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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

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 SCVDAMORE * ⁎ * Printed at Paris M.DC.XXXVIII Quod Foelix faustúmquesit SERENISSIMO PRINCIPI CAROLO VVALLIAE PRINCIPI POTENTISSIMI REGIS CAROLI MAGNAE BRITANNIAE c. REGIS FILIO HAEC BASILII IMPERATOris ad suum Filium Leonem capita Admonitoria ex Graeeis Anglica facta Dicat consecrátque IACOBVS SCVDAMORVS OF THE Author BASILIVS the Author of this Treatise vvho calleth himselfe King of the Romans as their manner vvas succeeded Michael in the Easterne Empire and is sayd to haue restored the state of the Empire vvhich vvas much decayed by the ill gouernment of Michael He raigned vvith Michael one yeare and after him nineteene He dyed in the yeare 889. BASILIVS HIS PRECEPTS Sixtie 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 BASILIVS BY Christ King of the Romans to Leo his beloued sonne and Coemperour CHAPTER I. Of Instruction INSTRVCTION is a thing that doth much profite the life of man and is much to be esteemed not only of Kings but also of priuate men For it greatly benefits them that haue it both in respect of the body and soule It benefits the one by the meditation of diuine Oracles and the other by the exercise of laudable workes or by the vse of laudable exercises Therfore I thy Father and Coemperour doe exhort thee my beloued sonne to be guided by it in the gouernment of thy Kingdome For it is both an ornament to Royalty in present and doth make the rulers to be renowned for euer For as the Sunne not shining vpon the earth all things are obscure and vndiscernable So the soule being without Instruction all things are confused and out of order Embrace th●rfore Instruction and thou shalt attaine to a vertuous life For vertue only of all possessions is immortall CHAP. II. Of right Faith MAKE Sincere Faith in Christ the principall and sure foundation of all thy life that is account true Faith the principall of all things in this life and the groūd of thy hapinesse here and hereafter Worship the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost the consubstantiall Trinitie one and the only God without diuiding or confounding the same And beleiue the Dispensation or Incarnation of God the word in the flesh by which the world was deliuered from the bondage of corruption as the lawe or doctrine of thy Mother the Church doth teach thee This Faith is the perfection of all vertues This Faith is the summe and Cheife of all good things Therfore keepe this Faith safe as a speciall thing committed to thy charge with which thou hast bene brought vp from thy swadling clothes I taught thee it Doe not shame mee thy louing Father by being vnlike to mee For it is the worke of paynters indeed to draw in colours the Portraits of Princes but the Children of Kings ought to prooue liuing Images and Portraits of the vertue of their Fathers CHAP. III. Of the honour which is to be giuen to Preists KEepe thy vnderstanding sound in orthodoxe opinions and exceedingly honour thy Mother the Church which by the Holy Ghost hath bene a noursing Mother to thee and by the grace and fauour of God in Christ by my meanes hath set a crowne vpon thy head For if thou oughtst to reuerence and honour thy Parents according to the flesh much more oughtst thou to honour with exceeding honour those that haue begott thee by the Spirit of God For they doe impart but a temporary life to their Children but these doe procure vnto vs an euerlasting life by regeneration Honour therfore the Church that thou mayst be honoured of God and reuerence the Preists as our spirituall Fathers and mediators towards God For the honour of Preists redounds to God For as for thy sake it is reason that thy seruants should be honoured so it is a holy and religious worke for Gods sake to honour his Preists and as the honour which is done vnto them doth reach vnto God so the dishonour which is done vnto them doth exceedingly prouoke God to anger CHAP. IV. Of the Iudgment and Retribution to come BELEIVE that the world is subiect to corruption seeing it had a beginning but that after corruption it shall be changed againe into incorruption For none of those things that are made by God shall returne into nothing although the trangression of sinne hath togeather with vs condemned euery creature to dissolution But expecting againe the creature I meane the world to be incorruptible confesse also the Resurrection of the dead and expect that there shall be a iust Iudgment and tryall of the things that haue bene done of euery one For no euill shall escape the diuine Iudgment without punishment neither shall any good lye hid vnrewarded Neither thinke that the rewards of good workes are mortall nor that the punishments of euill workes shall euer haue an end For both haue euerlasting continuance and in both there shall be Eternity CHAP. V. Of Almes ALMES doth oftentimes according as the Scripture saith repriue from death and life seemes as it were to be bought for mony when God for our life and saluation suffers himselfe as it were to be bribed Therfore scattering mortall riches vpon earth thou dost gather immortall riches in heauen and besides it procureth vnto thee the blessings euen of this world also And in very deed doing good to others is wealth inexhaustible For by scattering it is gathered and by giuing it is againe receiued and not only with blessings of this life doth it make them rich that possesse it but also it doth make them happy with blessings of the world to come CHAP. VI. Of care and vigilance KEEPE continually in thy mind the manners of thy parents and according vnto them diligently perfect and square thy life For wee doe neither carelesly or negligently carry our selues in those things which we striue to effect but doe labour to set our selues before thee as examples and patternes of vertue thinking negligence worthy of reprehension and esteeming labour praise-wortly And vse not things of this life out of season and vnfitly but exercise thy selfe to enjoy the seeming good things of this life as one that must dye at last and mind the obtayning of the good things to come as one that is to liue euerlastingly That is vse the things of this life so as a mortall man should vse them that by the right vsing of them thou mayst gett eternall good things He that vseth them otherwise doth as our Author saith vse them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of season or vnfitly CHAP. VII Of conuersation with good men BE conuersant often with thy Ghostly Physicians that thou mayst be well and

this is thy court and to morrowe perhaps it shall not be thine and after to morrowe it shall be another bodies and the day after that another bodies soe that indeede it is neuer any bodies For if it so often changeth its Masters it hath indeede noe true Master Therfore seeing that wee must passe from this power here let vs labour by vertue to get in exchange that Kingdome which hath onely immortality and perpetuity without need of a successor As for all other things they are fading and transitory CHAP. XLII Of Remembring God IF thou makest thy conscience thy lawe and wilt not suffer that to be done to others which thou would'st not haue done to thy selfe thou wilt neuer incurre the blame of doing amisse And if thou shalt thinke vpon God also as one that ouerseeth and weigheth all thy actions as indeede he doth thou wilt not dare to sinne either openly or in priuate For although thou thinkest those things which thou doest in secret are hidden from others yet thou wilt be ashamed to doe ill before thine owne conscience and before God the ouerseer euen of the secret places of the soule For men may perceaue our bodily actions but the onely eye of God to which nothing can be hid doth see the things that are in the depth of the soule and as the Sunne shining nothing is hid in the open aire soe God beholding our actions nothing can be concealed CHAP. XLIII Of Receauing Gifts GIVE dignities freely and doe not sell places of honour for gifts For he which buyes a place of gouernment for a price doth much more buye those that he is to gouerne that trusting on thy receauing bribes he may without feare looke to take bribes himselfe also But diligently enquire and aske and preferre them to places of honour if thou wilt cast corruption and bribery out of the state which doe seeke those places freely and not with bribes For he which giues any thing for a place of honour doth looke to gaine by his place as one that by giuing gifts buyes a power to receaue gifts and so buyes a power to doe iniustice For he which comes to a place by bribes will neuer learne to doe any thing without taking of bribes and hauing thee for a teacher of bribery who ought'st to be a punisher of it he will not onely take bribes himselfe but also will compell others that are vnder him to doe the like CHAP. XLIV Of Iniustice HE which doth wrong doth not committ so great a sinne as he which permitts wrong When therefore any one that is wronged comes vnto thee doe not neglect his affliction that thou mayst not giue way to those that would doe wrong For he which is wronged doth repose all his hopes in thee onely and vnder the protection of thee whom he thinkes to haue for a reuenger of iniustice he seekes for reason of him that did the wrong And there is great reason that the suppliant should obtaine his right by thee seeing that it is iust that wrong should be repressed But if thou doest permitt iniustice and giuest way to him that doth wrong and doest neglect him that is wronged and when thou alone art able to take reuenge of him that hath done the wrong doest make no regard of Iustice where then shall the poore soule hope for refuge of whom shall he receaue Iustice but from God who wil require an account of thee for thy negligence Therfore doe iustice to him that hath suffered wrong and take reuenge of him that hath done the wrong least that in those things which thou dost neglect thou thy selfe should'st seeme to consent with those that doe wrong and make thy selfe guilty and accountable for other mens offenses CHAP. XLV Of Mortality and Immortality IN respect of thy body thou art mortall but in respect of thy soule thou art immortall Therfore prouide mortall things for thy flesh but thinke of immortall things for thy soule Put ornaments on thy body as things that are mortall vpon that which is mortall But put on immortall happinesse vpon the soule as it being immortall For although thou art set on high vpon a Throne yet after a time thou shalt come downe from it And though thou doest striue to subdue the whole earth yet after thy death thou shalt not inherit more space of ground then three cubits Therefore as one that art mortall thy selfe mind thy Royalty that is but mortall But as one that art immortall purchase and procure vnto thy selfe an immortall Kingdome by vertue and good workes For for this cause thou wert preferred to mortall power that by it thou mightst gaine an immortall Kingdome CHAP. XLVI Of Magistrates HAVE the same thought of those that are vnder thee as thou would'st haue of thy selfe if thou wert a subiect in their place And doe what thou canst that they may be well iffected to thy gouernment For they reigne most sweetly which doe most gently vse their subiects and who most esteeming those that are worthy doe good vnto them and doe no wrong to those that are vnworthy But thou shalt get most creditt and glory if thou shalt assigne to euery one their proper place and if thou shalt appoint places of gouernment to those that are worthy to be gouernours and if likewise thou shalt cause those that are vnder their gouernment neither to carrie themselues insolently towards their gouernours not yet to be insolently vsed by them Therfore knowe euery one and so fitly order the matters belonging to Gouernors and to those which are vnder gouernment that Harts may not seeme to rule ouer Lyons but Lyons ouer Harts CHAP. XLVII Of Peace THOV shalt make thy selfe happy euen without paines if thou dost endeauour to settle peace in those parts of thy Kingdome that are at odds and if thou dost cast all enmity and contention out of the State and if thou doest teach thy subiects to embrace peace and loue and if thou shalt make them to be contemptible that doe begett enmitie and make them neere vnto thee that doe loue peace For being the sonne of mee an earthly King according to the flesh if thou obeyest my words thou wilt be called also the sonne of the Heauenly King thereby procuring vnto thy selfe the kindred of God according to the spirit being a disciple of Christ that was gentle and peaceable For blessed saith he are the Peace-makers For they shall be called the Children of God CHAP. XLVIII Of Praise TOVCHING them that are conuersant with thee approoue not those that doe praise all thy actions but rather those that doe find fault with thy errors For I knowe that those doe beare more affection towards thee and are wiser then the others For trueth is to be preferred before falshood But grant freedome of speech vnto them that are wise and wish thee well that thou mayst haue some with whom thou mayst take good aduice of those things whereof thou art ignorant And being thus affected thou