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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00617	The counseller a treatise of counsels and counsellers of princes, written in Spanish by Bartholomew Phillip, Doctor of the ciuill and cannon lawe. Englished by I.T. graduate in Oxford.; Tractado del consejo y de los consejeros de los principes. English	Filippe, Bartholomeu.; Thorie, John, b. 1568.	1589 (1589)	STC 10753; ESTC S101905	175,643	206

rule their Subiects in peace ought not to suffer their people so to giue themselues to ease that they neuer be exercised or trained vppe in Armes for an vnarmed peace is very weake Gelon King of Sicilie being perswaded that those Common-weales in which the people were not exercised in Militarie practises could not long continue for peace vacation from labours and idlenes spoyle and consume them hee commaunded that it shoulde be published through all his Countrey that great necessitie vrged him to make warre and there withall commaunded that the people should presently be mustered and taught how to vse their weapons and after they had béene trained and some thing exercised in handling them he commaunded that they shoulde all of them be placed in order that they might goe with him to seeke the enemie but when they were all gone and asked where the enimies were with whem they should fight the King shewed the fieldes hils and valleys vnto thē saying that if they wold atchiue victory ouer their enemies they should labour in those groundes felling downe the Trées and digging out the stones that were in them for so dooing they shoulde vanquishe those deadly enimies Sloth and Idlenes which woulde ouerthrowe and destroy the whole Common-wealth if they were not in time expelled and no Nation durst make war vpon them seeing that they were practised in exercises of warre and accustomed to labour For as Titus Liuius saith the enemies themselues doo not the Common-wealth so much harme as delight and wantonnes Anncient olde men in their time painted the Goddesse Pallas in Compleate harnesse because they would haue men to vnderstand that the Artes and Sciences which florish in peace little profit vnlesse they be defended by Armes The Emperour Iustinian saith that Princes ought to be adorned with Armes and armed with Lawes that they may well gouerne the people that is committed vnto them The sixteenth discourse Howe and wherewith Common-Weales be augmented and wherewith they doe decay COunsellers of Princes especially they of the Counsell of the estate ought to vnderstande and know wherwith Common-weales be augmented and by what means they decaie again The famous S. Augustine saith that as the Phisitions cure sicke bodies by purging letting of blood and searing so God cureth the sinnes and vices of men with famine as dyets with plagues as purgations and with wars as letting of blood and searing The Prophet Esay saith God will chastice the people of Ierusalem with taking away the staie of bread and the staie of water The strong man and the man of warre the Judge and the Prophet the prudent and the aged the Captaines of fiftie and the honourable and the Counseller and the cunning Artificer and the eloquent man and hee will appoint children to be their Princes and babes shall rule ouer them and the people shal be oppressed one by an other and euery one by his neighbour the children shall presume against the auncient and those that are contemptible against those that are honourable God dooth also chastice Cōmon-weales and bringeth them to decay by suffering Pharaoes Nabuchadnezers Caligulaes Neroes Dyoclesians to gouerne because of the sins of the people and they stand him in stéede of Tormentors Attila was called the rod of God and Tamberlaine the wrath of God Those Princes which God will haue to serue him in stéed of Tormentors to punish the people who with their haynous sins offend him are as Cardinall Reginald Poole saith in the Oration which he made vnto Charles the fift concerning peace those that persecute the Church of God For GOD placeth not Christian Princes in authoritie to the ende they shoulde serue him in steede of Tormentors but that they should minister iustice equallie vnto al men and be as S. Paule saith Ministers of God imitating him and following him in vsing clemencie and béeing mercifull to the consolation and comfort of all the people but because the people repent not themselues of theyr sinnes and leaue not their wickednes and because as the holie Scriptures saie the measure of the Amorites is filled GOD sendeth them Princes that stand thē in steede of Tormentors but if they amēded their liues and enclined their harts to repentaunce as Niniuie did he wold pardon them For it is the propertie of his diuine Maiestie to pardon and shewe mercie vnto those that from the bottome of their hart doo cal vnto him and repent themselues of their sinnes And vnto those people which are iust and vertuous God giueth good Kings and such as doo the Common-wealth much good and are as Angels sent from heauen to conserue and defend her Therfore those Princes that doo not this accomplish not their dutie and cannot be properlie called Princes but equiuocally as a painted man is called a man The holie Scriptures call those Princes that doo not minister iustice vnto euery man according to the commandement of God hypocrites for they haue no princely thing in them but onely the name of Princes and béeing most cruell Wolues they be masked and disguised with tokens onelie and shewes of most mercifull Princes 2 God doth oftentimes permit that Princes should suffer many troubles and aduersities to turne them from their wicked liues and to shewe them that God dooth punish chastice Princes Kings Monarches and Emperours when they gouerne not their people as they ought according to the will and pleasure of the highest Monarch of the world After this manner saith the Prophet Daniel that God did shew vnto Nabuchadnezzar King of Babilon how that God is Lord of all kingdomes giueth them vnto whom he will and euen as Schoolmaisters correct their Schollers to make them to applie theyr bookes and duelie come to schoole so GOD dooth chastice the Princes of the earth that they may performe their duetie and vnderstand that the true beginning to gouerne well as well in time of peace as war consisteth in knowing that God Almightic is the Lord of all kingdomes and that the beginning of all knowledge and wisedome as King Salomon saith is the feare of the Lord and this is y e first lesson which they ought to learn that will follow him and the first shewe and token which they make in the schoole of his doctrine The feare of the Lorde is glorie and gladnes and reioycing and a ioyfall crowne And the feare of the Lord maketh a merrie hart and giueth gladnes and ioy and long life and who so feareth the Lord it shall goe well with him at the last and hee shall finde fauour in the day of his death The Prophet Dauid beeing taught by the holie Ghost saith Be wise now therefore ye Kinges be learned ye Judges of the earth serue the Lord in feare reioyce in trembling Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and ye perrish in the way when his wrath shall suddainlie burne blessed are al they that put their trust in him And those