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A02480	A touchestone for this time present expresly declaring such ruines, enormities, and abuses as trouble the Churche of God and our Christian common wealth at this daye. VVherevnto is annexed a perfect rule to be obserued of all parents and scholemaisters, in the trayning vp of their schollers and children in learning. Newly set foorth by E.H.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. De pueris ad virtutem instituendis.	1574 (1574)	STC 12609; ESTC S105953	36,378	106

A Touchestone for this time present expresly declaring such ruines enormities and abuses as trouble the Churche of God and our Christian common wealth at this daye VVherevnto is annexed a perfect rule to be obserued of all Parents and Scholemaisters in the trayning vp of their Schollers and Children in learning ¶ Newly set foorth by E. H. ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Hacket and are to be solde at his Shop at the greene Dragon in the Royall Exchange 1574. ❧ To his knowne friende mayster Edward Godfrey Merchaunt IT VVERE TO BE vvished my deere friend that euen the vvhole course of this our frayle and mortall life vvere bestovved vpon the seruice and continual vvorship of God and that vve coulde commit our vvhole vvill and dealings vnto the vvill and pleasure of God both for that our ovvne thoughtes doe little preuayle about them also for that the general felicity of man doth depend only vpon the obedience vnto Gods vvill and prouidence It vvere also to be vvished that vve vvere not carefull for the chaunces to come but that vve could submitte our selues vvithout staye to Gods deuine vvill and ordinaunce But alas suche and so greeuous vvas the fall of our first father in Paradice that besides the fragilitie of our state and the vncertaintie of our life vvhich of all thinges is most vncertaine Nam homo quasi bulla there is also by the same his fall infused into oure fleshly hearts a friuolous care and as it vvere acurious meditation of temporal and corruptible thinges VVhich care as it is vnto the godly a very decrease of zeale and hinderance to perfection I meane to perfection vvrought by Gods spirite so vndoubtedly the same vnto the reprobate is an vtter extinguishment of pietie and vertue For no man of vvhat estate soeuer he be of himselfe hath anye habilitie at all eyther to contemplate the goodnesse of God or to stande in avve of the terrour of iustice No vve are not able I say to tast the benefyts of christ his death passion except vve haue by the instinct of grace mortifyed vvithin vs the corrupt motions and naturall cares of the flesh vvhich altogither vvitholde vs from the true contemplation of diuine and spirituall things according as it is vvritten Animalis homo non percipit ea quae sunt Dei The fleshlye manne hath no feeling of those things vvhich belong vnto God. And although there be a certaine care commended vnto vs in the holye Scripturs as the care vvhich Jzaacke had for the barrennesse of his vvife the care vvhich Jacob had for the losse of Ioseph his sonne the care vvhich the poore vviddovve of Sarepta hadde fyrst for hir ovvne pouertie and then for the death of hir onlye sonne the care also vvhich the Gospel declareth to be in Martha vnto vvhome our sauiour Christ sayde Martha Martha thou carest and art troubled about many things Although I say suche kinde of care is set foorth vnto vs in the booke of our saluation Yet deere friende vvee must not thinke but that there is another and that a principall kinde of care vvhich only and alone by the vvorde of God to all suche as are regenerate is commaunded and commended euen a zealous and a feruent care to the building of Gods house besides the vvhich care al other cares in vvhat respect so euer they be are but corrupt and vaine Yea they are nothing else but dregges of the fyrst fylth and corruption that fell vnto man by the sinne of Adam and of vvhich our sauiour Christ in the Gospell forbiddeth vs euen so many of vs as by him desire to be righteous saying Take no thought for your lyfe vvhat you shall eate neyther for your bodye vvhat you shall put on The lyfe is more than meate and the bodye is more than the rayment Consider that the Rauens neyther sovve nor reape And againe vvhich of you by taking thought can adde one cubit to his stature And againe in the same Chapter Therefore aske not what you shall eate nor vvhat you shall drinke neyther lette your mindes vvander about these speculations For after all such things the heathen people of the world seeke and your father knovveth that you haue neede of these thinges The Apostle also willeth vs to bee carefull for nothing but in all prayer and supplication to make our petitions manifest vnto God with giuing of thankes To conclude euen of this care our sauiour Christ in saint Iohns Gospel saith Are there not tvvelue houres in the day If a man walcke in the daye he stumbleth not but if hee vvalke in the night he stumbleth bicause there is no light in him Truelye this care I saye is nothing else but dregges of infydelitie and the verye frailtye of olde rebellious Adam vvhich except it be mortified vvithin vs vvill vndoubtedlye dryue vs from the true feele of saluation Contrarivvise of the true christian care which as it is sayd is the perfytte badge of regeneration the kinglye Prophet Dauid speaketh in the Psame vvhen he sayth The zeale of Gods house hath deuoured me and againe I had rather be a doore keper in the house of God This care vvas vvonderfully to be seene in Moyses the princelike Propht of Gods people vvhen he desired rather to be razed out of the booke of lyfe than that God should forsake his people the Israelites Yea this care doth Christ himselfe commende vnto his seruaunts in this maner Sell that you haue and giue almes and make you bags that vvaxe not olde and treasure that can neuer fayle and againe in the same chapter Let your loynes be gyrt about you and your lightes burning and againe Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse for they shall be fylled To bee short euen this and none other is that same care of the vvhich the Lord sayde to Martha Thou carest for manye thinges but one thing is needefull VVherefore beloued in the Lorde seeing that this is the verye true care that vve ought to haue and contrarivvise the other care but a fleshly care a vaine care yea a care proceeding of infydelitie and altogither a lette and stop vnto such as desire truly to be illumined Alas vvhat and hovve muche haue vve to lament that in this our vvretched time so small remaine of that same christiā care so streightlye prescribed and left vnto vs in the sacred Scriptures appeareth amongst vs euen amongst vs that vsurpinglye take vpon vs the name of true christians that neyther care of Pastors tovvardes their flocke of maiestrates tovvardes the people nor of parents tovvards their childrē is almost any vvhere to be found And that contrarivvise all men are careful for themselues all thirsting after their ovvne priuate commodities and no man almost caring for gods glorie no man seeking after the righteousnesse thereof To conclude hovve much and hovv greatlie this christian care is at this day in all men generallie and in these three estates especially contemned hovv much it

Forget not in prosperity ne faint ye in aduersitye The one cometh of too much cōfidence the other of dispayre If thou haue welth vse the same to the profite of thy brethren to the reliefe of the néedye in due distribution If thou haue scarsitye or other affliction what soeuer repine not ther at neyther by sinistre meanes séeke to amēd thine estate grudgingly refuse it not nor frowardlye wishe thou of thy selfe to auoide it Remember how the Children of Israel séeking without paines to come to the Lande of promise receyued not onely a more tedious wayte of trauayle and paines but also euen all of them except Iosua and Caleb were quite and cleane excluded from that place so desired Finally you that be Parents haue a special regard to the bringing vp of your children Let theyr education be godly theyr yong yéeres not carelesse remēbring euermore that childers Children are the crowne of the elders and the glorye of theyr Fathers Let your Sonnes haue correction and your Daughters be bridled Teache them the commandementes of God and haue regard to their waies that your sōns may florishe your Daughters bée fruitfull by the one to haue Iustice by the other increase of housholdes people Let them learne obedience walke in humilitye Let theyr vertues aduance them and truth stil defend them Let them marry for vertue and not for promotion That that whiche hath béene and is at this daye cryed out vppon in all places maye nowe at the laste bée reformed that no more it bee sayde you sell your Daughters for money as men sel their horses and shéepe That Matrimony no more bée accounted to Halte nor Whoredome a pleasure That earth maye bée peopled and heauen styl enlarged That wee maye staye euen nowe at the last the riottous race of our damnable liuing And that to vs it bee not spoken as it was sometimes sayd to the children of Israel The people turneth not vnto them that smite them neyther doe they seeke the Lord of hoastes Therfore vvill the Lorde cutte from them in one daye euen head and Taile Braunche and Tvvig the auncient and the honourable Man is the head the Prophete that Preacheth lyes is the taile for the leaders of the people do cause them to erre and they that are led by them are deuoured Therefore vvill the Lord haue no pleasure in theyr yong men nor pitie theyr Fatherlesse and vvidovves For euerye one is an hipocrite and vvicked and euery mouth speaketh lyes ¶ A Compendious fourme of education to be diligently obserued of all Parentes and Scholemaisters in the trayning vp of their Children and Schollers in learning ¶ Gathered into Englishe meeter by Edward Hake To maister Iohn Harlowe his approoued friende AFter that the right honourable the Lord chiefe Iustice of the common plees had permitted vnto me the othe of an Attourney thereby admitting me into the number of Attourneys in the common place it vvas persvvaded vnto me by certain good friends of mine for that the name of an Attourney in the common place is novv a dayes grovven into contempt vvhether in respect of the multitude of thē whiche is great besides an huge rable of Pettipractizers or rather Petifoggers dispersed into euerye corner of this Realme or vvhether in respect of their loose and levvde dealinges vvhich are manifolde Or vvhether in both those respectes I knovve not I say it vvas for this cause persvvaded vnto me to dedicate a litle time wholy and altogether to my professed studies of the common Lavves that I might therby the better enable my selfe to do good in that calling VVherevpon resoluing my selfe determinately to follovve that purpose I thought it conuenient to seclude from me all those forreine exercises vvhich might any vvayes seeme to repugne or to be as it were a proposito aliena But as in those my studies prefixed being tied vnto solytarinesse in the Countrey vvhich for my lot hath hapned vnto me by mariage after a vvhile I perceiued that vvanting as I there did the benefite of mine accustomed conference it vvas impossible for me vvithout some exercise of the minde to cōtinue or vvith profite to go forvvarde in the same In vvhich respect I contented my selfe betvvixt vvhiles and for recreation sake to resort vnto mine accustomed exercise but so as if it might be some profite might redound therof vnto others And happening by good lucke vpon a certaine Latine booke intituled De pueris statim ac liberaliter instituendis I gathered compendiously out of the same as not being able to allovve my selfe time enough from my said studies to accomplish the part of a Translatour such certaine summary documents as might seeme sufficient to frame an orderly and good forme of education vvhich also I haue turned into English meter and that for these tvvo causes especially First for that prose requireth a more exact labour then meeter doth and could not haue been enterprised vvithout going through the vvhole booke vvhervnto my small allovvaunce of time as is aforesayde coulde not be aunsvverable Secondly because meeter vnto the vnlearned vvhom I heartily vvish to be follovvers of this booke doth seeme a great deale more pleasaunt then prose and doth mitigate as it vvere the harshnes of the matter VVhich litle booke I do offer vnto you my approued friend as a token of my good vvyll in vvhom as in my selfe I do perceiue a special loue not onely vnto this but also vnto euery other good forme of education as being trained vp together vvith me your poore scholefellow vvith the instructions of that learned and exquisite teacher Maister Iohn Hopkins that vvorthy Schoolemaister nay rather that most vvorthy parent vnto all children committed to his charge of education Of vvhose memory if J should in such an oportunity as this is be forgetful J might iustly be accompted the most vnthankefull person in the vvorld considering that I haue franckly tasted of his goodnes in this behalfe that if it be not vnseemely so to vvishe vvould to God J had liued at his feete euen dayes and yeres longer then J did But to returne in respect onely of good vvyll and loue I send vnto you these fevv quaiers praying you to accept the same in equal part resorting indifferentlye vnto the consideration of those common affections of loue vvhich are vvont rather patiently to beare reproche that any vvayes to lye hyd and vnknovven vnto the party so beloued VVherein I rest ¶ Your owne assuredlye Edvvarde Hake ❧ To the Reader WHat age in Infantes is requirde or ere they should bée taught What sort of Teachers best agrées what Schooles bée good what naught Dewe meanes also t' instruct them well all these good Readers here Within this booke though smal to vewe in largest wise appeare With other matters incident which to my simple skill For thy delite I haue discourste and written with good will. My meaning doe accept for good but pardon thinges amisse So shall my penne for thy