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A00658	A forme of Christian pollicie drawne out of French by Geffray Fenton. A worke very necessary to al sorts of people generally, as wherein is contayned doctrine, both vniuersall, and special touching the institution of al Christian profession: and also conuenient perticularly for all magistrates and gouernours of common weales, for their more happy regiment according to God; Police chrestienne. English	Talpin, Jean.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1574 (1574)	STC 10793A; ESTC S101953	277,133	426

185 ¶ Still touchinge the recommendation of hospitalitie and almes Chap. 6. fo 187 ¶ Generall and speciall recommendation for prisoners and that for debtes we ought not lightly to emprison one an other fo 189 The fifth Booke OF the institution of youth with a prayse of free schooles c. Chap. 1. fol. 191 ¶ What Principall and Regents ought to bee called to institute a Colledge c. Chap. 2 fol. 190 ¶ A continuance of the discourse of Colledges by other comparisons Chap. 3. fol. 193 ¶ Wisedom science vertue diligence and feruent zeale to their disciples are very necessary for scholemaisters Chap. 4. fol. 197 ¶ Instructions to know by the way of contrary oppositions by the comparisons of the other chapters the miseries hapning by lewde scholemaisters Chap. 5. fol. 202 ¶ Amplifications of the said comparisons touching wicked maisters c. Chap. 6. fol 206 ¶ Continuance of the sayd comparisons Chap. 7. fol. 211 ¶ Maisters ought to instruct their disciples c. Chap. 8. 214 ¶ A continuance of the prayse of science c. Chap. 9. fo 219 ¶ Examples of commodities which science bringeth to the learned c. Chap. 10. fol. 223 ¶ It is necessarie for many reasons that all schollers remayne in one Colledge Chap. 11. folio 227 ¶ In a Colledge or schoole there ought to be statutes authorised by the Vniuersities c. Chap. 12. fo 215 ¶ Refutation of the false iudgements of some proude worldlings touching the profession of schoole maisters Chap. 13. fol. 235 ¶ An exhortation to young children to studie Chap. 14. fol. 241 The sixt Booke OF the office of euery estate and first of the dutie of the husband to his wife Chap. 1. 247 ¶ A continuance of the matter of mariage and the dutie of c. Chap. 2. fo 255 ¶ Still touching the dutie of the wife Chap. 3. fol. 263 ¶ The office of fathers and mothers and the dutie of children Chapter 4 folio 273 Still touching the education of young children Chap. 5. fo 280 ¶ In what dutie children are bound to their fathers and mothers Chap. 6. fol. 289 ¶ The dutie of maisters towardes their seruaunts Cha. 7. 398 ¶ How men haue ben made noble and of their dutie towardes their subieetes or tenantes Chap. 8. fol. 307 ¶ The dutie of Aduocates or Councellors at law Cha. 9. 315 ¶ The dutie of Marchants Chap. 10. fo 321 ¶ How the Marchant may performe his lawfull trades gayne iustly his estate Chap. 11. fol. 328 The seuenth Booke AL other estates are comprehended in those that haue bene alreadie debated the explication of the qualities of personnes Chap. 1. fo 339 ¶ Still touching the qualities of persons Chap. 2. fol. 345 ¶ Of Christian amitie and how many sortes of friendship there be Chap. fo 350 ¶ How a common weale is gouerned and wherein it erreth Chap. 4. fol. 359 ¶ Councell of the remedies to cure and preserue common weales from miserie Chap. 5. fol. 366 ¶ How God some times punisheth a whole people for a secret sin c. Chapter 6. fol. 375 ¶ To remedie all euils the causes must be taken away the discretion and wisedome requisite thereunto Chapter 8. fol 440 ¶ Confutation of humaine philosophie touchinge the affaires of faith wherein and in things serious men ought not to decyde but according to the scripture Chap. 9. folio 345 FINIS ¶ What is first requisite in the well gouerning of a common weale howe Cyuil pollicie ought to be conformable to the celestiall gouernement what good commeth of good pollicie what maner of gouernours and Iudges ought to be chosen to direct publique states ❧ The first Chapter TO dyrect a true and Christian pollicie it is necessarie in the first consyderation that suche as are chéefe disposers of the same bée chosen accordyng to the wil and ordinaunce of God of whom in respect of their institution they are to bée fauoured assisted in their Counsels actions and gouernements as also for that all power rule belonging to him the administration therof dependeth likewise vpō him wherein he hath ordayned for vs in earth a forme to rule guide and gouerne this inferiour Hierarchie by the example of that supreme and celestiall estate of Angels and happy soules aboue in all good order and perfect pollecie So that by thimitation of the same it is requisite that we be directed by wise Magistrates who hauing power to commaunde may vse simplicitie in the measure and rate of their Aucthoritie and wée in our common life expressing an immoueable zeale to obedience may concurre with them and agrée altogether in one lawe and doctrine one wyll and iudgement And to be short the better to exercise one vniuersall and holy conuersation standing vppon puretie of affection and wyll with one true religion in God we must obserue one vnitie in Iustice one integritie of life and maners fulfillyng alwayes our duetie to our neighbour the better to prepare vs with communitie of heart voyce and example to loue and feare God and with one mouth to praise honour and serue him with redie obedience and humilitie to his commaundements together with sincere and mutuall Loue one to another expressed in Actes of perfect charitie And this as it is the marke and ende of the Lawe the Magistrate and Christian gouernement being directed according to the forme celestiall and example aboue So in it wée declare our selues to bee common members of one bodye for a common Weale is a bodye Ciuil so knit together with indissoluble vnitye in friendship that wée suffer one selfe zeale and affection and geue one common ayde and succour to all our affayres reléeuing euery perticular necessitye with one constant and perpetuall rate and measure of compassion in this sorte are wée reduced into one body pollitike and by this pollicie drawne into one Spirite as being but one in God led and guided by his Spirite inwardly and outwardly by wise gouernours euen as God hath planted in our naturall body members more soueraigne and perfect in nature to gouerne the others more inferiour the same being more deuinelye resembled in the celestiall Hierarchy where the Spirites indued with more grace and greater perfection haue by heauenly election power ouer the others To this ought to bée referred the example of electing gouernours to publike states as both cōcurring with the order of nature with whom things of most perfection beare most rule and also resembling the Supreame gouernement from whence Moyses had commaundement to drawe the plot of his terrestriall pollecie calling vnto him such as were most wise and perfect aboue others wherein God geueth him aduertisement by Iethro his Father in-law to prouide such gouernours by the counsell which hée giueth him in this sort Prouide saieth hée to bée Iudges ouer others wise men whom thou shalt chose amongst the people fearing God true and louers of trueth and such as hate Couetousnes of them make some Tribunes who may stand as generall Iudges ouer

the prosperitie of life but to suffer all miseries since he is offensiue to these by whome hee liues in the worlde yea he is worthy to be throwne in a hollowe ditche without burial where carion vermine may de●ower his carcase as they do other dead beastes For which consideration the child is bound to this dutie to his parentes and not to refuse death to sustayne them in what so euer concerneth them in honour health and life For hauing receiued all his wealth and benefites of them what more worthy or iust recompense can he retorne then a frank and thankfull prostitution of all that he hath to their vses if he take pleasure to liue doubts not that of all other things of the world life is most excellent if he thinke that the pleasure of life is one of the moste singuler benefites that maye bee demaunded if lastly commodities riches or common goods and honours do please him What reuerence loue honour and obedience is hee bound to beare to his Father and mother by whom or at the least without whom he had not enioyed them but if he make no recompence to his power and lesse thankefull at all to his parents is not his ingratitude intollerable and by iust right him selfe deserue to be depriued of all the same goods The same also being the cause why God by his law takes away without appeale the life of him that offendes his father and mother But if the vnthankfull and disobedient child be flattered with some prosperitie let him thinke it hath no long continuaunce no more then the itch of an olde man is pleasaunt longer then it is clawed but being scratched it falles of smarting For it is written that who curseth or doth euill to his Father and mother his light shal be put out in the middest of darknes that is hée shall loose his prosperitie good hap in the middest of aduersities and darke miseries which shall fall vppon him euen when hee thinkes to sléepe most soundly in the delites pleasures and eases of this world Besides the better to drawe children to obedience God promiseth them long life honour saith he thy father and Mother so shalt thou liue long vpon the earth to which promise aboue all other Saint Paule sayth is added suretie of recompence as in the promise of long life is ment commoditie rest and necessary furnitures of life as plentie of wealth and humane felicities For which cause it is sayd in another place that the blessing of fathers and mothers giuē to their children confirmeth and continueth in happy succession the houses and families of their children as of the contrary their curse helpeth much to the ruine subuersion of the same Touching the honour they get by obeying their father and mother it is written listen my sonne to the discipline of thy father and let not the law of thy mother be forgotten of thée to the end grace might be ioyned to thy head and collers about thy necke if thou do thy dutie of a good sonne to them God wil giue thée this fauour and credite to be honored of all men raise thée into that estate where thou shalt beare the honorable enseignes of thy high dignitie euen as wée sée kynges beare their diademes vppon their heads and Knights of the order their precious collers of golde about their neckes in signe of their dignitie honour and authority due to them for their vertues by which they haue worthely aspired to such estates Seing then God reserueth for childrē such ample promises of long life such worldly prosperities and such high honours which thrée béeing the very effect of all that may bee desired to make this life happye in earth comprehend also what else may be attributed to worldly felicitie How much are they bound besids the reasons earst rehearsed to beare humilitie obedience reuerent dutie to their parents whom if they disobey they haue their condemnation to miseries dishononours and to death yea and by their sinne of disobedience they stand in hazerd of the eternall curse The oblation of this duty of children to their parents is indispensible to all purposes but in cases of infidelitie as if the father being an Idolater séekes to seduce his sonne to that impietie in which this straite bond of dutie ceaseth For God is to be preferred and man abuseth his authoritie according to the vnderstanding of the gospell Who hateth not father mother brother sister and leaueth them with all that he hath can not haue the kyngdome of God yea they must leaue the dead to bury the dead to follow the Euangelicall vocation For touching the Apostolicall profession which may be alledged for that they forsooke father mother to follow Iesus Christ and to preach the Gospel it is a vocation perticuler priuileged as when Helizeus abādoned father mother to go with Helias as for this purpose may be disputed touching the life monasticall But that vocation ought not to bée alleadged to the execution of this commaundement for hée that calles such as he pleaseth reserueth such prouidence ouer the necessities of their parentes that they stande no néed of the peculiar seruice of their children whom their parentes of their proper will ought to exempt from that office of personall and temporal seruice since God calleth them to him selfe to doe to him a seruice spirituall and of more greater perfection and fruite then any function wherein they could employe them yet touching the vocation Monasticall Saint Augustin holdes good that in necessitie of the parentes the child being a Monke is bound to leaue his Monasterie to succoure them for as the law of God derogates not the right of nature but rather confirmes then restraines it so by greater reason in the humane and positiue statutes specially such as be in Monasteries there cā be no preiudice Therefore did the Scribes and Phariseis vnder colour of religion ordeyne that the childe giuinge all his goods to the temple was not bound to ayde hys father and mother yea by that meane he held him self no more bound to serue them according to that constitution by the which they expressed that such honour to God grounded vpon that deuotion abrogated all honor and naturall dutie which the childe ought to showe to his father But Iesus Christe gyueth them to vnderstand that by such tradicions they commit great impietie resisting the first ordinance of God natural and diuine also and inuiolable by his Scripture We sée that euen the most perfect and Apostolike life was not exempted from this subiection as Christe him selfe was subiect to Joseph and the virgin Marie and exercisinge xxx yeares after his diuine vocation he reiected not frō his trayne his mother his Auntes and cousines but called them and entertayned them with him I meane the poore of the reuenues which men presented him withall no lesse did the Apostles to their parentes and kinred of whom the greatest part which were

maried according to Jgnatius caried with them their wyues and nourished them togyther with their parentes and poore of the Apostolicall reuenue For as who holdes no accompte of his houshold and domestical familiars is as an apostate and more wicked then if he were an infidell so wee ought not wickedly and wrongfully thinke that the Gospell takes away any humanitie naturall pietie but rather nourisheth susteyneth and confirmes it making it spirituall in true loue and duetie and so much the more perfect as the doctrine is more excellent then the doctrine of nature and Moyses It is a question of many whether a man is more boūd to nourishe and succour his father mother or his proper wife whereunto may bée aunswered that in the case of obedience and subuention there is more bounde of dutie to parents but not touching cohabitation And to proue the bonde of dutie to parentes it is certayn by treble right naturall diuine and humane which including an immutable and inuiolable bonde can not bée weakened or abolished by mariage aswell for that it is the first most autentike and hath a t●eble bonde for euery law hath his proper obligacion and subiection where this hath but one touching corporall cohabitacion as also for that it bindes mariage with a new subiectiō that the wife with her husband ought to straine all their power and meanes to reléeue suche as by mariage are made their father and mother and to helpe their grand parentes by whom both they and their fathers haue being in the worlde There bée yet these causes consequent and as it were accidentes to the former reasons which ought greatly to stirre vp children to honor their parentes that is to saye the inexplicable loue of fathers and mothers to their children their care in their first nouriture or nurssage their continual trauelles and perplexities to preserue and prefer them lastly this iust consideration that as they behaue them selues to their parentes so to expecte the lyke recompence of disposition and experience in their children towardes them The loue of parents is so great to their children that they sticke not to take to them selues the greeues and displeasures of their children not refusing sometyme the hazard of death to preserue their little-ones from perill And the scripture neuer commaūdes them to loue their children to nourish nor prefer them because by nature parentes haue that forward inclination but they are enioyned in many places of the scripture to discipline instructe them in the loue of God as therein prescribing to them the manner how to rule and moderate their affections not louing their childrē otherwaies then God loueth them neyther to let their zeale be so vehement fleshly and partiall as with the shée Apes to destroye their children nor yet with extremitie of affection to holde them in seueritie feare and so make them at vnwares towards or weake sprited wherein albeit thei are forbidden for that they are alwayes restrayned to moderation in discipline yet in holding ouer a hard hand vpō thē thei expresse the best and truest affectiō and leade them in the readiest waye to the estate and reputacion of honest men Great then is the bond of dutie obedience and affection of the child to his father and mother if with his vnthankfulnes he be not altogither out of the sense and iudgement of nature yea he shall aunswere to that so perfect loue for God in this case challengeth that he ought to bée beloued of vs by reason If I be a father sayeth he where is the zeale wherwith you loue me as children do their Fathers Here if any will obiect certain mothers procuring vntimely birth to their children or others that kill them after their deliuerie to auoyde dishonoure I aunswer that to such mordering mothers expressing worse nature then the most fell or fierce beastes who cherish lick their litle ones oftē times fight for their safetie ther can not be deuised lawes seuere inough for their punishmēt yea Moyses as after him Licurgus Solon erected no prescript lawe for such morders nor againste children likewise that killed their fathers as estéeming it an offēce to which man coulde not ascribe sufficient seuere worthy punishment Touching the cares labor and industrie in bringing them vp ther is no estate subiect to so many perplexities the mother specially bearing the infant in hir belly what care hath she to preserue so precious a frute and in hir trauell is there greater panges or more perill of present death how long remaines she in weake estat and sicknes what paines takes she to norish it what be hir sorowes if it wéepe if it miscarie if it falle sicke she fasteth to féede it and being hongrie restraines foode from hir selfe to appease the vnruely appetite of hir childe she with hir husband offer their bodies to pasion of colde and heat yea somtimes go naked to cloath wrap and entertaine their children What recompence of affection and dutie do these cares and perplexities of parents deserue of the children where in if they be necligent how can they a voyde the crime of ingratitude or be innocent in the vices proper to the reprobate yea let them assuredly trust that the displeasures wronges and disobedience which they do to their parents by the iust measure of Gods iudgment shal be retorned in more heauie greuous qualitie vppon themselues by their proper children for so we finde hapened to a contemtuous and disobedient childe who trailing his father by the haire of his head out of his owne house This is but a iust recompence my sonne sayth the father seing that euen the like behauior I shewed to thy grandfather in this house which now thou vsest to me But of the contrarie we read that many weare the benifites and graces doubled vppon the obedient children of the patriarkes as is expressed in the example of Joseph to whom his father Jacob gaue double blessing aboue his other brethern because he honored him with more seruice then they for ende let children in all thinges discharge the right and law of pietie to their parents with this consideration that because Fathers represent God on earth he will take the disobedience done to them as an iniurie ment to him selfe moreouer in the consideration of their dutie and ayde to their parents let them remember that in succouring their necessities they offer acceptable seruice to God for the which as we haue said their recompence is layd vp both in earthe in heauen which with suertye to finde at the hands of their owne children the like measure of relife in their necessities together with the same rate of comfort if they fall into impotencie of age But if they fayle of this dutie they stande in hazard of treble condemnation of death as they are bound to that office by treble lawes hauing interest in all such acts of humanitie euen towardes all olde straungers according to the reuerent