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A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

Eccle. 5. Riches shal not profit a man in the day of vengeance And in another place Some man is rich by his care and niggardship and then saith I haue gotten rest and now will I eat continually of my goods Eccle. 11. Lnke 12. yet he considereth not that the time draweth neere that he must leaue all these things to other men and die himselfe Couetous rich men are like vnto doues who still build their nests there who both themselues and their dammes before them lost their birds Euenso couetous men lay vp all their treasure here in this worlde where their forefathers as they know left all behind them But in the day of death and of iudgement they shall crie too late Wisdom 5. what hath the pompe of our riches profited vs At what time it will appeare what a vaine confidence they had in them which now cannot help when they haue most need Rich men haue slept their sleepe sayth the Prophet and haue found nothing in their hands Ppsal 75. that is to say Rich men haue passed ouer this life as men doe passe ouer a sleepe imagining an assurance to themselues by their great riches but when they awake at the day of their death they find that they are vtterly void of all helpe In respect whereof the Prophet Baruch asketh this question Baruc. 3. What are they now which heaped vp togither gold and siluer and which made no end of their scraping togither He answereth himselfe They are now rooted out and gone downe into hell Therfore we see how dangerous a thing it is for wicked men to haue the possessiō of riches 2. Tim. 6. because thereby they fall into many temptations and snares of the diuell and into many vnprofitable hurtfull desires which drowne men into destruction and perdition wherein they are so deepe plunged Math. 19. that with great difficultie as our Sauiour Christ testifieth they shal get into the kindome of heauen Let all rich men then learne this lesson of the Prophet Dauid who plaied the part of a good steward vsing that well and disposing that faithfully which was by God committed to his trust He giueth this counsel If riches increase set not thy heart vpon them Psal 61. Whereunto also agreeth the saying of S. Augustine Diuitiaseculares si desunt non per mala opera querantur in mundo si autem adsunt per bona opera seruentur in coelo If thou haue not worldly riches seeke not for them in the world by euill meanes and if thou haue them lay them vp by good works in heauen For of the good and godly rich it is said He hath dispersed and giuen to the poore Psal 112. Saint Ambrose saith that those things are not rightly called our goods which we cannot carie away with vs Sola misericordia est comes defunctorum Dead men carie nothing with them but mer-cie Whatsoeuer thou hast bestowed on the poore make a sure account of that to be thine but whatsoeuer thou hast bestowed vpon the world make thy reckoning that it is lost and that thou hast put it into a bottomlesse purse Discreete husbandmen do sow their graine in the most fertile soile In like maner we cannot sow our worldly substance in hope to haue a great and plentifull gaine better then in bestowing it on the poore O that we would affoord God so much credite in heauenly things as we do to our earthly seed If we want not faith we wil. Lay not vp then for your selues treasures in earth which are subiect to many casualties and perils but lay vp for your selues treasure in heauen which shall endure for euer and euer The ninth Leper is the Murtherer THE Murtherer is pollured with that leprosie with the which Dauid cursed Ioab 2. Sam. 3. saying Let the bloud fall vpon the heade of Ioab and on all his fathers house that the house of Ioab be neuer without some that haue running issues or leprie c. This Ioab talking deceitfullie with Abner Captaine of the host of Israel stabbed him vnder the short ribbes and killed him In like maner he had slain afore Amasa Captaine of the armie of Iudah For the which cause Dauid before his death gaue charge to king Salomon his sonne saying Thou knowest what Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah did to mee 1. King 2. and what he did to the two captaines of Israel whome he slue and shedde bloud of battaile in peace Doe therefore according to thy wisedome and let thou not his hoare heade go downe to the graue in peace The which commaundement Salomon obeyed For after the death of Dauid his father Salomon commaunded that Ioab shoulde bee slaine saying His bloud bee vpon his owne heade for hee smote two men more righteous and better then he Whereby it may plainely appeare that God will take vengeance vpon all murtherers who through their priuate grudge and hatred shedde any mans bloud As it is written He that sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed Gen. 9. When wicked Caine had slaine his innocent brother Abell God sayde vnto him What hast thou done the voyce of thy brothers bloud cryeth to mee from the earth Gen. 4. which hath opened her mouth and hath receyued thy brothers bloud from thy hand A vagabond and a runnagate shalt thou bee vpon the earth To the which Caine answereth That the vengeance of God will follow him whethersoeuer he goeth and that they which finde him will kill him Abimelech who slue his owne brethren Iudg. 9. had his braine panne shortlie after broken with a Milstone cast vpon him by a woman and presently was dispatched of the small remainder of his life by his owne page Abner of whom mention is made before slue Azahell and therefore his bloud by the iust iudgement of God was shedde in like manner by Ioab Iesabell was denoured of Dogges 1. King 21. for shedding of innocent Naboths bloud Gen. 37. Ruben abhorring bloudshed sayde to his brethren which conspired Iosephs death Shedde not bloud For hee knewe that God woulde take vengeance on the same and therefore afterwarde hee put his brethren in minde of his wholesome admonition Gen. 41. Warned I you not saying Sinne not agaynst the childe and yee would not heare and nowe his bloud is required God will neuer suffer murther and cruell bloudshed of innocents to escape without vengeance though for a time he deferre it As may also appeare by the extreame famine which came vppon the Iewes in the time of king Dauid concerning the which Dauid asking counsaile of the Lorde receyued this answere It is for Saul and for his bloudie house 2. Sam. 21. because he slue the Gibeonites Manie mo examples might be brought of the Scriptures and out of chronicles and stories to proue make manifest howe the vengeance of God falleth either first or last vpon murderers Exod. 20. For almightie God hath giuen a