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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

Lord commander many times of another mans purse PRECEPT 8. How to carry a mans selfe toward his Superiours and Inferiours TOward your Superiours be humble yet generous with your equals familiar yet respective towards your inferiours shew much humility with some familiarity as to bow your body stretch forth your hand uncover your head and such like popular complements the first prepares way to advancement the second will make you knowne for a man well bred the third gaines a good report which once gained may easily be kept for high humilities are of such respect in the opinion of the multitude as they are easilier won by unprofitable curtesies than by churlish benefits yet doe I not advise you overmuch to affect or neglect popularity PRECEPT 9. How farre to disclose a mans secrets TRust no man with your credit or estate for it is a meere folly for a man to inthrall himselfe further to his friend than that he needs not feare him being his enemy PRECEPT 10. BE not scurrilous in conversation nor Stoicall in your wit for the one makes you unwelcome to all companies as the other puls quarrels on your head and makes you hated of your best friends Iests when they doe savour of too much truth leave a bitternesse in the mindes of those that are touched And although I have already pointed at these inclusive yet I thinke it necessary to leave it to you as a caution because I have seen many so prone to quippe and gird as they had rather lose their friend than their jest and if by chance their boyling braine yeeld a quaint scoffe they will travell to be delivered of it as a woman with childe but I thinke those nimble apprehensions are but the froth of the wits An Addition of some short Precepts and sentences not impertinent to the former GOE as thou wouldst be met sit as thou wouldest be found weare thy apparrell in a carelesse yet a decent seeming for affectednesse in any thing is commendable in nothing and indeavour to be so farre from vaine-glory that thou strive in any thing rather to be in substance without shew then in shew without substance 2 Strive not to inrich thy self by Oppression Usury or other unlawfull gaine for if a little evill gotten shall not onely melt away it selfe like deaw against the Sunne but shall likewise consume with it selfe that which was more lawfull how then shall it hast without stay when all the whole lumpe is corrupted Surely if experience faile not with a swifter speed than either by the prodigall hands of a third or second Heire and for such a one that ungodly dies rich well hee may have mournens to his Grave but shall be sure to finde few Comforters at his judgement 3 Be industrious and studious in thy youth knowing that if by thy Labour thou accomplish any thing that is good the labour passeth but the good remaineth to thy comfort as if by the contrary for thy pleasure thou shalt doe any thing that is evill the pleasure passeth but the evill remaineth to thy torment and withall because it is a lesse paine to be studious in thy youth than a griefe to be ignorant in thy age Corrupt company is more infectious than corrupt ayre therefore be advised in thy choise for that Text of thy selfe that could never so be expounded thy companion shall as thy commentarie lay open to the world and withall because we see it by experience That if those that are neither good nor evill accompany with those that are good they are transformed into their vertue If those that are neither good nor evill consort with those that are evill they are incorporated to their vice If the good company with the good both are made the better if the evill with the evil both the worse For according to the Proverbe Such as the company such is the condition 4 Whatsoever good purpose thou intendest at thy death that doe in thy life for so doing it shall be more acceptable to God and commendable to man for he that gives when he cannot hold is worthy of thankes when one cannot chuse besides in so doing thou shalt see thy intent brought home to thy aime and nere craze the Conscience of Executor or Over-seer to pervert it thou deceased to some sinister respect or private end Whatsoever thou shalt purpose be silent in thy intentions lest by the contrary thou be prevented and laughed to scorne 6 Strive to subdue the affections of thine owne heart which are oftentimes harder than to conquer a Kingdome and forbeare whatsoever is deare unto thy body being any way prejudiciall unto thy soule 7 Abuse not thy body in youth by surfet riot or any other distemper through an over-weening ability of strength for youth and nature passe over many infirmities that are growing till their age 8 Live vertuously that thou maiest dye patiently for who lives most honestly will dye most willingly and for thy longer daies and better health upon earth afflict not thy body with too much unnecessary Physick but furnish thy minde in time of plenty to lay up for it selfe and others in time of want for surely that mans end shall be easie and happy that death findes with a weake body but a strong soule 6 Nor be thou dismayed though thou groane under the hand of sicknesse for as sometimes it purgeth the body from nocent humours so doth it often times the soule from more dangerous security and the rather with this thought that by the Physitians owne rule and our too common experience there is no perfect health in this world but a neutrality between sicknesse and health as no absolute pleasure is more than to avoid paines according as one thus writeth to the same purpose There is no health Physitians say that we at best enjoy but a Neutrality And can there be worse sicknesse than to know That we are never well nor can be so 10 The eyes are the instruments of lust therefore make a Covenant with them that they betray not thy heart to vanitie 11 Be ever diligent in some vocation for continuall ease as it is more dangerous is more wearisome than labour and it is no freedome to live licentiously nor pleasure to live without some paine 12 Indifferent superiority is the safest equality as the sobrest speed is the wisest leisure 13 He is worthy to fall that tempts himselfe and therefore shunne occasion of Evill and thou hast halfe overcome thine enemy 14 Labour to keepe a good Conscience to thy Comforter for he that is disfurnished therof hath feare for his Bed-fellow Care for his Companion and the sting of the guilt for his torment 15 In all thy attempts let Honesty be thy ayme For he that climbes by privy deceit shall fall with open reproach and forget not in thy youth to be mindefull of thy end For though the old man cannot live long yet the Young-man may dye quickly 16 The waste of Time is a deare expence

oft as you shall heare her talke and you shall continually finde to your sorrow that feele that Crosse that There is nothing so fulsome as a she-foole Touching the government of your House let your Hospitalitie be moderate equall'd to the measure of your estate rather bountifull then niggardly yet not prodigall nor over-costly for though some who having otherwise consumed themselves with secret vices have endevoured to colour their riots upon their vertue yet in my observation I have not heard nor knowne any man grow poor by keeping an ordinary decent and thrifty Table Banish drunkennesse out of your Houses and affect him not that is affected thereunto for it is a vice that impaires health consumes wealth and transformes a man into a beast a sinne of no single ranke no ordinary station that never walkes unattended with a train of misdemeanors at the heeles besides for the credit thereof to induce a man I never heard other commendation ascribed to a Drunkard more then the wel-bearing of his drink which is a Commendation fitter for a Brewers horse or a Dray-mans back than either for Gentle-men or Serving-men for especially the latter being taken tardy herein is thereby doubly divorced from himself for being first sober hee is not his own man and being drunk he falls short by two degrees Beware thou spend not above three of the 4 parts of thy revenue nor above one third part thereof in your house for the other two parts will but defray extraordinaries which will alwayes surmount your ordinaries by much for otherwise you shall live like Beggars in continuall wants and the needy man can never live happily nor contented being broken and distracted with worldly cares for then every least disaster makes him ready to Morgage or sell and that Gentleman that sels an Acre of Land looseth an ounce of credit for Gentilitie is nothing but ancient Riches So that if the Foundation do sinke the Building must needs consequently fall PRECEPT 2. For the Education of your Children BRing your children up in obedience and learning yet without too much austerity prayse them openly reprehend them secretly give them good countenance and convenient maintenance according to your ability for otherwise your lives will seeme their bondage and then as those are censured that deferre all good to their end so that portion you shall leave them they may thanke death for and not you Marry your Daughters betimes lest they marry themselves Suffer not your Sonnes to passe the Alpes for they shall exchange for their forraine travell unlesse they go better fortified but others vices for their owne vertues Pride Blasphemy and Atheisme for Humilitie Reverence and Religion and if by chance out of a more wary industry they attaine unto any broken Languages they will profit them no more then to have one meat served in divers dishes Neither by my advise shall you train them up to Warres For hee that sets up his rest to live by that profession in mine opinion can hardly be an honest man or a good Christian for Every warre of it selfe is unjust the good cause may make it lawfull besides it is a Science no longer in request then use for Souldiers in Peace are like Chimneyes in Summer like Dogges past Hunting or Women when their beauty is done As a person of qualitie once noted to the like effect in these Verses following Friends Souldiers Women in their prime Are like to Dogges in Hunting time Occasion Warres and Beauty gone Friends Souldiers Women here are none PRECEPT 3. For House-hold Provision and of the choice of Servants LIve not in the Countrey without Corne and Cattell about you For hee that must present his hand to his purse for every expence of houshold shall as hardly keepe money therein as it is for one to hold water in a Sive And for your provision lay to buy it at the best hand for there may be sometimes a penny saved betweene buying at your need or when the season most fitly may furnish you Be not willingly attended or served by Kinsmen or Friends which will seeme to be men as it were intreated to stay for such will expect much and sted little neither by such as are amorous For their heads are commonly intoxicated Keepe rather too few then one too many feed them well and pay them with the most so may you lawfully demand Service at their hands and boldly exact it PRECEPT 4. How to intreat your Kindred and Allyes LEt your Kindred and Allyes bee welcome to your Table grace them with your countenance and ever further them in all their honest actions by word liberality or industry for by that meanes you shall double the bond of Nature be a Neighbour to their good as well as to their bloud By which reasonable deservings you shall finde them so many Advocates to plead an Apologie for you behind your backe so many witnesses of your vertues whensoever others shall seeke to deprave you but shake off the Glo-wormes I meane Parasites and Sycophants who will feed and fawne on you in the Summer of your prosperity bnt in any adverse Storme will shelter you no more then a Cloake of Taffatay or an Arbour in Winter PRECEPT 5. Adviseth to keepe some great Man to your Friend and how to complement him BE sure you keepe some great Man alwayes to your Friend yet trouble him not for Trifles Complement him often present him with many yet small gifts and of little charge And if you have cause to bestow any great gratuity on him then let it be no Chest commoditie or obscure thing but such a one as may be daily in sight the better to bee remembred for otherwise you shall live but like a Hop without a Pole or a Vine without her Elme subject to injury and oppression ready to be made a Foot-ball for every superiour insulting companion to spurn at PRECEPT 6. How and when to undertake suits VNdertake no suit against a poore man without receiving of great wrong for therein you make him your Competitor besides that it is held a base Conquest to triumph upon a weake adversary neither undertake law against any man before you be fully resolved you have the right on your side which being once so ascertaind then spare neither cost nor paines to accomplish it for a cause or two being so close followed and well accomplished may after free you from suits a great part of your life PRECEPT 7. Advertiseth for suretiship BEware of suretiship for your best friend for he that payeth another mans debts goeth the way to leave other men to pay his and seeketh his owne overthrow Therfore if he be such a one that you cannot well say nay chuse rather then to lend that money from your selfe upon good bonds though you borrow it so many you pleasure your friend and happily secure your selfe In borrowing of money be evermore precious of your word for he that hath a care to keepe day of payment is

and he that seekes for meanes to passe it unprofitably spurres a forward Horse without reason to the overthrow of his Rider for whosoever wasteth many years and purchaseth little knowledge may be said to have had a long time but a short life And whatsoever thou doest doe it wisely and forecast the end For who thinkes before he doe thrives before he thinke 17 Use such affability and convenient complement as common Civilitie and usuall curtesie requireth without making thy selfe too deare to thy Friend or thy Friend too cheap to thee 18 Be stedfast in thy promise and constant in a good resolution and if at any time thou hast ingaged thy Word perform it being lawfull though to thy losse So shall thy Promise be as forcible as anothers Bond thy Word as another Oath For it is the Man that gives credit to his Oath more than the Oath to the Man 19 Aske confidently that thou requirest For he that asketh doubtingly teacheth the way to be denyed 20 Make not Law thy practise to injurie or instrument to uphold thy spleene against any man without due occasion lest in the end it prove to thee no greater refuge than did the Thicket of brambles to the flocke of Sheepe that driven from the plaine by Tempest ranne thither for shelter an● there lost their Fleeces 21 Though I thinke no day amisse to undertake any good enterprise or businesse in hand yet have I observed some and no meane Clerks very Cautionarie to forbeare these three Mundayes in the yeare which I leave to thine owne consideration either to use or refuse viz. 1 The first Munday in April which day Caine was born and his brother Abel slaine 2 The second Munday in August which day Sodome and Gomorrah were destroyed 3 Last Munday in December which day Iudas was born that betrayed our Saviour Christ An Addition of some fourefold short remembrances which every man may experience daily in his Life Time VSe foure things so much as you can So shall you please both God and Man Praying Reading and Hearing and in good works labouring Vse foure things as little as you can So shall you please both God and man Eating Drinking Sleeping and to spend much time in trifling There be foure causes for the which a Man is borne into the world and the first is chiefest of all To serve God and his Countrey his Parents his Friends There be foure vertues which we must strive to attain That is to be Iust and Constant Wise and Temperate There be foure vices which a man must earnestly shun and avoid Sloathfulnesse and carelesnesse vaine curiosity and nicenesse There be foure things in this world earnestly desired and never obtained Mirth without mourning Health without Sicknesse Travell without wearisomnesse and all goodnesse without evill There be foure things to be greatly desired and earnestly followed In Behaviour sobernesse in Promise steadfastnesse in Conversation meekenesse and in Love contentednesse There be foure things most needfull and the same most harmefull Wit and Words Drinke and Company There be foure things much worth and little weighed Time and Health Truth and Quiet There be three things Saint Austine was sorry he lived not to see First Rome in her flourishing Estate Secondly to see Christ in the Flesh Thirdly to heare Saint Paul preach Plato gave thankes to Nature for foure things and what were they 1 That he was a Man and not a Beast 2 That he was a Man and not a Woman 3 That he was a Grecian and not a Barbarian 4 That he lived during the Time of Socrates There be foure things of the most most desired and unto many most dangerous Authority and ease Women and delights There be foure things greatly sought dangerously gotten fearefully enjoyed and justly repented Unlawfull Lust and Lucre immoderate Wealth and Revenge There are foure kinde of people according to David that are most indebted unto God for their lives 1 Those that have escaped from a Dearth 2 Prisoners their Bonds 3 Those which are preserved from a mortall Sicknesse 4 Sea-faring Men that are neither among the living nor the dead There be foure thoughts by the which a man may best reclaime his carelesse and dissolute life 1 By thinking that if one must give account of every idle Word what exaction shall be required for his idle deeds 2 That if those shall be condemned who have done no good what shall become of those who have done nothing but evill 3 That if those shall not be held guiltlesse that have not given their owne goods where shall they appeare that have wrongfully taken others 4 That if Ignorance without zeale shall not be pardoned where shall knowledge with neglect be condemned There be five thoughts which should ever be in the minde of every good Christian First to thinke of pleasure to despise it Secondly of Death to expect it Thirdly of judgement to escape it Fourthly of Hell to prevent it Fiftly of Heaven to desire it There be foure things very easie to doe oft but very hard to doe well To desire to command to counsell and to judge There be foure things better to give than to take Pardon Physicke Allowance and Rewards There be soure as great evils in the world unpunished as those that are punished First Untemperatenesse secondly Unshamefastnesse thirdly Unfaithfulnes fourthly Unthankfulnesse There be foure things we cannot but set by and yet can hardly be sure of Health Wealth anothers love and our owne life There be foure things the poor man hath equall with the Prince Health Sleep Thought and lasting life There be foure things we may be grieved with but should not grudge at The Ordinance of God the Will of a Prince the sentence of a Iudge the finding of our faults There be foure things which cannot well be demanded with reason and therefore may be denied with honesty A Masters message a Lovers affection a Friends Counsell our owne thoughts There be foure things good to use but nought to need Law Physicke our friends purse and our owne patience There be foure servants of the heart that shew the disposition of their Master The Eye the Tongue the Foot and the Hand There be foure things best matched but not oftnest married Gratiousnesse with Greatnesse Discretion with Learning Beautie with Chastity Wit with Vertue There be foure sorts of people that feare is never long from The Ambitious the Vicious the Covetous and the Iealous There be foure things the more you take the more you leave Light of a Candle Instruction of the Learned Wit of the Wise and Love of a Friend There be foure things fit for all those that desire a quiet life Busily to finde no faults Contentiously to lay no Wagers Disdainfully to make no comparisons Wickedly to maintaine no opinions There bee foure mothers bring forth foure very bad daughters Truth Hatred Prosperity Pride Security Perill Familiarity Contempt There be foure Ioyes to be desired and the last is above all Secure

and thou givest him not warning thereof nor speakest to admonish the wicked of his evill way and so to live then shall the same ungodly man dye in his owne unrighteousnesse but his bloud will I require at thy hand Neverthelesse if thou give warning to the wicked and hee yet turne not from his ungodlinesse and from his wicked way hee shall dye in his wickednesse but thou hast delivered thy soule It becommeth therefore a Bishop that is set to be a Watch-man over all to looke well upon offences and when he knoweth them perfectly then to cause them to be amended if he can with words and godly counsell if he cannot then after the rule of the Gospell to avoid them out of the fellowship and company of the godly for the Lord saith in the Gospell If thy brother doe offend against thee rebuke him betweene thee and him if hee will heare thee thou hast wonne thy brother If hee will not heare thee take one or two with thee that in the mouth of two or three all words may be ratified If hee will not heare them tell the Church And if hee will not heare the Church take him as an Ethnicke and a Publican After such an order must hee be driven out which will not obey the Bishop and teacher and he that is thus expulsed ought not to come in company either of Teacher or Bishop For it is written of the Priest in the Law Let him not take a wife that is a whore or polluted nor put from her husband for such an one is unholy unto his God Therefore he that doth joyne to him in company such a body being excommunicated by a faithfull Minister without the consent of him breaketh the Law of holy Priest-hood which is an elect kinde of Christian men After this fashion must a Bishop behave himselfe over them to whom hee is a watchman but what manner of man he must be himselfe the Apostle Saint Paul sheweth in this wise A Bishop must be blamelesse the husband of one wife watching sober comely apparrelled a lover and maintainer of hospitality apt to teach Not given to over-much Wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but gentle abhorring fighting abhorring covetousnesse One that ruleth well his owne house having children in subjection with all gravity and cleanenesse of life Not a young Scholler lest he being puffed up fall into the snares of the divell Hee must also have a good report of them which are without lest he fall into the rebuke and snare of the divell that he may shew in worke that thing which hee teacheth in doctrine Therefore let negligent Bishops take heed for in the time of vengeance the Lord complaineth by the mouth of his Prophet saying My Pastors have ground my people to powder the sheepheards did not feed my flocke but they did feed themselves But rather let them whom the Lord hath set over his family procure to give them meate in due season a measure of Wheate that is to say pure and true doctrine that when the Lord commeth they may deserve to have these comfortable words My good and faithfull servant because thou hast beene faithfull over a few I shall set thee over many enter into the joy of the Lord. The eleventh abuse Chap. 11. A people without discipline COmming now to the eleventh blemish in this life it is comprehended in these words a people without discipline who when they doe not practise obedience in their living to good and godly doctrine doe choke themselves with the common snare of perdition For they doe not escape the wrath of God except they earnestly follow those things which they are taught And therefore the Psalmist saith to the people which will not receive discipline Apprehend and receive discipline lest God be stirred to anger Discipline is a manner of teaching which leadeth men to the amendment of evill and naughtie manners it is also a keeping and following of the rules and lessons of our Elders whereof Saint Paul speaketh saying Abide and continue in discipline God offereth himselfe to you as to his children But if yee be out of discipline whereof ye are made already partakers then are yee advouterers and not his children They therefore which are gone from him and be out of discipline doe receive no inheritance of the Kingdome of heaven but if children doe receive and beare the correction of their fathers discipline let them not despaire or doubt but they shall receive in time to come the inheritance of the Father Of this discipline Esay speaketh saying Cease from doing wickedly and learne to doe well And the like sentence is found in the Psalmist who saith Decline from evill and doe good Wherefore that man is very miserable and unhappy which throweth from him discipline for he is bolder than the Souldiers which crucified Christ and did cut out his garment for hee doth cut the discipline of Christs Church And likewise as the coat doth cover all the body saving the head even so is the whole Church clad and defended with discipline saving onely Christ who is the head of the Church And as that coat was whole without any seame so is this discipline given to the Church whole and sound Of this discipline the Lord when hee should ascend up to his Father after hee was risen from death spake to his disciples saying Abide yee here still in the Citie of Ierusalem till yee bee clad from above with power Then the discipline of the Church is the coat of Christ and hee which is not within this discipline is out of the body of Christ Let us not therefore cut that coate but let us cast lots who shall have it that is to say Let us breake nothing of the commandements of GOD but every man whereunto hee is called therein let him constantly abide with the Lord. The twelfth abuse Chap. 12. A people without Law THe last of this Catalogue of abuses is a people without Law who while they despise the sayings of God and the ordinances of his Lawes doe runne thorow divers waies of errours into the snare of transgression and breaking of the Lawes As concerning those wayes of errour the Prophet under the person of a transgressor doth lament and bewaile mankinde on this wise We have erred saith he and gone astray like sheepe every one after his own way Of these waies it is spoken in the Booke of Wisedome by the mouth of Salomon saying Many wayes appeare good and strait unto men but the last end of their wayes bringeth them to death And truely there are many wayes of perdition when men doe not regard the Kings high way which is right and straight out turning neither on the right hand nor on the left the which way our Lord Iesus Christ who is the end of the Law to the justification of all that doe beleeve plainely sheweth us saying I am the way the truth and the life no man commeth unto the Father but by mee To which way he calleth all men without respect saying Come unto me all yee that labour and are heavy laden and I will refresh you For there is no exception of persons before God with whom there is neither Iew nor Greeke man nor woman bond nor free but Christ is all things in all and all are one in Christ Iesu For so much as Christ is the end of the Law those which are without the Law are without Christ then the people that be without the Law are likewise without Christ It is a great abuse that in the time of the Gospell any people should be without the Law for so much as the Apostles were commanded to preach to all Nations and the thunder-claps of the Gospell were heard over all the parts of the earth and the Gentiles which sought not after righteousnesse have received it And finally considering that they which were farre off were made nigh in the bloud of Christ and they which sometime were not a people are now made the people of God in Christ being now a glad time and the day of salvation the time of comfort 〈◊〉 ●he sight of the Highest And sith that every Nation hath a witnesse of the resurrection yea sith the Lord himselfe beareth witnesse thereunto saying Behold I am with you alway to the end of the world Therefore let not us be without Christ in this transitorie life lest Christ be without us in the world to come FINIS LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Thomas Jones 1636.