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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79401	The advice of Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany, and King of Spain, to his son Philip the Second upon his resignation of the crown of Spain to his said son.	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.	1670 (1670)	Wing C3651; ESTC R200783	34,578	179

THE ADVICE OF Charles the Fifth Emperor of GERMANY AND KING OF SPAIN To his Son Philip the Second Upon his Resignation of the Crown of SPAIN to his said Son LONDON Printed for H. Mortlock at the Sign of the White Hart in Westminster-Hall 1670. TO THE READER A Long preface to a little book is a Giants head on a Pigmies shoulders This shall be so short as not to spend a line in promising brevity The following discourse really contains Magnum in parvo being of small bulk but treating of the greatest Subject Government to Authorize it I name the Author Charles the fifth Emperour of Germany and King of Spain That he was a person of as exalted reason as quality One Argument pertinent to the matter in hand shall serve instar omnium that in the height of prosperity and flourishing in reputation He resigned his Crowns to enjoy himself That the day after his resignation was the first of his repentance will appear to them who weigh the grandure of his spirit and actions a saying of more sharpness than solid truth and Calculated to the Meridian of their thoughts who admiring Crowns they never possess make their passions the measure of other mens Actions and conclude no man can willingly part with what they so vehemently desire But the Genius of Charles having attained these altitudes others aspire to as the Ne plus ultra of humane happiness quitted them to mount into a higher sphear The Roman Empire ruined as it raised it self and having awed all forreign hostilities into subjection or allyance Employed against it self the strength and reputation of its Arms which had not left in the world an Enemy that deserved the honour of falling by so vast a Power Charles the fifth held it Greater Glory to Conquer himself than the Nations he had subdued and finding no Antagonist worthy his encounter like the Roman State turned his force against himself but with this difference that the Romans by Civil War destroyed their Empire Charles by conquering himself in vanquishing those ambitious passions which reign over Kings and have Emperors their vassals by retyring from the Throne into an Ermitage obtained a Crown more Glorious than that he resigned having divested himself of temporal honours to fit himself for investiture in Caelestial Dignities But admitting that saying as true as 't is smart and piquante and that he quitted his Crowns for fear of losing them it derogates not from the authority of his discourse nor diminishes the reputation of his wisdom For if he had Cause to fear the loss of his Crowns it argues greater prudence by resignation to make an happy Exit in full felicity than to outlive his happiness by seeing his Scepter wrested out of his hand and the glorious day of his splendid triumphs ending in the dismal Storms of War with his Son like a new Phaeton justling his Father out of the throne The Discourse is of Government but presumes not to instruct our Governours and thought it may please the humour of the times where Subjects are more inquisitive into the duties of Soveraigns than careful to practise their own readier to learn what Princes ought to do then to perform what Liegemen are bound to and like the Scribes and Pharises in Moses seat study Law and policy to teach others not themselves 'T is published to do it right as worthy of publick view and for publick advantage For 't is with men in society as with figures in Arithmetique they receive their value from the place they stand in but authority thought it enlargeth the influence doth not change the nature of persons as the figure that signifies a million is the same as when it denotes One the greatest Kingdom is but a Society made up of individuals as the greatest numbers are composed of the Digits and the hugest volumes of the Letters of the Alphabet The Emperour and his Subjects being a grand Corporation as a Major and Commonalty are a lesser which resolves into that of Masters and Families and they consist of particular persons whereof every one is a Corporation in himself as made up of a mind to govern and a body to obey 'T is a maxime in Philosophy Simplicia Compositis priorca And the model of Civil Government was taken from the natural where the Soul is Soveraign to direct and command and the affections and members are subjects to obey and execute Thus private men are Princes and have a harder Prevince than the greatest Soveraigns for those lusts and passions which are private mens Subjects have reigned over Soveraigns and conquered Conquerors who bridled Nations and governed the greatest Communities These are advises to Govern a Kingdom but by the trick of Mutatis Mutandis what was designed only for John at Noke may be fitted for John at Styles and what Charles delivered for a direction to order States may serve you for instruction to govern your self THE ADVICE OF Charles the Fifth Emperour of GERMANY To his Son Philip the Second King of Spain Upon the Resignation of his Hereditary Crowns to his said Son Most dear Son NO Jewels appear so glorious as those that embellish the Crowns of Princes Soveraignty is the Mistress to which the Greatest Spirits devote their Services Making the Universe a Theatre of Heroick Actions to Justifie their Title to the Dignity they Affect This hath made the Regal State an Object of Veneration or Envy to a●l Inferiours and given cause to Kings to think the Earth a Stage too narrow whereon to display the Beams of their Majesty and the Prerogatives of that Condition which hath no Equal under the Sun This hath raised Ambition to that height that Men trample on all Rights Civil or Sacred that obstruct their passage to the Throne And even devest themselves of Humanity in offering violence to the Laws of Nature that they may with more security put on and wear the Royal Purple sacrificing the Lives of nearest Relations to the Interest of the Crown Hence it is that the Examples of Quitting Crowns and Resigning Scepters are so rare that succeeding Ages entertain the Relation thereof as Fancies rather than Historical Truths So natural to Man is the thirst of Independant Freedom that the Quitting of that which all desire to enjoy seems a Paradox not to be esteemed true in any Case but Theirs who by their incapacity to use that Excellent Priviledge are unworthy to enjoy it or by pretending a Voluntary Resignation think to palliate their Weakness and hide their Disability to hold that Scepter which if not yielded would be wrested from them Like those vain Sophists who decried Riches not out of a real Contempt of them but because they wanted them and knew not how to gain them The value of Gifts depends much on the Knowledge or Ignorance of the Donor in proportion to which it rises and falls The most magnificent Present from the hand of him that esteems it mean becomes common and lays on the Receiver

of Relief from the presence of their Prince be extinguished Receive Petitions courteously hear patiently express Compassions to those in misery and endeavour that none may depart unsatisfied from your presence See that the Power of Great Ones weigh not down the Right of the Poor And in giving of Judgment respect not for the time the good or ill report of the Persons but the merits of the Cause Confer Offices of Judicature on Persons of Learning and Integrity And to engage them to discharge their Duties well give them cause to believe that the first step to higher Dignities is to behave themselves well in the lower Conscience and Charity oblige to a special regard of Churches Orphans Widows Prisoners Captives and all Persons in misery and necessity fail not to relieve them with expedition in their Causes And settle it in your mind as an undoubted Truth That God who judges all without respect of Persons hath declared himself propense and ready to hear the Cries of the Distressed and will certainly punish those Kings and States where such Causes are slighted or sacrificed to Power or Affection Which I could clear to you by Examples in the compass of my Experience but that your Piety and Tenderness of Conscience make it superfluous to adde more on this point The like expedition is to be used in the Causes of Merchants and other men who lose more by spending time in attending the tedious and chargable formality of Courts than the matters in difference amount to in value Dispatch in person what Causes you can the rest refer to your Officers to whom you are for expedition to assign severally their proper Tasks In capital matters temper Severity with Lenity and incline rather to absolve a suspected Criminal than condemn an Innocent Person but let not your Lenity be so excessive as to encourage Offenders Weigh seriously the circumstances of Persons Times and Places and hold not your self so obliged to the strict observance of the dead Letters of your Laws but that on just grounds you may dispense with the Rigor of those punishments they inflict Frame your Proceedings by the Lesbian Rule plyable to the variety of Circumstances for then only the people have just cause to complain that Justice is not equally administred against Criminals when they see the same Crime in several persons unequally punished but cannot discern any Reason of the diversity However have such respect to the majesty of your Laws that the power of Dispensation may remain in your self incommunicable to any but by special Commission on weighty Occurrences And in these Cases Governours of States are the best Judges to moderate Laws who see those Reasons to incline them which pass the Knowledge and exceed the Capacity of ordinary Advocates But be sure this moderation arise out of a Right in Equity not Errour in Affection Let no Service done you pass unrewarded at least in good words which may beget an expectation of real Benefit when time serves Be not curious to inquire into the private Actions of your Subjects but let it satisfie you that they live conformable to your Laws without scandal and manifest offence to the majesty of your Government Leave secret faults to his Judgement who searches the heart and sees all things What reason is there our hands should execute where the Eye cannot pierce Beware of prejudicate Opinions and ever reserve an Ear for the other side in matters of complaint Encourage not undue Practices by too much Facility nor discourage just Addresses by a Rigor that may preclude all expectation of Reason from you of your proceedings Never pass sentence in Choler or any other perturbation lest you give just Cause as Philip of Macedon of Appeal from your self blinded with Passion to your self seeing with the Eye of Reason Let the Guards of your Person be so kept about you that it may appear done more to set forth the majesty of Government than out of any necessity to secure your Life To use Princely Garments sometimes begets Reverence for your Person and strikes Awe into the Multitude but generally to wear a plain Habit fitted to the Mode of the Country procures much love the Subject being much pleased to observe in their Prince a careless contempt of those Complements in which others vainly place their principal felicity Observe the like Rule in your Diet neither incurring hatred from the people by Excess and Profuseness nor Contempt by sinking too near the condition of a Subject To conclude this point the time of Peace is most fit for adorning Cities repairing High-Ways and Bridges making Rivers Navigable building Churches Hospitals Guild-Halls reforming Abuses in Religion visiting Universities Colledges and Courts of Justice Education of Orphans Marriage of poor Maids Redemption of Prisoners and other Works of publique Benefit which will oblige the People to Love and Thankfulness remain Monuments to Posterity of your Goodness and happy Reign and crown you with Eternal Glory As the Tempests and Storms of blustering Winter do by natural Revolution succeed the serene and calm Summer Season So the tranquility of the securest Peace does by the Politique Vicissitude and Circulation of Affairs end in the Troubles of War by a necessity immutable as the Laws of Nature But my present Business is not to demonstrate the Truth of this Sepeculation but to direct your Conduct in Military Business by Rules approved by my long experience in several Wars of greatest importance The Skill of a Pilot is not seen in the Halcyon Dayes of fair Weather when a rude Seaman in a Cock-Boat can lead a Dance for a whole Fleet to sport securely on the smiling Ocean but when the angry Marine Gods in a scornful defiance swelling their huge Waves unto the Clouds threaten to throw back those Waters into the face of Jove which he had showred down to make a disdained Addition to the liquid Element The Ship of State is easily guided in Times of Peace when all Discontents are husht into an intire Obedience to the Laws and no Disturbance nor Contention appears but what arises out of Mens Emulation to conform to their Princes Wills To steer an even and steddy Course to your desired Port through the Audacious Tumults of Popular Insurrections confronting your Authority the violences of Forraign Enemies who attaque your Power as it will try your Prudence and Courage so it is always attended with the Glory due to an excellent Conduct and will crown your Head with the Immortal Lawrels of a Triumphant Conquerour Directions are so much the more necessary for the Affairs of War than Peace as the accidents of War are more various and unexpected the Conduct thereof more uncertain and subject to alteration on all sudden Occurrences and the Errors irrecoverable or not to be redeemed without much Damage and Inconvenience Nor can a Prince give better proof of his Vertue and Goodness than by Moderation in time of War when Custom seems to tolerate and Power tempts him