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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31053	The relief of the poore, and advancement of learning proposed by Humphry Barrow ...	Barrow, Humphrey.	1656 (1656)	Wing B923; ESTC R1413	4,116	12

THE RELIEF OF THE POORE and ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING Proposed By HUMPHRY BARROW dureing the War a Member of the Armie Qui citò dat bis dat DVBLIN Printed by WILLIAM BLADEN Anno Dom. 1656. TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord HENRY CROMWEL Commander in chief of the Forces of IRELAND And the rest of the honorable Commanders and inferior Officers now and late of the Army THAT Glorious Success with which God hath crown'd your honorable Actions in the rescue of this pretious Land out of those hands that without cause were imbrued in the bloud of our Country is yet so fresh and warm in every ingenous heart that I hope a Proposal tending to a sacrificious gratitude to the Lord of Hoasts by whose mercie and mighty arm we are what we are will not be unseasonably presented to any person concerned in this Address Wherein I have humbly assumed the confidence to mind You of the pious Customs of the Souldiers and Servants of GOD in former Ages nay of the laudable though blind Devotions of Pagans and Infidels as Sacred and other Historie do amply manifest who no sooner could sound Victoria after a War but up go the Altars and on go the Sacrifices in retribution of thanks to that Deity each held in veneration 'T is true we have in the progress of this War afforded GOD some Days of Thanks-giving and he at last having given us the issue of our hopes the Blessing and Harvest of our Bloud and Sweat those would all look like days of hellish Hypocrisie if we should not now present him with some Deeds of Thanks-giving and Sacrifices being ceased we have an Opportunitie to exercise what he loves better which is Mercie Not then to hold You any longer in the Portch of Expectation I here present You in one hand the Aged the Infirm the Orphan to be provided for by way of Hospital and in the other hand that yet-in-its-Morning but hopeful light of this Land the University of DUBLIN for Addition of Revenue To carry on both which I wish GOD would persuade each heart herein concerned to allow one Acre of Land out of each hundred due to him which granted there is little doubt but the Adventurers to whom GOD hath given so fair 〈◊〉 Return of their pious Loans and Purchasers of Debentures who have least reason to oppose will do the like And the same deducted from each mans Proportion to be cast into a single or what severall Parcels the wisdom of the Government sh●ll judg convenient Perhaps some may object That this Motion comes too late much of the Land being already disposed of and I grant had it been thought of sooner it had been effected with less trouble but Volenti nil difficile we should not in the least pa●●e at the difficulty were it to serve our own p●rticulars and indeed considered in the best sense it is so if we expect a blessing upon the rest of our Estates or if there be any wisdom in laying up treasure in Heaven for this shall be surer to your houses than the brains of all the Lawyers that ever trod WESTMINSTER-Hall met in one scull can make the rest For who knows how soon prodigal Heirs ordinarily the Issue of penurious Fathers shall make havock of those Estates the hundredth part whereof might though not merit have brought a blessing upon you to all eternitie A fair warning for the observance of that precious inch of Scripture Whilest you have time do good least whilest you are rotting your Heirs be reveling and they damned for spending upon their lusts what you were damned for denying the Lazar. And if there be any though I hope better things that shall strain at this Gnat I wonder how they would have be haved themselves towards that Camel laid before the Yong man in the Gospel Ali that thou hast Remember the widows mite and the superlative testimonie our Saviour gave of it Poor woman it was all she had and this a fleece out of a flock And I dare affirm Ananias and Sapphira laying aside their lie were Saints compared to such as shall say to this Proposal I 'll consider of it If we can pay the fourth part of our Rents to these Commonwealths we may blush before the Angels to denie the hundredth part to the Commonwealth of CHRIST For this is not to denude your walls of their hangings to cover the flesh of the poor nor your Coaches of their leather to make them shooes your supernecessarie pampered Steeds of their Horse-cloaths to make them Shirts nor your Mangers of their Provender to fill their Ovens though all these might well be abated to relieve the meanest Member of CHRIST GOD hath given to many amongst us vast Estates large possessions he hath given us the Land and labors of our Enemies beings that we neither built nor planted nay he hath given us our lives for a prey when thousands as valiant as pretious as worthy as we lie now rotting in contemptible ditches And shall we not help our Brethren to live with us That Saying is as good as old Non nobis sol●m nati sumus we are not born onely for our selves and I hope we did not altogether fight for our selves but shall be tryed by this trifle though what is here urged as an act of Charitie and as yet carries no other face may to after ages be rendered an act of Politie and that thus Sustenance and Science being the subject matters here preast who knows but that casting his bounty and bread upon the waters now he may after many days find them in the bellies and brains of his needy posteritie Perhaps there may be some who set a low rate upon that Beauty and Glorie of Humanitie Learning which sanctified restores us nearest to the Image of GOD but if there be as I hope few they must give me leave to believe they are such as would have the eys both of Church and Commonwealth put out that they might have the leading of them It was highly in question which was the saddest Persecution that under Dioclesian or that under Julian the Apostate the first laboring the destruction of all the bodies of the Saints and the last of all books that no memory of GOD or Religon might remain but the last was concluded infinitely transcendent as a device that would have thrown the world into a deeper than Egyptian darkness 'T is true there are many who I have charitie to believe mean well and much mind the enlargement of the bounds of the Church and opening a way for the light of the Gospel in its puritie to shine upon the freckled face of the erroneous World But alas that 's hard to be done by a language that hath no acquaintance abroad nor could ever travel farther than the verges of our own shores save amongst our own Colonies and not communicable to other Nations by any universal Rule I must needs grant that CHRIST in the election of his Apostles made