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A25801	The practical rule of Christian piety containing the summ of the whole duty of a true disciple of Christ. Written originally in Latin by Benedictus Aria Montanus, and translated into English by A. Lovel, M.A.	Arias Montano, Benito, 1527-1598.; Lovell, Archibald.	1685 (1685)	Wing A3679A; ESTC R214868	74,341	284

I speak concerning Christ and the Church Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his Wife even as himself and the Wife see that she reverence her Husband Now those houses Domestick Discipline and families are most acceptable to God which are reared upon the Foundations of the fear of the Lord Repentance and Brotherly love where Children and Servants are both by institution and example instructed in the duties of Virtue and true Piety and taught to discharge the several offices of their stations to fear and reverence their Fathers and Masters and to submit to the Authority of the Master of the Family as appointed and established by the Laws of God Wherefore it ought to be the care and study both of Masters of Families and of Children and Servants That all should diligently discharge their several parts the one in commanding the others in obeying and all in mutual helping and assisting of one another in promoting the good of the Family the practice of Piety and the salvation of their Souls For so are Families enjoyned by the Holy Ghost to know and practise their duties Ephes 6. Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandment with Promise that it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth And ye Fathers provoke not your Children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Servants be obedient to them that are your Masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as Men-pleasers but as the Servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to Men knowing that whatsoever good thing any Man doth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free And ye Masters do the same things unto them forbearing threatning knowing that your Master also is in Heaven neither is there respect of persons with him Nor is it consistent with Christian Doctrine and Truth that Children who ought to be educated by their Parents in the fear of the Lord and in the knowledge and practice of Piety should be bred up in the Principles of corrupt and perverse Doctrine and led in the broad way that tends to destruction being from their infancy indulged and pampered in Pomp and Pride countenanced in Luxury Worldly Delights and Lustful Pleasures taught all the lewd Songs Sports and Exercises of the Age and made acquainted with the factious Principles Feuds and Animosities of their Parents which from their Cradle upward they pursue and promote seeing thereby it happens that the Children of Christians who ought to be holy and imitable examples to all the World of Religion Honesty Reverence and Piety towards God become the scandalous patterns of Dishonesty Uncleanness Irreverence and Impiety both against God and their Parents Servants and Domesticks also encouraged by the publick and private examples of wickedness both in societies abroad and families at home grow through the neglect of those who should punish and correct them proper instruments of Unfaithfulness Disobedience Robberies Thefts Oppressions and the disgrace of Families so that all those employments almost which in themselves are good and lawful run out of course and degenerate into corrupt Nuysances Now it is manifest that this perverseness and depravation of manners always happens when Christian People are not taught the pure simple true and severe Discipline of the Gospel or if they be taught it either through an inveterate habit of sinning wholly slight and neglect it or if they commend and approve it yet think it not so absolutely necessary as that they ought to prefer it before all other things that come in competition therewith and so receive the word that is sown by the Husband-man in stony or thorny ground But we ought greatly to fear and have a care that that complaint of the Lord may not seem to be uttered against us Jer. 5. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the Land The Prophets prophesie falsely and the Priests bear rule by their means and my People love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Now to conclude what sinner soever moved by the fear of the Lord shall seriously consider upon the wrath and indignation of God that he hath deserved and the severe and terrible Judgment to which he has made himself liable and shall again meditate in his own thoughts that Grace Mercy and the blessing of Heaven is ready prepared for him if he will but carefully and heartily endeavour to be cloathed with the Wedding Garment that is to follow the rule of Piety above described unless he be more than impious and given over to a reprobate sense there is no doubt but that he will turn with full purpose of heart and soul from Vice to Virtue from corruption to integrity from madness and folly to a sound mind and in a word from the slavery of the Devil to that merciful Lord who is so pleased with the serious and true Repentance of Sinners that with an Oath he has sworn he desires it and has freely promised his blessings to those who hope in his Mercy and turn to him with their heart As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live He that hath ears to hear let him hear and turn to Repentance if he desire to obtain mercy from the most High who healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds by whose grace assistance good will and pleasure we have written this practical Rule of Christian Piety for the instruction of our fellow-Christians hoping that the meditation and study thereof may be useful to them for obtaining salvation through the goodness of God to whom be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen It hath not been our purpose to set off this Christian Institution with the ornaments and flowrishes of exquisite Language and Rhetorick but rather in few and plain words to accommodate this Doctrine of Piety to the capacities of all Christians who might thereby more easily both learn and retain it it being our desire rather to deliver and teach useful and good sense than gay and painted words Now the sum of all that hath been said is shortly this That extraordinary and supernatural gifts and graces are promised to all Men who will believe and accept the same not only in this life but also more especially in that which is to come and the same purchased and conveyed to them by the virtue and efficacy of that wonderful mystery of the conception birth death and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God who is ready to bestow them on every one who in the fear of the Lord obeys the holy dictates and precepts of the Law and is diligent and sincere in the practice of Brotherly-love and Charity For God requires that Men should fear obey worship and serve him and upon these conditions gave us his promises to the performance of which he obliged himself out of meer grace and bounty And this is the duty which every Christian whether high or low learned or unlearned ought to know and practise But for all other things which Men may desire to know and learn relating either to their private capacities or to the rank and quality which they bear amongst Men and wherein they may be deceived mistaken and err since all Men are not competent Judges of such things we have purposely omitted them exhorting all and every one that having diligently considered and observed the abovementioned three heads they would keep that station wherein by right and Law they are placed not declining to the right or to the left from their common duty which being faithfully performed God of his goodness will impart to all what is necessary to be known and practised by every one in the place and degree that he is called to in society Now if any thing appear unseemly and not altogether so justifiable in the actions and conduct of others it is not the part of any private Man to Judg and Censure it or to endeavour any change or alteration in the Duties and Offices of others but to leave the care of that to the lawful Ministers and Magistrates and to pray the Lord of the Vineyard that he would send fit Labourers into his Vineyard and that he would advance protect and defend his own Harvest Without doubt the Lord will have pity on his inheritance and take care of the welfare and prosperity of his people and will highly approve that no Man for the fault or errour of another withdraw himself from the unity and concord of the established Church and Government but that every Man mind not what other people do but what be ought to do and perform himself and with heart and soul set about it FINIS

THE PRACTICAL RULE OF Christian Piety CONTAINING The Summ of the whole Duty of a true Disciple of Christ Written Originally in Latin By Benedictus Aria Montanus AND Translated into English By A. LOVEL M. A. LONDON Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh Bookseller to his Royal Highness at the Black Bull in Cornhill 1685. THE Author's Preface TO THE Christian READER THEY who from the Study of the Holy Scriptures and of the nature of worldly things learn and do confess that God takes care of sublunary affairs do clearly perceive that the rough Tempest wherein most Christian People are at present tossed is not the effect of the uncertain influences of the Stars nor that it is raised by hidden and obscure causes None of them doubt but that the publick Calamities of Kingdoms People and Cities are sent by the Judgment and Providence of God the avenger of wickedness and that before they happen they are Prophesied and foretold by Pious and Chosen Men for the glory of divine Justice and the amendment of the lives of sinful Men as it is written Amos 3. Can two walk together except they be agreed Will a Lion roar in the Forrest when he hath no Prey will a young Lion cry out of his Den if he have taken nothing Can a Bird fall in a snare upon the Earth where no Gin is for him Shall one take up a Snare from the Earth and have taken nothing at all Shall a Trumpet be blown in the City and the People not be afraid Shall there be evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the Prophets Now for what causes such Commotions are raised both in publick and private affairs the same Prophet does declare pubish in the Palaces at Ashdod and in the Palaces in the Land of Egypt and say assemble your selves upon the Mountains of Samaria and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof for they know not to do right saith the Lord who store up Violence and Robbery in their Palaces Therefore thus saith the Lord an adversary there shall be even round about the Land and he shall bring down thy strength from thee and thy Palaces shall be spoiled To me truly the visible cause o' the divine Judgment against us appears to be our publick and common sins whilst I see the greatest part of Christians rent into several Sects not only seduced and led away by many errors but also proud and puffed up in them and others who live in the Communion of the Church and profess the true Doctrine neglecting the duties of the same and almost wholly perverting it and so whilst I reflect upon the depraved minds of some and the corrupt and dissolute lives of others and the Dissentions Jars Oppositions Enmities and perverse courses of both I often think with my self upon this The Lord looked down from Heaven upon the Children of Men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God They are all gone aside they are altogether become filthy there is none that doth good no not one Tho I neither be a Prophet nor the Son of a Prophet yet I dare be bold to foretel greater Storms hanging over our heads unless they be prevented It is enough to me to make me affirm this that I see those crimes in the Earth which God Almighty by infallible Oracles has threatned not to let go unpunished For if the Lion roar who will not be afraid if the Lord hath spoken who shall not prophesie Therefore he may very lawfully predict future evils who sees the manifest causes from which God Almighty calling Heaven and Earth to witness has foretold that difficult and sad times will arise Isa 1. Now the causes which I observe I think are obvious to all Men to wit Deut. 32. our contumacy and insolence our hardned obstinacy in wicked courses and a kind of contending with God that punishes us which the Prophet Isaiah takes notice of in the Jews Isai 1. Why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and more The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores they have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with Ointment And would to God! that in this tossing and agitation of the World there were no other loss but of the wealth dignities splendour and honours of the age which tho they be highly valued yet it might justly be born with nay and perhaps to be wished seeing such heavy loads and burdens are many times hinderance to the prosperity of our course but which is most sad and grievous when the danger of the loss of one poor soul ought in right to be prevented by the throwing over-board of all the goods and Cargo of the Ship yet in such doleful Ship-wrecks innumerable numbers of souls are observed to perish and be swallowed up in the deep which is the greatest of all humane miseries Now seeing it is the duty and office of the Masters and Pilots to bestir themselves for the safety of the beaten Vessel and that I observe many of those who are concerned diligently labouring for that purpose tho I want both authority and skill to act amongst those who rule the Ship yet as being of the number of those who in common danger ought not to be idle spectators but busie in lending a hand or at least assistant with fervent prayers I thought it my duty according to the mean and low station that I stand in in the Church of God with all humility and modesty to propose what I have judged proper for remedying of the evils whereof the causes are so obvious to be known especially since we bend our care to the admonishing and helping of those who when they are unable to understand higher and greater matters are not perhaps frequently taught those things which are more useful and necessary to be known of all Men in general and which if they be ignorant of they can never attain to salvation nor to the knowledge of those Points which are reckoned more noble and sublime truths Nor do we fear that these our endeavours will seem unseasonable or superfluous to those great Men who are more learned and skilful in the art of instructing and teaching the way of living we are rather confident that the considerate will approve of our design hoping that if we have given any hints that may serve for forewarding their duty they will take it kindly and in good part For in great Storms the chief Masters and Pilots receive sometimes good advice from the Passengers when they are pleased to hear them In how much then we have learned from the Doctrine and Word of God for the obtaining of God the salvation of our souls in the next World and publick Peace and Tranquillity in this we conceive