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A73859	A fruitfull and necessary sermon, specially concernyng almes geuing, preached the Twisday [sic] in Easter weeke The yere of our Lord. 1572. at S. Maries Spittle. By Thomas Drant, bachelor in diuinitie.	Drant, Thomas, b. 1601 or 2.	1572 (1572)	STC 7166; ESTC S125321	40,829	98

bee busie with the care of his gold Agayne to be puft vp in pride and vayne earthly cogitations is a burthen to the soule but that is the effect of much riches as doth appeare in the first of Timothy the vj. chap. Therfore to be very riche is a burthen Agayne to eate much drinke much and rest much is a burthen vnto the soule though it bee pleasaunt to the body But in the xij of Luke it is proued that aboundaunce of riches maketh one to eate much drinke much rest much Therfore as much rayne is a burthen to cloudes So much riches are burthens to men Agayne that whiche doth plucke a mans hart into diuers thoughtes and cogitations that is a burthen vnto men But in the vj. of Mathew it is sayd where thy treasure is there is thy hart So that if a mans treasure be in an hundred places his hart is in as many places therfore to be very riche is a very great burthē Agayne that which maketh a man vnfit for the kyngdome of heauen is a great burthen vnto a mans soule But much riches maketh a man as vnapte to go to heauen as a camell to créepe thorough a nedels eyes Therefore aboundaunce of riches is a burthen vnto man Agayne that whiche maketh a man to depart vnwillyngly out of his life is a burthen vnto mans soule but that doe great riches As doth appeare Sirach xli O death howe bitter is thy memory vnto hym that doth lyue quietly c. Therefore plenty of riches is a burthen vnto mans soule A litle will serue nature Much riches doth in our lyfe tyme disease vs And will at our death trouble vs Therfore as the cloudes poure out their rayne let vs bee frée and dispence them Much riches made Ezechias lay his hart to the. Much riches vndid Salomon and vndid the Church of Rome and in all degrees states are very pestiferous In the nobilitie they haue this effect They worke appetite without measure and as a dropsie mā the more he drinketh the more he may so these men as it is in the 5. of Esay ioyne house to house and lande to lande euen so farre as there is no more ground to purchase In corrupt spirituall and tēporall officers this aboundaunce of money worketh all maner of mischief Salust sayth that a kyngdome is easly preserued by the meanes by the which it is gotten These mē some to take good héede to that saying of Salust for they get their roomes with money and mainteine thē with money The strength of the Eliphante is in hys snoute Of the Bore in his tuske of the Lyon in his pawes of the Dogge in his iawes of the Horse in his hofe of the Bull in his hornes of the Hare in her féete of the Vrchen in his prickes of the Cocke in his spurres of the Ha●ke in her tallentes and of these Magistrats in their money This money is their sacrifice for all their sinnes the Monarche of the world the master of misrule the abater of discipline the smother of wrincled countenaunces The wynges whiche they flye with the legges that they stand vpon the staffe that they leane vpon the buckler that heareth of and the sword that stricketh their glory and their God that holdeth vp their head Though a thousād sinnes enormities cōpasse them on the right hand And ten thousand on the left hand yet vnder the patronage of money they will lay them downe and slepe quyetly I had rather if I were rich bring ten Riuers from Ware to London build vp ten new Exchanges build vp Paules steple many tymes them onely to defray such sommes of money as are swallowed vp in this Realme by the way of corruption O that Magistrates and Ministers should euidently in the sight of the world redeme their sinnes with money O that money so basse and earthly a thing shuld preserue wickednes and conquere honesty wryng and vndoe godly preachers confound learning suppresse godlynesse hurt heauen and do iniury to God hym selfe How much better were it for these men if they be full to do like the cloudes to gowsh and drope out where it nedeth and to cast their almes vppon the face of the earth Also to the commō sort of people aboundaunce of riches is a great burthen Gregory Nazienzen sayth that a great belly cānot enter in at a narrow gate But these men hauing aboundaūce of riches do stroute out their bellyes with eating and drinkyng Therfore riches is a burthen vnto them Agayne it is reported of Naball that when his wife had geuen some of his goods to Dauid his hart was as heauy as a stone So likewise in these Londonners the grief of geuyng away and the feare of losing maketh them some tymes heauyer to bee weyed in a payre of ballaunce their couetous hart and wretched humor maketh thē so heauy To cōclud it maketh sadnes For the yoūg man that was very rich went sade away sayth the Scripture Agayne it maketh quarelling and brabling as betwixt Lot and Abraham And the two brethrē in S. Luke whiche stroue about inheritaunces And commonly in this world it maketh great garboiles And when as they them selues will not bestow it vpon the poore or to good vse Then the commō place will sucke it vp The Kinges bench will suppe it vp and the Chauncery will swallow it vp Therfore do like the cloudes which drope vpon the dry ground Geue accordyng to the necessitie of those that want be plentyfull vnto thy poore and folow the example of the liberall cloudes which let their waters gushe vppon the face of the earth And if there might be reason in an vnreasonable thyng me thinke these cloudes might moue vs vnto liberalitie For how reasonable is this in the cloudes that they bestow their rayne where it needeth that is vppon the drye earth Where it needeth the cloudes are liberall And where it nedeth not I wold not haue you liberall As for example you bestow vpon your bellyes vj. vij or ten dishes your bellyes are filled with much fewer your bellye 's therfore nede it not You haue for your backes chaunge of apparell fewtes many and costely The poore haue none the ayre is their peticotte and they are cōpassed with cold as with a garment your backes neede it not the poore nede it You haue huge quantitie of clothes and silkes aboute your loynes they haue scarce Ieremyes lynnen bréeches aboute their loynes your loynes neede it not their loynes neede it You haue proude and rich chaines about your neckes I doubt in this case obseruyng true charitie howe you can doe it Your neckes nede it not They dye for extreme miserie therfore they nede it Ye Ladies and Gentilwomen ye woare farthingals about your legges your legges are otherwise from the cold warmely inough fenced The legges of the poore are vnclothed yours are to much clothed your legges nede it not their 's nede it Ye Ladyes and