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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81217	Peters patern or The perfect path to worldly happiness. As it was delivered in a funeral sermon preached at the interrment of Mr. Hugh Peters lately deceased, by I.C. translator of Pineda upon Job, and one of the triers.	J. C.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing C784; Thomason E995_11; ESTC R207807	10,387	15

required that he should be stored with Impudence even as a Woodmongers Wharf is stored with Faggots and Sea-coal The uses of it are these two first to encourage you to the most desperate enterprises and secondly to make you scorn the reproaches of those that reprove ye As for example my beloved If you see one of your enemies seated in a warm living and that your heart pant and thirst after the same you ought then to put on your night-cap of devotion and your garment of hypocrisie and go unto your superiors and say Yonder is a man who is not of the Congregation of Professors who is planted in a rich Living he is a scandalous and disaffected person and I am more worthy than he pray put me into his place If men therefore rebuke you and call you accuser and devil then ought you to make use of your gift of impudence and laugh at them all Thus did holy Nye throw out unrighteous Juxon out of his Parsonage of Fullham Thus our brother Marshall became possessed of his fat Living in the Land of Essex This emboldned our departed brother to hold forth in the Pulpit of White-Hall where so many learned as the heathen call them had been before him What cared they for the reproaches of men for their hearts were seared with the hot Iron of impudence finding themselves at ease and filled with joy This likewise emboldened the poor Spaniard as we find in the book of our dear Gusman Book 1. c. 7. First to begg money and then without bidding sit down cheek by jowl with the Ambassador for saith he in the last verse He was carried away with bravadoes and an impudent behaviour The next Vertue we are to make use of is the gift of Nonsence for perhaps thou maist not be a Scholar nor one of the number of the learned and it may concern thee to talk two hours together thou oughtest therefore to be well furnished with Nonsence that thou maist be enabled to go through with thy work to which purpose often repetitions and telling of tales do very much conduce as when our departed brother told the story of his being in heaven and hell and the tale of Puss in her Majesty The next gift is that of Lying which may be very profitable to thee and whereof thou maist make a very great advantage for if thou art bid to preach for the benefit of thy Rulers if then thou art furnished with soul cozening doctrine If then thou hast the right art of lying and wheedling the people by telling them that the cause thou speakest of is the onely true cause and that God will certainly own them in their obedience to it then there will arise unto thee a very great emolument With these arts our deceased brother furnished the Parliament with Basons Rings and Bodkins Thus he by telling them that Ireland was a place that flowed with milk and honey and where broad cloath of twelve shillings a yard grew upon the trees inticed the souldiers over against the publike enemy Thus we read in the forementioned Chapter of Gusman How the same Spaniard by relating the nobleness of his family though he were but a Coblers son in Cordova and by boasting of several great actions which he never did got of the said Ambassador both money and his dinner We find also Mr. Sterry practising this gift when he to ingratiate himself with his new Master our late Protector he assured him that his father was sitting at the right hand of God when most Divines do affirm the contrary The next thing requisite for a man that will make ye but use of his time is the gift of accusing and slandring knowest thou not O Man that slanders are like the defilement of printers ink easily laid on but hard to rub off If then thou seekest to work any one into disfavor with his Superiors that thou maist obtain thy desired end make thy first shot at him with the pot-guns of slander for the disgrace thou throwest upon him throws him out and tosses thee into the haven of thy wishes Thus our deceased brother never left accusing unsanctified Lawd till his head had satisfied his wrath and the benevolences which the Professors bestowed on him out of his worldly profits had appeased the hunger of his almost famished purse Thus the brethren likewise accused the Lord Craven being of the race of Ishmael and got his estate Thy next gift is Ignorance For thou must know that there are few wise men in authority Thinkest thou then O foolish Galathian that any man will advance such a one as is more cunning than himself no thou must at least pretend ignorance and if after such advancement thou dost grow wiser than thy brethren then I say make use of thy time saith blessed Machiavel in his Book of the Right Path to preferment Let every man counterfeit that humor which he finds most advantagious to his designs Therefore neither our deceased brother nor any of his faithful brethren the Tryers would advance those whom the heathen called the grave learned and wise but the meanest of the people that were of the simplest and weakest capacities There came a learned man and one of the weak brethren and contended for a place saith our deceased brother to him that was learned What is Faith who answered him discreetly according to the learning of the Schools then he demanded the same question of the other who replyed that Faith was a sweet lullaby in the lap of Jesus Christ at which words our deceased brother lifting up his hands to heaven cryed Blessed be the Lord who hath revealed these things unto the simple Friend thou according to thy deserts shalt have the Living The next thing important is the gift of Cozening For you know my beloved the common people are a simple sort of creatures who must be deluded into their own good Now their good is the good and safety of their Governors Do we not deceive Children whom we would give Physick unto by anointing the brim of the Cup with hony So do we sweeten the bitter purges which are the peoples Taxes and Impositian with the delicate allurements of Liberty and Religion So our late Reverend Lord Oliver of blessed memory for whom our dear Brother the Lord reward his Soul hath pump'd full often as you may read in our dear Sister Brisco's book of Divine truths so I say he by cousening every body that he dealt with by the right management or the seasonable taking and breaking of his oaths and protestations became a Monarch Thus did the devout Lazarillo cousen the Priest his Master of his bread I shall give you his own words l. 1. c. 3. v. 11. I pray my beloved turn to the place and mark it for 't is a very pretious Text. Saith he as I was musing how to get victuals and feeding upon the sight of the Chest wherein my Masters bread was locked there came a Tinker to the dore with