The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

1. Greater than Poverty; which yet is a great evil. Melius est ⟨p. 10⟩Panem mendicare, quam Fidem perdere. Better to Beg, saith one, than to sin,—Heb. 11.24. to the 28.—Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the Pleasures of sin for a season. The like of that Christian-Moses Galcacius Caracciolus, who was a Noble Prince and Marquess, who yet, that he might not sin, left and forsook all he had, and betook himself to live meanly with the people of God, merely to enjoy the Ordinances. And Musculus, a man of excellent Learning, and a famous Divine, who rather than sin, would close with any condition.

1. Greater than Poverty; which yet is a great evil. Melius est ⟨p. 10⟩Panem mendicare, quam Fidem perdere. Better to Beg, saith one, than to sin,—Heb. 11.24. to the 28.—Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the Pleasures of sin for a season. The like of that Christian-Moses Galcacius Caracciolus, who was a Noble Prince and Marquess, who yet, that he might not sin, left and forsook all he had, and betook himself to live meanly with the people of God, meerly to enjoy the Ordinances. And Musculus, a man of excellent Learning, and a famous Divine, who rather than sin, would close with any condition.

The Story tells us, That being driven out of all he had, he was content, rather than sin, to betake himself to a Poor Trade, to be a Weaver, to get bread to maintain his wife and children. Afterwards, being cast out of that way, the world looking upon it as too good for him, he betook himself to work with a Spade in the Common Ditch of the Town, to get his living. He could down with any condition, rather than sin.