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A04606	The arte and science of preseruing bodie and soule in healthe, wisedome, and Catholike religion phisically, philosophically, and diuinely deuised: by Iohn Iones phisition. Right profitable for all persones: but chiefly for princes, rulers, nobles, byshoppes, preachers, parents, and them of the Parliament house.	Jones, John, physician.	1579 (1579)	STC 14724; ESTC S119245	104,818	142

vpon the soule of euery one that doth euil Indignation Wrath and Anguish So that it appeareth manifestly hereby how their punishment ought to be cruell not only in Hel but also Heere that impugne your Highnesse procéedings or that practise to performe the wicked déedes of the Fleshe Apostasie Idolatrie Blasphemie Hypocrisie Sacrilege Treason Tyranny Extortion Conspiracie Rebelliō Rape Buggerie Burglarie Murther Thefte Periurie Pride Hautinesse Insolencie Clipping Washing Counterfeyting of Coyne Deceit Cosoning Idlenes Roging Murmuring against Rulers Backbiting Filching Sclandering Brauling Scolding Libelling Bribing Enuying Repining Taunting Scoffing Fighting Mutining Disdaine Disobedience Vnnaturalnesse Ingratitude Incest Fornication Adulterie Gluttonie Drunkennes Dissembling Couetousnes Vsurie Slouth Witchcraft Bauderie Ribauldrie Bākerupting Vnseruiceablenesse such like afore mentioned amongst the actuall sins whiche are alwayes euil and wicked and according to the more the lesse be to be punished And therefore oure Redeemer testifyeth in that Sermon he made vpon the Mount which for our Soules health Bodily comfort surpasseth al that Sermons made vpō the Earth that Not euery one that sayth Lord Lord shal enter into the Kingdome of Heauen but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heauen And his will is that yée beléeue his word Obey your Prince and doe thereafter that is that we embrace the works of Holinesse afore recited and forsake and renounce the déedes of Wickednesse laste repeated The holy Ghoste so instructeth by all Christians to bée receiued Hence Paule teacheth That not the Hearers of the Lawe but the Doers they are iustified whych liue according to the Spirite not according to the Flesh By Marlorat excellently opened affirming that our Iustification resteth vpō Faith without the workes of the depraued Law of Nature Moses Law or any other whatsoeuer withoute a constant Faith in Iesus Christ but not without the déedes and fruites commanded by the Law of the Gospell the Law of the Spirit and Lawe of Grace For as Bullinger ●●uinely deliuereth the Moral Law is continuall and in some part the Iudiciall but not at all the Ceremoniall of Moses And certaine so farre as the Lawe is the rule how to liue well and happily so far as it is the bridle to stay vs in Gods feare so farre as it is a pricke to wake the dulnesse of our flesh so farre as it is giuen to instruct correct and rebuke vs men so farre I say with him that it remayneth still This Saincte Iames most earnestly affirmeth saying that such as know how to do well and do it not are still bound in their sinne as if he should say the Lawe hath rule still ouer such for they be not as yet regenerate bycause they walke stil according to the fleshe and not according to the Spirite The very same Saincte Peter maketh more playne for the eyghte Soules that were saued by water signifieth Baptisme that saueth vs and not the cutting away the foreskinne Circumsition but the forsaking of euill a good conscience cōsenting vnto Gods will a liuely and vndoubted faith budding forth all good blossoms and spirituall fruites for we acknowledge as Bullinger affirmeth according to Sainct Paule that we are created vnto good workes But so that héereby we may not swell with pride in our selues forgetting the merites of Christ whē we reade in the holy Scriptures that we are iustified by ours owne workes that oure owne workes are called righteous that vnto our works is giuen a reward of euerlasting life nor yet that we growe to presumptuous secure and licentious when we find that we are iustified only by Faith that we are fréely ransomed by the frée bountie of our redéemer that hée once for all pacified the wrath of his father and broughte vs againe to be his déerely beloued Children But that as we be fréelie redéemed through his only goodnesse without anye merite of ours so we without any compulsion must sanctifie oure soules and bodies walking alwayes in the light of godly conuersatiō as it is of late very well expressed by Master Rogers but most effectually of all of olde by the holy Apostles themselues By Peter who willeth that we make our election calling this way sure so that we shal●●●uer fall if in Faith wee minister vertue in vertue knowledge in knowledge temperance in temperance patience in patience godlynesse in godlinesse brotherly kindnesse in brotherly kindnesse loue Howe farre now they be deceiued be they neuer so excellent orators or neuer so cunning Sophisters and how vnméete to bring vp youth and to instruct the state of the world haue they neuer so many tongs or neuer so many Schole poynts in health holynesse obedience vnitie laudable qualities profitable artes what office place or dignity soeuer they haue or be they neuer so frantike feruente as was the murtherer that wounded of late yeares a valiant Captaine thinking therby to haue slaine a most worthie and noble Gentleman nowe of the Quéenes Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsel yea or to liue notwithstanding hir highnesse excéeding mercie and great pietie that cōdemne Gods prouidence as well ecclesiastical as tēporall gouernement in our most royall Maiestie primate prerogatiue Palatine power in prelates by the Quéenes highnesse giuen in as large manner as euer they were or the high dignitie of the nobles and estates Lordly rule middle meanes appoynted doctrine vnitie of seruice common prayer Christian discipline right reason ordinarie Lawes dayly decrées holy workes iust déedes healthfull medicine industrie and diligence of vertuous men cleauing to vniuersall destinie without regard of the humane vertues particular sensualitie without consideration of the diuine graces or common libertie without respect of princely power You may sée héerein partly as in a glasse but in the ages following all the graces at large mentioned in the Epistle as well by the holy writte vse of the parts naturall and morall Philosophie as by the experience of all well ordered common weales Counsels Parliaments Conuocations Sinodes Decrées and excommunications of the primitiue Church And how likely it is that they should be eyther very godly naturall wise or rightly learned ●ting all certaynetie of diuine grace power naturall and 〈◊〉 obedience the holie word blessed regimente godly lawes ●thie creations high preferments all aduancementes me●●●ents worship disgradings and continuall gouernemente 〈◊〉 the beginning teacheth approueth and declareth to thē 〈◊〉 be not infected with the Heluetian contagion or libertie of longing to ouerthrowe as well Princes and Nobles of the ●astle as of the Spiritualtie that there might be no certainetie of superioritie that al might be at libertie through election of gouernoures to come to dignitie not for desart but for flatterie or feare Which forasmuch as all men by nature do conot libertie and superioritie so muche the more as affirmeth Caesar ought Princes to prouide certayne and spéedie meanes to restreyne them Wherefore I may bycause this Volume

shall not ware vnhandsome nor yet yrkesome wel conclude against whomesoeuer with the Canonized Scriptures that the statute as wel of the body as of the minde of children yea 〈◊〉 sort of subiectes in our most puissant state must be directes taught and assisted by speciall wisedome Kingly power and common right by dissente of inheritance statutes couenants déedes and willes and not by precise mens fansies wilfull wittes or yet yearely election of craftesmen and commoners as in Heluetia and other places different séeking the furthest corner of their youthful wits to further their foolish wittes Oh barbarous policie atteyned two hundred yeares past and aboue by iniquitie of vs noble Britons for euer to be abandoned and condemned let some mutinous wittes turne the cart neuer so precisely séeing that Nature Scripture and al kingly rule vpon earth is to the contrarie by that worthy Prelate Doctor Whitegifte Bishop of VVorcester learnedlye and godly deliuered and of all dutifull persons to be receyued although it can not be but that the teachers of the truth haue enemies but Philosophie hath foes but Phisicke hath aduersaries but one industrious hathe despisers but obediente and graue persons haue contenmers CHAP. XLIII Who ought to rule Youth and why A briefe deuision of the faculties of the braine And howe that luste and courage is more prone to youth than to age NOwe suche sage persons of perfite yeres are méetest to rule guide and instructe youth as affirm Tullie Clemens Alexandrinus and Montuus as haue the heauēly gift vnderstāding the animal facultie and operation of the braine with the actiōs thereof best as in the two former ventricles saith Siluius apprehension fantasie imagination opinion and common sense In the middle ventricle iudgemēt estimation disposition and cogitation In the hinder memory science and calling in memorie preuailing ruling the déedes of the body according to grace and not according to luste and ire Hence is it that some can inuent Acts and make Ditties better than others Hence othersome can dispose their wit knowlege better than inuēt Hence likewise some can remember what they haue hearde read or knowen very singular wel but neither deuise do or iudge orderly well But where all these excell as that is very seldome there is the sharpe gratious wise witte and neither blinde frantike nor foolishe as Ochine woulde haue it And thus according to the more and the lesse they are perfect or imperfect answerable to their constitution and heauenly inspiration as in youth through slendernesse of strength extreme olde age and in infirmitie but in ripe yeares and healthie state beste by reason of their perfection of temperature and godly education and therefore it is excellently well saide of Tullie that Prudence and Wisedome be incident to graue and olde yeares but Rashnesse and Folly to youthfull dayes as partly by experience I know for the whiche daylye I aske God mercy And as the kingly Prophet Dauid doth affirme beséeching the Lorde to forgiue the sinnes of his youth by the Apostle also confessed saying When I was a childe I didde like a child c. But blessed bee the yeares that bring amendment Amen Hence is the reason why such sage persons doe and alwayes ought to rule and bridle youth not only in Schoole but in Church and Pulpit aswel as in Counsell Courte Camp and youth obediently heare learne and folow thē And therefore Moses wel knowing the imperfection of youth commandeth all children to honor obey their fathers mothers that their dayes may be long in the lande which the Lord giueth thē Likewise at his departure vppon the Mounte calling the whole multitude before him he willeth thē to obey their Captaine Elders as by his oration extant in Iosephus workes it appeareth Salomon also saith he that spareth correction spilleth his childe Syrach in like manner councelleth children to heare their fathers iudgement and do thereafter that they may be safe Now what councell fathers should giue their familie in these dayes Tobias words that he taught his only son at that time is sufficient to teach all the sonnes of the whole world in time to come My sō saith he haue God in thy thoughte al the dayes of thy life and beware least at any time thou consent vnto sinne of thée my son Morgan not to be forgottē and thē thou shalt neuer do amisse The very same the twelue Patriarches taught their children as by their Testamentes extant it appeareth Finally S. Iohn the messenger of lighte Egle of brightnesse as it were in a word includeth al Little childrē saith he let no man deceiue you for that he doth righteousnesse is righteous euen as he is righteous wel knowing he that was instructed by the Schoolmaster of al truth that Iustie wilful youths for the most part haue as is aforesaid and a●dayly experience proueth the vse of the partes declared And as the Prophet Daniel Tullie and Osonus do affirme the naturall facultie operation of the Liuer the vitall of the hart appetite laste ire courage pride termed of Plato Seneca Cicero of Castilio sensualitie of the Apostle Clemens Alexādrinus al diuines the world the flesh the diuel surmoūting an the reasonable vnperfite as yet in the instrumentall operation CHAP. XLIIII The power of the Soule defyned Adams fall declared The Iewes or Israelites losse notwithstanding the Lawe of Moses What marreth manye albeit they be Christians Of diuers charitable deedes done of late as well as of old The difference that is betweene them that fauoure Vertue and them that further vice although they both professe Christ THis reasonable spirite is poured of God into the brayne as Alsaliar affirmeth Montuus and Fernelius and as Bullinger declareth forth of the Scripture and Doctors and giueth sense with vnderstanding to all the liuing partes and it is defined of the Doctor to the Studente to be a power of the soule that descerneth betwéene good and euill and betwéene good and better comparing the other the whiche also sheweth vertues loueth good and fléeth vices or it is as Tullie Moore Osorius and Bullinger write the lawe of nature reiecting euils and embracing goodnesse or reason is the law of nature engrafted in the minde driuing away vice and filthinesse prescribing health and godlinesse but alas this in all the children of Adam is more or lesse so depraued from hym through originall sinne and also actuall afore expressed that the Gentiles although they had reason not wholly extinct the law of nature Gods law gods gift engraffed in their vnderstanding yet they neglected it wandring in al lustes and outrages of the fleshe one trusting to his witte ouercome wyth wickednesse another in his strength and courage vsing all tyrannie spoyle and murther another in his delicious delightes following appetite and lust another in his parentage descended of such

and the least number of all for all kinde of Scholers our state to them that looke into it as I haue done into euerie Citie Towne Corporation and Borough and the maner of the liues of all oure Countrey people of euery degrée doth so require as Ireland doth the contrarie Scholes and Vniuersities as B. Rich rightely proueth our Statute Lawes commaundeth and for the loue I beare to my Countrey I do 〈◊〉 bicause that by the meane eche state is best mainteined ●f dearth and scarcitie maye be eschewed obedience bée embraced laborious arts and painful trauels practised and also by reason of the greate want there is of painful seruants and willing Hindes notwithstanding that néedeful statutes made for seruantes and that also of taking of Prentises for doubtlesse after they haue gotten some Scholerly knowlege conceite of vnderstanding aboue their felows and custome in ydlenesse the two firste ages they then forthwith condemne for the most in al the ages folowing not only honest homely and home trauels but also if their parents leaue them not liuing aunswerable to their vnderstanding and liking nor by any other wayes be preferred to shifts forsooth sectes and practises by and by they enter or into the professiō of Diuinitie Phisicke Lawe and Schooling before they bée approued eyther for capacitie maners or experience turning witte into wilinesse learning to lewdnesse truth to deceitfulnesse cunning to craftinesse eloquence to flattery fidelitie to hipocrisie labour to ydlenesse and humilitie to stoutnesse to be shorte as Tullie testifieth that as bountie by bountie is diminished so I affyrme that by learning learning is contemned and disabled And yet hereby I meane not to seclude the apt minde of any of the Yeomanrie that shal haue continual maintenaunce from the dayly study and practise of any of the aforenamed or any other of the liberall sciēces neither Colledges or worthy grāmer schooles are to be suppressed no more thā I do affirm that the dullarde of highe birth is to be preferred or the pelting schooles in euery place to be suffered as in the nexte age shal be at large declared and the ouer number in ech Diocesse idlely trayned accounted with the labours trades and exercises described Which vse of laudable labors and exercises Martial is so antient as Diogenes scholers practised it in Grece in Candy as Erasmus declareth Licurgus appointeth it the Lacedemonians and Alexander Seuerus furthered it amongest the Romaines and charged the sensures ouer youth to be againe carefull as Valerius Cordus testifieth and Conradus Lycosthenes Commaunding youth with due reuerence to attend often in the presence of their vertuous Parentes Tutors and Maisters that thereby they might learne Ciuilitie good Maners Wisedome euery kinde and age by themselues At the Bathes omitted notwithstanding my rules deliuered as of Buckstones chieflye is reported not doubting but it will be ordered according to the Register prescribed considering the noble Earle woulde haue al men well vsed and euery one to be well dealte withal for to his great charges was the house builded and for the common benefite and not for priuate profite nor vaine deuises and so Plato councelled the Athenians in al their dooyngs although they were Infidels that they shoulde learne all offices of life of Christians therfore not to be neglected at all times and in al places CHAP. XXXVII Of Tullies deuision of dueties bothe naturall and morall and howe they ought to be regarded The antiquitie formalitie and decentnesse of apparell in sort handled to the praise and dispraise thereof THe Romane Orator deuideth dueties two wayes the one perfite following nature endued with the morall vertues or Cardinall as the Schoole Doctours Bernarde and Lumbarde do tearme it wyth the auntient holy Fathers Anselme and Augustine and lerned Philosophers as Aristotle Macrobius and Scotus bycause they fortifie and strengthen all manlie motions as for example Prudence righteth vnderstanding Fortitude Courage Temperaunce Luste and Iustice all powers The other not so perfite procéeding of instruction by precepts guiding the trade of life according to euery condition to the semblaunce of wisedome and naturall goodnesse of all wise men as sheweth Gueuara by the authoritie of Salomon to be desired and in their children to be instilled bycause they ought more to reioice and glory in knowledge their children haue than of the abundaunce of goods they leaue them Although now adayes possessions annuities cattelles gold and siluer be chiefly estéemed for who except only the very wise and perfect noble hearing one commended for the gifts of the minde and body that forthwith demaundeth not for the gifts of fortune also as of what liuelihode is he what is he worth no● regarding his state profession and vertuous calling or his noblenesse if he be vsed preferring the mould of the earth and dumbe beasts that he bréedeth before mans graces ruler of all corruptible things politicall causes Oh horrible abuses by the very Heathen condemned For as Quintus Curtius writeth the honest ciuil and learned sorte commonly be least wealthy vnlesse it be worthily bestowed vpon them by Princes Péeres Potentates Prolats and parents gifts heritage office will or mariage And no maruell for their mindes are more inclined to vertue wisedome knowledge and honestie than to riches possessions or annuities and certeinly so it becommeth good men for vnlesse babes you haue a delight to séeke after wisedome vertue knowledge and good maners in vaine as saith Simplitius is the studie naturall or diuine either the skill trade of bréeding féeding husbandry or clothing by Tully so highly waised or the waye of winning of riches by any office Arte or misterie or yet the high gift of preaching healing or pleading not treading the steppes of Christianitie of some Ministers Phisitions and Lawiers to be better considered in their preaching and practising not so muche regarding how eloquētly delicately cunningly it be handled as howe true profitably iustly it be performed mainteining no action or wager of Lawe for gaine or glory neither assuring the sicke of health when he is paste remedy nor alledging the Scriptures for the furtheraunce of libertie but suche as accorde with the veritie as that famous Clarke and excellent Preacher Maister Doctour Squire of late in his Sermons at Paules Crosse excellently handled and diuinely deliuered Another part of this dutie that may be referred to childrē consisteth in the comely keping of the body and séemly forme of apparell of Holinshed not a little reproued as it is nowe vsed of the elder sorte by Viues in Prose Lillie in Latine verse for youths cunningly described so that it be regarded remembring alwayes the due reuerence belonging to Parentes Maisters Elders Nobles and Officers as Moses Sirach Plutarch Quintilian Ambrose Osorius and Mokerus willeth which as Tullie sheweth was better obserued of the Lacedemonians than of the Athenians But the chiefest regarde of all muste be to obserue the lawes