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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87192	Londons charity inlarged, stilling the orphans cry. By the liberality of the Parliament, in granting two houses by Act, and giving a thousand pound towards the work for the imployment of the poor, and education of poor children, who many of them are destroyed in their youth for want of being under a good government and education, whereby they may be made serviceable for God, and the Commonwealth. Also this good work is much encouraged by the liberall contributions of many well-affected citizens of London, for the better carrying it on for the glory of God, the honor of the nation, and comfort of the helples poor. With a platform, how many officers needfull to govern 100 children in a work-house, with laws and orders for the schoolmaster to read to the children once a day for a time, afterwards twice a month, whereby they may be kept under a godly and civill government, to the great joy of good peopl. With other observations worthy the reading. / By S.H. a well-wisher to the nations prosperity, and the poors comfort.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing H993; Thomason E598_4; ESTC R206315	18,731	24

when the Constable saw him he admired that the Laws were so defect and he was sory the Country was so much troubled by carying and re-carying to no purpose then he asked the Begger where he did ever dwell he said at Bristol the Constable sent him away for that place and what became of him afterwards he could not tell Herein we find it is a trouble to a Commonwealth that a Constable hav no more proof concerning a wandering Rogues birth or abode but onely his bare word which may lye if he please as well as tell truth Consider in the next place how a careles ' Constable may prove an ill instrument to the Commonwealth for if a lusty Begger passe through the hands of many Constables safe as he is carying along the Country yet if at last he fall into the hands of a careles Constable he can make his escape and go into another part of our Nation and continue still a trouble and a danger to the Commonwealth for some of them are very desperate and envious if a Farmer give not them an alms to their own mind or a crosse-word they care no more to set his Barn and Ricks of corn on fire then to light a pipe of Tobacco so desperate many of them are to do a mischief by day or by night wherefore in my apprehension ther 's no better way to guide Beggers to their homes then by way of the Carier for some Cariers hav been complained of for bringing boyes and girles and leave them at London upon the charge of this City I conceive a Carier or Wagoner are the fittest men to convey Beggers that dwell about 30 miles from London for Trunk provided the Parish pay the Carier for his paines and if the Carier or Wagoner do not perform their care for the good of the Commonwealth let a penalty be laid upon on them by this means the Constable will be freed and the Country eased of such persons that are a pest and trouble to our Nation And if in case a lusty vagrant should say he was born a hundred miles or more not then to have a Passe but rather be kept to work either in the house of Correction or in the Gallies or clensing of streets I mean little narrow places where carts seldome come with such like imployment till such time they can be sent to the English Plantations unlesse such can procure good security to live orderly I have no more to say but beseech the Lord that your Lordship with the rest of the Corporation may be tender fathers to the honest poor and severe to the obstinate knowing as I said before you have the Law of God and our Nation to strengthen your hands and the power of Parliament to countenance you For which shal be the daily prayer of him who is Your humble servant S.H. To the Right Honorable His Excellency Tho. Lord Fairfax Generall of the English Army Right Honourable THat which sets the chiefest Diadem upon great persons is not so much in their birth and blood Royall as in their Piety and Charity such persons whose hearts God hath seasoned with the graces of his holy Spirit they are of a hyer bloud then those that are born from Emperors and great persons such as they are but born of the flesh they are not born of the the Spirit And Christ tells us If we are not born of the Spirit that eternall Royall seed we shall never enter into the Kingdom of God By this we find My Lord that there is a necessity to seek after this second birth being of the Spirit from the Spirit of God as our first birth is of the flesh and from the flesh of men the first birth is a fading birth that shall perish the last birth is a lasting birth that shal never perish it shal never dye as Christ saith viz. They shall never dye in the spirit though they suffer death in the flesh and our Saviour Christ bids his peopl Not to fear them that can but kill the body but are not able to destroy the soul My Lord I hear many boast of their first birth which is but from sinfull man at the best but I hear but few in comparison of the other to boast or glory any thing in their second which is from the highest birth Royall of all inasmuch as the is none greater then he who is not only called King of Kings but King of the Saints that is King of Kings to overpower them for they are in hands like Rivers of water that have their tydes who have their flowings and swellings ebbings and fallings as pleaseth the Lord and he is also called the King of Saints because he is their Governor and Protector therefore he is not ashamed to say I will be your Father and you shall be my children and Christ his dear Son is not ashamed to call them Brethren By this we find that the Saints whether rich or poor noble or ignoble are in great favour with God and Christ And the Apostle St. James saith God loves the poor that are rich in faith and the poor so qualified through the grace of Jesus Christ are in a capacity to hav a right to the hy birth-right of the Royall bloud of Heaven which is the hyest birth and bloud of all And truly My Lord whereas God and Christ loves the poor I rejoyce when I see rich men and great men love the poor that excell in vertue And this I must speak to the Honor of your Excellency that both your self and the Officers of your Army have been cordiall in propagating the cause of the poor and their miseries in that your Lordship upon request of some wel-affected to send two or three Letters some of them to the Parliament and one to the Lord Mayor of the City of London late deceast that they would improve their power and interest for the carying on of this good work That poor children that beg may hav maintenance imployment and godly education and all sorts of wandring poor kept under a daily government whereby God may be glorified and good peopl hav joy and comfort in it 't is a mercy to a Nation when great men are good men seeking to advance Piety and Charity more then their own honors and we hav cause to bles God that hath made you instrumentall for the honor of God and the good of the poor and for the continuance of these mercies to the Nation It shall be my daily prayer with the peopl of God that Piety and Charity may never fail you to your dying day and that you may then everlastingly enjoy that heavenly birth-right and by bloud Royall spoken of before Your Excellencies most humble servant in the Lord S. H. To the Reader Christian Reader PICTURS of misery mooves the hearts of mercifull peopl to greev the condition of the poor is like the picturs in the begining of the Book decypher'd out some Crying some Dying in the