their Families, carry on their Trade and to breed up and give portions to their Children.If they imployed that which they rob the people of in Trade, Handicrafts, Manufa∣ctures, Husbandry or Fishing, it would still remain a great piece of Injustice and Disorder, the State would not suffer so much by it. they imployed it in Buildings, profitable to the Society, or purchasing Jewels, or lasting Mooles, the State would not lose so much by it, but many times they spend it in excess of Eating and Drinking, and other lewd De∣bauches; or otherwise hoard it up in their Coffers, or turn Usurers.If those Ecclesiasticks had not enough to subsist on, without all those cheating Tricks above▪ mentioned, it were much better for the people, how useless soever they may be, to make a publick Fund, for their maintenance, than to suffer them to follow the Trade of Cheating; as all Men agree, it were better for them to provide thus for other Robbers and Cheats, if it were found to be an effectual Method to di∣vert them from that wicked way of Living. But it hath always been thought, that it would be ineffectual as to Highway-men by Profes∣sion, and we may say the same, as to the Po∣pish Clergy, who for the most part have enough to subsist on without cheats; yet they find what they catch that way, sweeter than all the rest, and look upon it as the Fruit of their Cunning and Parts. The shortest way then, would be to suppress six parts in seven of all those Eccle∣siasticks, which would be a good thing, even
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