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A18304	Precepts, or, Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertisements added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes; Certaine precepts	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, attributed name.	1636 (1636)	STC 4899; ESTC S118517	27,423	208

not inwardly extoll himselfe with a proud heart for the lowlinesse of the minde shall doe more to the attaining of the kingdome of heaven then the temporall poverty and lacke of worldly riches For meek and lowly men possessing riches may be called poore in spirit whereas those that are prowd and yet have nothing without doubt are dispossessed of the blessing which is promised to the poore in spirit Of both these sorts the holy Scripture speaketh on this wise Some make themselves rich although they have nothing and some make themselves poore albeit they have never so great riches The rich man then being poore in spirit is as a poore man notwithstanding all his riches and the poore man that is prowd in heart is as a rich man although hee be naked and poore It followeth that humblenesse of the minde is a noble and glorious poverty and the prowd stubbornenesse of the heart a foolish kinde of riches Therefore poore men must have in minde what they are and because they cannot obtain in worldly goods what they would have let not their hearts be puffed up with pride as though they had all that they cannot have The ninth abuse Chap. 9. A wicked and an unjust King NOw come we to a capitall abuse indeed namely an unjust or a wicked King or Prince for a King must not be wicked or unjust but correct and punish the wicked and in his owne person defend and maintaine the dignity of his name For by the name of a King is understood that hee may rule well all his subjects which are under him But how can he correct and rebuke other who doth not amend his own manners if they be wicked For in the righteousnesse and justice of a King is his seat exalted and in the fidelity and truth of a Prince is his governement and rule established and made strong The righteousnesse and justice of a King is to oppresse no man wrongfully by power to judge and give sentence betweene man and man indifferently without affection of any person to defend strangers Orphane children and widdowes to see that robbery and theft raigne not in his Realme to punish straightly adulterous and fornicating persons not to promote and exalt such as are wicked to give no living to such as are unchaste persons and makers of vicious pastimes to destroy out of his land all that are wicked against God and their Parents to suffer no murtherer or man queller to live much lesse such as doe kill either father or mother to defend the Church to comfort the poore with deeds of charity to take heed that his Officers under him be just and good men to have of his Counsell antient wise and sober men to give no eare to Sooth-sayers Witches or Enchanters not to keepe anger in his stomacke to defend his Country justly and valiantly against adversaries to put his whole trust and confidence for all things in God not to be the prouder in heart if things doe succeed after his minde and to beare the contrary patiently to keepe stedfastly the Catholike or universall Faith not to suffer his children to doe wickedly to bestow certaine houres daily in prayer not to eate and drinke out of season For woe be to that Land as the Prophet saith whose King is a childe and whose great men doe rise up early to eate and drinke The keeping of these things maketh a kingdome in this world to be prosperous and afterward bringeth the king himselfe to a more excellent and royall kingdome But hee that ruleth and governeth not his Kingdome after this prescript doth maintain suffer and beare many evils inconveniences and adversities in his Realme whereinto it falleth for the lack of good rule Because oftentimes hereby the peace and tranquillity of the people is broken and the Realme evill spoken of the fruits of the ground are diminished and the ground made bare and finally it causeth the people to be negligent in doing their duty Many and sundry sores doe infect a Realme and hindereth the prosperous weale thereof The death and losse of friends and children doe bring sadnesse and heavinesse unto mens hearts for when enemies doe invade the Countrey they waste and impoverish the land on all sides they slay up the Cattell great and small Againe troublesome weather and great windes doe hinder the growth and increase of the ground it maketh also the Sea as troubled and unable to doe service yea often times blasts and lightnings wither the corne on the ground and blossoms on the trees But above all things the unrighteousnesse of a King doth make darke and clowdie the face of his whole Realme being the cause often times through his iniquity and wicked government that his Nephewes yea nor his children after him doe inherit the Crowne of their Father The Lord for the offence of Salomon diuided the kingdome of the house of Israell out of the hands of his children Behold what great goodnesse commeth of a righteous and good Prince there is none so blinde but they may see if they will Of him commeth the peace of the people hee is the defence of his Countrey the safegard and liberty of his people the strength of the whole Nation the remedy of all sorrowes the joy of men the temperatenesse of the weather the stilnesse of the sea the fruitfull increase of the earth the helpe and comfort of the poore the sure heritage of his children and finally to himselfe it is a certaine argument and hope of eternall felicity to come But yet let every King take this lesson with him and marke it well that as among men hee is set highest in his throne so if he minister not justice hee shall be deepest in paine For in this life as many transgressors and offendors as he had under him so many in the time to come shall he have above him to his extreame sorrow and paine remedilesse The tenth abuse Chap. 10. A negligent Bishop THe tenth abuse is a negligent Bishop which gapeth ambitiously to be honoured and reverenced as a Bishop but doth not the office ministration and duty of a Bishop in the sight of God whole message he is commanded to doe Therefore let us first demand and enquire what is meant by the name and vocable Bishop which is a Greeke word and is as much to say as a man set in a high place to looke farre off and round about him as out of an high Tower But the cause why he is made a watch-man and what is required at his hand the Lord himselfe doth open when by the mouth of Ezechiel the Prophet he teacheth a Bishop the reason and cause of his office speaking on this wise Thou sonne of man I have made thee a watchman over the house of Israel wherefore when thou hast heard what words I do speake unto thee thou shall shew them to the people and tell them that I spake the words When I shall say unto the wicked thou shalt surely dye

COR VNVM VIA VNA The right honorable Sr William Cecill Knight Baron of Burghley Knight of the honorable Order of the Garter Maister of Her highnes Ward 's and Liueries one of the Lords of her Maiesties Priuie Counsell and Lord High Tresorer of England PRECEPTS OR Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life through the whole course thereof left by William Lord Burghly to his Sonne at his death who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this Kingdome Also some other Precepts and Advertisements added which sometimes was the Iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and Father to his Country FRANCIS Earle of Bedford deceased In two Bookes LONDON Printed for Thomas Iones and are to be sold at his shop in the Strand neare Yorke House 1636. To the Right Honourable Richard Lord Buckhurst eldest Sonne and heire apparant to the Right Honourable Edward Earle of Dorset Lord Chamberlaine to her Majesty one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell and Knight of the most Noble order of the GARTER My good Lord MVltiplicity of words begets multiplicity of errors especially in those whose tongues were never polished by Art It is true I have much Learning but that is in my Shop and it is as true that I am ignorant having not the happinesse to bee bred a Scholler Non cuiuis homini licet adire Corinthum This little Booke my Lord being formerly printed hath received good entertainement and now that it goes under your protection I doubt not but it will be much more welcome The cause of this dedication is to expresse part of my thankefulnesse for the goodnesse I have received from the Noble Earle your Father the right vertuous Countesse your Mother and your Honourable selfe for which the height of my ambition is onely to be stiled Your Honours most humbly devoted to serve you Tho. Iones THE INDVCTION BEloved Sonne the many religious and morall vertues inherent in your matchlesse Mother under the wings of whose prudent and Godly government your infancy hath beene trayned and guided up together with your Education under so zealous and Learned a Tutor put mee rather in assurance then hope as Tullie sometime exacted from his Sonne from the onely hearing of Cratippus his Master that you are not ignorant of that summary bond wherein you stand obliged to your Creator and Redeemer which is onely able to make you happy both here and hereafter in life and death In mentioning whereof I meane not onely a bare and Historicall knowledge but with a reall and practicall use adjoyned without which though with a seemely assumption you could expresse to the world in a former habite and living portrayture all Aristotles Morall vertues and walke that whole booke in Life and Action yet are you but a vaine and wretched creature the fairest out-side of the miserablest inside that ever was concealed by Toombe or shadowing And although I nothing doubt your youth being guided and your green vessell seasoned by such wholesome documents and instructions derived from so all-sufficient Teachers that you are not unfurnished of such needfull helpes as may be furtherers to your life and conversation yet that I may the better retaine and expresse the zealous affection beseeming a Father to his Sonne or that you should be forced to derive your stay and advice rather from the rule of strangers then from him from whom you are produced and brought forth Out of these fore-going considerations therefore thinking it not unmeet I have essayed from the affection of a Father to give you such good advertisements and rules for the fitting and squaring of your life as are gayned rather by my long experience and observation than by much reading or Studie being such in my hope with that good assistance that shall season your Youth like the deaw of Age to the end that you entring into this exorbitant and intangling World may be the better furnished to avoid those harmelesse courses whereinto these dangerous times and your experience may easily insnare you and because I would not confound your memory I have reduced them into tenne Precepts which if next to Moses Tables you imprint in your minde you shall reape the benefit and I the end of my expectation and content And thus they follow The Contents of this Booke Precept 1. FOr choyce of your Wives 2 The education of your Children 3 For houshold provision and the choyce of Servants 4 How to intreat your Kindred and Allies 5 Adviseth to keepe some great man to your friend and how to complement him 6 How and when to undertake suits 7 Advertiseth for suretiship 8 How to behave a mans selfe 9 How far to disclose a mans secrets 10 Adviseth not to be scurrilous in conversation An addition of some short Precepts and sentences not impertinent to the former An addition of some fourefold short remembrances which every man may experience daily in his life A Conference betweene a Philosopher and a Iustice A handfull of short questions with their resolutions The genealogy of Pride BURGHLEY HOUSE From the Gardens PRECEPT 1. For the choice of your Wives FIrst when it shall please God to bring you to Mans estate making you capable of that Calling use great providence and circumspection in choice of your Wives as the root from whence may spring most of your future good or evill For it is in the choice of a Wife as in a project of Warre wherein to erre but once is to be undone for ever And therefore be wel advised before you conclud● ought herein For though your Errour may teach you wit it is uncertain whether you shall ever find time to practise it Therefore the more securely to enter herein First well consider your estate which if in a true survey you finde firme and setled Match neere home and with deliberation but if otherwise crazie and Rented then farre off and with quicke expedition be informed truly of their inclination which that there may bee a more equall Sympathy compare it with your owne how they agree for you must know that every good woman makes not for every man a good wife no otherwise then some one good Dish digesteth with every stomack After that enquire diligently of her stocke and race from whence shee sprung and how her parents have been affected in their youth Let her not be poore how generous so ever For Generosity without her support is but a faire shell without her kernell Because a man can buy nothing in the Market without money And as it is the safest walking ever between two extremes so chufe not a wife of such absolute perfection and Beauty that every carnall eye shall be speak you injury neither so base and deformed that breed contempt in others and bring you to a loathed bed Make not choise of a Dwarfe or a Foole for from the one you may beget a race of Pigmeyes as the other will be your daily griefe and vexation for it will irke you so