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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

their Goodnesse in which is that we call Bullion that the Essence of their Greatnesse aboue other Men that 's to say their Bounties that 's to say their Honour I meane that their Maiesties by their Faces and their Armes may be seene and their Soueraignties subsist in the Goodnesse of their Coyne as in a Myrroer all their Kingdomes through though their persons bee seen to sit vpright in their Throns or reside in their Seats of sanctified Iustice betweene Greatnesse and Decorum namely in their Courts of Equity Subalterne and Soueraigne for Meum and Tuum Distributiuely and Mints of Equalities and Staples of free Commerce Commutatiuely Whereby it now appeares how by all mens consent Gold and Siluer the Seats of fixed Goodnesse by the Name of Bullion become Ab Effectis as it were King and Queene of the world because these alone make Kinges in their Thrones powerfull to protect both their Subiects and their Friendes both by Sea and by Land Trafficke Lapis Philosophicus and dispose of Trafficke by their owne Elixars and Mines or Load-stones of price within their owne Dominions as God by Goodnesse their onely Iudge and Patterne both in Number Weight and Measure first made the World and still doth guide the same Each King in this respect being a liuely Idea euen of Deity it selfe so much excelling in Preheminency of Power for his Person and Place and Prerogatiue of Wisedome for Bounty and Grace by how much they endeuour to expresse in themselues and shew foorth to others the Characters of MAIESTY and Titles of their SOVERAIGNTY in the truth of their Coyne I meane by their Exchange And how Exchange alone becomes that Cordiall preseruatiue which easing all Greefes in sores Exchange Vniuersalis medicina suppling all sores in diseases and curing all diseases in particular Members holds the whole Bodies of Kingdomes in health the sacred Rules whereof as no profane Couetise could euer comprehend nor confident Empericke attaine to practise so none of priuate difcretion or partiall affection may presume to alter or any way controle as beeing a Doctrine peculiar vnto none but the Grauest and Wisest in highest Authority and Soueraignes themselues Bullion therefore Catexochen that 's to say all kinde of Golde and Siluer not Coyn'd or made currant for euen Coynes that are not currant may be taken for Bullion by generall consent as the Sunne in the highest Globe of Glory and Money beeing the Beames Exchange becomes the light that makes the world to see And as Bullion beeing the Pylot Money is the Sterne and Exchange the Compasse that guides all courses right nay as Bullion being the Chylus Money is the Blood Exchange becomes the Spirit that quickens all the Body In a word Bullion being the Body and very Blood of KINGS Money is the Medium betweene Subiects and their Kings and Exchange the very Cyment that glewes them both together O that my Tongue or Pen were able to expresse Or had the guift to make Men vnderstand Those great and graund effects of Sacred Happinesse Exchange alone would worke by Kings and Counsels hand Religious Iustice would then so blesse our Land That Men on Earth might see by this Idea made What Heauen it selfe doth boad by this our Kingly Trade Seeing then that Bullion or Gold Siluer Coynd is the Bodie and Blood of Kings not as Men but as Gods truely represented to the comfort of their Subiects through all their Dominions by the stampes of their Money though their Persons keepe their Thrones And Exchange that Spirit of Traffique and Mysticall Cyment that glewes so fast together the communion and coniuction of Soueraignes and Subiects by Reciproke Loue Grace as Religion and Iustice both teach vs to beleeue Let 's all cry out of Rome wherein first was hatcht the Doctrine that enchants and transubstantiates our Eucharisticke Sacraments of the Body and Blood of CHRIST represented euery where within his Church Militant as liuely as in a Glasse till his comming againe though his Person be in Heauen by blessed Bread and Wine into Idolatrous Masses and our Christian Exchange into Iewish Vsury I speake therefore with confidence to all that seeke for Happinesse and loue their owne Saluation not bewitcht as it were or void of sence and reason be wary still of Italy as Aeneas with his Misselto when he traueld towards Hell and let all come home from Rome for feare of the cursse that by Iustice hangs vpon her For if He alone whose absolute Power could work so wel that all he made became still like himselfe exceeding Good to his own eternall Glory and Mans immortall blisse GOD I say the Father GOD I meane the Son and GOD the third time the Spirit though once for all The Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity whom onely to know is euerlasting Life and ioy but to heare and make mention of his Name be that spring or Fountaine of Goodnesse Truth and Wisedome from whence all streames besides both in Heauen and Earth deriue not onlie Essence but Happinesse in being and whence to swarue is to turne againe to nothing Quia vidit Deus quod omnia quae fecerat erant valde bona What greater bane then Sinne Sinne. Pride What greater sinne then Pride What greater Pride then the height of all Presumption in one sinfull Man that vsurping on the Powers both of Heauen and Earth Darkenesse Freewill Profanenesse to drowne Light in Darkenesse both in Goodnesse and Truth of his owne meere Freewil giues Lawes vnto Iustice and profanes all Religion the Rules of Truth and Goodnes both in God and Kings If heauenly Goodnesse and Truth in all Perfections both of Nature and Art be those beautifull aspects and beneficiall influences of heauenly beatitudes which the Grecians do describe by their Calocogathia to make al things happy Chaos Euill Quia Bono suo diffusiue verè constant omnia What Euill so infectious What infection so poysonous and what Poyson so accursed as that Chaos of Doctrine that by Pride and Presumption Presumption Merits Equiuocation profaning Goodnesse turnes Grace into Merits and Equiuocating Truth turnes Truth into Lyes in all the Contractes both of GOD and Men If Gold and Siluer of all the sollide Bodies which Nature presents at the Standart of Truth Truth be fittest and surest by generall consent to fixe Goodnesse in for easier extention in vendible Commerce by the Name of Bullion Quia omne Bonum Bullion being sui diffusiuum quantò communius eò melius infunditur semper secundum meritum materiae Fraude Wrong Priuate-Gaine Couetise Deceipt What fraud like publique wrong What wrong like priuate gaine And what gain more deceiptfull then couetously to hoard or sophisticate the purenesse and finenesse which Nature weighes in Bullion for the generall vse of Goodnesse by Traffique among Men If Money or Coyne bee those figured proportions of Goodnesse more or lesse for Number and Waight Money by

Licenses or other gracious fauor is afterwards transferd sold or put ouer from the first recieuer to a second and third hand for Money Simones Magi. Acts Cap. 8. verse 20. or vse them not themselues it is but Witchcraft Sorcery that all such entend as by Leases or Purchace for priuate gaine thinke SOVERAIGNES PREROGATIVES eyther vendible for Money or subiect to Exchange Such Impost Maisters Religion hath accurst their Money and themselues therefore without harty repentance must perish both together These Imposts or Impositions tearme them how you list as they are but Romish Peter-pence Italian Inuentions where their Princes Preheminence and for'st kinde of Dignities haue little other Subsistence being but eyther borrowed or obtruded vpon vs I past them slightly ouer and so sent them home againe for England beeing no waies obnoxious to Italy nor Vassall to Rome hath or else may haue beeing rightly vsed enough of her owne For our Vowels and our Consonants agree so well together that spelling all by Vnion and ending all in Peace they perfect all our Alphabet without the helpe of others though the placing of some CAPITALS in the world else-where abroad by their lewd and ill examples be a cause of some vnrest Whose Pride profane Presumption and Couetise besides by Equiuocating sounds makes words be so misconstrued that MAIESTY seemes ecclip'st and like to be out fa'st For R. P. that with honest auncient Romans was reade for Respublica is now Respriuata And P. P. for Principes or Pater Patriae now either by themselues or pla'st before A. in the stead and Rome of M. makes P AP A sometimes Pater stand and striue for MAIESTY before GOD and KINGS And C. crept vp to K. makes Cardinals challenge Kings without Crownes to be knowne by or Kingdomes of their owne so that as P AP A now spels ANTICHRIST so Cardinals ANTI-KINGS Whereby S. P. Q. R. sometimes the Armes and Honor of Rome for Senatus Populus Que Romanus may now as well bee read Stultus Populus Querit Romam to the great disgrace of Catholiques both in Church and Common-wealth But those two great words of Power PREHEMINENCE and PREROGATIVE beginning both with P. did most of all perplex me For seeing Iustice and Mercy in the height of al sublimitie attending heauenly MAIESTY so reuerently together and the same in earthly Attributes contesting each with other I knew not how to spell them For though they both contained the very selfe-same Letters that mine Alphabet did teach yet the first importing Iustice I durst not looke vpon for the sternnesse of her face and setled Seuerity and the second full of Mercy I could not but admire for her milde aspect and infinite Serenity In the first I could discerne but two of our Vowels e. and i. for Persons and Place but the second had them all a. e. i. o. and u. I meane u. and v. Sirs v. my Lords w. and all The one of greatest Power yet bounded in her Greatnesse KING and PRINCE Counsell and Common-wealth The other a very Hieroglifique aboue my reach and reason yet hearing still withal how at all hands daily PREHEMINENCE for PREROGATIVE and PREROGATIVE for PREHEMINENCE were strangely speld together I appeald vnto the Wisest in highest Authority to compound the distractions that the World was subiect to by the mis-vnderstanding of wordes of such importance as both for Matter Persons Place Order and End The important necessity of obseruing precisely the distinct vse and Ends of Preheminence and Prerogatiue in all words and Actions so neerly concern'd all our Liuings all our Liues all our Liberties all our Honours and all the Peace of our Land vnited so together And let all men in Gods Name that haue eyes to see will to learne or wit to vnderstand spell and distinguish the value of the Consonants and compasse of the Vowels these two wordes containe for they shew the difference and distinction betweene Soueraignty and Subiection and the height of Dignity both of Deity and Humanity the very right of GOD and KINGS Heere I say is worke indeed for Wisedome to consider and Power to reconcile both these two Attributes and wordes of like import For by their Example as the Masse would seeme the Eucharist and Vsury is cald Exchange so our Customes stand for Subsidies Subsidies for Impositions and Imposts nowe equiuocate both our Customes and Subsidies This is the fruit of Trauailers by wandring still to Rome England and Customers il beholden to such as trauailing for Experience thinke the Impositions of Italy a fit president for Pollicy or Gouernment when they come home That hunting for experience ride early and late To make the Imposts of Italy as soone as they come home A President of Gouernment as fit to guide our State Whereby as Maiesty stands eclip'st so Customers in disgrace are in nothing yet more wretchedlike then in their Names and Place for beeing borne happy bred happy and loosing themselues in seeking happinesse for others themselues cannot be happy But if Delicta sequnter Personas and greatest offences deserue greatest punishments that mine owne Faith to GOD-ward and obedience to my SOVERAIGNE declaring my Religion and ciuill conuersation may warrant mine Accompt both before GOD and KINGS Hauing thus far speld read by the help of Grace and Goodnesse I proceeded to my Creede and then my Ten-Commaundements By the Customers Beleefe note the true Religion taught and defended in Great-Brittaine whereby being taught to Cypher I came at last by telling 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. to set downe my Receipts and to cleere vp all my Reckonings without suspending any or enstaulement of a Penny For being to cast Accompts for my selfe and for others Customers are Accomptants euen for the sinnes of others I found that twelue Articles two Mysteries and ten great Commaundes The summe of true Religion consisting of twelue Articles two Sacraments Ten Commaundements containes all Christian Duties both to God and Kings made the summe of mine Alphabet iust foure and twenty Letters namely a. e. i. o. u. and b c. d. f. g. h. k. l. m. n. p. q. r. s t. w. x. y. z. And the number of all numbers The compasse and number of the Alphabet consisting of 24. Letters comprehend and teach all Religion and Iustice where perfection is confin'd both of Heauen Earth Ten. Three being Gods own number and perfection of Deity as GOD the Father GOD the Sonne and GOD the Holy-Ghost and seuen of Humanity in our first and free Election Creation Redemption Vocation Iustification Sanctification and Glorification by the meanes of CHRIST IESVS that is both GOD and MAN By this likewise I speld our owne Ten Courtes of Iustice By the ten Soueraigne Courts of fundamentall Iustice are pointed at and meant the Ten Commandements The Customers Grace His Prayers the perfection whereof distributiuely makes vs al so happy and for which as Grace made