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A65238	The gentlemans monitor, or, A sober inspection into the vertues, vices, and ordinary means of the rise and decay of men and families with the authors apology and application to the nobles and gentry of England seasonable for these times / by Edw. Waterhous[e] ...	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1047; ESTC R34735	255,011	508

and your pleasure and inadvertency rather then Gods curse unless it be a curse as it is very like one to live above the rate of prudence and the Income of ones Estate The benefit of avoyding which those Lords and Gentlemen know and find who are their own Bayliffs Treasurers and Overseers that is who take account of what their servants do and of what they do not and adjust the proceed of their receits and payments For Fortunes like Cattel are best in ●ase where inspected by the masters eye and their Children and Tenants are best provided for and dealt with whose fathers and Landlords are frugal and forehanded men who need neither to wrack their Lands require their Rents before pay-day or draw their Tenants into engagements for them Nor are children tempted to pray for their parents deaths or prey upon their parents credits to supply their short allowances from their parents when their parents living within their bounds save the matter of such relief and yet are in statu quo ●s to their Lands so great advantages come not only by the real but even reputed forehandedness of Noblemen and Gentlemen that in letting of Lands marriage of Children Purchase choice of Security for Money cheapness of House-accomodations yea in the common love and talk of the Countrey it is a great grace and furtherance for it is one of the great leures of the common Peasants to Markets to talk of men and Countrey news over the Pots and Pipes of which meetings they will arrogate the making men Angels or Devils rich or poor as they find them free or straight needy or aforehand so potent is the Purse of great men to purchase their adoration and good word that there is no secret in Countrey life more gaining and useful then not to be known to want money for he that does shall be pelted with as many detracting verdicts of the high-shoos as they have Tongues to utter Eares to hear Opportunities to meet with and envy to detract from a needy man who shall need no other misery then to become cheap in his Countrey neighbours thoughts and to need their supply before he may command it as his due For as rich Princes and sage in the treasuring up their Revenues and other accessions never shall want love from the subjects they oppress not nor fear hatred from the Foes and Traytors they are able by themselves to reduce and repel so shall great men never be abated the good respect and character of those they live amongst or deal with where they spend nothing but what they can allow and not pinch or defeat them that are to subsist upon what they serve in to support that greatness Which I hope in the main irrefragable makes me in conclude to live within bounds of Fortune and degree is worthy Noble and Gentlemens consideration SECT XLII Adviseth Great men To conform to the Laws and to be Patrons of Order and Vertue SEventhly I do heartily beseech them to conform to the Laws and be Patrons of Order and Vertue For the Law being the Standard of right and wrong and the size according to which Order and Vertue in its demonstrative and referential capacity is stated for Great men not to be Presidents of conformity to and propagation of it is unbecoming them And since the Laws Culpae genus est non ●e fecisse quod summum Theodoric Ep. 5. Var. lib. 3. the measures of good and evil in every Nation are contrived by the Councel and promulged by the Majesty and power of the Nation not to conform to them is to refragate the visible Divinity and express Image of God in the Nation and to sin against the light of humane Nature in the contexture of civil Societies to which Lawes are as necessary preservations and furtherances as Food is to Health Ayr to Motion Water to Nutriment or any thing is that is necessary to the being and well-being of creatures and thereupon though men that have protection by ow ex debito subjection to the Laws Hot enim intrarem in curia nostram decet qui ad primos ho●ores non expendunt meritum suum sed cum magna susceperint iterum majora pro●erentur haec est enim gloria haec indubitata sententia frequenter potuisse mereri per quod Homines constat ornari Alatharic Rex apud Cassiod lib. 8. c. 22 as Tutelars to them yet are Peers and Gentlemen more especially obliged to assert and subserve the Laws because they are in some measure the Law Contrivers Regulators and Passers and how ludibrious will the Nomothetique power be made to be when the Law is by such remarkable men traversed and impleded 'T is no good character Petrarch give of some nor is it at all suitable with true Greatness In their chairs they are dogmatica In Cathedris Philosophantur in actionibus insaniunt praecipiunt aliis praeceptisque suis primi obstant primi legibus à se latis derogant signiferos se professi primi ordines deserunt primi virtutis imperio rebella●t Petrarch lib. 2. de vita solitaria Sect. 7. c. 1. in their actions they are leud they command to others what first they themselves resolve to disobey they profess themselves Chief●ains of Athletiques for the Law and throw down their Gantlets in defiance of all Opposers against it and God help them they are the Master-rebels who will not be subject to the vertuous mandats of it so much of Volusius Metianus his mind and pride are they that they take pleasure to boast that there is no law in the world that they know not rather then in doing according to what they know Die mihi Ma●gister est ne ulla lex in mundo quam praestes observes ●uevara lib. 1. c. 3. as M. Antoninus smartly replied upon his vapouring Tutor It is of consequence therefore that Great should also be good men and good in observance of and obedience to the Law for as when Salt has lost his savour it is unsavoury so when Lord-lieutenants Deputy-lieutenants Parliament-men Justices of Peace all Officers of Justice are not exemplary in not offending the Law the Commons will be less careful contented to be obedient to the Law which wise King Iames of famous memory considering applies to his Son thus Therefore my Son sith all people are naturally inclined to follow their Princes example Basilicon doron 2. book p. 166. let it not be said that ye command others to keep the contrary course to that which in your own person ye practise making so your words and deeds to fight together but by the contrary let your life be a law-Law-book and a Mirrour to the people that therein they may read the practice of their own Laws and therein they may see by your image what life they should lead Thus wrote he who knew in book and practice what consequence the example of Great mens conformity to the Law is and thus

great to venture for him who is the Fountain and Founder of them all and without whose Support and Providence they will soon abate This to do is more additional to your Honours then Coronets Stars Georges Ermines Baronies Then Coats Quarterings Titles Revenues Allyances all which are determinable being the Pensioner of every accident whenas the reward of well-doing is permanent and returns the doers everlasting Remembrance yea shall enter Heaven a Memoire of well-doing never to be forgotten or worn out For the God you serve therein is mighty in Recompences as able to preserve the fruit of his Servants from above and their root from beneath as to destroy the root and fruit of contrary doers Amos 2. 9. And pitty it will be that ye who are so rare Masters in the art Diis quam hominibus conficie idis melior Quintil. de Phidia statuario of captivating Men should not with Phidias express your excellency and in●●uence for Religion and Piety SECT XXXVI Shews That they should not neglect due politure in their Youth which gives the Rise to their after-eminency or the contrary SEcondly That they would not neglect due politure in their Infant-youth For as every thing hath its season so hath instruction and accomplishment The seed is sowed in the ground when the earth is shortest and of best mould and competently moist The impression is fixed on the Iron or Wax when they are warm and most susceptive of the incumbent force The Twigg is incurvated and plashed to the hedge when it is young and tractable the distorted limb rectified while it is tender and unfixed in its irregularity So is youth made any thing while it is a rasa Tabula and has no pre-occupations or restivenesses assumed into or by ill habit imposed upon it Therefore as the care of Parents and Guardians so the duty and willingness of Children and Pupils ought to exercise it self in forwarding and following youth to its utmost improvement that the Seed and Cyons of institutions may loose no season towards its growth and flourishing but may be embelished with and productive of something suitable to its time cost expectation possibility And this I rather humbly advise to because however as the body renews its flesh and changes it minutes parts as it passes thorow the conducts of Maturation and increase answerable whereunto the expressions of the will understanding and other soulary powers are yet there are gradual rejections of what we children were To imbrace what we men are some educational and habitual touches adherent which seldome or never are fully discharged and drawn from us against which there is no appositer remedy Cloriosa est denique scientia literarums quia quod primum est in homine mores purgat seeundum verborum gratiam subministrat ita utroque beneficio mirabitur ornat tacentes loquentes Theodor Rex Var. lib. 2. Ep. 33. prescribable then to narrowlyregard youth and to infuse proper and specifique seasoning into it True principles of Religion sound rules of plain reason to read well and well to write to be thoroughly disciplined in Grammar and after in Mythology to intermix with the lusory parts of Learning Authors religious Poets and Prose and them to read to them as well as prophane ones to allow them convenient play without abuse or violence to train them to manly Exercises a Running Riding the Great Horse Basilicon D●ron 3 book p. 185. Fencing Dancing Leaping Wrestling Tennis Archery Vaulting which though an Elegant wit Grave judgment terms but the varnish of the Picture of Gentry Bp. Hall whose substance consists in the Lines and Colours of true Vertue Yet are Courtly things and o sweeten and allay the choller and rudeness of these by Musique of voice and touch which b Lib. 3. de Repub. p 625. Plato saies is contributary to Fortitude c Plato ●u Alcibiade 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and renders men compleat in vertue When thereunto is added the conviction of them that vice and villany is beneath them and the nourishment of emulations to do things wise harmless is worthy them wherby the suckers extravagant expression of youth which do but impair their present repute occasion their after dolour are rescinded and they set free from those follies that first take and then stupifie the mind and mortifie all that is hayle and savoury in it I say these incumbrances removed the fruit of good nurtriture and generous education will fully and seriously appear to compensate the cost and care of those that under God have been fountains of the counsel and defrayers of the charge of it Provided there be such adaptation of O levitas adolescentiae deploranda nec mirum si enim deus tibi cursum vitae longiorem indulserit Flebis aetate provectior quod ami●tis impubes nec erit t●nc locus paenitendi cum res in eum desoldtionem venerit ut resormari non possi Episcop Rhotomag Epist. H. 3. Regi Augl apud Petrum Blesensem Ep. 33. the breeding and method of institution to the nature of the person and end of his designation as is proper and direct in tendency thereunto For as no man ever made a Port but he that steered to it unless by impulse of storm he was above and beyond his hopes miraculously befriended by God who reserved the glory of his safety for his challenge of praise from such a saved miscarriage and gaining loss so no Father no Guardian can hope to have his child or charge well bred according to the notion of true breeding but where he greedily sucks in his institution and retains it with a resolution to wind himself into the love practice and mastery of it which is the fruit of something occult in nature depending upon the endowment of God and annexed to the Genius of it as its inseparable vehicle to such and such methods of ambition and diligence as leads to those concluded issues and no other which being a secret to us and discoverable only at the time and in the way of Gods project in us is served to in education no otherwise then as education is fitted to the acceptation and improvement of emergencies in the closing with which as it is fautive to what is to be eminently subsequent thereto is the marrow and soul of probable Felicity and Nobility For though it be true that Miracles have heretofore and further can if the Principal and Regent of them please turn stones into bread and advance ignominy unto Majesty and by instantaneous qualifyings render them not unkingly but as Regally compleat as if born from Kings and bred for Government Yea and fit the Fishers of the Gospel by sublimation of their weak and watery Rhetorique to out-spirit those Oracular Philosophers who were looked upon in the world as so many walking Gods moving in mens Figures to reduce their exorbitancies into a resonable regularity and to beat down the arguments and