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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43746	Institutions, or, Advice to his grandson in three parts / by William Higford ...	Higford, William, 1581?-1657.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1947; ESTC R34464	23,330	114

preserved by a few dishes and those of good juice and nourishment so in learning a few Books well studyed and digested will profit you more than a great number not will chosen Lectio certa prodest saith Seneca The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Scudamore is best able to direct you when you can have access to his Lordship he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great lover of learning and very learned and a most bountifull Mecaenas to all Schollars and men of parts The Book wherein you are to be most conversant is the Holy Scriptures This must be your Vade mecum Non recedat Volumen legis hujus ab ore tuo sed meditaberis in eo diebus noctibus This word is a lantern unto your feet and a light unto your paths The Scripture is compared to a River wherein a Lamb may wade and an Elephant may swim in some places easie in some places hard to be understood The easie must expound the harder and where you doubt you must follow the Advise of St. James Si quis indiget sapientia postulet a Deo and also have recourse to Gods learned Ministers and Embassadors of whom it is said Vobis datum est nôsse mysteria dôi whereto the Prophet Malache agreeth The Priests lips preserve knowledge seek the law at his Mouth Thus doing yo must acquiesce and captivate your understanding to the obedience of Christ The Psalms of Holy David you are to read as they are appointed for the Day being a chioce part of the word of God and the ejaculations of a person according to Gods heart Among other Books I would commend unto you especially in divinity the learned Hookers Ecclesiastical politie in History the honour of our Nation Sr. Walter Raliegh Plutarchs Lives for the knowledge of our own Country Mr. Camdens Britannia and my freind Sr. Richard Baker's Chronicle for precepts of Morality and vertuous Education Xenophons Cyrus and Tullies Offices together with K. James Basilicon Doron and to refresh your self with poetical stories you may take Sr. Philip Sydney in steed of all When I was young it was a defect for a Gentleman not to be versed in Him Alfred one of the Saxon Kings during the Heptarchy Founder of the University of Oxford divided the 24. hours of the Day into 3. parts whereof one third part he spent in the necessities of Nature viz. eating drinking dressing sleeping c. another third part he imployed in hearing and composing matters of state negotiations of his Kingdome but the other third part he constantly devoted to Meditation and acquisition of wisedome Kings and Princes have many and great difficulties and Crownes have thornes and so in like sort all Masters of Families and Trades in their several mysteries and vocations have a full imployment of their time of whom it may be said as Seneca Ipsa vita vitae apparatu consumitur But in you who are freed frem all those incumbrances it were noble to vindicate from sleep and sports some Hours every day and to dispose them in the exercise of learning Of all professions the Lawyer is most painfull and it may well be so Gold is an especial Invitement to industry I have known divers Students of the Law who have without any failer set apart eight nay some ten hours more every day in study of the Law whereby they became great Gainers and were advanced to the highest place of Iudicature Titus the son of the Emperour Vespasian called Deliciae Generis Humani because he was of so sweet a disposition that it is said Neminem ab eo tristem discessisse this Titus kept a Diary of all his Actions and when at night he had found upon examination that he had acted nothing memorable he would exclame Amici diem perdidimus This example I commend to you Dear Cosin and adde no more here concerning your converse either with Men or Books INSTRUCTIONS OR ADVICE TO HIS GRANDSON The third Part. THE last part of our discourse will concern your Actions Virtutis laus omnis in Actione consistit The World is a Stage and every one is to act his part before that great Spectator God Almighty which must make you carefull how you act under his all-seeing eye The highest acts you can perform are the acts of Religion whcich raiseth up your mind from earth to Heaven Your Religion must be accompanied with zeal and your zeal tempered with discretion that you may not be one of them whom the Apostle censureth Habentes zelum sed non secundùm scientiam In your Access to Heaven you are to be led by two Virgins prayer and preaching by the one you talk with God by the other God speaketh unto you In your prayer you are to be frequent and fervent Holy David in the Evening Morning and Noon did pray unto the Lord and that instantly and the Lord heard his prayer He did rise also at midnight to give thanks unto the Lord. Our Saviour Christ pernoctabat in Oratione As for preaching when you enter into the house of God be ready and attentive in hearing the word of God and make it your own by meditation and practice Those beasts onely were accounted clean that ruminate and chew the cud It is practice and the carefull observance of Gods Commandements which brings the Reward Hoc fac vives This is it that doth most lively denominate a Christian You shall know him by his fruits For the better observance of Gods Law you are to pray in aide of Grace as St. Austin adviseth Facere quod possumus petere quod non possumus When you fall let your prayer be Ne derelinquas me Domine Strive to raise your self again by repentance which is no more but peccata praeterita plangere plangenda iterum non committere called by St. Ierom Secunda post naufragium Tabula The Theological Vertues which attend Religion are three Faith Hope and Charity with which you must joyn Humility This is the basis or foundation of all other vertues the first step of Iacobs ladder He that humbleth himself shall be exalted But the Moral vertues are a more proper subject for Me the first in order is Iustice This is the bond of all Societies Families Kingdomes and Commonwealths Justitiâ amotâ quid sunt regna nisi magna Latrocinia Justice is Suum cuique tribuere to perform your word contracts and thereby you will command other mens Estates as your own And let this be a Rule unto you Nullum utile quod non honestum that which is unjustly extorted from others will never prosper De male quaesitis non gaudet ter●…ius haeres Think not to be registred a Saint in the Court of Heaven unless you make restitution aut voto ●…t facto of that which you have wrongfully exacted upon earth Non remittitur peccatum say the Casuists nisi restituitur ablatum But how will you be able to ●…ender every one his own