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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16657	The English gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations, tending to direction of every gentleman, of selecter ranke and qualitie; how to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires. By Richard Brathwait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 3563; ESTC S104636	349,718	488

speciall Vocation in particular it is univocall Without Vocations no civill state can subsist because Idlenesse maketh of men women of women beasts of beasts monsters It was one of the sinnes of Sodome as wee may reade in the Prophet Ezekiel It was that which brought David the anointed of the Lord nay the man after Gods owne heart to commit adulterie It was this which moved Salomon to bid the sluggard goe to the pismire to learne good husbandry To be short it was this which moved the Prophets to denounce judgement upon the flourishing'st Cities for their securitie How necessary then is it for all estates to be carefull lest they incurre a heavy and fearfull censure to addresse themselves to especiall Vocations beneficiall to the state and pleasing to God whose glory should be our aime without any by-respect unto our selves Wee shall see in most places both at home and abroad how such trades or Vocations are most used as may best suit with the nature and condition of the place As in our Port-townes trafficke and commerce conferring no lesse benefit to the state by importance than profit to other Countries by exportance Againe in our Townes lying further within Land the inhabitants use some especiall Trade to keepe their Youth in labour whereby they become not only beneficiall to themselves but usefull and helpfull unto others Amongst which I cannot be unmindfull of the diligence of the Towne of Kendall and worthy care which they have to see their very young children put to work being a labour which requires no great strength to wit Wooll-worke Wherein so approved hath their care and industrie beene as they have gained themselves no small esteeme in forraine places who are made partakers of the fruit of their labours For I have known a familie consisting of seven or eight persons maintained by the work of two or three stones of wooll which amounted not above thirty shillings and with this they maintained credit living in an honest and decent manner Whose labours as they were laudable so have they beene no lesse furthered favoured and encouraged by our late gracious Soveraigne of renowmed memory who of his princely clemencie hath dammed all such impositions or heavy taxations as might any way impaire or impeach the free use of that Trade Albeit now of late the Towne of Kendall so famous for Wooll-worke by reason of a late decrease or decay of Trade in those parts is growne no lesse penurious than populous so as with griefe I speake it such Inhabitants as formerly by their paine and industrie were able to give an almes at their doore are now forced to begge their almes from doore to doore The redresse whereof as it hath beene by the Prince and those prudent guides and guardians of our State the Lords of his Privie Counsell duely intended so no doubt but by their wise care it shall be accordingly effected those poore people after so many miseries sustained wholly releeved to the advancement of Gods glory the supportance of many a needfull family and the succeeding renowne of his Majesty to whom every subject oweth his life love and loyalty The like commendation I could give to the Copperworkes used in the North more especially about Keswicke where divers Dutch-men being planted have for many yeares expressed no lesse judgement than industry in sundry excellent and choice experiments which to their succeeding fame may perpetuate their memorie For these like cunning and experienced Artizans have to doe in the bowels of the earth whence they digge copper which with incredible paines they bring to the Hammer For so steepe ragged and cliffie are those mountaines whence their Copper is digged as it might seeme a matter of impossibility to effect so intricate a worke but so infatigable are the Labourers which they employ as their patience in suffering is no lesse to be commended than their skill in contriving to be admired But to speake in generall of all vocations sciences or Mysteries wee are ever to observe the place and conveniencie thereof that we may the better appropriate some especiall vocation according to the necessity and conveniencie of the place As Ship-masters in places of trafficke and Navigation Sheep-herds Graziers and Farmers in places of plantation according to that ancient proverbe Gardiners in Thessalie Horsecoursers in Barbary Now if you should object touching the difference of vocations that some are more necessary than others yea such as now seeme most necessary have formerly as may appeare beene held Trades of indifferency my answer is I grant it yet not so altogether as some might object against the necessity of a Smiths trade by alleaging that of the Prophet Samuel There was no Smith found thorowout all the Land of Israel For this did not inferre that Smiths were of least use or imployment in Israel but rather the necessity of them made so few amongst them as may appeare in the latter part of the verse For the Philistines said lest the Hebrewes make them swords or speares Here see the cause why there were so few in Israel because they would have beene most usefull and behooffull to the people of Israel For this cause were they banished slaughtered and deprived of all meanes to assist their distressed Country whose people hid themselves in caves and in holds and in rocks and in towers and in pits For the first Invention of trades arts or sciences as they were in time and by degrees brought to perfection so had they proper and peculiar persons from whom they received their beginning and foundation For example tillage from Cain pasturage from Abel vintage from Noah navigation from Zabulon brazery or Smith-worke from Tubal-kain musicke from Iubal which by succession of time came to such perfection as they are now in The Satyre at the first sight of fire would needs have kissed and embraced it but Prom●theus checked him So highly admired were things unknowne and so familiarly imployed being once knowne The like we may imagine at the first rising of Trades what difficulties attended them and what imperfections were incident to them being like the Beares whelpe ever in licking before they came to perfecting ever in renuing and furbushing ere they came to such furnishing as they now expresse Yea if we should make recourse to al such Scholasticke sciences or vocations if I may so terme them as have the name of Liberall Sciences wee shall finde that in their infancy or minority there were many defects and blemishes in them having not as then attained that heighth or growth which they have acquired at this day For then wee had not a Quintilian to play the Grammarian a subtill Scotus to play the Logician an eloquent Cicero for a Rhetorician a learned Euclid for a Mathematician a studious Archimedes for a Geometrician a famous Hippocrates to renowme a Physitian a sense-ravishing Orpheus to eternize the Musitian Many conclusions were then to be sought and explored ere

earthly respect detained from comming to that great Lords Supper to which you were invited O then in a happy state are you for having honoured the Lord he will fill your barnes with plenty or having acknowledged all good things to be derived from his mercy he will give you a fuller taste of his bounty or subjected your selves to his obedience hee will cause every Creature to doe you service or disposed of them soberly and solely to his glory he will exhibit his good gifts unto you more fully or beene oppressors and made restitution you shall with Zacheus become vessels of election or not exposed your inheritance to riot and pollution you shall be safe from the doome of confusion or not grinded the face of the poore with extortion the poore shall beare record of your compassion or distributed freely to the Saints necessitie he that seeth in secret shall reward you openly or made you friends of your unrighteous Mammon Manna shall be your food in the heavenly Sion or done these works singly and without vaine-glory you shall be cloathed with the garment of mercy or not detained by the world from going to that great Lords Supper yee shall be graciously admitted and exalted to honour Thus to dispose of the substance of the world is to despise the world preferring one meditation of the pleasures and treasures of heaven before the possession of the whole earth and esteeming it farre better to be one day in the House of the Lord than to be conversant in the Palaces of Princes O then yee whose generous descents and mighty estates promise comfort to the afflicted releefe to the distressed and an hospitable receit to all such as repaire to you for succour or comfort minister to the necessitie of the Saints be liberall and open handed to the poore having opportunitie doe good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of faith be exercised in the works of the spirit and not of the flesh so shall yee build upon a sure foundation and in the inheritance of Gods Saints receive a mansion Turne not I say you eare from the cry of any poore man lest his cry be heard and procure vengeance to be powred on your head Pitty the moanes of the afflicted wipe off the teares of the distressed comfort those that mourn in Sion The ordinary forme of begging in Italy is Doe good for your owne sakes Doe good for your owne sakes for your owne selves for your owne soules No sacrifice to God more gratefull to your selves more usefull or to your owne soules more fruitfull than to be zealous in all holy duties and compassionate to the needfull for he that in himselfe burnes not in devotion can never inflame another with the zeale of devotion neither can any one shine unlesse before hee burne shine in the works of compassion unlesse he burne before with the zeale of a devout affection So as many though they be Lights in respect of their ministerie or office yet are they Snuffs in respect of their use effect or service Exhibit therefore freely of those good gifts and bounties which God hath bestowed on you and shew your liberalitie now in the opportunate time for as there is a time when none can worke so there is a time when none can give give it then in your life time that you may expresse your charitie with your owne hand and not by way of Legacie for many make good wills which I much feare mee proceed not of good will being rather by the sentence of mortalitie inforced than of their owne charitable disposition affected to leave to the poore afflicted of the world which they so exceedingly loved while they sojourned here in the world And what shall these bountifull Legacies availe them these charitable Wills profit them when they shal make their beds in the darke and enter parlie with their owne Consciences whether this coacted charitie of theirs proceeded from compassion or compulsion leaving what they could no longer enjoy and giving that which was not in their power to give Surely no more benefit shall this inforced charitie conferre on them than if they had sowne the sand for fruitlesse is that worke which deriveth not her ground from a pure intention or sanctified will In the Easterne countries they put coine in the dead mans hand to provide for him after his departure hence The like provision carry these along with them to their graves who deferre giving till they cannot give making their Executors their Almoners who many times defeat the poore or number themselves in Beadroll of the poore whereby they gull the deceased enriching their owne coffers with the poore mans box O Gentlemen you whose corps are followed with many mourners and oft-times inward rejoycers send out those sweet odours of a good and devout life before you dispense and dispose faithfully in whatsoever the Lord above others hath enriched you deferre not your charity to your death lest you be prevented of your charity by death bethinke your selves how you would be provided if that great Master of accounts were this houre to call you before him and make your reckoning with him would you not be glad if your conscience told you how you had beene faithfull disposers or imployers of those Talents which were delivered to you Would not your hearts rejoyce within you to have such a Testimony as the witnesse of an undefiled or spotlesse conscience within you Would it not intraunce you with an exceeding joy to heare that happy and heavenly approbation Well done good and faithfull servants you have beene faithfull over a few things I will make you rulers over many things enter yee into the joy of your Lord If this could not choose but joy you so dispose of your earthly Mammon that you may be partakers of this surpassing joy in the Courts of Sion And so I descend to the last Branch of this last Observation expressing that object of ineffable consolation whereto this Active Perfection aspireth and that spirituall repose of heavenly solace and refection wherein it solely and properly resteth MAN is borne unto trouble as the sparkes fly upward being here a sojourner in the Inne of this world and drawing every day neerer and neerer the end of his Pilgrimage where mans life is the Travellers embleme his forme of living the very mirrour of his sojourning his home returning the type or figure of his dissolving In which progresse or journall of man by how much more the Sun-diall of his life proceedeth by so much neerer the night-shade of death approacheth Yet behold the misery of man His desires are daily to disquiet and disturbe himselfe for shew me that man howsoever affected or in what degree soever placed whose desires are so firmely fixed as his minde is not troubled in the pursuit of that whereto his aymes are directed For to begin with the Highest because his thoughts are