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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13534	Circumspect walking describing the seuerall rules, as so many seuerall steps in the way of wisedome. Gathered into this short manuell, by Tho. Taylor, preacher of Gods word at Aldermanbury Church in London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1631 (1631)	STC 23824; ESTC S100151	74,039	378

Circumspect WALKING Describing the seuerall Rules as so many seuerall Steps in the way of Wisedome Gathered into this short manuell by THO. TAYLOR Preacher of Gods word at Aldermanbury Church in London GAL. 6. 16. As many as walke according to this rule peace shall be vpon them and mercy and vpon the Israel of God LONDON Printed for Iames Boler dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Marigold 1631. TO THE RIGHT Honorable and learned Knight Sir ROBERT NANTON one of the principall Secretaries vnto his Excellent Maiestie and of his Maiesties Honorable Priuie Counsell All the blessings of this life and a better SIR THat which Salomon teacheth in that one Aphorisme often repeated wanted not apparent weight and moments of reason saying that in the prosperity of the righteous the Citie reioyceth for God being in couenant with them for their sakes doth good to such as are ioyned in the same society with them for one Ioseph all Potiphers house was blessed and for one Paul all that are in the ship with him are saued yea good and vertuous men by their presence as Lot in Sodome by their prayers as Moses in the breach and by their prudent Counsell as that poore wise man withstand the iudgments of God and saue the Citie for had there beene found one good man all Ierusalem had beene spared for his sake Againe vertuous men aduanced will conferre all their honour and grace to the publike good they liue not to themselues and theirs but take in the Church and Common-wealth as fellow-Commoners of all their goodnesse Mordecaies authority wrought publike deliuerance to the whole Church and Iosephs aduancement sustained the whole land by opening the garners in time of famine The honour of one good man shall be the grace of all good men his power the strength of many his greatnesse the raising of many as when one Mordecai is raised light and ioy and gladnesse and honour came to all the Iewes Further good men honoured by God will honour God againe and withstand his dishonour they will to their power prouide that Gods worship be erected that his Sabbaths be sanctified that true religion be maintained that falsehood and errors be suppressed that publike peace be not disturbed that common iustice be not peruerted least Gods fauour be discontinued and his iudgements let in Whence they are to be esteemed the strongest towers the thickest wals the most impregnable forts the surest muniments and the stoutest horsemen and Chariots of their Countrey yea the Wise man in one word saith much more that the Righteous is a sure foundation vpholding the whole world But why write I this or to your Honour surely as one who euer reuerenced your worthy parts I could not but craue leaue to expresse my selfe one of the Citie reioysing and praising God in your honours prosperity and aduancement and the rather because my selfe was an eye-witnesse how God led you through some of your yonger yeeres which were so studiously and commendably passed as this your latter time fitly answereth that expectation which was then conceiued of you You were then deare to our common mother that famous Vniuersity of Cambridge which for your eloquence and grace of speech and perswasion appointed you her Orator for your wisdome and grauity in gouernment chose you her Procter for your soundnesse in all kinde of fruitfull and commendable litterature tendred you all her honors and degrees and for your sober studious and vertuous conuersation worthily held now her great Ornament And now as riper for greater emploiments the same God whose priuiledge it is to dispense promotions for he pulleth downe one and setteth vp another hath moued his Maiestie not onely to set your seat among the honouroble but to admit you as it were into his breast and betrust you with the secrets of this great state and Kingdome an office not more ancient then honourable befitting onely men of rarest wisdome fidelity and fitnesse to stand before so great so wise a King This was a most honourable office among the most ancient Kings of Israel for King Dauid had his two principall Secretaries Seraiah and Iehonatham whom the text commendeth for a man of counsell and vnderstanding and King Salomon his sonne had other two Elihoreph aud Ahiah who were in chiefe place neere the King Wee read also of Shebna principall Secretary to King Hezekiah of whom Iunius saith he was fecundus à rege Now your place being a seruice of such honour vnder his Maiestie cannot be without an answerable waight and charge Your Honour easily conceiueth that the Lord chargeth you with a chiefe care of honouring him who hath honoured you that you stand charged to his Maiesty with great trust and fidelity that the Church expecteth that by your authority you should promote her causes and stand in the maintenance of pure religion that the Common-wealth claimeth her part in you for the preseruation of peace within her wals and prosperity within her palaces that the Vniuersity looketh you should aduance her iust causes promote learning and encourage her students by helping them into the roomes of the ignorant and vnlearned Ministers in a word that the whole City hopeth to be exalted by the prosperity of the righteous And now if your Honours thankefull heart shall call vpon you and say Quid retribuam domino you will easily fal into frequent thoughts and desires of discharging all this expectation This shall be happily done if you shall chuse about you the wisest Counsellors for the happy and prudent carriage of your great affaires imitating herein that peerelesse patterne of wisdome Salomon himselfe who notwithstanding his extraordinary measure of wisedome chose vnto himselfe selectissimum sena●um a bench of most wise and graue Couns●llours whose counsell Rehoboam after despised The best counseller is that great Counsellour who is daily to be consulted by feruent praier The next is the word of God which as it giueth no lesse certaine direction in difficult cases than the Oracle did vnto Israel or then did the pillar of the cloud and of fire by day and night for their motion or station while they passed through the wildernesse so the daily consulling with Gods statutes by reading and meditation as with so many learned counsellours made holy Dauid wiser than the aged than the learned than the Princes than his aduersaries And if Ioshuah would prosper and haue good successe in his high enterprises he must keepe him to the Booke of the Law and not depart from it The feare of God is wisedome and the next wisedome to that is to conuerse and consult with such as doe feare God whose lips speake iust and good things wherby a man shal become both wiser and better This is the high way to attaine and retaine grace and reputation with God and good men for this is an inheritance not gotten with greatnesse but with goodnesse