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A18304	Precepts, or, Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertisements added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes; Certaine precepts	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, attributed name.	1636 (1636)	STC 4899; ESTC S118517	27,423	208

and thou givest him not warning thereof nor speakest to admonish the wicked of his evill way and so to live then shall the same ungodly man dye in his owne unrighteousnesse but his bloud will I require at thy hand Neverthelesse if thou give warning to the wicked and hee yet turne not from his ungodlinesse and from his wicked way hee shall dye in his wickednesse but thou hast delivered thy soule It becommeth therefore a Bishop that is set to be a Watch-man over all to looke well upon offences and when he knoweth them perfectly then to cause them to be amended if he can with words and godly counsell if he cannot then after the rule of the Gospell to avoid them out of the fellowship and company of the godly for the Lord saith in the Gospell If thy brother doe offend against thee rebuke him betweene thee and him if hee will heare thee thou hast wonne thy brother If hee will not heare thee take one or two with thee that in the mouth of two or three all words may be ratified If hee will not heare them tell the Church And if hee will not heare the Church take him as an Ethnicke and a Publican After such an order must hee be driven out which will not obey the Bishop and teacher and he that is thus expulsed ought not to come in company either of Teacher or Bishop For it is written of the Priest in the Law Let him not take a wife that is a whore or polluted nor put from her husband for such an one is unholy unto his God Therefore he that doth joyne to him in company such a body being excommunicated by a faithfull Minister without the consent of him breaketh the Law of holy Priest-hood which is an elect kinde of Christian men After this fashion must a Bishop behave himselfe over them to whom hee is a watchman but what manner of man he must be himselfe the Apostle Saint Paul sheweth in this wise A Bishop must be blamelesse the husband of one wife watching sober comely apparrelled a lover and maintainer of hospitality apt to teach Not given to over-much Wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but gentle abhorring fighting abhorring covetousnesse One that ruleth well his owne house having children in subjection with all gravity and cleanenesse of life Not a young Scholler lest he being puffed up fall into the snares of the divell Hee must also have a good report of them which are without lest he fall into the rebuke and snare of the divell that he may shew in worke that thing which hee teacheth in doctrine Therefore let negligent Bishops take heed for in the time of vengeance the Lord complaineth by the mouth of his Prophet saying My Pastors have ground my people to powder the sheepheards did not feed my flocke but they did feed themselves But rather let them whom the Lord hath set over his family procure to give them meate in due season a measure of Wheate that is to say pure and true doctrine that when the Lord commeth they may deserve to have these comfortable words My good and faithfull servant because thou hast beene faithfull over a few I shall set thee over many enter into the joy of the Lord. The eleventh abuse Chap. 11. A people without discipline COmming now to the eleventh blemish in this life it is comprehended in these words a people without discipline who when they doe not practise obedience in their living to good and godly doctrine doe choke themselves with the common snare of perdition For they doe not escape the wrath of God except they earnestly follow those things which they are taught And therefore the Psalmist saith to the people which will not receive discipline Apprehend and receive discipline lest God be stirred to anger Discipline is a manner of teaching which leadeth men to the amendment of evill and naughtie manners it is also a keeping and following of the rules and lessons of our Elders whereof Saint Paul speaketh saying Abide and continue in discipline God offereth himselfe to you as to his children But if yee be out of discipline whereof ye are made already partakers then are yee advouterers and not his children They therefore which are gone from him and be out of discipline doe receive no inheritance of the Kingdome of heaven but if children doe receive and beare the correction of their fathers discipline let them not despaire or doubt but they shall receive in time to come the inheritance of the Father Of this discipline Esay speaketh saying Cease from doing wickedly and learne to doe well And the like sentence is found in the Psalmist who saith Decline from evill and doe good Wherefore that man is very miserable and unhappy which throweth from him discipline for he is bolder than the Souldiers which crucified Christ and did cut out his garment for hee doth cut the discipline of Christs Church And likewise as the coat doth cover all the body saving the head even so is the whole Church clad and defended with discipline saving onely Christ who is the head of the Church And as that coat was whole without any seame so is this discipline given to the Church whole and sound Of this discipline the Lord when hee should ascend up to his Father after hee was risen from death spake to his disciples saying Abide yee here still in the Citie of Ierusalem till yee bee clad from above with power Then the discipline of the Church is the coat of Christ and hee which is not within this discipline is out of the body of Christ Let us not therefore cut that coate but let us cast lots who shall have it that is to say Let us breake nothing of the commandements of GOD but every man whereunto hee is called therein let him constantly abide with the Lord. The twelfth abuse Chap. 12. A people without Law THe last of this Catalogue of abuses is a people without Law who while they despise the sayings of God and the ordinances of his Lawes doe runne thorow divers waies of errours into the snare of transgression and breaking of the Lawes As concerning those wayes of errour the Prophet under the person of a transgressor doth lament and bewaile mankinde on this wise We have erred saith he and gone astray like sheepe every one after his own way Of these waies it is spoken in the Booke of Wisedome by the mouth of Salomon saying Many wayes appeare good and strait unto men but the last end of their wayes bringeth them to death And truely there are many wayes of perdition when men doe not regard the Kings high way which is right and straight out turning neither on the right hand nor on the left the which way our Lord Iesus Christ who is the end of the Law to the justification of all that doe beleeve plainely sheweth us saying I am the way the truth and the life no man commeth unto the Father but by mee To which way he calleth all men without respect saying Come unto me all yee that labour and are heavy laden and I will refresh you For there is no exception of persons before God with whom there is neither Iew nor Greeke man nor woman bond nor free but Christ is all things in all and all are one in Christ Iesu For so much as Christ is the end of the Law those which are without the Law are without Christ then the people that be without the Law are likewise without Christ It is a great abuse that in the time of the Gospell any people should be without the Law for so much as the Apostles were commanded to preach to all Nations and the thunder-claps of the Gospell were heard over all the parts of the earth and the Gentiles which sought not after righteousnesse have received it And finally considering that they which were farre off were made nigh in the bloud of Christ and they which sometime were not a people are now made the people of God in Christ being now a glad time and the day of salvation the time of comfort 〈◊〉 ●he sight of the Highest And sith that every Nation hath a witnesse of the resurrection yea sith the Lord himselfe beareth witnesse thereunto saying Behold I am with you alway to the end of the world Therefore let not us be without Christ in this transitorie life lest Christ be without us in the world to come FINIS LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Thomas Jones 1636.

COR VNVM VIA VNA The right honorable Sr William Cecill Knight Baron of Burghley Knight of the honorable Order of the Garter Maister of Her highnes Ward 's and Liueries one of the Lords of her Maiesties Priuie Counsell and Lord High Tresorer of England PRECEPTS OR Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life through the whole course thereof left by William Lord Burghly to his Sonne at his death who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this Kingdome Also some other Precepts and Advertisements added which sometimes was the Iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and Father to his Country FRANCIS Earle of Bedford deceased In two Bookes LONDON Printed for Thomas Iones and are to be sold at his shop in the Strand neare Yorke House 1636. To the Right Honourable Richard Lord Buckhurst eldest Sonne and heire apparant to the Right Honourable Edward Earle of Dorset Lord Chamberlaine to her Majesty one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell and Knight of the most Noble order of the GARTER My good Lord MVltiplicity of words begets multiplicity of errors especially in those whose tongues were never polished by Art It is true I have much Learning but that is in my Shop and it is as true that I am ignorant having not the happinesse to bee bred a Scholler Non cuiuis homini licet adire Corinthum This little Booke my Lord being formerly printed hath received good entertainement and now that it goes under your protection I doubt not but it will be much more welcome The cause of this dedication is to expresse part of my thankefulnesse for the goodnesse I have received from the Noble Earle your Father the right vertuous Countesse your Mother and your Honourable selfe for which the height of my ambition is onely to be stiled Your Honours most humbly devoted to serve you Tho. Iones THE INDVCTION BEloved Sonne the many religious and morall vertues inherent in your matchlesse Mother under the wings of whose prudent and Godly government your infancy hath beene trayned and guided up together with your Education under so zealous and Learned a Tutor put mee rather in assurance then hope as Tullie sometime exacted from his Sonne from the onely hearing of Cratippus his Master that you are not ignorant of that summary bond wherein you stand obliged to your Creator and Redeemer which is onely able to make you happy both here and hereafter in life and death In mentioning whereof I meane not onely a bare and Historicall knowledge but with a reall and practicall use adjoyned without which though with a seemely assumption you could expresse to the world in a former habite and living portrayture all Aristotles Morall vertues and walke that whole booke in Life and Action yet are you but a vaine and wretched creature the fairest out-side of the miserablest inside that ever was concealed by Toombe or shadowing And although I nothing doubt your youth being guided and your green vessell seasoned by such wholesome documents and instructions derived from so all-sufficient Teachers that you are not unfurnished of such needfull helpes as may be furtherers to your life and conversation yet that I may the better retaine and expresse the zealous affection beseeming a Father to his Sonne or that you should be forced to derive your stay and advice rather from the rule of strangers then from him from whom you are produced and brought forth Out of these fore-going considerations therefore thinking it not unmeet I have essayed from the affection of a Father to give you such good advertisements and rules for the fitting and squaring of your life as are gayned rather by my long experience and observation than by much reading or Studie being such in my hope with that good assistance that shall season your Youth like the deaw of Age to the end that you entring into this exorbitant and intangling World may be the better furnished to avoid those harmelesse courses whereinto these dangerous times and your experience may easily insnare you and because I would not confound your memory I have reduced them into tenne Precepts which if next to Moses Tables you imprint in your minde you shall reape the benefit and I the end of my expectation and content And thus they follow The Contents of this Booke Precept 1. FOr choyce of your Wives 2 The education of your Children 3 For houshold provision and the choyce of Servants 4 How to intreat your Kindred and Allies 5 Adviseth to keepe some great man to your friend and how to complement him 6 How and when to undertake suits 7 Advertiseth for suretiship 8 How to behave a mans selfe 9 How far to disclose a mans secrets 10 Adviseth not to be scurrilous in conversation An addition of some short Precepts and sentences not impertinent to the former An addition of some fourefold short remembrances which every man may experience daily in his life A Conference betweene a Philosopher and a Iustice A handfull of short questions with their resolutions The genealogy of Pride BURGHLEY HOUSE From the Gardens PRECEPT 1. For the choice of your Wives FIrst when it shall please God to bring you to Mans estate making you capable of that Calling use great providence and circumspection in choice of your Wives as the root from whence may spring most of your future good or evill For it is in the choice of a Wife as in a project of Warre wherein to erre but once is to be undone for ever And therefore be wel advised before you conclud● ought herein For though your Errour may teach you wit it is uncertain whether you shall ever find time to practise it Therefore the more securely to enter herein First well consider your estate which if in a true survey you finde firme and setled Match neere home and with deliberation but if otherwise crazie and Rented then farre off and with quicke expedition be informed truly of their inclination which that there may bee a more equall Sympathy compare it with your owne how they agree for you must know that every good woman makes not for every man a good wife no otherwise then some one good Dish digesteth with every stomack After that enquire diligently of her stocke and race from whence shee sprung and how her parents have been affected in their youth Let her not be poore how generous so ever For Generosity without her support is but a faire shell without her kernell Because a man can buy nothing in the Market without money And as it is the safest walking ever between two extremes so chufe not a wife of such absolute perfection and Beauty that every carnall eye shall be speak you injury neither so base and deformed that breed contempt in others and bring you to a loathed bed Make not choise of a Dwarfe or a Foole for from the one you may beget a race of Pigmeyes as the other will be your daily griefe and vexation for it will irke you so

not to covet other mens goods and to flie all uncleannesse not to eate and drinke but in time not to be a gigler and a provoker of other men to laughter no speaker and teller of false and vaine tales to be soberly apparrelled all things being set in comely order according to godlinesse in all parts of the body as well in the haire on the head as in the rayment Not to company with the ungodly neither to looke proudly or disdainfully upon any man nor yet wantonly to cast up the eyes to the evill provocation of other not to goe nicely and tripping in the streete having a pace like as it were a game or a play to be seene and to tempt other therewith To be also inferiour unto no man in good workes to be occasion to no man of reproch or shame to blaspheme or slander no man to hate none that is good nor to scorne such as are old not to meddle with those things which thou knowest not nor to contend or strive with thy better and finally not to blab abroad all things that thou knowest These things do make a man loved of his neighbour and acceptable in the sight of God The shamefastnesse and chastity of the soule is to do those things which thou dost more for the sight of God than to be seene of men to stay the desire of evill thoughts to esteeme every man better than thy selfe not to infect thy judgement with false doctrine to agree with them that are of the Catholique and universal faith to cleave onely to God to presume nothing of thy selfe but to commit all thy doings to the helpe of God to be alwaies humble in his sight to offer to our Lord Iesus Christ the chastity of thy inward minde never to make an end or to cease from good workes during thy life and with a strong heart to despise the present tribulations of thy minde of things worldly to love nothing but thy neighbour to set and lay up the treasure of all thy love in heaven and finally to be assured that for thy well doing thou shalt not lose the reward in heaven Shamefastnesse is a goodly ornament of noble persons It exalteth those which be humble making them noble It is the beauty of them that are feeble and weake the prosperity of them which be sicke the comfort of them that are in heavinesse the increase of all beauty the flowre of Religion the defence and buckler against sinne a multiplier of good deeds and to be short it is the onely paramour and darling of God the creator of all The sixt abuse Chap. 6. A Master or a Ruler without vertue IN this place followeth the sixt abuse namely a Lord or Master that is without vertue For it profiteth nothing to have power and authority or to rule if the Master have not in himselfe the direct and orderly sway of vertue But this vertue consisteth not so much in the externe and outward strength of the body which is very requisite and necessary for such as are worldly Rulers as it is to be exercised in the inward strength in good and vertuous manners For often times a man doth lose the might and power to rule through the negligence of the inward part as it appeared by Eli the Priest who while he punished not his children with the rigorous and strait rod of justice when they did sinne God as one that would be revenged for their wickednesse upon him sharpely punished him as one that consented to their naughtinesse Therefore it is necessary that Rulers have these three things in them that is to say terror to be feared good governance and love For except the Governour be feared and loved his ordinance and rule cannot stand Therfore through his goodnesse and honest familiar conditions let him procure to get the love of them which are under him and also by just and discreet punishment Not that he would or should appear to revenge his owne quarrell or injurie but that the transgression or breaking of the Law of God might be punished and so to be had in feare Wherefore while many persons doe depend and hang upon him he himselfe must altogether depend and hang upon God and cleave onely to him who hath set him in that rule who hath established him and made him to be a stronger man whereby to beare the burdens of many For except a beame be laid fast and sure upon a stronger thing which is able to beare it all that is laid upon it shall fall downe yea and it selfe also through the very bignesse and weight of it selfe shall fall to the ground with the burden thereof So a Prince or Ruler except he sticke fast to his maker both he himselfe and all that is with him doth quickly perish There be some who after they be set in authority doe become better men and doe cleave more neere to God than they did before and some are contrariwise thereby made the worse For Moses after he was made Governour of the people he had communication with God more familiarly than he had before But Saul the sonne of Cis after he was King through his pride and disobedience highly sinned and offended against God King Salomon after he sate in the seate of his Lord and father King David God increased and made him rich with the gift of wisedome to governe over innumerable people And contrariwise after that Ieroboam the servant of Salomon had usurped part of the kingdome of the house of David he turned tenne Tribes of the people of Israell which were in the part of Samaria from the true and right worship of God to the wicked and divellish worshiping of Idols By which examples it is apparant and manifest that some men when they doe come to dignity doe grow more perfect and better and some againe through pride of their advancement and rising up doe fall and waxe worse By both the which is to be understood that they which increase in goodnesse doe it by the vertue and godly disposition of the minde even by the onely help of God and the other that they doe fall by the weakenesse of the minde through the negligence and small regard they have to vertue which no man can have without the helpe of God The man that hath many things under him whereof he hath charge and hath not the strength and vertue of the minde is no way able to fulfill or performe what he should doe For many things do bring with them many troubles and vexations Therefore let every man that is a Ruler procure first with all industry of his minde that in all things he may be sure of the helpe of God For if in his doings he have the Lord and governour of all Lords and Governours to his helper no man can set light or despise his ordinance and rule because there is no power but of God He lifteth up the poore and needy out of the very dunghill and maketh him to sit with