WhyCbrìQ wasnowmore rthe third Sonday inLent. Sér.2i. angrie,thannredrer tirrtes- faluation.:Whocanchufe but laugh at thefe meps ignorance and blindnclfc, thatthey fhouldiwallow anddigit manyotherfoule taults,andMould here be fo nice anddaintie,as toqharrelfwithour Saùiour about his Difciplcs waflsing or notwaftingoftheirhands Tour Traditions; (faith our Saviour) becaufe for couetoufneffe ofgaine,they had introduced many ; andamongft the rest, thisof the frequent and often , wá, Thing of thehands, Nonmanducantpoem (faith SaintMarke) crebrolaucrint mantas, They cat no bread tillthey haue often walk their hands. Theophilalt reads it Gubitaliter,vptotheelbowes. At our Sauiours owne Table,and at otherplaces where nowand then theywere inuited, they euer behaued themfelues in a de.- cent & ciuil tnanner,as Petru4Chryfologusnotes it unto you ; but theymade little reckoningof this Ihperftition,andof many others which the Pharafaicall aua- rie hadbrought in;as todenie fuftenance to our Parents,to fwearcby the Tein ple,but not by the goldot,&c.fur,by making the goldmore.facred,theypréfu- medmon would feare to filch anyofit away.ThePriefts didpurpofely multiply Laws; tòr where there aremany Laws,there aremany tranfgrellions,andwhere thereare manytranfgrcifions, there aremany gainfull conimings in. God coin- plait-led) by tlaeeamouth of Efay, Exaclores f eliauerunrpopulism imam, The Extor- rioners beat my people to pieces, ai}dgrinde thefaces of. the:Poore.:t'ata6lus renders it, Racemando ['pliant ; for by plucking off now a bunch , and then a bunch, thcyleaue not in all the Vineyarda Grapethat is fcarce worth the.glea- taling. thefe-Exaftorsand. Extortioners vnderilandeth the Priefts ; and faith, Thatas your couetousMifers,afker they haue cutdowne their: Corne guldmadeit into greatcocks,&carried home their harucft,fillaraking .eira-glea- nikig ouerand eueragaine,conrrarie tothe Leuiticall Law; fo thefe inerthauing devoured thegreater part of the Richer fort, they fall a raking of the,póòre, and,take fromthem that littlethat thcyhaue,by ordaining molt vniuft Lawes. TheSonnes ofEly the Scripture calls, the Sonnes ofBelial ; and fartherfayth, That they didnot know what didbelong to thePrie1ls Office, Nefcientes Domi- nrem, neque offrcium Sacerdatum. Whichvatablusrenders thus,Nefiientes Doui- ;non, insfecerunt contrapopulam , Not-knowing the4ord as they ought to have done, they made law againfi thepeople,inflourof their ovine couctouineffe :'for they beingto receive the Offerings of the fiefh Tod, to theend that they might_ ttor; panderit vp, and keepeitto themfelues, they brought ina ncivçuftome, That; theyMouldgiue.it them raw, that they might either putitintopafl:,faltit,fell it, ozotherwifc doe what they lift with it. The World wasalwaies andwillbec hill the fame ; that W. hicltwee feethe Scribes andPharifees did then, the like courfedge.they now take (which.go uern the Cornmonwcalth)wirh yourVintnersyyour- ViEtuallers,your Iimefhersy yourFruiterers, your Hearbe-wiues,anda worldofother Tradels,impofìngnia, nie Lawes vponthem, not fomuch for thatthey import the:good goúernment of the Commonwealth, as for the private benefitand maintenance of your Clerkesof the Market,yourvdlguazils,Attornies,Promoters, andall thereft. ofthat rabble,which liuev pontheft.fees of Hell : And the knauerie hereof is to feene in this, that.whcnthefe Officers meet with falfe weights, or water mixt with wine, & the like, it is awonderif they-prohibit them to come any more to tbe,Market,or to banilhthemthe Countrj, ,butratherclappingatnulE vpon them, they continuethem, and kcepe theinftillafoot, as an Inheritance that bringsthem in profit ,. or asa Farme thataffoords a fer rent to their !purfes. You Thal haue aVintner brought a dozen times oneafter another into thecourt, Hh a and 363 E/aq3. Many laws in a Common- wealth bring gaineto Come, but tolThto mo(!.
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