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A05738	The Christian mans closet Wherein is conteined a large discourse of the godly training vp of children: as also of those duties that children owe vnto their parents, made dialogue wise, very pleasant to reade, and most profitable to practise, collected in Latin by Bartholomew Batty of Alostensis. And nowe Englished by William Lowth.; De oeconomia Christiana. English.	Batt, Barthélemy, 1515-1559.; Lowth, William. fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 1591; ESTC S101091	168,239	212

by his example they coulde more easily tollerate and beare the death of their déerest friendes with greate pacience and constancie These examples doe admonishe vs that wée doe beare paciently and with good mynds the death of our children For séeing that the heathen men haue excelled in so greate constancie of mind I pray you what shal not wee suffer which haue professed our selues to be Christians We I say which are ingraffed vnto Christ vnited vnto him through that most sacred holy baptisme know that our children haue not onelie a Father héere vpon the earth but also in the heauens which hath prepared his Angelles that they should kéepe and take charge of our children in the stéede of Nurses Wherby also by many examples he hath declared and made manifest vnto vs that hée careth for them and preserueth them farre better and in more happy state and condition then parentes can eyther hope or wishe when vnto them it may séeme they vtterly perish and are most infortunate Which by the example of the Patriarche Iacob wee may plainely sée For when hée mourned and lamented for his sonne Ioseph being lost and as hée thought was miserably deuoured of the wilde beastes yet God in the meane time did exalt and promote him vnto great honour and dignitie in Aegypt and made him the instrument and meane to comfort his father and brethren and prolonged their dayes whereas other wise they were al in danger to haue perished with famine which fell ouer al the Landes there adioyning The like happened of Saule séeking his Fathers Asse which by the commaundement of GOD by Samuell was annoynted king of Israell Read the nienth and tenth chapters of the first booke of the kinges otherwise called the first booke of Samuell The like was in Christ which at the last was founde in the middle of the Doctors reasoning and disputing amongest them and posing them Therefore those Parentes more sorrowful then néede and bearing the fortune and death of their Children too vnpaciently if they beholde and consider the promises of God and these examples they shall easily sée and learne that these their vnfaithfull sorowes and cares for their Children are not onely wicked but also vayne and foolishe and so shall they confirme their fayth that afterwarde they shall more easily performe their dueties towardes their Children according to their vocation and moderately sustayne and with patience beare the fortune of their Children though it were accompanyed with death it selfe And they ought to beléeue and haue sure confidence that although they were lost or dead that yet neuerthelesse the Lord our GOD hath chiefe regarde and care of them if they liue in his feare And thus shall they more easily moderate and qualifie their immoderate sorrowes and mourninges Theophilus O immortal GOD who can sufficiently maruel and commende the constancie and pacience of these Ethnickes Againe if wee woulde faithfully beleeue that our Children are so carefully kept and preserued of GOD and that all thinges depende vpon his prouidence wee woulde with greater confidence commit all things vnto him which doe appertayne eyther to the bodies or soules of our children And wee woulde not bee so sorrowfull and discouraged when any aduersitie shall chaunce either to our selues or our children but woulde farre exceed those Ethnickes in constancie of minde When I reade so many and so notable thinges among the Philosophers of fortitude and constancie I am ashamed of the inconstancie of those men which seeme to bee adourned and garnished with so rare and singuler erudition and knowledge of God But nowe my good Theodidacte I woulde at the last know this one thing of you whether is it the duetie of godly Parentes to elect and choose for their sonnes beeyng once growen to mans state and stayednesse of life godlie wiues according to the example of Abraham Theodidactus Godlie Parentes before all thinges shall haue speciall regarde and care that they ioyne not their Sonnes in marriage vnto Lawelesse and vnbeléeuing wiues without anye difference but shall followe the example of the Patriarche Abraham which woulde not haue his sonne Isaac to be coupled in matrimonie vnto a wise from among the Chanaanites giuing his seruaunt charge after this manner Put thine hande vnder my Thigh that I may sweare thée by the Lorde GOD of Heauen and earth that thou doest not choose and take a wife for my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites amongst whom I now dwell but thou shalt goe vnto mine owne countrie kinred frō thence doe take a wife for my sonne Isaac Without doubt this so godly an example of Abrahā ought to admonish earnestly moue vs which haue either sōnes or daughters ready to marry to haue great care of them For except Abraham had feared some greate perill and daunger and had knowen some great secrete mischief to be hid and lurking therin certainly he woulde neuer haue giuen so earnest charge to his seruaunt That he should not take a wife of the daughters of the Chanaanites For it was not to be doubted but that some of their daughters were of good towardnes nature inclination also tractable which happily might haue béen drawne vnto Abrahams religion but hée would not haue his sonne to aduenture and make triall of so great a danger and in so weightie a matter Now forasmuch as Abraham did séeke to eschue this perill with what face boldnes or example dare we presume to attempt the same But hereof if God will wée will treate more at large in some other place of our next booke The second Booke of the dueties of Children towardes their Parents FOrasmuch as I haue alreadie spoken and that you haue so willingly heard from mée and my good friend Theophilus many things concerning those dueties which are required of Parentes towardes their Children nowe is it méete and conuenient that wée procéed to the other part of this our worke and purpose For I promised that to the vttermost of my simple skill and slender capacitie I would shew and declare vnto you those things which did apperteine to the dueties of Godly obedient children that is to wit what honour reuerence and obedience euery childe oweth to their Parents But my good Amusus before wée treat of this thing at large I woulde all your children were here present and that you woulde counsell them as I saide in the beginning of our talke that they may be silent and verie attentiue and bring with them pennes incke and paper to the ende they might note the most principall matters and worthie examples and so the better commit them to memorie Amusus Beholde here they are readie Elizabeth Anne Leuinus Charles Frauncis Paule Marie Katherine and Barbara and according to your commaundement I haue admonished them that they might hearken with all reuerence and marke euerie thing diligently Theodidactus What other thing should I wish to these your swéet childrē than that y e God

THE Christian mans Closet Wherein is conteined a large discourse of the godly training vp of children as also of those duties that children owe vnto their Parents made Dialogue wise very pleasant to reade and most profitable to practise Collected in Latin by Bartholomew Batty of Alostensis ¶ And nowe Englished by William Lowth Est adolescentis aetas suspectior aetas Lubrica delitijs ebr●a Legis egens ¶ Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas dawson and Gregorie Seton and are to be solde at the signe of the Hedge-hog in Paules Churchyarde 1581. ¶ To the right worshipfull and his singuler good friends M. Thomas Darcie and M. Brian Datcie Esquiers William Lowth wisheth happie health ioyfull prosperitie with the increase of all Godly knowledge in Christ Iesus our Lorde WHEN I had diligently weighed and duely considered with my selfe Right Woorshipfull the manifolde curtesies and sure tokens of vnfeigned friendshippe which diuers and sundry times I haue heretofore receiued at your worships hands sithence my first cōming into this countrie of Essex I was inwardly moued stirred and procured thereby to deuise studie and finde out some way whereby I might some what exonerate and discharge my selfe of the heauie loade of your vndeserued friendlinesse towards me and mine So that after I had well deliberated of this matter ransaked all my weake and sillie senses and throughly recounted with my selfe mine owne estate wealth and condition I found it altogether more simple ba●e and slender then that it mighte in any respecte counteruayle your kindenesse Notwithstanding at the last by good happe lighting on a Booke 〈◊〉 De Oeconomia Christiana A matter cōtaining a Christianlike ordering gouerning of an houshoulde and familie collected framed and composed in the Latine tongue after the order of a Dialogue by the first Author Bartholomew Batty of Alostensis for the vtilitie and profite of his brethren children and countrie men whereof I taking some good liking at the first viewe setled my selfe therein and would not giue it ouer vntill suche time as I had throughly perused and diligently read ouer the same And the matter being pitthy pleasaunt and profitable bewrapt me in such delight that I could not choose but bestow the second reading therof so waded through againe with a more deep consideration care and diligence then before Thus passing through the second time I gleyned and gathered together certaine speciall notes for mine owne better instruction and reformation of mine owne family Of the whiche when some of my deare friendes had taken the viewe together with the Booke and also hauing good liking thereof they beganne to perswade me earnestly and that with many and great reasons that it would be very profitable not only vnto my selfe for mine owne priuate exercise and increase of knowledge but also vnto all Parents childrē Maisters and seruants old and young of what estate degree condition soeuer being ignorant of the Latine tongue if I would bestow not only the translating therof But also afterwards commit the same to the printing that therby our countrie and countriemen which are right deare vnto vs might also reape some profite and commodity And albeit I thought my selfe farre vnfit for that purpose and not sufficiētly able to performe their honest earnest requests nor to manifest the Authours iust deserued praise in framing so fit a paterne for this our age time Yet at the last aswel for their importunacy as also chiefly for the increase of mine owne knowledge and to doe my countriemen some pleasure after the example of others I haue presumed very boldly to attēpt this matter And as time would permit me frōmine other daily exercises haue brought the same to such effect as may now appeare without any iniury vnto the first Authour I haue now disfurnished changed him out of his owne rich robes and gallant garments and haue apparelled him after the English fashion which though perhaps to some may seeme euill shapen at the first sight and will also deeme that the stuffe is not so fine excellent and costly nor set out with such delicate deuises picked points and curious colours as the worthinesse of the thing doth deserue nor that I haue shewed my selfe ther in a cunning and skilful Artificer yet is it good wholsome and durable and not of the coursest nor vilest kind of stuffe neyther of the basest and simplest fashion So that such as shall behold the sound body and inward substance rather thē the outward shew and shall endure the same vnto the end shal find no doubt sufficient matter ministred vnto them to garde and defend them at all assayes from many mishaps sharpe showers terrible tempests iniuries and inconueniences which otherwise for want therof might more sodainly annoy them And for that your worships are Fathers of many children which I am perswaded are dearly beloued vnto you and maisters of great families wherof I knowe you haue care to be vertuously instructed guided gouerned and trayned vp in the feare of God And because this whole discourse tendeth to the same purpose and effect I haue thought it good to offer these my simple paynes and trauels vnto your woorships as the present of a true and faithfull friend which faine would haue offered you a better gift if his power would haue extended thereunto But herein following the examples of poore men in the auncient hystories I am so much the bolder euen for the very goodwill I beare to you and yours Humbly beseeching your woorships to shrowd the same vnder the shadow of your wings So shall I thinke my selfe safe let the bawling Barkers curious Cauillors sawsie Sycophants and Momus his mates with all the rable of Ruffians in their fretting fumes say what they can Which if you wil vouchsafe to doe I haue my whole desire and will continually pray vnto Almightie God to send you in this earthly habitatiō happie health ioyfull prosperitie with the increase of much woorshippe And after this life euerlasting blessednesse in the heauenly Hierusalem At Malden the xxxj day of May. 1581. Your VVoorships most bounden William Lowth To the Reader AFter that I had finished this small treatise gentle and louing Reader being mooued thereunto partely for mine owne pleasure and increase of knowledge and then againe vrged by the earnest instigation of some friendes for our countries cause which stādeth in great need of the godly and wholesome documents with the graue counsels pithie preceptes in this litle volume contayned And herewithal calling to mind that worthy notable saying of the Diuine Philosopher Plato cyted by Cicero in his first booke of Offices Non nobis solum nati sumus ortus enim nostri partem patria vendicat partem parentes partem amici I was heereby incited stirred and procured to make this more familiar and openly knowne vnto thee beeyng a matter so profitable and necessary for all parents maisters children and seruants Wherein as in a most

which may feare them from vices They shalbe saith S. Ambrose Vitae nostrae testes simul magistri witnesses and also maisters of our liues From them wée shall receiue the way to liue the order to speake the behauiour to bée conuersant with others and the discipline of all vertues For this may séeme true vnto euery man who so haue learned many thinges by vse long experience doe remember more then others wherefore they are wiser then others and more apt for councell and gouernment in any thing whatsoeuer Amusus For that we haue heard of you so godly and so wholsome Precepts of obedience honor which is due to parents we are very glad for these so great benefites we giue you humble thankes In the beginning of our talke my good and reuerend father I shewed my minde and wil I cannot tel whether you remember it concerning the instructing and bringing vp of my children Theodidactus I remember it but yet it may bée that I haue not vnderstoode all things fully that you would haue expressed Therefore if you would vse any further cōference with mée touching those things I pray you speake and bée not afraide Amusus In the beginning of our talke I told you I was of this mind that I wold very faine haue almy children vertuously brought vp godly instructed in the true knowledge faith religion and feare of Almightie God And you most louingly haue been willing in all things to satisfie my minde in such sort that I neuer had any hope to heare from any man so many and so excellēt things as I haue heard from your mouth But now I am of this mind that I would be right glad to haue those my sonnes whose wits I shal perceiue neither to be too dull nor blockish nor altogether alienated and estraunged from the Muses trained vp in Christe his Churche and I would be glad to haue them ministers and preachers of his worde not to the ende that they should gather and heape vp to themselues great riches and so to liue at their ease and pleasure as many do now a daies the more to be lamented but rather that they should endeuour to the vttermost of their power to deliuer out of Satans chawes many soules now vexed tormented and so gaine them vnto Christe And because also it is an excellent thing to excell in vertue to doe good to our Countrie to teach others to know themselues and to search out the secrets of nature Theodidactus Almightie God graunt that you neuer alter nor chaunge your minde héerein For the haruest is great but the labourers are few if wée respect true faith vnfeigned diligence and pure doctrine all which things are to bée required in the true ministers preachers of the worde and many other things also whereof Saint Paule speaketh vnto Timothe and Titus Amusus Recite heere the wordes of Saint Paul I pray you except it be to your trouble that I and my sonnes may vnderstand what it is to bee a minister of the worde of God in his Church Theodidactus This is a faithfull saying saith Saint Paul If a man desire the office of a Bishop hée desireth a good worke A. B. Therefore must be blameles the husband of one wife watching sober comely apparrelled a louer of hospitalitie apt to teach not giuē to ouer much wine no striker not gréedie of fil thie lucre but gentle abhorring fighting abhorring couetousnesse one that ruleth well his owne house hauing children in subiection with al grauitie For if a man know not how to rule his owne house howe shall hee care for the Church of God Amusus Without doubt it is a great hard charge chiefly to him which hath purposed and determined in his heart to care for the Church of God according to the methode and prescript rule of S. Paul the greatnesse thereof terrifieth both me and my sonnes Theodidactus My good Amusus there is no cause why you should feare the difficultie and hardnes of this godly function for all things are possible with God For Christ hath called fishers and made them rulers of his Church The spirite of God worketh effectually in the heartes of those that beleeue and call vpon his name wherefore see that you powre out your ardent prayers before the Lord God for your children and that with great care and diligence doubt you nothing at all of Gods promises Amusus So I doe to the vttermost of my power and according to my slender capacitie For he knoweth which is the onely searcher of the heartes and reines how earnestly I doe desire to haue my sonnes the instrumentes of the holy Ghoste by meanes whereof the doctrine of the Gospel might bee inlarged in the Church of God But is our prayers and the inuocating of God sufficiēt to the going about this matter of so great a charge as it was in the time of the Apostles Or be there any other meanes annexed for the better perfourming of this charge and duetie Theodidactus Yea verily for in the time of the Prophetes and Apostles God for the most part wrought miraculously in setting out his worde immediately by the working of the holy Ghost only but nowe in this our age hée manifesteth him selfe more often through the gift of tongues that is to say not only in the knowledge of the Latine tongue but also of the Gréeke and Hebrew not that the holy ghost is now made a stranger from the Doctors of our Church but thus hath it pleased his maiestie and séemed good to his diuine wisdome that he doth not alwaies rule and teach his Church or make himselfe manifest after one maner Amusus If then I couet and desire to haue my sonnes true diuines and teachers in the Church as farre as I can gather by your reasons and argumentes they must excel in learning in the knowledge of the tongues they must also be well and perfectly instructed Theodidactus Amusus according to your natural inclinatiō so do you rightly gather of my wordes For all mankinde was created to this end that hée shoulde perfectly knowe cal vpon confesse and glorifie God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ not according to our owne imaginations but according to the doctrine which God himselfe hath set foorth vnto men which with his owne finger hée hath written in the bookes of the Prophets and Apostles in which hée teacheth vs how and after what maner hée will bee worshipped which bookes hée hath commanded al men to reade heare learne 1. Tim. 4 by S. Paul saying in this wise At●ēde lectioni exhortationi doctrinae Giue attendance to reading to exhortation to doctriue And 2. Petri. 1. it is written Hibemus firmiorem sermonem propheticum eui dum attenditis ceu lucernae adparenti in obscuro loco rectè facitis c. We haue a right sure worde of prophesie whereunto if ye take heede as vnto a light that shineth in a darke place yee doe wel