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A96073	A modest discourse, of the piety, charity & policy of elder times and Christians. Together with those their vertues paralleled by Christian members of the Church of England. / By Edward Waterhouse Esq;	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1049; Thomason E1502_2; ESTC R208656	120,565	278

in Oxford and then founded and endowed S t Johns College Built also Grammar Schools at Bristol Reading and a College at Higham Ferryes Gave great Legacies to poor Clothiers Good Stocks to 18 great Towns in England And other things he did of like remark But give me leave to mention the charitable Foundation of Sion College which truly was a very gallant work and much an Ornament to this Metropolis and would be a greater were the Library capacious enough to contain Books more filled with them and when I consider the diffusivenesse of such a work and how much to oblige the publique a bounty of this nature doth import I cannot but much encourage men to think no expence of money more provident for preservation of their memory then this I judge men to live in the fame of a bountifull charity more then in Children or in any Escocheon of honour But I proceed to the numerous Hospitals and Houses of Relief in the trust of the most faithful Trustees of this Nations Charity the worthy Societies of London the charitable distributions that they make the compassionate hearts they expresse to their poor precisely according to the will of the Testators and the bounty of their Legacies encrease testifies their fidelity I should swell too bigge to name the Charities of the Lord Viscount Cambden Sir John Ramsey M r Kenrick M r Lamb M r Randolph Alder. Hayden M r Blundell M. Chilcot M r Rogers M r Fuller M r Russell M r Gale M r Palin M r D●ve M Iones M r Goddard M r Aloworth Sir William Cockain and memorable S t Paul Pindar And herein they shame those of whoever they are who distort things charitably given to other uses then the Donor appointed which causes that of Ennius to be verified Benefacta malè locata malefacta arbitror This for a short View ef Reformation-Charity I come now to assert the Reformations imitation in point of policy Policy not of fraud but necessary preservation and that in the point of Laws which are the Tropicks upon which weal and woe wheel and move wisedom commended and made and courage preserved them so made from contempt That I have to adde is my Observation that good Laws were chief in the care of the best times It was wont to be the ambition of Governours to serve the Church first and respect her security most The Learned Vivaldus speaking of the Excellency of the Kings of France saies Semper pro legibus juribus Ecclesiae Dei summorumque Pontificum soli fideliter decertarunt and in times past with us Acts of Parliament began with something like this In honorem Dei sanctae matris Ecclesiae statuimus So begins in effect Magna Charta pr o West 25. Ed. 1. 1 2 Ed. 3. the 5. 15. 25. 28. Ed. 3. and many others yea to secure the Church was the first care of the Parliament Ed. 6. ann 1. c. 1. 1 El. c. 2. 1 K. James 4. 3 of the same King c. 4. 5. And it was a brave Speech of Sir Edward Deering in the Parliament 10 Nov. 1640. had it been hearkened to Let the Sword reach from the North to the South and a general perdition of all our remaining rights and safety threaten as in open view It shall be so farre from making me to decline the first setling of Religion that I shall ever argue and rather conclude it thus The more great the more eminent our perils of this world are the stronger and quicker ought our care to be for the glory of God and the pure Law of our souls I neither may wholly omit nor shall I write much of our Laws though I think they make the best judgement of happiness who rely on that foundation which the experience of many hundred years hath given proof of and deservedly ought they to be admired while they assert property and abhor injustice yea when they are so necessary to keep Subjects up to the duty of Loyalty that a great Master of them wrote not long since He that takes away the Laws takes away not the allegiance of one Subject alone but of the whole Kingdom and therefore corrupt Judges and he●dy Parasites who desgrace the good Laws of this Nation and misguide Governours who with reason and warrant enough enquire of and are conducted by them as men of skill and as they think conscience have ever been severely punished and by few ●ober persons pitied as by name Hubert de Burgh Pierce Gaveston and the Spencers Trifilion and the Earl of Oxford Henry de la Pool Lord Hastings Catesby and the Duke of Buckingham Empson and Dudley Card. Wolsey yea for injustice all the Judges in H. 4. time but M●tingham and Beckingham were removed and f●ned so that he that considers the punishment of Trea●on● Murther Rapes Riots and all kindes of injury that weighs the ●ecurity of trials for life and livelihoods by Juries of Gentlemen and Free-holders of fortune and fidelity he that views the Judges in their circuits the Justices of Peace in their Shire● Mayors and Bayliffs in their Corporations and Constables in their Liberties would wonder any disorder should arise much more passe unpunished But alas men are but men and God suffers some to give their conscience challenge to disturb them Judges who are men of years fortune and learning sworn to do right and to preserve men in so doing are highly accountable to God if fear or favour make them warp they should remember what that Noble Virgin Queen said when her Attorney Generall came near her and the Lord Burleigh told her Here is your Graces Attorney General Qui sequitur pro Domina Regina No said she I 'le have the words altered Qui sequitur pro Domina Veritate and when they do not as they ought between Prince and People man and man they deserve the judgement which Judge Belknap spake of and which they often adjudge lesser offenders to then themselves and if by craft or the favour of men they escape punishment here God sometimes suffers them to run the course of Morgans and Hankeford and others yea of one who a little before his end dreamed that he saw all the devils in hell haling and tugging him in peeces and all those whom he had murthered crying out for vengeance against him which the historian saith Non esse somnium sed conscientiam scelerum I know there are great temptations on brave men even in the best times Man is altogether vanity and acted by motives altogether unworthy him yet ought good men to eye God and consider his commands which bound Governours to rule justly and soberly as well as Subjects to obey loyalty and will take account of the errors in both and in both punish them Thus m●ch for the goodnesse of our Laws and the zeal of our Countreymen to them After the example of Antiquity this Nation hath been very observant of their habits

up houses for their Habitations and Rooms they use properly but suffer Churches to fall down or abuse some of them to other uses then they were designed for How much was Dioclesian discommended who contested for the priviledges of his Palace but cared not what became of the places dedicated to God And Nero who as much as in him lay butchered Christianity decried not only the Ordinances but the Feasts and Solemnities of the Religion yet then institutes his Juvenalia Feasts in memory of his beard then first cut and to make the folly more pompous the hairs of it forfooth must be put into a case of gold and be consecrated to Jupiter Aelia Catula an old noble Matron aged 80 years dances for triumph and those that do least make merry by singing and dancing It is no sign of great piety when men are bold onely upon the things of God When the World was under the power of Arians Church-plate and Treasure was seized upon and no place will serve the Tyrant Julian to piss against but the Communion Table nay when the bounty of a Constantine and Constantius shall be scoffed at by an Apostate Foelix in these words See how sumptuously the son of Mary is served And no less impiety is it to rifle from the Church-man his maintenance which some of late endeavoured but God brought their counsels to nought and their devices to none effect And just it was with God to scatter and disappoint them qui quaerunt mercedem Phineae sed operantur opera Zimri that is who cry up Christ and cry down his Servitors who ought to live upon his Patrimony and who are to receive maintenance from the Altar which they tend yea and exclame against Magistrates who ought and do defend them There is no need to dispute the right of Tythes qua Maintenance The Christian Church in her purer times ever held Ministers worthy of maintenance and of double honour for their Calling sake and feared much to detain or curtail their dues or to alter the species and manner of conveying it to them Those Christians were ever carefull to give the labourer his hyre and to minister temporals to such as to them imparted spirituals And therefore till the time of H. 8. I finde no Act of Parliament in this Nation that prescribes punishment for non-payment of Tythes the people held it so right a due to the Church-man that they made no scruple of it but if they failed the Law-spirituall punished them by pennance which they dreaded so much that they did seldom incurre it After that H. 8. had broke with the Pope and brought the Church-man under his lash then every one trampled upon the conquer'd worm The Parliament of the 27 th of his Raign seeing the inconvenience declared by Statute their judgment of such as refuse payment of Tythes And so they hold to this day and I hope ever will for Caesar ought to be a sonne of the Church Christ only is Lord and Master of it And let carnall and worldly spirits sleight the Church and her servitors yet they will in conclusion finde that whensoever the Churches last day shall be at hand the evening thereof will bring in the States ruin and dissolution So true is that of the Wiseman He that robbeth his father and mother and saith it is no transgression the same is the companion of a destroyer I know there are many who think sacriledg no sinne and the absorption of Tythes no sacriledg the Clergyman amongst those supernumeraries that ought to be disbanded and they would laugh to see Powers as dreadfull to the Clergy as was King John who accounted all spirituall m●n his enemies and was himself an enemy to them Or such times as that after when the Lord Chief-Justice declared openly Yee sirs that be Attorneys of my Lords the Archbishops Bishops c. and all other the Clergy declare unto your Masters and tell them that from henceforth there shall no Justice be done them in the Kings Courts for any manner of thing although never so heynous wrong be done to them but Justice shall be had against them to every one that will complain and require to have it There are some I fear who would make the portion of God not Benjamins a worthy portion but an Ishmaels an Issacars porton a mean and worthless trifle so good Patriots they are that they would dare God to curse the Nation as he did the Jews in Mal. 3. for exceeding the deeds of the wicked in robbing their God by taking away Tythes and Offerings ver 8 and 9. On which words Calvin presents God speaking thus to the Jews Compass ye the whole world go into the most barbarous nests of the Heathens ye shall finde no such gross licentiousness as is amongst you For those Nations barely by the light of nature give reverence to their gods and abhor to take sacrilegiously what is devoted to them But ye make no matter of defrauding me of what is mine own Am I inferiour to Idols is my prerogative less dear to you then that of false gods to those Nations Such it is plain there are but blessed be God I hope they will never prevail For if Pharaohs divinity and Josephs true piety abhorred to sell the Priests Lands God forbid that either their Lands or Tythes should be alienated in days that give themselves the name of Reformation And it ought seriously to be weighed by men in Power that besides the comeliness and piety of supporting those that are Gods messengers whose errand is to save our souls and the gratitude that ought to be expressed towards them that are our instructors in good letters as generally Clergy-men are and the greatest Masters of Art there is much worldly wisdom evidenced in countenancing the Clergy Magistrates are in nothing more self-preserving then while they make the Ministry of their party and by protection of them conjure them their humble servants in all wayes of honour and honesty And I think that if search be made in stories the Clergy one time with another have been as faithfull and forward in all worthy enterprises both of counsell and action as any which made Charls the Great no mean politician take their counsell and consent in all his warres and expeditions I do not say but that the spirituality may sometimes oppose the civil authority and employ their interests as they did in Henry the second of France his time for the Pope against him Prudence in that case may hinder such unkindness and punish it by preventing addition of what is combustible State Injunctious ought to repress causes of disturbance in any for Magistrates must not bear the sword in vain but when the Church-man is quiet and minds his ministration when he meddles with no secular things any further then they entrench upon Gods peculiar and exalt themselves against what is called God then to be narrow towards him is no argument of