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prayer_n	forgive_v	lord_n	trespass_n	3,485	5	11.3824	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05287	The sixty sixe admonitory chapters of Basilius, King of the Romans, to his sonne Leo, in acrostick manner that is, the first letter of euery chapter, making vp his name and title. Translated out of Greeke by Iames Scudamore.; Basilii Imperatoris Constantinopolitani exhortationum capita sexaginta sex ad Leonum filium, congomento Philosophum. English	Basil I, Emperor of the East, ca. 812-886.; Scudamore, James, 1624-1668.	1638 (1638)	STC 1543; ESTC S118848	21,566	136

shalt see that thou ought'st not alwaies to giue eare to them which doe with art flatter thee but to those that doe serue thee with good will and affection For hauing had good experience of the good which is done thee by the one and of the hurt which is done thee by the other thou wilt auoyd the one and obtaine the other CHAP. XLIX Of the Care to be had of thy selfe ADORNE thy youthfull age not so much with bodily as with vertuous exercises neither suffer thy whole selfe body soule and name quite to perish For although thou hast a mortall body yet thou hast obtained an immortall soule Therfore indeauour to gett immortality by leauing a good name and remembrance of thee But thou shalt gaine a good name if thou dost imitate those that haue left a good name behind them See therfore that thou dost indeauour to speake good things and that thou dost accustome thy selfe to doe the like And whatsoeuer thou shalt professe in thy words thou shalt haue a care to practise the same in thy deeds CHAP. L. Of Compassion AS there is not a body which hath not a shadow accompanying it so there is not a man without sinne For our nature is apt to slippe and prone to doe amisse Therfore be gentle towards those that offend and mixe clemency with iustice For although thou dost call to an account others that offend yet thou thy selfe hast God to call thee to an account for thy offences And euery day promise this to thy selfe as thou shalt forgiue so hope that thou also shalt be forgiuen of God Seeing therfore in the Lords prayer thou dost pronounce iudgment of thy selfe forgiue thy debtors their trespasses and thy offences shall be forgiuen thee For what thou shalt doe to thy fellow-seruants the same thou shalt receiue againe of him that is the Lord of all For with what iudgment thou shalt iudge with the same also thou shalt be iudged CHAP. LI. Of Gentlenesse or mildnesse INCLINE thine eare to him that needeth and answere him peaceably For although by reason of thy earthly power thou art not a person to whom men may haue easy accesse yet be easy of accesse by reason of that power that is aboue thee Comfort those that are greiued if not with gifts yet at least with good words For I haue knowne by experience that one word may be better thé many gifts and that one good word from the mouth of a King doth more preuayle for consolation then many other things For abundance of wealth is not of so much force to comfort a greiuing soule as one gentle word of a King So thou shalt be most beloued of thy subiects and without cost thou shalt gaine the good will of all men and they will proclaime thee to be rather a father to them then a Lord. CHAP. LII Of Returning thankes to God KNOW that so much the more good as thou hast receiued of God so much the greater thankes thou ought'st to returne vnto him that doth not receiue that which is due vnto him as a duety and debt that is payed to him but as if he had receiued a courtesy or fauour doth for it repay double Returne therefore vnto God who hath done thee so much good a thankefull requitall for the good things which he hath giuen thee And as for that power which thou hast receiued of him vse it in doing good to others And thinke that they are richer then thee in good workes which are lesse then thee in their power that is if they doe more good then thee For thou hast not receaued good things that thou might'st keepe them to they selfe but thou hast receiued them that as a steward thou might'st dispose of them to the good of others and so receiue of him that gaue them vnto thee a reward for well disposing of them and an incorruptible Crowne for a corruptible CHAP. LIII Of Bodily Beawty BOdily beawty makes him worthy that hath it to stand before a King But the beawty of the soule doth make a man beloued of the King of Heauen And the one procureth the enioying of dignityes but for a time whereas the other doth cause euerlasting neerenesse to our heauenly Lord. But thou hast not any one aboue thee whose fauour thou need'st to seeke by the beawty of thy body but thou hast God aboue thee who doth not seeke the beawty of the Body but the nobility of the Soule Wherefore labour by all meanes to please him preseruing his image in thy selfe pure and vndefiled by temperance and purity CHAP. LIV. Of the curing of the Soule THE labour of the Physician is in vayne if the medicine which he giues doth not cure the Body And in vayne is the discourse of the Philosopher if it cannot heale the affections and passions of the soule For as it is necessary for Physicians to shew their skill in the body so it is necessary that Philosophers should cure the soule Thinke them therefore to be true Physicians which by their art doe expell diseases from the body and iudge them to be true Philosophers which by their discourses doe expell the diseases of the soule if so be they haue patients that will absolutely be ruled by them CHAP. LV. Of Backbiters and Slanderers BE not apt to receiue idle tales or tale-tellers neither make much of slanderers neither lightly giue creditt to naughty men For the first haue oftentimes ruined good men out of a suspicion that they were naught And the second vomiting out the anger which proceeds from their owne malice will make thee guilty of innocent blood And the third will make thee suspected to be one that delighteth in euill men For thou mayst iustly be thought to be of the disposition of them with whom thou delightest to be conuersant and to whom thou dost passionately giue creditt CHAP. LVI Of reading good Bookes and Histories DOE not thinke much to runne ouer ancient histories For in them thou shalt find without paynes that which others haue gathered togeather with paynes And thou may'st learne from thence the vertues of good men and the vices of naughty men and the diuerse vicissitudes of our life and the changes of things therein and the instability of the world and how prone Empires are to fall and in a word the punishments of euill actions and the rewards of good where of thou shalt doe well to auoyd the one that thou may'st neuer come to feele the punishments of Hell and thou shalt doe well to indeauour to compasse the other that thou may'st deserue and obtaine the rewards to come CHAP. LVII Of Bounty or doing good I Will teach thee a point of wisdome a point perhaps not practised of those that vse to giue aduice but not vnbesitting the affection of mee that am both a Father and a King Approue rather my sonne those that aske fauours of thee them those that doe striue to bring thee the greatest presents For thou shalt make