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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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