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A72064 The Christian knight compiled by Sir VVilliam VViseman Knight, for the pvblike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Wiseman, William, Sir, d. 1643. 1619 (1619) STC 10926; ESTC S122637 208,326 271

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out of the pulpit But because it was not honourable they would none of it So say I. Is there sinne in it then not honourable Is there no way to quit our selues but to strike God almighty Remember in your assaults of anger what Philip of Macedon said to Demochares the Athenian Oratour when hee tolde the king it would please the Athenians well if hee would goe hang himselfe Seneca saith the king was not mooued with it nor touched him for it as hee might but willed him goe aske his masters that sent him which was more honourable to giue those words or to take them An answer most worthy the father of Alexander But let vs ende where wee began My deare louers and friends let vs neuer be so hotte as to forget to be Christians And let vs bee also Christianlike And whatsoeuer fault wee haue as who hath not yet let vs hate no man no not our enemy but pitty him and inwardly loue him for his loue and Pitties sake who gaue his hearts blood for his mortall enemies His loue brought him from heauen to earth and your loue must bring you from earth to heauen Our learned say and I beleeue it well There is no vertue such as this to indeere vs to God nor any thing the diuell bestirs him more in then to breake in sunder the linkes that chaine vs together Let vs be wise in this or in nothing Say we be suddenly mooued to breake amity or peace Yet let it not bee much or if much Eph. 4. yet Sol non occidat super iracundiam vestram Let not the sunne goe downe in your wrath It will not ill become a redde scarfe and a plume of feathers to heare the trumpet of God speake Let not the sunne go downe in your anger saith Saint Paul As who should say when ye lye downe lay downe What must ye lay downe Lay downe your weapon lay downe all malice and hatred More then that Lay downe anger and all thoughts of reuenge So farre be it from yee to thinke of challenge or answer in that kind Vanquish your selues ouercome your selues shewe your selues Gods men and conquer your selues If ye were hotte in the day bee coole at night If yee were hasty when time was yee haue respite to thinke on it double not your folly with a new daies sinne The sunne is downe yee must thinke no more of it Haue yee vowed reuenge Haue yee tenne times vowed it The sunne is downe yee are bound to breake your vowe Aske your learned if it be not so Euery time you goe to pray they will tell you yee must lay aside quarrels Forget and forgiue if yee will bee heard of God Especially at two times and then it is sacriledge they say or sinne against the holy Ghost to keepe a quarrell in your breast The one is when yee goe to receiue the Sacrament The other in any likeli-hood of death be it by seruice or sicknesse as yee may learne also by the heathen aforesaid Phocion Let Duellors looke to this at their perill that goe to dye or may dye and carry so bloody a mind with them in steade of a winding sheete Let vs not be harder hearted then Pagans in the new Orbe where the Lords or Naires would stab their seruants dayly vpon their least miscarriage towards their Masters Mat 9. They leaue it now rather then loose the Church-rites Euen so must we do by rancour and reuenge We may not carry such baggage to Church with vs. If yee bee wronged I denie ye not to right your selues by law or other meanes lawfull and if lawes releeue you not I wish they might But this I must tell you Ye may not looke to haue all that is wrong to be righted heere in this world or not so suddenly as your heat and hastinesse many times expects If all things were right heere there were no matter of patience in this life 2. Cor. 6. Saint Paul was content with good fame and badde The testimony of a good conscience was to him sufficient And ye are no better then Scipio and Coriolanus that died in banishment by malice of their enemies Some are kept from lands some from goods or good name and shall not be righted till Doomse-day And yet if a man haue patience the case is very rare but he may bee righted heere But it may bee yee are in haste ye cannot stay the Magistrates leisure nor your friendes And what will ye do if ye be sore hurt must ye be whole in haste or not at all will ye giue time to your Surgeon for your curing and none to the Magistrate for your satisfying Bee not to earnest and hotte in your parly Be not furious as some be nor giue euill words A lauish tongue was neuer graft on a noble hart I haue noted that the worthier the persons be the sooner they be at one And Caesar when he perceiued his mortall enemy Caluus but a little inclining to peace he preuented him streight and wrot vnto him first But I make an end Set God before yee I beseech yee Let it not be nobis vtile that is turpe deo And yee may know the foulnesse of your fault alwaies by your vnwillingnesse to be aduised in it by any reuerend man I haue beene long but it may be for your profite if ye escape a scourge by mee Haply yee will one day say with King Dauid Psal 34. Congregata sunt super me flagella et ignorabam When ye shall see your fault and seeke to amend it God will drawe the vaile from before your eyes and shewe you the whippes that were readie for yee if yee had continued in this errour But yee haue time now to consider of it Once againe remember S. Paul Sol non occidat Is the Sunne downe Cry truce to anger truce to reuenge Free your soules from passion and vnquietnesse True honour bee your ground Weare no colours but of God and your Prince and relye vpon them boldely So shall yee bee as truely honourable as yee bee duely obsequious Iacta super dominum curam tuam Cast your care vpon God and your countrey Psal 54. and they will protect your honour and defend your fame and will not suffer yee to goe to your graues with the least disgrace FINIS TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR FRANCIS BACON KNIGHT BARON OF VERVLAM LORD HIGH Chancellour of England SIR you are the highest Iusticer in this land or next the highest And therefore this peece of my labour if it be worth so much I thinke fit to dedicate to your Honor. In this garden of English iustice you are a principall gardiner where euery subiect should be a weeder to pull vp that by the roote which makes you endlesse worke This roote of Auarice is not so great but the compasse of a heart containes it The biggest man hath no bigger plat to weed in and yet your Lordsh findes to your paines that it is not