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A46241	Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?	The debtors apologie, or, A quaint paradox proving that it is good to be in debt, and, in this age, may be usefull for all men by T. J.	1644.0		.xml	application/xml	2646	62	56	With what dearnesse have both Gods and good men countenanced and gra●ed debtors ? to whom Diana the great Goddesse of Ephesus , granted her Temple for a Sanctuary , to keep them out of Pagwell Pigeon Houses , or if they were caught , Solon , by a sollemn law infacted , would not have their bodies to be fettered or manicled amongst Malefactors , but that they should enjoy their liberty throughout all the Parks and Purlues of the Prison , or , to speak more mildly , of their restraint and indurance ; for the Prison is built Purgatory-wise , after the architecture of Rome with a Limbus and Tullianum ; The Dungeon is the Devills pinfold and the very suburbs of hell , where Varlets , Roarers , and stiletto-stabbers are let down , as the proper food that stuffs that greedy Ma● ; the next Room is the Lollard of Trunck-hosed Famelists and Separatists , who after they have been rowelled in the neck , to cure them of the Megrim of the head , they are by the gentle flame of this ●●ove , and the heat of their own zeal , made to sweat our their contumacy and other peccant humours ; the upper skirt and stage of this building , is the Garret of expencefull Wasters , Gamesters , and unthrifty Debtors , where though they live robbed of their liberty , as they rifled others of their Money , yet is it their great happinesse , that being glutted , as it were , with an Aplaustick voluntary life , they have an easie overture made to the contemplative and practick life of vertue : Who ever lived more like a souc'd Gurn-head amongst men , then Diogenes the Cynick , barrelling himself up in his Tub like a Kegg of Sturgion ? yet was the happinesse of his contented life envyed of the greatest Monarchs , who having made their throats the through-fare and the Cullenders of meats and drinks , found an over-gorged Belly to be Wits clog , Reasons Sepulcher , Lusts-Arsenall , the Magazin of lewd practises , and the Nursery of all Vices : all which provocations are defaulted by debts , wants , and indigency . WE are fallen into that dotage of the world , in which the worst thin●s do overtop the worthiest ,	cache/A46241.xml	txt/A46241.txt
