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A07610	A mirrour for Christian states: or, A table of politick vertues considerable amongst Christians Divided, into three bookes. Reviewed, and augmented, by E. Molinier, of Tolose priest, and Doctor of Divinitie. And by him dedicated, ro [sic] the most illustrious lord, the Lord Cardinall of Valette, Archbishop of Tolose. Translated into English, by VVilliam Tyrvvhit, Sen. Esquire.; Politiques chrestiennes. English	Molinier, Étienne, d. 1650.; Tyrwhit, William.	1635 (1635)	STC 18003; ESTC S112798	133,530	388

guided which chiefely suteth with the tongue of Magistrates and men of Authority who by the motives which their speeches inspires in the hearts of Princes and people turne and mannage with their tongues as with an Helme in Steerage the flo●ing vessels of States and Empires Now it is necessary that hee who stands at the Helme be couragious to resist stormes and tempests for then it is when hee is put to it either thereby to save the ship or as a good Pilot to die with helme in hand Free speeches are necessarie in publicke necessities and then it is we are either to deliver affaires from shipwracke by the freedome of speech or perish in speaking generously The Scripture calls the words of Wisemen Stings and sharpe nayles for they ought to be free and faithfull but freedome of speech cannot be without sharpenesse nor truth without stinging as it is sayd how though honey be sweet and pleasing in its owne Nature yet being applied to sores it will prick and sting Honey was disallowed in the Sacrifices of the old Law Levit c. 1. D Hiero ep 35. which S. Ierome explicateth mistically saying That a discourse steeped in the Honey of a flattering adulation not having the sharpenesse and sting of a free and biting truth is not a Sacrifice pleasing in Gods fight For they who are in Office and Authoritie are nor tied onely by a civill but by a naturall and Divine Obligation to speak boldly and freely when either Gods honour or the publicke good requiteth and if at such time they either flatter or palliat affaires to please men Deu● dissipabit ossa eorum qui hominibus placent consis si sunt quoniam Deus crea●it cos God will scorne and confound them sayth the Prophet and will breake their bones to wit their power and greatnesse whose Interest they preferre before Iustice But to behold the lively modell of Politicke vertue attended by all these qualities I have represented there needs no more but only to cast our eies upon the excellent Orations of antient Captaines Magistrates and States-men of whom wee still reade in the Greeke and Romane Histories Wee shall there discover a quicke strength a round brevitie an elegant puritie a solid utility and a couragious liberty Their words are strong their reasons pressing their clauses short then sentences quicke and their points piercing Their discourse not drawn at length but succinct which as a wel bent bow shoot not sweet floures at our eares but sharpe thornes at our hearts nothing vanquishing idle or vaine all tends to the point all beares weight all conduces to the matter nor can a word be wanting but part of the sense clearenesse vigour or necessary gracefulnesse for perswasion will be found defective One ma therein observe after occasions fi●ly ap phended to speak with profit truth declared to purpose and with resolution excellent maximes deduced from experience beeing the soule and spirit of Civill Eloquence and in conclusion the happy effects springing from the sage and free discourses of these brave and generous spirits violences expressed seditions asswaged wicked designes choked good counsels established warres quenched hearts reconciled Lawes authorized peple delivered briefly estates preserved by those eloquent and prudent tongues and these great vessels saved from shipwracke by the conduct of so small a sterne Wherefore all such as wil hoist sayle in the great and surging Sea of Civill affaires ought above al things to study and exercise themselves in the well guiding this sterne which well handled saves common wealth but il slackly managed or imprudently conducted it exposeth them to a thousand dangers Nay the Emperours themselves sleighted not this point Caesar Augustus Tyberius were no lesse exercised in Eloquence than in armes And Iacitus in his Annals observeth that the first Emperour who was forced to speake by proxie and to study Orations and other mens composures was Nero who weakened with voluptuousnesse made use of Seneca's wit in this service But the tongue is not onely the guide of Empires The conclusion of this worke but the sacred Rudder also of the Churches ship Saint Peters successors are the Pilots and their tongues Heavens spokes-men and interpreters of the verities of Faith conduct and guide it through all winds of errours and storms of Hel and the world or rather the Holy-ghost who gives motion to their tongues who descended upon them in forme of tongues to cause them to speake is both the Pilot governing the Helme and the Helme conducting the Vessel It is in this Ship I saile it is to this Celestial tongue I submit these insufficiences of mine If among so many words any Errors unawares have slipt in It is this Helme whose conduct I protest to follow if against my will and intention I have strayed in the prosecution of this discourse FINIS

acquire generall approbation All men take notice of faults few inquire into perfections We rather discover in God what he is not than what hee is and imperfections which cannot possibly suit with him doe sooner present themselves to our imaginations than perfections though absolutely essentiall in him A small errour was soone espied in certaine pictures Apelles exposed in publike but a thousand excellent touches therein were not at all observed Philopaemons dwarf like stature was contemned but the magnanimity of his spirit uncommended One houre of Eclipse causeth the Sunne to be more gazed at than a thousand cleare dayes All men looke upon the Sunne in Eclipse but there never was any save one onely Eudoxus who lost his sight by the over great pleasure he tooke in fixedly beholding those glorious beames Those souldiers who followed Caesars triumph published his vices but concealed his victories Briefly one single imperfection among a million of excellent endowments in a publike person is sufficient to stirre up the sting of tongues As one onely ulcer in a sound body is enough to draw flyes to fall upon it So as the most certainetriall of a vertue appearing in publike is the good reputation and common approbation of the people by so much the lesse suspected when it praiseth as it is more inclinable to carpe than commend and in that nature and custome inclining it to invectives there had need be a very solid subject to draw it to commendations The generall voyce is very defective in what concerneth the knowledge of such truths as we are to follow and in the election of those good things we are to affect since the senses not reason rule these decrees And truely herein this sentence is verified That the greatest voyce is the worst But in the approbation or reprobation in the blame or praise of publike persons experience hath almost at all times verified this contrary Maxime The voyce of the people is the voyce of God And it is a strange thing to consider how that which causeth them to erre in the judgment of generall truth keepes them from erring so easily in the approbation of particular actions The reason is for that before they approve any action but chiefly a publike one concerning themselves as being good and just it is necessary the benefit be so cleare so evident and palpable as to cause it selfe to be perceived by its utility and to discover it selfe by its owne clearenesse Setled and well framed spirits judging by Maximes presently perceive a farre off the good of a publike action but the muddy-brain'd multitude judging onely by the sense seeth not at all but when experience hath so manifested it unto them as there is no question to be made It knoweth not how to commend but when it tasteth the fruit Wherefore in this point the voyce of the people is ordinarily an Oracle Besdes the knowledge of what is worthy of honour is generall to all and is often more cleare in those in whom art hath not corrupted nature and who not knowing how to cloake ill by reasons precepts and apparances of good cannot admit nor approve good but ●●its naked purity and in the ingenuity of ●●s naturall grace Moreover God often pronounceth his judgements by the mouth of the people Balaams she-Asse speakes and God inspireth words Sucking babes unloose the string of their stammering tongues to praise vertuous persons now it is God himselfe who makth use of babes and sucklings to raise the praises of vertuous persons to farther perfection they afford the tongue God gives the motion the suffrage is from earth but the sentence from heaven All this proves how the common voice of the people in the praise and commendation of famous persons seldome straye●h from truth and chiefly when it is not onely a common and universall voyce but a constant firme and persevering approbation For to be onely approved by the people for some short time or during the hear of some plausible action is rather to be esteemed a sudden flash of fortune than any true testimony of merit it is rather a reproach than a glory since this may well happen to most wicked persons to the seditious to Saturnines to Gracchies But to be constantly and with perseverance commended by common suffrages cannot bee other than justly and with reason Phocion himselfe and Aristides have not enjoyed this priviledge to whom though vertue hath not beene deficient yet hath good fortune fayled them And truely to conserve constantly an untainted reputation amidst so many affections opinions judgements passions motions various interests among so divers oppositions affaires difficulties favours disgraces alterations vicissitudes and worldly revolutions I cannot say whether one hath more need of integrity of prudence or of good fortune or rather of an equall share in all the three The gold is well refined that abideth this touch the liquor well purified which passeth by this Alembeck the childe worthy of Sparta which this vineger tryeth the lot very legall that swims upon this Rone the Palme very strong which boweth not under this burthen the onely and singular Alpheus which conserveth the sweetnesse of his waters through the brackish waves of this Sea and that name is happy and right fortunate which can passe through so many censures without being interessed and by so many mouthes without being blasted CHAP. 10. Of the obligation concerning a good reputation for profiting the publicke THis generall consideration of the reputation which accompanies the vertue of publicke persons opens mee the way to speake more particularly of what concerneth this subject And first of the obligation which they who desire to profit the publicke haue to endeavour to acquire and conserve this good repute A good reputation maketh not the vertue greater but onely more illustrious it affordeth it not any farther perfection but greater glory and as the light of the Sunne addeth nothing to the beauty of the Vniverse but doth onely manifest it and expose it to sight so honour is a light which augmenteth not but discouereth the beauty of vertue Praise increaseth not but declareth merit Now it is not sufficient for man borne for society to be good in himselfe if he appeare not so to others and that he be acknowledged for a good man not so much for his priuate glory as for the publike avayle since if contenting himselfe with the testimony of his priuate conscience he neglect that of a good name he is unjust toward himselfe depriuing himselfe of the honour due to vertue and more unjust toward others in frustrating them of the fruit of that good example he oweth them For it is another fruit of honour that by making vertue more illustrious he thereby maketh it more usefull and by how much he causeth it to be more cognoscible the more profitable doth he make it the prayse he produceth being as a sacred seed causing either the secret reproach of the opposite vice or the desire of a like vertue to spring

A MIRROVR FOR CHRISTIAN STATES OR A Table of Politick Vertues considerable amongst Christians Divided into Three Bookes Reviewed and augmented by E. MOLINIER of Tolose Priest and Doctor of Divinitie And by him Dedicated to the most Illustrious Lord the Lord Cardinall of Valette Archbishop of Tolose Translated into English by VVILLIAM TYRVVHIT Sen. Esquire PSAL. 2. Bee Taught yee who Iudge the Earth LONDON Printed by THOM. HARPER 1635. Iulij 20. 1634. Perlegi hunc Librum cui Titulus A Mirrour for Christian States unà cum Epistola Dedicatoriâ ad Lectorem qui continet in toto folia 63. aut crciter in quibus nihil reperio sana Doctrinae aut bonis moribus contrarium quo minùs cum publicâ utilitato imprimi quaant it a tamen ut si non intra annum proximè sequeniem typis mandentur haec Licentia sit omnino irrita GVLIELMYS HAYVVOOD Capel Domest Archiep. Cant. TO THE RIGHT ILLVstrious Prince IAMES STEVVART Duke of Lenox Earle of March Lord Darnley Aubigney Torbolton and Methuen Baron of Leighton Bromswoulde Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privie-Councell My Lord IN the wisest Counsell of the happiest Kingdome you sit Eminent and judicious that by the advantage of your Princely extraction this by the Industry of your owne endeavors Hereby your Grace hath confuted time proving Experience is not alwayes wrinckled nor Wisedome gray-hayr'd This Greatnesse of Your bloud hath placed you neere to the most glorious Monarch and the splendor of Your Vertue addeth yet a higher Title Among these universall Acclamations it were a Crime black as Malice should I be silent who to the Memory of the great and Good Duke of Richmond Your Graces Vncle owe a Religious Tribute You are His heyre and I by the Law of Gratitude Your Vassall Receive then with a gracious Eye this first tender of a Service than which none more humble none more sincere And by the Indulgency of Your Favor give life to this Translation which by Your Acceptation shall tryumph over Envie Though herein I may seeme presumptuous yet shall I not I hope prove unserviceable esteeming no mans happinesse above mine being admitted the Honor of Subscribing my selfe Your Graces most humble and most Devoted Servant WILLIAM TYRVVHIT To the Reader HAving ever esteemed that the imployment of those Talents either naturally bestowed on man by God or acquired by study and industry ought more properly yea and of duty rather to be imployed in the service of our King and Country than to be made use of in the satisfaction of our private humours I doe here in acquittance of that generall obligation adventure to offer up this poore mite of my endeavours among the many learned elaborate workes which the choyce wits and learned pens of our age produce in all kindes It is but a translation the originall belonging to a very learned and reverend French Author whose fluent style and profound learning so happily appearing in his owne language made mee not a little timorous to undertake to make him speake English being iustly apprehensive as well of doing him wrong as disgracing my selfe but the zealous desire I had to be serviceable to all such studious and worthy persons who haply not understanding the French language are yet desirous to enable and adorn themselves with those vertues and qualities requisite for such who by an honest and noble ambition doe any way ayme to be rightly usefull for the service of our Soveraigne in the most eminent offices and charges of this great Empire did so farre over-rule me as I rather choose to undergoe that hazard than to bereave them of so great a benefit by my over-much bashfulnesse Now though the practise of those things contained in this Treatise belong properly to such choyce persons whose vertues excellent endowments or advantage of birth together with our Soveraignes favours make capable for the conduct of weighty affaires yet doth the speculative part thereof indifferently appertaine to all generous spirits I shall not need any further to commend the Author his worke will sufficiently speake for him The onely favour I am to require is for the Translator who if he have not sufficiently acquitted himselfe or have come short of those lively expressions appearing in the originall consider gentle Reader that few Painters have ever beene able to equalize the purtraits drawne by Apelles in any there most exact copies It would therefore prove an unexcusable arrogancy in me should I have the least imagination of entring into comparison with so excellent a French Penne by any English of mine if you please therefore to excuse my defects and accept of my good desires you shall therein much incourage me to undertake the like labours in whatsoever I shall suppose may conduce to publicke utility Vale. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS AND RIGHT REVEREND FATHER MY LORD THE CARDINALL OF VALETTE ARCHBISHOP OF TOLOSE My LORD BEhold a young Eagle which his Father presents before the rayes of the rising Sunne to trie if his vigour bee sutable to his Courage Hee is Eagle-like in daring to soare so high and in that the Lustre of your new Purple causing you to shine as a rising Starre in the French Church darting upon him doth not dazle him But should hee Encounter the awefull Eye of your censure presuming to implore the gracious aspect of your benignity I alreadie see his mis-fortune and must confesse that Rashnesse hath ruined the Childe and blind Affection the Father But supposing this disaster yet may the first notwithstanding frame his excuse out of his small Experience the second upon Nature the one and the other upon their Zeale and Devotion to your name But they expect a more favorable Event Hoping the Orient of your Glory wil prove no lesse gracious than that of the Sunne never shewing it selfe hot or scortching upon his first appearance but rather milde and favourable strowing the earth with Pearles and Roses Their hope and confidence is not a little increased in that TOLOSE Mother to the Author acknowledging your Grace as her lawfull Pastor this Worke in that respect seemes not so properly to be presented as payd unto you Since the Law saies the tree belongs to the field and that the fruies therof depend not onely on the tree but on the soyle also The Field therefore being yours the Tree and Fruits are likewise yours But if the fruit bee not well relished or distastefull the Tree committed to your care receiving as the Apostle saith Its watering from your hands and its increase from God may happily more prosperously hereafter fructifie to his Glory and your service If you daigne to accept it from him who desires ever to be esteeme My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most obedient Servant E. MOLINIER TO THE READER YOu may perhaps wonder gentle Reader to see mee adde this little abortive to the importunate spawne of so many Bookes which as the

contrary motions to fall into the concordancy of so just a cadence as Aristotle himselfe acknowledgeth such a harmony in so great a contrariety could not possibly proceed from any rash or sudden encounter but from the sage conduct of some intellectuall spirit Perceive we not how in man Reason either doth or ought to conduct both the will the appetite the senses the members the body the passions affections habitudes vertues cogitations words actions resorts motions and al the oeconomy of this worlds abridgement Is it not apparant that humane reason governes all this sublunary world guideth all the inferiour creatures appeaseth the Lyons fury surmounts the Elephants force reacheth the Eagle-high flight danteth the Tigers rage bridleth the Horses toughnesse stayes the Buls mad heat applieth to his particular use the most indomitable beasts and causeth that to become as it were reasonable by direction which is otherwise unreasonable by nature and extraction Is it not evident how in all the parts both of Art and Science Reason is the first mover and how she disposeth Words in Grammar Clauses in Rhetorick Cadencies in Poetry Arguments in Logick Reasons in Naturall Vertues in Morall Lawes in Civill Measures in Geometry Numbers in Arithmetick Tunes in Musick Drugs in Physick Stones in Architecture Colours in Painting and Materials in all sorts of Workmanships A marvellous thing that the wit of man communicateth a kinde of reason even to insensible things as wood stones iron and the like in bestowing on them so beautifull an order in these works which as those of Dedalus do insensible move and do live inanimate and though unresonable do yet carry upon them the Workmans understanding If therefore Reason move and govern all in Nature Science and Art should not Reason likewise in civill society direct all And that the wise who in this great body is as Reason and the Intelligent Soule by his wisdome should also bee the moving Soule thereof by his counsels Is it fitting Reason being the leading card in petty matters that folly should proceed in important occasions or that imprudency give the motion or ambition preoccupate the place wisdome ought to possesse or that rashnesse snatch away the steerage or helm which Reason should guide I have seene a great vanity under heaven saith the Spirit of God in the Scripture fools rays'd upon the Tribunall the wise sitting on the ground it is like as to see the Saylor at the Poop and the Pilot at the Prow But yet a slender talent of wisdome is not sufficient for such as ought by their counsels to procure publick peace and by their judgements to maintain justice among men since it is necessary that whatsoever communicateth any goodnes should possesse the same in eminency As God doth essence the Primum mobile motion the Sunne light Fire heat Musk good sent Salt quick savour and the Fountain water whatsoever seeketh to diffuse ought to bee well filled and redound to it selfe to suffice others as Nature first rayseth plants and other creatures to their perfect essence before she forme in them seeds for the communication of their essence by propagation so wisdome ought to have well ripened and perfected judgement before it bee able to produce the seeds of sage counsels whence springs the good and tranquility of States CHAP. III. That Politick Wisdome is rare and what parts are requisite for the framing thereof BVT Wisdome as saith Aristotle in his Ethicks being an excellent knowledge of things esspecially of most high and universall matters as it ought to be the Squire the Rule and Measure of the meanest and most particular affayres such as those ordinarily happening in civill affayres so is it requisite for the raysing it selfe to a higher pitch it be adorned with a capable spirit a powerfull judgement a strong nature a deeper study and a very great experience qualities which though separate are not very ordinary being united are admirable Nature without study is by so much the more dangerous by how much it is more violent for as without husbandry the fatnesse of any field serveth only to bring forth the more brambles which choak the good seed so without study which cultivateth nature the strength of spirit serves only to produce the more violent passions which darken reason and hinder it from seeing cleare into affayres It is true experience and honesty may in some sort rectifie this fault but never either sufficiently nor perfectly repayre it for still without Science experience remayneth blinde honesty feeble and both of them faulty Honesty desires good but knowes it not experience knows it yet only by the events which are but particulars and daily changeable and not by immoveable principles universall and applyable to all occurrents so as experience without science walketh still either fearfully or rashly but knowledge seeing all things in their sourses and infallible cause perfecteth nature guideth honesty lightneth experience and causeth it to march confidently upon all occasions to the end it bee not timerous and understandingly lest it be precipitate On the other side study without a strong nature is rather chargeable than usefull as solid meates to a sickly stomack oppressing it with his ponderosity instead of nourishing it by naturall digestion and in truth wits for the most part resemble severall soyles the strong beare good corne weake earth either choakes the graine or change it into cockle A good naturall wit and study matching together open the passage to high employments But before exercise have put them into practice they are as tooles in the hand or reasons in the thoughts of a workman who hath Art but no practice so as without experience these two qualities though right commendable are not yet sufficient to frame what is tearmed wisdome being an excellency in the knowledge of things One attayneth the Art of Fencing upon the Theater Limming upon the Picture and as Plato sayth the Potters Art is finished upon his earthen ware A good naturall wit disposeth study formeth experience perfecteth man and these three parts happily united make up a right wiseman requisite for the conduct of weighty affayres And as three things are fitting for tillage fertillity of soyle goodnesse of seed the husbandmans industry so in point of our subject these three peeces are necessary a good wit a better instruction and Art acquired by use Wherefore it is that in a well ordered warre souldiers are never raysed to the highest ranks before they have passed thorow the meanest offices to the end that having learned this exercise in inferiour charges they may come thorowly instructed to more important places So likewise in well policed States highest dignities are never conferred but upon such who have gayned experience in meaner offices The ancient Romans mounted not at once to the Consulship but by degrees as by the Oedility the Tribunat the Pontificat these being the steps whereby they ascended and as schooles of honour where those were framed for affayres whom they after intended to

reflection bestoweth upon men Without this stamp gold is not valuable to iron with this Marke iron passeth for gold It is not so much the worth as the esteeme which setteth a value upon all things in the Commerce of this world It is the like of wisdome and vertue as of the precious stone called Phengite which though right beautifull and of excellent luster yet remaineth it dull and darke if the Sunne shine not thereon so the most excellent qualities languish and wither as unknowne and despised if the light of publike esteeme doth not thereto adde both luster and authority For we are to acknowledge the powerfull Empire which opinion hath eyther acquired or usurped over humane spirits an Empire of such extent as she takes notice of all things and so absolute as there is no farther any appeale from the Decrees she pronouneeth And though an ancient Sage sayd that truth is the strongest and most powerfull thing yet so it is that opinion often robs her other rayments and seizeth on her scepter so as if she once establisher throne in mens thoughts truth will be ill troubled to regain possession shee commandeth without contradiction shee governs at pleasure shee rayseth what delighteth her and represseth what she disesteemeth she sets the price on all things on wits on vertues on industry on science and whatso ●●●ieth not her seale is scarce saleable though it bee otherwise valuable Wherefore as I have cursorily touched in the second ●ooke Vertue desiring to become profitable for the publick ought to seek the suffrage of publick opinion to bee authorized and by the authority which opinion acquireth for her in mens spirits to allow weight to her counsels and effects to her just intentions And truly it is fearce credible how much power and efficacy the opinion men conceive of any thing hath to make it receivable nay good and profitable The opinion of the Doctors sufficiency and of the vertue of his receits curethm●●● sick folks than the medicines and ●cceits themselves yea this pers●●sion hath sometimes been so powerfull as the only sight 〈◊〉 the Physitian hath cured the Patient It is sayd that the Tortois conceiveth merely in seeing by the force of imagination and Physitians hold that children carry the characters imprinted on them of those objects their mother have fixedly beheld or apprehended upon their conception as that woman whose eye attention being seriously bent upon the figure of a Moore conceived and brought forth an Aethiopian And 〈◊〉 ●●●es who conceiued spotted lambs an●●●oured as the●wigs were which the shepherds layd in their sight along the channell where they went to watering The field need to bee large should I follow all those effects of the imagination causing such miracles in the world as to make men sick by force of apprehension and againe to cure them by the same meanes drawing their remedies whence their maladies arose yea to cause horns to bud in the forehead of Cyppus King of Italy by suffering the sight of Bulbaiting to take over deep root in his phantasie where he was a spectator to produce monsters to surpasse common courses and to sport with the order of things causing men some halfe dogs others halfe fishes and others halfe horses to come to light Infants of the imagination prodigies and amazements in Nature But no farther to enlarge my selfe in the recitall of these curiosities I alleadge this only to shew how the like force imagination hath in naturall things opinion hath in morall and civill occuriences For is it not a wonder to set sometimes a mutinous multitude gr●●●bling and foaming with sory like the waves of a rought sea overturning and ma●●●cring all they meet in opposition with sire sword staves stones and other weapons which rage lights on taking and ●aling away all by their viol●●ed as do the 〈◊〉 of an overst wing rement to stay at 〈◊〉 to upon the first sight of a grave and reverenced person 〈…〉 as the Po●●●scribeth Tum meritis si forte gravem c. Who once appearing suddenly doth stay Their boldnesse and their fury doth allay Imposing silence And his mouth whence drops A sweet distilling honey calmes and stops Those raging waves and mad attempts begī By giddy choller by sad temper woon It is no marvell that as the swelling rage of the Sea threatning to swallow the whole earth breaks it selfe upon some sandie shore so this tempest of a mutinous people appeaseth it selfe at the approach of a disarmed person and that opinion stayes what force Iron and armes were unable to stop The esteeme and opinion conceived of this mans vertue dissipateth all this storme as it is sayd how the waft of an hat diverteth thunderbolts and Canon-shot But is it not yet a more remarkable example of the efficacie of opinion to see a whole armie already routed to resume courage at the very sight or voyce of some renowned Che●●etaine as though one single man inspired strength into all or as though all fighting in one all by one or one by all should obtaine the victory It is neyther the strength nor courage of the Captaine which causeth this wonder for what could one mans strength adde to a compleat armie were he an Hercules an Alexander or a Caesar It is then the Opinion onely they have conceived of his valor and conduct Opinion inspiring courage in the greatest Cowards force in the most feeble ardor in the coolest and doth with more spiritfull promptnesse than the sound of Trumpets or the influence of the Starre of Mars animate all men to fight In like manner the Pilots experience redoubles the Saylors courage amidst the affrights of most terrible tempests The masters presence sitting cheerfully at the poope affords them more hope than heretofore St. Elme shining in the Bole of the Mast The sight of him is their Sea-marke and Pole-starre he warmes their hearts and redoubleth their strength to strive against the storming Billowes And the credit their Masters authority hath acquired saves more ships than eyther Art or dexteritie The like hapneth in a Counsell and Assembly where the Authority of some one man in speciall credit and reputation effecteth more eyther toward the passing of a good and sound advice or the rejection of an unjust proposition then his reasons his discourse or Wisdome When he had yet scarce spoken his authority begins to encline them to what he would say fearing lest they should not soone enough conforme themselves to his advice his authoritie keeping them under command and his very silence in suspence and no sooner doth he begin to speake but each man hath his eye fixed on his face and his eare to his voyce he imprinteth what he speaketh and perswadeth what he pleaseth the weight of his name more then his words causeth their judgments to incline to that side wherto this ballance draweth them so as ordinarily all others suffer themselves to bee attracted to him as the Iron to the Adamant without being pressed