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B07949	Out-port-customers accompt, of all his receipts, to a shilling, or a penny, without concealement or enstaulement of any; according to his oath at his first admission. Wherein he plainely sets downe, as well the motiues and occasions, as the method and style of all his former writings ...	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1627 (1627)	STC 17935; ESTC S123346	67,239	64

backward for euen out of Confusion Perfection may bee drawne as Truth by the Causes of Truth comes once to be knowne so by this I perceiued Foelix qui poterit Rerum cognoscere Causas Now GOODNES TRVTH and WISEDOME make but one Essence and being euer linkt together I found that GOD himselfe was both All and eyther and therefore All-sufficient and onely All in All which first made me bolde and thus to read out AB IOVE PRINCIPIVM For all things in the World God alone excepted affecting to be happy besides the inclination they haue in themselues for vse or knowledge drawe helpes from others to externall perfection and whatsoeuer they seeme to acquire the same they tearme alwaies positiuely their Good but that wherein perfections selfe doth rest their Summum Bonum or Soueraign blisse For of things that are called but simply Good and sought but for themselues some are as Instruments to direct and help vs to the End of our desires of which sort are Riches others also we wish for in regard of themselues as Health Wisedome Honour yet not being the marke that wee gladly would hit our Desires still proceede Thus we are first borne to labour we labour to eate we eate still to liue and we liue to do good by some calling or other in the Church or Common-Wealth Wherein all we doe or can doe euen our best endeuours are but as seed sowen with a reference and respect to some further future Haruest so that still we proceede till wee come to a pawse whereat we needs must rest There are likewise some thinges desired but only for themselues because the Desirers imperfection can affect them no further as Cattle doe their foode But that which Man seekes for with referencc alwaies to a further End that he still desires with a Meanes and Measure euery way conuenient and fitted to that End and to the Good he affects onely as Good within it selfe his desire is infinite so that vnlesse that Good be likewise infinite in it selfe he erres in his choise and mistakes his End as they that seeking Happinesse place their Summum Bonum in popular applaud worldly Wealth or Pleasure Omnis Forma Boni infunditur secundum meritum Materiae But nothing can indeed be infinitely desird saue that Good which in it self is euery way infinite for the better any Good is the more to be desird that alone most desird wherein there is abiding an infinity of Goodnes Bonum quo Communius eò semper melius so that where any thing desird hath an infinity of Beeing or is infinite in it selfe that of all Things that can Be is of all Beings to bee most of all desired But nothing Is or can Be infinitely Good saue GOD. He therefore Mans highest happinesse Summum Bonum and perfect Blisse DEVS Tantum Infinite Bonus ergo summum Bonum Now Desire tends to Vnion with the Good which is desired for bare possession makes no Man happy but the vse and fruition of Goodnes being once obtain'd For Quò mihi Fortuna si non conceditur vti Then Happinesse thus speld and the wordes put together I was taught to pronounce to be that State of Life wherein wee so enioy Goodnesse in the height of all perfection that though we be but Men yet we liue as it were the very life of GOD himselfe Et Homo Homini Deus Perfection then of Happinesse residing still in Heauen the Throne of our GOD and the Earth but his Foot-stoole his infinite Goodnesse drawing our Desires must helpe vs vp thither by a kinde of Free-Traffique betweene his fixed Seat in Heauen and wandring Church on Earth his heauenly Inspirings downeward and our holy Desires vpward being as Angels or Marchants betweene GOD and vs. That as his Doctrine doth teach Him for our Supreame Truth and our Prayers confesse Him for our Soueraigne Good so our Faith in him aboue belaying our Happinesse our Charity below must work out our Saluation by a Medium so conuenient both for Deity and Humanity as fits both GOD and MAN which can be no other then IESVS CHRIST himselfe Faith I say that workes still by Loue apprehending the Mercies of GOD the Father for the Merits of GOD the Son by the working of GOD the Spirit the Fountaine of all Grace and Mother of Obedience For great is the Mysterse that belongs vnto the Art of all our heauenly Happinesse Godlinesse or Piety by Goodnesse and Truth in the Doctrine of Religion the summe whereof is this GOD manifested in the Flesh iustified in the Spirit seene of Men and Angels beleeued in the World and receiued vp to Glory resides in Heauen For liuely Types whereof and speciall remembrances CHRIST IESVS Himselfe our Medium GOD and MAN before his departure and Asscention vp to Heauen to prepare our Happinesse besides his Word and Promise did leaue vnto his Church his sanctified Elements of Water Bread and Wine to comfort both our Bodies and confirme our Soules and Minds as in Mirrors to behold Him and as by Pledges to assure vs of his comming again to draw vs vp thither Namely Baptisme and the Eucharist at his owne last Supper Religion therefore as the Rule of Christian Piety by the Doctrine of Truth must lay the first foundation and safest Direction to our Summum Bonum and heauenly Happinesse ¶ Thus farre poore Cuctomers being taught to spell and read praising God with all their harts do cleerely pronounce and steadfastly beleeue which shewes them to be Christians If that which likewise followes approue them to be honest why should they not be happy as well as other Men ¶ Happinesse in perfection by that which hath beene speld being that estate of life wherein wee so enioy the fulnesse of all Blisse as though we be but Men yet we liue as it were the very life of God himself to liue the life GOD is to liue as in his presence and see his glorious face in the Maiesty of his Truth and Soueraignety of his Goodnesse No perfect Happinesse but by the sight of MAIESTY personally fixt To see therefore sacred MAIESTY euery way still fixt and SOVERAIGNTY subsist is the only state of life that perfects all happines both in Heauen and Earth In the seeking whereof for my selfe and for others as Piety directed my Desire vp to Heauen Primum querite Reg num Dei Deinde Meum Tuum by the Rules of true Religion so from Piety to Equity by the Rules of Meum and Tuum to see how MAIESTY stood fixt and how SOVERAIGNTY might subsist as well on Earth as in Heauen Magnifica MAIESTATIS descriptio Iustice to encourage me held vp my Booke and bad me be bold saying honest Man speake out whereupon I thus set forward Post Chaos vt primum data sunt tria Corpora Mundo Inque nouas species omne recessit opus Pondere terra suo subsedit aequora traxit Ad-Coelum leuitas in

I shall hold out the better For when all Churches were infected with the Arrian Heresie none stood for Truth but ATHANASIVS all alone the World against Him and He against the World with the Emperours displeasure and hazzard of his life whose Doctrine notwithstanding is a part of our Lyturgie and now taught for our Creede such is the power of constancy and Truth And there was a time likewise when the whole Christian World was all set on fire kindled by disputes and distracted by opinions about the Head of the Church Militant Apostolikely Catholike and some points of Religion wherin Truth found few fauorers and vnfained friends indeed but the zealous endeuors of an humble minded Fryer LVTHER and who could then haue thought or any waies beleeued that against such mighty enemies and strong oppositions so weak a Man means shold euer haue preuailed but Magna semper veritas preualuit preualebit to GODS eternall Glory our Neighbors daily comfort our Kingdoms Happines aboue al parts of the World eyther publike or priuate And doth not the like euen now I say now by the Truce in the Netherlands offer it selfe in Iustice to helpe vs againe to our owne Home-borne Free-borne Traffique that cryes but for passage and desires to be releeued from the Pride of Anwarpe the Ingratitude of Bruges from the Taxes of Flanders Impostes of Italie and Embargoes of Spaine What though those Workes and nine bookes of SIBYLS whereof three were dearely bought The Sybils wrote 9. Bookes of Ciuil Gouernment so highly valued as none durst buy them Of which Tarquinius Priscus at last bought three and gaue as much for thē as the nine altogether were formerly esteemed at 1. The Customers APOLOGY 2. His REPLY or second Apology 3. His CAVTION again●s extreamity by Farmers 4. His true vse of PORT BANDES 5 His ALPHABET and PRIMER for orderly Commerce 6. His Acroamata for Bullion at Staples 7. His Answere prepared about Bands of Employments 8. His Mystery of Iniquity 9. His Customers Accompt declaring the saide Mystery and carefully preserued by Tarquine the elder bee all burnt vp and gone by Stillico that Traytor Ne tantum Patrijs saeuiret Proditor Armis Sancta Sybillinae fata cremauit Opis We haue the BIBLE and NEVV-TESTAMENT that alone and of themselues are able and sufficient to shew the way to happinesse to all that are not obstinate and despise their owne saluation Besides nine workes yet extant of a Customers best endeuours as fit for our purpose perhaps as those were Yea what though that Heathens AGROAMATA of Kingly Doctrine so grauely discust and attentiuely heard were so richly rewarded with Talents of Gold and ours not regarded Non est mortale quod opto Nay what though euen TVLLY-DE-REPVBLICA which learned men so wish for and Cardinall POOLE so sought for euen with the losse of all his Crownes be held for forlorne and no where to bee found Our ALPHABET is extant as fit for Great-Britain as that for the Romans and of all to bee seene in the Amalthaean Vatican of our late TARQVINIVS PRISCVS Sir Thomas Bodlies Library at Oxford whose Care and Loue to lerning in the Kingdome of the Muses deserues a golden Crowne And this is more my comfort The light all they saw by were but Glimses of the beams of our most glorious SONNE Their best Enthusiasmes were but motions to Honesty from the ful free Infusions of the SPIRIT of adoption that sanctifies all our wits blesseth our endeuours and illustrates my Theame And their clearest waters but borrowed from the streames of that euer-flowing FOVNTAINE that runs so frankely and serues our turnes so well Besides the true Christian Catholick Religion takes my part whereof they could not tell For this our Traffick being nothing else but a frank and free-barring of one good thing for another or a buying and selling of Vendible Wares for ready Gold and Siluer betweene Subiects and Allies at Places conuenient according to the Rules of reciproke Commerce generally intending al Honor vnto Kings and all Wealth to Common-weales doth plainly lay open vnto such as list obserue them all those fiue Vowelles in twice fiue substantiall words that makes vs all to speak both for 1. Matters u. u. KING and PRINCE v. PRIVY-COVNCELL w. COMMON-WEALE 2 Persons 3. Place 4. Order 5. End and sound the protection of all our 1. Liuings 2. Liberties 3. Liues 4. Honors and 5. Peace of our Land For the first being put for a. The second sounds e. The third stands for i. And the fourth for o. But the fift points out u. u. SIRS and v. my Lords w. and All. But that which ioyes me most and reuiues my Spirits withal is this This points to a Parlemēt which Customers wish and hope for yet in very good time for the KINGS fixed Honor and States prosperity howsoeuer Guilt Feare or Ignorance seeme to doubt or diswade it When CASTOR came alone to the top of our Mast POLLVX did but follow I had cause to doubt the weather but now CASTOR and POLLVX the Gods of our Seas that are able and powerfull to warrant our Trafficke comming both againe togither doe boade vs all good lucke for the Winde turnd North shewes the stormes almost gone and skilful PALINVRVS comming now to Port or Helme obserues himselfe our Compasse bidde Marchants standes by and giues both hope and comfort of attaining at last to our long desired Port that 's now within a kenning for the forelands apear And our Barke is strong enough to beare out all our Leakes therefore be of good cheare Saint George heeretofore now GOD and CHRIST to borrow Our Loadstones proue as good as euer they wer and our Compasse is true therfore bear aloofe but a while for feare of the Goodwines by the cape of good hope to the Island of Exchange the Hauen of all safety and Port of Peace and R●st where Bounty now commaunds For Reliquis tantùm sinus est statio malefida carinis But admit all this were nothing which by way of Accompt hath beene hitherto set downe or a Paradox at least Mine APOLOGY but Humor my REPLY a Conceipt mine ALPHABET a Dreame and my MYSTERY but a lest because a Customer only speaks yet if this be but beleeued that Truth tels Sense and Reason and Goodnesse doth suggest namely that looke what the Soule is to the actions of the body in ordering Members so as to Nature seemes fit for the good of the whol Man the same is Trafficke in disposing Mysteries and Trades to the benefit and behoofe of the whole Common-weal thogh our ISIS be gone and no Image of hir face yet Aegeus our DAY STAR being risen in hir place and his hopefull THESEVS like the DAWNING of all Grace apearing in our eyes so reuiues my dull SPIRITES that I cannot dispair but liue stil in hope that the time may yet come when this hearty zeale of mine to my Soueraignes

and Water-tight in the breaches and wants of Commutatiue Right had Traffick but her Staples as Religion hath her Temples we would soone make Verses in praise and commendation of our Prelats and our Nobles of our Prince and our Peeres and sing all Alleluiah to the great KING of Heauen Aux Chicanneurs l'honneur n'ha poynt de lieu Car sans argent vous parlez en Hebrieu But this part of Iustice being most out of frame and disturbing all the rest Commutatiuely keepes downe our voyces which now falling out and fitted for my Lesson I must by my Letters goe spell out the wordes that belong to the Titles of my Soueraignes Tributes Wherein being thus farre proceeded by the helpe of Grace and Goodnesse and Religion with Iustice being both on my side I resolu'd by the Medium to dig on and delue for Truth the Foundation of Felicity and so become happy For since the Oxe is not muzled that treads out the Corne by the Rules of Religion and Iustice allowes to each labourer his hire I saw no right nor reason why seruing at the Altar I might not hope at least at last to liue thereby though I held my peace For Assai demanda encor che mai non grida chi ben seruendo tace And why treading out the path of happinesse for others I should be put by Therefore hauing now learnde all my Letters and CHRISTS Crosse being my speed and the Holy-Ghost lowly setting forward I thus began to fly ¶ Habet Musca splenem formicae sua bilis inest The PRIMER Yet far be it from Customers to value themselues by way of reuenge or disgracing of others But since al men euen by Nature desire to be happy by the rules of Right and Reason and Religion bids Reason haue an eye still to Nature and be next her selfe of all worldly happinesse if the meanest be but Wealth and reputation cheefest Honour being held a recompence for all our losse besides If all quit their Liuings for their Liberties to worke Nature giues no priuiledge for any to be idle If all forgoe their Liberties for the purchase of their Liues If Liuings Liberties Liues and All seeme nothing to our Credits And if GOD so prise his holy Name that he is Ielous of his Glory to shew how his LIEVTENANTS should be curious of their Honour I came at last to see and therewithall to wonder that the Names euen of KINGES GODS immediat Lieutenants nay of GOD himselfe through Ignorance and her Fellowes are subiect to disgrace as well as Customers But as Quaedam sunt non videntur and Quaedam videntur non sunt omnino So Plus quandoque valet in Rebus promouendes opinio Ignorantium quàm Rei veritat Which made me to consider that though Piety and Equity were the Arts of Felicity yet as euery Text had his Glosse and euery Art her Mystery so Religion beeing the Rule for Apprentises of Piety to learne the way to Glory shew'd the Eucharist for Mystery And the setled Art of Equity that raiseth all to Honour by the rules of honest Iustice for her Mystery had Exchange The first being wholly heauenly and fastned to Diuinity is taught by Diuines and I am but a Customer yet a faithfull Christian Catholique and a Loyall Kentish Man But the other from Humanity more fit for sence and reason with dim eyes and trembling handes to show the best endeuour of a feeble wit and weaker braines I gaue my selfe to spell and directly to discouer An Argument I confesse of a higher pitch and farre greater compasse then I did or could imagine when I tooke it first in hand wherein hazzard euen at first did very much discourage me in respect of the times In the midst by Friends I was many waies disswaded in regard of the paines and I had giuen it ouer for I wrought all alone but for the Enthusiasme and Spirit of Adoption still sounding in mine eares Religion takes thy part and Iustice on thy side Ton Ame ne doibt ta flamme estant diuine Rien ayme ny seruir si'l n'est egual aux Dieux Thy Soule is so beset by Vowes that are Diuine Thou shalt not tread amisse let not thy heart decline By whose perswasion when I had but once begon my conscience thrust me forward and thus preuaild at last Ie veulx quùn bel ozer honore ma ruyne Et si'l fault que Ie tombe Ie l'ay voulu des cieulx Then danger stand aside quoth I since Goodnesse cals me to it If ought doe put me by t is Wisedomes hand shall doe it My stayes besides were these As Goodnesse cal'd me forward so Truth was still my Ground which as Time did suggest Experience still supplide My Pen Oportet made and was euer apt to mend beeing sworne to doe my best Order gaue the Forme but the Stile I still suspected and sawe some cause to doubt till Prayer in conclusion vndertooke to perfect or perswade the best so that if the Phrase for the plainenesse might passe without offence I was sure the Matter for importance might deserue a double and treble reading Now the Matter indeede was Traffique I meane our owne Free-borne Trafficke that honest Nurce of Iustice that so kindly feedes vs all and handled Ab effectis containes those selfe-same Customes for which the poor Schollers in the Out-Schooles of Tributes haue so long time bin subiect to bayting and beating and for which my selfe was so gratiously chidden Thus searching after Truth that onely of it selfe makes all in all happy though it be my hard fortune to worke still alone Quo fato nescio sed non sine Numine As my hope and comfort is yet following still mine ALPHABET and Lines of my PRYMER I came at last to spell those very ACROAMATA of Piety and Equity The Motiue and occasion of the ACROAMATA so fitly ioyn'd together by Religion and Iustice that leades all to Truth and so to Happinesse as made me read out plainely and write distinctly thus The Method and Stile of the ACROAMATA ¶ All Men by Nature are desirous to be Happy as well as Customers and ayme at Perfection by rules of Order and degrees of Goodnesse But Ignorance beeing euery way the Mother of Errors and Grandame of Mischeefes begotte with all those Inconueniences which pretend indeede Order but lead all to Discord Disorder and Confusion Is ought then out of Order and fit to bee reformed Consult but with Wisedome and wee neede not dispaire For Priuatio semper presupponit habitum Sicknesse it selfe showes a habit first of Health and the disproportion'd Disposition of any Function high or low doth argue an Intention and possibility of Order Nay Ignorance her selfe knowes and tels it all ouer that ERRORS haue no Being but in absence of Truth and vnawares to her selfe doth teach Reformation how in seeking after Truth the best rule of Order in finding her to wander is still to looke

Maiesty layde out at the Standart of Iustice to value Goodnesse by Iustice Vt quòd vspiam nasciter boni id apud omnes affluat and by Soueraignty made currant in all vendible Commerce Quia omne quod efficit Tale id ipsum magis Tale esse semper oportet Dis order Error Iniustice What Danger like Disorder What Disorder like to Errors And what Error like Iniustice when Subiectes become Coyners the onely Trade of Kings Lastly if the Mysticall practise of Goodnesse Truth and Wisedome that is meant by Exchange be that Ars Artium and vera Ars regnandi which visibly demonstrates those heauenlie Aspectes themselues of MAIESTY and SOVERAIGNTY that Deity imparts vnto Mortall Men on Earth by the Name of KINGS in the stamping of their Coyne Or if the Standarts themselues with all their proportions of Weights Numbers Standarts Proportions and Measures for generall Equity bee the Soueraignes charge onely as the Coynage of Money is their only Hoc-age and belongs to none but Maiesty and Exchange their Compasse to guide all courses right what greater Error then Priuat-mischiefe What greater Mischiefe then publike Inconueniences And what so inconuenient as that which peruerting both the Waightes Numbers and Measures in all our Proportions and Worth of all our Standarts debauching Equity in Actions and profaining Piety in the Consciences of Men by a Mysticall Iniquitie threates ruine and confusion to Empires Kinges and Kingdomes Iniquity Vsury VSVRY Against which Art of witch-craft Would God my Pen or Tongue could write or tell Or had the guift to make Men vnderstand Those strong and strange effects of mischiefes hatcht in Hell That Couetise by Vsury begets in euery Land Then Kinges and Counsels both would lift vp eyes and hand To see on Earth by this Idea made What Hell doth win and Heauen doth loose by this accursed Trade So that great out of question are the Mysteries of Popery by Impiety and Iniquity through Pride Presumption Couetise and Money the summe whereof is this One Man of sinfull Flesh obtruding vpon Deity and dispising Humanity without remorse of Conscience accursed of the Spirit supported by Cardinals Preached by Iesuites admired still by Flatterers tels Catholiques of a Purgatory but sends them straight to Hell resides at Rome Is not this the selfesame ANTI-CHRIST so long ago foretold that Childe of perdition and professed Aduersary to Religion and Iustice exalted aboue all that is or can be God or fit to be adored so seated in the Church on Earth that he boastes himselfe for GOD and brauing God and Kinges makes Emperours but his Footmen and Kings his very vassals in despight of God and Man Thus as Piety and Equity the two generall Fountaines of heauenly earthly Happines flowing euery way together from Religion and Iustice haue the Eucharist and Exchange by mutuall Loue and Grace to maintaine their currents for the Catholique good of Christians How Impiety Iniquity meete in one body of Popery Ecclesiastically and Secularly so Impiety and Iniquity the bane of all Felicity begot and hatcht together in our Body of Popery and Doctrine of Idolatry by Merits and Free-will haue the Masse and Vsury to bewitch the world from Rome If then the Masse opposed to our EVCHARIST and contrary to our CREED which enioynes vs to beleeue as we look to be happy that IESVS CHRIST himselfe heere suffering for vs and for our Saluation ascended vp to Heauen and there sitting by his Father is thence to come againe to fet vs vp thither must needes bee Heresie by common Sence and Reason in all that doe beleeue it and a Sinne of higher Nature to such as in their Consciences being priuy to the contrary yet standing still obdurat refuse their owne Saluation and despise the Spirit of Grace shall not Vsury then I say be accounted high Treason And then what is Popery wherein both together meete But stand some-thing neerer and reade further yet If that MAN alone whose Natiue Bounty proceeding from Grace and gratious disposition setting foorth his Greatnesse aboue all other Men makes himselfe most honoured and reueren'st as a GOD with all Mens consent by the Name of KING If that KING I meane whose Essence being Bullion of the sefe-same Gold and Siluer which none can Coyne but he and shewes him to be KING giues many a thousand pound for his owne speciall Honor and benefit of all Now if that selfe-same Person being thus thy MAN-KING GOD to whom thy selfe among others by Nature and consent hauing vow'd thy Subiection as to thy lawfull SOVERAIGNE hast sworne Fealty and Allegiance or shouldst do at the least to comfort thee withall and make thee still mindefull of his Greatnesse and Grace should giue thee but an Angell a Shilling or a Penny for all comes to One How in GREAT-BRITTAINE to keepe out Popes and Popery by Number Waight and Measure at One Srandart of Truth as wel in RELIGLON Cathedrally as IVSTICE Distributiue●y ALL comes to ONE and ONE with ALL togither admire MAIESTY no where fixt personally but in ¶ One GOD eternall and only All-sufficient both in Heauen and Earth by the rules of Religion ¶ One KING successiue most powerfully subsistent both in Church Cōmon welth by the rules of Iustice ¶ ONE orderly Liturgie for Vnity and Truth in Piety and Deuotion in all Chappels Churches and Temples Cathedrally ¶ One reasonable Lawe for Obedience and Conscience in Equitie and Right in all Courts of Iustice Subalterne and Soueraigne Distributiuely ¶ ONE common Prayer to the Maiesty of ONE God Creator to auoide Idolatry and furtherance of our Trafficke vpward and downward for the daylye vse of Goodnesse called PATER-NOSTER ¶ ONE Currant kind of Mony to auoid Disloialty and shew the fixed Maiesty of one King Coyner for furtherance of our Traffick outward inward by Meum Tuum shew the vse of Bullion cald a Penny ¶ Twelue constant Articles of One Standing Goodnesse to auoide Impietie make one Catholick Creed ¶ Twelue coined pence of one standing alloy to auoid Iniquity make one currant shilling ¶ Ten perfect commandements concerning God and Man containde in one Decalogue ¶ Ten currant shillinges betweene Soueraigne and Subiects comprisd in one Angell ¶ Two Sacramentes of Grace shew the Truth and Goodnesse of one Head Sauiour our Soueraigne per amount Christ Iesus ¶ Two Angels of Bountie shew the Greatnes and woorth of one Iacobus our Soueraigne per aual and annointed King Iames. ¶ In and through whose Goodnesse by Prayer and Thankes-giuing ONE ALL tog ther adoring Maiesty in Deity giue glory to one God the Father one God the Sonne and one God the Holy Spirite of al Wisedom Power and Grace with Alleluya in the Heauens Peace on Earth and Good-will amongest Men. ¶ In and through whose Greatnesse by Bountie and Exchange All and One togither admiring M●iestie in Royalty Honour one Kingdome of the Father one Principality of the son and the prouidenc