Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	pay_v	rent_n	tenant_n	2,576	5	9.7256	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14996	A caveat for the couetous. Or, A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, vpon the fourth of December, out of Luke. 12. 15. By William Whatelie, preacher of the word of God, in Banbury; Caveat for the covetous.	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1609 (1609)	STC 25300.5; ESTC S105709	57,700	142

but that the sweetnes of gain makes him ready to giue welcome to the blackest fiend of hel that shal come with a ful purse and a lauish hand to mispend the same Now these or all or any of these if any trades-man present vse be it known to him without doubting that they shall all stand vp to his cōdemnation in the presence of God and cry out vpon him saying Thou dost entertain this couetousnes that Christ forbids thou art the couetous man so much condemned in the word of God whose soule cannot be saued if it so continue And now must I go on to speak of those euilsin land-lords 4. Land-lords as that hauing much themselues set or let grounds or liuings or houses which doe proclaime the soueraignetie dominion of couetousnesse in them The first is to racke Rents 1. To rack rents and exact immoderate and excessiue fines I meane not the requiring of more rents than haue beene accustomed in former times to bee paid for it is doubtlesse lawful to improue land but I meane lifting them to such an high vnreasonable rate that the tenant shall not liue any thing comfortably therby but in extremitie of toyle and want being forced eyther to vse vnlawfull shifts base niggardice or else to dash himselfe vpon the rocke of penury and need This is to grinde the faces of the poore and it is that sin of oppression so much spoken against in men of this place by Gods word Now if any man ask what rule may be set downe out of Scripture as a sure direction for the prices in such cases I answere let him set himselfe in the Tenants place what he would then giue voluntarily not vpon constraint and extremity all things laide together according to the quantitie of the thing that and no more than that must he take not suffer himself to be transported by the sweet tongue of euery flattering seruant and vnsatiable desire of getting money to fling away vpon his pleasures or else augmenting the reuenues for the next heyre He that will not make himselfe a patern of his dealing to others is condemned by his conscience to deale not righteously The second fault of Land-lords is to burden and lade their tenants with carriages like seruices more then was agreed vpon in the couenant betwixt them 2. To burden the tenant with carriages c. more then condition without paying him for it as an other man will do As for example to carry stone and timber for his building to plow land to inne hay and corne to fetch fewel or fire-wood to remoue houshold stuffe and all this gratis The Land-lord may not challenge this priuiledge ouer the Tenant to make him work for nothing where he is not tyed by the condition of his lease nay nor then neither if it be vnreasonable and tend to his vndoing For this the Prophet Ieremie durst condemne in a King and therefore I need not feare to condemne it in a landlord of what place soeuer For so saith he of the King of Iudah Iehoachim sonne of Ioshuah Ier. 22.13 Woe to him that builds his house by vnrighteousnesse and his chambers without equitie and wherein stood this lacke of equitie he vseth his neighbour or makes him setue without wages and giues him not for his worke You see this sharply reprehended by the Prophet long agoe as voide of equitie that no man may diride it as a toy of our owne head A third vniustice among Land-lords is by fraud or might to depriue the tenants of any part of their duties as of some greene or common or wood or such like that appertaineth vnto them this is that which the Prophet condemnes by the name of coueting a field and taking it by force Now these courses specified or any of the like kind if any Land-lord present accustome himselfe vnto be it plainely spoken vnto him also that these his actions shall make appearance and giue in euidence against him before the great Iudge ringing this grieuous out-cry in his eares and saying Thine heart hath lodged the forbidden sinne of couetousnesse thou also art that couetous man that so continuing cannot be saued Now we come in the last place to set forth the lewd practises that are common to all men without respect of their seuerall places and these are foure First 1. Promise breaking to make deceitfull promises or to breake promises and couenants When a man lookes to his profit more than to his truth or honestie and therefore will make his bargaine or promise in such slippery or doubtfull words or manner that still he will find some euasion to pull out his owne necke when hee hath made another to serue his turne as by pleading that hee meant not so or so or that such and such a thing should be vnderstood or that he hath forgot it or such like albeit he had wit enough to expresse his meaning fully and plainely if he had would and needed not to haue reserued something for after-claps Yea and hath sufficient memorie if hee had sufficient honestie to beare it in minde too but chiefly when he will come to a plaine refusall being destitute of all shifts and excuses this is monstrous vniustice which the blind light of nature can see well enough and challenge For an honest man much more a Christian should stand to his lawfull word though to his owne hinderance that according to the true meaning and intent expressed in his promise and vnderstood by the party to whom it was made 2. Vsurie A second notorious vniustice is vsury When a man makes a gaine of lending and binds the party borrowing without consideration of his gaines or losses to repay the principall with aduantage For whereas there be three sorts of men that vse to borrow either poore men whom necessitie driues to it or vnthrifts whome prodigalitie driues to it or sufficient men that hope to make a commoditie of it It is apparant by the confession euen of those that would seeme to say somewhat for this vsurie as if it were not a sinne simply that it is wicked to lend on vse to the poore needy borrower Deut. 15.7.8.9 for God hath flatly commaunded to lend vnto him freely and for the vnthrift it is also certaine that hee should not be lent to at all for that is to feede his issue with ill humours and to put a sword into his hand wherewith to destroy himselfe and thus the vsurers most accustomed and greatest gaines are cut off Now for the third kind of men of them to exact gaine vnconditionably not respecting their loosing or getting is altogether against the law of charitie and equitie both For the light of nature will not suffer any to deny this principall of equitie that he which will haue part in weale must also haue part in woes and hee that will diuide the sweet must also diuide the sower hee that will take of the good