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A68984
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A murmurer
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Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
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1607
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STC 3671; ESTC S104771
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A Murmurer LONDON Printed by ROBERT RAVVORTH and are to be sold by Iohn Wright at his shop neere Christ-Church gate 1607. TO THE RIGHT HOnorable the Lords of his Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsell RIght Honorable It cannot bee vnknowne to your wisedomes how perilous a thing both to the Crowne the Peeres and the Nobles yea and to all the parts of the common-weaâ—th is the vngratious vngodly yea prophane hellish humor of murmuring especially against God the king or any their ordeyned magistrates in a Kingdome for the cure wherof what care is to be taken your discreet considerations can determine and knowing in your honorable dispositions an assured hate vnto all such vnpleasing and vnprofitable spirits as no doubt but you wil weed out froÌ„ the good hearbs in the grouÌ„d of your charge and again how blessed a thing the vnioÌ„ of harts wil be to your honorable Spirits whose continual care of the preseruatioÌ„ both of our king and his vvhole kingdom deserueth no little honor I haue presumed rather vpoÌ„ your honorable pardons of what may offend your patience then your fauorable acceptaÌ„ce of my vnvvorthy seruice to present your Honors vvith a little tract against Murmurers murmuring in vvhich if I haue passed anie thing displeasing to your good patience huÌ„blie crauing pardon I atteÌ„d the sorrovv of my Imperfection but if I haue in any thing contented the least of your good likings I will leaue murmurers to the fruite of their malice and pray to God so to blesse your good minds that you may find out such offendors and giue them the due of their desert and in your selues among your selues may be so lincked in your loues that to God and his Maiestie you may euer liue togither in your seruice that when wickednes is weeded out and Grace is planted in the place God may be pleased the King best preserued and the Common wealth best gouerned So fearing with tediousnes to be a trouble to your good patience beseeching God to blesse you al with as much happines as murmurers are worthy to want I humbly rest Your Honors in all Humblenes To the Reader LET me intreat you by the kindnes I hope in you to bee perswaded that what I haue written in this little Tract is rather done to reueale the follie of a malitious humor then to taxe any person with the infection The labour is not long nor the sence obscure the substance whereof leauing to the censure of your discretion or correction of your good patience with my loue to your kind desert I rest as I find cause Against Murmurers and Murmuring OH Murmurer what wouldest thou haue was there euer any Kingdome so many years and so many waies blessed and thou in it so little worthy of thy comforts and so worthy of the contrarie is not thy Earth fertill are not thy Riuers sweet is not thy Aire temperate are not thy Citties faire thy people rich thy men strong thy women fruitfull thy Magistrates wise and thy King gratious are not thy Seas as a wall to defend thee from the assaults of thine enemies and hath not thy peace bred such a plentie as maks thee admired in the whole vvorld hast thou not vvith all this the richest iewel in the world yea and more vvorthy then the vvhole vvorld vvhich is the heauenly vvord of God to direct thee in his holy vvill and vvil not al this suffice thee to bring thee to the seruice of thy God to acknovvledge his goodnes to admire his greatnes to giue glory to his Maiestie vvhat shall I then say vnto thee but as I said in the beginning oh vvhat vvouldst thou haue In the time of blindnes vvhen the booke of life vvas shut from thy reading vvhen thy learned preachers and zealous people vvere put vnto the fire vvhen ciuil vvarres did breed thy penury and thy forraine enimies vvere readie to inuade thee vvheÌ„ thy Gouernour vvas a Tyrant thy life a bondage thy estate a miserie then hovv glad vvouldest thou haue bin to haue tasted the least of the blessings that novv thou art full of and then vvouldest thou haue prayed for deliuerance from thy sorrovves and ioyed in the least hope that might haue cleered thy heauy heart and art thou novv so hard harted so ill natured so void of seÌ„ce or so full of ingratitude that thou canst not conceiue thou vvilt not acknovvledge thou dost not vnderstand or vvilt not bee thankfull for this great measure of grace that God hath bestovved vpon thee vvhat then wil becoÌ„e of thee but let me aske thee what doth aile thee is ease a griefe pleasure a paine peace a Trifle plentie a Toy a good King a small blessing a graue Counsaile a meane comfort and the vvord of God a slight Ievvell learned Preachers and profouÌ„d Lawiers little blessing what shall I then say vnto thee but that they are ill bestovved on thee doest thou murmure at Religion is it not better to serue God then Man and to beleeue the Truth then follovv Error to vvorship God in the Heauens then make a kind of God on the Earth and to begge pardon of thy God at home then to buy it of a man abroad dost thou murmure that the Saints are not worshiped and wilt thou forget to vvorship God aboue wilt thou murmur at thy Loyalty learne the witch-craft of Rebellion wilt thou forget thy vocation and fal into the sin of presumption are these the fruites of thy deuotion fie vpon thy follie that hast no more tast of discretioÌ„ wouldest thou rather hear the vvord vnderstand it not then vnderstand it and beleeue it or trust rather to the vvord of a Priest for thy coÌ„fort then to thine ovvne faith for thy Saluation oh pittiful imperfection vvhat shall I say vnto thee but onely pray for thee that God vvil forgiue thee opeÌ„ the eyes of thy vnderstanding that by the light of his grace thou maist get out of thy darknes and beholding the greatnesse of his mercy giue glorie to his holy Maiestie Leaue therfore thy murmuring and turne it to thanksgiuing that so great a part of the vvorld being shut vp in the caue of Error thou vvalkest in the vnderstanding path of the perfection of all truth least if thou continue in thy accursed nature thy gratious God seeing thy vngratfulnes either depriue thee of thy comfort or cast thee into vtter darknes vvhile the Buls of Rome shal breed too many calues in Britanie Again dost thou murmur at peace hast thou a spirit of discord dost thou delight in blood oh brood of Caine looke on thy brother Abell heare the curse on thy condition doest thou vvalke in quiet vvorke in quiet eat in quiet sleep in quiet is thy vvife in thy bosome thy Children at thy Table thy seruaÌ„ts in thy busines do thy friends come to see thee thy neighbours salute thee thine enemies liue from thee doth Musicke fill thine Eares Beautie thine Eyes Wisdome thy