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A01682	The praise of a good name The reproch of an ill name. Wherin euery one may see the fame that followeth laudable actions, and the infamy that cometh by the contrary. With certaine pithy apothegues, very profitable for this age, by C.G.	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1594 (1594)	STC 11819; ESTC S113889	37,552	56

and so maist thou bée but say thou art as cléere from sinne as Christ yet take ensample by thy Sauiour for he disdained not the company of Publicans and Sinners which in those dayes the Iewes accompted the very ofscummes of the earth A very speciall Note HE that wil be strickt in reproouing must not be stayned in his liuing for Tully saith it is the property of a foole to spie faults in other and forget his owne He that doth register others escapes should not be rechlesse himselfe and to twit one by that which either he or his haue bene toucht withall is a méere point of impudency With what force canst thou vtter in disgrace of thy penitent brother There goes a drunkard when many can tell thée thou hast beene ouertaken with drinke With what boldnesse canst thou say There iets a proud person when thy gate gesture and gouernement are great presumptions of pride With what credite maist thou report There goes an Adulterer when thou thy selfe art accompted an incontinent liuer With what countenance canst thou say There goes an Vsurer which takes but tenne in the hundred for mony when thou takest after thirty in the hundred in thy trade With what shame maist thou publish There goes a blasphemer when thou thy selfe hast béene touched with hereticall blasphemy I speake not to the mainetenance of any obstinate and vncorrigible sinner but to crosse these cauilling spirites which spend their mouthes in spighte against others when their owne woorkes may accuse them of vanity in their wordes The Apostle doth not exclude them when hee reprooueth him that speakes against stealing yet playes the thiefe Ro. 2.21 It is not inuaighing spéech can varnish a vitious man nor a hi●● looke can couer a dishonest life nor a brasen face can hide a bad fact but he that respecteth no person but his piety no titles but integrity no excuse but simplicity will not onely reueale such as be euill but reuenge it here or in the world to come Some will obiect they haue not fallen into the like offence their brother haue what then hath he sinned by incontinency you by couetousnes he in pride you by oppression hée by bribing you by blaspheming hée one way you an other yet ye be both liable to a like verdite for hée that sayes the one shall not come in heauen will not suffer the other to inherite without repentance Gal. 5.20 c. Some are crossed with losse of their goods as Iob was many with vntoward children as Eli was and with death of their children as the woman of Sarepta was others with diseases of body as Naomi was with leprosie some with losse of their Name as Cain was who liued to his reproach although God doth not infli●t these in like manner and measure to all yet sithence few or 〈◊〉 are frée from these afflictions one ought not to applaud in an others misery For he that reioyceth at destruction shall not go vnpunished saith Salomon Prou. 17.5 Euery one should square his spéech by the rule of charity waigh his desartes in the ballance of equity then he shall find that if his owne faults were branded ●n his forehead he shall hardly escape without a blemish on his face if he pull not his hat somewhat low ouer his browes Sibi quisque proximus euery man can looke forward to his neighbours faults but hath not an eye to his owne such as these can straine a gnatt but swallow a camell stomble at a straw but leape ouer a blocke like hypocriticall Iewes who could tith minte but ouer●●ip great matters If some of them did examine and compare their owne actions with others they might say as Iudah did of Tamar She is more righteous then I. Gen. 28. and many of them may offer sacrifice euery day with Iob for their vitious and volupt●●●● ch●●dren they may heare many ill reportes of them as Eli 〈◊〉 of his sonnes but they can suffer th●m to procéede ●n without punishment when an other shal be persecuted in the l●●st trip of his life The Conclusion LEast he that hath a good Name should be too glorious or he that hath an ill Name should be too much disgraced I thought good to ad this conclusiue caueat by the way A good Name although it be excellent yet it is earthly though it be memorable yet it is momentany though it be committed to Rolles of record by Chronologiers or engrauen in brasse as they vse in some countrey yet both the Actors wrytinges and all will weare away in time the Philosopher could say Quàm multos clarissimos suis temporibus viros scriptorum inops deleuet obliuio Such as be experienced by age can tell how many men that in their time were noble and famous be now cleane forgotten and out of memory Whereby we may sée the fraile fruition of euery temporary thing which is soone decided with the circle of time so that no perpetuity in this life can be presumed of the most pretious thing A good Name therfore we must not labour or looke to eternize our Names vpon earth but rather couet and craue that we may be in the nomber of those whose Names are written in heauen for as the Lord sayth in the Prophet Esay that is an euerlasting Name which shall not be put out Esay 56.5 and albeit many shall haue their Names blemished in this life blessed are they if they be not blotted out of the boke of life The Marchant will barter his reffuse ware with hys best the Vintner will draw his decayed wine with his better If thy brother of infirmity fall actiones cum fama expendito thou art to consider not onely the offence which procured il report but by how many other actions he is worthy praise and so ballāce one against an other for this course is commonly vsed in the Scriptures You shall find Abrahams folly to be recorded aswel as his faith Noahs ebriety aswell as his integrity Salomons wantonnesse aswel as his wisdome Pauls persecuting aswell as his preaching Peters periury aswell as his penitency yet their eu●ll factes be not applied to their infamy but infirmity neither be their Names extinguished but eternized If Princes Patriarkes Prophets and Apostles haue their faultes meruaile not so much at their inferiors if they fall and therefore as we terme not that trée to be ill which is many times blasted so it beareth good fruite to the end so we must not take that man to be infamous which many times falleth so he riseth by repentance to his death Certaine pithy and profitable Apothegues directing men to thriue not so much by their goods as gouernement WHen the Lambe is by the Lyon there is no feare of the Wolfe He that is shrouded vnder his superior is in lesse daunger of displeasure for he shal be sometime spared when others are spighted many waies pittied when others are oppressed Ioseph could neuer be in ●●●et vntill he had got in fauour vnder Pharaoh

should bee more renowned in Name Dauid had many valiant men of warre and did deuide them into nombers according to their déedes and dignities yet some were more honourable then other for it is sayd of Benaiah that hee had the Name amonge the thrée woorthies 2. Sam. 23.22 3. That the more singularitie any hath in sundry giftes the more illustrate is his glory Dauid deserues to be dignified for many thinges being a king for regiment being a prophet for predication béeing a warriour for prowesse béeing a man of small stature for his miraculous killing of the monstrous Philistine There are many amongst vs that are worthy to be memorized for many thinges séeing naturall and litterall giftes were neuer more resplendent in any age but because it were méeter for Mercurius to imblazon their actions then Battillus I will omit them What a good Name and Fame is There are some that thinke many thinges to be famous which in the owne nature are but ignoble and nothing woorth The Syrians do take it for a prayse to eat their parents when they be dead rather then wormes should the Iewes to marry in theyr owne Tribe the Tryualles to kill their father when he is three score yeares old and bren him the wemen of Getica to be interred with their husbandes There are some that suppose a good Name dependes onely vpon outward dignities titles and termes of honor and renowne without vertuous actions the Philosopher dooth refute this honour commeth not to vertue by dignities but it commeth 〈…〉 by vertue of them that vse the dignitie The very 〈◊〉 of honor doth confirme it Honor saith Aristotle is a reuerence geuen to an other for a testimony of his vertue Therefore Catullus a vertuous man in Rome séeing Nonius a very viti●●● man sytting in great dignity in his iuditiall seate called him a swelling full of corruption because he knew his inward habite of the minde 〈◊〉 oppugnant to his outward honor he had amongst men There are some that thinke to purchase a same by setting forth fayre buildinges Ornanda est dignitas domo non ex domo dignitas tota quaerenda est saith Tully for It is not the glorious shew of the house but the godly actions of the 〈◊〉 that makes him renowned If he be an ill man wh●● s●●●h Salomon The house of the wicked shal be destroyed Prou. 14.11 then what shall become of all his glory There are some that thinke they are famous onely for ●●ti●ity sake because they issue from nobles or gentils High 〈…〉 euer béene estéemed 1. Samu. 18.18 but yet if any degenerate from his progenitors his birth cannot beautifie his base conditions it is not the grafting of a Crab vppon a Pippin stocke 〈◊〉 make it prooue a good apple this is more fully refelled in the former part of this booke There are some that thincke they are famous onely to bee accompted wealthy the Rich man was of this mind in Luk. 12.19 They boast themselues saith Dauid in the multitude of their Riches Psal 49.6 They gather goods and hope to leaue them to theyr children to mainetaine their Name but what saith Iob to wicked worldlinges he shall neither haue Sonne nor Neph●● amongst his people nor any posterity in his dwellings Iob ●8 19. so that shal be verified which the Psal●i●t s●●●h He sh●ll ●●ue his Riches for others Psal 49. c. and shall h●●e no Name at all Iob. 18.17 A Poet saith that Fame is nothing but a great swelling and filling of mens eares This may be true for as Boetius sayth many haue often had great fame by the false opinion of the people as Herode had when the people gaue a shout saying the voyce of God and not of man Act. 12. I take this to be a more perfect definition Fame is a knowledge of mens actions and déedes aswell farre off as nigh The word Fame as it is simply a substantiue is aswell indifferent and incident to bad men for their misdemeanor as to good men for their merites but if Fame be taken in the better part the adiunct good must bée connexed withall and so it is called a good Fame yet this adiunct is not alwayes vsuall but the Fame is sometime setfoorth by the effectes as in this place Queene Saba hearing the Fame good is left out of Salomon but it followes by the effect concerning the name of the Lord. 1. King 10.1 came to prooue him with hard questions Fame is a certaine kinde of knowledge but not alwayes properly of experience but commonly vppon reporte as may bée gathered out of the 1. King 10. therefore if we heare one praysed and well reported wée must not altogether beléeue our eares but our eyes as Saba did who trauayled of purpose to trie the truth of the report she heard of Salomon for a foole beleeueth all thinges Pro. 14.15 and it standeth with reason First because there may be more or lesse reported then is true Lo saith Saba the one halfe was not told me for thou hast more prosperity wisedome then I heard by report or as it is in the 2. Chro. 9.6 thou exceedest the fame that I heard Secondly to confirme our Iudgements for as Boetius saith I doe not thinke the fauour or prayse of the people woorthy to be remembred that commeth not by wise and iust Iudgement What should be meant by a good Name I can hardly apprehend vnlesse it be by a Metonymy the Name put for the man or the actions of man as the Name of Moses and the Prophets are put for theyr writinges in Luk. 16.29 for we cannot properly say that a Name is ill béecause in the beginning the first Name Adam was giuen by God therefore a good Name importeth as much as prayse and reporte which arise by reason of the valiant and vertuous actions of men It is recorded of Mordecai that his reporte went through all the kinges prouinces Nehe. 9.4 Demetrius that he had good report of all men 3. Epist Ioh. vers 12. Many of our forefathers that they ob●●yn●d a good report Heb. 11.39 All these good Reports were grounded and did grow of the precedent and laudable déedes of the Actors and because reportes are such as doe commonly touch the Names and credites of men the scripture willeth vs to practise such thinges as bée of good reporte Paul willeth the Philippians to thincke of those thinges that be of good report Phil. 4.8 and the same Apostle himselfe was approued by good report and ill report 2. Cor. 6.8 So that here is to be considered these thrée thinges First that a wi●●man must not measure his good Name and Fame altogether by the rumor of the people but by the trueth of his conscience least if he appéere otherwise then he is in déede he be easely depriued of his glory by his effectes and déedes Who but the Scribes and Pharisees were exalted for a time but when their déedes came to be tried by the touchstone then they