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A19065	Christian offices crystall glasse In three bookes. First written in Latine, by that famous and renowned Father, Saint Ambrose Bishop of Millane. Whereunto is added his conuiction of Symmachus the Gentile. A worke tending to the advancement of vertue, and of holinesse: and to shew how much the morality of the Gentiles, is exceeded by the doctrine of Christianity. Translated into English by Richard Humfrey ...; De officiis. English	Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.; Humfrey, Richard.	1637 (1637)	STC 548; ESTC S100171	335,831	469

licentiam necessary fraud was found the only way of keeping the whole tribe from perishing See into what streights sinne doth thrust either dying without of-spring or by unwarrantable course making shipwracke of soule Behold againe that liberty of theirs proceeding from inforcement was a retaliation of their intemperance they tooke the Levites wife by violence to the r Congruo intemperantiae supplicio non videtur vacare same are they in an exigent ſ Et revera dignum fuit ut qui alienum contubernium solverant ipsi nuptiarum amitterent solennitatem Harme doe harme find depriving another they are deprived of their wives using cruelty they reaped it constrained And in truth it was worthily recompenced them upon their heads that they who had made a breach in the marriage bed should themselves be debarred of the solemnity of Matrimonie But how is the history fraught with commiseration There was a man a Levite which tooke to him a t Vir Levita acceperat sibi jugalem yoke-fellow which by u Concubina à concubitu Iudg. 19.8 baiom hachamishi Hebr. the 5 day This notwithstanding may not bee untrue for that vers 9. there is vaiakom from the root kom signifying surrexit which Tremel rendreth tandem surrexit and the Genev. afterward hee arose For this may seeme to implie some more then five dayes and so 7. according to our Author following the Sept. beside he departed not untill the evening which belongs to the next day For God began the creation with the evening companying together I thinke to bee called a concubine which as of old hath beene taking some offence went away from him to her father thither her husband went after her to bring her againe where hee feasted and made his heart merry untill the x Ibid. 19.8 Netoth of Natah declinare seventh day when being earnestly dealt withall to stay because it grew toward y Iudg. 19.24 the declining of the day yet would not bee intreated proceeding therefore on his journey hee came late to Gibeah of Benjamin with his yoke-fellow and servant where while they were refreshing themselves the inhabitants compassing the house where they were and striving to breake in upon them required after a lustfull manner the Levite To satisfie them the Master of the house offered rather then they should commit such villany his owne y Iudg. 19.24 daughter being a virgin and also his guests the Levites yoke-fellow The latter they tooke and abused untill the morning Her Lord therefore tooke her up carried her home and divided her into twelve pieces and sent them to all the quarters of Israel Forty thousand therefore of them wherein appeareth the great and speciall regard they had to honesty drew their swords even against their brethren to revenge the injury of their impudent intemperancy who at length prevailed against them made them pay the price of their dearest bloud for their incontinency and burnt as they justly deserved for their so strange burning in lust their cities into ashes Albeit they received at their hands two sore affronts yet were they not striken with z Tamen nec adversi metu belli procitus populus Israel feare nor through the crosse hazard of battell discouraged But to avenge the violation of honesty threw off a Vindicandae custitatis sequestravit dolorem dismall thoughts rushed valiantly upon the speares point dint of sword and dart prepared with more effusion of their bloud either to wash away so great infamy or utterly to spill it But an honest cause never had a finall doome neither had theirs Thus are the mighty stirred up for the preservation of honesty neither are the weake wanting therein but the very b 2 Kings 6. lepers strive to keepe it There was a great famine in Samaria being besie-by the Syrian host a woman cried to the King making report of the eating of her sonne he threatned Elisha the Prophet as the cause thereof as Ahab did Eliah when himselfe was But prophecying b 2 Kings 7.1 plenty which though it were not beleeved of the messenger sent to him being a prince who was for his incredulity pressed to death yet the foure lepers remaining without the gates for such must dwell apart tasted of it to their exceeding comfort being affamished and imparting the same honestly and faithfully to the city filled their fainting soules with incomprehensible joy CHAP. XV. The prayse of honesty is commended by the magnanimity of Ester the fidelity of Ionathan and Ahimelech WHat did Queene Ester that shee might deliver her owne people which was both a comely and honest part feared shee the vnlimited prerogative or vnbridled wrath of a mighty Monarch said shee a Ester 4.16 not if I perish I perish To be affronted by such a favourite as Haman was enough to daunt the most warlike spirit But an happy successe was ever the companion of a good cause Assuerus the great King of b Ipse rex Persarum ferox tumido corde tamen decorum judicavit indici insidiarum quae sibi paratae forent gratiā repraesentare c. indici insidiarum for indictarum insidiarum such devises as admit no defence to be made against them Persia though of a fierce and swelling spirit iudged it a decency not to deny her a boone in repealing that bloudy decree barring whatsoeuer plea to crosse it for delivery of the innocent and free people from servitude and the drawing out the nocent of such an vnbeseeming and notorious devise to death Trechery was devised not against her nation alone but against her owne person the Monarchs royall consort Shee put her life into his hands to releiue her people appointed to the spoile and he heard her request against him the second in the kingdome and cheifest among all his favorites For when he saw his fraudulent practises not only to derogate from honesty toward his subjects but to be very dishonest even toward himselfe he assigned him a gibbet that loved so well mounting to clime vpon A worthy president doubtlesse in a man of so high a ranke thus to patronage honesty For that favour that friendship is approved which protectes honesty and to be preferred truly aboue all the wealth honour and dominion which this world can afford To put that before which should follow after is to invert order Friendship and honesty sort well together but so that honesty have the preheminence and friendship follow after it Was it not the wisedome of c 1 Sam. 20.32.33 Ionathan thus to discerne when hee had so great respect to Dauids honesty and piety that for the loue thereof he regarded not to retaine his fathers freindship feared not his offence avoided not the peril of death For Saul his father was no ordinary person but a King and had the power of life and death in his hand Was not the same in Ahimelech d Chap. 2.6 who to shew himselfe hospitall to innocent David

life by the death of another as being such a one who when hee falleth into the hands of one armed and being striken may not strike againe lest while hee savegardeth his person he contaminateth his piety The sentence in the Gospell is cleare for it Put up thy b Math. 26.51 52. sword for whosoever striketh with the sword shall perish with it What theefe is more detestable then the persecutor that came to take away the life of our Saviour But he which would heale all men by his wounds would not suffer himselfe to bee defended by the wounding of his persecutors But why dost thou judge thy selfe better then another when it is the part of a Christian to preferre another before himselfe to arrogate nothing in his owne respect to take no honour upon him nor to vendicate the price of his desert To conclude why dost thou not inure thy selfe rather to suffer evill then to bee guilty of evill in scraping from another What is so much against nature as not to be contented with that thou hast but strangely to incroach c Ambire turpiter basely to bee ambitious For if honesty be according to nature and who can deny it seeing God made all things at the first exceeding good turpitude and beastly dishonesty must needs be an adversary thereunto No marvell therefore if these two cannot agree when they be in the law of nature so farre discrepant and at variance betweene themselves CHAP. V. Nothing is to bee desired of a wise man but honesty and our welfare to bee lesse esteemed then it Davids high commendation is put for instruction BVt now that wee may lay the a Vt ponamus fastigium ridge and put our last hand to this building let this be the directory to guide the whole worke that nothing bee in our desire but what is honest For a wise man is altogether for honesty For sincerity an unseparable adjunct to honesty is so averse from fraude could he shrowd himselfe under it and make it a cloake to cover the guilt of his crime yet would hee not For he is first guilty to himselfe before others judge him so neither is the publication of the foulenesse of his fact so shamefull to him as the conscience and torture at home Which to be so we are to teach not by the feigned fables and idle disputes as some account them though witty resemblances of natures impressions of the Poets Philosophers of old but by the true and undoubted examples of holy and just men of our sacred profession I will not inferre here Gyges which upon the fall of some great raine an earthquake following found according to Plato a brazen horse and in the sides thereof a golden ring upon the finger of a dead man which in a covetous desire hee pulled off But when he came to the Kings shepheards whence hee was by chance turning the b Palam ejus annuli ad palmam converteret 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plat. Pol. 2. is rendred pala annuli pala in our most approved bookes the bezill or colet of a ring and our sealing ring every-where in frequent use cause this re nomine not to be unknowne bezill of the ring toward the palme of his hand hee saw them all and they saw not him afterward againe when he turned it back to its place he was straightway seene of them all Now he thus becomming witty and able to doe wonders taking advantage of this opportunity fell in with the Queen and which is ever the next project of such slew the King with his guard and got the kingdome of Lydia Give this ring saith Plato to a wise man that by the benefit thereof when he is a delinquent he may lurke in secret But O silly shelter for hereby he can no more avoid the contagion of sin then if he committed it openly For it is not the hope of impunity but the strong hold of innocency that must be a harbour for a wise man Neither c 1 Tim. 1.9 is the law given to the just but to the unjust because the just hath the law of his owne mind and the rule of his owne equity and justice to measure by as being a law unto himselfe and therefore he is not called backe from sinne by the terror of punishment but by the rule of honesty Wherefore that we may returne to our purpose in the argument in hand let us not receive things fabulous for true but let true examples for fabulous only take place and prevaile with us For what need I feigne the wide opening of the earth the brazen horse the golden ring found upon the finger of the dead whereof there was so great force that hee which put it on might be seene at his pleasure and when hee would not be seene withdraw himselfe It tends to this end whether a wise man though hee might use this ring whereby he might conceale his wickednes and attaine a kingdome yet would not thereby bee brought so to doe but rather judge the contagion of sinne a greater evill then the paine of punishment or whether under the hope of impunity and escape from punishment hee would adventure to commit the same To let passe the idle imagination of the vertue of a ring we are able out of the records of the Scripture to shew that a wise man understanding if hee once gave admission to sinne that he might both lie hid and raigne as a king but contrariwise perceiving the danger of his life if he declined the same yet must choose rather the perill of his life to bee freed from the wickednesse then the wickednesse to get himselfe a kingdome When David fled d 1 Sam. 26. from the face of king Saul and hee pursued him with three thousand chosen men to slay him being with Abner his captaine and all his army fallen into a dead sleepe he might have taken away his life hee spared it yea protected it that none other might spill it Neither when he was moved by e Verse 8. Abishai to smite him to the earth would he but answered f Verse 9. Who can lay his hand on the Lords anointed and be guiltlesse And concerning the admitting of the least revenge upon Saul for all the evill that he had done against him his heart smote him For it might seeme a small matter for him to cut off the lappe of his garment but even for this hee was g 1 Sam. 24.6 touched in his conscience In both these he preferred his innocency before his safety pious feare before impious security h Chapt. 27.23 exilement before a kingdome obtained by violence Without that ring of Gyges John the Baptist might have escaped the sword of Herod his owne silence alone might have effected this that he might have bin seene and yet not slaine of him But because for the preservation of his life hee suffered himselfe not to sinne neither could beare an

that translation then in custome For it is not in our vulgar death For there the shield of the mighty is cast downe the shield of Saul as though he had not beene annointed with oyle The bow of Ionathan never turned backe neither did the sword of Saul returne empty from the bloud of the slaine and the fat of the mighty Saul and Ionathan were swifter then eagles stronger then lyons Yee daughters of Israel weepe for Saul which cloathed you in skarlet hanged ornaments of gold upon your apparell What mother did ever so bewaile her only sonne as this man bewailed his enemy who could so lay out the commendation of his best friend as hee doth him that layed snares continually for his life How piously did he lament with how great affection and feeling The elements could not without terror behold this horrible slaughter and therefore with-held their influence as a curse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did hee bewaile him The mountaines withered upon his propheticall malediction and the divine power made up in full measure the just sentence of the maledicent In so much that at the spectacle of the kings death the very dumb elements themselves paid the punishment What was the cause of holy e 1 Kings 21. Naboths death but the contemplation of honesty For when Ahab the King required his Vineyard promising him money for it hee deemed such an unworthy bargaine as to be made an instrument to set a price upon the patrimonie of his fathers The Lord f Ibid. v. 3. keepe mee saith he from giving the inheritance of my fathers to thee That is let not God suffer me to fall into so great infamy let him not permit so heinous an offence to be extorted from me From mine own tribe mancipiously that repugnantly to the mind of the Lord to alienate the least portion of inheritance allotted Levit. 25.23 Numb 36.7 Read Tremel Iun. notes Verely the Lords inhibition is not of alienation of Vines for the Lord hath g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur no regard of them nor of earthly possessions but of the right of the fathers after his owne constitution Naboth might have accepted of some other among the Kings vineyards and so have beene inrolled among his best esteemed friends which is reckoned no small preeminence in this world but hee liked not to make profit by such foule worke For wee need not doubt but that hee might have bettered himselfe by commutation Hee liked not to triumph in the ruines of his tribe but liked rather to undergoe perill with honesty Vtility twofold common and speciall Permitteth by connivency if not consent false and forged testimony impudently to passe upon Naboth to his condemnation This hee did though afterward upon judgement denounced against him and his house hee seemed to be sorry for his fact 1 King 21.27 The sinne of these is a skarlet one there falshood and homicide in graine packed by perjury polluted by the effusion of innocent bloud then profit with ignominie When I thus mention profit I meane such as is vulgar and in frequent use with worldlings not such wherein remaines the grace of honesty The King himselfe might have extorted what hee desired but he thinkes it an impudent part and therefore upon his slaughter was touched with griefe Jezabels greedinesse of gaine likewise immanity void of all humanity savage cruelty without the least sparke of cōmon honesty civility was by the horrible scourge of the revenging wrath of God justly requited All fraud therefore is dishonest The very ballance of deceit and the false measure in matters of small worth are execrable For if in the market where all things are vendible and in common commerce imposture is punished may it be without reproofe among the offices of vertue Salomon guided by the sacred spirit censureth and condemneth the ioynt vsage of the great h Prov. 20.10.23 thohabath of thahab signifying abominari or aversari because we turne away from that is uncleane and small weight to a fraudulent intent and so the double measure as i Prov. 11.1 By a borrowed speech to bring it into more detestation and to make knowne his sore hatred against it Prov. 16.11 uncleane and accursed in the sight of the Lord and as an abomination the course and common receptacle of that banefull sin of imposture depriving daily the poore hungry soules of their due bread and releife And on the other side for the incouragement of the honest and vpright heart he highly commendeth true and perfect ballances whatsoever iust weights of the bagge as the worke of Gods speciciall mercy toward the miserable and most pleasing to him being the father of all compassion CHAP. X. That vices ought to be blotted out with vertues comming in and faith to be kept with the perfidious and fraudulent which by the president of Ioshuah toward the Gibeonites is made evident IN all things therefore fidelity is comely iust dealing aceptable the measure of equity pleasant What shall I speake of other contracts and cheifly of the valuation or a buying a Conceptio or coemptio praediorum of lands or transactions b Agreements upon communication and compacts Is not that the right forme of honesty when our buying and bargaining is performed bona fide or vnder a good intent toward our neighbour and when dolus malus a subtile and sinister intent is removed Likewise doth it not well accord thereunto that where guile and falsehood is deprehended the delinquent should be obnoxious to double dammages Every where the consideration of honesty doth overpoise whatsoever opposits among the rest delving fox-like fraud out of her denne discovereth and dislodgeth her Hence it is that propheticall David c Psal 15.3 levied with so steady an hand that dexterously composed sentence of his vniversally to direct in our trading and commerce that he which rightly inioyeth a seate in Gods tabernacle carrieth ever in his recognizance within his brest this embleme doe no euill to thy neighbour Wherefore not only in contracts wherein the faults of whatsoever is to be sold ought to be opened and unlesse the seller albeit hee hath resigned over his right to the buyer shall make knowne they are all voide by the action de dolo malo but also in all dealing of what kind soever betweene man and man no deceipt but sincerity with simplicity and the naked truth ought to be shewed This old forme de dolo which is not so much the forme d The sentence of the Scripture and of the Civill law doe accord in the matter de dolo of the Civilians as the very sentence of the Patriarch doth the divine Scripture evidently expresse in the booke of Ioshuah For when a fame was spread abroad among the people of the Land the water of the red Sea and of Iordan to have beene dried up to give passage to the Israelites a fountaine to have flowed out of a rocke

in his necessity adventured to incurre rather the Kings indignation then to giue him coorse Nabal-like intertainment Vnder the pretext of freindship to haue betrayed him had beene the next devise to haue acquitted himselfe but so had he bin worse then Doeg who portending evill yet pretended not this Not neglecting the other he was sure of death but to haue affected this only though he had never effected it had beene worse then death The griping hereof being over the paine is past but the brand of such infamy as cleaves to that will never be removed CHAP. XVI Of the moderation to bee kept in the conservation of friendship a Aristot Eth. lib. 8. with which the volumne is shut vp NOthing therefore is to bee preferred before honesty which notwithstanding lest it should be overborne with the sway of friendship we are to heed what the scripture admonisheth concerning Philosophicall questions tending hereunto we are to subscribe b Arist lib. 8. Cap. 9. lib. 5. Cap. 1. Plutarch in vita Coriolani Themistocli et Coriolano amicus contra patriam inventus est nemo Cic. de amicit Coriolanus own mother Volumnia was against him herein Salus populi suprema lex est Idem lib. 3. de legibus The publike good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fairer and more divine Arist Eth. lib. 1. Cap. 2. negatively namely to such as these whether one ought for his freinds sake to conceiue any thing against his countrie and againe whether one ought to make shipwrack of his faith to doe his friend good either in his substance report or person The scripture saith indeed A man that beareth false witnesse against his c Prov. 25.18 berehehu the roote whereof is raha pascere because he is ones freind that feedeth him It is translated neighbour and so it may indifferently bee being incident to both freind is like a hammer a sword and a sharpe arrow but consider what may be built upon it For he reprehendeth not the testimonie spoken against a freind but the false testimony What if for Gods cause what if for his countries cause a man must be compelled to give testimonie ought freindship to prevaile with him more then religion more then the love of his citizens Not so but the truth of the d Rom. 3.7.8 For promoting the cause of a freind country religion falshood must not be used Testimonie is to be sought after lest one freind which by his faith given ought to absolue another friend should by his treacherie desire to intangle him in a snare So then a freinds eye must be alwaies fastened upon the truth neither gratifying the nocent nor beguiling the innocent e Mat. 18.15.16.17 Verely if hee must needes bring in his witnes what he knoweth to be amisse in his freind he ought to admonish him of it e Prov. 27.5 Levit. 19.17 secretly but if being admonished he will not amend to reproue him openly For corrections are good and for the most part better then silent friendship Howbeit thy friend thinke himselfe hurt yet rebuke him yea though the bitternesse of reproofe wound his soule yet feare thou not vntill thou conceiue some better hope of him still to rebuke him For the wounds of a freind are better then the kisses of a f Adulantium oscula Ibid ver 6. or of an enemy flattering quam fraudulenta oscula odientis Vulg. Venahtaroh hatar Heb. orare flatterer Wherefore correct thy freind when he is in an error as for thine innocent freind in no wise forsake him For freindship ought to bee constant g Eccles 6.15 We must therefore persevere in our affection wee must not in a childish manner and an vnsetled judgement change our friends h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. ver 16. Open thy brest to thy freind that will bee faithfull to thee i This is added for there is no more in the orig interlineall whereby thou mayest receiue comfort from him For a faithfull friend is the medicine of life and a speciall favour of him that is immortall the weight of his worth is unvalueable he is a fortresse of strength whosoever findeth him findeth a treasure Esteeme thy friend as thine equall neither thinke it any discredit to prevent him in whatsoeuer good office For freindship harboureth no pride she knoweth her not regardeth not her high lookes deeming ignorance of her acquaintance to bee the mother of vertue Likewise prides companion disdaine is out of her Element Therefore the wiseman k Ecclus. 22.23.25 saith i Amicitia nescit superbiam bee not ashamed to salute thy freind forsake him not in his necessity be faithfull be stedfast to him in his poverty because freindship is an helpe to the life of man Wherefore as the Apostle admonisheth beare ye therein one anothers l Gal. 6.2 burden He speaketh it to those that are joyned together in the same bond of love For if the prosperity of a freind be benefit to his well-willers why should not they againe lend their helping hand to him in his adversity We must where true friendship is helpe by our counsell by our labour by suffring together in our affections and if necessity requires by induring whatsoever be it never so bitter in the cause of our friends Hee that shall stand in the defence of the innocency of a friend must content himselfe for the most part to get thereby hatred and many times to be traduced and depraved When hee is rebuked and accused of an adversary if offence bee taken against thee thou resisting and answering for him repent not because this is the voyce of a just man Howbeit m Etsi mala mihi evenerint propter amicum sustineo many evils befall me for my freind yet still I beare it For a friend is tried in n Prov. 17.17 As the Lords opportunity to shew mercy is mans misery so in some resemblance of his great Master is the triall of every good servant of his toward his friend seene in the time of adversity adversitie in prosperity all are friends But as in adversity the patience and forbearance of a friend is necessary so answerably is his authority congruent to reprove and take him downe in prosperity when he sees his friend to have too high an opinion of his owne worth and his mind swelleth with insolency This order was inverted in Iobs friends and therefore in his calamity hee cries not upon them without cause O my o Iob 19.21 friends take pitty on me take pitty on me For it is not the voice p Non abjecta vox ista est sed censoria of an abject but of one justly censuring their overmuch harshnesse and unjust condemnation When he was wrongfully burdened by them hee answered take pitty upon mee my friends that is it behoved you to deale mercifully with me but in stead of extending compassion toward me as yee ought in my misery yee oppresse me with