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her liuings,that is,God
himfelfe
ofhis right.He
commeth
to
Magiflrates
&
Iudges, and
offereth
vnto
them great
bribes,
if
they
will
peruert
iuffice,
and
fo
putteth out
their
eyes
that
they cannot
fee
right
from
wrong
:
for,
rezr4Yd
blinderh
the Deut
e.
ig.
eyes
o
f
the
peruerteth
the
words
of
the
iufl,as
it
is
Deut.
,16..19.Ifhe
fee
one
in
office
couetous,he promifeth
great re-
.uenewesand
fiately houles,
ifhee
will deceiue the
Prince.
of
his
right,and
oppreffe
the
fubiec
t
with
grieuous
extortion
:
and
the
like
offers
he
maketh
to
couetous
gentleren,if
they
will build their
houles
with the blood
of
their
tenants,
and
by grinding
the
faces
of
the-poore,and
by
inhaunfng their
rents,
and
increafng
their
fines
to
fuch
vnreafonable
rates,
that
the poore tenant
can
fcarfe
with the
fweate
of
his face
.
earne
his
bread...
Neither doth
hee
angle
with
this
baite
in
the
Court and
countrie only,
but
hee
thinketh it
fit
for
the
citie alto
:
for
he
commeth
to the
couetous Merchant,and promifeth him
that.
in
loch a
countrie
he
fhall haue
good
tratficke,if
he will
dif-
femble his
religion,that
is,denie Chrifi before
men
:he
offe-
reth
to the
fhop-
keeper increafe
of
wealth,
ifhe
'will vfe
falfe
waights
& meafures, and
falfe
lights,or
elsfell
fuch
wares
as
are neither
profitable for
the Church nor Common
-
wealth
;.
or adulterate and falrfie
his
fiuffe
by mixing
bad
with good;
or
aske
double
the
price,fwearing
that it coil
him more
than
afterwards
hinrfelfe
is
contented
to
take:
in
a
word,if
in
buy-
ing
and felling
he
wil
vfe
fraud,lying,fwearing and
forfwea
-
ring,
hee
promifeth
to
make him
a
rich
man,
though often-
times hee
deceiueth him; for
in fiead
of
increafing
in
wealth
by thefe
vngodly
praálifes,
oftentimes
hee
becomes
banke-
rupt,the Lord laying
his
curie
on
thole wicked means,with
-.
outwhole bleflìng the
builder buildeth and the labourer
la-
boureth
but
in
vaine,as
it
is
Pfal.127.1.z.So alto
he
commeth
PIaL 117
,IA.
to
the
Artificer,and
telleth him
that ifhe
wil be
rich,hemufÍ
make
late
ware
:and
what
is
that
?
finch
as
is
fleight and
alto
gether
vnfit
for vfe;
as
though that
were
a
ofi
fit
for
fale
which
is
fleight and
altogether
vnprofitable. And
fo
com-
mon now
adaies
is
this
fault,
that
no
greater
difpraife
can
be'
giuen, then to
fay is
is
Pale
ware,
as
though
now
nothing
which: