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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01090	Plouto-mastix: the scourge of covetousnesse: or, An apologie for the publike good, against privacie A sermon preached at the assises in Deuon, at the command of the Lord Byshop of Exon, anno, 1630. By Thomas Foster, Master of Arts and rector of Farway.	Foster, Thomas, b. 1590 or 91.	1631 (1631)	STC 11202; ESTC S102538	20,928	34

ΠΛΟΥΤΟ-ΜΑΣΤΙΞ THE SCOVRGE OF Covetousnesse OR An Apologie for the Publike Good against Privacie A Sermon Preached at the Assises in Devon at the Command of the Lord Byshop of Exon Anno 1630. BY THOMAS FOSTER Master of Arts and Rector of Farway Avaro nihil Scelestius Eccles 10. 9. Bonum quò Communius eò melius Ethic. lib. 1. LONDON Printed by B. ALSOP and T. FAVVCET for Michaell Sparke the younger and are to be sold at the Blew-Bible in Greene Arbor 1631. TO THE RIGHT honble Sr. THOMAS RICHARDSON Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Majesties Common Pleas And Sir IOHN DENHAM one of his Majesties Barons of the Exchequer All Health and Happinesse here and hereafter Right Honourable I Will not say Importunity of friends hath prest this Sermon to the Presse that 's a Common Plea and implies a Tacit Commendation of the owne worke which is not so commendable it beeing as great Wisdome in our sufficiency not to know our selves as in our Wants to know our selues But I may boldly avouch Ambition has no hand in the Impression For had I beene that way affected I have had time enough to be a foole in print as well as some others long ere now Scribimus indocti doctique But I have ever beene as desirous to Suppresse my Labours in this kinde as others to Presse theirs The truth is the reason why I have ventur'd to come on the Publike stage and to make my Meditations Legible is To see whether I can finde more Charitable Readers of my Well-meant Endeavours then I had some Hearers whose unhappy Misprision making themselves occasionally guilty would have made me guilty of that I neyther spake nor meant of that which I hate A personall Invective Whereas it may appeare upon ingenuous perusall neither the Person nor the Place but the too-well knowne Offence Negligence of some persons in those Places is inveighed against I can truely say with Saint Ierome-Nullum loesi nullius nomen mea Scriptura designatum est Neminem specialiter meus sermo pulsavit ad Nepot And the Poet tels me I take it discreetly Licuit semperque licebit -Parcere personis dicere de vitijs Whosoever takes offence at this it is Scandalum acceptum indeed and I suppose he is no Competent Auditor For if guilty Consciences who are Parties should be admitted Iudges of Divine Reprehension the Pulpit should bee counted a Pasquil every admonition thence how discreetly-zealous soever an invective Defamation Guilty Consciences are like the Elephant which being conscious of his owne Deformity cannot abide to see his Face in the cleare Springs but seekes for troubled and muddy Chanels to drinke in So they knowing their soules to be so filthy that they dare not view them in the cleare waters of Truth and Sincere Admonition flee to the troubled Chanels of Cavillation and Contradiction Arbitror te veritate superatum ad detractionem vitae meae et maledicta converti saith Ierome Contra Helvid But Qui volens detrahit famae meae nolens addit mercedi saith August Cont. Petil. lib. 3. cap. 7. And thus Quandiu aegri indignantur whiles men are sicke of Impenitencie they are Impatient of reproofe Sed sanati gratulantur but being cur'd by Repentance they shake hands with the Monitor and thanke him saith August Ad Fest Epist 166. Then they will acknowledge 'T is better once smart then ever ake And so a Galling truth shall have more thankes at the last than a smoothing Supparasitation Hee that rebuketh a man shall finde more favour at the length than hee that flattereth with his tongue Prov. 28. 23. But hee that can now play with his Euphemismes and Eulogium's and cry Pax pax when there is no peace makes the best musicke in the eares of this secure Age. He that bids the wicked AHABS Goe vp to Ramoth Gilead and prosper 1. King 22. 12. is now the best Politician Hee that that can Dawbe with vntempered morter is counted the best Architect of Soules This they call Good temper Mildnesse Discretion This is the way they say to sleepe in whole skinne to rise to Preferment Obsequium amicos veritas odium Such preferment God send them who love the praise of Men more than the praise of GOD. And whether it be right in the sight of God to obey men rather than God iudge yee But what shall I say Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata Libelli As Bookes so Sermons have their Credit or discredit from the fancy of their Readers or Hearers And it is ever an easier matter to Dislike than to Doe the like Facilia sic putant omnes quae iam facta nec de salebris cogitant vbi via strata Lips If you come to an Inne in Germany and dislike your fare dyet lodging the Dutch Host tels you in a surly tone Aliud tibi quaeras diversorium Erasm Dial. Such is my resolution who likes not this may reade some other thing My Lords I have not without Cause Inscrib'd this Sermon unto your Names First it was Preach'd in the great Assembly whereof your selves were a Principall part Secondly Preach'd on that Subiect wherein your Places have a Principall interest The Common Good of Church and Common-weale A Subiect as necessary for those Times as the Times are Subiect to Necessity Private ends having brought the Publike Good almost to it 's End and Hungry Coveteousnesse like PHARAOH's leane kine devour'd this fat and flourishing Common-weale To you therefore as being Patres Patriae and Ecclesiae Patroni this Weake but Well-meant Labour of mine flees for Patrociny and protection I shall make it my humble Suite that you will be pleas'd to entertaine it as DAVID lame MEPHI●OSHETH for his Father IONATHAN's sake Lame it is in both feet Lame in the Birth by vnskilfull handling lame in the Nursing by uncharitable scanning yet entertaine it for it's fathers sake Your Country's sake whose Love begat it I remember that Apologue in the Talmud the grapes in Babel sent upon a time to the Vine-leaves in Iudaea desiring them to come and over-shadow them otherwise the heat would consume them and so they should never come to Maturity Your Lordships may easily guesse at the Mythology If Learning be not sheltred by those who are in Eminent place and if they cast not their Shadow over it it will soone perish But where they favour it it prospers If the Spring bee cold the Plants Herbes and Blossomes are nipt and wither But where the Influence is seasonable there all things reviue thrive flourish So where Great Persons are averse from Learning the Spirits which would otherwise blossome doe wither and decay But when it is upholden by men of Higher place it is like a Fountaine of Living Water For my part I cannot praise my Present otherwise then by the Truth of that heart from which it proceeds which shall bee Ambitious of all occasions that may testifie a Gratefull acknowledgement of your Lordships undeserved favours and wherewith