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A00658	A forme of Christian pollicie drawne out of French by Geffray Fenton. A worke very necessary to al sorts of people generally, as wherein is contayned doctrine, both vniuersall, and special touching the institution of al Christian profession: and also conuenient perticularly for all magistrates and gouernours of common weales, for their more happy regiment according to God; Police chrestienne. English	Talpin, Jean.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1574 (1574)	STC 10793A; ESTC S101953	277,133	426

in Israel amongst maydes and women specially when there was question to glorifie God for any victory for the which they offered to God songes of triumphe in thankes geuing and perpetuall memorie In this sort the women of Israel daunsed to the Tabour and voyce after they had made their wonderfull passage through the red Sea where Pharao his Egyptians were drowned amongst whom Mary the sister of Moyses led the daunse and geuyng the first voyce to the song the rest toke it at recorde and sounded vpon the Tabour Daunses are approued also in the booke of the Kinges the maydes of the countrey singing and daunsing when Dauid had ouercome Gholias and Saul ouerthrowen a thousande enemies and Dauid ten thousande Dauid him selfe daunsed played before the Arke of Allyance when it was caryed to Ierusalem when Mychol his wife scorning him for his mirth being so dispoyled was punished of God to remaine barreyne And as in many of his Psalmes he allureth men to the spirituall daunses I meane such wherein God is praysed so we sée in S. Luke that at the returne of the childe of conuersion the father caused instrumentes to be sounded daunses to begyn expressing the great ioy he tooke in the restitution of his sonne In example of whiche spirituall reioysing the Christians being victorious ouer the Gentiles I meane when their idols were pulled downe to the grounde at the conuersion of the Emperour Constantine and other good Princes succéeding daunsed neare to the Temples vpon festiuall dayes singing prayses to God in exaltations and spirituall ioy which daunses were afterwardes abolished for their abuses But in all the time of antiquity we finde not that men and women daunsed together because they woulde geue no suspition nor practise affection of fleshly lust onely we finde that the Israelite idolatours with their wiues and daughters hande ouer head as the saying is daunsed about their Calfe of God And the Sichimites afore the Temple of their idoll which prooues that such daunses came from idolaters and Pagans in whom was no other pretence but to followe vaine pastime and do honour to their idols which I feare may be noted in manye of our daunsers of this time who with the custome of Bacchus Knights making feast to their idol Bacchus sticke not in their dronkennes to offer sacrifice to Venus hauing their eares corrupt with the noyse of dissolute Musicke their mouthes infected with vnchaste discourse and their geuen ouer to all dishonest thoughtes and enterprises To these are much helping the eyes led with the gaze of impudent iesture with many other like substitutes of filthinesse For these abuses and many other reasons expressing the generall corruption of the present season it is requisit to the officers and directers of the pollecie to restraine such daunses specially being reprooued in the scripture in this text They haue well eaten and dronke and then they rise to playe and daunse whiche some interprete to idolatry But who did euer sée a man of sobriety to be a daunser saith Tully who speaking in the defense of a Romaine whom Cato accused of daunsing which was an acte of infamie cleared him from the imputation of that vice by the modestie of his countenaunce and sober conuersation of life alluding to daunsers iestures of intemperauncie not much vnlike the behauiour of dronkardes Let therefore the Magistrate reforme the vice and cull the abuses out of the vertue And if they wyll eftsoones restore the first and auncient daunses Let them be ioyned to such modesty honesty simplicity that they holde nothing of the impudencie of the Gentiles Let them forbeare to sing vaine and filthye songes for it is written That euyll speache corrupteth good maners not onely in common talke but more rather in wanton songes A thing very daungerous but specially to young men and maydes afore whom Plato Aristotle in their pollitikes would not geue sufferaunce to any dishonest speache nor to haue read any wanton Poetry specially if it conteyned impiety to the Gods. And much lesse woulde they suffer their youth to beholde any painting or purtreit of villany thereby not to corrupt their tender senses apt in that age to receiue vile impressions Let Daunces then expresse modestie both in their singing Hermonies and gestures being onely practised in honourable assemblies and mariages But in other banquets and méetings as in Tauernes brother hoodes of epicurity Let all Daunsing be reputed as custome of the Pagans and worthy of sentence I wish that in place of Daunses at mariage the time were supplied with some Comical or historical show of the auncient Mariages of Abraham and Sara of Isaac Rebecca and of the twoo Tobies and theyr Wiues matters honest and tending muche to edifye the assistauntes But for resolution of all sortes of playes vaine worldly and dissolute as all men haue a notable example in the life of Ieremie who sayde hée was neuer in the Assemblye of players So let maydes take for theyr example Sara wife of Tobias who before shée was maryed with him and demaunding of God to be deliuered of the perplexitie wherin shée was put him in remembrance of the contempt of all vaine thinges Thou knowest O Lord sayeth shée that I neuer kept custome with plaiers nor daunsers and much lesse had conuersation with suche as walke in lightnes to whom vanitye is as easye as a strawe to bée tossed in the winde Sure it is not méete to sing the Psalmes of Dauid in daunses as they doo in Almaines the matter being to holy to be so prophanely vsed requiring rather a prostrate humility vpon our knées and in zeale of inuocation to bée whollye rauished in god Touching Roundes or Base daunses it is wel knowen what preiudice they brought to Saint Iohn Baptist wherein the Daughter of Herodias brought such delite to Herode that taking away his iudgement shée procured him not onely to make her an offer of halfe his kingdom but also recompensed her daūsing with the head of S. Iohn To this may bée ioyned the warning of Ecclesiastes not to beare nor kéepe cōpany with any woman daunser for the peryll of her vaine fleshly allurements With these plaies and daunses may wel be coupled the daunse of Masques being all the proper inuentions of Pagans and the Deuil with a publike licence to cōtract reprobate actes so muche more damnable by howe muche gouernours are guiltye to the offence by suffering the parties For as it may be iudged theyr vse implieth no other thing but practise of deceite and not to be knowen in vnlawful actes So the best argument to proue the dishonesty of theyr ententes is their shame to declare afore the worlde the state maner of theyr doinges which resolues in good conclusion that as the good acte séekes no cloake or shadow so whispering vnder their visors they practise in workes of darknes being lighted by the candle of the deuill If the face was ordained of God to shew

soule which without such medicine standes in danger of eternal death his vlcere is so perilous that if there bée not applied to him a sharpe correction and that to pearse euen to the Boanes for the purging of all putrefaction of his manners it wil remayne incurable Is it then a good zeale in the Ciuill Father to leaue to perdicion his poore perplexed Childe whose cure can not come but by these remedies so that by howe muche it is most certaine according to Dauid and the booke of wisedome that there can not bée founde a medicine more wholsome and effectual to purge the sinnes of the soule then the Doctrine of God by so much is it a dutye necessary and commendable in the Magistrate to vse compulsion by paines and punishment for the hearing of Gods woorde the same being declared to vs in the meaning of the Parrable whiche Iesus Christe put foorthe of the Father of a housholde who commaundes his Seruauntes to goo foorth and constraine to come to the Banket generall whiche hée had made readye all suche as they founde in the Stréetes in the Wayes Hedges and in the Bushes What other thing is this Banket but a preparation of all spiritual meates contained in the Scripture and set vppon the Table which is propounded by familiar explication in the Churche for the norriture of our Soules with al inward delites wherein as the ministers of this great Father of housholde bée his Apostles and Disciples whiche are the Bishopps and Curates to teache and instruct the people and sommon them as it were by theyr Sermons to receiue the Graces whiche are presented to them by Iesus Christ so it appertaines also to the Ciuill Magistrate to constraine the negligent and idle people by the Stréetes and others lurking in Hedges and Bushes or hid in Tauernes or Tabling houses sporting in dissolute Gluttonye whilest this Heauenlye Banket is made readye in the Churche where is concorse of good men to refreshe them selues with it this pollicy bringes foorth these thrée speciall benefites The first is the healthfull instruction of the Soule by the hearing of the word of God which can not bée preached in any place without some fruite according to the similitude of the Raine which falles not in vaine vpon the Earth No more sayeth God shal my word returne to mée againe without profiting of some For such as are foreordained to the eternall life by hearing the woorde are in the ende conuerted how lewde and wicked so euer they bée For this cause it is called the worde of health and euerlasting life as being the instrumental cause or meane by the which God hath ordained that wée shal be instructed in Faith conuerted to him and bée saued and knowing by it his will wée are sturred vp to embrase and accomplishe it The second is that there is no man what vice iniquity so euer he hath professed in his life who although in respect of his reprobat obstinacy wil not be cōuerted altogether yet either by force of this word or for feare of the iudgements of God or for shame of men séeing others reformed of theyr faultes will not at least withdrawe him selfe from the multitude of sinnes as dyd Herode who albeit was so reprobate as the Scripture witnesseth yet by the exhortacion of Saint Iohn and the Doctrine which hée preached hée both did much good and was corrected of many vices euen in like maner the infamies and dissolutions daylye committed but chiefelye on the Holye dayes may by litle and litle bée brought to reformation and ceasse in the ende altogeather eyther by the one or other profite of hearing the woord of God. The thirde fruite depending of the two others with equall and necessarye coniunction is the vnitie of all sortes of people assembled at the Sermon instructed by one selfe teacher in Faith the Lawe Religion in one Doctrine iudgement and one consent of wil and opinion Enemyes shal be reconciled by this woorde whiche propoundes nothing but charitie Loue and vnitie The aduersaryes of the Faith and Schismatikes shal be made one with the Catholikes by the continuaunce of hearing this Doctrine which reprooueth schismes abhorreth Heresies and condemnes them to perpetuall curse So that all people assembled togeather euery Holydaye specially to heare Gods worde in the Sermon can not but bée nourished entertayned and preserued by this continuall conuersation in Preaching places and by this vnion of Doctrine in true Loue and mutuall Charitye to the rooting vp of all inimities and grudges ¶ The wyse worldelinges nowe a daies would not willinglye haue Sermons as also certaine Pastours desire nothing lesse then to preache laying the blame of the miserye of this time vppon sermons but such people are ouerthrowen by the worde of God and by this reason that to all sortes of people Preaching is necessary The .6 Chap. THere be many men too deepelie drowned in worldly wisedome who resist my counsel affirming that it is inough to the simple and popular sort to vnderstande the Paternoster the Creede and the commandements and yet oftentimes they make no mencion of the commaundements of God séeing that few learne them and fewer obserue and accomplishe them They say that since Sermons were so ryfe in the world and that men were so familiar with the Gospell and the Bible there hath béene nothing but varyetye of Heresie Suche people are angrye belike for that eyther they knowe nothing and yet ought to bée wise touching the wel directing of their estate or else bée fleshelye wise whose propertye is to desyre no Sermons because they woulde geue nothing to the Preacher but by force and lesse to the Poore but for shame their custome is alwayes to take and returne nothing but for their owne norriture yea there bée some of them so enuious of the aduauncement of theyr knowledge of God in the world that they gréeue that the people shoulde come to vnderstande any thing touching the matter of theyr saluation But it is with them as hapned to Balaam whose Asse reprooued him of his ignoraunce and faulte which ought gently to haue guided her and when he neither could or would doo it God made her teache him and gaue her power to speake against her nature correcting and reprouing her Pastor of whome shée should haue béene well taught and instructed Such people me thinke haue no reason to laye the euent of heresie to Sermons and much lesse to the declaration of the holye Scriptures yea it is a spice of blasphemie to thinke it onely because that that worde of God hath power to illuminate the poore darke and and ignoraunt spirites and geues intelligence of God and of saluation to the litle and simple ones to whom coulde not be geuen suche wholesome and necessarie knowledge but by this holy and heauenlye doctrine by the which all vice is eschewed and purged as a disease by the medicine all error eschewed and corrected as the light hath power

respect he held all other treasures in perpetuall contempt euē as who is riche in gold and siluer holdes not reckoning of leade and tynne And therfore when his towne was taken by assault of warre that his enemy gaue him libertie to depart with all the goods he could carry with him he would not vouchsafe to take any riches But being asked why he caried not away the goods of the towne as golde siluer and other precious mouables he aunswered I carie all my goods with me meaning that science and vertue were his goods What honour had Plato by his learning when it wrought him grace euen with the greatest tirants who contrary to their condicion thought him worthy of high reuerence yea the enemies of Athens taking him vppon the sea gaue such honour to his science and vertue that they saued his life notwithstanding they were sworne to the slaughter of all the Athenians falling into their handes if hée had desired riches he might haue excéeded all the mightie men of his time and so might also all the other Philosophers the same being expressed by Thales Melisien who beeing reproched of his pouertie called begger made such prouidence for wealth by his excellent learning that in short time he caried no occasions to be called poore wherewith when he had choked the slaunderer he declared immediatly the base estimation hée made of worldly goods departing all his treasure amōgest his friends the more fréely to follow Philosophie Thus these Philosophers tooke such contentment in their spirituall riches that they estéemed the goods of the world not worthy so much as of a simple care for that being corruptible and transitory they bring to mē more burden then benefite They held also in like contempt all worldly honours and naturall pleasures contrary to the spirituall felicities For which eternall riches Anaxagoras contemned with great constancie euen from his first youth all the fraile possessions and delites of the earth For being discended of a great rich house he left all to go to studie at Athens and being become learned he sayd he had lost himselfe if he had not lost and left the riches pleasures and honours to the which he stood possible by the amplitude of his house But for all this who séekes to heape masses of earthly goods and commodities of a plentifull life may haue easie meanes thereunto by learning by the which euen naughtie and corrupt men haue bene entertained in honour and estimation as we read of Dennis the Siracusian tirant who chased out of his kyngdome yet by his learning had continuance of honour and kept a schoole at Corinth from whence for the fauour only of his science he was readopted to his principalitie when cruel Nero was threatned to be cast out of his Empire for his tiranny he aunswered it was not that could make him carefull for his liuing for that all regions nourished learned men and who had a trade was sure of mayntenaunce by it Great are the benefits that grow by the men learned in the lawes through their counselles and good iudgements in the decision of differences controuersies and warres and in distributing to euery one his perticuler and due right what seruice do they to God What excellent profite comes by learned Phisitions in the cure of diseases What pleasure is sweeter to the sickeman then to be eased of his paine Many are the benefites in a common weale growing by well experienced gouernours wise in polletike Philosophie and learned in the lawes but much more by the deuines Yea learned men béeing vertuous and honest do in the world the same which the soule doth in the body without whose action subsisting the bodye would fall dead and become a carcase of earth yea that which the sonne doth vppon the earth without the which as men would wander in vniuersal confusion so thers would be no more delite in this life and vpon the earth nothing but darke miserie it is not to be doubted but as the shadow followeth the bodie so riches and honors are due companiōs of vertuous science to what estate of honour are raised wise counsellors Presidents and Chauncelloures whom God séemes to honour by titles diuine by reason of their estates whereunto they are called by their excellent learning And Kinges and Princes giue this honour to learned men that they receiue counsell of them are gouerned by them wholly tourned into their direction and for recompēce indue them with the highest estates of their Realmes and giue them the vse of their princely and proper authoritie Touching the Phisitions the wise man sayth they haue honour of Kynges and Emperours and reuerēce in all regions and common weales But for learned Deuines and Preachers and for the honour of their learning I say that if they teach sincerely and expresse their doctrine in their conuersation they are called of Iesus Christ the greatest in the kyngdome of God by Dauid resembled to the firmament and starres of heauē for they shall shine in perpetuall eternitie Touching the profite which they do to the whole world not speaking of riches and dignities which they ought to despise in their hartes by the meane of their doctrine it appeares plentifully aswell by their Bookes and sermons as by their examples of life whereby they are called the light of the world the salt of the earth the eye of the bodie polletike For looke how many tēporall commodities the light bringes to the world or the salt to preserue meat in season or the eye serues to man for his necessary vses euen so profitable and necessary are learned men in the church And therfore for conclusion there is nothing of more deare care and recommendatiō to gouernours of countreys nor that bringes more honour and profite to all and any whatsoeuer then a Colledge or schoole from whom al those honours estates riches and dignities do drawe their beginnings wherein I may compare it to a fountaine of a paradise terrestriall watred by foure goodly riuers issuing out of it For so out of this colledge or schoole the cleare fountaine of all learning do issue the artes liberall lawe phisicke and sacred diuinitie of the doctrine of which the Church the true terrestrial and spiritual paradise is plentifully liccored to make it euery where fructefie in all profitable and delitefull fruites if there were no fountaine in this paradise all woulde become barreine no lesse would happen if it were dried vp by which occasion in the end the world would beare no flower of honestie nor fruite of vertue the little plant which I resemble to youth being become drie without any humor in the roote that is doctrine by the which it ought to florish and fructefie ¶ It is necessary for many reasons that all schollers remaine in one colleadge Chapter xj THer resteth no more but to debate whether it be not good that scholers remain al together In the gretest and best iudgment of learned men it