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A46794	The Christian tutor, or, A free and rational discourse of the sovereign good and happiness of man, and the infallible way of attaining it, especially in the practice of Christian religion written in a letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies / by Henry Jenkes ... ; and now published for the benefit of all others.	Jenkes, Henry, d. 1697.; King, James.	1683 (1683)	Wing J628; ESTC R1916	24,940	82

little conduce to the increase of your happiness IV. Our good Name and Reputation Be tender of your good Name and Reputation which you may easily obtain and maintain if you never do any thing whereof you may have just cause to be ashamed be but true to your own Conscience in the faithful discharge of your several duties and you cannot fail of an unstained Reputation and that surely in this World goes a great way to secure a Mans happiness If you live inoffensively and vertuously with a due respect to all Gods Commandments if you walk unblamably and righteously you will walk surely and then Honour and all due Respect from men of the best judgement will follow you V. Our Real and Personal Estate And last of all your re● and personal Estate that you may live conveniently and handsomely by it must be also minded by you God Almighty has placed you in a condition of Life that may be very gainful and advantageous to you in which many have got great Estates in a little time now my dear Friend that you may do so too festina lente do not make too much hast to be rich but use all diligence and industry all fair just and honest ways to come to a plentiful Estate for industry and honesty is the truest policy in this Case to get and increase Riches it has the blessing of God promised to go along with it so says the wise King Solomon The diligent hand maketh rich and then when you are in possession of something of your own which your pains and innocent endeavours have brought you in Remember that you lay by some of it for Pious and Charitable Vses wherewith to gratifie your poor and indigent Neighbour this I can assure you will never lessen your Estate or make you poorer for it but rather the richer for it will never prove detrimental to you but rather highly beneficial to you both in this World and that which is to come For the Charitable man is greatly beloved of God he will take especial Care of him that whoever wants he shall never want and at Doomsday he shall be most amply rewarded for all his Heroick Acts of Charity and Kindness which he has out of the Love of God and his Neighbours shewn unto others And now I am come at last to an end of my long Letter The Transitition to the next head of Discourse it is you see a Letter that treats of the most Sovereign Good in which mans happiness is to be placed it is in A Letter of Love but then it treats of the Divinest Love that a Human Soul is capable of and therefore I hope you cannot have been weary in reading of it thus far Now my Dear Mr. James King for a farewell and to conclude I will now only entertain you with one special Rule of Love more that there may be nothing wanting in this Letter to compleat your happiness and to further you in this great Vertue of Love and that is as you are a Lover of Vertue and so a good Christian let me entreat you not to trouble your self with Controversies or Litigious Questions about Religion for the Christian Religion as it is Professed also by our Church of England in her Sixth Article of Religion is so plainly and intelligibly laid down in the Scriptures especially of the New Testament that it requires not so much a subtle head to understand it as a good and honest heart to Believe and Practise those Sacred Truths which are there so evidently delivered and so effectually recommended unto us I say waving 〈◊〉 Controversies and nice Speculations which are both fruitless and unprofitable and also very destructive of this Holy Love I have all this while been discoursing of to you § VI. The infallible way of attaining the Soverein good of Mans happiness Make it your daily study and constant practice to Love the Lord Jesus Christ in Truth and Sincerity For this Love of him being firmly rooted in the heart will make you a True Disciple of His In the special way of Christian Religion and infinitely tend to the advancement of your Happiness both here and hereafter Now that you may do so you will not fail to love our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus in sincerity By Loving our Lord Jesus Christ in Truth and Sincerity if you mind and practise these three things First 1 Honour Him Always maintain in your mind an high and honourable opinion of our ever blessed Master Jesus Christ that is think of him frequently with Honour and Reverence 1. 1 As to his Person As to His Person 2. As to his Offices 1. As to his Person you then honour him with that Religious Veneration and Worship you ought if you acknowledge him to be the True the Honourable and only begotten Son of God the express Image of the invisible God that came from the great God of Heaven and Earth and from him received his Divine Authority Hear him therefore who has been so highly dignified by God Almighty as thrice to be openly and audibly declared the Well-beloved Son of God besides the many Miracles he did and at last his Glorious Resurrection from the Dead shew him to you in the Glory of the only begotten Son of God full of Grace and Truth that you should honour him as you honour God the Father 2. 2 As to his Offices 1. Your Prophet Look unto Jesus with a Religious regard and honour as to his Offices for so you will find him to be 1. Your great Prophet and Teacher to instruct you in the Revelation of God's Mind and Will to you what he will do for you and what he will have you do in order to your Everlasting Happiness Give him therefore that Honour that is due to so great a Prophet Submit your self to his Instructions take his Yoke upon you and faithfully observe all his Sayings 2. 2 Your High-Priest Behold Jesus also in the Glory of his Kingdom as your merciful High-Priest to make Attonement for you to represent your Case in Heaven to interceed for you there and from thence to bless you with all Spiritual and Temporal Blessings and therefore daily pray unto him that he would be mindful of you now he is ●n his Kingdom and has received all Power in Heaven and Earth doubtless for your good and benefit and be you also very mindful of him whilst you are here upon Earth that you keep up the memory of his venerable Passion and Death and Communicate with Christian People as often as you can Especially at those solemn times our Church has appointed the Holy Communion I mean the Festival Days set apart and dedicated to the honour and everlasting remembrance of our Blessed Saviour 3. 3 Your King And lastly look upon him as your Sovereign Lord and most Gracious King to Govern you by the wisest and best Laws and to direct you by his

them for all other things that fall short of these whether Good or Evil our Fears and Hopes must be but slender or little and moderate as for your Passions of Anger Sadness and Joy Anger is seldome warrantable but In Causa Dei proximi in the Cause of God and our Neighbour if the Honour of God be assaulted or diminished by prophane men or my Neighbour enormously wronged by them I cannot bear it but with Indignation rise against such Persons as do so and endeavour to redress it For Sadness you have no reason to be sorrowful for any thing but only for your sins failings and miscarriages and therefore by the Grace of God amend them be sorry indeed that you have done so unadvisedly but do so no more As for the Griefs of others their ailes and maladies make them your own be always sensible of their Calamities pity them and relieve them to the uttermost of your power share with them in their Sufferings alleviate their Sorrows as much as you can and leave the rest to the God of all Consolations For the kindly passion of Joy that so much transports others out of the right way and out of their wits too do you so comport your self in the right way of Rejoycing as neither to be exceeding joyful but when you do very well and are conscious that you have done nothing amiss but have rather heartily and sincerely endeavoured to do that which is well-pleasing to God and right in His sight be joyful also when you see that it goes well with others concern your self very much in their good and welfare and rejoyce at it when you perceive that men begin to amend and follow the best and wisest courses of Life when you see Unity Peace and Concord obtain in the World or any part of it when Righteousness looks down from Heaven and Truth springs up out of the Earth and prevails universally when you hear of no Complaints in our Streets no breaking in nor breaking out then make your Bonfires of Joy Erect your Triumphant Arches be exceeding joyful and thank the God of Love and Peace In a word Remember always to rejoyce in the best things and for the good things of this Life so far as they may be Serviceable to you in a way of well-doing to make you healthful and truly chearful rejoyce that God Almighty has allowed you so liberal a portion of them abound in Thanksgiving towards him for it and make the best Use of them for the benefit of others that others may also rejoyce with you but never rejoyce at the Calamities and Miseries of others never laugh at any body for any little silliness he is guilty of For none but great Fools do so but rather pity them all and enlarge your Charity and Good-will towards them that by your gentleness and tender commiseration they may not be dejected or aggrieved but on the contrary kindly comforted and relieved by you In this way and by this Method of Government ● you may order all the rest of your Passions do but determine them aright to their proper Objects and then limit butt and bound them after the manner before set down and you will take a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction of mind to see them all subject to your Commands But now if any of them at any time should be so insolent so refractory and rebellious as not to submit themselves to your Government that is the Government of right reason but bid defiance to it and desire to reign in you without controul Then in the second or next Effort you must use some Policy as well as main force and reduce them to Obedience and Submission In the second Effort and that you may easily do if you observe these two Maxims of State I. Two Maxims of State must be observed and practised The first Maxim Divide and Command Divide impera Divide and Command That is raise a strong Faction and Party among your Passions set one against the other Admiration of great things against Admiration of little things so Love against Hatred Hope against Fear Joy against Sadness c. and then sometimes take part with one Side at another time with another side where you see any Passion exorbitant or headstrong encourage some other Passions that are more Innocuous and Governable to oppose its Tyranny and Undermine it for by this means you will enjoy the Peace and Quiet of a good Mind always within you the better for it II. The Second Maxim Trust but look well whom you trust Fide sed Cui Vide that is trust not any of your Passions with your most important Affairs never admit them to your Cabinet Counsels they are good Lacquaies to wait upon you but very bad Counsellors to be advised withal therefore keep them out upon your Errands but let them never go before you give the Command when they are returned least they should grow idle or troublesome to you always find them work make them your Tributaries as well as Subjects and if any of them should refuse to pay that Respect and Homage that Fidelity and Obedience which is due to so noble a Governour Correct them severely and if they will not mend turn them out of doors as for those other Passions that you will find more dutiful and observant of your Commands them only trust with your little concerns let them have the Honour to serve you and for their good Services do you turn them into Vertues and then you shall be still better served and your happiness will never be disturbed by them but rather in greater measures and degrees augmented I have been somewhat longer upon this head of discourse because the matter deserved it I will now make you amends and be shorter in the next Paragraph III. The whole Man must be also regarded by us You must also have aregard to the whole man that your outward Conversation and deportment be such as becomes a generous Soul that dwells within you that is to say Endeavour always to be like your self Sis semper idem let your mind be seen by your face your words agree with your meaning shew your Self good-natur'd throughout do all things ex intuitu boni Vniversi out of a kind respect to the good of the Universe and then proceed to bring it really about Ex amore veri optimi out of your great love to that which the best reason of your mind judges to be the truest and best way to attain that Sovereign Good be upright sincere and constant in the whole course of your Life be Courteous Affable Friendly and Obliging to all you Converse with that others may know you by your actions and worthy deeds as well as by your fair Carriage and civill Behaviour This will make you be well thought of and truly be loved by all others by this means you will contract a firm alliance with all good men and that will not a