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A78010	Advice, sent in a letter from an elder brother, to a younger. Which he missed of by being abscent, since occasionally printed, it relating to remedying and reforming severall abuses in the Common Wealth, by severall practisers pretending equitie and conscience in the High Court of Chancery, and that unsetled, irregular unlimmited Court of Probates, who also act against the law of God, and the law of England, as in the reading thereof may be observed and bewayled, and it is hoped, may be of publick concernment, and profit; wherefore the author hath been at this charge of printing it.	Burt, Nathaniel, fl. 1644-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing B6140; Thomason E838_8; ESTC R207429	31,328	44

time to the utmost of their and either of their knowledge make full and cleer discovery and Declaration of the said Estate and to this you know Major Hayne the Scrievener that made them and his two Servants are witnesses therein and at the same time you sealed a Bond of 500. l. to me to keep the Articles and Covenants therein contained which was to Discover from time to time the Estate but not to conceale the Estate from time to time which if you submit not your self for the breach thereof time may compell you thereunto or discover it to Englands Law which may compell you to perform or suffer accordingly and reward you for breach of your Articles and Covenants and Bond and faith as a younger sonne or younger Brother and then truth will discover it to time and time then will not conceal it from the knowledge of men when that shall come to passe And you and your Complices opposed me all that you could before my Letters of Administration were sealed to me and withstood me to the face to hinder me therein but then I striking the words of the Statute law 31 Ed. 3. 11. and the 21 Hen. 8.5 And proving my self to be the next of kin and the next most lawfull Freind of our Father who died intestate and none being in equalitie and degree of kindred with me which being by me written out of the Book and brought in my hand that I might strengthen my Claim thereby you and your Complices Pride was abated your malice for the present asswaged and your Devices for that time confounded and by Letters of Administration I was legally confirmed sole Administrator c. and neither you nor your Complices secretly or openly could hinder me thereof except you had bereft me of my life and by that means my last glasse had been run as in September last 1644. you threatned me so indeed if you had not suffered by law you might have come to have been Administrator to our Fathers Estate deceased But while I live you cannot be by Gods Law or Englands Law or Custome for if that there were any truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the Chancery to be found I or another man might have relief therein according to the Statute of the Fift of Eliz. cap. 5. which saith For the avoiding as well of long and tedious Suites as also great Expences in prosecuting of Civill Causes by reason of divers Appeales permited to be made by Order of the Lawes Civill in such cases c. Be it inacted c. all and every such Judgement or Sentence definitive given or pronounced in any Civill and Marine Cause upon Appeal lawfully to be made therein to the Queens Majestie in Her Highness Court of Chancery by such Commissioners c. as it hath been used in such Cases shall be finall and no further Appeal to be had or made from the said Judgement or Sentence definitive I would ask any man or Commissioner thereof How the People can expect Equitie therein or relief thereby since they will not obey and fulfill that Equitable and lawdable Ordinance Ordained by His Highnesse the Lord Protector by and with the consent of His Council who Ordained therein That the Chancellor Keeper or Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being shall according to the times and in manner by this Ordinance prescribed put in Execution all the Rules Lawes Orders and Directions before mentioned That for the future there be no more cause of just complaints from the People folio 522. 523 or who can or dare be incouraged to appeal to His Highness● Court of Chaucery while the Practisers therein delay the People and put them to such trouble and Expence that it is scarce one of a thousand but may feelingly experimentally say that when they are complaining therein and wayting for Equity the Remedy there is as bad if not worse then the Disease being thus feelingly sensible of the iniquitie of this unconscionable Court which the Commissioners should take care with all diligence and Circumspection that all the Officers Ministers Clerks and servants belonging to the said Court do honestly and faithfully c. in the Chancery but how many faithfull English men heartily desire the regulation yea rather the Reformation thereof in Conscience in honesty and truth and of all Courts of Judicature according to Gods Word and Law and not that they should imagine and practise mischief in the Law I conclude against the iniquity Falshood and false judgements I have seen in the Court of Chancery which when they have submitted to the Ordinance I will call the High Court of Chancery because they may be then said to be under His Highnesse Protection when they obey his Ordinances which are for Gods glory and the Peoples good as this Ordinance it is hoped cannot but be and also that thing so irregular and unlimmittd at Doctors Commons which calls it self with all that rabble Rowt belongs thereunto a Court of Probates c. when sitting which formerly sate in the Starre Chamber place at Westminster where when there were Bishops and a King or a King and Councill and Bishops held a Court there called the Starre-Chamber from the place and it is beleeved by judicious men though they were cryed but against for Injustice Extortion and Opressing of the People and acting Arbitrarily against Law that these have exceeded their Exorbitances and have exacted and extorted from the People since their being which was in comparrison but the other day abundantly more then they only these have some colourableness for their exacting of Fees by the Act of Parliament made Aprill 1653. to continue in force untill the first of Octoher 1653. and no longer the remainder of the Fees taken by the Registers their sallaries and under Officers being paid and Clerks the overpluss or profits to be paid to Commissioners for the use of the Navy Reader I will give you an account of one Extortion Acted in this Court of Probates June the 8. 1654. by which a Widow with five Children was oppressed against the Statute of the 21 Hen. 8.5 In my own sight and knowledge since obtainmed of the Statute Law to curbe their Exactions and Oppressions thereof which was thus A Minister of the Court of Probates agreed with the Widdow before he would deliver her the Administration under the Seal of the Court for 3. l. for which she paid him down presently 50. s. and promised him 10. s. more and then he delivered the Widdow Letters of Administration her Husband dying Intestate and her Inventory did but amount to not full 20. l. and by Statute Law he should have taken but 3 s. 6 d if they had amounted to 40. l. sterling so they had not exceeded and not above and I never knew this Statute repealed and the unlawfull Exactions are said in the said Act To be against Right and Justice and I pray why hath not His Highness the Lord Protector and His

ADVICE Sent in a LETTER From an Elder Brother to a Younger Which he missed of by being abscent since occasionally Printed it relating to remedying and reforming severall Abuses in the COMMON WEALTH by severall Practisers pretending Equitie and Conscience in the High Court of Chancery and that unsetled irregular unlimmited Court of Probates who also Act against the Law of God and the Law of England as in the reading thereof may be observed and bewayled and it is hoped may be of Publick Concernmen● and Profit wherefore the Author hath been at this charge of Printing it Who riseth up with me against the wicked Who taketh my part against the evill doers If the Lord had not helped me my soul had been put to silence Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness which imagineth mischief in the Law Mr. Tindalls translation Psal 94. If a Ruler hearken to Lies all his servants are wicked Prov. 29.12 None calleth for Justice nor any pleadeth for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquitie Esay 59.4 Of false Judges assigned King Alfred ordained such Judgement that the wrong they do to God whose Vicegerents they are and have conusance to judge Offenders that first they be judged to make satisfaction to those they have hurt that are parties Plaintiffs The Book called The Mirrour of Justices pag. 207. LONDON Printed for the Author 1655. TO HIS HIGHNESSE O. CROMWELL Lord Protector of the Common Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland And to His Honorable Councellors and Assistants O. CROMWELL I Am moved by Gods Spirit this present 24. of May 1655 to write this to You and those that assist You in Council for your leisurely perusal with the other lines that belong thereunto and also to present them by the spirit of God who is the King of all the Earth and reigneth over the Heathen and of a truth will be found no respector of Persons though many that are in places to Judge the People give false Judgement and respect Persons both in the High Court of Chancery And that Illegall Arbitrary Irregular Unlimmited Court now called a Court of Probates c. in which is executed more the will of man then the judgement of the Lord they respecting the Persons and Profitts one of another as they do yet in Chancery although in the Ordinance for Regulating and limmitting the High Court of Chancery it is Ordained fol. 523. That for the future there be no more cause of just Complaints from the People SIR it is hoped good things will be found in You Jehu told Jehoshaphat 2 Chro 19.2 3 For such a thing he had provoked the Lord to be wrath with him Neverthelesse good things are found in thee and that You will set Judges over the People of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland You having accepted the Stile of Lord Protector thereof and sworn to Govern these Nations according to the Lawes Statutes and Customes seeking their Peace and causing Justice and Law to be equall Administred The Lord God of our Fathers enable Your Highness to put in such men to Judge between the People that may be men of Truth fearing God and hating Covetousness as Jethro advised Moses Exod. 18.21 the People have been long abused and oppressed by lying unsatiable extorting unfaithfull unconscionable Lawyers and men in places of Judicature to the dishonor of God and the destruction of the Nations and their great reproach for sin is a reproach to a people or Nation But Justice or Righteousness exalteth a Nation Prov. 14.34 and lying lipps are an abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are his delight Prov. 2.22 then all lying men in place of Judicature and ●ying Lawyers that deal not truly are an Abomination to the Lord The Apostle who knew all Gods Councell Acts 20.27 For he must first know it before he could declare it Rom. 13.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 saith God ordaines Powers for the Peoples Weale or good and such are called Gods Ministers and are to attend continually for that very end or thing for the Peoples good and well-being if the People do well but they are to take Vengeance if the People do evil and to such ministring Persons ought People to be obedient or subject unto not because of their wrath but for Conscience sake Your Highness assisted with your Council hath begun to limit and regulate that unconscionable Court of Chancery and lying delaying Practisers and to pull down their extortions by your Ordinance made August 22. 1654 though they are loath to obey it Oh judge for the Lord and limmit and regulate that unchristian corrupt Court stiled a Court of Probates c for the Civillians must confesse their Law is a Sea full of Waves and as uncertain as the present Judges mindes thereof but the grounds of our Common Law have from the beginning been lay'd with such deep Wisdom Policy and Providence as they do provide for and meet with almost all Cases that can fall out in our Common Wealth Th' Imperiall Power th'immeiate Power under God and Christ is setled in Your Person with Your Council and all Writts Processes Commissions Patents Grants and other things in Your Name they are to run as the 2 3 33 Articles of Government declared Decem 16. 1653. and from You to be distributed in all Courts they acting and doing in the Name of Oliver Lord Protector should act justly and truely and the Pen-man hereof shall exhort all People with the words of Paul 1 Tim. 2.1 2. to make supplycations for Your Highness c. and all you shall preferr to Judge between the People and deal truly therein that so we may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness honesty for false Judges and false lying Practisers about the Law under them must be a more intollerable and ahhominable thing then Warr beleeves Yours while GOD is with you and you with him Cap. Nathanael Burt. AN EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO Mr. WILLIAM WHETSTONE His hoped for Freind in the Truth SIR THat a man should Dedicate his case to one he is forced to sue in the Law one would think should seem a Juggle or a Paradox but it will not be so found in this and I shall cleer it to you or any else for in the Mirrour of Justices pages 156 157 158. Our Ancestors if the partie would not confesse that had done any falsitie to a man in deed or word where there was no witness to testifie the truth they were suffered to enter Battell if Equalls for Declaration thereof or proof thereof and sometimes they proved by Witnesses saith the Author for if a man hath done any falsity to me in deed or in word whereof he is appealed or impeached in Judgement if he deny it it is lawfull for me to prove the Action either by Jury or by my Body or by the body of one Witness Now that Battell is

a Prosilite and to bring him to beleeve with them and to be of their Synagogue though thereby when he was brought to their belief he was made twofold more the childe of Hell by being made one of the Synagogue of Satan this Christ spake Matt. 23.15 Who was greater then Solomon Luke 11.31 And as he left it both to Rebuke and instruct that generation I desire this pretended wise generation would take notice thereof in this day that belongs to our Peace and not to delight to burden their Brethrens shoulders and to betray their fellow brethren and their Estates for as Paul whom Christ counted Faithfull became injurious no more and persecuted none of his Brethren after he had obtained mercy himself 1 Tim. 12 13. and was called and made to beleeve he averreth Rom. 15.2 3 4. that every man should please his Neighbour to edification as it is written The rebuke of them that rebuke thee fell on mee for saith Paul by the Holy Ghost Whatever things are written afore time are written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope And saith Paul They are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the Wo●ld are come 1. Cor. 10.11 Yet he adviseth to rebuke them that sin before all that others also may fear if it can be proved by two or three Witnesses yea though he were in place partiallity should not be used 1 Tim. 5.19 20 21. And Paul shunned not to declare all the Councell of God and he thereby stood pure from the blood of all men Acts 20.26 27. Now this being an Epidemicall disease in England and perticularly rooted in you John Burt as by Witnesses will be proved so that it is in you gangrened I fear or setled you having been the chief plotter and Acter and Contriver all along against me and Concealer Decliner and Instigator and Importunator of all Persons of all sorts and in all Places so that it is feared you being m●st concerned therein may be said To have spoken Lies in hypocrisie and have your Conscience seared with a hot-iron as the Holy Spirit spake by Paul expresly In the latter times some should depart from the Faith and should doe 1 Tim. 4.1 2. Therefore this Epistle is sent to rebuke you that you may not be destroyed and that I may be pure from your blood and from the blood of all men and any that are concerned with you herein Wherefore I instruct you with meeknesse and intreat you to examine your self and to judge your own self for these enormities by you acted committed that you no longer harden your heart and braze your forehead and continue in your sines against the Light of truth and Conscience or light of Nature though you served much time of an Aprentiship to a Scrievener but as the Apostle S. Peter by the Holy Spirit adviseth 1 Pet. 2.1 2. Laying aside all malice and all guile and Hypocrisies and envyings and evill speakings As new-born Babes desire the sinceer milk of the Word that you may grow thereby for holy David through his temptations and experience could tell you Psal 119.9 Wherewithall shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy Word for the Prophecie came not in old time by the will of man But holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Peter 1.21 Wherefore John Burt be instructed thereby that you may be recovered out of the snare of the Devil who are taken Captive by him at his will if God peradventure will give you repentance to the acknowledging of the truth as it is written 2 Tim. 2.25 26. Therefore in all meeknesse I again advise you to repent of your many and perticular unfaithfulnesses malitiousnesses envyings lyings unnaturall combinations concealements threatnings imprisonings by your self and other your Complices and false reports to stop and detaine my monies due to me not onely 66. l. 13. s. 4 d. in your own hand besides the use which is of ●he Mmrgage of the Red Lyon Inn at St. Edmonds Burie but in oth●r mens also to put me to charges in Law-suits viz. In Henry Woods hand my Tenant which this is the third time and in John Wests hand 60. l. which had been paid me but for you and your Complices Jan 23 1654. besides my many losses other ways well known to your self as also your contrived Demurrings in Chancery and halfe perjuries And your cancelling like a Scrievener with one eare and detaining severall Writings as well as much moneys which belong to me as the Image and representor of our Fathers Person and your many Provocations and incitements as well as inticements of others to lie and sweare falsly against me and to sue me in severall Courts or to withstand my right to cause me to sue for it to which I was not onely bound in 500. l. to you with Articles to discover our Fathers Estate before letters of Administration were delivered me in Sir Nathanaeel Brents time but also bound to the Prerogative Court with securitie in a farr greater sum and sworn therein also to be a faithfull Administrator to our d●ceased Fathers Estate you having ever since vexed both my self and others and then and still threatning them if they Pay me and such whom you have and still do procure with you so to doe also your home-swearings Personally in two Courts Viz. the one of Chancery which I hope in time will be made to submit to the fo●me and Power of that Ordinance which was Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector and his Council to be Printed and published August 22 ●654 both for their limitation and regulation it seeming to be the distribution of his own Conscience therein and a great step to reform abuses though by those sons of Zerviah which sure are but as a spot in a Pavement in respect of the whole Nation it was never yet obeyed and submitted unto and all other Ordinances that have been made besides are establish●d and compelled to be obeyed by all People under the Power And also your home swearing in that Arbitrary Irregulated unlimmited and unparralell'd Court of Probates the very Pest and Plague as it is and hath been lately used to this English Nation which I hope the present Power will curbe and bring into Order also in due time and settle them by Orders as the other Courts are setled by the Judges of the Land viz. the Common Pleas and the Vpper Bench which shall be by them published in Print as the Ordinance for Chancery for the Peoples instructions and relief and also Order their unlimmitted and excessive Fees therein taken as it formerly was by Statute Law and give them Rules also to proceed therin that for future as saith the Chancery Ordinance that there be no more just complaints from the People so that they have declared both the Proceeding and Fees of the Chancery to be unconscionable I appeal to

thy Brother trespasse against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him And if he trespasse against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn again to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him Thus you see by Scripture proved That for false swearings about things lost and concealed or taken deceitfully or violently or wrongfully gotten or if it were delivered one to keep the principall shall be restored to him to whom it appertaineth with a Fift part more also or the next Kinsman and I am sure you know not any so neer as my self nay you binde me in 500. l. and Articles to to you I being the Eldest Son of our Father deceased to sue out Letters of Administration under the seale of the Prerogative Court and therein to Discover the Estate or any part or parcel thereof Wherefore I by these Lines demand from you a true and reall Discovery and satisfaction in some measure porportionable that is Whetstones Mortgage for 100. l. and the use thereof for three Years past at Christmass last restored me and my Dividend of the Mortgage of St. Edmonds Burie and the right and Interest of all Monies or Writings by you concealled that belongeth to our deceased Fathers Estate or did belong thereunto and I require that you receive these Rebukes and Instructions in love and set your self to observe them and shew it by your Answer hereunto that I may receive you and imbrace you and forgive you Jaacob who in his youth by his Mothers perswasions and subtilty subplanted his Elder Brother Esau and caused Isaac thereat to tremble and after was faine to fly and leave both Father and Mother for fear of loosing his Life by his provoked Elder Brother as was told him by their Mother yet many years after he journeying neer Esau his Elder Brother at his return from Prdan Aram Jaacob sent Mess●ngers to call his Elder Brother Esau Lord and to desi●● he might finde g●ace in his sight and sent him a great Pr●sent to appease his Elder Brother Esau that so he might be again accepted and the Messengers were commanded to say It is a Present thy Servant Jaacob hath sent unto my Lord Esau and when Esau had accepted and imbraced his Brother Jaacob and reconciled himself to him I have seen thy face saith Jaacob as if I had seen the face of God in that thou wert pleased with me therefore Experience as well as Scripture teacheth How pleasant a thing it is for Brethren to live together in amity in Vnity and Prov. 18.19 you may read A Brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City and their Contentions are like the Barrs of a Castle and though your abuses to our Father deceased have been very great and those Abuses and Provocations you have offered to me herein related if you will say it repenteth you therefore and submit your self as Jaacob did and receive these my M●ss●ngers to you of Love and Peace for open rebuke is better then secret love for the heart of a man disposing and the Answer of the tongue are both from the Lord Prov. 16.1 These Lines my Messengers penned by Gods Assistance are to desire you You will not let Satan fill your heart with bitternesse or harden it any longer or to conspire against me any more evilly but receive the invitation of Reconciliation that we may keep the Feaste approaching before the Lawyers Terme no● with the old Leaven neither with the leaven of Malice and Wickedness but with the unleavened bread of Sincerity and Truth that God may receive Glory therein our Fathers Name honored thereby and our selves Established to our enemies astonishment that they may say you have demeaned your self as the Son of our deceased Father not delighting in Fraudes or Malice to destroy your Fathers Elder Son and the Estate also which if you thus Declare your self I hope I shall not onely receive you with the Spirit of meekness but I shall receive you as a loving Christian Brother that might be said to be faithful and deare unto me and I shall labour also to restore you in all meeknesse All which will vex your Viperous brood either Henry Wood that mally part fellow or any others who expect to get by keeping you at Discord and flatter you That either Common Law or Equitie will bear you or them out in any fraudulent or unjust Actions for Truth is strong and will prevail above all the Enemies thereof Thus beleeve Captain Nathanael Burt the Eldest Son of his deceased Father from whom he beleeveth oy you proceeded and therefore truely desireth your good in Christ Jesus From my House in Windmill Court Aprill 6. 1655. where I expect your Answer within 6 dayes otherwise expect to have it Printed that truth may appear as it is plain truth declared to publick view By N. B. POSTSCRIPT READER SEe and discern what great advantages Practisers have belonging to that is called Law Justice and Right or Equity to make themselves rich by defending or pleading for Concealers Combinators Defrauders detainers of other mens Profits and rights who labour by Demurring lying and false swearing to colour it and not to be brought to light for every one that doth evill hateth the light least his deeds should be made manifest or reproved and these Practisers do not only labour to extinguish Truth but at length many times themselves possesse that Inheritance or Portion belongs to those whom they have hightened by their Dissentions Let all Fathers be intreated if they have any Estate to leave their Children to dispose of it by Will to avoid discord and disscention among Brethren and the eating up of their Estates by the Ravening Estate destroying Practisers belonging most of them to that Hell fraught with Iniquitie and Lyers called The High Court of Chancery And observe also thus by John Burts Combination am I kept bare of Moneys by the Charge and loss I daily feel am necessitated was fain to render my body to Prison to save my Bayl from the malice of Peter Tomson who red a Daughter of mine in stead of marrying of her who complying also with John Burt forced her to make an Affidavit against me in Chancery without any subpena thereto to please him ●nd her Husband would perswade her also if she obeyed him not herein how should he live in Peace with her or could he love her if she would not be ruled by him and doe what he would have her doe though against her owne Father Is not this unrighteous Brat full of Malignity malitiousn●esse and Envy and is ●e not dissobedient that would combine to stop his Wives Father from receiving severall Monies to dissable him to pay him and then to throw him into Prison Is not such a one without Christianity though he breaketh bread with Mr. Nerton and may he not be said to be without naturall affection without understanding inplacable unmercifull as Rom. 1.28 29 30 31 32. and m●y

Councill since Parliaments have neglected it Power to ease the People in such unlawfull Exactions of Fees as the Chancery and the Court of Probates by their Ministers exacted Extorted taken to the great oppression impoverishing of the People witness this distressed Widdows Case with five Children who hath never been able ever since to pay that money where she was faine to borrow it to stop this Extorting Ministers appetite of money or scarcely to put cloathes on her Children for shift convenient And Exaction Extortion and Oppression are forbidden by Gods Law and Word which People Officers Judges and Ministers of Courts who forsake Gods Law and Word Psal 119.158 I beheld the Transgressors saith David and was grieved because they kept not thy Word Rivers of Waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy Law O that our Governours and People would doe the like Wherefore hear your Elder Bro●hers Exhortation John Burt and suffer this my rebuke for your sin against God our deceased Father whom you have much abused and belyed and my self the Pen-man hereof and also your own self and your malicious sinning hath now found you out and in our Fathers life time also caused him when you brought your Children and set them up upon his bed-side which sure was well done of you that he might blesse them before he departed this life and your self also but he remembring how extreamly you had abused him by possessing your self of his Keyes out of his Pocket which he had persued you to your owne house for though he were not so capable to expresse by words to you as to reprove some that others as well as your self might hear him declare himself demonstratively yet you know hee remembred your ungodly abusing of him and therfore would not acknowledge you or your Children but did bid you and them be gone be gone take them away take them away as though the sight of you and your Children were both of you a grievous vexation to him he then extreamly wringing his hands and lifting them up so and then spreading them doubling his dislike saying Be gone be gone away away to you and your Children and would not be quiet whilst you and your Children were in his presence and though you made it your advantage in his Infirmity to Possesse what you could of his by your over-reaching and fraudulent and unlawfull dealing or deceiving Policie pray that it may not be your Curse in which you think to have blessed your self see Jaacobs filialness He durst not offend or abuse his Father when he was blinde though his Mother bid him obey her voice therein Gen. 27.8.12 My Father peradventure will feel me and I shall seem to him as a Deceiver and I shall bring a Curse upon me and not a Blessing And by these your trespasses against our Father and my self you have even almost destroyed me your Elder Brother in my outward or Temperall Estate God knoweth by multitudes of Troubles and Losses and Law Suites and Lawyers Answering with the Money belonging thereto drawn out and expended the better to colour your guiltinesse And I should make my self guilty of all these your sinnes and Trespasses If I should not rebuke you I must therefore rebuke you and that openly if I will observe Gods Commands and Scripture Rules For it is written Levit. 19.17 Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thine heart but thou shalt plainly rebuke him and not suffer sinne upon him saith the Margent or that thou beare not sinne for him thou shalt in any wise rebuke him Wherefore that you may not bless your self in your evill Wayes saying You have not sinned in all that you have done to our deceased Father and to my self and to the Estate as is herein related and charged by me which you know is truth See and read what the Lord commanded Moses to teach the People which I told you before are written in a Book for our learning for the time to come for ever and ever Ye shall not steal neither deal falsly neither Lie one to another And ye shall not sweare by my Name falsly Thou shalt not defraude thy Neighbour neither rob him and reade Levit. 6.1 2 3 4 5. compared with Numb 5.6 7 8. It is written If a soul sin and commit a Trespass against the Lord and lie unto his Neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep or in fellowship or dealing saith the Margent or that which was put to him of trust in a thing taken away by violence hath deceived his Neighbour or doth by Robbery or violence oppress his Neighbour or hath found that which was lost and lyeth concerning it sweareth falsly Or hath found that which was lost and denyeth it and forsweareth it and sweareth falsly in any of all these that a man doth sinning therein or for any of these things that a man doth wherein he sinneth Then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty or when I say he thus sinneth and trespasseth that he shall restore that which he took violently away or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten or he shall then restore the Robbery that he hath robbed or the thing by violence which he took by force or the thing which was delivered him to keep or the lost thing which he found Or all that about which he hath sworne falsly Or for whatsoever he hath sworn falsly he shall even restore it in the principall and shall adde the fift part more thereto and give it unto him to whom it appartaineth or he shall both restore it in the whole Sum and give it unto him to whom it pertaineth in the day of his Trespass-Offering saith the Margent or in the day of his being found guilty or the same day he offereth for his Trespass or give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed But if the man have no Kinsman to whom he should restore the Dammage or to be recompenced for the Trespass of Lying and Detaining and Concealing as before related Herein is used two severall Translations for the plainer expressing of Trespasses Therefore John Burt now that it will be proved against you that you are guilty of concealing Mr. Whetstones Mortgage and denying of it by Oath and cancelling it and altering it as before related you ought both to make Restitution to me and to humble your self also which you will finde Christ taught to men when he was upon Earth which strengtheneth this Scripture and maketh a threefold Testimony against you or any obstinate Lyer or Concealer or false Swearer and sure you ought to observe it and to conform thereunto Matt. 5.24 25. Therefore if thou bring thy Gift before the Aaltar and there remembrest that thy Brother hath ought against thee leave there thy Gift before the Aaltar And go thy way first be reconciled to thy Brother and then come offer thy Gift Jesus speaking to his Disciples about offences said Take heed to your selves Luk. 17.1.3 4. If