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A11619	A table-booke for princes Containing short remembrances for the gouernment of themselues and their empire. Wherein also respectiuely the seuerall members of state, and all sorts of subiects, may finde matter worthy their obseruation. By Patricke Scot, Esquire.	Scot, Patrick.	1621 (1621)	STC 21860; ESTC S116871	57,840	236

his ensuing sorrow life is blinde doubtfull and full of troubles honors swelleth it sorrow extenuates it heate exsicates it surfets oppresse it sadnesse consumes it solitude imprisons it security duls it yong age exalts it youth profuseth it old age makes it feeble and death ruines it what a foolish frailty is it then to feare death when in each or most of these calamities of life we wish death should cease vpon vs. Wherefore seeing the body of man is but the ruinous cottage wherein the soule of man is imprisoned and dayly assaulted with neuer ceasing enemies the best way to auoyd a more glorious sure dwelling place for so heauenly a guest is timely to teach the soule to despise the body that she hath no interest in it is a stranger a pilgrime and a wearied guest trauelling towards her long wished home and vnwillingly detained within the dungeon of corrupt flesh that because death is the way wherby she must arriue at her long wished heauen shee must willingly acquaint her selfe with death to discouer the dangerous ambuscadoes and ensnaring traps that are hidden vnder the ouershadowing groues of greatnesse and prosperitie This serious meditation of death the familiar conuersing with death and timely disiunction of the soule from the body is the right preparation to dye and when death comes boldly with a kingly courage triumphantly demand him in the face Death where is thy sting Maximilian the Emperour caused his tombe fiue yeares before his death be carried whersoeuer hee did goe Ex orat funeb Sueu that by the remēbrance of death he might dislodge ambitious foolish deceitfull wordly affections and be ready with old Swan-singing Simeon to receiue his safe conduct Luc. 2.25.26.27.28.29.30 and say Now Lord lettest thou thy seruant depart im peace for mine eyes haue seene my saluation Secondly death is carefully to be premeditated because the forgetfulnesse of death increaseth the horror and augments the feare of vnexspected death Aug. de mort Omnia repentina grauiora sunt sed premeditatio futurorum malorum lenit eorum aduentum This consideration of the vncertainety and vnexspected comming of death and carefull prouision for his cōming is able to withstand the furious assaults of fearefull rebellious flesh Petrar dial 28. ambition and down throwing pride of the most powerfull Princes Luc. 21.29 Thess 1.5 Reuel 3.3 is a carefull seruant for the comming of the master a neuer sleeping watch attending the theefe a prouident Oeconomus for laying vp of true store Remember O king sayde Agapetus to Iustinian that death feares not the spenldor of honour or greatnesse Eccl. 12.7 but impartially d●uoures Kings and Beggers therefore before his comming lay vp prouision in heauen where no corruption shall haue entry but shall returne to dust ashes from whence it did come Iob. 1.21.7.5 and man borne naked shall goe hence naked death shall finde him as life leaues him and iudgement shall finde him as death leaues him A●g de doct thist Lact. lib. 3. ● 19. Non potest male mori qui bene vixit plerunque mala mors est quam mala vita praecessit nam sicut vita ipsa bonum est cum virtute viuitur malum si cum scelere Ita mors ex praeteritis vitae actibus ponderanda est SECTIO XXV Of mourning for the dead and of Christian and Princely burials LEt such Critickes who condemne mourning sermons Christianorum iustorū defunctorū corpora quibus tāquam organis ad bona opera vsus est spiritus sanctus officiosa pietate curanda exequtae caelebrand ae● sunt Aug. in Pat. and funeral honours to the praise of the faithfull departed consider that ignorance or singularity is the mother of their errour and as it is true that Christians translated from this life Non sunt omissi sed praemissi so is it as true fidelibus defunctis debito honore ac funebri oratione parentare nulla vnquam pietas aut religio vetuit The redoubled groanes of our Sauiour at the death of Lazarus demonstrate that mourning for the dead is a true signe of the pietie of the liuing Iohn 11.33 38. Stephani Martyrium maximis Christianorum planctibus gemitibus fuit coronatum Act. 8.2 Ieremias did bewayle the death of king Ics●●s in the assembly of the people Abraham his wife Sarah Gen. 23.2 the whole house of Israel did mourne for Moses and Aaron thirty dayes Deut. 29.8 King Dauid did lament for the death of Absolon his sonne Sam. 2.19.18 and for the death of Saul his enemy The holy fathers did bemone the death of their Princes and others their friends Ambrose did most richly garnish the hearse of Theodosius with a learned Sermon and eloquent oration Gregorius Nazianzenus mortuum fratrē Caesariū laudauit eiusque memoriam posteris funebri oratione commendauit Greg. de Sepul Hier. in pan Ierome Damascen and all the ancient pillars of the Church did honourably regard the funerall and last honors done to the Christians deceased I cease to speake of honors done to Princes after their death by the Phylosophers and ancient heathen it is dolefully registred that at the tragicall funerals of Achilles Patroclus killed by the Troians Homer Illi Lachrimis non solum arma lugentium rigarentur sed arenae quoque madescerent Old Solon did delight to bee beloued in his life time that at his death the sorrowfull complaints of his friends might accompany him to his graue Ex dic Phil ● ● Iulius Caesar questor Iuliam Amitam vx remque Corneliam pro rostris laudauit All lawes doe warrant such offices as are done at the funerals of such as haue beene profitable to the commonwealth wherein they did liue to be iusta iure acta Iust and the least defacing of sepulchers of the dead or touch of reproach hath beene holden an offence of higher quality then the ruinating of the houses of the liuing or spoken against their persons in their life time In iuris prudentia quotiescunque leges viuentium pugnant cum legibus po-sthumilijs semper preualent posthumiae omniaque iuris priuilegia fulta fauore publico cedunt vincuntur ab vna sola actione funeraria The ancient Christians did accompt it the extremity of persecution that they were compelled sine supremo honore canticorum himnorum to burie their dead in silence Dion apud Stob. I should exceede the limited breuity that I haue enioyned to my selfe if I should recount the various and superstitious funerall rites obserued amongst the heathen or the sumptuous and vnprofitable charges bestowed amongst some Christians Egyptij condiebant Persae cera circum linitos condebant mortuos eosque domi seruabant vt quam maxime permanerent diuturna corpora Magorū mos erat non humare corpora nisi a feris antea fuissētlaniata Messagetae cognatos propinquos mortuos deuorant ducentes honestius ac rectius a se quam a vermibus commedantur I leaue the funerall fiers wherein anciently Sepulturae Pompa magis est Solarium vinoquam mortuorum praesidium Aug. de cura promort and yet the bodies of the dead haue beene and are consumed to ashes neither will I speake of the precious iewells rich clothes gold siluer seruants horse other conceited fooleries Ioan Boem de morib omn. gen wherewith in diuers Nations Princes are interred I doe onely allow of such honourable buriall of Princes as is obserued amongst Christians which is rather accompanied and condoled with the presence and teares of al good subiects sermons funerall orations and charitable almes thereby in citing the succeeding posterity to imitate the vertues of the deceased prince thē defaced by superstitious rites or prodigall profusion of superfluous and vnprofitable charge Ecclesia fulgeat in parietibus sed ne egeat in pauperibus lapides auro induantur non vt Ecclesiae filij nudi deserantur FINIS Faults escaped in the Printing Page 2. marge capitum persuasum p. 11. line 16. r. l. 20. r. their p. 21. l. 15. r. sapiunt p. 23. l. 7. r. atergo p. 25. l. 14. r. establisheth 26. l. 17. r. melancholius p. 37. l. 20. 21. semper it p. 45. l. 8. r. 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innobedientiae By exercise soldiers becom skilfull in their armes strong in their bodyes and couragious in their mindes Demet. In omni praelio non tam multitudo virtus indocta quam ars exercitium solent praestare victoriam Oft-times skill and exercise effect more in warre then multitude or vertue without skill On the contrary Socra apud Stob. Zenon apud Diog. lib. 7. Pith. in suis praecept idlenesse as it doth to all men doth infect the bodyes and minds of souldiers with a senslesse securitie and dulnesse to doe good and stirres them vp to all such vices as may offend others and are the staines of reputation and breach of good lawes therefore great Captaines can neuer bee assured of exspected successe without keeping of souldiers in dayly exercise Although Asia had no vse of ships yet lest the souldiers might be dulled or corrupted by idlenesse order was giuen to build ships for one wittily sayth homo sanus otiosus quam febricitans multo miserior est a man that is in health idle is in a more dangerous estate then he that is in an ague Secondly luxury of souldiers makes them become senselesse of reputation effeminate and soft and is to be choaked in the birth lest enchanting Circes change Vlisses followers into swine or luxurious Campania blemish the famous victories of Hannibal and in the end deliuer him vp as a subiect to adorne the Trophes of his most contemned enemies Thirdly by discipline souldiers are to be restrained from rapes ryots and disorders Marcus Cato did enact that the hand of him that committed theft should be cut off Lycias that whosoeuer did offer iniury ryots or abandon his place without cōmand should be seuerely punished Manlius Torquatus filium quod ipso ignorante ad dimicandum discenderat Val. Max. mactari iussit satius iudicans patrem forte filio quam patria militari disciplina carere This great Captaine did preferre the care of discipline to his victorious sonne but as in all other rigorous execution of Iustice so in military discipline seuerity is to be inflicted first Emendandi causa that the party punished may be therby bettred for sometimes seuerity cutteth off many that thereafter might proue profitable members in the body of an army Veget. lib. 5 Plat. Epist Secondly seuerity is to bee vsed cum dignitas eius in quem peccatur tuenda est ne pretermissa animaduersio contemptum pariat When neglect of punishment begetteth contempt against the person of commanders and good lawes Thirdly Salust ad Caes de rem ord punishment must haue its force vt metu penae ceteri terreantur that examplary punishment vpon corrupt and vncurable members may terrefie others The necessitie of military discipline is demonstrate Pub. Mim by the benefite that commeth to Princes by it and by the losses that idlenesse confusion the neglect thereof doe beget Alexander Macedo exiguam manum militarem a patre suscepit Val. Max. Quin. Curt sed doctam qua asuefacta militiae orbem terrarum aggressus innumeras hostium strages fudit the small but skilfull force that Alexander did receiue from his father did challenge the whole world and subdue infinite number of enemies The Romane Empire was begun augmented and continued by military discipline and obseruation of good lawes Polib lib. 6. cap. 7. vtterly euerted by luxury idlenesse and the like consuming plagues The fearefull name of Xerxes by foolish confidence was ecclipsed by two shamefull ouerthrowes giuen him at Thermopilas Salamine where too late hee did complaine Se habere multos homines raro autem disciplina tenaces SECTIO XXIIII Of the meditation and preparation of Princes against the day of death AS there is nothing more certain thē deaths neuer failing arrest neither more irreconciliable terrible dāgerous enemy to the corrupt sons of Adam then death Greg. Mor. 18. So is there no more heauē pleasing care then the watchful attendance for death no truer badge of fortitude then the couragious defiance of death no such glorious victory as in the triumph ouer death This due meditation preparation against the cōming of death is the Anuill whereon the armes that must conquer him are forged Bernard Moral 18. The victorious ouercomming of death is the crowne of a good life here Aug. de mort and the earnest of assured happinesse hereafter and ought to be common to all men and proper to Princes First least greatnesse honours riches power or other deceitfull vanities transport them make them forgetfull of human condition inuegle the eyes of their soules with security of long life or make the remēbrance of death bitter O mors quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in sulstantijs suis Prouerb 8.31 Eclles Solomon who had long enioyed honor riches and whatsoeuer else might dignifie and exalt him did in end draw the short conclusion that all things vnder heauen are vanitas vanitatis that the onely true comfort in this earthly kingdome is in exspectation of a better hereafter and that the soule staruing-pleasures after which he had formerly hungred were but vanities and vexation of spirit When sickenesse or old age the harbengers of inexorable death such Princes to yeelde nature her due they may thus meditate and reason with thēselues Aegritudo senectus mortis nuncij sunt Chrys hom 5. death is not to be feared where a good life hath prepared the way to heare of death is no nouelty that they with al men are borne to dye that all their auncestors are by death dissolued what numbers of Monarchs are before them that all shall follow them that death is the end of miseries entry to true happinesse in heauen where incorrupt treasure abides them that the mercie-Master the true Samaritan and great Physition of soules hath a salue for euery sore that hee did cure the woman whose faith was great saued his Apostles whose faith was little and hath promised by the similitude of the Mustard seed to receiue in his kingdome the widdowes mite Math. 8.25.26.13.31 Si possemus super talem ascendere speculum de quo vniuersam terram sub pedibus cerneremus iam tibi ostenderem mundi ruinas gētes gētibus reges regibus regna regnis collisa alios torqueri alios necari alios absorberi fluctibus alios in seruitutem trahi hic nuptias illi planctum illos nasci istos mori Hieron ad Heled or the least dram of sauing faith To these meditations may be added the weakenesse shortnes and frailtie of the life of man subiect to sicknesse pouerty iniuries violence and millions of downe-throwing miseries yea miserable man is dayly tormented with the chief pleasures of life Delicacy of meates begetteth cruditie indigestion strong drinke palsie and trembling lust stupidity weakning of the body riches enuy in possessing of them and sorrow in leauing of thē in one word euery Ioy hath