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Organon reipublicæ, or The north starre of pollicie, by which the course of a common-wealth may be directed..
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J. R.; I. R.; Sadler, Edmund.
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people erected To equalls by theyr equalls that is to say To Magistrates by Magistrates Hereby deadly warre haue oftentimes arose Empires haue bene rent and torne asunder The times of Sylla Marius were most lamentable to the coÌ„mon wealth of Rome By one priuate man to another Through a rod kindled or a candle left negligently in a houseâ— the whole Cittie is oftentimes set on fire so of priuate ha 〈…〉 and dissension a publick dammage sometimes ariseth Inward sedition is by so much more hurtfull than warre whereas it is archieued against forreyners with agreeing mindes by how much warre is worse then peace Wee ought to contend at all times not with priuie grudgâ—â— and hatreds but whether of all can best deserue of o 〈…〉 Prince and Countrey and doe most good for it Aristides Themistocl All things are to bee ordered and gouerned at home with counsell and the arts of peace The disagreement of degrees is the bane of the common-wealth The ambition of superiours are to bee taken heede off The enuie of equalles The suspition of inferiours Withdraw the matter and the fire will be quenched Take away the occasion and hatred or enuie will cease Friendship ought to bee immortall andenmities ought to bee mortall â—ouching foode and victualls necessary for â—he sustenaunce of a common wealth In preparation of foode and victualls necessary to sustaine the common-wealth c. wee ought To consider all things In their kindes for either they are ministred to vs by forraine Countreys or are at home growing in our owne Countrie in their quantity How much the coÌ„monwealth wil need in time of warre peace how much will be spare to transport to whom when how how much is to be distâ—ibuted to euerie one in warre and peace To take heede least by the malice and enuie of some our common wealth be destitute afflicted by vnlawfull transportations or Monopolies at home our friends being in great want bee not satisfied and refreshed our ennemies do freely eniâ—y our benefites and commodities Heereof many men make greeuous complaint and therefore gâ—â—eat care is heere to bee vsed For it suffiseth not to haue lawes and proclamations touching loue and charity and moderating our desires superfluous expâ—nâ—es but couetousnes and blinde lusts being repressed to deale more moderately and religiously towards our Countrie and neighbours For not our wordes but our deedes ought to agree to holie lawes The sight also and almost the feeling of most wofull calamities the long continuance and great burden of warres famine pestilences seditions and great slaughters which for very many yeares hath spoyled adioyning countries ought to mooue vs through true penance godlinesse and obedience of our whole life to put away henceforth the anger of God and perhaps the like punishments hanging ouer our heads It comforteth me to haue escaped so many Grecian cities and to haue kept the middle way through my enemies Virg. We ought also to be mindfull that dâ—â—th hangeth ouer euery mans head and we must once tread the way of death Therefore we must prouide such wealth which the ship being broken may swim out together with their maister There is nothing worse nothing more hated nothing more repugnant to Gods ordinances than the crime of auarice and cruell outragiousnesse Cursed is that couetous Steward whose maister is bountifull Bernard As in quick-siluer all things swimme except gold for this is one thing it draweth too it so nothing sinketh into the mind of a couetous man beside gayne Charitie pietie and honestie swimme on the top they descend not into the heart The fish Polypus being otherwise a blockish creature vseth incredible skill in catching the oyster so some men are verâ— wise onely in gayning in other things they are mere beasts Let him that is condemned of Auarice enuie and impietie be excluded from euery office of the Common-wealth Touching the principall and chiefest notes wherein we must pursuâ— a matter in disputation Perswadeth â—n a quesâ—ion Simple wee must vrge that this is possible easie honest religious laudadle honourable profitable necessary safe pleasant Comparatiue more possible more easie the ten wayes as aboue more honest c. Disswadeth in question Simple here we must vrge that this is Impossible hard vnhonest Irreligious discommendable Ignoble vnprofitable vnnecessary dangerous vnpleasant Comparatiue more impossible the ten wayes as aboue more difficult more irreligious more dishonest c. Touching the Methode which is to be obserued in perswading and disputing Inuention of Arguments wherewith we may prooue things refute amplifie we may effect the Auditors beningnely pleasantly vehemently with hope with feare Placing of Arguments for arguments of greater efficacie and vertue are to be placed in the beginning ending of lesser moment are to be heaped together n the midst 〈…〉 with what excelleÌ„t sentences elâ—quent 〈◊〉 Heere aâ—so is to be noted that argumeÌ„ts are to be taken froÌ„ places of Rhetoricians which are called Aâ—tributes of Persons where are comprehended the name of a man the nature are related the Nation countrey kindred flocke sexe age commodities discommodities of body of fortune Herodotus admonisheth vs sometime to imitate the natures and manners of men the natures of the countries and places wherein they are borne Life where are considered the fosteres and helpers Schoole-maisters teachers friends seruants profession Sort state Habite of Bodie minde Studies and counsels Accidents which haue happened to them Conferences and often speeches Actions Things whereof are numbred Time place fact matter cause power instruments and the manner of doing Logicians according to Ramus vz. by the Causes Effects Subiects Adiuncts Disagreeing things Compâ—red things Name Distribution Definition Testimonie But now Methode and order require that this my Epitome beganne with holy things should be ended with holy and diuine things Let it please you therefore that fewe things bee in generall explicated touching the three Theologicall vertues It is necessary that our soule as touching the superiour part wherein the image of God consisteth be rectified by the three Theologicall vertues Faith Hope Charitie Faith according to the Apostle is saide to be the substance or foundation of things to be hoped for through Grace and an argument of things not seene inclining the vnderstanding to beleeue those things which appeare not This is a very excellent description of faith by the Effects because it representeth things as yet consisting in hope and putteth inuisible things as it were before our eyes Hope is a certaine expectation of future blessednesse proceeding from the onely grace of God Charitie according to the Apostle is said to be a diuine loue and right will altogether turned away from all worldly and present things vnseperably ioyned and vnited to God kindled with a certaine fire of the holy Ghost from whence it is and whereunto it is referred free from all pollution not knowing to be corrupted desirous of diuine contemplation the life of vertues and is accounted the end of all heauenly precepts Faith directeth in beleeuing the chiefest truth Hope in imitating and expecting the chiefest hard thing â—ut â—â—aritie in desiring and louing the chiefest good â—â—ese vertues h 〈…〉 their proper actions Faith maketh vs assent to God Hope maketh vs trust in God Charitie maketh vs to loue God They also worke diuers wayes by reason of the obiect Faith is conuersant about the truth Hope a difficult thing Charity good Lastly they differ by reason of the effect Faith followeth God presently Hope accompanieth to Heauen Charitie euerlastingly embraceth Almighty God Hence it is manifest that amongst these three Vertues Faith is accompted the greatest as which according to the Apostle is not abolished in the life to come as the others but is perfected Because whereas Faith and Hope is caried into promised and future things when wee haue obtained them present to what ende should wee have Faith and hope But there both wee shall alwayes mutuallie loue God and God will loue vs truely and perfectly To conclude euen as God hath placed in Heauen the Sun who representeth him towardes all men both in Theologicall and also in Cardinall vertues that is to say Temperance Iustice and Liberalitie FINIS
Peace The most firme league peace and amitie is that which is purchased through opinion of vertue likenesse of manners and consent of Religion The best league is to do well for with such men GOD himselfe is confederate saith Isocrates Peâ—ac is eyther to be made Heere we ought to offer Conditions wher care is to bee had of the Time For sometime these conditions in conuenient time will be thankfully and willing accepted which afterward may bee suspected and reiected Reasons wherby our aduersaries are perswaded to accept our coÌ„ditions of peace being offereâ— Persons treating of peace For very often it happeneth that the selfe same truces are confirm 〈…〉 or reiected by reason of the inequalitie of the persons handling the matter Conditions theÌ„selues least they seeme Dangerous Craftie and bold policies are at the first sight pleasant hard to 〈◊〉 handled and in the euent dolefull The vnequall conditions and policies of Lycidas and Circilus a 〈…〉 to be shunned Herod 〈…〉 Some cures are more greeuous then the disease it selfe where it better die then by them go about to recouer health Difficult Intollerable Dishonest Preserued To accept conditions Where it must be coÌ„sidered Vpon what cause our aduersaries to make a league with vs whether they are perswaded voluntarily or vpon necessitie what ayde we or our enemies haue to make warre How the Souldiers are affected what kinds of coÌ„ditions they be For if they appeare to be iust honest we must beware lest in refusing them we seeme Obstinate or stiffe necked as the Iewes were in the siege of HierusaleÌ„ Proud and hawtie as Pompeius c. in contemning truce with Caesar who when Cicero brought most indifferent conditions of peace was willing to dismisse his armie but Pompey despised him as his enemie but afterward was slaine in vnfortunate warre wherein also two hundred thousand men were slaine Philo telleth vs that it is better to haue peace although not commodious and indifferent than to vndertake warre with great mischiefes Peace is a worke full of vertue peace is the summe of labour Peace is the reward of finished warre the reward of danger A man vnhurt will sleepe better than he who is wounded The beuers in hunting bite of their stones when as they perceiue that for this cause they are pursued so it is the part of a wise man somtime to cast away that thing for which he is endaungered Plin. â—ith 〈…〉 rreine â—eople adioyning who loue vs who maligne vs who carry themselues indiffereÌ„tly towards vs. Heere wee ought to see with whoÌ„ we ought to make leagues to preserue frieÌ„dship to shew loue good will either by deed or counter fait it onely by word by whom how opeÌ„ly how secretly how loÌ„g By what offices we may pacifie the offended confirme the doubtful perswade the suspitious dwelling farre of Peace is preserued by auoyding offences enmities with domesticall people which may arise through negligeÌ„ce defect of Instructions which doe not respect the education of youth For it is especially to be considered what doctrine ought to be taught in a expelled from Common-wealth what studies are conuenient for euerie age to adorne the mind with Diuinitie morall Phylosophie Histories c. stirre vp strength Agilitie of the body health How much time is to be spent in learning c. Good education is called the foundation of wisedome Ordayning of Magistrates how many what Magistrates the common-wealth wanteth who are worthy fit for euery place tâ—â— these may be called tobeare office lest 〈◊〉 enuious doe speake in reproach of the 〈…〉 ther according to that of the Poet. Two things especially doe rule all the counsels and actions of wise men in the common-wea 〈…〉 and priuate life vz. Hearing oâ— precepts set down in the word of God in Phylosophy and honest lawes Examples of counsels euents and punishments which are more notable and more effectual 〈…〉 moue and pearse the minds of the ruder sort An Historie wisely written as Cicero saith is the mistresse of life and the witnesse of times 〈◊〉 light of truth the messenger of antiquitie Thucididies calleth it the picture theater of 〈◊〉 life agreeing to all times of this world wherein as the nature of man continueth the same their dispositions manners businesses occasions counsels euents misdoings and also for t 〈…〉 most part the same offences continue Onely the persons and Actors of the Historie do succeede new euery age and the names bei 〈…〉 changed the stories are now told as it were of our selues Oh shame men vnwise and of a grosse braine Despisers of learning who haue onely care of dycing Or to feede dogges horses and hawkes And to leade a childish life in continuall sportes Do beare the Scepters rule the people and gouerne Cities Hence come so many thousand scabbes of errors so manie sinkes of follies so manie thousands of mischieous deeds Appointing of gifts and rewards for euery one that well deserueth whether they bee 1 Noble or For it is not well if  Ignoble 2 Souldiers  Peacemakers 3 Learned  Vnlearned 4 Magistrates  Priuate men 5 Cleargie men  Laye men Good men bee obscured as it were with darkenes enuironing them be not regarded be adorned with no praise of due honor be difficultly faintly coldly preferred Where there bee fewe which desire offices there the common wealth is in daunger By rewards honors excellent wittes are stirred vp with a more earnest vehemency of minde to the study of vertue Let no estate of men bee depriued of hope to attaine anie preheminence sauing what belongeth to the King Let a more honorable office bee giuen to the more noble a more gainefull office to the poorer sorte other things being equall Bad men be preferred as Tale-bearers Hee who giueth more to him that ill deserueth it and lesse to him who wel deserued is iniurious vniust Good turnes ill bestowed are esteemed ill deeds Let wicked and mischieuous men be punished Scoffers False accusers Dishonest Flatterers c. Remedies are to be inuented and applied to the sicknesses and diseases of the common wealth Ambition which disease is spread farre and wide and increaseth daily Couetousnes and pride of Noblemen It is vncertaine what the euening bringeth therefore wee must not bee proud in aduersitie Magistrates Angrie men hate pride wise men deride it Prodigall spending of ones wealth especially of them who are indebted vnto others Want need of others for many kept vnder with want haue desperatly robbed the coÌ„mon wealth Impuritie of offenders and iniurious men make the Lawes to be contemned Iniuries are offered to the inferiours by their superiours that is to say To the common sort by the Nobles Thereby wee read in the Romane Empire that the Kings were expelled and that the state of the common-wealth was pluckt diuers wayes and altered To priuate men by Magistrates Thereby also in Heluetia the Magistrates and Nobles were driuen away and the policie of the