is more wisdome to yeeld thy Body then hazard thy Soule CHAP. XXXVI CLoath not thy language either with Obscurity or affectation in the one thou discover'st too much darknes in the other too much lightnes He that speaks from the understanding to the understanding is the best interpreter CHAP. XXXVII IF thou expect death as a friend prepare to entertaine it If thou expect death as an enemy prepare to overcome it Death has no advantage but when it comes a stranger CHAP. XXXVIII FEare nothing but what thy industry may prevent Be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no lesse folly to feare what is impossible to be avoided then to be secure when there is a possibility to be depriv'd CHAP. XXXIX LEt not the necessity of Gods decree discourage thee to pray or dishearten thy prayers doe thou thy duty and God will doe his pleasure if thy prayers make not him sound that is sicke they will returne and confirme thy health that art sound If the end of thy prayer be to obtain thy request thou confinest him that is infinite if thou hast done well because thou wert commanded thou hast thy reward in that thou hast obeyed Gods pleasure is the end of our prayers CHAP. XL MArry not too young and when thou art too old marry not lest thou be fond in the one or thou dote in the other and repent for both let thy liking ripen before thou love let thy Love advise before thou choose and let thy choice be fixt before thou marry Remember that the whole happinesse or unhappinesse of thy life depends upon this one Act. Remember nothing but death can dissolve this knot He that weds in haste repents ofttimes by leisure And he that repents him of his owne act either is or was a foole by confession CHAP. XLI IF God hath sent thee a Crosse take it up and follow him use it wisely lest it be unprofitable Beare it patiently lest it be intolerable Behold in it Gods anger against sinne and his love towards thee in punishing the one and chastening the other if it be light sleight it not if heavy murmure not Not to be sensible of a judgement is the symptome of a hardned heart and to be displeas'd at his pleasure is a signe of a rebellious will CHAP. XLII IF thou desire to be magnanimous undertake nothing rashly and feare nothing thou undertak'st Feare nothing but infamy Dare any thing but injury the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous CHAP. XLIII PRactise in health to beare sicknesse and endeavour in the strength of thy life to entertaine death He that hath a will to die not having power to live shewes necessity not vertue It is the glory of a brave mind to embrace pangs in the very aâ—mes of pleasure What name of vertue merits he that goes when he is driven CHAP. XLIV BE not too punctuall in taking place If he be thy superiour 't is his due if thy inferiour 't is his dishonour It is thou must honour thy place thy Place not thee It is a poor reward of worth that consists in a right hand or a brick-wall CHAP. XLV PRay often because thou sinn'st alwayes Repent quickly lest thou die suddenly He that repents it because he wants power to act it repents not of a sin till he forsakes not He that wants power to actuate his sin hath not forsaken his sin but his sin him CHAP. XLVI MAke Philosophy thy journey Theology thy journeyes end Philosophy is a pleasant way but dangerous to him that either tires or retires in this journey it 's safe neither to loyter nor to rest till thou hast attained thy journeyes end He that sits downe a Philosopher rises up an Atheist CHAP. XLVII FEare not to sinne for Gods sake but thy owne Thy sinne overthrowes not his glory but thy good He gaines his Glory not only from the salvation of the Repentant but also from the confusion of the Rebellious There be vessels for honour and vessels for dishonour but both for his honour God is not grieved for the glory he shall lose for thy improvidence but for the horror thou shalt finde for thy impenitence CHAP. XLVIII INsult not over misery nor deride infirmity nor despise deformity The first shews thy inhumanity the second thy folly the third thy pride He that made him miserable made thee happy to lament him He that made him weake made thee strong to support him He that made him deform'd gave thee favour to be humbled He that is not sensible of anothers unhappinesse is a living stone but he that makes misery the object of his triumph is an incarnate Devill CHAP. XLIX MAke thy recreations servants to thy businesses lest thou become slave to thy recreations When thou goest up into the Mountaine leave this servant in the Valley When thou goest to the City leave him in the Suburbs And remember The servant must not be greater then his Master CHAP. L. PRaise no man too liberally before his face nor censure him too lavishly behind his backe the one favours of flattery the other of malice and both are reprehensible The true way to advance anothers vertue is to follow it and the best meanes to cry downe anothers vice is to decline it CHAP. LI. IF thy Prince command a lawfull act give him all active obedience if he command an unlawfull act give him passive obedience What thy well-grounded conscience will suffer doe chearfully without repining where thou maist not do lawfully suffer couragiously without Rebellion Thy life and livelihood is thy Princes Thy conscience is thy owne CHAP. LII IF thou givest to receive the like it is Exchange if to receive more it is covetousnesse if to receive thanks it is vanity if to be seen it is vain-glory if to corrupt it is Bribery if for Example it is formality if for compassion it is Charity if because thou art commanded it is obedience The affection in doing the work gives a name to the work done CHAP. LIII FEar death but be not afraid of Death To feare it whets thy expectation To be afraid of it duls thy preparation if thou canst endure it it is but a sleight pain if not it is but a short pain to fear death is the way to live long to be afraid of Death is to be long a dying CHAP. LIV. IF thou desire the love of God and man be humble for the proud heart as it loves none but it selfe so it is beloved of none but by it self The voice of humility is Gods musick and the silence of Humility is Gods Rhetorick Humility enforces where neither vertue nor strength can prevaile nor Reason CHAP. LV LOok upon thy burning Taper and there see the Embleme of thy Life The flame is thy Soule The wax thy Body and is commonly a span long The wax if never so well tempered can but last his length and who can lentghen it If il tempered it shall wast the faster
own poyson and kills her if she see thy soule unseen or seen too late with her poyson she kills thee Since therefore thou canst not escape thy Sinne let not thy Sinne escape thy observation CHAP. XLIX IF thou expect'st to rise by the means of Him whom thy Fathers greatnesse rais'd from his service to Court preferment thou wilt be deceiv'd For the more in esteem thou art the more sensible is He of what he was whose former servitude will be Chronicled by thy advancement and glory obscured by thy greatnes However he will conceive it a dead service which may be interpreted by thee as a merited Reward rather then a meritorious benefit CHAP. L. TRust not to the promise of a common swearer for he that dare sin against his God for neither profit nor pleasure will trespasse against thee for his own advantage He that dare break the precepts of his Father will easily be perswaded to violate the promise unto his Brother CHAP. LI. LEt the greatest part of the newes thou hearest be the least part of what thou beleevest lest the greatest part of what thou beleevest be the least part of what is true Where lies are easily admitted the Father of lies will not easily be excluded CHAP. LII DEliberate long before thou consecrate a Friend and when thy impartiall judgement concludes him worthy of thy bosome receive him joyfully and entertaine him wisely impart thy secrets boldly and mingle thy thoughts with his He is thy very selfe and use him so if thou firmly think him Faithfull thou mak'st him so CHAP. LIII AS there is no worldly gain without some losse so there is no worldly losse without some gaine If thou hast lost thy wealth thou hast lost some trouble with it if thou art degraded from thy Honour thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envie if sicknesse hath blurr'd thy beauty it hath deliver'd thee from pride Set the allowance against the losse and thou shalt find no losse great He loses little or nothing that reserves himselfe CHAP. LIV. IF thou desire to take the best advantage of thy selfe especially in matters where the Fancy is most imploy'd keep temperate diet use moderate exercise observe seasonable and set houres for Rest Let the end of thy first sleep raise thee from thy Repose Then hath thy Body the best temper Then hath thy Soule the least incumberance Then no noyse shall disturbe thy Eare No object shall divert thine Eye Then if thy sprightly Fancie transport thee not beyond the common pitch and shew thee not the Magazin of high invention return thee to thy wanton Bed and there conclude thy selfe more fit to wear thy Mistresses Favour then Apolloes Bayes CHAP. LV IF thou art rich strive to command thy mony lest she command thee if thou know how to use her she is thy Servant if not thou art her Slave CHAP. LVI BRing thy daughter a husband of her own Religion and of no hereditary disease Let his wisdome outweigh his wealth Let his parentage excell his person and let his yeares exceed hers Let thy prayers recommend the rest to providence if he prove thou hast found a Sonne if not thou hast lost a Daughter CHAP. LVII SO use Prosperity that Adversity may not abuse thee if in the one Security admits no feares in the other Despaire will afford no hopes He that in Prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance CHAP. LVIII IF thy faith have no doubts thou hast just cause to doubt thy faith and if thy doubts have no hope thou hast just reason to feare despair When therefore thy doubts shal exercise thy faith keep thy hopes firme to qualifie thy doubts So shall thy Faith be secured from doubts So shall thy doubts be preserved from despaire CHAP. LIX IF thou desire to be truly valiant feare to doe any injury He that feares not to doe evill is alwayes afraid to suffer evill He that never feares is desperate And he that fears alwayes is a Goward He is the true valiant man that dares nothing but what he may and feares nothing but what he ought CHAP. LX ANger may repast with thee for an houre but not repose for a night The continuance of Anger is Hatred the continuance of Hatred turns Malice That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two Sunnes CHAP. LXI IF thou stand guilty of oppression or wrongfully possest of anothers Right see thou make Restitution before thou givest an Almes if otherwise what art thou but a Thief and makest God thy Receiver CHAP. LXII VVHen thou pray'st for spirituall Graces let thy prayer be absolute When for temporall Blessings adde a Clause of Gods pleasure in both with Faith and Humiliation So shalt thou undoubtedly receive what thou desirest or more or better Never prayer rightly made was made unheard or heard ungranted CHAP. LXIII HEe that gives all though but little gives much because God looks not to the quantity of the Gift but to the quality of the Givers He that desires to give more then he can hath equall'd his Gift to his desire and hath given more then he hath CHAP. LXIV BEe not too greedy in desiring Riches nor too eager in seeking them nor too covetous in keeping them nor too passionate in losing them the first will possesse thy soul of discontent The second will dispossesse thy body of Rest The third will possesse thy wealth of thee The last will dispossesse thee of thy selfe He that is too violent in the concupiscible will be as violent in the irascible CHAP. LXV BEe not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custome As it was gotten so leave it by degrees Danger attends upon too sudden Alterations He that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruin'd by the fall But he that takes it down Brick by Brick may live to build a better CHAP. LXVI IF thou desire that inestimable Grace of saving Faith detest that insatiable vice of damnable Covetousnesse it is impossible one heart though never so double should lodge both Faith possesses thee of what thou hast not Covetousnesse dispossesses thee of what thou hast Thou canst not serve God unlesse Mammon serve thee CHAP. LXVII BEware of him that is slow to Anger Anger when it is long in comming is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept Abused patience turns to fury When Fancy is the ground of passion that understanding which composes the Fancy qualifies the passion But when judgement is the ground the Memory is the Recorder CHAP. LXVIII HEe that professes himselfe thy open enemy armes thee against the evill he meanes thee but he that dissembles himself thy secret Friend strikes beyond Caution and wounds above Cure From the first thou maist deliver thy selfe From the last good Lord deliver thee CHAP. LXIX IF thou hast wrong'd thy brother in thought reconcile thee to him in thought if thou hast offended him in words let thy reconciliation be in words if thou
quality of a wise Commander to make his Souldiers confident of his wisdome and their own strength if any danger be to conceale it if manifest to lessen it Let him possesse his army with the justnesse of the Warre and with a certainty of the victory A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arme They that feare an overthrow are halfe conquered CHAP. XCV IT is requisite in a Generall to mingle love with the severity of his Discipline they that cannot be induced to feare for love will never be inforced to love for feare Love opens the heart Feare shuts it That encourages This compelles And victory meets encouragement but flees Compulsion CHAP. XCVI IT is the part of a well advised State never to entrust a weighty service unto whom a noted injury or dishonour hath been done Hee can never bee zealous in performance of Service the height of whose expectation can rather recover a lost name then gaine a fresh honour CHAP. XCVII THree wayes there be to begin a Repute and gain dignities in a Common-wealth The first by the vertue of glorious Parents which till thou degenerate too much may raise thee upon the wings of Opinion The second is by associating with those whose actions are known eminent The third by acting some exploit either publique or private which in thy hand hath proved honourable The two first may misse being founded on Opinion the last seldome failes being grounded upon Evidence CHAP. XCVIII IF thou art cal'd to the Dignity of a Commander dignify thy place by thy Commands and that thou maist be the more perfect in commanding others practice upon thy selfe Remember thou art a servant to the publike weale and therefore forget all private respects either of kin or friend Remember thou art a Champion for a Kingdome forget therefore all private affections either of Love or Hate He that would do his Country right must not be too sensible of a personall wrong CHAP. CXIX IT is the part of a wise Commander to read Books not so much as Men nor men so much as Nations He that can discerne the inclinations conditions and passions of a Kingdome gaines his Prince a great advantage both in Peace and Warre CHAP. C. ANd you most High and Mighty Princes of this lower World who at this intricate and various game of Warre vye Kingdomes and winne Crownes and by the death of your renowned Subjects gaine the lives of your bold-hearted Enemies Know there is a Quo Warranto Whereto you are to give account of your Eye-glorious actions according to the righteous rules of Sacred Justice How warrantable it is to rend imperiall Crownes from off the Soveraign heads of their too weak possessours or to snatch Scepters from out the conquer'd hand of heaven-anointed Majesty and by your vast ambitions still to enlarge your large Dominions with Kingdomes â—avisht from their naturall Princes judge you O let your brave designs and well-weighed actions be as just as ye are glorious and consider that all your Warres whose ends are not to defend your own Possessions or to recover your dispossessions â—aâ—e but Princely injuries which none but heaven can right But where necessity strikes up her hard Alarmes or wrong'd Religion beats her zealous Marches Go on and prosper and let both Swords and Stratagems proclaim a victory whose noys'd renown may fill the world with your eternall Glory The End of the first Century ENCHIRIDION The Second Book To the faire Branch of growing Honour and true vertue Mrs Elizabeth Vsher onely Daughter and Heir apparent to the most Reverend Father in God JAMES Arch-Bishop of Armagh Lord Primate of all Ireland His GRACE SWEET LADY I Present your faire hands with this my Enchiridion to begin a new Decade of our blest Accompt If it adde nothing to your well-instructed Knowledge it may bring somewhat to your well-dispos'd Remembrance If either I have my end and you my endeavour The service which I owe and the affection which I bear your most incomparable Parents challenges the utmost of my ability wherein if I could light you but the least step towards the happinesse you ayme at how happy should I be Goe forward in the way which you have chosen wherein if my Hand cannot lead you my Heart shall follow you and where the weaknesse of my power shewes defect there the vigour of my Will shall make supply Wâ—oam covetous of your happinesse in both Kingdomes and Worlds FRA. QUARLES Enchiridion Cent. 2. CHAP. I. A Promise is a child of the understanding and the will the understanding begets it the will brings it forth he that performes it delivers the mother he that breakes it murthers the child If he be begotten in the absence of the understanding it is a Bastard but the child must be kept If thou mistrust thy understanding promise not if thou hast promised break it not it is better to maintain a Bastard then to murther a child CHAP. II. CHarity is a naked child giving hony to a Bee without wings naked because excuselesse and simple a child because tender and growing giving hony because hony is pleasant and comfortable to a Bee because a Bee is laborious and deserving without wings because helplesse and wanting If thou deniest to such thou killest a Bee If thou giv'st to other then such thou preserv'st a Drone CHAP. III. BEfore thy undertaking of any designe weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt if the glory outweigh the danger it is cowardize to neglect it if the danger exceed the glory it is rashnesse to attempt it if the Balances stand poiz'd let thy owne Genius cast them CHAP. IV. VVOuldest thou know the lawfulnesse of the action which thou desirest to undertak let thy devotion recommend it to divine blessing if it be lawfull thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer if unlawfull thou shalt finde thy prayer discourag'd by thy heart That action is not warrantable which either blushes to begge a blessing or having succeeded dares not present thanksgiving CHAP. V. IF evill men speake good or good men evill of thy conversation examen all thy actions and suspect thy selfe But if evill men speake evill of thee hold it as thy honour and by way of thankefulnesse love them but upon condition that they continue to hate thee CHAP. VI IF thou hope to please all thy hopes are vaine if thou feare to displease some thy feares are idle The way to please thy selfe is not to displease the best and the way to displease the best is to please the most if thou canst fashion thy selfe to please all thou shalt displease him that is All in All CHAP. VII IF thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbour in vain thou professest thy love to God for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbour is begotten and by the love to thy neighbour thy love to God is nourisht CHAP. VIII THy ignorance in unrevealed Mysteries is the mother of