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A18304	Precepts, or, Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertisements added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes; Certaine precepts	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, attributed name.	1636 (1636)	STC 4899; ESTC S118517	27,423	208

oft as you shall heare her talke and you shall continually finde to your sorrow that feele that Crosse that There is nothing so fulsome as a she-foole Touching the government of your House let your Hospitalitie be moderate equall'd to the measure of your estate rather bountifull then niggardly yet not prodigall nor over-costly for though some who having otherwise consumed themselves with secret vices have endevoured to colour their riots upon their vertue yet in my observation I have not heard nor knowne any man grow poor by keeping an ordinary decent and thrifty Table Banish drunkennesse out of your Houses and affect him not that is affected thereunto for it is a vice that impaires health consumes wealth and transformes a man into a beast a sinne of no single ranke no ordinary station that never walkes unattended with a train of misdemeanors at the heeles besides for the credit thereof to induce a man I never heard other commendation ascribed to a Drunkard more then the wel-bearing of his drink which is a Commendation fitter for a Brewers horse or a Dray-mans back than either for Gentle-men or Serving-men for especially the latter being taken tardy herein is thereby doubly divorced from himself for being first sober hee is not his own man and being drunk he falls short by two degrees Beware thou spend not above three of the 4 parts of thy revenue nor above one third part thereof in your house for the other two parts will but defray extraordinaries which will alwayes surmount your ordinaries by much for otherwise you shall live like Beggars in continuall wants and the needy man can never live happily nor contented being broken and distracted with worldly cares for then every least disaster makes him ready to Morgage or sell and that Gentleman that sels an Acre of Land looseth an ounce of credit for Gentilitie is nothing but ancient Riches So that if the Foundation do sinke the Building must needs consequently fall PRECEPT 2. For the Education of your Children BRing your children up in obedience and learning yet without too much austerity prayse them openly reprehend them secretly give them good countenance and convenient maintenance according to your ability for otherwise your lives will seeme their bondage and then as those are censured that deferre all good to their end so that portion you shall leave them they may thanke death for and not you Marry your Daughters betimes lest they marry themselves Suffer not your Sonnes to passe the Alpes for they shall exchange for their forraine travell unlesse they go better fortified but others vices for their owne vertues Pride Blasphemy and Atheisme for Humilitie Reverence and Religion and if by chance out of a more wary industry they attaine unto any broken Languages they will profit them no more then to have one meat served in divers dishes Neither by my advise shall you train them up to Warres For hee that sets up his rest to live by that profession in mine opinion can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian for Every warre of it selfe is unjust the good cause may make it lawfull besides it is a Science no longer in request then use for Souldiers in Peace are like Chimneyes in Summer like Dogges past Hunting or Women when their beauty is done As a person of qualitie once noted to the like effect in these Verses following Friends Souldiers Women in their prime Are like to Dogges in Hunting time Occasion Warres and Beauty gone Friends Souldiers Women here are none PRECEPT 3. For House-hold Provision and of the choice of Servants LIve not in the Countrey without Corne and Cattell about you For hee that must present his hand to his purse for every expence of houshold shall as hardly keepe money therein as it is for one to hold water in a Sive And for your provision lay to buy it at the best hand for there may be sometimes a penny saved betweene buying at your need or when the season most fitly may furnish you Be not willingly attended or served by Kinsmen or Friends which will seeme to be men as it were intreated to stay for such will expect much and sted little neither by such as are amorous For their heads are commonly intoxicated Keepe rather too few then one too many feed them well and pay them with the most so may you lawfully demand Service at their hands and boldly exact it PRECEPT 4. How to intreat your Kindred and Allyes LEt your Kindred and Allyes bee welcome to your Table grace them with your countenance and ever further them in all their honest actions by word liberality or industry for by that meanes you shall double the bond of Nature be a Neighbour to their good as well as to their bloud By which reasonable deservings you shall finde them so many Advocates to plead an Apologie for you behind your backe so many witnesses of your vertues whensoever others shall seeke to deprave you but shake off the Glo-wormes I meane Parasites and Sycophants who will feed and fawne on you in the Summer of your prosperity bnt in any adverse Storme will shelter you no more then a Cloake of Taffatay or an Arbour in Winter PRECEPT 5. Adviseth to keepe some great Man to your Friend and how to complement him BE sure you keepe some great Man alwayes to your Friend yet trouble him not for Trifles Complement him often present him with many yet small gifts and of little charge And if you have cause to bestow any great gratuity on him then let it be no Chest commoditie or obscure thing but such a one as may be daily in sight the better to bee remembred for otherwise you shall live but like a Hop without a Pole or a Vine without her Elme subject to injury and oppression ready to be made a Foot-ball for every superiour insulting companion to spurn at PRECEPT 6. How and when to undertake suits VNdertake no suit against a poore man without receiving of great wrong for therein you make him your Competitor besides that it is held a base Conquest to triumph upon a weake adversary neither undertake law against any man before you be fully resolved you have the right on your side which being once so ascertaind then spare neither cost nor paines to accomplish it for a cause or two being so close followed and well accomplished may after free you from suits a great part of your life PRECEPT 7. Advertiseth for suretiship BEware of suretiship for your best friend for he that payeth another mans debts goeth the way to leave other men to pay his and seeketh his owne overthrow Therfore if he be such a one that you cannot well say nay chuse rather then to lend that money from your selfe upon good bonds though you borrow it so many you pleasure your friend and happily secure your selfe In borrowing of money be evermore precious of your word for he that hath a care to keepe day of payment is

without shamefastnesse 6 A Master or Ruler without vertue 7 A Christian man full of contention 8 A poore man proud 9 A wicked and an unjust King 10 A negligent Bishop 11 A people without discipline 12 A people without law A Glasse wherein those blemishes and abuses may be perfectly seene which are the destruction and overthrow of every Christian Common-wealth The first abuse Chap. 1. A wise man without works AMong those severall maimes and blemishes in any estate whatsoever the first that presenteth it selfe is a wise man or a Preacher without good workes that is to say such a one as doth not worke according to his teaching and to the wisedome which he delivereth with his owne tongue For the hearers doe despise the good and wholesome doctrine if they perceive that the works of the Preacher do differ from his teaching And the authority of the Preacher shall never be good except by example of good life he fasten it in the heart of the hearer especially when the Preacher himselfe is fallen into the love of sin and will not apply the wholsome salves of other Preachers to his owne wounds The Lord therfore willing to instruct his Disciples both in doctrine and good works taught them how they should take heed thereunto saying If the salt be unsavory wherein shall it be made savory that is to say if the Preacher be out of the way and doe not as he ought to doe what Preacher shall bring him in againe And if the light that is within thee is become darkenesse how great then shall the darkenesse be it selfe If the eye have lost the use and office of sight what man can require that same service of the hand or foot or any other member of the body Therefore let Preachers take heed that they incur not a sharper vengeance if they be the greater occasion to many that they doe perish For Salomon himselfe while he did transgresse and worke contrary to his great wisedome was the cause that by his salt onely the kingdome of all the people of Israell was divided Wherefore those persons to whom many things are committed have the greater los●e if they bestow not that well which they have received of their head and Governour and therefore he that hath the greater charge shall make the greater answer and reckoning For the servant which knoweth the will of his Master and doth it not shall suffer sharp scourges and bitter punishments The second abuse Chap. 2. An old man without devotion and godly feare THe second stain and shamefull abuse is an old man that hath no holinesse in him but when the members and parts of his body be old and feeble the lims of his minde that is to say of the inward man are nothing the stronger It is decent and comely that old men should give themselves to more perfect holinesse and devotion than other men whom the flourishing time of this world hath not as yet forsaken The example may be gathered in wood that even as the Tree is accounted naught and evill which after it hath blossomed bringeth forth no good fruit so among men he is a wicked and evill person who when the flower of his youth is past doth not in the old time of his body bring forth ripe workes of good fruits For what thing can be more ridiculous than a mans minde not to endeavour to attaine strength and perfection when all the parts of his body by age are come to defection and end When his eyes waxe dimme his eares hard of hearing his head bald his cheeks withered through lacke of bloud when he beginneth to want his teeth to have his breath strong and earthly his breast stuffed with phlegme evermore troubled with the cough and finally when his legges doe faile under him as he goeth by age and swelling with diseases the inward man that feeleth no age being also pained with the selfe same diseases And all these sicknesses and infirmities rehearsed are signes and tokens before that the house of this body shall shortly decay What have we to doe then while the end of this life draweth so fast on but that such as are old should desire to covet nothing else than how they might soonest obtaine the felicity of the life to come For to young men the end of their life is alway at hand and uncertaine but unto old men it is more ripe and naturall as also agreeable to their age Wherefore a man must take heed of two things which never doe waxe old in his flesh and doe draw the whole man unto sinne that is to say the heart and the tongue For the hart is alway imagining of new thoughts and the tongue is evermore swift in speaking whatsoever the heart doth imagine or thinke Let old men therfore beware that these young members doe not bring the whole harmony of their bodies out of tune causing the other parts of the body which doe shew gravity to be laughed to scorne For every man ought to take heed what becōmeth the age which he beareth that he may doe those things which shall cause that neither his life age nor behaviour may be touched with despising The third abuse Chap. 3. A young man without obedience HEre must we intreat on the third eye-sore namely if a young man be found without obedience whereby the world is brought out of good order For how doth he thinke to be reverenced when he commeth to age that in his youth will shew no obedience or reverence to them which are old And therefore it is a common saying among old men that he can never play the Master well who hath not one way or other declared himselfe serviceable and obedient to some other before For the which cause our Lord Iesus Christ in the time of his being upon the earth in his flesh till the lawfull time and age of a teacher that hee should teach did serve and minister obediently to his Parents Likewise then as gravity sadnesse and perfect godly manners are looked for and beheld in old men so to young men belongeth of right humble service subjection and obedience Wherefore in those precepts and commandements of the Law which appertaine to the love of our neighbour the first is the honour of Father and Mother being commanded unto us that although the carnall father be not alive or is unworthy yet you must to some other which is alive shew obedience and give honour till such time thou commest to an age worthy to be honoured thy selfe For this word Father is taken foure manner of waies in the Scripture that is to say by nature by the nation or people for counsell and for age Of the naturall father Iacob speaketh to Laban saying If the feare of my father Isaack had not beene here thou wouldest have taken all that I have Of the father of the people it is said when the Lord spake to Moses out of the bush I am the God of thy Fathers the God of