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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12793	The sale of salt. Or The seasoning of soules Namely such, as for whom the chapmen here doe come, and whom the author, which taketh the name of a salter, is willing, what in him lieth, to season with the salt of the Word, leauing the successe to the Lord, without whose blessing in such works we can do nothing. Written by Iohn Spicer, minister of the word of God at Leckhamsteed in the county of Buckingham.	Spicer, John.	1611 (1611)	STC 23101; ESTC S117790	175,913	412

of the Lord waxe whotte against you to destroy thee sodainely And Ahab the sonne of Omri did worse in the sight of the Lord then all that were before him for was it a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the son of Nebat except hee tooke Iesabell also the daughter of Ethbaal King of the Sidonians to wife and went and serued Baal and worshipped him Chap. If the youth haue any wit or any care of himselfe this may serue to make him take heed whom hee matcheth The fifteenth Chapman THen you may depart that I may haue your place Salt What lacke you Chap. I would haue some Salt to season certaine seruants which are negligent froward vntrusty and ●arelesse in their maisters businesse especially in their Maisters absence when they ought to bee most diligent and carefull Salt These are fowle faults much hurt hath bene done in this land by negligence though not so much as was intended by diuellish diligence and likely to haue béene effected had not our good God by their own letters reuealed it seruants and other haue béene too carelesse in looking to their fire and candle Chap. Indeede as you say there hath beene a diuellish diligence of Popish pyoners and bloudy vnder-miners in their lurking working more then monstrous mischiefe their words smoother then Oyle Charity Charity but their deedes sharper then swords Crucifie Crucifie pleasant names Catholicke Catholicke piercing natures Caine-like Caine-like but God turne their hearts But whereas you sayd much hurt hath beene done in this land by such as haue beene so carelesse in looking to their fire and candle many haue found it too true Some sticke their candle vpon a wall and so fall asleepe before they put it out some goe to seeke this or that where there is straw flaxe or powder and because they more minde the thing they looke then the candle they looke with on a soddaine marre all some laying a heape of straw in the Kitchin making fire vnder a pan being called away in haste make great waste in that they forget to make all sure before they goe others being drowsie standing by vndo their maisters and many others Salt If they had water it would little auayle if they haue so little wit that they put by the haire-cloth thinking by their so doing to saue a little malt for the flame flyeth vp to the thacke which not being lined with lath and lime is soone set on fire Chap. There is also much hurt done by carrying fire in wispes of straw or dishes not couered especially when the winde is busie some Stewards which haue kept Courts haue set downe penaltties for such negligence it were well if all would doe so Salt Wel whatsoeuer faults the Seruants haue it shall be good for them to taste of this which now I deliuer vnto you A discreete seruant shall haue rule ouer a lewd sonne Prou. 17.2 and hee shall diuide the heritage among the brethren Who then is a faithfull seruant and wise whom his maister hath made ruler ouer his houshold Mat. 24 4● to giue them meat in due season blessed is that seruant whom his Maister when he commeth shall finde so doing 46 Verily I say vnto you hee shall make him ruler ouer all his goods Chap. This may seeme to encourage a discreete and diligent seruant to continue in well doing I would haue salt to season such as bee not so quicke and diligent for if they were they should not need quickening for that horse which of himselfe will stirre needes not bee quickened with the spurre Salt Why then take this apply it where néed requireth But if that euill seruant shall say in his heart Mat. 24.48 My Maister doth deferre his comming and begin to smite his fellowes 49 and to eate and drinke with the drunken That seruants maister will come in a day when hee looketh not for him 51 and in an houre that hee is not ware of and will cut him off and giue his portion with hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Seruants be obedient vnto them that are your maisters according to the flesh Eph. 6 5. with feare and trembling in singlenesse of heart 6 as vnto Christ not with seruice to the eye as men-pleasers but as the seruants of Christ doing the will of God frō the heart 7 with good will seruing the Lord and not men And know yee that whatsoeuer good any man doth that same shall hee receiue of the Lord 8 whether hee bee bond or free Let seruants be subiect to their maisters and please them in all things Titus 2 9. not answering againe neither pickers but that they shew all good faithfulnesse that they may adorne the Doctrine of God our Sauiour in alll things Chap. This is a good lesson for our country seruants which bee euer gadding to games and wandring to wakes and that on the Lords day where either they play away their money at Nine-holes or else cudgell one another so long till some of them go home with broken pates or losse of an eye and then if their Maisters find fault with them and tell them that they spoyle their horses by letting them stand so long without water and meate they will giue a snappish answere and at Midsommer giue them warning to prouide themselues of another against Michaelmas and how little care they haue to adorne the doctrine of God appeareth both by this that they will be couered in the Church as if they were aged or sickly and also by this that of all places by their good will or rather bad will they would not dwell where there is Catechising Salt If may be when their owne rodde or cudgell hath well beaten them they will become better and in the meane time stand more in awe if Minister Maister Constable or Church-wardens do their duties and so you may depart The sixteenth Chapman GLad am I. Salt And tell me why Chap. Because I haue stayed a good while I am weary with standing so long heere was no place to sit Salt Come you for your selfe or for others Chap. I come not for my selfe but for Traytors Salt I haue not for you you must go to the Tower Chap. I haue heard indeed that there is good rough Salt it will search into the bones and through the bones but that Salt is cast vpon them that be conuicted vnlesse there bee some pardon vpon vnfaigned repentance I would haue some Salt as is good to preserue men from becomming such vnsauory monsters as stinke of gunpowder weresoeuer they goe Salt I thinke I haue some heere fit for that purpose if it bee well mingled with herbe-grace Cursse not the King no not in thy thought Eccle. 10.20 neither cursse the rich in thy bed-chamber for the foule of the heauen shall carry the voyce and that which hath wings shall declare the matter Chap. The Lord cause one of the chiefest

they like the vsuall words for the word speake is often found in the Acts of the Apostles for setting foorth the word of God 4. Acts and as they meaning Peter and Iohn spake vnto the people c. Now what they spake we shall see if wée reade the third of the Acts from the 12. ver to the end of the Chapter where is set downe the summe of that Sermon or spéech which Peter made to the men of Israell 〈◊〉 which were astonied at the curing of the cripple which Spéech being called speaking in the first verse of that fourth Chapter is called Teaching and Preaching in the second verse Thus taking it grieuously meaning they Priests that they taught the people and Preached in Iesus the resurrection c. in the 17. verse of Act. 4 Let vs threaten charge them Lalein to speake henceforth to no man in this name And in the 20 verse Peter and Iohn saith We cannot me Lalein but speake the things which wee haue seene a and heard Lalounto● Act. 10.44 And Acts 5. the Angell saith Go your way and standing speake in the Temple all the words of this life meaning they should set forth that doctrine whereby the way to true life is declared while Peter yet spake the holy-Ghost fell on all them that heard the word And Acts the thirtéenth and the fourtie two The Gentiles besought that the next Sabboth that they would Lalethenai speake which some interpret preach c. And Act. 14.1 and so Lalesai speake that a great multitude both of the Iewes and Grecians beléeued Act. 18.9 Then said the Lord vnto Paul c. feare not but speake c. now what the Lord ment by bidding him speake appeareth in the 11. verse of that 18. of the Acts so hee continued there meaning at Corinth a yeare and sixe moneths and taught the word of God among them But least the stranger you speake of be gone out of the place ere you come there tell me quickly what you would haue Chap. My comming hither is for some such Salt as is fit to season some that seeme ●ery deuout and religious outwardly and yet are reported to be hard-hearted and full of fraud pinching both Teacher and Tenant little regarding the teares of the fatherlesse and widdow nor to walke in the steps of their fathers who kept good houses and brought vp many children without such grinding of leane faces that would be glad to liue vnder them if they might with any reason Sal. God forbid all reports should hee true euill-will neuer said well but howsoeuer it be friend Chapman know this for certaine that a man may seeme to be sound in profession outwardly and yet bee hallow and rottten inwardly to professe to be one of Christs Sheepe and that whosoeuer will be saued most repent and beleeue the Gospell and bring forth the fruits of repentance is a sound profession in word but hee that professeth not this by deedes but biteth gripeth by vsury to mens vndoing pincheth with hard payments ouerloadeth poore men with heauy burthens keepeth no measure in his inclosing maketh no conscience of swearing periury prophaning the Saboth lying stealing stabbing whooring and such like he is in Gods sight a very hypocrite and a helhound till he amend howsoeuer in meane time hee beguile those which lend their eares to his talking and haue no eye to espye his walking but to bée short if there be any such hollow hearted-man with you I feare me if you be his tenant you dare not carry any such Salt to him as is fit for him Chap. The truth is I am a free-holder and therefore may with lesse danger do it then a Tenant Salt You say true but yet to the end you may carry it in good sort you shall first haue a little Salt to season your selfe and that is Let all your things be done in loue Now for those you speake of heere is for them I pray God they may take it in good part and that it may do them good Heare the word of the Lord Isai 1 11. ô Princes of Sodom Chap. Stay stay Salt Why so Chap. Because I made you no promise to ●arry Salt to Princes Salt No matter for that if the men you come for haue any vnderstanding they will reason thus with themselues if the highest Maiesty spare not to reproue the mightiones when they deserue it why should wée that be inferiour to them thinke to escape if we be as faulty in our places as they in theirs but if you had not stayed me you should haue heard the Lord rebuking the inseriours aswell as the superiours in these words Hearken to the law of our God 〈…〉 ô people of Gomorah Now these both high and low were indeed by profession and by couenant Gods owne peculiar people for in the first verse I ●●ade that the vision of Esai did concerne Iudah and Ierusalem and in the third verse the Lord calleth them whom hée reproueth Israell and his people and in the righth verse the daughter of Zyon so that in respect of the couenant which God made with their fathers they were and in regard of their outward worship they would séeme to bee Princes and people of Iudah and Ierusalem but in regard of their had fruits the Lord calleth them Princes of Sodom and Gomorah giuing them by those terrible 〈◊〉 to vnderstand that if hee should deale with their according to their deserts they should be destroyed with as feareful a fire as were they of Sodom and Gomorah where Lot himselfe whose righteous soule is said to haue beene vexed amongst them by reason of his prolonging had bene like with his wife and two daughters to haue ●●r●shed in the punishment of those Citties h●● not the Lord bene mercifull vnto him For the most high and holy one did so abhor the sinnes of those places that Lots wife looking backe was turned into a pillar of Salt to the end saith Saint Austin De cant no●o cap 4. that by her example shee might season fooles this our Sauiour would not haue forgotten and therefore said Remember Lots wife Luk. 17.32 For indéed the remembrance of that Slat-stone if there be any grace in vs might serue very wel to season our soules in such sort that it should stirre vs vp dayly to pray and that heartily that when temptations come it would please his goodnesse so to asist vs and lead vs forward in his waies that wee neuer returne with the dogge to the loathsome vomit or with the swine to wallowing in the most filthy and stinking mire but that through his grace endeuouring to serue his Diuine Maiesty in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life we may be counted fit Temples for the Holy Ghost to be resident in vntill wée being set free from all tentations and deliuered from all our troubles may quietly and ●●e●refully possesse the inheritance which our blessed Sauiour with the shedding

the land tremble for this 8 and euery one mourne that dwelleth therin When wee haue foode and rayment Tim. 16.8 let is therewith be content For they that will be rich fall into temptation and snares 6 and into many foolish and noysome lusts which drowne men in perdition and destruction 10 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 11 But thou ô man of God slee these things and follow after righteousnesse godlinesse faith loue patience meekenesse 17 Charge them which are rich in this world that they be not high-minded and that they trust not in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God which giueth vs al things aboundantly to enioy Will you haue any more Chap. Not at this time onely I desire to know what the Lord meaneth by the excellency of Iacob Salt In that place which I cited out of the eighth of Amos. ver 7. by the excellency of Iacob is ment the Lord himselfe for he vseth not to sweare by any other but in Chap. 6. ver 8. it is taken for the power and riches of that people in which things they did glory the words be these The Lord God hath sworne by himselfe saith the Lord God of Hostes I abhorre the excellency of Iacob and hate his Pallaces The fourteenth Chapman IF you haue don with him I pray you serue me next Salt What kinde of Salt would you haue Chap. I would haue Salt for an vnseasoned Youth that haunteth Harlots houses not regarding his Parents precepts Sal. If he regard not the Commandement of the eternall God who sayth Thou shalt not commit adulterie threatning to wound the hearie Scalpe of such as goe on still in their wickednesse No meruaile if he regard not his Parents who cannot if they would wound so deepe as the most Mighty who can cast Bodie and Soule into Hell vnto that same gnawing worme that neuer dyeth and into that burning fire which no man can quench Chap. Well let me see what else you haue besides this Salt I promise you if this will not serue I know not what will serue for what will he feare that feareth not Hell But because you are desirous to haue more you shall haue more but none more sharpe My Sonne Pro 6.20 keepe thy Fathers commandements and forsake not thy Mothers instruction Chap. What if some superstitious Father or Mother which thinke none to be the true members of the Catholike Church but such as follow the Pope and obey him in whatsoeuer he cōmandeth should charge theire Sonne to go to Remes or Rome and there stay till he shall be thought fit to retourne hether againe to teach men how to worke mischife by blowing vp not one or two but the whole Parliament-house Ought such a Sonne to obay such a Parent Sal. God forbid be should or that any should be so sottish as to thinke that the wisedome of God that spake by Salomon should commande to do that which God forbad when he said Thou shalt do no murther shed no inocent bloud touch not mine Annointed doe my Prophets no harme Chap. Say on then Sal. Binde them alwaies vpon thy heart Pro. 6.21.22 and tye them about thy necke it shall leade thee when thou walkest it shall watch for thee when thou sleepest and when thou wakest it shall talke with thee 23 For the Commandement is a Lanthorne and instruction is light and corrections for instructions are the way of life 24 To keepe thee from the wicked woman and from the flatterie of the tongue of a strange Woman 25 Desire not her beauty in thine heart neyther let her take thee with her eye liddes 26 For because of the Whorish Woman a Man is brought to a morsell of Bread and a Woman will hunt for the pretious life of a man c. 32 He that committeth adulterie with a woman is destitute of vnderstanding he that doth it destroyeth his owne Soule And in the sixth Chapter after he hath set downe the intising speaches of the Adultresse He saith 12 Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeeld 7 and with her flattering lippes she entised him And he followed her straight waies as an Oxe that goeth to the slaughter and as a Foole to the stockes for correction 22 Till a Dart strike through his Liuer as a bird hasteth to the snare not knowing that he is in danger 23 Heare me now therefore O Children and hearken to the words of my mouth 25 Let not thine heart decline to herwaies wander thou not in her pathes 26 For she hath caused many to fall downe wounded and the strong men are all slaine by her 27 Her house is the way vnto the graue which goeth downe to the chambers of death Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ 1. Cor. 6.15 shall I then take the members of Christ make them the members of a Harlot God forbid 26 Do ye not know that he which coupeleth himselfe with an Harlot is one bodie for two saith he shall be one flesh 17 But he that is ioyned to the Lord is one spirit 18 Flee fornication euery sinne that a man doth is without the bodie but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body Know ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost 19 which is in you whome you haue of God and now are not owne 20 For you are bought for a price therefore gloryfie God in your bodie and in your spirit for they are Gods This I thinke may suffice to draw him from that haunt but tell me one thing did you neuer heare this Youth speake of marriage Chap. I remember once I heard him say that if euer he married he would haue one that should please his eye and bring good store of money let her qualyties and religion be what they will therefore he had need be seasoned for this point Sal. Heere is for that matter Fauor is deceitfull and beauty is vanity Pro. 31.30 but a Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praysed As a Iewell of Gold in a Swines snowt 11.22 so is a faire Woman that lacketh discretion Who shall finde a verteous Woman 30.11 for her price is farre aboue the Pearles House and ritches are the inheritance of the Fathers 19.14 but a prudent Wife commeth of the Lord. 16.18 Pride goeth before destruction Pride and an high minde before the falle Thou shalt make no couenant with them Deut. 7.2.3.4 c. speaking of the Hittites c. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them Neither giue thy Daughter to his Sonne nor take his Daughter vnto thy Sonne for they will cause thy Sonne to turne away from me and to serue other Gods then will the wrath