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A15369	The debt book: or, A treatise vpon Romans 13. ver. 8 Wherein is handled: the ciuill debt of money or goods, and vnder it the mixt debt, as occasion is offered. Also, the sacred debt of loue. By Henry Wilkinson, Bachelor in Diuinity, and pastor of Wadesdon in Buckinghamshire.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1566-1647.	1625 (1625)	STC 25646; ESTC S114431	56,271	156

in euery commandement It is the * Col. 3. 14. bond of perfection quo omnia hominum inter se officia continentur coherent wherein all the duties which passe betweene men are comprehended and combined As faith is the bond of our vnion with Christ so is loue of our communion with our brethren the members of Christ in which two consists the perfection of the mysticall bodie It is called here the fulfilling of the Lawe both in this verse and in the tenth because qui diligit non vnum aliquod praeceptum obijt sed in genere praestitit quod lex iubet he that loueth obserueth not some one precept but performeth in generall what the Law inioineth but of this in the next place 4. Fourthly where loue is not the life of man is like a perpetuall tempest here rushing and there blustering here beating and there bearing downe all before it without this wee still doe liue in the gall of bitternesse and bond of iniquitie where this failes mischief comes in place thereof dissentions discords and such curses as accompany them Non euenissent Cyprian Ep. 8. fratribus haec mala si in vnum fraternitas fuisset animata Such euills had not befallen the brethren if the brotherhood had held together in one mind Let vs therefore nourish this precious charity in our hearts in obedience and true conformity vnto Christ as also for the worthinesse of the grace it selfe and for our owne refreshing and consolation in our pilgrimage here on earth CHAP. 13. Of the diuersities of loue and of the nature of Christian religious loue towards one another BVT that ye loue one another We haue a rule euen in moral discipline that the prayse of vertue consisteth in action This is as true of loue as of any other whatsoeuer * 1. Cor. 13. 13. in this preferred before faith and hope not simply but because it is diffusiue of it selfe to the vse of others whereas these are confined to the person of the beleeuer Wee haue also another rule that whatsoeuer wee would that men should doe vnto vs euen so should we do to them for this is the Law and the Prophets Mat. 7. 12. But wee desire that men should loue vs and accommodate themselues to our seruice therefore it is a naturall and a perpetuall debt to do the like vnto them Now that loue may be diffusiue of it selfe in precious streams and operatiue with approbation of God and of man let vs choose out among the seuerall kinds of loue 1. the most excellent in nature 2. the best esteem'd in quality 3. the most beneficial in the operations fruits of it For the first wee must obserue that there are diuerse kinds of loue as naturall affection whereby wee loue our Parents Children and Kindred Hee that hath not this is worse then brutish euen beasts cherish and suckle their young ones This though a Christian cannot want yet a reprobate may haue There is a ciuil loue the obligation whereof is domesticall or politicall societie Meere naturall men yeeld this for mutuall commodity and consolation There is a morall loue consisting in an exact compensation of affection with affection of benefite with benefite which falls short indeed of that loue which here we seeke as our Sauiour shewes Mat. 5. 46. 47. It may be in vnregenerate men yet it is a great furtherance to the producing and preseruing of the charity whereof we speake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nazian Nothing so auaileable vnto loue as compensation of affection which is expressed by mutuall offices Vis vt ameris ama Wilt thou be beloued then do thou loue Lastly there is a christian religious loue which is a sanctified affection wherby our hearts are ioyned either to our brethren in the faith in contemplation of Gods image in them shining in an eminency of Graces or in respect of the common hope of our calling declared by outward profession or else whereby we wish and doe good to our enemies in obedience to him who hath commanded vs so to doe There is not any kinde of these loues aboue mentioned but it is a debt and so is this christian religious loue also and must be duely paied First in respect of the communion of Saints there is one body one spirit one hope of our calling one lord one faith one baptisme one God and father of all Eph. 4. 4 5 6. If a * Eccle. 4. 12 three-fold cord bee not easily broken how much lesse this of loue in such a concurrence of inuincible obligations It must also be paied as an homage to God who will take no notice of our loue to him vnlesse we loue our neighbour Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe I am the Lord Leuit. 19. 18. as also 1 Ioh. 4. 20. Hee that saith hee loueth God and hateth his brother is a lyar Who so loueth not his brother whom he hath seene how can hee loue God whom bee hath not seene Thirdly it must bee paid in regard of mutuall offices and duties as of tender affections and earnest prayers for one another the intercourse whereof cannot be stopped among Christians Maior est fraternitas Christi quàm sanguinis Brotherhood in Christ is stronger then in blood If kinne will creepe where it cannot goe christian charity cannot chuse but be diffusiue of it selfe from the highest to the lowest * Psal 133. 2. 3. As the precious ointment from the head of Aaron to his beard and to the skirts of his garment as the dew of Hermon vpon the hill of Zion so this loue imparts it selfe by a co-operation of Gods spirit to the comfort and refreshing of high and low pertaining to the couenant Moreouer as in ciuill debts so also in sacred the paiment must be currant It is not the loue of brethren in euill bee it neuer so strong that will serue the turne such concord is a conspiracy as in * Gen. 34 25. Simeon and Leui in the outrage vpon the Shechemites It is not the doting of * Iudg. 16. 4. c. Num. 25. 15. Samson vpon Dalilah or of Zimry vpon Cosby be the men neuer so great that will serue the turne this is but carnall lust The currant loue which beares the stampe of the Sanctuarie must bee deriued * 1. Tim. 1. 5. from a pure heart a good conscience an vnfaigned faith this is the right myne out of which it must be taken And in this respect the christian loue doth as much surmount all carnall loues as gold or siluer doth copper or lead which makes mee wonder why we should bee so ambitious of the friendship and countenance of men notoriously sinfull seeing how much soeuer they are beloued of vs yet they can but giue vs drosse for gold chaffe for wheat True christian loue indeed as it is a noble heroicall grace so can it not proceed but from a sanctified originall CHAP. 14. The qualities of religious Loue. AS is

must deale truely and worthily both with the dead and with the liuing For as the counterfetting and forging Lege Corn. de falsis of a false Will was punishable anciently in some cases by death in some by banishment and publication of goods so the suppressing of a true will by not publishing or not performing it to those whom it doth concerne is a sinne and an iniquity not much inferior to the other the one iustifies a dangerous lye the other conceales a necessary truth not without periury perhaps in both It was sometimes Dauids complaint Defecerunt veraces Psal 12. 1. a filiis hominum The trustie are failed frō among the sons of men The complaint is still iust in this particular as much as in any I am perswaded very few Wills are executed by the common sort of men in estates of any value without some notable fraud partly by alledging when paiments should be made defect in the state and partly by concealing legacies from those who cannot demand them out of ignorance of the Will to whom I say that so long as wrong reckoning is no paiment that the debt remaineth in the sight of God how euer it bee crossed out of their accounts They shall also finde that * Luk. 16. 11. for being vnfaithfull in the dispensation of earthly talents they shall neuer bee trusted with the true treasure It may also one day be their owne case that as they haue cancelled and made void the Will of the dead by deteining debts and legacies from the right owners so by the iust iudgment of God the like * Mat. 7. 2. measure may be meated to their widowes and fatherlesse children by those whom they shall vnworthily put in trust wee may not thinke an account discharged when a fraud and a deceit is cunningly contriued A debt cannot bee paid but by reall satisfaction without which the obligation remaineth in full strength and force vpon the conscience whereof an honest heart cannot but bee tenderly sensible And therefore I am not of Cyprians minde who tooke order Ne quis Clericum tutorem Cyp. Epist 66. aut curatorem testamento constitueret That none should appoint a Clergie man Guardian or Executor by Will lest hee should bee molested with the affaires of this life I rather thinke that men should bee chosen out of all vocations and callings whatsoeuer of most vnstained conuersation and conscience most alienated from couetousnesse least intangled in worldlinesse for the dispensation of our estate to whom it is intended Before I leaue this point let mee ad one caueat to Parents and Testators not to charge their Wills with that which their state cannot discharge for this is the way either to haue nothing done at all or to expose their executors or successors to perpetuall suites and clamours A man were better sell all that he can spare and pay his owne debts himselfe then out of an ambitious humour of leauing so much in lands to his Heire lay withall vpon him such a masse of debts legacies as shall mancipate him to the ineuitable yoake of the Vsurer till hee can redeeme himselfe by selling what is most precious in his patrimonie which when one is compelled to doe let him then consider whether the great possessions which came to him by inheritance were not partly the spoile of the Church the prey of the poore and the fruits of oppression which like Aurum Tolosanum the gold of Tolosa Aul. Gel. lib. 3. makes euery hand vnfortunate into which it comes let him also well consider whether the intollerable masse of debt be not that vnmoueable yoake spoken of by Micah and threatned to them Micha 2. 2. 3. who couet fields and take them by force who roote out men and their families threatned I say to them and their posterity Let them lastly consider whether a small thing to the righteous man be not Psal 37. 16. better then great riches to the wicked and mighty howeuer some of them florish till the measure of their iniquity be at the full Thus of the first kinde of debts imposed by others the next are Legal CHAP. 4. Of Legall debts and first to the Magistrate THE debts imposed by humane laws and ordinances are of diuers sorts as Subsidies Fifteenes Tenths Oblations and other pensions to the Church or to the Common wealth in peace or in warre These are common burdens which euery man in his place must necessarily beare as a member of a politicke body and readily for auoiding offence and molestation iustly ensuing vpon neglect These fall due either to the Magistrate specially to the Kings Maiestie or to the Minister or to the Poore In all these I know there is a morall right and so they may be called morall debts in respect of the common ground of diuine or naturall iustice But we call them legall debts Secundum regulam legis determinantis in respect of the Law determining thus much to such a man of such a calling at Aquin. prima secundae quest 99. art 5. such a time it 's Aquinas his distinction The ground of such debts as come to the Magistrate is from divine Authority though for the manner and measure of them determinable by law For if the Magistrate be Gods Minister so is hee Rom. 13. 4. 6. called both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if for our wealth if for the punishment of euill doers and praise of them that doe well if hee labour and attend continually vpon this thing is there not an equity manifest to the conscience that such a workman so ordained of God for so excellent a seruice should haue his reward Or doth not the Apostle conclude inuincibly For this cause pay wee tribute Rom. 13. 6. and Ver. 7. pay therefore tribute custome feare honour to whom they are due Ministers of Peace and Iustice as they should not consume their inferiours for so the remedie will be worse then the disease so should they not be constrained to spend vpon the stocke to wast their owne estate further then as members of eminent ability should beare a burden for the common good proportionable to their strength But Magistrates ought to haue Tributes and Pensions of their inferiours as pledges of subiection as recompences of seruice and as meanes to defray expences for the publike good euen equity and necessity requires all this Now because in Monarchies the perfection of earthly gouernments and types of the heauenly the King is supreame Gouernour not onely ouer all persons but in all causes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuil to see them done and managed according to Gods will by Officers qualified with gifts and callings requisite for such matters And seeing these Officers of eminent place and trust at home and abroad are imployed immediatly by the Kings Maiestie and consequently maintained by him that sets them on worke hereupon it is that by vertue of some lawes perpetually in force and by