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A52447 Observations and advices oeconomical North, Dudley North, Baron, 1602-1677. 1669 (1669) Wing N1286; ESTC R616 31,061 156

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danger and temptation during this night past and thy giving of healthful and pleasing rest unto us therein whereby we are enabled to perform the duties of this day and chiefly that of prayer unto thee For we justly confesse that the glorifying of thee is the principal end of our life which glorifying is most advanced according to our weak power by invocation of thy Name and by professing a full dependance upon thee in all our actions We confess that of our selves without thy especial grace we cannot step one step towards thee by our actings in any Religious duty yet by means of that grace we are enabled so far to act as to obtain acceptance at thy hands in Iesus Christ which is sufficient for us We above all expresse our thankfulnesse to thee for thy mercies in thy beloved Son and more particularly for his undergoing the shameful death of the Crosse for us Grant O Lord that by his Blood and Sufferings we may be purged from the old leaven of unrighteousnesse and that by Faith in him our hearts may be purified and disposed to the performance of whatsoever duties are required by thee towards the attainment of everlasting Life Grant that we may do all things with a holy mind and sincere intention in obedience unto thy holy will and not with any self-love which may be offensive unto thee a God of pure eyes who canst not behold the least iniquity with approbation Grant O Lord that we may this day apply our selves to the doing of our duty according to our several relations and subordinations within this Family looking still up unto thee as the foundation of all power and under whose protection we can onely be happy We know O Lord that dutys perfunctorily done satisfie the world but not thee who art a God having an All-seeing Eye from which nothing can be hid and who hatest eye-service being only well pleased in a pure heart free from all hypocrisie We beseech thee therefore so to guid all our actions as we may do nothing but what is acceptable in thy sight and that our demeanour this day and all the other dayes of our life may be such as not to fill up our measure of iniquity and sinfulnesse against the Day of Iudgement but that we may then be accepted of as pure and holy by and through the Merits of the same Iesus Christ by whom we expect our eternal happinesse Evening Prayer for a Family O Lord God Creator of Heaven and Earth the preserver and Governour of all things that have a being We thy poor Servants of this family laden with iniquity implore thy mercy unto us in the forgivenesse of our sins We confesse that there is nothing in us but the Seeds of impiety which daily spring up and generate actual sins to the great provocation of thee our most gracious God We confesse O Lord that by the sin and disobedience of the day past we have added very much to the masse of our transgressions in so much as the very weight of them may presse us down even to the pit of Hell to our everlasting ruin unlesse it shall please thee to shew mercy unto us O Lord thy mercies in Iesus Christ are abundant and sufficient to blot out not onely ours but all the sin in the whole World Yet thou wilt not do it to those that are impenitent We therefore in his Name beseech thee to give us humble and penitent hearts together with a resolution to forbear all manner of sin hereafter as a thing that is totally opposite to thy nature and therefore must become the destruction of all such persons as wallow in it without reluctation We are fully bent O Lord to delight in our own wayes and to be linked in Affection with the things of this World which is enmity against thee Cure us we beseech thee of this destructive malady and enflame our hearts with the love of thee which is so precious as it cannot be enjoyed without a renunciation of our wicked selves and all our impious wayes Create in us O Lord a lively Faith whereby we may lay fast hold on the Merits of our Blessed Saviour and so become fully justified in thy sight O Lord kindle in us by thy Holy Spirit a brotherly affection one unto another so as we may be wholly disposed to do good and not to delight in mischief through evil will and envy Lastly we beseech thee more especially to remit our sins of the day past and so to blesse us this Night as we may not therein fall into any temptation by evil thoughts and immaginations or otherwise but enjoy quiet and seasonable rest to the refreshment of our Bodies and Spirits whereby we may be fitted for such Services as the day following shall require and alwayes retain in our mind the fear of thee restraining us from all manner of wickednesse These mercies and whatsoever else thou knowest to be necessary for us we beg of thee for thy own Mercies sake in Iesus Christ thy dearly beloved Son in whose most absolute form and words least our prayers should be otherwise defective we conclude them saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. FINIS Eccl●s 7. 25. Vxor Ebr. lib. 1. cap. 9. Mat. 19. 12. 1 Cor. 7. 34. Ecclus. 16. 1. 1 Kings 1. 6. Prov. 13. 24. 1 Sam. ● 13. Mat. 11. 8. 1 Cor. 12. 23.
rigid who must have singing Psalms and so it was anciently in the Jewish Church I professe not to know any pleasure exceeding Musick saving that of Contemplation in matters Divine Musick indeed may be said to be sensual for it is altogether conveyed by the Senses but certainly it hath a great approach towards Spirituality or else the Prophet Elisha would never have called for a Minstrel when an Inspiration was required I may fear I have been too tedious concerning this Recreation to which I confesse my self a little partial and I cannot but wonder at some persons who are so much more then brutish as they have a total aversion to it whom I must leave in their misery LXXXII Some are so austere and rigid in the way of Religion as they will admit nothing of pleasure farther then refection which includes eating drinking and sleeping only supposed to be necessary Recreation or Pastime they hold altogether unlawful as injurious to better employment These mens Religion is very conformable to Mahometisme wherein all Professors must have a Mechanical profession even the great Turk himself and they consider not the necessity of health which cannot be preserved with a continual intention of mind A Bow that stands alwayes bent looseth its strength in the end and so it is with the mental faculties if they be continually at the stretch Immediately after meals all serious thoughts are prejudicial to health and certainly at such times entertainments of some levity are to be tolerated and not onely then but in the long winter evenings a season unfit for stirring businesse so as for the Master and better sort of Servants there may be then some use made of Gaming in a moderate sort For can it be better to sit by the fire and sleep or for a man to rack himself by his own thoughts then to entertain himself by innocent pastime But in this I leave our Master to his own thoughts LXXXIII A Gentleman of quality whom I consider chiefly in these Oeconomical Notes living in the Countrey can hardly keep himself out of employment under the Lievtenancy or Commission of the Peace and this may contribute something against the inconveniencies of Solitude Though this gives trouble yet it generates an Acquaintance and correspondence between those of the Gentry and may also yield some inward satisfaction to a well disposed person who ever desires to be useful to others and here as I conceive notice may be taken that our Soveraign is happy beyond other Princes for he is very much served gratis in matters of Common Government whereas others are enforced to use Mercinaries to their cost LXXXIV In these Observations and every of them I would not be understood to intend persons of vast fortunes Noblemen or others for it is fit that such should have their freedom since they need not be obliged to any Rules of Frugality and I may say it is for the honour of this Kingdom that the Court and chief City should be frequented and expence in bravery there is not onely honourable but brings advantage to the People since many Trades and Manufactures subsist meerly by excesse of that nature Every man therefore must use his prudence and do that which is most proper for himself as well in relation to the publike as to his own private Condition LXXXV I think we cannot better Conclude these Observations then with some notes concerning the Royal Family or Household which as I conceive hath not its Peer in Christendom exceeding all others as well for Hospitality as for Order As touching the first it hath no parallel for consider it as it was in the time of former Princes and as I hope now is and we may justly say That more Flesh and Fish Bread and Drink is spent yearly there then is consumed in some Italian Cities whose Bishops are capable of sitting in general Councels And for Order it resembleth rather a State then a Family having within it or thereto belonging establishments for Government Ecclesiastical Military Civil and Criminal First there is a kind of Cathedral Church with an Episcopal Dean c. adorned with a Quire and Vestments for the Clergy as also with materials for Musick very extraordinary Then there is a Judicatory called the Green-Cloth which determineth in matters belonging to the Houshold Provisions and Government where the Lord Steward the Treasurer and Comptroller of the Houshold are Judges with several under Officers Thirdly there is two Military Companies one of Horse-men called Pensioners all Gentlemen and the other that of the old Guard consisting of Yeomen and these are under Command of two eminent persons their Captains Lastly it hath a Jurisdiction as well Civil as Criminal appertaining to it called the Verge extending it self twelve miles about the Court where the Lord Steward of the Kings House and Marshal and a peculiar Coroner do respectively exercise a Jurisdiction and none of the publike Judges may interpose in cases proper to that Court uncalled which limit of the Verge beareth some similitude to the Rural Territory of a City or State Besides this the Lord Chamberlaine of his Majesties Houshold hath governance of all the Gentry and Officers above-stairs who are very numerous Lawyers tell us that originally all Justice was administred within the Royal Family and that the Kings Bench was stiled Aula Regia Of these there still remains some shadow in the stiles of Teste meipso and of Coram Rege and at this day the Privy Councel an Assembly supposed to consist of the most eminent persons for Wisdom in the whole Nation hath its residence within the Kings House with a Jurisdiction extending it self over the whole Kingdom in matters of State To this Royal Family relate two others whereof one is that of the Queen Consort who by the Law is a person distinct from the King and may plead or be impleaded apart The other is that of the Prince of Wales when there is one and both these have especial Officers of State belonging to them It is a Prerogative of the Royal Family that the Servants are obliged to a faithful and diligent performance of service domestical which as I conceive is not by the Law permitted in the case of any person who is a meer Subject And all this under a Race of Princes of unknown Antiquity linked in Blood with most of the Royal Families of Christendom and that in all ages hath given to the world Illustrious Persons yielding to none for eminence in Wisdom and vertue and sometime such as by forreign Conquests were famous for their Martial Power and in great part Arbiters of the most important affairs of Europe unto which Royal Race all true-hearted English men desire and pray for a continuance in Regality even until the universal Day of Judgment Morning Prayer for a Family O Lord our most gracious God We of this Family do acknowledge with all thankfullnesse thy many great Mercies unto us but more especially thy freeing us from