē and to her gratious Maiestie especially euen for the late point of so great mercifull iustice which you haue established and put in execution among vs to the singular glorie of God honor of your gouernment and comfort of all well-disposed subiects in that you haue suppressed the vagabond life of a most wicked and vnprofitable yea a most dangerous and harmeful sort of people the which being of too ancient breede among vs were of late yeeres so mightily increased that by their licencious and vniust yea verie sturdy and shamelesse vagring and begging all mercie of almes-giuing was so violently catched vp and deuoured at euery rich mans gate and also at euery meane mans doore that mercie was degenerated to the cruell and wastfull feeding and fostering of such an idle and wicked rout as by the rule of the holy Apostle were altogether vnworthy of any almes in so much as they were such as vtterly refused to work And be sides in vaine confidence and proud presumption of an imagined prescription of time at the first mention of their restraint they feared not at our dores to speake contemptuously and skornfully of so holy a purpose as if it had bene an impossible thing that rogues shold haue abiding places and that beggers should liue of their labours But thankes be to God to her Maiesty and to you this excellent point of mercifull iustice was no sooner aduanced and authorised by gratious Statute wisely penned and enacted by high Court of Parliament to the same effect and purpose but it hath so prosperously and with so speedie successe preuailed that God hath to the great comfort of all that loue true iudgement mercie shewed euidently that his good hand went with the execution of it as no doubt his good Spirit was formerly president in that holy consultation and aduise which was taken about it The which one Act right Honorable how many good acts it hath wrought highly to the honour of God and her Maiestie and the whole gouernment and also how good cōmodious it is to the publike weale of the whole natiō a long narration would hardly suffice worthily to declare O how much filthinesse of adulterie and fornication of the vagabonds themselues is hereby cut off which was wont in more then brutish maner to be practised in all places of their confused lodging together at euery Faire and market through the land after they had filled themse●ues with the fattest of the rost and drunke themselues drunken with the strongest of the Beere that their Hostesse could