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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72482	Keepe within compasse: or, the worthy legacy of a wise father to his beloued sonne teaching him how to liue richly in this world and eternally happy in the world to come. Meete for all sorts of people whatsoeuer.	Trundle, John.	1619 (1619)	STC 14898.5; ESTC S104889	14,131	50

about Not voyce but vow not lip not tongue but hart Not sound but soule that God takes in good part What Gods high hidden counsels are wast not thy wits to learne But being mortall minde the things which mortall men concerne The Serpents sting the beasts sharp tooth we shun But from prophane men onely see thou runne Learne of the learned and instruct thy friends Knowledge conceal'd both God and man offends Shame not in ignorance to show thy willingnesse to learne The shame is theirs that nothing know nor no good will decerne Against a iust religious man contend not wickedly For God in rigour will reuenge his wrong and iniury Nature impart thee all that shee can teach And God supply where nature cannot reach Out of Compasse In Religion is Atheisme VVHo doubts of God with Pythagoras is an Infidell who denieth God with Diagoras is a Deuill Vice is the habitude of sinne sinne the act of the habytude but want of Religion the ground of both Lust bringeth short life prodigality wretched life but want of Religion assured and eternall damnation The sicknesse of age is Auarice the errors of Youth prophannesse Craft putteth on him the habit of policy malice the shape of Courage rashnesse the title of valour lewdnesse the image of pleasure but want of religion hath no cloake but Curses If youth want religion old age can neuer know honesty Deceit is too familiar with wisdome austerity with temperance pride with great minds prodigality with liberality rashnesse with fortitude and superstition with religion There is no greater signe of wickednesse then open heresie Sermons guilt with words and not matter are like images that painted séeme faire but lookt into are found earth Who can be more vnfortunate then he that of necessity will néeds be irreligious As sinne blinds the eies of the prophane man so punishments opens them When prophane men are in the height of their iollity mischeife it euer knocking at the dore A prophane man neuer séemes more ougly then when he would dissemble or appeare religious A prophane man is the true shadow of the Diuell and at the end comes to his substance An irreligious man trampleth goodnesse vnder foote like the grasse of the field and preserueth vice as the flowers of the season when all good men know the first doth kéepe fresh and flowrisheth the latter doth sodainly decay and withereth To make iests of Religion of Charity or chastity are the perfit notes of most prophane impudency Who thinkes to thriue by what God hath accursed liues vpon miserable gaines which are purchased by the losse of his soule for there is no true gaine but from a good conscience Hypocrisie is the first sinne that falls into a reprobate sense for in all the bundell of sinners was neuer read of an Hipocrites repentance Be fearefull to commit sinne especially exemplar sinne and of them aboue all the sinne of heresie and new sect making a way to other mens practise least they perishing therein it be reckond in thine accompt euery man hath enough of his owne woe to him which beares that and others since euery small sinne like a milstone is able to presse thée downe to the pit of hell Affect not popularity for selfe-loue of knowledge for the end neuer proues good and though attained by desert yet it is as daungerous as contempt for states kéepe downe those whom they contemne but cut away all those whom they enuy and therefore not to a●●e●t nor to neglect is the best discretion Feare God honor thy parents reuerence thy friends obay the lawes and all from the rule of vpright religion Let euery irreligious and prophane man take to his consideration his time past his time present and his time to come what God hath done for him what he doth and what he will doe what God would haue done what man doth and what he should do and let him weigh the good omitted with the euill committed and to them put the punishment deserued and then thinke how long God hath deferred how iustly he will punish and how surely he will come hee shall then find a short life a sure death and a most certaine heauey iudgment Prophane men must remember that as death leaues them iudgement finds them and iustice rewards them so that there is nothing but infinit misery in his life in his death and after death He that shewes more religious at one time then another either hath already or very shortly intends to deceiue thée He that hath too quick a beleife hath euer too rash a iudgement Who feares not God feares euery thing else he séeth He that mindes least good euer affecteth the worst mischiefe Knew'st thou one Moneth should end thy dayes it would giue cause of sorrow And yet perhaps thou laughes to day when thou must dye to morrow Men trample grasse and praise the flowers of May Yet grasse is greene when flowers fade away Prophane men looke what conscience you haue For conscience both must damne you must saue By new sects to rayse vp new names is but a losing gaine Euils on good mens ruines built to ruine turne againe Who is a false Iudge one day must appeare So to bee iudged as hee hath iudg'd here Build thy house nere so high All delight in pleasure take In the dust thou must lye Till the last Trumpe thee awake Therefore all is lost and spended That to Vertue is not intended If thou wilt backe into thy Compasse get These sixe fayre Rules neare to thy conscienceset Beate downe the euill raise the iust Learne best thy selfe to know Hold holy Writ and counsell peace Be Patient in thy woe Keep within Compasse In Conuersation COnuersation is the maine body of honesty whose greatest branches are familiarity and friendship with good men drawing the community of a perpetuall will to the fellowship of life all which is founded and built by the profit of a long continued loue and furnished with more pleasure then desire Let thy conuersation carry a perfect consent of all things appertaining as well vnto God as man with beneuolence and charity The loue of men to women is a thing common and of course but the friendship of man to man infinite and immortall The fellowship and conuersation of a true friend in misery is alwaies swéet and his counsels in prosperity are euer fortunate Let thy conuersation with friendship haue a thrée fold lustre the first in neighbourhood the second in hospitality and the last in thy particular loue If thy conuersation winne thée loue eyther by bounty or the study of vertue it goes from a passion to an habit and so leaueth the name of loue and is called friendship the which no time can violate Forget not in thy conuersation that to begge any thing of thy friend is most dearely to buy it It is a most grieuous thing to try thy friends yet must they be toucht lest shining like the Carbunkle as if they had fire they bee

Keepe within Compasse OR The worthy Legacy of a wise Father to his beloued Sonne teaching him how to liue richly in this world and eternally happy in the world to come Meete for all sorts of people whatsoeuer Atheisme ✚ Pray in thy Chamber In Religion VERTVE Luxury ✚ Conuerse with good Men Conuersation Gluttony ✚ Eate thine owne Labours Dyet Prodigality ✚ Suite thine owne Calling Apparell Printed at London for I. Trundle dwelling in Barbican TO THE WORTHY Gentleman and his best respected Friend Mr. Roger Taylor all those good wishes his owne heart desireth Worthy SIR THE frequent custome of this Age to challenge Patrons and to trouble their braines with bestowing vpon those Patrons Mountebancke Encomiums hath no whit at all taken vp my minde since no folly can be greedy thereof but shall purchase wit enough for that purpose Suffice it is my true knowledge of you and my truer loue vnto you which makes mee send this poore infant of my braine and slender Collections to kisse your hand which in as much as the roote or centre is Vertue the circumference that happy list or bound out of which no good man will willingly stray and in which I know the goodnesse of your inclination makes you delight to liue on whom can I better bestow it both in respect of the thing which onely looketh vpon Vertue and in respect of your selfe who is not onely a louer but a supporter of the vertuous So that to conclude if your acceptance shall say I haue done well I will beleeue all which are good like you will agree with you who doth the contrary I will laugh at for hee loues not Goodnesse Yours Iohn T. To the Reader PEruse this Diall euery day Wherein no hower shall passe away But by it thou shalt learne to finde Some Iewell to inrich thy minde Count one the first hower of thy breath And all the rest to lead to death Count twelue thy dolefull passing Bell And so my Dyall shall goe well The Dyall The Howers I ONe God one Baptisme and one Faith One Truth there is the Scripture saith II Two Testaments the Olde and New Wee must acknowledge to be true III Three Persons in the Trinitie Doe make one God in Vnitie IIII Foure holy Euangelists there are Which Christs birth life death declare V Fiue wounds the Iewes our Sauiour gaue Whence flow'd the bloud that all men saue VI Sixe dayes to labour is no wrong For God himselfe did worke so long VII Seauen deadly Sinnes in man doe rest Which once expell'd mans soule is blest VIII Eight in Noahs Arke alone were found When in a word the world lay drown'd IX Nine Hyrarchies of Angels rayse Both day and night Iehouahs praise X Tenne Statutes God to Moses gaue Which broke or kept doe spill or saue XI Eleauen aboue with God doe dwell The twelfth burnes in perpetuall hell XII Twelue attended on Gods Sonne Twelue made the Creede my Dyall's done Keep within Compasse OR A Direction for good life In Religion FIrst my sonne vnderstand that Religion is a Iustice of men towards God or a diuine honouring of him in the perfect and true knowledge of his word peculiar onely to man It is the ground of all other vertues and the onely meanes to vnite and reconcile man vnto God for his saluation And whosoeuer breaketh out of this list or circumference strayeth through Atheisme into eternall damnation True Religion is the soule of Innocency mouing in an uspotted conscience To be doubtfull in Religion is to bee certaine of the greatest punishment True Religion hath thrée vertues to be knowne by first it serueth the true God next limiteth euery action by the word and lastly reconciles man to his Maker if hee doe pursue it The first precept from the wisest Philosopher was to feare God and the first Law amongst good men to increase Religion It is Faith and not Reason which teachethmen Religion Religion is the stay of the weake the master of the ignorant the philosophy of the simple As hée that heareth without eares can interpret our prayers without our tongues so a religious man may pray and neuer open his lips Religion is the oratory of the deuout the remedy of sinne the counsell of the iust and the comfort of them in tribulation Religion is that absolute cleane Beast which both chaweth the cud and diuides the hoofe for it makes a man ruminate and chaw holy meditations till they giue diuine nourishment and the one claw poynteth man to the feare of God the other to the loue of his neighbour Hée is happily religious whom no feare troubleth no sorrow consumeth no fleshly lust tormenteth no desire of worldly wealth afflicteth nor any foolishnesse moueth vnto mirth Religion teacheth men to pray and no man is so happy as he whose life is a continuall prayer Religion is the wings that beare the soule vp to heauen and meditation the eye which onely can sée God liuing Religious deuotion is a continuall discourse or conference with God for when thou readest God speakes to thée when thou praiest thou talkst with God True Religion makes prayer ascend that Grace may descend In thy deuotions fixe thy iudgement on thy faith not on thine experience for faith is truth experience but deceitfull To desire sufficient things is néedlesse for God will giue them vndemanded but desire to bee contented with such things as he bestoweth for therein will consist thy happinesse Except true religion make vs vnderstand God in his word our sight is but blindnes our vnderstanding ignorance our wisedome foolishnesse and our deuotion diuellishnesse Religion will teach thée to know that God is a most bright Sunne which ariseth vpon those that feare him and goes downe from them that are carelesse and prophane God sits in the highest heauens if thou wilt lift vp thy selfe vnto him hee will flye from thée but if thou humbless thy selfe before him he will come downe vnto thée True Religion brings a man vp to heauen which is the seat of glory the habitation of Angels the resting place of the faithfull farre beyond thought and glorious beyond report Hee that bites of euery wéede must néedes taste poyson and he that is of diuers religions must néedes méete with damnation Religion will make thée know well and doe well and they are the only two poynts belonging to Uertue As plants measurably watred grow the better but being watred too much are drowned and dye so opinions in religion mixt with moderation are made sound and refreshed but accompanyed with too seuere curiositie oft turne and conuert to heresie As a ship with a sure Anchor may lye any where so the minde ruled by religious reason is quiet at all seasons Since holy Writ shewes vs Gods holy power With pure heart adore him euery howre Begin thy dayes worke when the day begins First blessing Gods thrice blessed name deuout And then at euening when thy labour ends Prayse him againe so bring the day