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A08274	The fathers legacie VVith precepts morall, and prayers diuine: fitted for all sorts, both yong and old, times and seasons: morning, noone, and night.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1625 (1625)	STC 18607; ESTC S119833	7,413	36

THE FATHERS LEGACIE With precepts Morall and prayers Diuine Fitted for all sorts both yong and old times and seasons Morning Noone and Night LONDON Printed for Iohn Marriot in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet 1625. The Fathers Receipt to cure the Sonnes soules sicknesse TAke early in the morning of thy life a Quart of true and vnfained Repentance of Niniuie and put to it both your hands full of feruent Faith in Christs blood which was shed for you with asmuch Hope and Charity of the purest that you can purchase with teares vnfained from the Garden of Gods Word of each of these a like quantity and put them into the vessell of a cleare and vnspotted conscience and let them boile well in the fiery flames of true and hearty loue till you see by the perfect eye of your faith and feele by your zeale illuminated the black fome of the loue of the world to stinke in your stomacke Then scumme it off with the spoone of faithfull prayer that done take the immaculate cloath of Christs pure innocency and couer you warme with as many cloathes of the Amendment of life as God shall strengthen you to beare And then lie downe on your bed ioyned with the peace of God and sweat out all the vile poison of couetousnesse Idolatry and the participation thereof with alkind of pride oppression extortion deceit sedition sects enuie swearing adultery theft drunkennesse sloth and the like let this bee distilled through the limbeck of a clean heart then apply the sweet ointment of a good conuersation and lay it to your nose for feare you smell after your neighbors goods And when you feele your selfe clensed from all these fore-named diseases then take the powder of Say-well and lay it on your tongue to sauour your mouth and the eares of the hearers but drink three times as much Doe-well And anoint your hands with the oyle of gladnesse to doe good workes that they may be supple and ready to minister to the poore distressed members of Christ as you see good occasion and are able but beware of taking the wind of vaine-glory in the giuing lest the daily gusts therof do you much harme let these bee incorporated all into one body with the iuyce of the Herbe of Grace of which if thou faile all the rest will doe thee little pleasure neither can they bee operatiue to either soule or body And then arise from sin willingly walk out your course worthily and take vp Christs crosse patiently and beare it thankfully obserue these precepts carefully and be mindfull of them daily and pray these prayers following zealously and God will blesse thee continually and so shalt thou liue euerlastingly which God grant Amen say I. Probatum est By thy Father The Fathers Legacy In certaine Morall precepts for the better ordering of his life Concerning thy selfe 1 BEgin the day in the seruice of God continue it in his feare that thou mayest end it in his fauor 2 When thou canst not spend the day in honourable actions thou maiest in vertuous Contemplations but bee sure to put thy knowledge into practice 3 In all things shew a noble mind and aboue all things auoid basenesse if thy birth be noble shame it not if meane let thy vertues raise it 4 Neuer striue to please all men or indeed any man whom thou needst not feare since whateuer thou doest will displease some body if thou canst please thy selfe and not offend God it is no matter whether others be pleased or no. 5 Be neither seruile nor officious to any though greater then thy selfe from whom thou neither regardest fauour nor fearest wrath giue them no occasion of offence nor take iniury at their hands 6 With thy superior in degree shew thy selfe neither too awfull nor familiar with thy equall bee both courteous and familiar with thy inferiour though courteous yet not too familiar 7 Bee sparing to praise or dispraise thy selfe in any quality the first sauour of vaine-glory the other of folly neither meddle with others actions either in way of approbation or contumely for as the one will get thee neuer the more loue so the other will will get thee much more hatred 8 Auoide rather those that flatter thee then those that reproue thee one loues thy purse the other thy person Intrude not thy selfe into any company where the place is priuate nor enter into counsell vnrequired and let thy aduice sauour rather of wisdome then wit for so thou shalt saue thy credit and thy friends 10 Let thy company where thou mayest haue welcome be waies of the best sort but shun all those that shall intice thee to any base action 11 Marry not till thou beest thy owne man to dispose of thy estate thy selfe neither marry till thou hast a competent estate to defray that charge which mariage of necessity brings with it 12 If thou be poore marry late and far off if rich quickly and neer home let thy wife be either vertuous noble rich or faire for without these or one of these there can be no loue Nobilitie and riches may be a meanes to aduance posteritie vertue and beauty will adde to thy selfe pleasure and content but neuer marry for beauty onely lest time or sicknesse shew thee thy folly 13 As neere as thou canst chose one better qualified in mind then body whose soule is faire as her face hansome and neat in her apparell not gay nor sluttish silent yet not dumbe when occasion serues to speake with a blushing cheeke rather then a brazen forehead milde and gentle spirited and one that cannot bee angry free-hearted yet not lauish louing to all familiar to few alwaies mery seldome wanton 14 If thou hast children bring them vp in all noble qualities to make them worthy instruments either for Church or Common-wealth but constraine none of them to apply themselues to any thing against nature and winne them rather by loue and gentlenesse then harsh seuerity 15 Let thy house be rather necessary and neat then large and rude yet if thy estate and calling be great let thy house bee answerable without and within 16 Let thy house-keeping be alwaies bountifull neuer prodigall rather abounding then wanting but neuer to win credit stretch thy purse beyond its bounds nor let thy charge bee greater then thy reuenues and take heed of paying vse-mony 17 Let all thy house funiture be of the best not only to shew but for vse also so shalt thou not onely content but pleasure thy friends whose loue if thou wilt gaine let thy house be to him alwaies as his own freely without grudging the signe of a base nature 18 Inuite not any man especially great men to thy house vnlesse thou haue exercise to recreate them abroad aswell as within hunting hawking bowling c. for without these he will quickly be weary and let me aduise thee if thou be able alwaies to keepe a stable of good horses excellent for some qualitie which will

not onely please all men but shall get thee the name of generous 19 Let thy seruants bee so many as thou mayest imploy in honest offices such as will neither be idle nor ill imployd for thy house affaires choose aged well experienced men rather profitable then hansome but such as waite on thy person or thy friends gentle-men-like in body or mind neither let drudges as horse-keepers or labourers or such like come neere thy person or thy table for either their rude behauiour or ill smell will bee offensiue For thy maidseruants take this rule let thy house bee well deckt with them such I meane as be hansome for they grace a house more then all thy other furniture and let thy wife haue alwayes a couple of Gentlewomen to attend her person at the least and remember that sluts and foule sowes will haue alwaies sluttish conditions 20 Finally banish from thy house all rude and ruffian-like fellowes with ignorant and hypocriticall puritans A Morning Prayer O LORD God our most gracious louing and mercifull FATHER in Christ Iesus we thy poore and most vnworthy seruants do here prostrate our selues both soules and bodies before the Throne of thy heauenly Maiesty humbly acknowledging and confessing from the bottom of our hearts that we are most vile miserable and sinfull wretches conceiued in sin brought forth in iniquitie and so haue continued all our life time Not worthy O Lord of the least of all thy blessings but deserue iustly for our sinnes eternall death and damnation and to be cast for euer from thy presence Heauenly Father wee confesse freely against our owne soules that our sins are moe in number then the hairs of our heads or the sands of the sea or the stars of heauen and that we haue broken and transgressed al thy holy Commandemēts both in thought word and deed from our infancy to our youth from our youth to our riper age from the day of our birth to this present day The euil O Lord which we should not doe we haue done and the good which we should haue done we haue omitted We haue made no conscience of our wayes no regard of thy promises no feare of thy threatnings We haue made vs other gods in thy sight a god of our gold a god of our belly a god of euery affection we haue blasphemed thy holy name wee haue profaned thy Sabbaths we haue polluted thy Sanctuary wee haue despised thy Word we haue done all manner of euill in thy sight and the feare of thy Maiesty hath not beene before vs. Thy mercy hath not allured vs thy iudgements haue not terrified vs but with a high hand we haue heaped sinne vpon sinne and gone on still in all manner of wickednesse vntill wee haue made it too heauy a burden for vs to beare What then belongs vnto vs thou iust Iudge of all the world but eternall confusion both of soule and body Neuerthelesse appealing from thy iustice wee implore thy mercy and intreat thee in Iesus Christ to be reconciled vnto vs for his sake to pardon and forgiue vs all our sins to naile them on his Crosse to bury them in his graue and to warn them away in his most pretious bloud Wash vs O Lord and wee shall be clean clense vs and wee shall passe the snow in whitnesse Good Lord be mercifull vnto vs pardon and forgiue vs all that is past and giue vs grace to leade a more holy life then we haue done hitherto And to this end O blessed Lord God because our hearts are the sinkes of all our sinnes and the fountaines of all our vncleannesse sanctifie our vncleane hearts mortifie our sinfull affections pacifie our impure thoughts clense our wicked cogitations O Lord renew a right spirit within vs O Lord giue vs grace to conceiue aright of the wonderfull things of thy Law to practice the things that concerne thy glory And because O Lord wee should be the more vnworthy to receiue any good thing from thee if we should not be truly thankfull for those many good things which we haue already receiued we render vnto thy diuine Maiesty all possible praise and thankes for all those blessings which thou hast so mercifully from time to time bestowed vpon vs. We thanke thee O Lord for our election before we were for our creation and what we are for our redemption when we were lost for our iustification and sanctification in this life and for our assured hope of glorification in the life to come We thanke thee deare Father for whatsoeuer good concerns either soule or body for our liues and for our liberty for our peace for our plenty for our health and our prosperitie and aboue all for the sweet and inestimable iewell of thy holy Word Thou hast been more gracious to vs then to other Nations O Lord we were a people that sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death but thou hast opened our eyes and giuen vs a lanterne for our feete and a light for our paths let not our sins we beseech thee remoue this candle-sticke from vs. Wee thanke thee O Lord that thou hast sealed vnto our consciences the free and full remission of all our sinnes in Christ Iesus Wee thanke thee that thou hast kept vs from many sinnes which our fraile nature might haue committed and for sauing vs from many dangers whereinto we might haue fallen Lord keepe vs both from sinne and danger And because both of the weaknesse of our nature and the number of our enemies how busie they are to tempt how ready we are to yeeld Lord shield vs with thy grace and protect vs with thy Spirit against all the assaults temptations both of the world the flesh and the deuill Let not the flesh allure vs let not the world bewitch vs let not the deuill vanquish vs but grant good God that by the mediation of Christ and the assistance of thy blessed Spirit against all these we may be more then conquerours Wee thanke thee O Lord that thou hast preserued vs to this present houre and because the time of our pilgrimage here on earth is but short Lord giue vs grace to spend it in thy feare teach vs to number our dayes and that little time we haue to liue to bestow it wisely And for as much as thy Kingdome O Christ is not of this world neither consisteth in meat or drinke but in righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost grant O heauenly Father that we renouncing this world and crucifying the lusts of this sinfull life and being borne anew by thy Word and holy Spirit setting our affections vpon things aboue and hauing our conuersation in heauen may after this life ended obtaine the inheritance of eternall life and rest with thee and thy Sonne Christ in the Kingdom of Heauen for euer and euer Amen Our Father which art c. An Euening Prayer OH eternall and euer-liuing God most holy and iust most omnipotent