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A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

A PLAINE DISCOuerie of ten English Lepers verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth Setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues Published by THOMAS TIMME Minister LONDON Printed by Peter Short dwelling vpon Bredstreet hill neere the end of old Fishstreet at the signe of the Starre 1592. To the right honourable his singular good Lorde Sir William Brooke knight Baron of Cobham Lord warden of the cinque ports knight of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell Thomas Timme his humble seruant wisheth long life and eternall felicitie in Christ Iesus THe woondring Queene of Sheba right Honorable presented the most wise Salomon with the golde of Ophyr richest gifts of the land The Samnites brought with them a greate mass of treasure for the noble Romane Marcus Crassus Howe preposterous then may I seeme which presume to bring into your honourable presence Lernam malorum as it were a lazary of Leapers Pardon right Honourable my rudenesse herein and take it well in woorth though it may of some be reputed Calabrihospitis munus a trifling gift Things which haue a base and rude forme not bombasted to please the fantasie somtimes affoord more profit then is expected Happily this home-spunne webbe may be profitable to manie and therein acceptable to your Honour a principall piller of common wealth For as the soule is much more excellent then the bodie so whatsoeuer tendeth to the good thereof is farre more precious then golde and to be preferred before all bodily and earthly treasure But a secret and hidden maladie such as is sinne the sickenesse of the soule the decay of men the ouerthrow of Nations and the ruine of the whole worlde can neuer be well cured and reformed except first discouered For which cause ten capitall sinnes are in this Catalogue detected being as forcible to bring this noble Realme of England to thraule as Iosephs ten brethren were to sell him into the captiuitie of Aegypt in the which men in this age are gone backeward from God ten degrees further then the shadow of Ahaz diall out of course 2. Sam. 20.3 so as if they doe not spedily repent and sequester these ten as Dauid did his ten polluted concubines they will be vnto vs as ten women Leui. 26.26 that shall bake our bread in the ouen of scarcitie and deliuer the same to vs by waight And at the last God will say vnto vs Num. 14.22 as he said to the Israelites This people that haue tempted me with these ten temptations shal not see the land of promise Therfore right Honourable as Aesculapius temple in the city Epidaurium in Grece was to all maner diseased persons which resorted thither a meane to recouer desired health such medicines as would cure their maladics being there reuealed vnto them so the generall good which I wish all to find in the discouerie of these ten so cōmon euils that not so fewe as ten righteous persons for the which God would hauespared Sodom and Gomorrah might bee found among vs hath moued me though after a plaine and rude sort to publish the same For as of ten tribes one remained still to the house of Dauid and of ten Lepers one became a faithfull conuert and of ten virgins fiue were wise and waited for the comming of Christ so in this euil generation God will I doubt not reserue to him selfe a remnant which shall keepe themselues and their garments vnspotted of the world Further your honourable vertues shadowed with no cloudes of vice and of your wisdome correspondent to your place hath mooued me to present this to your Lordships hands yet not without feare to aduenture so base a gift to so worthie a personage But the late experience of your honourable courtesie hath imboldened me to make it a messenger of my dutie and vnfained loue towards you May it please your honour to accept it I cannot but reuerently acknowledge that it proceedeth more of your noble minde then of the worthinesse of the gift and in regard thereof holde my selfe so much the more bounde in all Christian dutie to your honour during life Thus beseeching almightie God to blesse your Honour I wish to the world the loue of God the father an vniuer sall peace at the last to his militant Church confusion of all hypocrites and to all his chosen people euerlasting life in the kingdome of heauen Amen Your Honours most humble seruant Thomas Timme The Contents of this Booke THe first Leper is the Schismatique The seconde Leper is the Church-robber The third Leper is the Simoniac The fourth Leper is the Hypocrite The fift Leper is the proud man The sixt Leper is the Glutton The seuenth Leper is the Adulterer or Fornicator The eight Leper is the Couetous man The ninth Leper is the Murtherer The tenth Leper is the Murmurer The first Leper is the Schismatique ELephantiasis or Leprosie is a disease venemous and full of poyson proceeding of Melancholie and corrupt blood inuading all the inwarde and outward parts of the whole bodie making it foule and filthie insomuch that the breath of the Leper is very contagious and infectious for the which cause it hath euer inforced a separation of such from all companie Euen so the Leprosie of sinne wherein we are borne and conceyued cleaueth so fast to our bones and is so fixed in our heart infecting all our powers and spirits that our vnderstanding cannot comprehend those things which belong to the spirit of God our wil abhorreth diuine and heauenly things and finally the whole man is set on fire with vncleane desires and most filthie cogitations And this contagion is so vehement throughout the whole life of man and doth in such wise shew foorth it selfe in all actions though they seeme to be honest that as they offend the maiestie of God so they giue occasion of sinning to others and one infecteth another by their euill example in so much as were it not for the vnspeakable mercie and great goodnesse of God which is our support and stay we must needs be excluded from his presence and Church and so perish for euer And because a Leprosie is not as euerie light disease but a fearefull lothsome contagious and separatiue maladie as is said it may aptly at this time represent not onely all sinners generally but also certaine capitall and notorious sinners whom I haue tearmed English Lepers for that they haue infected many thousands in this Christian Church and common wealth of England and will in time if the greater care be not had of the daunger that may ensue vtterly destroy the whole bodie of the same In the first place therefore as one of the most noysome I haue set the Schismatique and sedicious whose malecontent humor first of all brought the corporall leprosie vppon the Iewes as is to be seene Num. 12. Now because al actions are commonly knowne by

againe and then he may imagine with himselfe which was greater either the ioy in getting or the sorrow in forgoing that wherein they so much delighted Where are nowe all those Emperours those kings those princes and prelates which reioiced so much once at their owne aduancement Where are they now I say who thinketh or talketh of them Are they not forgotten and cast into the graue long ago And do not men boldly walke ouer their heads now whose faces might not be looked on wihout feare in this world What then haue their dignities done them good Honour then is like a mans owne shadow which the more he runneth after the more it flieth and when he flieth from it it followeth him againe and the onely way to catch it is to fall downe vpon the ground vpon it So we see that those men which desired honour in this world are now forgotten and those which fled from it and cast themselues lowest of all men by humilitie are now most of all honoured honoured I say most by the world it selfe whose enemies they were while they liued For who is honoured more nowe who is more commended then the Apostles of Christ who somuch despised worldly honour in this life Most vaine then is the pursute of this worldly honor and promotion seeing it neither contenteth the minde nor continueth with the possessor nor is voide of great daungers both in this life and in the life to come But now to speake of the brauerie of pride Pride and of her vaine companie Ye shall vnderstand that Pride as is sayd afore is neuer alone but accompanied with many vices being the roote of all euill and the Queene of all wickednes and to speake plainely shee is the beginning the ende and the cause of all sinnes When Pride hath gotten the vpper hand and rule of any man or woman shee will not easily forsake her vassall but will holde and keepe them euen as kings doe those castels which they haue once conquered and woonne Eccle. 10. Isai 51. But why is earth and ashes proude Let the proude man looke to the rocke out of the which he was cut and to the pit whence hee was digged If proude persons would consider their beginning and their ende and if they would continually haue the same before there eyes they should not so exceedingly sinne in pride as they doe at this day Was there euer any age from the first beginning of the world so far ouergrowne in pride as this our age I am well assured no. Is there any nation at this day vpon the face of the earth comparable to vs in this abhominable sinne of pride Our excesse in apparell will say no wherein both men and women of all estates and degrees from the hiest to the lowest euen from the Courtier to the Carter doe monstrously offend Seruants are in their apparell more costlie then many maisters and dames yeomen and yeomens sonnes are herein equall with gentlemen of good worship poore and meane Gentlemen compare with Lords Lords with Kings and Ladies with Queenes What will become hereof at the last Where is nowe that moderation in apparell which was vsed in king William Rufus dayes who as Chronicles record being exceeding sumptuous in his apparell and hauing a paire of breeches in a morning brought vnto him by his chamberlaine hee demaunded what they cost The chamberlaine answered that they cost three shillings Wherewith the king being wroth said Away begger that thou art bring me a paire that cost a Marke Then the chamberlaine brought vnto the King a paire which cost much lesse then a Mark making the King notwithstanding beleeue that they were of such price as he desired wherewith the king was well pleased But such is the pride of men in these dayes that euery base seruing man will disdaine that now which king William in his excesse then was highly pleased to weare A wonderfull alteration in a few generations Pride in a king is a great offence in the sight of God but in a poore man it is one of the three things which God most extreemly hateth Si vix tolleretur diues superbus saith Saint Augustine pauperem superbum quis ferat If a proud rich man be scarely tollerable who can endure a poore man proude do we not see that manie things of great price as veluet sattin gold and siluer lace fine cambricke and such like costly things are now worne of very meane persons against the law of God and man against al common wealth and contrary to all good example of our forefathers which things rather belong to princes and to peeres of the lande then to meane subiects As men and women exceed in the substance of apparrell so also in the forme they daily shewe forth theyr abhominable pride in their inconstancie For no colour forme or fashion long contenteth them We one while imitate the Spaniard another while the French one while the Italian another while the Dutch Euery nation is a seuerall patterne for vs. We are like vnto Camlepardus who beeing but one beast representeth the figure and shape of many And to the Chamelion which changeth into euery colour laide before him Let these proude peacocks remember to what end apparrel was appointed by God at the first verily for a couering to hide our shame Gen. 2. Whoso then is proude of apparrell giuen to this end is as if a theefe should be proud of his halter which the prince giueth him to weare in rememberance of his pardon Diogenes seeing a man to haue a great pride in his clothes sayd vnto hym be not so proude man a shepe wore that cote before thee What vanitie is it then for vs to be so curious in apparrell and to take such pride therein as we do We rob and spoile all creatures almost of the world to couer our backes and to adorne our bodies withal From some we take their wooll from many their skins frō diuers theyr furres from sundrie their verie excrements as the silke which is nothing else but the verie excrement of the wormes Not cōtent with this we come to fishes do beg of them certaine pearles to hang about vs we go down into the ground for golde and siluer and turne vp the sands of the sea for precious stones And hauing borrowed all this of other creatures we iet vp and downe prouoking men to looke vppon vs as if all this now were our owne When the stone shineth vpon our finger we will seeme forsooth thereby to shine When the siluer and silkes doe glister on our backes we looke bigge as if all that beautie came from vs. It is reported of that holie father Athanasius that when hee sawe a woman apparelling and decking of herselfe in prowde attire with gorgeous array hee wept and beeing demaunded of the cause why hee did so because sayth he all this preparation is for her owne destruction And one Pambus in the like action made the same answere at an