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A64970	The right notion of honour as it was delivered in a sermon before the King at Newmarket, Octob. 4, 1674. Published by His Majesties special command. : With annotations, the contents whereof are in the following leaf / by Nath. Vincent, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty, and Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1685 (1685)	Wing V419; ESTC R3122	34,127	86

then the Kingdom is well governed when our Kingdoms are well governed the Empire will be also peaceable and calm This is the beginning of the first Treatise in the former part of CVMFVSV's Works being a Discourse concerning the Perfection of Man and of Government In his other Tracts there are many excellent Moral Discourses the stile whereof shows the Chinese Eloquence to consist chiefly in Climaxes His Writings have less Art but more of the true Spirit of Morality than is to be found in Plato himself and the most esteemed of the old Greek and Roman Moralists He has other Books of Dialogues Odes Sentences and Moral Dissertations He wrote the Annals of the Chinese Kings from Fohi who according to their Chronology liv'd before Moses He wrote of Political Virtues of Court days and Vacations of Presages of the Rewards of good Men and the Punishments of the Wicked and upon many other Subjects It was his Motto Lay nothing upon another that you would not bear your self Like a true Socrates he asserted and worshipped the one true God He commonly invoked Heaven but in a Metonymical Sense Which we have the more reason to believe because the Chineses in his time had no Idols He is thought to have prophesied of our Saviour Christ for he would always disown his own Perfections and refuse the Commendations of his Piety with this reply SĪ FAM̄ YEÙ XIḾ GIȖ The Holy one is to be looked for in the West Fifty years after our Saviour one of their Emperors moved by this Tradition and by a Dream that there came and appeared before him out of the West a God-like Man sent some Persons of his Court to make enquiry after the true Law who wanting either courage or skill to sail further than the Red-Sea brought home and first planted in China the Idolatry of the adjoyning Countries CVMFVSV was born above five hundred years before Christ about the beginning of the Persian Monarchy and probably was contemporary with Cyrus At nineteen years of Age he married and having in a few years buried his Wife continued single He never used Concubines according to the Custom of his Country His Life was every way answerable to his Discourses His Moderation and Piety his constant watchfulness over himself his contempt of Riches Honours and Dangers his unwearied Industry in propagating Moral Knowledge is to be read in his Books as well as in the Stories of his Life He is still had in so great Veneration by his Country-men that the great Office of Mandarin hath been always chosen out of his Family which to this very Age hath been exempted from Tribute His Books use to be read every where throughout the Country and his Philosophy taught in all the principal Cities of China There is an ingenious Merchant a Fellow of the Royal Society who hath put into the hands of one of his Collegues several of CVMFVSV's Books brought from Siam where they were printed in order to an English Edition of them and of a Lexicon and Clavis to the Language and to a new World of Learning The foregoing Specimen is sent abroad to give some account of those great Rarities and to quicken the publication of them out of a just respect to the worthy Owner of the only Copies in this part of the World PAge 23. That Christian Charity which thinketh no Evil. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 13. 5. Charity suspecteth no evil Where the case is doubtful sayes Grotius upon the place it always interprets in the best Sense It thinketh no evil either of Superiors or Equals where it sees none According to the excellent temper of the Laws by which our Nation is governed it presumes every Man to be good who does not appear to be otherwise But ever since Man degenerated it hath been the greatest part of his temporal Misery to esteem himself upright and wise and other Men Villains and Sots Which makes him disobedient to his Governours and unjust to his Neighbours He looks upon his Neighbours as Dotterels and his Governours as Harpies He reckons it as easie to catch the former as difficult to escape the deadly Talons of the latter Since the time that Men had reason to be afraid of one another their Fears have undone them Ever since they have been unable to govern themselves they have been afraid of their Rulers lest they should invade their Properties and by altering their Religion make way to their Civil Rights Through the want of Christian Charity and that Faith from whence it proceeds People are so void of good Thoughts and so full of jealous Surmises they have so great a concern for their Pelf and so little trust in the Providence of God that when their Fortunes are as safe as if they were the only care of Heaven for seditious Men to convince them that their Prince will have no regard to Rules and Constitutions but intends to govern them by Arbitrary and lawless Administrations they have no more to do but only to tell them so Upon the first strong report they believe themselves to be Slaves and indeed they are so to their own Passions They feel more smart from their own Fears than they can suffer under the Whips of Infidels For want of crueller Masters they become Tyrants to themselves Rags and Prisons with a quieter mind would be great Blessings to them For they are of a Temper which makes Prosperity an Egyptian Plague They that have nothing to lose are in a much happier condition For Poverty is not so great an Evil as the fear of falling into it But the great Riddle is that these Men should be wounded and tortured by that which never touched them by something at a distance from them which they cannot prove by one Argument will ever be nearer nay which hath nothing at all of Beeing more than it received from their distempered Imaginations yet frights and distracts them more than any thing that is real and certain It is indeed very strange for a Kingdom to be thunder-struck by an undiscernable clap of Tyranny that melts and consumes all the Rights of the People and yet not one Man hurt in his Person or Fortunes The true State of the Case is this When the guilty Conscience tells a Man plainly what use he himself would make of Soveraign Power when the Wretch hath done all the Mischief he can to his Inferiors and has thought wickedly of his Prince that he is altogether such an one as himself 't is no wonder that he fears Him first and then hates Him This is the account of all the Commotions Tumults Seditions and Confusions that ever yet were or perhaps ever will be raised by discontented or seduced Persons in all the Governments of the World When designing Miscreants undertake the embroiling of their Country the People ferment immediately upon the bare report of approaching Slavery They believe all that is told them unless it be then when it happens that there is any