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cause_n	eternal_a	good_a	life_n	4,162	5	5.3241	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07677	The schoole of good manners. Or, A new schoole of vertue. Teaching children & youth how they ought to behaue themselues in all companies, times, and places. / Translated out of French. By W.F..; ABC ou instruction pour les petis enfans. English. 1595	Phiston, William.	1595 (1595)	STC 10922.5; ESTC S92539	28,539	81

THE Schoole of good manners OR A new Schoole of Vertue Teaching children youth how they ought to behaue themselues in all companies times and places Translated out of French By W. F. LONDON Printed by I. Danter for William Ihones and are to be sold at the signe of the Gun neere Holburne Conduit 1595. TO THE VERTVous and tovvardlie young Gentleman Master Edvvard Harington Sonne and heire to the Worshipfull Master Iames Harington of Ridlington in Rutland Esquier NOT without iust cause in my iudgement did that renoumed lawgiuer of the Lacedemonians amonge other things ordeine that all parents should not only frequent the publike banquets themselues but should alwayes bring with them their children thither that there they might the better learne to obserue what fashions manners and vsage were best beseeming and holden most praise worthy where the reuerent account of the presence of their betters might be as a bridle to hold them within the boundes of modestie and the beholding of the glorious rewards of such as deserued wel the open contempt reproches and shame with the sharpe punishment of dissolute and euill disposed children might terrifie them from vice and anymate them to labour greedylie to be holden vertuous If the like assemblies were now houlden among Christians where children with mirth might learne good manners and togither with the refreshing of their bodies might learne with quicke wise sayings to exercise their wits aswell as their mēbers with actiue feats I thinke it would prooue to youth a way very profitable For Example I hold to be the most forcible schoole-mistres that can be touching manners Now hauing of late happened vpon a litle book in French concerning childrens manners I hauing more laisure than I well liked thought good to expell my languishing ydlenes by translating and in places needfull correcting this treatise which I haue intituled an A. B. C. or the first schole of good manners Much more sufficiently I confesse this argument deserueth to be handled but all good vertuous manners be as most louing sisters who so is daily conuersant with some of them cannot long be vnacquainted with the residue And that childe that will lay fast hold on Diligent obseruation and be ruled thereby as by his Paedagogue he shall attaine in good tyme to the knowledge and vse of al good manners This treatise good master Edward I haue dedicated to you not as though you needed any such instructions for I am assured that you know and daily practise mo and better than here are prescribed But for that I esteeme you alreadie a patterne of vertuous good manners in the view of many other I haue thought good to make you a patrone of this little schole wher the rude ignorant may if they will lerne some forme of fashions by reading practising that here is proposed Now the Lord the Author fountaine of all goodnes vouchsafe so to powre his graces vpon you that you may profit and prosper in al your vertuous indeuors and so apply your self in husbanding this spring tyme of your Adolescencie as when you are growen to a perfect man you may gloriously reape the happie haruest of your labours to your owne good and the comfort of all your freends Your vvell-vviller VVilliam Fiston ¶ A Schoole of good manners for Children and youth THe feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisedome saide Salomon the wise most truelie wherfore he iudged those to bee alreadie in a great forwardnes to knowledge and right vnderstanding that séeke diligently to learne how they may walke rightly in the feare of god For that feare doth not terrifie but teach it with holdeth not from weale but forewarneth howe to flie from euill yea it is a nurse that nurtureth but therewith giueth most holsome nourishment Let Children therefore first and principallie learne to walke in this feare and let them know that the first poynt of good manners is to shewe most dutifulnes vnto him who is most of Maiestie honour and worthinesse and to whome for benifits receiued they are most bound Consider then O Childe that in regard of honour and maiestie all Nobles Princes and greatest Emperours are but inferiour vnderlings in comparison of God Almightie holding their states but during his pleasure yea in respect of his excellencie they are but as the shadowe of a man is in respect of the man himselfe and all the pompe and glorie that thou canst sée in this world is but as a thing of naught in comparison of Gods perfect true honor and eternal glorie in heauen whereof thou shalt be partaker in the life to come if walking in his feare thou indeuourest to doe well If thou also consider how infinitelie thou art bound vnto God Almightie for benefits receiued thou shalt haue iust cause to desire that thy whole life might bee nothing els but a continuall praysing and glorifiyng of Gods name For what good thing hast thou or euer hadst thou which thou hast not fréely receiued of his bounteous liberalitie Nay what good thing could be wished whereof he hath not most gratiously made thée partaker Hée hath not onlie made thée a liuing creature whereas thou hadst no béeing but hath made thée a reasonable and euerliuing soule euen a Semblance or Image of his owne excellent Maiestie a partaker of reason diuine knowledge in heauenly things with the Angels Hee hath also ordained thée if thou walke in his feare to bée an heire of his euerlasting kingdome and a fellow heire with his owne Son Christ Iesus where shall bee ioy without ceasing true glorie neuer failing plenty without wanting and all happines without harme for euermore God hath also sent his Son Iesus Christ to redéeme thée by his merits and suffrings hee hath accepted him as a Sacrifice for thy sins and for all those that shall be saued whereas otherwise thou wast accursed and like to haue bin damned for euer This did hée of méere mercie and loue wherefore thou art most bound to feare and loue him God hath also giuen thée the comfortable vse enioying of his holy spirite if by earnest and faithfull praier thou craue the same That spirit regenerateth thée and yéeldeth thée alwaies present comfortes against all feares safetie against dangers strength against assaults warranteth thee harmlesse against all thy wauering doubts and is to thée a sure Bulwarke of defence against all the sleightes of Sathan the malice of enemies and whatsoeuer might hurt or trouble thée Séeke diligently then for the aid of this holy spirit by daylie fearing and obeying God If thou wouldst weigh thy dutie toward God by consideration of the outward benefits that thou receiuest of him in this life I saie it againe what hast thou or euer hadst thou but thou receiuest the same of Gods frée benefit He conioyned thy Parents together in wedlocke afterward gaue them both will and power to beget and conceiue thée that done he powred into thée a liuing and reasonable