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A21043 A counterpoison against couetousnes in a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, May 23. 1619. By Ier. Dyke minister of Gods word at Epping in Essex. Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. 1619 (1619) STC 7412; ESTC S116229 36,623 67

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patrimony of the Church is exhausted and they that haue enough otherwise will not let go their Church liuings They whose forefathers fed and fatted the rich gluttons of Rome think now the crums that fall vnder their tables too much for the poore Lazarus of the Gospell They must needs haue this one feather in their peacockes taile How should they maintaine that port and pompe in table apparel idle and prodigall expences if this borrowed what if I had said this stolne feather were repayd the Church againe Couetousnesse pluckt this feather and couetousnesse holdeth this feather and telleth couetous Impropriators that it is fitter that Gods Ministers should want maintenance then that their horse heeles should want litter To all such persons may that be spoken innocently which the vnprofitable seruant to his maister spake wickedly Maister I knew that thou wert an hard man and reapedst where thou sowedst not Is not this the case of Impropriators Are they not hard men that reape where they sow not If we sow spirituall things what right what reason hath Couetousnesse to thrust her sickle into our haruest and to reape our temporall things The world is wondrous busie about the disquisition of the tenure of Tithes by what right they are due and many are cunninger in this then in the maine fundamentall articles of their religion but neuerthelesse in the meane time there is a more necessarie Quaere forgotten to wit by what right Impropriators detaine Church maintenance Let that case be canuased in the Court of conscience and if God shall there determine on their sides we haue done much good do it them I know I do but beate the ayre but yet Israel must know his transgressions and Iaacob his iniquities and couetous ones heare of their impropriations There is also another sort of sacriledge in the close purloyning and filching ministeriall dues which couetousnesse hath taught false fingers to vse The Pharises are taxed in the Gospell for couetousnesse and yet it were happy the world had but the Pharises honestie Except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall not enter into the kingdome of God Alas how many thinke to go to heauen that yet come farre short of a Pharisees righteousnesse Luk. 18. 12. I saith the Pharisee pay tithe of all that euer I possesse In which speech I should haue feared he had lied had not our Sauiour elsewhere acknowledged so much of their precisenesse in tithing euen vnto mint and cummin The couetousnesse of the Pharisees was an honest couetousnes vnto the Church-robbing and Church-pilling couetousnesse of our dayes 7. It were endlesse to follow couetousnesse into euery shop and profession therefore last of all All of all sorts one and another high and low rich and poore old and yong take heed and beware of couetousnesse Take heed of it in your mutuall dealings in buying and selling abuse no mans simplicitie abuse no mans credulitie take not the aduantage of any mans necessitie but remember the speech of an heathen Gen. 23. 15. The land is worth foure hundred shekels of siluer Take no more for a commoditie then it is worth VVe vse to say in another case Caueat emptor let the buyer beware but here I say caueat venditor let the seller beware and take heed of couetousnesse Take heed of false ballances of a weight and a weight Prou. 20. 10 of a weight for the hall and a weight for the stall of a weight to sell with and a weight to seale with of a weight to sell with and a weight to buy with Let no man go beyond his brother 1. Thess 4. 6. with swearing protesting and with termes of kindnes for God is the auenger of all these things Euery trade is called a mystery It were to be wished that in euery mystery there were not a mystery of iniquitie found out and practised by the iniquitie of couetousnesse It were a shame to send Christians to schoole to learne honest dealing of Turks and yet they boast that we are a fourme beneath them for honest and square dealing I will rather send you to that rule of nature and equitie the doctrine of the Law and the Prophets Math. 7. 12. Whatsoeuer ye would that men should do to you euen so do ye to them Buy a● ye would sell sell as ye would buy and in all you dealings take heed and beware of couetousnesse A● you loue God and would be loath to breake his holy commandements and as you feare God and would be loath to suffer his heauy iudgements the curse of God vpon your bodies the curse of God vpon your goods the curse of God vpon the fruite of your loynes the curse of his euerlasting vengeance vpon your soules so Take heed and beware of couetousnesse FINIS