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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77141	The counsels of wisdom or, a collection of the maxims of Solomon. Most necessary for a man wisely to behave himself. With reflections on those maxims. Rendred into English by T.D.; Conseils de la sagesse. English.	Boutauld, Michel, 1604-1689.; T. D.	1683 (1683)	Wing B3860C; ESTC R223605	79,015	217

by duty you make your merit and your vertue to be believed when you overcome strange enemies it encreaseth nothing that is in you The defeat of an Army lessens the number of men but it adds not a jot to your stature nor one degree of perfection to your spirit In one word prize patience I do not say contemn vigour Although 't is not be valued as this victorious patience I confess 't is worth much and deserves the admiration that all ages have had for it But further that the one and the other to be perfect ought not to be seperated because they are the two parts of courage the two halfs of one and the same whole that seperation will necessarily weaken and obscure There is no courage nor nobleness nor supream grandour in a Soul where these two vertues are not together 't is only by their union that they have the power to carry men to the most eminent degree of heroic Glory and to give to their actions this Divine lustre which dazles the eyes of the World and which obliges fame to speak of them to all Nations and in all ages It is true that it is an illustrious thing and very justly to be applauded and admired by the people to see what courage doth in a Prince when that during a battel push'd on by this coelestial fire He passeth unhurt through all the furies of death and runs upon an Army overthrown after victory which calls and leads him In like manner it is true That there is another spectacle yet more rare and more worthy of public admiration to see a Prince when in the midst of triumphs and success and amongst the most glorious felicities of humane life he can contemn what he possesseth and that he visibly declares by his modesty and by the fidelity of his Conduct that he had rather lose all that and lose Empires and Worlds too if he had them then to commit an action of injustice But to see these two marvels united and tyed to each other in one and the same Conqueror To overcome the enemies of the State and to overcome himself to encrease in Wisdom and moderation by Combats to encrease in goodness by victories to take Towns and gain Hearts to be the most beloved and most dreadful of men without doubt is the most ravishing sight under Heaven I do not know whether the Ancients have seen it with their eyes or if posterity shall see it in our Annals All the sentiments of this true Courage are heaped together in these two words Rather to dye then to fear Men and to fly before an Army and rather to dye then not to fly at the sight of dangers which threaten the Conscience and preferring the interests of self love or a loose passion before the duties of fidelity If you are not of the condition nor the humour to say the former or if your particular profession subject you to the Laws of the Gospel oblige you to pardon all injuries comfort your self in remembring That it is a Prince more valiant then the Caesars and more enlightned from God then the Prophets who assures me Melior est patiens viro forti qui dominatur animo suo expugnatore urbium V. MAXIM A breath of the Power of God a pure influence flowing from the Glory of the Almighty the brightness of the everlasting Light the unspotted mirrour of the Power of God Wisd 7. PARAPHRASE AMongst the perfections of God that which renders a Man eternally at peace in himself is Wisdom It is from thence that he draws the third remedy that he presents us against the troubles and disorders which we carry within us and who are born of our own infirmity This supernatural Wisdom is a vapour of its vertue communicated to the Passions of the Man and shed even into the midst of their corruptions and tumults to cause there peace and holiness The peace of the Saints enters into us with Wisdom and the design of God is That there remaining in our Soul no more of any motion or spot it becomes a mirrour where he can contemplate his Divine beauty without and there know himself as he knows himself eternally in his word Speculum Majestatis Dei REFLECTION GOod nature weakens Inclinavi cor meum ad faciendas justificationes tuas the Passions Courage daunts them Wisdom elevates them And by a miraculous transformation it changeth them into vertues and sanctifies what they have criminal and most contrary to grace in putting them sweetly under obedience I will tell you that when Cor meum caro mea exultaverunt in Deum the Law declares to us the Will of the Creator and that it obligeth constrains us to obey them Wisdom adds the inclination to this obligation and that it produceth in our hearts certain delicious motions which act us and make our very passions leap for joy to aspire with us to the happiness of doeing what God will and to be employd to serve and honour him In one word the Law obligeth us Grace helps us and wisdom inclines us to observe divine commandments As soone as Man inlightned by the rayes of this Aurora Justiciae Domini laetificant Corda he finds his repose its joy in the excercises of righteousness Whatsoever it bee that one proposeth to him as Justificatio●e tua exultatio cordis mei soon as its just that he may doe it he is inclined to doe it as soone as reason commands he obeys by love duty is his pleasure obedience is his liberty fidelity is his humour His soul willeth what is good without deliberating it undertakes it without combating against it selfe and haveing no difference or affaires with any of his passions These domestic enemies are no more what they were wisdom transforms th● whole man This wise soul frames great designs an● it pursues them it aspires to hono●● immortal and thither it runne● withou● stirring it selfe it walks not it s carried an● they are those heats of bloud flames ●● ambitious lust heretofore so turbulent and rebellious who serve him as slaves and carry it in this triumph Triumph where one sees what did appeare most divine among the works of the power of God the day that he created the world A Man within whom all the man conspires to love duty and vertue God gives wisdome freely to some and he would that others should obtain it by prayer One of the surest meanes to invite it is to hearken to the counsels of this same wisdom even this is to be already very wise to begin to follow them and to governe a mans selfe according to its instructions and maxims VI. MAXIM Envy and wrath shorten the life and carefulness bringeth age before the time Eccles 30. PARAPHRASE IF you will serve God worthily conserve your devotion and innocence untill death doe what wise men have done to keep their health possess an inward peace and doe not leave your s●lves to be troubled

by any business or Passion Jealousy anger and hatred are not in man but to destroy his vertue and to shorten his life The excess of affection and application to any undertaking although laudable is not less dangerous then other disquiets All that there is violent in us pusheth us on to sin and drags us to the grave Nothing is immortal and glorious but that which is calm REFLECTION TAke good heed of pleasing your self too much with any thing whatsoever nay even with your very duty or of thinking too strongly on things applying your self thereto with earnest and impatient care Have so much moderation and so much power over your self as one may be able to say That you undertake business by reason That you labour in it by inclination and That you see the success thereof with indifference I say not that you should be insensible It is necessary that you have Passions and that these Passions were ardent It is necessary your Horses should love to run and tha● they have fire Coolness ought not to be but in Counsels Indifference but in Reason And it is in that consists the beauty of humane life That one sees a magnanimou● heat in our actions and desires but never any rashness or transport God doth without troubling himself all that a God ought to do and he is as the Sun in Heaven always busied about an infinit number of works and always peaceful Be you here below as the shadow on a Dial W●lk and go where duty calls you Do every thing which a person that governs an House or a City or the Estate ought to do or one who rules the actions of people But be you so wise and so reserved that it may seem by your modesty and sedate temper that you are in a perfect repose and that you have no care VII MAXIM A Fools wrath is soon known but a prudent Man covereth shame Prov. 12. PARAPHRASE THe most ordinary indiscretion of Man is to declare his anger too soon The Duty of Vertue is to extinguish it And that of interest to Conduct it secretly Assoon as 't is born the Politician covers it but the wise Man choaks and kills it as soon REFLECTION DO you yet better hinder it if possible from being born The least time that unruly anger abides in your Soul or appears on your countenance it cannot be without disorder and shame It s unforeseen motions which are not your crimes are your infirmities although they render you not guilty they do not leave you but unseemly and since there is suppressing them there is yet more not to feel them I know well that 't is glorious to resist and overcome but when it is a question to resist a dangerous passion and to overcome your self it is yet more glorious not to be attacked and to have nothing in you that were necessary to destroy or that you ought to dread Fear the Triumphs where it is necessary that you be the Captive And chuse rather to be in perfect health then to have precious remedies to have a patient and modest spirit then excellent Maxims against impatience At least remark That Wisdom who gives unto hot and cholerick persons abundance of fair instructions to modera●e their heat if it were in their power to melt their natures and entirely to new-make themselves would council them no more then one thing and would not have more to tell them then this one word only Renovate your selves VIII MAXIM A wounded spirit who can bear Prov. 18. PARAPHRASE WHo is he that shall be able to live with a man that vexeth himself continually and without reason and who is subject to frequent fits of violent anger But how is it that he can indure himself and be accustomed to see himself in so shameful a condition The worst is That his evil as the other evils of Hell have no remedy and that they cannot be cured without ceasing to live or without returning to the fountain of Life there to change the temper and take another body REFLECTION AMongst angers the most indecent to persons of quality and the most intolerable is without doubt this which needs none to kindle it but it self and which takes fire as a tempestuous cloud from whence one sees unexpectedly lightnings and horrible noises to break out when no body puts fire to it One cannot be near them in safety or quiet no not even when they are so The rest of their anger is as the delicate slumber of a sick Prince You must speak very low and take great care and walk with much fear and circumspection least you awake him The strange destiny of people of this evil humour according to the thoughts of a Philosopher is that there is nothing for them in the World but is encompassed with thorns and that they feel themselves stung by whatsoever they touch or that comes near them In the most kind civilities and even in benefits and favours they find certain I don't know what that wound them What you do and what you say to please them is that by which they account themselves justly offended and of which they complain Your most respectful words and actions are the sparks that fall upon their choler You see them suddenly out of themselves transported into dreadful furies because that their caprice has seen in your words or in your eyes some equivocation or look of a double meaning which they do not understand 'T is true that each one hath his infirmities and miseries variously distributed by corrupted nature Unhappy is the M●n who hath these for his burden if they are yours weep and fear I well know that you call those angers unavoidable accidents or necessary faults which should cause pity and merit excuse Great question come to the point One does not complain of your being subject to a distemper which is an enemy to mankind but they complain that you would live with men It is a misfortune to bear this plague in the bottom of the heart but it is a crime to bring it in●o a City and to appear in company with it That which is most inexcusable is that ●ou bring it even upon tribunals and ●hat you would exercise a charge where ●ou are obliged to treat with all sorts of per●ons Wherefore is it necessary That the scan●●lized World should come to know every ●●y such a reproach to the spirit of Man and ● view during your transports all the disor●ers and follies of such a ridiculous and bru●h infirmity Either cure your self or hide your self An Ancient has very well said that Dens and Caves of Rocks are habitations prepared by the Creator for persons subject to impetuous and blind anger Retire thither It shall be much easier to you to suffer your self alone in Solitude then to render your evil common to a City or an whole Country Learn what nature ought to teach you and what all the people of honour feel viz. That the cruelest affliction and