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A27365	Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.	Bellers, John, 1654-1725.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1828; ESTC R19644	23,851	33

ESSAYS About the Poor Manufactures Trade Plantations Immorality And of the EXCELLENCY and DIVINITY OF Inward Light Demonstrated from the Attributes of God and the Nature of Mans Soul as well as from the Testimony of the Holy Scriptures By Iohn Bellers Psalm 41. 1. Blessed is he that considereth the Poor the Lord will deliver him in the time of trouble 2. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the Earth and thou wilt not deliver him into the Will of his Enemies 3. The Lord will strengthen him upon the Bed of Languishing Thou wilt make all his Bed in his Sickness London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street and at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-street 1699. The King in his Speech to both Houses of Parliament The 9th of December 1698 said My Lords and Gentlemen I Think it would be Happy if some Effectual Expedient could be found for Imploying the Poor which might tend to the great Increase of our Manufactures as well as remove a heavy Burden from the People I hope also You will employ Your Thoughts about some good Bills for the Advancement of Trade and for the further Discouraging of Uice and Profaueness The Lord Chief Iustice Hale in his Discourse for Imploying the Poor said The want of a due Provision for Education and Relief of the Poor in a way of Industry is that which fills the Goals with Malefactors and the Kingdom with Idle Persons that consume the Stock of the Kingdom without Improving it and that will daily increase even to a Desolation in time Sir Josiah Child saith in his Discourse about the Poor And if a whole Session of Parliament were imployed on this singular Concern I think saith he it would be time spent as much to the Glory of God and Good of this Nation as in any thing that Noble and worthy Patriots of their Country can be engaged in Here is strong and pathetick Lines in behalf of the Poor by as Powerful a King as Honoured a Iudge and as Rich a Merchant as England ever had TO THE Lords and Commons IN Parliament Assembled IT was lamentable and frightful to behold the Tumult of Weavers that in a late Sessions attended your Doors and when the Scarcity of Corn hath pinched the Poor how fearless have they appeared to plunder against all Law in many Parts of this Kingdom Now if the Needy of but one Trade of a City shall through Penury dare to brave You that are as the Vitals to move and Heads to govern the Nation and that have the Strength of it to support you How much more dismal would it be to have a poor starved Croud attack single Gentlemen at their own Home and what Avantage may restless Spirits take to disturb the publick Peace with such Opportunities Forreign Wars wastes our Treasure but Tumults at home are a Convulsion upon our Nerves And though Fines will Awe Men of Estates and Corporal Pains Men in Health But if Provision should fail what can awe the Misery of Starving added to their increasing Immoralities which will increase their Insolence To collect the Laws about the Poor into one Act will make them much the better understood and it would be of great Service if all our Laws upon each Subject they Treat of were so collected And to Incorporate Counties Citys and Towns to erect Hospitals and Work-houses for imploying the able and providing for the impotent Poor will be a good Addition to the present Laws already made if they will undertake it But considering that the late regulating of our Coin increased the Difficulties of doing it and that a suitable Provision for our Poor will not be of less Consequence to the Nation and that many of the publick Hospitals hitherto raised have more regarded the well Governing and providing for a few Impotent than the profitable imploying of the able Poor Therefore with Submission I humbly pray that you will please by Bill or Clause in some Bill to incorporate any Persons as well as Cities and Parishes that will raise a Stock for the imploying of poor People if it invite no Vndertakers the Act can do no Hurt and if it succeed it may produce by the following or some other Expedient useful Experiments that more publick Corporations may learn by at others Costs John Bellers To the Intelligent and Thinking Reader WItty Men who think but once upon a Subject are able to make a Jest upon it but Wise Men think twice that will give a right Judgment upon things And these last are the Readers I address my self unto who have Temper to receive a good Proposition and Sense to disprove a bad or weak one by Proposing a better For that Physician that can advise nothing in a desparate Disease as the Condition of many of the Poor are now to England but contradict others will have no great Cure to boast of What I have said of Trade is rather to Anatomize and look into the Nature of it than to find out the most Profitables whilst I think Land is the Foundation and regular Labour is the great Raiser of Riches to a Nation and that Trade is the distributer of it when it is raised I would also persuade to Mercy and Vertue as what Crowns the Industry of any Country There are some too apt to reproach Vertue with ill Names and under that disguise represent the most Industrious as the more dangerous tho' Immorallity in the Professors of any Religion makes them the greatest Enemies and Ruin of that Religion which they profess Whilst the Industry of the Subject as it makes their Riches the greater Support so is it the best Security to the Government tho' they are divided into many different Opinions of Religion it being the Proud and Needy that are the most restless and the Idle that are most at leisure to be Mutinous Some may think me too short in Expression I desire such if they are at leisure to read this Tract twice and it will be then more intelligible unto them and if they have not time for that I conceive they would not have read a larger Comment half through And though short Sentences are most liable to be mistaken yet they are best to be remembred And if I can strike them Sparks from whence others may set up bigger Lights for the good of Mankind I shall not think my time Ill bestowed My brevity may make me seem too positive with some but I doing of it to prevent being tedious and desiring no more Credit than as I demonstrate what I writ I hope my Reader for my good Intention will excuse me in that seeming fault I will not answer for the exactness of my Computations whether there is six seven or eight Millions of People several ingenuous Political Arithmeticians differing in that point or whether we spend 50 or 70 Millions a Year a Million or two breaking no square in my Propositions they being

latter it 's by our own People and in both as they are useful Ministers and Officers of Trade the profit in their Imployments is their Sallary Of Foreign Trade As Foreign Trade should be either for the Publick profit or conveniency so what Trade we carry on between Foreign Countries can only be reckon'd profitable to us whilst what Trade we drive between our selves and Strangers is rather to help us to them things our own Country or Plantations cannot which are either Useful Ornamental or Delightful but a Voluptuous Age may easily fall into Excess with dress and pleasure by the two last whilst nothing can be strictly said to inrich a Nation but what increaseth its People and with them Supplies it with things that are lasting and necessary more than they Spend. But how much of the Silks Oyls Pickles Fruits and Wine we receive from Turky Italy Spain and France and not exported again as repasts to our Tables and Ornaments to our Clothes and Furniture are an Equivalent and of equal use to us which the more lasting and needful Clothes and Provision we send out for them would be may be some question Supposing we send 400 Thousand Pound a Year of English Manufactures to them 4 Countrys and by the returns the Merchants and Retailers may get 30 per Cent. which makes 520 Thousand Pounds value Imported to be spent in England Now Quere whether this 400 Thousand Pounds first sent out is not rather the Nations expence than the 120 Thousand Pounds the Traders get may be supposed to add to the Nations Stock and another Question is what of it is Prudently spent with comfort and how much is extravagantly wasted to the ruin of the Bodies and Estates of the Spenders If we send 100 Thousand pound of Manufactures to Holland and Germany we have commonly some useful Manufactures for them however if we did imploy our own Idle Poor upon them things it 's possible they would be able to raise most of them Foreign Goods that we want But then our Woolen Manufactures that supply them Countrys would complain of such new Manufactures as some Lancashire Men lately Petitioned the Parliament that Flanders Lace should be allowed to come into England that thereby they might have better vent for their Cloth in Flanders And thus whilst our Manufactures are disproportion'd to our Husbandmen we are and shall be like Limbs out of Joint always complaining lay us which way you will For which reason several Laws made for incouraging of Trade doth but raise an intestine War among our Mechanicks because the advantage of one Trade is often the ruin of another Whereas increase our Husbandmen and Fishermen which will lessen our Manufactures and make Food plenty and a quick Market for Goods and give the greatest Ease to our Mechanicks Complaints Now Supposing the 500 Thousand Pounds worth of Manufactures and Provision sent to Turky Italy Spain France and Holland were to have been used by our own People at home where we have enough and may have more to vend them whilst the want of them hinders Thousands in England from Marrying And if these People were imploy'd in a due Proportion to our wants in Tilling our Land Building Houses Breeding Cattle catching Fish and making of needful Manufactures which are lasting Riches that increaseth the Nations Stock they would add then a half Million Sterling Yearly to the Value of the Kingdom whilst as in Page 6. a Man in a Years time that spends 10 l. is able to raise what 's worth 20 Pound Quere Whether we do not Depopulate our Country by Pineing many at home for want of them Manufacturers and especially Food which we send abroad to supply the Pride and Luxury of others by the returns Amos 8. v. 4. Hear this O ye that Swallow up the needy even to make the Poor of the Land to fail Land and Labour are the Foundation of Riches and the fewer Idle hands we have the faster we increase in value and spending less than we raise is a much greater certainty of growing Rich than any computation that can be made from our Exportation and Importation whilst 120 Thousand Pound Imported to be spent at home for 100 Thousand Pound sent out leaves the Publick never the Richer at the Years end Of Mony LAnd Stock upon it Buildings Manufactures and Mony are the Body of our Riches and of all these Mony is of least use until it 's parted with Land and Live Stock increase by keeping Buildings and Manufactures are useful whilst kept but Mony neither increaseth nor is useful but when it 's parted with and as Mony is unprofitable to a private Person but as he disposeth of it for somthing more valuable so what Mony is more than of absolute necessity for a home Trade is dead Stock to a Kingdom or Nation and brings no profit to that Country it 's kept in but as it is Transported in Trade as well as imported for as Mony increaseth in quantity it decreaseth in Value in a Country except the People and Stock increase in proportion to the Mony Mony hath two Qualities it is a Pledge for what it is given for and it 's the Measure and Scales by which we Measure and Value all other things it being portable and durable and yet it hath altered far more in Value to all things than other things have among themselves when there was but the one 20th part of the Mony in England to what there is now As good a Sheep was sold then for one Shilling as will now cost 20 Shillings and when there will be 20 times more Mony in England than there is now that Sheep which is now worth but one Guinea will then be worth 20 Guineas except the People increase in Number and Stock for as we are now about 7 Millions of People and 14 Millions of Mony which is 40 Shillings for each Head in the Kingdom so it may be reasonably Reckoned that if we increase in Mony to have 4 Pound a Head all things will double in price and so in proportion and if we increase in Mony to have 8 Pound a Head things will be 4 times the Price they are yet a Sheep and a Cow and a Man's days Work were always in Value in the same proportion as they are now as the same Number of Days work of a Man would pay for a Sheep or a Cow 300 Years ago as will now and the same Labour will Plow an Acre of Land now as would then Query If we were as Populous and Mony were as little used and Provision as plentiful with us as it is in the East-Indies Whether it would be possible for them Indians to supplant us in Manufactures as they do now Of English Plantations THE English Plantations being ours should be us and the more considering the many Advantages they bring us whilst the dividing of Countries in interest may be a preface to their future Troubles English Men under the English