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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

forbare to meddle withall getting by this meanes full power and libertye to make the sound sicke and to geue death to suche as are but litle diseased the same being more familiar with him then to cure one onely Ephemerides or an Ague of one fit Such one shal beare more renoune then euer did Hipocrates or his interpretour Galien and his name so plawsible that in it is drowned the estimation of others in whom is more knowledge iudgement Honesty and Sad experience So that these counterfeites in whom is none other experience then in cōmon Herbes or receiptes or haue the faculty to make Distillations applying them to all diseases without iudgement of the reason or obseruation of Ages complexions Times Places and other Circumstaunces shall drawe more Dignitye and Credite with their masking behauiour then other Phisitions whose skill is approued by aucthoritie of the Vniuersities Wherin if these deceiuers deserue rebuke seueritie of paine the common people is no lesse reprehendible for their hasty credulity Therfore it behoueth the Magistrate to bée so muche the more prouident in these cases by how muche the life of man is precious being committed to the hazarde of such men Who so euer hath any processe of det House or land hee wil recommend his cause to the best Lawier hée can finde Much more doeth the case of life require care and prouidence specially where is more perril of death then profe of knowledge And now touching the seruice of good Phisitions in common weales this is to bée obserued in their election that they bée learned faithful wise and well experienced it is a good argument that they are learned if they haue diligentlye studied Philosophie and beene three yeres at the least resolute practisors in Phisicke and ten yéeres in the medicine Theorical employing twoo of the last yéeres in Anathomie in the knowledge of Herbes and in Pharmacopole to vnderstand the composition of al medicines those thrée things are to bée learned by the eye To the wisedome of a Phisition is required an exquisyte iudgement whiche is made perfect by experience wherin by necessary reason they ought to haue good vnderstanding séeing they haue the life of al sortes of men in iudgement with power to dispose without appeale to any higher Iudges but to God where to all other inferiour Courtes belonges this prorogatiue That albeit the Iudges bée neuer so wise yet there is liberty to appeale to higher places And if in a common consult assembly of Phisitions to debate vpon a disease there can bée no good resolution where is no grauety of learning experience much lesse ought a yong phisition to bée receyued whose want of practise takes from him the estimation of iudgement and experience So that it is highly necessary to the credite of a Phisition to study the time appointed and duly runne ouer the thrée thinges aforesayde Then let him haue conuersation certaine yéeres with learned Phisitions practising in Cities and good Tounes A custome which certaine phisitions vse to their learned disciples carying them with them when they visite their paciēts explaning by palpable demonstration of the eye hand the true practise of the Arte Which sort time of exercise wyl bring vnto them hability of practise wherein they néede not faile for want of experiēce the like is obserued amongst Lawiers who hauing ouercom the discourse of the lawes take not vpō them forthwith the state of pleaders for so might many causes suffer hazard but obseruing two or three yeres the examples of the most famous counsellers of a court haunting the bar rather to heare then pleade they searche out the Counsels writinges and memoryes of excellent Aduocates and so gooe out perfect Maysters hauing as good habilitye to pleade at the first as if they had had no other exercise during their life Euen so it is not for yong Phisitions to practise their prentise cunning vpon fat monkes which beare no importaunce in the worlde and muche lesse in Hospitalities or Vplandish Tounes afore they come to the chiefe Cities the same being as muche as if they should bée counselled to goo kill the world or at least to learne the meanes thereunto Let them honour their beginnings with the presence and testimony of the best Cities drawing their practise from the example of the most excellent in that arte And making profe of their learning by publike disputes and aucthority of auncient professours let them shewe Certificate of the continuaunce of their studie and time of their Degrées Herein it maye bée sayde that in regarde of the time of this Studye it is necessarye that suche as Aspire to the Arte bée eyther verye Ritche or at least furnished to beare out so chargeable a Cost I must in déede confesse that that common weale suffereth great inconueneience wherein the poore sort make profession of Phisicke For as pouerty being voide of power to releue the time of so long studie hath lesse meane to furnishe other necessary charges as Bookes whereof they must haue great stoore for the due searching out of the secréetes of that Arte So it is for the most part gréedye of Gaine aspiring to wealth whersoeuer they may finde it And being neuer satisfied they fall by increase of newe and freshe profite into extréeme auarice It is written that the first professours of this Arte were Ritche men and great Lordes as amongest others Apollo Esculapius and Hipocrates Whose truth and maner of adiuration as I wishe might stande alwaies afore the eyes of suche couetous people as séeke to enter into the studye of Phisicke So I woulde also that the example of that Pagan him might kéepe our Christian Phisitions from periurye by impietye as abusing this Arte eyther by ignoraunce auarice rashnesse infidelity or peruerse affection They were at the first Arboristes Pothicaries and Surgeons as appeareth by the last Chapter of Genesis where the Phisitions had charge to embaume the bodye of Iacob the same being also expressed in the .xxi. chap. of Exodus and by all the auncient bookes But since the world beganne to multiply and Ambition Couetousnes beare rule ouer the heartes of men of one Estate they haue made thrée yea a fourth which bee Arboristes whereof there bée companies in diuers places notwithstanding Phisitions holde the most honourable most gainefull and least painful Estate being as maisters to iudge and command the others vsing the seruice of the Arboristes and Pothicaries ioyntly to discerne the simples and the Pothicaries alone to compose drognes and minister thē to the patient And imploying the Surgeons to cut or Anothomise and doo handy Cures vppon the outward partes of the bodye the Phisitions reserue them selues onely for the inward partes and iudgement of purgations afore the Surgeon apply his Plaster or make incision But such is the malice of time and men that in these twoo last Estates who ought to bée subiect to the phisition hath béen found no small abuse by vsurpation of the Arte

the dutie of the seruant to his master as he is not only bound to feare and honoure him as his lord but loue him as his head as in déede he is according to God so it is chieflie his office to ioyne to his seruice an effectioned francke and readye will euen as the member should serue his naturall head and as the sonne with a good hart should do seruice to his father his seruice must not be for the eye only or for manners sake as the saying is but with the consent of the hart vsing his absence and presence with one loyaltie in seruice as if he should serue God and that with out hipocresie or wicked affection for that God seing into the meaning of the hart abhoreth all corrupt will malice hipocrisie and sutteltie so that if he serue with these vertues fidelitie diligence hartie zeale or true loue with humilitie or obedience with out resistance or countermaund with consideration that what seruice he doth for his master ought to be profitable agreable and honest he serueth God for so doeth God lay out the estat and rate of his seruice which he ought to accomplish according to the vocation whervnto he hath called him referring the end of all to Gods honoure by faith and hope to please him and to obtaine in the end his last and eternal reward Therefor being thus instructed as S Paule teacheth him hée néed not care to be saued remayning still a bondman for in such estate he may pertake with the grace of saluation aswell as his master for that God as was euen nowe sayd regardes more the vertue then the persone Besides he is made fre by Iesus Christ from the seruitude of sinn and sathan which only seruitude is to be feared of the Christian and not the other which often times helpes to saluation where licentious libertie giues occasion to many of perpetual sentence here some philosopher might saye further for the bondman who seruing still not hauing where with to redéeme his libertie for that he ought to do to the end to serue God with more fréedome of mind liues a martir taking and suffering patiently his seruile condicion and praysing his creator in all trauel when he dieth in Iesus Christ they will folowe him for eternall rest and perpetuall recompence in heauen And so he shall so much the more glorifie God for that bondestate by how much he knoweth that by the prouidence and goodnes of heauen he hath béene preserued in it from infinit sinnes which with many others he had committed in fleshly libertie and receiued damnacion where now he hath hope to be saued in this estate Thus his seruile condition is made happie which with worldly men was holden wretched desperate here also we haue to vnderstand that God doeth a great grace to such as of their natures are seruants that is borne to serue and hauing neither iudgment nor authoritie nor meane to get power knowledge yet acknowleging themselues do follow their humble vocation in honest seruice and dutie But if they take it against their naturall inclination being a secrett motion of God touching the vocation their vsurped ambiciō and ouerwéening leades them into manie offences being causing to their damnation Touching hireling or yeare seruants their condicion is all one for the time they serue and dayly laborers for the dayes and space of their couenant are no lesse bound to serue then the slaue condemned to perpetuall seruice during his life And being subiect to the same lawes of discipline with the bond seruants they are also bound to the same fidelitie and simplicitie of heart in working by this generall commaundement of nature authorised by the scripture thou shalt not do to an other that thou wouldest not haue done to thy selfe and by consequent thou shalt do to another as thou wouldest be done vnto and as thou wouldest doe for thy selfe louing an other as thy self and his goods as theine owne And as God hath cōmaunded the master to pay well his seruant and workman yea not to detaine the hier of the day laborer till the morning for it is the sweat of his bodie his life So seruants and workemen are enioyned by the same commaundement to trauell in simplicitie honestie and truth euen as they should trauell for them selues in their owne busines ¶ How men haue ben made noble and of their dutie towards their subiects or tenants Chapter viij WE haue discoursed vppon the authoritie of Magistrates touching their rule ouer common weales as Fathers Maisters and Lordes polletike hauing a lesson in the Scripture to entertaine their authoritie by true fatherly loue and care vnder the rule or Lordship of these may bee comprehended the regiment of gentlemen ouer their tenants hauing gotten their noblenes prorogatiues of honour iurisdiction in their landes by their vertues valiantnes and high enterprises euen as gouernours and Magistrates for the merit of their doctrine and knowledge haue worthely aspired to the regiment and gouernment of others Noble men and gentlemen are as speciall gouernours and Magistrates in their proper landes wherein they haue double office as both to gouerne by the lawe being perticuler iudges of their tenants and defend them by armes from the inuation of oppressors And as to gouernours and Magistrates belongeth vnder the Prince generall authoritie ouer all so these haue speciall iurisdiction vnder the same Prince for their perticuler gouernement And therefore are bound to gouerne their tenaunts not onely as masters vse their seruants but as fathers cherish their children with singuler loue and as the head with louing direction guides his members and being also as pastors and heards men ouer their peculiar people they are bound to no lesse affection care prouidence dutie then the shepheard to his flocke the head to his members and the Father to his deare children But if they fayle in their regiment or misleade their priuate charge as we haue shewed these for the vices of their generall gouernement to deserue a horrible sentence of God without grace fo gentlemen abusing their perticuler estate stand in hazerd of a terrible iudgement séeing as the mightie saith the wise man shall suffer cruell torments so stand they accomptable afore God for euery their perticular tenaunt touching ciuill gouernement and defence of them as the curate must answere for euery soule within his parishe And so the temporall Lord for temporall pollecie hath speciall gouernement ouer his landes so to guide his tenants as their conuersation be honest farre from quarrelles discordes do no mutuall wrong one to another nor iniurie to straungers to kéepe them from sutes or at least to accord their diffrences and cut of waye to processes and giuing no scope to controuersies to kéepe thē all in modestie and office and suffer no idlenes nor vagabondrie Lastly let him prosecute the obseruation of Gods commaundements and establish and follow the instructions and doctrine which the Curat or spiritual pastor

alwayes gaine For some times aswell in affaires on sea as lande GOD sendes afflictions for proofe and trial but he deliuereth the iust man in the ende to his greater comfort But if in his voyages and trafykes he had no other intent thē to aduaunce his own priuate gayne I sée not howe the common weale hath interest in his restitution séeinge as he traded for him selfe without respect of publique benefite to the countrey so there can be no reason of restitution where is no cause of merit No let such as restraine their wares to a dearth in hope to enhaūce the price and in the meane eyther the season groweth plentifull or their wares corrupt let such I saye sucke the iuyce of their couetousnes with the broth of rigorous punishment togither also with that cankared sorte of marchants who by reason of loane or credit passe their wares to poore chapmen of the countrey eyther for better then they are or at more price then they are worth Such also as making store of their corne and neuer appeare in the market but when the price beginnes to abate by the great supplie that the countrey bringes in and to restraine or forstall it will not stick to send twoo or thrée leagues about in the coūtrey to all the vittellers corne men with threates or false brutes not to bring in their corne as yit What other reward doe such marchants merit of their common weales but publike infamie exemplairye iustice yea they are bound to restore the damage that is sustained by it wherein it belonges to the officers of the towne and other special ministers vnder the Prince not to wink at this great iniustice done by these cormorantes to a whole common weale least by their coniuringe and dissimulation thei stand no lesse guiltie afore God and their countrey thē those that are the special dooers if they alleadge which is ordinarie with them that they made the prouision for the towne and therefore ought not to sustaine losse how false that is appeareth by this argument of their dooing for if their store had ben reserued to the reliefe of their towne they might haue giuen plentifull succours not onely to the towne but to the coūtrey about at the beginning when corne drew to a scarcetie and high price in the market but as by their extréeme couetousnes suffering it to mount to extréeme rate they brought lamentable preiudice to their common weale so much lesse that there is any colour of excuse séeinge by the apparance of their dooings the common people findes good cause to accurse them with infinit outcries which being retained in heauen can not but bréede effectes of their ruyne on earth for God according to the scripture drawing vp the cryes of the poore vseth to reuenge their iniuries with all lamentable miseries thondred vpon the proper dooers and their posteritie to the extreeme rooting out of their houses Let the magistrat also looke to it least God wrappe him in the common paynes with such as doo the wrong Let him not dissemble iustice by any merit or estimation of the person for that the greater they are the quicker Iustice their offence deserueth as being vnthankfull children and bretherne to their common weale which is their mother albeit in them be respect of parentage neighbourhead gossupship or other consideration of friendship yet they ought al to passe vnder equall punishmēt for that as the law is equall so with God whose lieftenantes they are is no acception of persones who whē there is a fault committed in his house euē by his dearest children there beginnes he his correction afore hée procéede to iustice of others So did he to Moyses who spake to him face to face that is priuatly reuealinge him selfe to him more then to any other as soone as hée erred he is first condemned for certayne infidelitie neyther could he at any time retract the sentence but that he dyed in the desert and could not enter into the land of promisse Ananias and Saphira were in the Catalogue of the first Church but as soone as they lyed to the holy Ghost with an vnfaithfull but weake fraile distrust are executed to death by diuine vengeance it is written that Chylon whē he was created soueraigne magistrat in Athens sent for his friends saying that frō the time forward he renounced all frendship meaning that in causes of trespasse he would vse parents frinds kindred in on rate and equitie of iustice with others Ther be that in the traffike of marchandice and corne specia●ly do forestall the time as when they buye corn yet in the blade and frutes not resolued but in their blossome with many other helps in bargeyning where of I leaue the resolution to the lawes for that my profession here is to medle with none but such as concerne concience and Christian dutie And so because the time is not yet ceraine to make by common iudgment a certaine measure of corne and frute no man ought to buye as they saye the pigge in the bagge nor the corne in the blade for that the market is the place apoynted for the trafficke of such thinges Such forerunners of time and forestallers of markets neuer buye in that sort but at too plentifull a peniworth as the seller seldome obserueth those seasons to sell in but by some great necessitie which as a matter of force constraint is also impertinent to the bargaine making it is sayd that feare and force make vnprofitable accordes as in which two passions is neyther full libertie nor perfect iudgment And therfore in common reason the buyer can not but offend in conscience if he enforce the necessitie of the pore seller to his priuate gaine and the vndoing of him selfe and desolat familye speciallye buyinge his corne in the blade and other his goods which are not yet in nature touching rent corne of fermers if their Lordes deale not with them somtimes more in conscience and consideration of the yeare then according to the straight equitie and rigor of their couenaunts they may to their dishonor flea them quicke as the huntsman caseth a fox to haue his skin and leaue their wiues and children to pouertie to their perpetuall confusion afore God the land lord ought to deale with his tenant as the herdsman with his flocke who is contented only with his fléece and feding him still to th end he may estsons encrease he defends him from the woulfe and sucoreth him in time of his pouertie Great also is the gredines of marchants in their other perticuler trades and no lesse damnable their sheftes and subtelties enforced with a custome of lying and swering vices for the most part familiar with inferior bargeinars and retaylers aspiring to be rich by those abominable helpes But to cōdemn this couetousnes the very norsse and feeder of all other vices this were only sufficient if marchants had no other purpose or pretence in their contractes and trades but to