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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07312	The golden art, or The right way of enriching Comprised in ten rules, proued and confirmed by many places of holy Scripture, and illustrated by diuers notable examples of the same. Very profitable for all such persons in citie or countrie, as doe desire to get, increase, conserue, and vse goods with a good conscience. By I.M. Maister in Arts.	Maxwell, James, b. 1581.	1611 (1611)	STC 17700; ESTC S120331	125,557	228

Apostles haue feruent charity among you for charity couereth the multitude of sins Be ye harborous one to another without grudging Let euery man as he hath receiued the gift minister the same one to another Math. 5 42. Luk 6.30.35.36.38 as good disposers of the manifold grace of God Giue vnto him that asketh saith our Sauiour and from him that would borrow of thee turne not away Loue your enemies do good and lend looking for nothing againe and your reward shall be great and ye shall bee the children of the most high for he is kind vnto the vnkind good vnto the euill Be ye therfore mercifull as your father also is mercifull Giue and it shall bee giuen vnto you a good measure pressed downe shaken together and running ouer shall men giue vnto your bosome for with what measure ye mete with the same shal men men mete to you againe Math. 5.7 Math. 10.42 Marke 9.41 Blessed are the merciful for they shal obtain mercy Whosoeuer shall giue vnto one of these little ones to drinke a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple verily I say vnto you hee shall not loose his reward Math. 6 19 20 21 Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth where the Moath and Canker corrupt and where theeues digge through steale but lay vp treasures for your selues in Heauen where neither the Moath nor Canker corrupteth and where theeues neither dig through nor steale for where your treasure is there will your heart be also Sell that ye haue and giue almes Luk. 12.33 14.12.13 14 16.9 make you bagges which waxe not olde a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen Make you friends with the riches of iniquitie that when yee shall want they may receiue you into euerlasting habitations And when thou makest a dinner or a supper call not thy friends nor thy brethren neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors lest they also bid thee again a recompense be made thee But when thou makest a feast call the poore the maymed the lame and the blind and thou shalt be blessed because they cannot recompence thee for thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the iust Matth. 25.34 35 36 40 41 42 43 46. Then shall the King say to them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundations of the world for I was an hungred and ye gaue me meat I thirsted and ye gaue me drink I was a stranger ye lodged me I was naked and ye cloathed mee I was sicke and ye visited mee I was in prison and ye came vnto me verely I say vnto you in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethren ye haue done it to me Then shall hee say vnto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the deuill and his angels for I was an hungred and yee gaue me no meate I thirsted and yee gaue mee no drinke I was naked and yee cloathed mee not I was a stranger and ye lodged me not I was sicke and in prison and yee visited mee not Verely I say vnto you in as much as yee did it not to one of the least of these yee did it not to mee If this be true which the Truth hath both said and saieth he shall say then truely many Christians of this last age in Gods account are accursed and many of the men of these last daies must needs go at the last day into euerlasting fire Euen as many as doe now refuse to feed and refresh to cloth and to lodge to visit to comfort Christ Iesus liuing or rather dying daily amongst vs in the persons of poore needie sicke and comfortlesse men Charitie is growne so cold in these last daies that Christ may well wander through our streets wee will not bring him in hee may stand crying at our doors and starue of hunger cold for fault of food and clothes we will neither fill his bellie nor couer his backe hee may lie sicke and sore in the high way and in the corners of our townes we will not build him an hospitall or if we doe it is so little it can hardly lodge him or hold him neither will wee take the paines to goe see him there to cause minister him medicine to bind vp his wounds to cure his sores and to comfort him in his anguish He may for vs lie in prison with fetters on his feet and yet the mercilesse rich man that hath put him in prison will not proue the deliuerer and set him free nor yet will one or moe rich men prooue the redeemer and pay his debts that he may be set at libertie Yea hee may lie dead at our doores or in the high streets and scarcely will we burie him or if we burie him we will be ashamed to accompany him to the buriall place hee is in his members so abiect and contemptible in our eies Euery man findeth out some one excuse or other to cloake and to couer this his coldnesse of charitie The man that hath much and may giue much almes saith hee hath so much adoe with it for other vses that hee cannot spare any part thereof to releeue the poore Christ in heauen I wot well saith hee hath enough and needeth none of my goods and if he were on earth stood in need I would not stand to bestowe vpon him all that I haue And this may suffice On the other hand the man that hath little and yet not so little but that he might impart a little thereof vnto such as haue lesse then he saith he hath little enough for himselfe So that betweene these two sorts of men haue they much or haue they little Christ can haue nothing at all For both of them pretend that they haue too little for themselues too little meate for their owne bellies and therefore Christ must be hungrie too little drinke for their owne mouthes and therefore Christ must bee thirstie too little cloathing for their owne backes and therefore Christ must goe vncouered except hee be couered with ragges too little money in their purses and therefore Christ must be still in prison vnredeemed Thus then all plead they haue too little no than is found that thinketh he hath much or too much And yet Salomon thought Prou. 30 8 that a man might haue too much when hee prayed vnto the Lord not to giue him too much And truely if the man hath too much burthen on his backe when he doth not onely vnder it bow but also breake and if the ship hath too much loading when not onely shee drinketh the salt sea but also sinketh therein then truely that man hath too much riches when his loue of them confidence in them and care for them make the backe of his soule cracke or make the ship of his

God To the end that the poore being supported by this meanes may bee the more encouraged to celebrate ioyfully the solemne time of our Sauiours birth For what thing is there more vnbeseeming Christianity then for men to spend the dayes of this festiuall time in playing to gather money for themselues and to practise either more couetousnesse or else more vnthriftinesse at this time more then at any other What thing is there I say or can there be more vnbecomming a Christian then not to spend this time in the exercise of piety towards God and of charity towards our neighbour for his sake Shall one Christian be so vnchristianly affected as to turne his playing with his brother into a preying vpon his brother so that his couetousnesse cannot bee quenched till he haue emptied his purse Or shall the Christian play and not shew himselfe a Christian in his playing by imparting the pence hee hath wonne vnto the poore and therefore to shut vp this present discourse as the Apostle exhorteth vs that whether we eate or drinke we doe all to the glory of God so say I of this matter whether wee play for money or lay money for a wager let vs alwaies remember to play and lay like Christian and charitable men and in all our actions let our piety towards God and our charity towards our neighbours appeare VI. Rule A man must not make haste to be rich as being possessed with an immoderate desire and loue of riches miscaried with an excessiue care to purchase or increase wealth But ought rather to bee content with little goods gotten with a good conscience and enioyed with quietnesse of minde then to purchase or possesse much with an euill conscience with strife toile and trouble of spirit Probation and declaration TRauaile not too much to bee rich saith Salomon for riches taketh her to her wings as an Eagle and flyeth into the aire Prouerb 23.4.5 28.20.22 Eccles 31.1.2.5.6 Prouerb 21.5 20.21 and he that maketh haste to bee rich shall not bee innocent A man with a wicked eye hasteth to riches and knoweth not that pouertie shall come vpon him for whosoeuer is hastie commeth surely to pouertie An heritage is hastily gotten at the beginning but the end thereof shall not be blessed 29.20 Seest thou a man hastie in his matters there is more hope of a foole then of him 15.27 He that is greedy of gaine troubleth his owne house and hee that troubleth his owne house shall inherit the winde 11.29 An honest name is to bee chosen aboue great riches 22.1 and a good conscience is a continuall feast 15 15 16 17 Better is a little with the feare of the Lord then great treasures and troubles therwith Better is a dinner of greene hearbes where loue is then a stalled Oxe 28 6 and hatred therewith Better is the poore that walketh in his vprightnesse then hee that peruerteth his waies 17.1 though he be rich Better is a dry morsell if peace bee with it then an house full of sacrifices with strife Ecclesiast 4.6 Ecclesiast 29.24 25. Better is an handfull with quietnesse then two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit Better is a little with righteousnesse then great reuenewes without equity Prouerb 16 8 Tobith 1● 8 Ecclesiast 5.9 He that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer And hee that loueth riches meaning immoderately shall be without the fruit thereof Psal 37.16.17 A small thing vnto the iust man is better then great riches to the wicked and mighty saith the holy Prophet Dauid for the armes of the wicked shall bee broken 39.6 49.16.17 but the Lord vpholdeth the iust man Man walketh in a shadow and disquieteth himselfe in vaine he heapeth vp riches and cannot tell who shall gather them for hee shall take nothing away with him when he dieth neither shall his pompe descend after him Prou. 4 17 23 34. Ecclesiast 5.11 The man who eateth the bread of wickednes and drinketh the wine of violence in his sleepe is as one that sleepeth in the mids of the sea and as hee that sleepeth in the top of the mast yea the satietie of such a rich man will not suffer him to sleepe whereas the man who is content of a little with a good conscience Psal 4.7.8 may well say with godly King Dauid Thou hast giuen mee more ioy of heart then they haue had when their wheate and their wine did abound I will lay me downe Ecclesiast 40 18. 29.25 and also sleepe in peace for thou O Lord wilt make me dwell in safety To labour and to be content with that a man hath is a sweete life saith Siracides Be it little or much let him hold himselfe contented Godlinesse is great gaine saith the holy Apostle Paul if a man be content with that he hath 1 Tim 6.6.7.8.9.10 for we brought nothing into the world and it is certaine that wee can carry nothing out Therefore when wee haue foode and rayment let vs therewith be content For they that will bee rich fall into tentations and snares and into many foolish and noisome lusts which drowne men in perdition and destruction For the desire of money is the roote of all euill which while some lusted after they erred from the faith and pierced themselues through with many sorrowes And in another place he willeth that couetousnes should not be once named amongst Christians Ephes 5.3.5 1. Cor. 6.10 and telleth vs that a couetous man is an idolater and that he shall not inherite the kingdome of God meaning that the couetous mans God is his gold as the gluttons God is his belly The one is well called a belly-god and the other may bee rightly called a pelfe-god or if ye will a gold-god The ones religion is belly-goddisme and Epicurisme Soule eate drinke and take thy rest for thou hast much meate layed vp for many yeares The others religion is little differing but in name from the first and is gold-goddisme Soule take thy rest and be merry for thou hast much money gold layd vp for many yeares As this mans gold is his God so his house is his heauen his bed is his Abrahams bosome his boord is to him the banquet of the Lambe his praying is his playing his misdeeds are all his almesdeedes his fasting is his feasting and his temporall fulnesse is his eternall felicity Marke 4 18.19 Wherefore our Sauiour teacheth vs that the immoderate cares of the world and the deceitfulnesse of riches and the lusts of other things choake the seede of the word sowen by the spirituall Sower and make it vnfruitfull Math. 26.27.28.29.30.31.32.33.34 Luke 21 34. 13.22.29 And therefore hee would haue vs to bee so farre and free from all excesse of care for worldly things that he forbiddeth vs to be grieuously carefull for the