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Where are you, ye Sons of the Highest, ye Magistrates, put in power not only to lament our sins, but to take away the cause of our lamenting; cease to beak your selves, like Jehoiakim, before the fire of ease and rest: rend your clothes with Josiah, and wrap your selves in sackcloth, like Nineveh's King, as a corps laid out for burial. Do not, Felix-like, grope for a bribe at criminal offences: sell not your connivance (and withal your conscience) where you should give your punishment. Let not gold weigh heavier then Naboths wrongs in the schools of Justice. Weep ye Ministers, between the Porch and the Altar. Lament your own sins, ye Inhabitants of the world. England, be not behind other Nations in mourning, that art not short of them in offending. Religion is made but Policies stirrup, to get up and ride on the back of pleasure. Nimrod and Ahithophel lay their heads and hands together; and whiles the one forageth the Park of the Church, the other pleads it from his Book, with a Statutum est. The Gibeonites are suffered in our Camp, though we never clapped them the hand of covenant; and are not set to draw water and chop wood, do us any service, except to cut our throats. The Receate (I •ad almost said the Deceit) of Custom s•ands open, making the Laws toleration a warrant: that many now sell their Lands, and live on the use of their Monies? which none would do, if Usury was not an easier, securer and more gainful Trade.

Where are you, ye Sonnes of the Highest, ye Magistrates, put in power not onely to lament our sinnes, but to take away the cause of our lamenting; cease to beake your selues, like Iehoiakim, before the fire of ease and rest: rend your cloathes with Iosiah, and wrap your selues in sackcloath, like Niniueh's King, as a corps laid out for buriall. Doe not, Foelix-like, grope for a bribe at criminall offences: sell not your conniuence (and withall your conscience) where you should giue your punishment. Let not gold weigh heauier then Naboths wrongs in the scoles of Iustice. Weepe ye Ministers, betweene the Porch and the Altar. Lament your owne sinnes, ye Inhabitants of the world. England, be not behinde other Nations in mourning, that art not short of them in offending. Religion is made but Pollicies stirrop, to get vp and ride on the backe of pleasure. Nimrod and Achitophell lay their heads and hands together; and whiles the one forrageth the Parke of the Church, the other pleads it from his Booke, with a Statutum est. The Gibeonites are suffred in our Campe, though we neuer clap'd them the hand of couenant; and are not set to draw water and choppe wood, doe vs any seruice, except to cut our throates. The Receate (I ad almost said the Deceate) of Custome sands open, making the Lawes tolleration a warrant: that many now sell their Lands, and liue on the vse of their Monyes? which none would doe, if Vsurie was not an easier, securer and more gainefull Trade.