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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52885	A rich treasure at an easie rate: or, The ready way to true content A short and pleasant discourse manifestly shewing how inconsistent riches is with piety usually, and how opposite poverty is often. Together with the happy agrement and conjunction of honest labour, real godliness, and soul-content. By N. D.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1678 (1678)	Wing N569D; ESTC R181476	17,986	119

Curiosity Prodigality was upper Butler and under him Ryot and the Cup they all drunk in was call'd Excess a foul great Cup it was and looking on it to see what mark it had I observed three letters but all three D's but yet not standing together But the one near the brim the second in the middle the third in the bottom Many would guess what these three letters might mean some said it was Donum Domini Divitiarum The name of the Donour But they of the house said the first D. was Delight the second Drunkenness and the third was Drowziness But there dwelt an old Man not far off whose name was Gravity a comely old Man of much Learning and great experience upon whose Counsell all the neighbours did much rely yea I have known when Labour and Godliness and Content too have gone to advise with him But he had been discharged from looking into Riches his house he told me these three letters were set on by the same hand that wrote the three words on Belshazzar's wall and that the first D. did signifie Disease the second D. Death and the third he was sure was Damnation And were it not too long a Digression I could tell you what Children Riches had and what Grand-children And since I hear what is become of all Riches was now an old Man he had had two Sons and two Daughters Both his Sons died without issue in their Fathers life so that he saw his name was like to perish whatever became of the estate The eldest Son was called Honour the Fathers darling and the hopes of all the Family but a weakly Child he was and never likely to be long liv'd he died yong and put all the House into Mourning they lament the loss of Honour to this day The younger Son was called Ambition one of an haughty and aspiring minde and of a working restless spirit he was one still in every desperate and mischievous plot was betraid and came to an untimely and shameful end and no Man pitied him The two Daughters were Delicacy the elder more like the Mother and Avarice the younger more like the Father The elder was always an unruly and wanton Girl never like to come to good and when her Mother had provided a great match for her preferment she had cast her self away upon one of her fathers servingmen call'd Prodigality they agreed like dogs and cats and they had an only daughter whose name was Infamy Avarice was resolved to be ruled by her Father and by his perswasion she was bestow'd on his Steward oppression his chief servant whom he said he loved as dearly as if he had been his own child he told his daughter Avarice he would make the best husband for her in the world that they were sure never to want they not theirs for if she could but save the husband would be sure to get But they had not a good day together neither but lived quite besides what they had and they had an only daughter whose name was Misery These two Grandchildren Infamy and Misery are all that at present are left of Riches Race they are yet living and like to live many a day But to return to his Servants again Luxury was his Cook Gluttony his Carver Malice was his Secretary But he made most of two above all the rest Flattery the one his greatest favourite and Calumny the other These two had the length of his foot the one could make him angry and the other pleased with whom they would and whensoever they listed I had like to have forgot his Chaplain for he would be thought to be religious too his name was Sir Iohn Reader He was no Scholar at all though he said he had taken a degree in the University But he had two properties which gave general content to all the house he could mumble them over a few short Prayers out of the Book and when he had done he could bowl and drink and swear with the best of them all the day after Now the house being stored with such servants there was nothing but disorder to be seen they could none of them endure Godliness but made songs of him scoffed and jeered at him and all his actions yea made themselves merry with his very gestures and quarrel'd with his Children and Servants Nor did they well agree among themselves for there would be often swearing cursing banning and fighting among themselves Prodigality and Covetousness could never agree though Covetousness and oppression ever held together Malice Calumny and Flattery often jarred and differed And as for Ryot he could agree with never a one of them but only Pride Chap. 4. Godliness Complains to Riches of his Servants and is ill intreated Godliness comes to Riches in a courteous way and tells him privately of their miscarriages and withall tells him if he keep these Servants longer they will undo him for ever peswades him to reform his Family because he wish't him well and to turn away these old Servants and he would commend better to him which should be more for his Credit and Profit too But Riches grew very hot and would not hear him speak but fell foul on Godliness and fell from railing to striking and then calls his Servants to help him and first of all his Chaplain who was no ways able to hold Argument with Godliness but he could out-wrangle and out-rail Godliness and Gravity both he would needs bring Scripture to consute Godliness and he had one place very ready and it was all the Scripture he was acquainted with Eccles. 7. 16. Be not righteous over much neither make thy selfe overwise for why shouldest thou destroy thy self or desolate they self and lose thy neighbors and thy friends Here he had thought he had knocked Godliness down But instantly Godliness had his answer ready and bad him read the next words Be not overmuch wicked neither be thou foolish why shouldest thou die before the time Sir Iohn was presently non-plust that he had not a word of Scripture more but fell to downright railing Then did Riches call for his other servants to second his Chaplain and bad Pride and Malice and Calumny to pay him soundly and if they four were not able to do it he would send for Oppression to set him further off and he vowed he would never endure him while he liv'd nor suffer him to live quietly by him for next his old mortal enemy Poverty whom he had sent packing he protested to hate Godliness more than any creature alive yea he swore to it two that he hated him more than he did the very Devil And old Iezabel looking out of her Window cryed Spare him not knock him down or send him packing for I cannot abide the very looks of him Chap 5. Godliness his servants and Pedigree Riches Servants and his fall out NOw Godliness had a few Servants of his own training up well bred fit to serve the best

Noble-man in the Land but he had not many to spare He had tried to breed up more but he could do no good on many of them or they would not tarry with him Such a one was Ignorance but he resolved not to be taught and he said he never came thither to be Catechized Errour would have dwelt with Godliness too as he said but he must have the liberty of his Conscience as he call'd it Singularity made offer of his service but he would indent with him to go hear when and where he pleased Hypocrisie was more importunate than any one to be his cheif Servant and companion too and with his fair language and Scripture-expressions he had wrought himself for a while into a fair Opinion with Godliness Oh he had such a tongue that he was able to deceive any Man alive and indeed he began so well that had his deed been as good as his word and had he held out as he began he had been an extraordinary good servant yea Hypocrisie would fain have been exercising his gift and said he had spoken often in private meetings with great applause but he never cared for joyning in prayer with other and they could never perceive that he used any private Prayer by himself therefore his Master fell into Suspition of him first for his much Talk and his many Brags and having set two of his old tried Servants to observe him Humility and Sincerity they inform'd their Master they found him out to be a very Cheat a notorious Lyar and such a cunning Dissembler that ye could not tell when to believe him yea they set him out to be such a dangerous fellow that he was enough to spoile the whole Family at least to bring up an ill Report against them all therefore they desired their Master to rid the House speedily of him or there was no staying for them Godliness presently calls for him admonisheth him to mend his Manners and in a great Passion for it was said he was never so much moved with any one in all his life he charged him to be presently put out of doors and never to come near his House unless he brought Repentance and Experience along to pass their word for him that he was now another man nay Godliness was so passionate that for his sake he said he would never have any one of that name come into his Family again And would you think it Idleness had a mind to the service but he asked great wages and yet would do nothing nor would he so much as promise to mend But he had a few faithfull servants whose names were Faith Hope Charity Repentance Experience Humility Sincerity Temperance Sobriety c. He had also many good friends all the old Patriarks and holy Apostles and Prophets where his near kinsmen and intimate acquaintance and he is said to derive his Pedegree from the second Adam from whom he is lineally descended and his Wives Name was Philadelphia But his servants he keeps all hard to work and among them is not the least difference or discord in the world but they lived in the greatest peace and quietness that could be till Riches Servants and those meeting there would be old falling out presently for the disordered company that Riches kept would be still offering some Abuse or other to them and upon Complaint made to their Master he said he would maintain them in it and had set them on of purpose to weary out Godliness and that he was a● the charge of a Chaplain only to oppose the Power of Godliness Chap. 6. Godliness and Poverty fall out GOdliness thus driven away by Riches's means and his servant Oppression removes to the very end of all the town where Poverty dwelt in an old ruinous Shed without either Door or Window or Fire or Chiemney or so much as a Bed to lie upon yet extream stout often boasting of his Family and what his Ancestors had been as good as Riches and I think no less for wherea● Riches could pretend t● no higher Pedigree tha● Nabal of whom he wa● begotten when he lay sick of the Stone in hi● Heart and died a few dayes after whence a● the Posterity have ha● that disease hereditarily cleaving to them mor● or less Poverty would vaunt often that h● could derive his Pedigree from Noah fo● Cham his Son was his great Grandfather and his Motto he keeps to this day A Servant of Servants But I rather think he may carry his Pedigree beyond Noah and derive himself from the elder Son of Father Adam whose name was Cain who after he was ●riven from the pre●ence of the Lord had his Legacy given him that he and all his Posterity should be Vaga●onds and Runagates Godliness I say remo●ing hither did expect ●o have enjoyed more peace and quietness for he meant not to wrong Poverty one farthing but to do him all the good he could but he was much disappointed Poverty was very stout and scornful not to be spoken to neither and Sloth his wife was a very nasty slut and a terrible Scold withall a many poor Children they had all in rags bred up to nothing in the earth but Idleness lying b●gging and pilfering He had now ever a Servant nor had had many a day for when once he had one whose name was Wast all he had little for him to do nor would he stay at home to see what he did but left him to himself and he ran away with the best Coat he had This Poverty was a very ill husband if he got a penny he must to the Alehouse next door and there he spent it and came home as drunk as a beggar He was ever abroad yet kept none but bad company and besides he loved his bed and his belly out of all cry He had been at first I was informed put to a trade but he would never stay with his Master nor would he like any trade at all then he turned Souldier there for a while he swaggered and of a Beggar was now become a Gentleman and had his two Men waiting on him and both horsed their names were Stroyal and Lowal and while his Pay Free-quarter and Plunder lasted they ruffled it in Buffs and Beavers and Scarlets and Gold-lace A little after his Father died and left him a little Lumber and that he soon spent or pawned and made it away Godliness comes to him and tells him if he will but hearken to him and they two may live together he will put him in a way to thrive tells him what he would advise him to but he finds Poverty altogether as cross as Riches was before and there was no living by him neither Chap. 7. A digression telling the short story of Stroyal and Lowal I Could tell yon a long story of those two companions I named in the last Chapter viz. Stroyal and Lowal if I thought it were not too far a digression from Godliness whom we

and before his Creation among the Angels and before their Creation had been with the blessed Trinity from all Eternity He was not often seen on Earth since Adam's Exile out of Paradise yet now and then hath he given a visit to some of Labours Friends and Godliness's Acqnaintance He is alwayes attended with many Gallant Followers His chief Friends I well remember of whom he made most account were call'd Iustification Adoption Sanctification and Assurance and one above all the rest call'd Peace of Conscience He was wont also often to speak of a great Benefactor long since Deceased to whom he was infinitely obliged who had been the Maker of him He would say how dearly he had loved him he still call'd him his Lord and Saviour at every word sure then it could be no other than the Son of God how he had done and suffered much for his sake who had never deserved the least savour from him that had it not been for his singular Bounty and extream Sufferings his Name had never been Content but Sin Misery and Despair for he had been in great Distress and Danger having many great Enemies to deal with and many unconceivable Calamities lay upon him But by flying to him acquaintance with him and submission to his Yoke he had found this unexpressible Rest i● his Soul He related also how he had bestowed on him on a Coat of divers Colours one so pure White as no Fuller on Earth could whiten which is the clean Linnen and white the Righteousness of Saints call'd the Righteousness of Sanctification The other so Red as the purest Blood on Earth not the Blood of Abel could make so pure Red. This is the Righteousness of Believers known by the Name of The Righteousness of Iustification before the Throne of God And that he had besides much Grace already bestowed promised him a rich Robe and Crown of Glory He had also many good Servants all Nobly descended which ever waited on him call'd Faith Hope Charity Humility Patience Long-suffering and Perseverance and two trusty Counsellors who in all difficulties assisted him call'd Prayer and Promises He and his Retinue make that Place and Family happy wheresoever they do but Lodge This Noble Content in his return Home-wards call'd in at Poverties Shed enquiring if there were any Room for such guests they said no but likely at the further end of the Town where Riches dwelt there they might finde entertainment Thither they hastened and desired entrance but were answered That none neither knew him or any of his Company nor ever heard of such names unless at a house mid-way between this and Poverties call'd Godlinesses next door to Labours There they had heard of some such unusual and out-landish names as Sobriety Temperance c. so shut the Door upon him only one of the Family said He would do him the Courtesie to shew him the Way though he would not go along with him Thither this Noble Man comes and viewing Labour's Buildings Orchards and Gardens he liked all well But the next Door he was told was Godliness's Dwelling there he knocks They were then at Prayers he stays till all was done Then comes Godliness to the Door and knew him as soon as he heard his voice He told him he had long expected his Company that he had had a Promise that he was to come that way Now he was welcome and there was Room enough for him and all his Company Content replyed A little Room is enough for thee and me and any Provision that Godliness could make would please him were it never so homely We have not long to stay here away we must and at our Father's House is that will make amends for All. Had you seen their Meeting you would have thought you had seen Melchizedeck meet Abraham again to bless him or Isaac blessing Iacob or Iacob falling on Ioseph's Neck and saying I have enough since I have seen thy Face or that you had seen Peter entring into Cornelius his House who had been long waiting for him Chap. 13. The happy agreement and cohabitation of Content Godliness and Labour THere he entred and stay'd and together they dwelt and now was that little corner out of the way the happiest place in the World and a new Paradise for it was no other than the Suburbs of Heaven a little distant from it whence along a narrow way leading over a narrow Bridge and a strait Gate was an entrance into a stately City full of beautifull and uniform Buildings and a most goodly Temple The best Room in Riches House was not comparable to the meanest Lodging there nor was Solomon's Temple comparable to this That was built by Man Labour and Godliness joyning in the work This by God himself built and inhabited But now did Labour think himself happy that ever Godliness came to be his Neighbour and teach him his Mystery He had never prayed before but now Godliness had throughly instructed him and taught him a better Art and the way of thriving And Godliness himself was much happier than he was before since Content came to dwell with him who not only joyned with him in Prayer and all other Duties of his Secular and Religious Calling too but taught him to praise God to sing rejoyce and depend on God yea to joy in God and in all he put his Hand unto more than ever he had done before There they continued together and are at present for there I left them when I came out to call Thee Reader So that if thou knowest any that ask the way to Contentment's Lodgings let him not go to Riches Palace or think to find him in Poverties Shed But about the mid-way between them in an Inner-room of Godliness's call'd Sincerity hung round with Purity of Heart having the lively Image of Christ in every side and beset thick with the rich Jewels of Saving Graces of several kindes interwoven the very next Door to honest Labours There I desire thee to go and rest thee promising to come to thee as soon as I can where I am sure we shall be merry and more than so happy For what can make a Man so happy on Earth as Godliness with Content which is the greatest Gain having not only the Promises of the Life which now is but of that which is to come through Jesus Christ our Lord who is the Crown of Crowns to Content as Content is the Crown of Godliness and Godlinesse the Crown of Labor where there shall be no FINIS But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 HEre five in a Town divided we see Three against two two against three Riches and Poverty cannot agree Nor can Riches abide true Piety Riches and Labor cannot accord Content cannot stay where Riches is Lord. Proud Poverty too must needs disagree With Labour Content Piety all three But these Three last Together hold fast Where they do meet Green Herbs are sweet A Treasure they bring 'Bove that of a King To Heaven they t●d There let me end N. D. Quod figurate dicitur non est mendacium Omnis enim enunciatio ad id quod dicitur referenda est Aug. ad c●ncent Riches and Poverty at first neighbours They cannot agree Their p●●ting Riches Godliness are neighbours a while The Character of godliness Riches souls out with godliness Riches his many bad Servants and their Names Their 〈◊〉 Offices 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and her waiting-woman Riches his Cup. And Grand children Riches his Chaplain They are 〈◊〉 Enemies to godliness They fall out among themselves too Godliness his Servants Poverties Description Riches his Pedigree and Poverties compared Godliness perswaded 〈◊〉 to the Court but he refuseth Or to go into the Army Or to travel Or to go into a Closter Or into a Desert ●●●ours antient and honourable Pedigree Labours house Contents extraction Contents friends His great Benefactor Contents servants His two Counsellors Poverty no Friend to Content Riches no Friend to Content Content Friend Labour Content comes to Godliness's House Their meeting and embraces A direction to such as seek for content where they shall finde him