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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07488	Goodnes; the blessed mans badge: or Gods character stampt on mans conscience In two sermons before the most excellent Prince Charles. By Richard Myddleton his Highnesse chaplayne.	Middleton, Richard, d. 1641.	1619 (1619)	STC 17871; ESTC S107387	56,318	177

So then a weeding must be vsed that wise Roman spake most truly Sen. Bonis nocet qui malis parcit He doth hurt the good that spares the quill Therefore the magistrate must ouer be worming of the Land and in that greate worke of purging the common-wealth or reforming any house or Family hee must euer haue respect to these three considerations first to amend him he punisheth Secondly or that the punishment being exemplary may make others the better Thirdly or that the wicked being taken out of the way the godly may liue the more securely But he that will preserue goodnesse must still be lopping away the Canker boughs For as that learned man saith well Lactan. Bonorum salutem custodit qui malos punit He that punisheth wicked men preserues the safety of good men To which that of the diuine Philosopher doth well agree Malitiae medicamentum est poena Plato punishment is the best Phisicke for malice and wickednes Therfore hec that would heale a sicke common-wealth or a fainting Family must minister Dauids phisicke Psal 101 a wicked person must not dwell in his house So Dauid cured his sick kingdome and Court Antisthenes Hence the wise heathen resolued that it was the greatest pest of a common-wealth not to discerne the good from the bad that is to obserue and aduance the vngodly and neglect the iust and vertuous For the goodnesse of the subiects establisheth the kingdome And their improbity ruines and subuerts it And therefore that wise Roman concludes Cic. that neyther house nor common-wealth can long stand if rewards be not prouided for the good and punishments for the wicked We come into our gardens and orchards and seeing them grown ouer with nettles and such other trash presently we fall to weeding pruning and are offended with those that should haue the care of it that it is not done lest we should lose the benefit of the fruite and shall we not much more labour to keepe the garden of the Church and kingdome from the Nettles and weedes of impiety and wickednesse which will at length choake the growth of all goodnesse in the Land But alas what fruite can we expect when not only briers and thistles are suffered to grow vp but are more cherished then the good and wholesom hearbs themselues What happinesse may we look for when the herbs are eyther pluckt vp by the roots or at least so spite-blasted and neglected that they wither and dye for want of plucking vp the weedes of vices that ouertoppe them The third inquiry is How goodnesse should be so desired of all and so little practised of any First shall I say it is like the little book which Iohn tooke and cate Apoc. 10 and it was in his mouth as sweet as honey but made his belly bitter So goodnesse is a sweete subiect to be spoken of but bitter to be practised euery man can relish it with his mouth but few can disgest it in their hearts and fewer practise it with their hands Secondly Or shall I say that as goodnesse doth communicate it selfe to all so it hath a magneticall attractiue power to draw all to the gaze of it the face of goodnesse being so beautifull that the most prophane man in the World would die to bee but dyed in her colours and cloathed with her honourable titles Euen prophane Balaam would gladly die the death of the righteous and cast-away Saule would be honoured and reputed good before the Prophet But because they desire the name and not the thing therefore they are but in a dreame and imbrace a shadow Or thirdly shall I say for that it is the onely shelter of impiety For vnder the couert of goodnesse walke all kinds of impurity and impiety Tuta frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen It is a safe and common course to deceiue vnder pretence of friendship So vnder the cloake of goodnes and Religion is all mischiefe palliated and vizarded And it is one of the most dangerous enemies that goodnesse and good men haue Chrys for as that holy Father saith Malum sub specie boni celatum dune non cognoscitur non cauctur When euill doth maske vnder the vizard of good being not known it cannot be preuented Or fourthly shall I say that goodnesse makes all men that are acquainted with it diminish their goods and come to the contempt of the world that those which haue wiues 1. Cor. 7 be as though they had none those that weepe as though they wept not those that reioyce as though they reioyced not those that buy as though they possessed not those that vse the world as though they vsed it not so that now they become as zealous as in the primitiue age they haue all things common and part to euery man hath need And therefore because men doe soe goodnes to be an ill husband Act. 2 and prodigal of her selfe and substance after a little experience of her they shake her off as not for their profit Or lastly shall I say it is because there are so few examples of goodnesse to prouoke vs Surely euen for all these is this happy duty of goodnesse so much desired of all so little practised of any For goodnesse is bitter vnsauory and distastefull to a carnal man Euery man loues the glorious name of it but cares not for the thing it selfe It is a good shadow and cloake for impiety It diminisheth our substance and the things we loue deare and hath few or no presidents to allure vs to it No wonder then if so few affect it in the practise So come we to examine the 4. last inquisition of this duty An sit bonitas whether there be any good nesse left in the World any such thing as goodnesse is and where it may be found there is such barre nnes of goodnes euery where that we may well say of it as the Lord did of Ieconiah write this man childlesse Ier. 22 a man that shall not prosper in his days So we that God hath bidden write our age destitute of goodnesse not shall goodnesse prosper in our age not for that Ieeoniah had no Son did God commaund thus to write for he had Salathiel but because he had but one Son and the kingdome and gouernment was departed from him Nor doe I say this for that goodnes shal haue no issue but because she shall haue very few children and the kingdome and gouernment is departed from them they shall haue little or no honour dignite or preferment in this world The Prophet spake it long before me Psal 14 The Lord looked downe from Heauen to see if any would vnderstand and seeke after God but they were all gone but of the way there was none that did good no not one If he spake this with griefe of heart I am sure I speake it not without sorrow For what cause of sorrow can be greater when