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A44186	The father's new-years-gift to his son containing divers useful and necessary directions how to order himself both in respect to this life and that which is to come / written by the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ; whereunto is added, divine poems upon Christmas-day.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1685 (1685)	Wing H246; ESTC R40538	14,741	70

his turn upon you or finds himself disapointed his pretended kindness will soon vanish Sixthly If a man flatter or commend you to your face or to one whom he knows will tell you again it is a thousand to one but that he either has already or else means to deceive and abuse you Seventhly If a person be Choleric and give you ill Language do you rather pity him then imitate him in returning the like and so you prevent the kindling more heat and find that Silence or at least very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge of reproaches that can be Eightly Some men are excellent in the knowledge of Husbandry some in Gardening and some in the Mathematicks in all your conversation therefore learn wherein the skill and excellence of the person with whom you converse lyes and put him upon talk of that subject and observe it well and remember it that so you may glean up the worth and excellency of every person you meet with Ninthly Converse not with a Lyer or a Swearer or one of Obscene or Wanton Language least he thereby corrupt you or make you to be looked upon by others to be of the same prophane temper Or if it should do neither yet those kind of Discourses will fill your memory and so be troublesom to you in time to come for you will find the remembrances of the passages which you have long since heard of this nature will haunt you when you would have your thoughts better imployed Secondly As to the management of your own Speech 1. Let it be always true never speak any thing for a truth which you know to be false because that is a great sin against God who gave you your Tongue to speak your mind with and not to report a lye 2. As you must not lye so you must not come near it neither by equivocating or reporting that absolutely which you have only by hear-say or the relation of others or at best but by conjecture or opinion only 3. Let your words be few especially if strangers or men of more experience or understanding or that are any way your betters are in place For else you will do your self a double injury 1. By betraying your own weakness and folly And 2. By robbing your self of the opportunity which you might otherwise have to gain Wisdom Knowledge and Experience by hearing those whom you silence by your impertinent talking 4. Be not over earnest loud or violent in your talking for thereby you will sometimes for want of pondering your thought over-shoot your self and lose your business 5. Be careful not to interrupt another whilst he is speaking but hear him out that so you may understand him the better and be able to return him the more suitable answer 6. Always before you speak especially when the business is of any weight and moment think before you speak and weigh the sence of your mind which you intend to utter that so your Expressions may be significant pertinent and inoffensive 7. Speak well of the absent if you do not know they deserve ill 8. Be sure you do not give an ill report of any unless you are sure they deserve it and in most cases tho' you know a man doth deserve ill yet you ought to be sparing in reporting so of him unless it be when you are called to give testimony for the ending of a Controversie or the concealing the Crime may harden the Man in his evil way or bring another into danger and then even Charity it self obliges you to speak your knowledge 9. Avoid Swearing in your ordinary conversation and not only Oaths but Imprecations and earnest and deep Protestations too For as you have the commendable Example of good Men to justifie a Solemn Oath before a Magistrate so you have the Precept of our Saviour forbidding it otherwise 10. Avoid scoffing and bitter and biting jesting and jeering especially at the condition credit deformity or the natural defects of any person for such things leave a deep impression and are a most apparent injustice and if you your self were so used you would take it amiss and oftentimes such Injuries cost a man dear when he thinks little of it 11. Be careful that you give no reproachful menacing or spiteful Words to any person no not to Servants or those who are your Inferiours 1. Because there is not the meanest person but you may sometime or other stand in need of him 2. Because ill words provoke ill words again and commonly ill words gained by such a provocation especially if they come from an inferiour affect more and wound deeper than such as come with that provocation or from one who is our equal 12. When you have occasion to speak in company be careful as near as you can to speak last especially if strangers are in company for by this means you will have the advantage of knowing the judgment temper and relations of others which will give a great light into the nature of the thing you are discoursing of and help you to answer with the more advantage and the more security against giving offence 13. Be careful not to commend your self you should shun flattery from others but especially avoid flattering your self lest it makes others believe your reputation to be small and sinking 14. Abhor all filthy and obscene speeches for thereby you will both discover the corruption of your heart and corrupt it more 15. Never use any prophane speeches nor make jest of Scripture Expressions but when you use the Names of God and Christ or any Expressions of the Holy Scripture use them with reverence and seriousness 16. Do not upbraid or deride any man for a pious strict or religious Conversation if he be sincere you thereby dishonour God and injure him or if he be a Hypocrite yet it is more than you know or at least his piety and strictness is not his fault but his hypocrisie and dissimulation and though the one is to be detested yet the other is to be commended and not derided In the next place see that you frequently meditate on and make preparation for thy dying Hour For although it be the most certain known and experienced Truth in the World that all Men must dye and come to judgment yet most Men being loth to entertain the unwelcome thoughts of their own latter end forget their mortality and put far from them the evil day As if a serious preparation for death and an everlasting state were no business of theirs and only concerned them that are actually dying and passing immediately to the Tribunal of Christ But yet this their way is their folly and one of the greatest occasions of those other follies that usually attend their lives and therefore that thou may'st free thy self from this imputation of folly and become wise do thou wisely consider thy latter End and make it thy business to entertain thy felf with frequent and serious Meditations of Death and Eternity

THE Father's New-Years-Gift TO HIS SON CONTAINING Divers Useful and Necessary DIRECTIONS how to Order himself both in respect to this Life and that which is to come Written by the Right Honourable Sir MATTHEW HALES Kt. and late Lord Chief Justice of England Whereunto is added Divine Poems upon Christmas-Day London Printed for William Booker near the King's-head in the Old Change 1685. The Right Hon. ble Scroop Egerton Earl of Bridgwater Viscount Brackley Baron of Elsmere 1703 SIC DONEC The PREFACE ALtho' Piety and Religion be the glory of Youth as well as the Crown of Old Age And Solomon to incourage Young Men to imbrace and practice it tells them That Wisdom hath length of days in her right-hand and in her left-hand riches and honour and that she will promote those who do exalt her and bring them to honour that do embrace her Yet ●here is nothing more common than for those of your Age to neglect and cast off the practice of Piety and Religion as things too mean and trivial for them to be concerned about and imploy themselves wholly in pursuing the sensual pleasures and delights of sin and wickedness as tho' they were resolved to spend all their present time in doing that which will be bitterness to them in time to come and thought that their Youth were to be imployed only in treasuring up matter for repentance and sorrow in Old Age Which renders the Advice contained in the following Sheets very needful and necessary especially at this Season when too many especially Young Men under pretence of rejoycing for the Birth of their Saviour do all they can to dishonour Christ and gratifie their own sensual and luxurious Inclinations I do not pretend like some that have shamm'd several Tracts upon the World under pretence of their being written by the Reverend Author of the whole Duty of Man that the ensuing Sheets were written by the Lord Chief Justice Hales in the Method and with the same Title wherewith I present them to thee But yet thou may'st assure thy self that they are all the true and genuine Works of that venerable Author and are the same Advice which he gave whil'st living to his own Children And finding upon my perusal of them that they had something more of weight and excellency in them than I had ever yet observed in any thing of that kind I thought them very well worthy and deserving of a more general reading than they were capable of whil'st scattered up and down in several larger Volumes Abanishing the thoughts of Death and Eternity An obscene licentious and extravagant liberty of the Tongue An unthankful receiving and an ungrateful forgetting the greatest Favours and Deliverances And a violating and prophaning the Sabbath are most natural and common sins of Youth and are for the most part the cause of all other Vices in regard they viciate and debauch the mind and dispose it for the ingaging in and perpetrating the worst of Crimes as appears by the frequent Confessions of those whose Wickedness and Debauchery brings them to an untimely Death And therefore this wise and prudent as well as holy and religious Judge took a more than ordinary care to prevail with his Children to forsake and guard themselves against those leading and foundation Sins And I assure my self that if thou wilt seriously read and conscientiously practice the Directions which he gave them in order thereunto thou wilt then acknowledge this to be the best New-Years Gift thou ever yet received'st THE Father's New-Years-Gift TO HIS SON SOlomon who was inspired by the Almighty with a Spirit of wisdom above all that ever went before him or have followed after him tells us That it is the indispensible Duty of all Young Men to Remember their Creator in the daies of their Youth before the evil day come or the years draw nigh wherein they will say they have no pleasure in them Notwithstanding which it is lamentable to see the Wickedness and Debauchery Irreligion and Atheism that generally abounds in the Youth of our Age But that thou maist secure thy self from being reckoned among their number do thou seriously make it thy business to furnish thy mind richly with the Knowledge Nature and Design of the true Religion which thou wilt find to be the greatest improvement advantage and priveledge of the humane nature and that which gives it the most noble and highest pre-eminence above all other visible creatures whatsoever And when thou hast informed thy self let not that alone content thee but do thou seriously set thy self to the Practice of it and particularly make Conscience of a due ordering thy Speech making Preparation for thy Death returning sutable Praise for Mercies received and Sanctifying the Lords Day for the better performing whereof observe the ensuing Directions And First of the Ordering of your Speech which consist of two branches First how to entertain the speech of others when they speak to you and Secondly how to order your own As to the former of these observe well what is the Temper and Disposition of those Persons whose Speeches you hear whether they be wise grave sober and discreet Persons for if they be such their speech will be commonly like themselves and well deserves your serious attention and strict observation But if they are light vain impertinent or passionate Persons their speech is for the most part according to their Temper and therefore the greatest advantage you can reap thereby is to learn their dispositions and discern their failings whereby you will make your self the more cautious both in your conversation with them and your own speech and deportment towards them Secondly If persons whom you do not very well know to be men of Truth and Sobriety relate strange stories be not over ready to be Believe or Report them Thirdly If you hear a man report any thing to the disadvantage or reproach of one that is absent be not ready to believe it only observe it and remember it till you have heard what the accused person has to say for himself for it may be the thing is not true or not all true Or it may be some circumstance which the relater conceals may justifie or at least allay and extenuate it Fourthly If any man acquaints you with an injury that is done you by another either in words or actions do not presently give credit to it nor entertain angry thoughts of the accused person for possibly it may be only the malice or mistake of the accuser and how unseemly would it be if your credulity and passion should carry you upon a supposed injury to do wrong to one who hath done none to you Fifthly If any man whose integrity you do not very well know makes you exrtaordinary promises and professions give him as kind thanks as may be but give not much credit to his words for it is to be presumed he hath somewhat besides kindness to you in his intention and when he hath served