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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

a perfect heart And that this course was followed by Princes and Magistrates who were approved of God Holy History assures us Now so much holier ought Christian Princes and Magistrates to be so much more versed in the study and knowledge of Law and Equity by how much they have obtained a more perfect Testament than the Ancients did not only because of the clear and plain exposition of the divine Precepts made by Christ and his Apostles but also because of more abundant grace promised and prepared for Believers under the Gospel It is very far from their duty then either by commission or omission to break the Law and violate the sacred Precepts and that they who are commanded always to read and meditate on the Law and not to turn aside from the right neither to the right hand nor to the left should mind nothing but pleasures pomp ambition and avarice and go astray after their own inventions making and imposing Laws upon others which make more for the appetites and desires the greatness State Majesty and Glory as they are pleased to call it of the Governors and for establishing many new titles of Authority Prerogative and Superiority which they daily invent than for the true Worship of God and good of the People Besides it is a sort of perverseness most odious to God for Princes or inferiour Magistrates to covet to be rich and to leave great Estates to their Children out of the publick Revenues and not being satisfied with an honest reward for their labours that is with a modest competency of subsistence according to their quality to be insatiably set upon the getting of wealth and riches either by the liberality of Princes or defrauding the Publick and to make it the whole desire of their Souls that they may raise great Houses and Families whereby they may perpetuate their Names upon Earth rather by a long Succession of Heirs than by the Monuments and Examples of Virtue Innocence Sanctity and real Honour Samuel born in Ramah a little Town and in a Montainous Country being from his childhood brought up in the sacred Ministeries of the Temple had a garment given him yearly by his Parents suitable to the meanness of their Fortune When he was grown up to be a Man by the command of God he took upon him the Government of the Common-wealth and during the space of fourty years as Prince Judg and Ruler in Peace and in War Ruled the populous rich and flourishing State of the whole twelve Tribes of Israel being as painful and assiduous as vigilant and active as any Governor either before or since and yet during that whole time he neither encreased his Estate nor changed his abode from his own mean native habitation to a more conspicuous City at least in his own Tribe nor for his pleasure made use of the delights and varieties that other places did afford but having in War recovered and re-established the State of the Israelites and setled a firm Peace all over the Country he kept Assemblies at certain times for administring Justice to the People and when he had done so that he might not be troublesom or chargeable to any Town or Family he returned home to his own mean but contentful habitation where he neither excused himself from business nor omitted any opportunity of promoting the worship of God As it is written 1 Sam. 7. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel And the Cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel from Ekron even unto Gath and the Coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistins And there was Peace between Israel and the Amorites And Samuel Judged Israel all the days of his life And he went from year to year in Circuit to Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpeh and Judged Israel in all those places And his return was to Ramah for there was his house and there he Judged Israel and there he built an Altar unto the Lord. By the short description of this instance the Holy Ghost manifestly shews us with how much care diligence innocence piety continence and abstinence that great Man discharged the Offices of a valiant and expert General in War and of an excellent Prince and Magistrate in Peace who when afterward he had dimitted the Government and resigned up the Authority to a chosen King was neither richer nor more wealthy nor was his Family advanced to greater dignity or splendor but he contentedly returned to the same stat● wherein he was born For Samuel went to Ramah where he spent the rest of his days neither did he build Palaces or stately Houses either in Ramah or in any other more conspicuous place nor erected for himself a magnificent Monument or burying place on which either at Jerusalem or any other City taken in War he might transmit to Posterity the Trophies of his Atchievements or the Titles of his Fame 1 Sam. 25. But Samuel died and all the Israelites were-gathered together and lamented him and buried him in his house at Ramah For they who aim to be rich by their Magistracy must of necessity either cheat the King or defraud the Publick and apply that to their own private use which might far better and more profitably be expended on the Publick Now the publick treasure being exhausted the people must needs be harassed with new Taxes and Impositions and so the Wealth and Riches of a few must cause the want and poverty of many But how much God is offended at these covetous desires the Prophet plainly declares Isa 5. Wo unto them that joyn house to house that lay field to field till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth In mine ears said the Lord of Hosts of a truth many houses shall be desolate even great and fair without Inhabitant Now if it be unbeseeming a Christian Magistrate to heap up riches from the Salaries or larger Perquisits of their Offices how detestable and accursed must it be in the sight of God to get Estates and Dignities by accepting of Persons Injustice Rapine Fraud Bribes Oppression Calumny and Cheating God forbids Kings Princes and Magistrates to multiply to themselves Gold and Silver for the greedy thirst after Gold and Riches sets the minds of those who are infected therewith upon the committing of any Sin and Wickedness it is the cause of the Oppression of People with grievous and heavy Impositions of Quarrels Strife and Wars amongst Princes themselves of the slaughter and murdering of Subjects and other abominable and flagitious cruelties that are committed by Soldiers and in a word of the ruine and loss of many Souls as the Holy Ghost himself assures us Jam. 4. From whence come Wars and Fightings among you Come they not hence even of your Lusts that War in your Members ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war