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A46794	The Christian tutor, or, A free and rational discourse of the sovereign good and happiness of man, and the infallible way of attaining it, especially in the practice of Christian religion written in a letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies / by Henry Jenkes ... ; and now published for the benefit of all others.	Jenkes, Henry, d. 1697.; King, James.	1683 (1683)	Wing J628; ESTC R1916	24,940	82

good Spirit to defend you from all your Enemies and in due time to raise you from this infirm and mortal state to an immortal full of glory honour and blessedness in the world to come to crown you with a Crown of Righteousness and a Diadem of never fading Glory Honour therefore and reve● this glorious King of yours remember you are one of his Subjects and therefore make good that relation you stand in towards your dearest Lord love and serve and honour him for ever 2ly 2 Entertain his Doctrine Entertain his Doctrine with all readiness and resolution of mind with a full consent and purpose of your will to live according to it that is 1. 1 Believe his Promises Believe his Promises as they are in themselves both general respecting the good of all Mankind and also conditional requiring something to be done by us for our exceeding great comfort first then believe his gracious Promise about the forgiveness of our Sins upon the condition of a living Faith sincere repentance and new obedience to be performed by you so his promises about the assistance of Divine Grace and the Spirit of God to further you in all well-doing his Promises relating to this Life and a comfortable subsistence ●ere that you may be content with whatsoever God sends his Promise during your ●boad and Pilgrimage here that you shall be under his Guardianship and the Protection of his good Angels to keep all Evil from you and therefore be Valiant and Couragious and last of all believe his great Promise of Eternal Life to keep up your mind above all the Temptations of this world that you be not insnared or overcome by them these are the great things and the good things that our Saviour has promised to us and you need not doubt or question his Veracity but he will make them good to you in particular if you only believe on him with the heart unto Righteousness and therefore in the next place 2dly 2 Obey his Precepts Obey his Precepts universally Sincerely and Constantly that so you may without fail inherit his promises These holy Precepts of his you may find in his divine and excellent Sermon on the Mount and in most of the pages of the New Testament St. Paul has reduced them to three Heads that we live Soberly Righteously and Godlily Tit. 2. and certainly he that makes conscience so to do that lives in a constant observance of our Saviour's laws that glorifies God Almighty by a Voluntary chearful and constant obedience in the whole course of his life as he does our Saviour the greatest honour and service of love fulfills the whole duty of a Christian loves his good Master heartily and intirely according to that blessed saying of his If ye love me keep my Commandments so this holy and good man shall only inherit that blessedness and those beatitudes which our Saviour has promised to bestow on his faithful Servants in the other world when he shall appear in his own glory and illustrious presence to our Eternal Satisfaction 3. And lastly 3 Imitate his holy life and Example follow your bl●ssed and holy Master Jesus in his holy life and the many examples of Vertue of all kinds he has set before you Imitate his Piety and Devotion in his loving of God his Father in magnifying his holy Name in the world upon all occasions in setting up his Kingdom of righteousness in advancing his honour and the due observance of his holy Laws and in the resigning of himself perfectly to his divine Will in all things so that it became his meat and drink to do the Will of his Father which is in heaven Imitate him next to that in his great Charity to all men for he went up and down as the holy Story says of him only to do good where ever he was and where ever he came he left monuments of his great Beneficence behind him all places and all persons were really the better for him and so do you herein follow your blessed Master as you have opportunity to do good to all especially to the houshold of faith that is to explain St. Paul's phrase to you in plain English to those that are eminently Vertuous truly Just and Good according to our Saviour's holy Religion and Faith as those that best deserve your Charity and Kindness Imitate your holy Master also in his great Humility Purity Sobriety Temperance Meekness Contempt of this World Heavenly-mindedness his Magnanimity and Patience in his undergoing and bearing all afflictions and sufferings especially his invincible Patience under his Cross and his last triumphs of it in his holy Passion and Death In a word always have this great Examplar of all Vertue and Holiness before your eyes as he walked so do you as he was in the World so be you that so you may say in truth and sincerity of heart with St. Paul now I live yet not I but Christ lives in me which if it be your happiness to do as it is really the greatest happiness in the world so to do you will never repent your self that you have lived thus and when you come to dye as we all must you will find the blessed comfort of it in your self and so in full assurance of your Faith in sure and certain hope you will pass into those happy regions of Light and Glory whither our blessed Saviour is gone before us to receive you there you shall live and reign with him and be blessed for ever world without end Amen So be it My dear Friend God grant we may all of us there meet in his due time to our everlasting comfort and satisfaction In the mean time Simus in procinctu let us be always ready for that blessed state by Innocency and Holiness of life let us love our Lord Jesus Christ in truth and sincerity and follow St. Paul's short advice most exactly with which I will shut up this long Letter of mine Phil. 4.8 9. Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things Those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you § VII The Conclusion And so my good Friend farewell and be perfect in this divine and heavenly art of living well and happily God Almighty bless you and inrich your Soul with all the graces of his holy Spirit May the divine Spirit of all love and goodness and a sound Mind ever abide with you as it is and shall be my constant Prayer for you so in this excellent Spirit of Love with all hearty Affection I ever remain Dear Sir Your true Friend and Christian Tutor Henry Jenkes POSTSCRIPT Mr. Faithorne and Mr. Kersey I have reviewed this Letter of mine and made some considerable Additions to it since I first writ it if you think good to Print it as it is now Enlarged I give you my free Leave and Consent so to do Fare you well H. J. From my beloved Colledg of Gonvill and Cajus in the University of Cambridg Octob. 11. 1682. FINIS

of Judgement and Probity of Will at best hand The second Direction Observe a due Order and Method in your Studies that is pass on leisurely and surely from one thing to-another from what you know certainly from Self-evident principles proceed to the knowledge of other things that you may know them as certainly too Never Assent to any thing that is doubtful and questionable Assensum Cohibe till you meet with something of Certainty that approves it self to the mind either by the clearest conviction of Reason or the best Attestation of others in matters of Fact if you do so you are then and not till then in a Good and Safe Way of Knowledge The third Direction For the Relief of your Memory that you may the better remember what you have read and well consider'd commit that to writing especially what you meet with in any Author that is Great and Considerable and therefore to that purpose make to your self an Alphabetical Common-place Book especially for Archaeologys and curious Notions relating either to Persons or Ancient Customs The fourth Direction In all your Particular Studies mind the main Drift and Vse of them as for instance according to our former Account of Books 1. Christian Religion îs the most useful knowledge the best Learning in all the World in order to a better and therefore cannot be minded and studied enough For it makes us Truly Wise and Truly Good Happy here and Eternally Happy hereafter In the studying of which that your profiting may appear to all men give your self very much to serious Meditations Devout Exercises of Piety and Vertue and reading of sound Books in Religion and when you do so always have your recourse to the Holy Scriptures for the ultimate Resolution of all your Doubts and Difficulties entertain no Opinions or Sentiments in Religion but what are consonant to this Infallible Rule of Faith and all good Manners For the better understanding of them you shall do well to have at hand Sebastian Castellio his Latine Version with Hugo Grotius his Annotations upon the Holy Bible And Dr. Henry Hammond's Paraphrase and Annotations upon the New Testament all in Folio Books that will acquaint you with the True and Rational Sense of the Holy Scriptures The Book of Books 2. Geography a very Delightful and Profitable Study by this kind of Learning you may converse with the Inhabitants of our little World tho' never so remote from you by this you will be no Stranger to any Place or Country whatsoever from all which you may Learn something or other that is very useful and well-becoming you as you are a Traveller especially if you take Notice all along as you go of the Choicest Productions of Nature and Art the main End of this Study 3. History Most useful in its kind for by this you may acquaint your self with all the Grand changes and revolutions of the world that have happened before you were born and since your time Here as in a great Theater you may behold humane Nature under several Persons Acting its several Parts exercising its Vigour in the greatest and most Heroick Actions of Life and that under the Conduct of Divine Providence whatever therefore you meet with of Note in your reading the History of several Ages or of Persons in Every Age I mean that is Truly Vertuous and Praise-Worthy transform it to your own Vse and make the best Improvement of it Consider your self not only as a bare Reader or Spectator that stands by to look on whilst others are a Doing But as One that is an Actor in every Scene of Human Life as One that is really concern'd in every thing that is said and done by others Always taking the right side and adjoyning your self to those Hero's and Worthy Men that have appeared in Publick and upon the Stage in the behalf of Truth Honesty and Justice The Rule and Solid Foundation of all History as also the proper Use and Result of it 4. Philosophy and Mathematicks very pleasant and delightful Studies Studies for Minds and Abstracted Souls from worldly Business that desire to know the Nature of things with all their Affections and Phaenomena and that from their Immediate Causes This is the Standard and Great Rule in this kind of Learning and to this you must make your Appeal not to the Authorities of Men but the Vncontroulable Reason of things the Constans Invicta ratio rei whereever it resides either in your own mind or in the minds of others that judge aright from clear and distinct perceptions without Prejudice or Partiality But I consider that you are now Secretary to the Council in the East-Indies and so that Part of Philosophy which relates to Politicks will be most proper for you to mind the Maxims of which you will find in those Books I have reckoned under the Head of Moral Philosophy for that is the true Source of Politicks and consequently must Govern all Political Learning in its utmost Extent for you may take it for an infallible saying Nemo nisi vir Probus Bonus est Civis aut esse potest The Best man in Morality is certainly the Best Citizen and truest Polititian For your Conduct herein I shall only recommend to you my own Political Compass by which you may steer your Course in all Human and Civil Affairs as I have done before you very evenly and steddily and notwithstanding all the blustering winds and storms in the State come at last to your Port and attain your Sovereign Good The Author 's Political Compass It consists but of Eight Points and therefore may be easily remembred they are these Verity Probity Liberty Sovereignty Property Charity Unity Piety Words of great Moment and Impor●ance so duly connected and consequent one after another That if they were made the Imperial and Standing Laws of Politicks nothing could conduce more to the Publick Peace and Tranquillity of all mankind than they Truly and Really do for Verity by its kindly and effectual Persuasions inclines the minds of well disposed men to Piety and Probity and they in Conjunction to Vnity if that may not easily be obtained which to me seems somewhat hard that it should not be so Liberty and Charity will certainly adjust it and procure it too among rational and good natur'd men But if these Lovely Graces should do it neither because some men are unreasonable in their pretensions and ill natur'd in their deportment towards others Sovereignty must at last determine all our unhappy Differences and Establish every man in his just Rights and Beloved Property so it should be and there is very great reason for it That by those Eight Words of Wisdom we should Govern all our Political Transactions the Great Concerns of Human Life and Conversation I am sure King Charles the First the Martyr of Blessed Memory Governed himself and ●his People committed to his Charge by all these Points and tho' he met with hard Usages and an Untimely Death