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B00562	Two godlie and fruitful treatises of the foule and grosse sinne of oppression. The one taken out of the exposition vppon the fift chapter of Nehemiah, written by that worthy bishop and faithfull pastor of the church of Durham, Master Iames Pilkinton. The other published of late by Robert Some Doctor of Diuinitie.	Pilkington, James, 1520-1576.; Some, Robert, 1542-1609.	1585 (1585)	STC 19929.5; ESTC S94728	18,655	46

not regarding how he commeth by it by hooke or by crooke by right or wrong be it short or long Here is nothing spoken particularlie against any mans vocation or occupation nor anie man that dealeth honestlie in them but generallie to note the generall faults of the offenders that euerie man may looke into his owne bosome consider his doings and amend one If euery one wold amend one all should be wel streight but euerie one would amend another see other mens faults but not his owne and therefore all lie still as they did nothing amended and euerie one maketh curtesie who shal begin first Sophony the Prophet complaineth of his time saith thy rulers are roaring lions thy iudges are rauening wolues and will not leaue the bones vntill morning by prophets are lewd and vnconstant thy Priests haue defiled the holy place and broken thy law Micheas crieth out and saieth there is not a good man left on the earth and not a righteous man among men all lie in waite for blood euerie man hunteth his brother vnto death c. God graunt our times were not like Among vs it is merilie said of some that there be some Courts where law is executed without conscience Another where conscience is without law the third where neyther law nor conscience the fourth where both law and conscience shall rule I can rather pray for then looke for vntill the last day come when the righteous Iudge shall iudge both with law conscience In the meane time we may mourne and turne vnto the Lord that he may forgiue vs and receiue vs in his manie and great mercies for we are full of many and great miseries The pride of women is through the fault of men therefore they be blameles God amend vs all It is written that Ioseph in Egipt vsed the people almost of like sort that they doe here 47. and yet is he praised and these iustlie reproued which possiblie some marueile at not vnderstanding the diuersitie of their doings Ioseph laid vp corne in the time of plentie when euerie man had ynough these men did it at al times without respect in plentie and scarsitie Ioseph brought the monie into the Kings cofers to serue the common wealth these men laid it vp in their owne Cofers to their owne priuate vse Ioseph bought their cattell for such price as they were worth these men pay not the iust price for anie thing they take Ioseph buieth their land and maketh the people bond vnto the King restoring them againe the land the King finding the seede to sowe the people onelie labouring to till the ground And where we thinke we deale courteouslie if we let them to halfes the Egiptians haue the fourth part for their labour and paie the king the fift part of the encrease for the land and seede but these men kept all in their owne hands Ioseph bought not the Priests lands but gaue them alowance of such things as they wanted out of the kinges store and these men like vnto our daies if they can scrape anie thing from the Church that is a pastime among all other to laugh at and thought best gotten So much more is a minister of Gods Gospell thought meeter to be spoiled by these cutpursses then Ioseph thought meete to doe to those Idolatrous priests Ioseph opened his barnes in time of dearth and sold liberallie to the needie these men the greater that the neede was the faster they lockt it vp vntill they had their desire of the poore Ioseph restored their land and tooke but the fift part of the encrease these men restore nothing and yet take interest As this cruell dealing toward their breethren and countriemen was thought straunge to be found amongst this people in the time that God had shewed to them such great mercies in restoring them againe to their countrie giuing them the liberty to build their temple and Citie with great gifts liberalitie and fauour of the kings vnder whom they were bondmen and slaues So it is much more marueil that among Christians in the time of the gospell so mercifullie restored vnto vs so freelie taught greater crueltie should be found exercised then among the hard harted Iewes or infidell pagans But this is the common practise of Sathan that in no age people nor countrie he can be quiet to see Gods kingdom set vp and florish and his powre fall but he will rage storme besturre him and by al deuises that may be and by all powre that he can ouerthrow it And seeing this is no new thing but hath fallen out diuers times afore let vs not now be astonied nor dismaied at it nor murmure and grudge against the doctrine of our saluation so mercifullie offered vnto vs as though it were not the true word of God because men liue so far contrary to that which is taught and they openlie professe The deuill is content when he cannot ouerthrow the trueth of the doctrine to deface it so much as he can with the ill life of those that professe it But the gospell teacheth vs what to doe in this case 〈◊〉 23.3 saying doe as they say but doe not as they doe The doctrine is good though they be ill The trueth and worthines of Gods word hangeth not on our life and doings but our life and doings should be reformed by Gods word for that is a Lanterne to our feete Psa 〈◊〉 and a light to our stepps that we may know when we be in the right way and how to come into it We must be iudged by gods word not it by vs we must be ruled by it and not ouerrule it according to our phantasies we must hang on Gods true saying and not on mans euill liuing A TABLE OF SVCH POINTS AS ARE CONTEINED IN the second Treatise 1. What oppression is 2. It is not lawfull for anie man to oppresse another 3. They which haue done wrong vnto or oppressed anie must make actuall restitution 4. It is the duety of the Magistrate to deliuer the oppressed out of the hands of the oppressour 5. The Magistrate looseth nothing by deliuering the oppressed 6. Oppressours shall be grieuouslie punished 7. Oppressours haue no Religion in them To the Reader IT hath pleased an English papist to giue out in print that the Church of Roome doth both teach and require actuall restitution and that our church doth neyther His speech of vs is verie slaūderous and my treatise against oppression is argument ynought to confute him If they of Rome teach and require actuall restitution it is no worke of supererogation they doe no more but their dueties If we should faile in this cleare point we deserue great condemnation at almightie Gods hands I confesse that a man is good therefore iustified in Gods fight before he doth good workes but withall I set downe this that good workes doe followe him that is truelie iustified and that such as haue oppressed or iniured any man