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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78163	Heroick education, or Choice maximes and instructions, for the most sure and facile training up of youth, in the ways of eminent learning, and vertues. A treatise very necessary for all men; but most especially for such as undertake the charge, to govern the young nobility and gentry. In two books, together with a short appendix. / By I.B. Gent.	I. B., Gent.	1657 (1657)	Wing B83; Thomason E1634_2; ESTC R22321	45,520	155

majesty and join severity with sweetness without too much softness Amity requires a certain proportion which may oblige one to descend sometimes to youthful Sentiments which must be practised in such a manner that they by degrees be elbow'd out and manly ones implanted in their stead When the Poets make Iupiter transform'd into a Bull or the like to communicate himself to his lovers they yet always leave some marks foot-steps of his divinity under those shapes When Painters make the portraicture of any one in small they have a care to keep all the dimensions proportionable to the face and body they mean to represent though in a far less volume And when God himself through his immortal goodness was pleased to give himself to men and illuminate them with his own brightness which was before wrapt up in such thick Clouds knowing they were but children whom he would instruct and whom the Father had committed to his education he would not appear in lightning and thunders nor in the lustre of his greatness which would have dazled and blinded them in stead of enlightning them but he became like unto them and made himself sensible that he might enter into their spirits by their senses and yet his divinity kept its grandeur and ful majesty in this lowest humility abasement Governours of young men are Gods Lievtenants in this function and as he became man to teach men so they must in some sort imitate Children whilest they instruct them alwayes accommodating themselves to their age sometimes soothing their humours and stooping to them but having still an eye and ear to make them reap some benefit from all their actions and thoughts ever raising their minds insensibly to higher things and making their own sentiments the staires whereby they must climb up to true perfection But yet he must not lose his authority by this complyance When a man will take some great burthen on his back he stoops to take it and then he not onely raises himself again but bears up the weight that is laid on In the same manner ought he to appropriate and fit himself to his charge and presently when he is established and become absolute Master of his mind and will he must advance to his own posture again and raise the youth up with him to higher and nobler things 'T is an old Proverb that familiarity breeds contempt and 't is also a most certain experience that gravity takes off confidence and affection But he that can preserve a familiar Majesty that can please without flattery reprove without offence subject without alienating exercise without wearying and recreate without debauching such an one will illuminate the soul conquer the heart and find every power and faculty ready prepared to receive any good impression CHAP. VII Three things which hinder the respect and amity of young men towards their Governours THere are three things which hinder one from preserving amity and respect in a young spirit The one comes from without when the Tutor is not honour'd and esteemed by the Parents Domesticks Friends or compagnons of him he governs Examples are a living Book whose Characters easily imprint themselvs in him that reads them Exterior things are very powerful on any soul but principally on those who as yet do not act but by the counsel of their senses who having not yet their own sentiments fully perfected in them are constrained to rely on the judgments of others in whom they confide The second hinderance proceeds from the natural inclination of youth who being prompted to their own pleasures abhor and detest all that restrain or impede them which makes them look on their Governors as the disturbers of their repose and enemies of their delights and sensualities which immediately breeds aversion in them And this is the more difficult to overcome because it is more natural and youth is guided and conducted at first meerly by nature who bandies against all that is opposed to her That which causes distempers and maladies in the body is the contrariety of such qualities which are incompatible and this also works the same effects in our manners and produces love or hatred according as the objects are conformable or contrary to its propensions He must study therefore to overcome this obstacle and not have nature for his enemy at the first But make a dissembled agreement with her to deceive her with the more advantage The third proceeds from the Governor himself when either by indecent actions or vicious habits he loses the authority annexed to his charge by such defects in his own person There is no better Art whereby to gain esteem then to become worthy of such esteem Respect is a tribute which vertue commands and acquires even from those that hate it Those that possess it need use no Arts nor false Grimaces she always keeps her own Majesty and is revered by the greatest powers though she cannot make her self be always beloved Let him be careful therefore to deserve honor and obedience rather then to exact it If he will bring these fruits forth in his disciple he must have the root of it to grow within himself The honour of a Prince if founded only in the number and strength of his guards is but a vain appearance in his subjects and as such an one hath no true Majesty but only a few outward pomps and gawdy shows so neither is he truely respected or observed but onely with a retaliation of seeming devoirs and flattering outward gestures That Tutor who hath no gravity but in his words and threats gaines no more obedience then his disciple is capable of fear If he do any ignoble actions he pulls down all that his discourse or teaching had built and even tempts and invites the youth to imitate him if what he did were pleasing and voluptuous or exposes himself to laughter and derision if his actions were ridiculous CHAP. VIII Of Pedants and their several kinds IT happens very oft that those who have not any qualities whereby to render themselves commendable will seek to gain authority by an affectation of wisdom a haughty countenance or an imperious accent not speaking but with disjointed words or else extending to a prolixity of discourse as if they did preach pronouncing their follies like rare sentences The poor youth who hears but understands them not is more confounded then instructed by his precepts and as those things which displease do easily distast from this disgust they come to slight such things and from this slighting there arises hatred which does encrease if they strive to use force This they endeavour to remedy by harsh means or ruder stripes and so lose their power by too much using of it or if they meet a docile spirit they make it by such unhandsome treatments to become dull and degenerate They commit another fault which has ruined many persons of fair hopes and promises and that by ordering proportioning or disposing of things according to

may be guessed by his colour maladies appetite his dreames disposition and agility and by all the operations of each part of his body Also by his resentment of injuries the shame he hath for his faults the care he takes to preserve his honour his desire to appeare his jealousie of others the heate and ardour which leads him to the ends he aimes at his constancy and resolution in difficulties the manner of his owne government the vivacity and promptnesse of his replies and the strength of his reasoning and arguments On all which he must often try him and raise his spirits by delightfull objects to keep him in exercise and see his activity In that tender age we beare a forme of what shall be when we come to virility Like those Pictures which being only rough-drawne though they want that perfection and lustre which the last colours adds to them yet they have the perfect shape and all the lineaments that are necessary So that what the pencill afterwards does serves only to embellish it being ever wrought exactly by the same stroakes Of all the precepts that can be given on this subject use and custome are the surest guides and meanes to penetrate and dive into the very bottomes and most secret recesses of those young soules who having as yet not learned the art to dissemble expose themselves to any curious search and discover what their natures are by acting freely and openly of themselves CHAP. III. The second Maxime That his Governour must endeavour to winne him to embrace vertue out of a principle of affection and not of feare together with the meanes to practise it THe insight and knowledge which he shall gaine by the precedent observations will shew him the place whereon he ought to build to take his measures according to the dimensions of the ground-plot and raise his edifice proportionably to his foundations We have nothing or but very little in us which may not be applyed to some good All the works of God are good in themselves we doe make use even of venomous beasts for antidotes and can extract a wholsome juice from the least herb that growes All our motions are of themselves indifferent they become good or bad only by our meanes and the use we make them serve for Every one desires good and perfection and that which causes so many to stray from it is the different manner wherby 't is represented The will never tends to evill but only when the spirit and sences doe disguise it under the appearance and flattering shape of some good and never erres but by the ignorance or malice of its guides Vertue is so amiable that there is no soule which can know it and not be enamour'd with it nor would vice be followed by any one if it had not found out the art to counterfeit the other The principall care consists in well illuminating the mind and spirit from whom the will takes all its counsell that Minister must be well instructed that he may faithfully informe his Master The will is a Prince which commands but is neverthelesse counselled by his servants the Orders and Edicts are made in his name but his servants lay the plots and projects 't is he tends towards the objects and applyes all the other powers to seeke out what he desires but even those which serve it in its pursuits doe master it in its deliberation To these therefore he should make his addresse and when these are perswaded the other is easily drawne after them There are many which cause young men to exercise themselves in vertuous actions with a kind of constraint which makes them hate the end even whilst they are tending towards it Although the Oxen draw the plow yet the yoke is hatefull to them and how ever we say that use makes perfectnesse and custome renders the most difficult things easie I beleeve that to be truer in actions of the body then those of the mind whose essentiall liberty not being restrained but by some exteriour obstacle either it endeavours to surmount it by force or at least detests it whilst it does undergoe it One is not vertuous for doing that which is good but for loving it and that which we doe by constraint is only imputable to the power which compels us The heavens are not animated though they incessantly move their motion comming from a cause that 's separate in their celerity we admire nothing but the Angels which first sets them going When vertue engenders not in our hearts but comes to us only from without by some violent meanes we possesse it only as a slave who seekes but an occasion to escape and not as our offspring borne of our owne bloud and substance 'T is a beauty which will be sought too and wooed handsomely that will command in us and not be the servant of feare bestowing her selfe only on those whose hearts she hath in full possession If once we can but inflame a soule with a true love for her all the little troubles of seeking and courting her will be swallowed up in the ardour of its longing desires One must endeavour therefore to render this vertue gratefull to him by discovering all her perfection and amability and heighten those by the deformity of her opposite making him admire in others the glorious effects which she produces and dread the shame and confusion which inevitably follow all base ignoble actions One must often highly praise the handsome qualities of those he frequents and as loudly blame the bad ones in his presence So furnishing him from others with good examples for himselfe which he will more clearly behold then he can in his owne person For every fault he shall commit you must be sure to make him ressent some trouble in his mind as shame contempt repentance blame the privation of some pleasure which being imprinted in his imagination will make his actions become odious to him of its selfe Whereas the punishments of the body passe more lightly and cause nothing but indignation or at most a servile feare which does not make him detest his fault but only dread the evill which followes There are a thousand various means which depend on the skill of him that shall undertake such a charge which cannot be reduced to precepts consisting only in finding out sweet and cunning wayes to bring him to the detestation of vice and a perfect love of vertue This we may best bring to passe by representing it with pleasing ornaments advantages and circumstances proportionate to his inclination And this first view will beget delectation from thence will arise love which creates desire and desire will cause a diligent search and pursuit after vertuous actions which will beget habits without difficulty or paine He must have the patience to lead him up by all these steps and degrees for otherwise too great hast may expose him to a fall or at least run him out of breath in the midst of his race He must