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A51233 A Scripture-vvord against inclosure, viz. such as doe un-people townes, and un-corne fields as also against all such that daub over this black sinne with untempered morter / by John Moore ... Moore, John, 1595?-1657. 1656 (1656) Wing M2559; ESTC R32117 14,724 26

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finde some employment there to preserve them and theirs from perishing Whereupon these open-fielded places are so loaden with poor that the Inhabitants are not able to relieve them I but these Book-men for Inclosure say they pay more Taxes And truly well they may when they lay such burthens upon open fields that they are not able to bear them not onely all those poore the Inclosure have beggered but all carriages the State hath need of free quarter attendance at the assizes and sessions c. The Inclosures got the gaine and have the ease and poor open fields pay the shot and endure all the drudgery What enemies to the Publique are these Inclosures observe how few or no service-able men or horses in these places for the defenee of the Nation when need is whereas before they were inclosed there were twenty thirty fourty c. of both kindes now scarce one or two Yes but one of the last Book-men for Inclosure tells us they are jaded tyred horses Oh impudence let the whole Countrey speake whether four or five of these open-fielded Townes yea sometimes one of them alone are not able to raise a whole Troop of gallant Horses and to set valiant men on their backs too in so formidable a manner that they were able to make the stoutest Troop to quake that opposed the Parliament formerly and his Highnesse the Lord Protectour of late yea which they have done too under both Governments Whereas such Inclosed places can I believe scarcely raise one Troop either for men or horses c. Oh! let not these valiant spirited men for the Publique in Leicester-shire and their forces be trampled in the dirt by such Inclosure to raise a few private persons upon the ruine of the strength of the Nation Surely if a Jericho was again to be besieged there would be found good store of Rams hornes though but few persons to winde them in these Inclosed places But these Book-men for Inclosure say that the common fields cause many Law suits c. I shall God willing answer all as I passe through this Text of Scripture First there are offenders both within hedges and without too and loving hearts will passe by an offence Secondly in common fields they live like loving neighbours together for the most part till the spirit of Inclosure enter into some rich Churles heart who doe not onely pry out but feign occasions too to goe to law with their neighbours and no reconcilement to be made till they consent to Inclosure For this is the trick they fall together by the eares with their honest neighbours that they bring their designe about Yea but there is so much stealing and filching by the Poore But thank Inclosure for that which hath filled openfield Towns so full of Poore they cannot live one by another For Poverty is a provoking argument to steale And therefore Agur prayes Prov. 30. 8. Give me not poverty and why so the ninth Verse tells us lest I be poore and steale And thus Inclosure makes thieves and then they cry out of thieves Because they sold the Righteous for silver and the poore for a payre of shooes The Righteous who are those Not to stand upon the divers acceptations of the word Righteous I le shew what is meant by a righteous man viz The Evangelicall righteous man is one who as he hath the Righteousnesse of Jesus Christ imputed unto him so he hath in some measure the righteousnesse of Christ imparted unto him desiring and endeavouring to keep the Commandements of God and the faith of Jesus Rev. 14. 12. He is one that loves God above all and his neighbour as himself Mat. 22. 37 38 39. He is one 1 Joh. 4 21. who as he loveth God loveth his neighbour also Oh! how pretious are these Righteous ones in heaven They are the Lords people his portion the lot of his Inheritance Deut. 32. 9. They are the Lords owne his very jewells All the rest of a Town are but the rubbish amongst whom these his jewells lye and live for a while And to speak the truth for truth must be spoken however it be taken if the Lord had not had two of these Righteous ones or three of these Iewels that as they love God they love their neighbour also in many Townes of these Inland Counties what desolations had there been made ere this time by such Inclosure These inclosurists sell the Righteous for silver What care they for Gods jewells his portion his inheritance so they may improve their own inheritance what cared Judas for Jesus Christ the Righteous so he might get thirty pieces of silver by him What care these men for the tender consciences of any of these Righteous ones that dare not consent to such inclosure They will make them make shipwrack of faith and a good conscience or else estates and liberties and all must be ruined by multiplicities of triviall Law suites in common Law and Chancery threatning they will not leave them a shift to their backs nor a cow to their payle I could here give you a large Catalogue of the unjust vexations of such Righteous ones but because some of their vexers pretend to religion I will spare them One of these two evills are incident to such as dare not in conscience consent to such inclosure viz. Either to be undone in the inward or el●e in the outward man choose them which If they goe against conscience in the inward man if they will keep a good conscience in the outward man and here let the inclosurists of Catthorpe in Leicester-shire tremble to have no respect to the conscience of one of these righteous men their owne consciences I believe judging him such a one nor to his vow to his God made upon good ground in the sight both of God and good men nor to his right in law according to a petition that is now depending before his Highnesse and his most Honourable Councell in which there is made a good progress and good hopes praised be God of a happy issue It matters not what one of the Book-men for inclosure truely prattles to the contrary He makes but a Jeer of a good conscience in his Book And as for his right in Law because it is but a little to their great deale they may alter the propriety of it as they list without his consent and set hedges and ditches upon his common whether he will or no I wonder who made these men dividers of his common from theirs when he hath a right and propriety in every foot of common in all their fields Is there not the same right in Law to a little as a great deale c. And the poore for a paire of shooes The Poore Well may they sell the Poore for a paire of shooes when they sell the Righteous for silver When Judas sold his Master That Righteous one for silver let Ministers remember Judas was a Disciple no wonder if he cared not for the Poore But
these inclosurists have the poore much in their mouthes and how they provide for the poore My exhortation to them is 1 Joh. 3. 18. My little children let us net love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth Saint James shewes us that a few words will not warm nor feede nor cloath poore people James 2. 16. If one of you say unto them depart in peace be you warmed and filled notwithstanding you give them not these things which are needfull to the body what doth it profit Alas what will all their good words profit the poore when they doe not only not give them those things which are needfull for the body but take away at once all things that are needfull for the body even the Trade of Tillage which should warme cloath feede them and their families But these book-men for inclosure have articles yea and acres for the Poore too What would these men be thought charitable men Let Iudas be thought so too For he would have the oyntment sold for three hundred pence and given to the Poore John 12. 5. Truth is former Inclosurists have been very specious and pretending for the poore in their Promises Articles Acres when they were hot upon their businesse of inclosure to stop the mouthes of Poore and Country from clamours and these inclosures of the last Edition which they are now about are but sordid in respect of the former in that kinde But wofull experience tells us a short time forced all the Tenants and Cottagers out of most of those places into the open fielded Towns to seek for a livelyhood where they can finde it to the great oppressions of those Townes That pant after the dust of the earth upon the head of the Poore Pant that is exceedingly desire it and long for it After the dust of the earth that is after those things which are but as the dust of the earth and whose originall and matter is but the dust of the earth Oh the excessive desire after such Inclosure and the gain that comes by it execeding the bounds of piety equity charity and humanity it self as you have heard Improvement of estate is this mans bayte And if any thing goe about to hinder that he is like a Lyon stirred up at the sight of his prey and makes no conscience of devouring men women and children that stand in his way The serpent feeds upon the dust of the earth It feeds upon base and low things vile and venomous so doe covetous mercilesse men As the Serpent licks the dust of the earth so doe they lick the dust of the earth they feed upon blood upon oppression They pant after the dust of the earth they pant after the estate and means that poor men have in Town or Field and feed upon it to satisfie if it were possible their greedy appetites in sucking the estates and crushing the bones of the poore The Prophet Habakkuk hath a woe for these Hab. 2. v. 6. Woe to him that encreaseth that which is not his to wit in the Court of Conscience aswell as in the Court of the Law and ladeth himself with thick clay Lutum scite pictum with gold and silver the finest dust and pieces of the earth whereby all the rest of the commodities of the earth are valued This dust of the earth this thick clay doth but load and burthen their soules and consciences and makes them drive heavily heaven-ward Gods glory ward and their own salvation-ward This thick clay doth them no more good than that gold and silver and embroydered cloath of arras a sumpter-horse is burthen'd with all day and at night is turned with the rest of the Jades with a gauled and bruised back into the stable Oh take heed of a gauled conscience loaded and bruised with such hedges and ditches as hedge out Publique and Poor lest at the night of Death thou be turned with the rest of the Jades of worldlings Dives-like into the Devils stable Vpon the head of the Poore They pant after the dust of the earth but upon whose head upon the head of the Poore These beasts will be sure to goe over where the hedge is lowest In any towne where there is any rich men Publique spirited and have bowels toward the Poore there these greedy gripes dare not meddle with their matches and cannot force them to such inclosure because they are able to defend themselves But on the contrary in any towne where there are mercifull men Publique spirited men c. That dare not in conscience consent to such inclosure If these be men but of meane estates these mercilesse wretches joyne purses and make no more conscience to trample upon these righteous poor yea upon their consciences estates liberties and whole families then they doe to trample upon the mire in the streets And turne aside the way of the meek These incl●surists turne aside the way of the meek these three wayes First they turne aside the way of Justice and Equity which is the meanes of keeping and recovering their right A great purse will make a good cause though it be starke naught What say these Mammonists when any crosse them in such inclosure their word is I 'le undoe him if he will not yeild And how is that By suites in Law and Chancery And have not these men been as good as their words I could here tell sad stories But I intend to name no man in this present discourse Secondly they turne aside the way of the meeke when they take away the way of their livelyhood Now Tillage is the way the calling the profession which most of the inhabitants of Inland Counties live of as we have proved Thirdly they turne aside the way of the meeke Why What is the way of the meek The Psalmist tells us Psal. 25. 9. it is Gods way The meeke he will teach his way They endeavour to turne them out of the way of faith and a good conscience in perswading them if that will not doe and compelling them to doe against conscience or undoe But I conclude with the wise mans exhortation Prov 22. 22 23. Rob not the poor because he is poore neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate For the Lord will plead their cause and spoyle the soule of those that spoyled their FINIS Chari parē tes chari liberi chari quoque amici sed omnes omnium charitates comprehendit patria Tullius de officiis Viz by such inclosure that doth un-people Towns and uncorn Fields For it will parallel the sinne in the Text Tremellius upon this Prophesie id est propter quam plurimae numero finitus pro indefinito c. Vid. The clear-spirited Expositor upon holy Writ Mr. Caryll upon Job c. 24. ver. 3.