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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01886	The relief of the poor, and advancement of learning proposed. by Humphrey Barrow, (during the war) a member of the army.	Barrow, Humphrey.	1656 (1656)	Wing B924A; ESTC R172278	4,177	18

Columbia University in the City of New York LIBRARY יהוה SIGILLVM COLLEGII COLVMBIAE NOVI EBORACI IN LVMINE TVO VIDEBIMVS LVMEN 1 PET 11 1 2 THE SELIGMAN LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS PURCHASED BY THE UNIVERSITY 1929 1656E B279 THE RELIEF OF THE POOR And ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING Proposed By Humphrey Barrow during the War a Member of the ARMY Qui cito dat bis dat Licensed according to Order Printed at London by R. W. 1656. TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Lord HENRY CROMWEL Commander in Chief of the Forces of Ireland And the rest of the Honourable Commanders and inferiour Officers now and late of the ARMY THat Glorious Success with which God hath crown'd your honourable 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 ingenuous heart that I hope a Proposal tending to a sacrificious gratitude to the Lord of Hoasts by whose Mercy and Mighty Arm we are what we are will not b● u●seasonably presented to any person concerned in this Addresse Wherein I haue humbly assumed the confidence to mind You of the pious Customes 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 H●st●ries 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 D●ys of Thanksgiving 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 daies of hellish Hypocrisie if we should not now present him with some Deeds of Thanksgiving and Sacrifices being ceased we have an Opportunity to exercise what he loves better which is Mercy Not then to hold You any longer in the Porch 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 Vniversity of Dublin for Addition of Revenue To carry on both which I wish God would perswade 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 a 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 several Parcels the wisdom of the Government shall think 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 lesse trouble but Volenti nil difficile we should not in the least pause at the difficulty were it to serve our own particulars 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 H●irs ordinarily the Issue of penurious Fathers shall make havock of those Estates the hundreth part whereof might though not merit have brought a blessing upon you to all eternity A fair warning for the observance of that precious inch of Scripture Whilest you have time do good lest whilest you are ro●ting your Heirs be revelling 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 behaved themselves towards that Camel laid before the Yong man in the Gospel All that thou hast Remember the widows mite and the superlative testimony our Saviour gave of it Poor woman it was all she had and this a fleece out of a fl●ck And I dare affirm Ananias and Sapphira laying aside their lie were Saints compared to such as shall say to this Proposol 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 d●ny the hundredth part to the Commonwealth of CHRIST For this is not to denude your wally of their hangings to cover the fl●sh of the poor nor your Coaches of their leather to make them shoots your supernecess●…i● 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 en●mies beings that we neither built nor planted may 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 solum natisumus we are not born onely for our selves and I hope we did not altogether sight for our selves but shall be tryed by this trifle though what is here urged as an act of Charity 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 bis 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 beleive they are such as would have the eye 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 th●t under Julian ●h● Apostate the first labouring the destruction of all the bodies of the Saints and the last of all books that no memory of God or Religion might remain but the last was concluded infinitely transcendent as a device that would have thrown the world into a deeper than Aegy●ian darknesse 'T is true there are many who I have charity 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 i●s purity to shine upon the freckled face of the erroneous World But alas that 's hard to be done by a language that hath