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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26596	A moral discourse of the power of interest by David Abercromby ...	Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2.	1690 (1690)	Wing A83; ESTC R6325	62,955	218

Credit if they were inform'd of their secret Life and Conversation Since then the World is so deceitful for our own private measures we ought particularly to take notice of such as court us unexpectedly and at an extraordinary rate with a show of Humility and Modesty beyond their Temper and Custom upon other occasions because to be sure they either intend to put a Cheat upon us or to obtain from us or by our mediation some particular favour But those sort of Hypocrites are most of all guilty who under the specious pretence of Religion cover their real Designs of Interest and Conquest as generally the Papists do when pretending to gain our Souls they aim chiefly at our Goods and Estates as may be easily made out by whatever they have undertaken of moment either at home or abroad and I wish I had no reason to say That they are not imitated in this by some of the Reform'd part of the World who tho they pretend not to Infallibility act nevertheless as if they believ'd themselves infallible in depriving either directly or indirectly of their Estates all such as cannot in Conscience conform to their way of Worship Which gives us just grounds to suspect that this Temporal Concern is the chief thing they aim at notwithstanding all their fair pretences to a thorough Reformation to the promoting of the Gospel and of Saving Faith in Christ 'T is certainly against such Pharisees and meer pretenders to Holiness that Christ pronounc'd with so much Zeal and Eloquence the Seven following Woes 1. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in 2. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye devour Widows houses and for pretence make long prayers therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation 3. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye compass Sea and Land to make one Proselite and when he is made ye make him two-fold more the child of Hell than your selves 4. Wo unto you ye blind guides which say Whosoever shall swear by the Temple it is nothing but whoever shall swear by the Gold of the Temple is a debter 5. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye pay the Tithe of Mint and Annise and Cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the Law Judgment Mercy and Faith these ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone 6. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye make clean the out-side of the Cup and of the Platter but within they are full of Extortion and Excess 7. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for you are like unto whited Sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead mens bones and of all uncleanness We have here Hypocrisie and all its Designs of Interest laid open with that life and plainness that I need not enlarge upon the Subject Matter of this Article I shall only add That as the Ten Commandments are written in golden Letters in every Church to mind the Christians of their Duty it were likewise fit the Seven foregoing Woes should be set up in every Church Kirk Field-Conventicle and Meeting-house that both the Preachers and the Hearers may remember first That 't is neither long Prayers groaning weeping nor saying Lord Lord that they are to be saved by but a living Faith a real Vertue and an unfeigned Repentance and secondly That as God is a true Spirit so he ought and will be ador'd by all such as he lays claim to in Spirit and Truth ARTICLE XLVI 1. Lewd Women 2. Quack-Physicians 3. Judiciary Astrologers Though it be clear That all men pursue not the same particular Interest since some act for profit others for pleasure and others again by a principle of Ambition I do nevertheless incline to think That most men whatever may be their pretences to the contrary aim at nothing more in all their projects than at the increase of their Treasures that is of their Money because without this necessary Tool they can neither pretend to honour nor hope for pleasure Yea those very Women that seem to have consecrated themselves wholly to the unchast Goddess Venus or unlawful pleasure are to be stil'd rather Thieves than what they are commonly called and such of them as either watch their Prey in the Streets of great Cities or live together in private Houses in order to follow their infamous Trade ought to be look'd upon as no better than downright Robbers because their chief design is to plunder rob and drain mens Pockets which they never fail to do by stealth if they cannot do it by consent There is another Tribe of Mankind that I must take notice of upon the same account or rather upon a worse because they rob men daily of their Lives and Estates and these are the illiterate and Quack-Physicians who neither understanding Physick nor perhaps being capable of understanding it set up every where for Doctors Such only ought and may be prosecuted without any deserv'd Reflection against the Prosecutors as if they design'd an injust Monopoly But because men catch at any thing when there is a prospect of Gain no wonder if the Quacks finding so much encouragement from the credulous simplicity of the unlearned Tribe undertake the cure of most distempers without any real knowledge either of a good Remedy or of a rational Method The like may be said of Judiciary Astrologers who pretend to foresee the free Determinations of Humane Will in the different Situation or Aspect of the Stars and Planets their chief Design being to draw a Tribute from the ignorant Mob flocking to 'em for Advice about things to come which they know nothing of unless we allow them to be inspired Men or real Prophets ARTICLE XLVII 1. Crimes occasion'd by Covetousness 2. Spanish Cruelty 3. English Negligence Auri sacra fames quid non mortalia cogis Pectora Would one think that men could lay so far aside the use of Reason for that of Gold as to be guilty of Treachery Perjury Murder and whatever else may attend Crimes of that kind yet nothing more ordinary not so much among Turks and Pagans as among Christians What unheard of Cruelties were committed by the Spaniards in the West Indies 't is well known all Europe over though Mariana their best Historian would take no notice of 'em lest he should either betray the horrible Treachery of his Countrymen or himself to be an unfaithful Historian They had agreed with an Indian King their Prisoner to give him his life and liberty upon condition to put them in possession of his greatest Treasures within a certain time appointed But so soon as he had perform'd his promise in every particular he was barbarously strangl'd by the Order of the Spanish Governour with a Million more before and after that time as 't is