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A11186	A president for a prince Wherein is to be seene by the testimonie of auncient writers, the duetie of kings, princes, and gouernours. Collected and gathered by Anthonie Russhe, Doctor of Diuinitie. Seene and allowed, according to the order appoynted.	Rush, Anthony, 1537-1577.	1566 (1566)	STC 21453; ESTC S116295	22,857	58

and Goddesses so deale with me as I feele my selfe throughe cares daily dying Wherfore I can not better resemble a Princelie estate than to the rolling and restlesse stone of Sisyphus the staylesse whele of Ixion and continuall gnawing and dismembring of Tityus In Apolog. it being as Gregorie Nazianzene wryteth Ars artium disciplina disciplinarum hominem regere qui certè inter omnes animantes maximè est moribus varius voluntate diuersus The arte of artes the discipline of disciplines to gouerne man who among all lyuing creatures is most variable in maners and vnconstant in will Furthermore the person of a King his combring cares set apart is nothing else than a myrrour for all others to beholde as Pindarus sayth And as he behaueth himselfe so are all others likewyse affected So that well may the Poet say Claud. Regis ad exemplar totus componitur orbis And the common Prouerbe iustlie may be applied Qualis Rex talis grex As the King is so semblable are the people humored De Lege who as Tullie noteth plus exemplo nocent quam peccato by example thā by offence doe more languish and annoy Least therefore Kings should be vnmindefull of their carefull charge the Auncient Paynims excited therto theyr Kings by outward ensignes and framed figures of vnreasonable creatures hauing in the tops of theyr Scepters a Storke painted polished in the end therof a sea Horse limned and arayed to the end that by the Storke they might remember to settle in theyr myndes pietie and godly loue for the Storkes doe foster the olde yeres of their Parents by the sea Horse fiercenesse and pride was shadowed which Princes ought allwayes to subdue and presse vnder their fete And as Pericles sayth not onely to haue chast handes but continent eyes I leaue to the field of forgetfulnesse the people of Theba Lib. de Isid who as Plutarch writeth had the pictures of their Princes and Iudges drawen and delineated without handes and theyr eyes closed vp for that Princes ought not to be allured with giftes neyther persuaded or counterpoysed with mens countenances I might here speake of the monument of King Simandius in which the Prince and chiefe Iudge did sit in the middest accompanied wyth .xxx. of the Nobles assisting both his sides from whose necke the picture of truth did hang downe hauing hir eyes shut bending the same towards the brest for that a Prince should be dailie exercised in the practise of truth I conceale last of all the Egyptians they of custome putting about theyr Princes necke a Tablet embrowded with diuers precious pearles the which they called and cleaped truth What shoulde I speak of famous Philip King of Macedone who accustomably was wont to say that it behoued a King to remember that he beyng a man had atchieued heauenly power and must put in vre honest and godly exploytes and vse softnesse of speach towards his subiects I passe ouer Agathon who willeth a Prince to call to memorie three things First that he hath gouernment ouer men Secondly that he ought to rule according to lawes Thirdlie that he must not alway gouerne For the Prince as Tullie writeth is a speaking law Lib. 3. de leg and the law is a dumbe master The end thereof is iustice and right as Plutarch teacheth Ad imper ducem The worke of the Prince is the law and the Prince is the Image of God administring al things as Homere noteth Odyss 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imago autem Rex est animata Dei Whō Calliope the most bewtiful of the nine Muses doeth alwayes prosequute and accompany as Hesiodus witnesseth In Theo. filling him with al heauenly wisdome and pleasant speach Whome all the people haue in admiracion In whose bulked brest Homere placeth fortitude and iustice Tullie abstinence and continencie Suetonius lowlynesse in hearing pleasauntnesse in answering cunning artificiousnesse in persuading his subiects whose royall estate Alexander Seuerus setteth not in outward pompe but in inward vertues Agesilaus descriueth so to be affected that with mercy he shall prouoke offenders to repentaunce and a full reuoltment from lothsomnesse of life To whom Plato giueth two preceptes first that he addresse his study to the profit of his subiectes hauyng an euerlasting forgetfulnesse of priuate profit and gaine secondlie that be so care for the whole common wealth that in prouiding for one part he seeme not to forsake and leaue succourlesse the other 1. Offic. Whose proper Prouince is to weigh that he beareth and susteyneth the person of the whole Realme euen as he were an Athlas holding the high heauens vp with his shoulders stayd strength Whose lawes he must kepe whose rites and customes he must descriue always mindefull of his portly place Vnto the which wel serueth the sentence of Menander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principatum assequutus sis hoc dignus In whome both vtterance an wisdome is required vtterance by the which he may praise famous and worthie men he maye exhort to noble prowesse he may cal backe from hainous wyckednesse he may comfort the weake minded and the noble enterprises of valiant warrefares he maye commende to immortalitye Wysedome by the which he may guide and gouerne his people he may establyshe lawes he maye punishe and correct offenders and may defend and saue harmelesse iust and innocent persons Whom Syrus prescribeth not to be inferior in vnderstanding those things which be nedefull than to gouerne as time and oportunity requireth whose personage trauaile in businesse courage in perill diligence in working celeritie in accomplishing prouidence in foreheeding singulerly setteth forth Of whom anger is to be kept vnder riot to be restrained the suspicion of couetousnesse farre to be sequestred and all other deformities of minde vtterly to be exiled being so necessary an Organ as withoute whom no Citie can be setteled shewing himselfe stoute iust seuere valiant liberal bountiful and meeke withstanding the fiercenesse and inconstancie of the monstrous multitude prouiding not only in his owne life for safe soueraignitie but in theirs also who shal succede and gouerne after him In Lelio de Regno whom as Dion wryteth simplicitye and truth doth commend and bring reuerence of all estates Wherefore the Egyptians had their Kings in greate honor iudging their gouernment to descend from the Goddes And for this cause Nestor in the Iliade of Homere warneth Achilles that he make no countermaund with Agamemnon cui principatus à Ioue datus sit to whom Princely power was behighted of Iupiter And Mynos King of Crete the Poet calleth the familiar of Iupiter who muste haue no lesse care of gouerning others than of himselfe To whō nothing more Princelike can happen Cicero in Para. than vtterlye to foreclose all lothsome lustes and rather to bridle his owne immoderate affections than to deteyn and presse his ciuile subiects For as Plutarch writeth Non est cadentis

a Counsailer to his Country and also a Father of his Country The Palestines called theyr King Abimelech that is to saye Gene. 26. oure Father the Kyng The Egyptians cleaped theyr Kyng Pharao a reuenger of the languyshmentes of hys subiectes Christ called thē 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beneficos that is to saye gracious Lords Luc. 22. Rom. 13. 1. Peter 2. Paule termeth thē the Deacons or Ministers of God Peter cleapeth them the chiefe heads or messaged rulers of the people Whose duty as hitherto it hathe bene arayed with the peerlesse Poesies of Prophane Paynims and Heathen wryters well exercised in Politike prowesse So most daintely is it delineated in the holy and sacred Scriptures they requyring in him most especiallye the feruent feare and dread of God So that he called to that function must not multiplie vnto hym selfe horsses neither bryng backe agayne the people vnto straunge religion either puffe vp hym selfe in the number of Chariottes and mighty masses of siluer and gold but sittyng on hys saet Deut. 17. shal write or cause to be written for his instruction in a booke the precise President of the Law of God receyuing it of the high Priestes which he shal diligentlye defray and reuerently read al his life long continuallye carying the same with him wherein he may learne to feare the Lord his God his word and Ceremonies he maye obserue estranging from his heart all presumpteous pryde aboue hys brethren And neither leaning to the ryght or lefte hand may liue long with al his line Exod. 18. Wherefore Moyses to this effect and purpose chose oute wise men from the Elders of Israell euen such as feared God in whome the truth with an immortall hatred of couetousnesse was planted Whose politie and experience was openlye knowen Whose godly conuersation was allowed of al the people accordyng to this short verse Iudex esto pius sapiens verax misodorus Wherin first of all godlynesse causeth all iudging Princes to respect God in all their doings and to take diligent hede that they committe no such thing wherewith he maye take iust offence Wisdom gouerneth all theyr affections so that by error they may not wander out of the way Truth burieth all false interpretations and putteth to silence al Sicophantes of lawes The hatred of couetousnesse continueth alwayes sinceritie in iudgement And as these thyngs be incident to a Princely gouernment so most chiefly ought he to prouide that religiously and godlye and as the Greke text is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in omni pietate 1. Tim. 2. vero cultu Dei viuere possint in all pietie and true worshipping of God his subiectes maye lead their liues This was commended in Abraham by the Aungell Gene. 18. he practising the same in the Fatherlye gouernement of his sonnes beyng muche more laudable in a Prince Who by aucthoritie care primacie and power is the common father to al his subiectes So that as Abraham gaue commaundement to his sonnes so ought a Prince vnto hys subiectes De custodienda via Domini of the keping of the way of the Lorde as the Scripture saith shewing him selfe a Nursse of Gods Church a setter vp of Colleges and schooles in the which a true and liuely knowledge and inuocation of God with al other necessary discipline may be preserued and kept Whervnto not onely the example of Abraham of Iacob Gene. 18. Gene. 28. Gene. 39. but moste especially of Ioseph that noble Patriarke and Prince of Egypte may as a most worthye mirror induce al Christian Princes of whom the Prophete Dauid writeth in this sort Deus misit ante eos virum In seruum venundatus est Ioseph Misit Rex soluit eum Psal 104. cōstituit eū dominum domus suae vt erudiret Principes doctrina sua senes eius prudentiam doceret God sent before the Patriarches Ioseph who was sold into Egypt as a bond seruant For whom the king of Egypte sent setting hym at freedome and libertie Gene. 41. Gene. 38. He made hym Prince ouer his house and kingdome cleaping him the Sauior of the world and a Father of Religion that he might instructe wyth hys doctrine hys Nobles and Peeres might teach hys Senators the wisedom of God to wit the fall of the first fathers preaching vnto them of the sanctified feede to come of the ingraffed humors of all naturall things to wete of the heauenlie influences of the celestial signes and Planets with the vertues and powers of plantes and might also prepare all necessary foode for thē throughout all Egypt aswell for body as minde visiting all Regions and Cities throughoute al Pharaos Kingdome shewing hym selfe bothe a Prince and Byshop This appeared in Moyses that mighty Magistrate Exod. 32. who settled in the people of Israell all true Religion and worshypping of God which he had immediatlye receyued of hym prescribing vnto Aaron and all the Leuites what was to be followed and also what was to be eschued sharply rebuking Aaron for his idolatry and the defiling of the Religion of the God of Israell The lyke may they behold in Iosue the sonne of Nun Iosuae 8. vltimo Gene. 17. who receyued a commaundement from God to restore his Religion firste deliuered vnto Abraham to wete that he might the seconde time circumcyse the chyldren of Israel for Circumcision was a pledge of Gods couenant altogether respecting Gods Religion at whose commaundement the Arke of God was caried of the Priestes aultars were buylded the people were sanctified straunge Gods were abandoned a truce betwene God and the people renued the worde of the League in the Lawe of God indited and a title as a witnesse thereof was by hym erected And who knoweth not that King Dauid brought home agayne the Arke of God whyth was negligently suffered to remayne amongst the Heathen by the Iudges 1. Paral. 13. and Kyng Saule restoring the Religion of God appointyng Priestes and Leuites the singyng of Psalmes and Hymnes by course Who is ignorant of Salomons zeale in building the Temple of GOD 2. Paral. 6. 3. Reg. 8 at whose dedication he made an excellent Oration of his worshipping vnto the people remouing Abiathar from his Bishopricke and placing Sadoch in his rowme Whose eares hath not the fame of Kyng Asa pierced Kyng of Iuda who destroyed all Idolles in the land of Iuda Beniamin and Ephraim building an Aultare vnto the Lord What Countrie doeth not reuerence the Religion of Iosaphat who destroyed the hyll aultars and groues in Iuda and sent the Princeliest persons of hys Kyngdome wyth Priestes and Leuites to teache all the Cities in Iuda Habentesue librum legis Domini 2. Para. 17 circuibant atque erudiebant populum And hauing the booke of the Lawe of God trauailed rounde aboute and taught the people both in Iuda and Ierusalem To whom is Ezechias earnesty vnknowen 2. Para. 29. who purged the Temple of all Idolatrous Reliques burning