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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57730	The gentlemans companion, or, A character of true nobility and gentility in the way of essay / by a person of quality ...	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.	1672 (1672)	Wing R206; ESTC R21320	94,433	290

Christ to make them agree Again if we observe it we shall find more harmony between the Writers of the Divine Oracles though distant in time than among any other Writers whatsoever Lastly that the Old Testament which we acknowledge is the same the Jews now receive and alwayes did may easily appear by comparing our Copies and Translations with the Originals among them in all Nations Nor can it be thought that the Learned in all places times and of contrary Religions Jews Papists Protestants c. shou'd combine to deceive the giddy and more unknowing sort of people in the World Fourthly because they wrote nothing but what was done in their own times and known generally to all who might have contradicted their Writings especially the Scribes and Pharisees who under the Gospel were their Persecutors and wou'd assuredly have condemned them had they been false or liable to exception Nay and Josephus though a Jew yet an unbeliever in Christ * Antiq. Judaic Lib. 18. Cap. 4. testifies that at that time there was a Man if he might call him a Man whose name was Jesus that did raise the dead Cure Diseases and do many Miracles and being accused by the chief of the people was Condemned and Crucified by Pilate and the third day appeared to them again alive as it was predicted of him by the Prophets Moses and the Prophets Matthew Mark Luke John Peter James Paul and Jude have been continually reputed and generally from Age to Age down to these our times confessed by all to be the Pen-men of those Books that bear their Names Nay this is acknowledged by the very Jews Pagans and even by Julian the Apostate And therefore there is not only the same Reason to believe them as any other writings but as great Reason if not greater that their Writings are true since what they wrote was only the passages or actions of their own times done by themselves or others which were easie to be known being most of them done in publick and they either Eye or Ear-witnesses or both of all passages So that they had the greatest opportunities in the World for detecting the Truth and consequently best able to declare it Besides the Pen-men throughout the Bible were either Kings Rulers men of Honour and high esteem among the People and therefore would not attest lyes to expose themselves to the contradiction and scorn of the World or Vulgar As Moses Joshua Samuel David Solomon Nehemiah Ezra c. Or Prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Daniel Ezekiel c. Or Apostles or Disciples Men of Integrity Piety and Fidelity that could purchase nothing by that they delivered if untrue nay for attesting those very truths they incurred Imprisonment Banishment Persecution Poverty and all kind of misery Wandring up and down in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented c. They suffer'd for their profession of the Truth more than any Men did Besides they and their Doctrine was owned more especially by GOD himself in giving them the Spirit of Prophesie the Inspiration of the Holy-Ghost so that though illiterate they could speak all Languages the power of working Miracles Casting out of Devils Curing of Diseases by even their very shadows which was more than Christ in the flesh did and which the Magitians and Conjurers of those times could never do though zealously attempted and therefore we have greater reason to believe their Writings and them than any other whatsoever For none can be so impious or irrational as to think GOD would countenance and give testimony to Impostures and juggling tricks and especially such as pretend to teach and lead Men into the way of Salvation This were to speak with Reverence to make GOD accessary to the entrapping of mens Souls and the deceiving the whole Christian World A Gentleman having thus laid a Foundation of his Faith in the Being and Existence of a GOD In his testimony of Christ the Object Author and Finisher of our Faith the truth and Authority of the Old and New Testament and compared the profession is made in the Church of England with the vain Fopperies Superstitions and Innovations of the Church of Rome and the uncharitableness to be found among them and all Sectaries Schismaticks Phanaticks and Hereticks who condemn to Hell all that are not in their way accounting all without their pale damned The irrationality of the Mahometans and the absurd stupidity of the Pagan-gods and Worships The fantastical follies whimsies of the Jews I say these things being compared and the former Foundation laid and rooted in the intellects of a Gentleman he may not only soon resolve himself into a Religion but be satisfied which is the true one I shall therefore add no more in this matter but come to the next qualification of a Gentleman and a part of Education before premised viz. PART II. Travel IN the next place Travel being first well grounded in Religion will be requisite to experience and accomplish a Gentleman especially if he have the Language and other good parts if not he ought to take one that hath and has been abroad before that he may be informed of the Customs and Humours of the People and with what Company to associate otherwise a Man may be sooner injur'd than benefited And without a competent Judgment Ingenuity Reason and good Nature ruin'd or at least return as empty as he went Let him in every Town City and place he comes acquaint himself with the most Learned Eminent and in Repute Experienced and sober Men whereby he may not only learn good but avoid much evil Debauchery Quarrels and most other inconveniencies especially with Embassadors at least when they have Audience if possible with their Universities Libraries Buildings Revenues Colledges Churches Monuments Monasteries Government of the State and place Civil their Courts of Judicature when they plead judge and determine Causes as also Ecclesiastical and their Courts and if in the Metropolis the Kings Court it self or Chief Governours The Scituation of places Prospects Rivers and all Ornaments Ports Havens Ships Fortifications Trainings Tilts and Turnaments Treasuries Magazines and Armories Castles Forts Ruines and Antiquities Coyns Measures Habits Customes Feastings Weddings Funerals Publick Shews Wardrobes Publick Masques Comedies Playes Interludes and Triumphs especially such as are frequented by the better sort and with every thing else that is worth the noting And keep an account in writing of every dayes Observation wherever he goes So shall he in a little time be greatly improved and make the best advantage of his Travels which that he may the better do he ought to observe these Rules viz. To avoid Idle Expences Vain Ostentation and Regulate his Discourse and Carriage SECT I. Of Expences A Gentleman of any Man ought to be most wary and prudent in this matter not only lest he shou'd by his Extravagancy expose himself to the derision and scorn of the Vulgar but also to avoid the imputation of folly when so as well as by being

Gregory for Students Cosmus and Damian for Philosophers Crispin for Shoomakers Katharine for Spinners Anthony for Piggs Gallus for Geese Wenceslans for Sheep Pelagius for Oxen Sebastian for the Plague Valentine for the Falling-sickness Petronella for Agues Apollonia for the Tooth-ach The Virgin Mary for Male and Female all places Offices persons and Conditions for both Sea and Land an Universal Goddess she is Whosoever shall but observe these things with their divers Adorations Exorcisms and ridiculous Injunctions will absolutely conclude them altogether as vain as those Superstitions of the Pagans Jews and Mahometans if not worse or at least they are the same in other Names Circumstances and Ceremonies The Superstitions and Frenzies of some in our own Bosoms On the other extreme we have a mad giddy Company of Precisians Schismaticks and Hereticks even in our own bosoms that through too much blind Zeal against Popery Do demolish all These will admit of no Ceremonies at all no Cross in Baptism no kneeling at the Communion but stand or as some of them that account themselves in the first order of Saints sit irreverently on their breech and take the Cup of the New Testament as they do their Mornings Draught They will have no Fasting-dayes no Church-Musick Organs are Popery and Anthems though never so well composed They prefer the idle stuff of Sternhold and Hopkins who have indeed with their pitiful Verse and Rhymes murthered the Psalms No Bishops nor their Courts no Church-government unless by Lay-Elders as ignorant as themselves But for the peace of Sion and glory of GOD rail against all our Church-Discipline as Popery and for the Zeal of the cause run into open Rebellion and Sacriledge as we know by too woful Experience They will hardly some of them tollerate our University Degrees or Universities themselves All Humane Learning is the Language of the Beast Degrees Titles of Rome Caps Hoods Tippets Gowns Surplesses Lawn sleeves c. Things indifferent in themselves and meerly for Ornament Distinction and Decency they hate them cry out against them they are of the Whore of Babylon the Relicts of Popery and he that wears them hath undoubtedly a Pope in his Belly They will approve of nought but what they invent themselves They make matter of Conscience of them and will rather forsake their Livings than subscribe to them They will admit of no Holy-dayes or honest Recreations as Hawking Hunting Cards Tables because some have abused them No Churches no Bells some of them because Papists use them No Interpretation of Scripture no councils or comments of the Fathers but such as their own fantastical spirits and idle brains dictate and suggest By which spirits being mis-led more prodigious Paradoxes are vented than by Papists themselves Some pretend to prophesie secret Revelations will be of the privy-council with GOD himself and know all his secrets A company of giddy quarter-brain'd heads they will take upon them to divine how many shall be saved and who damn'd in the Town Interpret the Revelation Daniel and Ezekiels Visions and apply those hidden Mysteries to private Persons times places as their own private spirit and shallow wit Informs them They will tell you exactly in their Enthusiasm when the World shall be at an end what year nay to the very day too Some in imitation of Christ will fast forty dayes Some call GOD and his Attributes in question And some of them so far gone with their madness and Revelations that they are absolute Bedlams and out of their wits making themselves to be God Christ the Holy-Ghost Elias Moses and what not Of these Men I may conclude in general that however they may seem to be discreet in other matters and discourse well Laesam habent Imaginationem in this their madness and folly break out impetuously and have far more need of Physick than many a man that keeps his Bed They are mad and therefore have more need of a Cure than such as are in Bedlam They must be blooded and purged with Hellebore I can't better Characterize them than thus they are generally possest with madness folly pride insolency arrogancy singularity peevishness obstinacy impudence scorn and contempt of all other Sects perswasions and Opinions or that dissent from their Interpretations and Conjectures They are only wise only Learned in the Truth All damn'd but they and their followers And yet they torture the Scripture and turn it like a nose of Wax to their own ends and purposes Alwayes learning and yet never come to the knowledg of the Truth And yet so wilful and besotted say what you will say 't is all one they care not they will have their way though all the World contradict them Like vertiginous people they think all goes round and irregular when indeed the errour is in their own brains They generally affect Novelties and preferr Falshood before Truth and that which their folly and rashness has once produced with pride afterwards frowardness and contumacy they maintain as long as they live against all Reason or Sense In a word this is common to all Superstition there is nothing so bad and absurd ridiculous impossible incredible which they will not believe observe and diligently perform as much as in them lies Nothing so monstrous to conceive or intollerable to put in practice so cruel to suffer which they will not willingly undertake So powerful a thing is Superstition Nothing I say is so unbecoming a Gentleman as Superstition whose Master is the people and in all Superstition therefore wise men follow Fools Besides in it self its odious and deformed as well as stupid and sottish by how much the more it resembles Religion How a Gentleman may be sure to make choice of the true Religion Since every Religion Sect and Opinion as was said is as confidently believed and maintained by the professors thereof as the only true one It is the part of a Gentleman especially being instructed in good Learning to examine all with impartiality looking on his own with the same indifferency as if he had never been therein instructed that he may find out the truth of the Christian Faith and the main Articles of it the Being and existence of a GOD and the consequent Doctrines of Natural Divinity and then the Truth and Authority of the Holy writ And thus a Man shall be able indeed to give an account of his Faith What can be more unseemly than to hear a Gentleman have no more to say for his Belief than a Pesant a Mahometan a Jew or Pagan that he was so taught and all the Nation and therefore he is of that belief Which that he may the clearer do he must consider first the Testimony the Foundation on which Christianity is built viz. Jesus Christ That he was sent from GOD the Father to manifest his will and counsel unto us The truth of which when he hath cleared the belief thereof will be Rational to him Now this Testimony of Christ the Author