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A15011	A pithie, short, and methodicall opening of the Ten commandements. By Master William Whately, preacher of the word of God at Banburie in Oxford-shire	Whately, William, 1583-1639.; Lee, Richard, d. 1650.	1622 (1622)	STC 25315; ESTC S119736	77,294	265

good workes and ready to distribute according to the eminencie of their estate and meanes Great and rich men must practise 1. Bounty 2. Munificence 2. The lesse gifted are bound to two things 1. To acknowledge their gifts with all due and respectiue cariage towards them agreeable thereto in all ciuilitie and curtesie 2. To be willing to be beholding vnto them and to enioy helpe and assistance from their gifts as occasion shall be offered Hitherto of vnequals without gouernment Now of those with gouernment because the difference betwixt them ariseth from some office or estate which the one hath more then the other Their duties are of two sorts 1. Mutuall 2. Seuerall 1. Mutuall such as they are reciprocally and these are three 1. A speciall degree of loue each to other according as they are more neerely combined in their estates The parent owes a parentall loue the yoke-fellow a matrimoniall loue and so in the rest each must haue a more earnest plentifull and stedfast affection to other in regard of their places 2. A particular mentioning of each other in their prayers vnto God 3. A speciall care of each others comfort and credit and endeuour to procure it more then to other men 2. Their duties seuerall such as are peculiar to either 1. To Gouernours towards them that are gouerned 2. To gouerned towards them that gouerne them 1. The duties of Gouernours are twofold 1. Common to all Gouernours 2. Peculiar to each kinde of Gouernours 1. The duties common to all Gouernours are two 1. To keepe reuerence and respect to themselues in the hearts of those that are vnder their gouernment by a vertuous conuersation and by giuing themselues examples to them in all goodnesse 2. To exercise their authoritie ouer them to which end it must be declared and that in three respects 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised 2. What is the next end that all must aime at in their gouernment 3. The manner of vsing that authoritie 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised and those are towards 1. All vnder their gouernment 2. To the different kinds of them 1. Towards all vnder their gouernment two wayes 1. To direct them in their wayes 1. By minding lawfull and fit things 2. By forbidding the contrary 2. To defend them from the iniuries that might be offered them by any other of the common inferiours chiefly 2. The second part of power and gouernment to be exercised is towards the different kindes of them 1. To the good 2. To the euill 1. To the good and obedient 1. By praises and commendations 2. By rewards and recompences 2. Towards the euill and disobedient 1. By reproofe and reprehension 2. By chastisements and corrections according to the difference of faults and places differently 2. The second dutie to be declared is what is the next end that all men must aime at in their gouernment viz. the welfare good and happinesse of those vnder their gouernment as well as and together with their owne welfare and content 3. The third dutie to be declared is the manner of vsing their authoritie to this end by the practise of foure things 1. Iustice 2. Prudence 3. Mildnesse 4. Courage 1. By the practise of iustice in a twofold regard 1. Of persons towards whom gouernment is exercised by being indifferent and vnpartiall the same to all in the same cases 2. In regard of the speciall acts of power and that in two regards 1. By commanding nothing but what is lawfull to be done in regard of conscience to God and forbidding nothing but what may be omitted without sinne against God 2. By correcting and reprouing for nothing but a fault praising and rewarding for nothing but a vertue and that according to the proportion and quantitie both of vertues and vice 2. By the practise of prudence or discretion two wayes 1. By obseruing the different dispositions of those that are vnder ones gouernment 2. By making choise of two things 1. Fit things to command and forbid and fit kindes of reproofes corrections praises rewards agreeable to the difference of the persons dispositions with whom one hath to deale 2. By making choise of fit times and places wherein to exercise any part of authoritie both 1. In regard of ones selfe that commandeth reproueth 2. In regard of them that are commanded reproued c. The fittest time is when neither are transported with passion or distemperance 3. By the practise of mildnesse to shew it selfe two wayes 1. In commandements 2. In reproofes and corrections 1. In commandements two wayes 1. By abstaining from hard difficult and painfull commandements vnlesse in case of necessitie 2. By mollifying commandements with louing familiar sweet and perswading speeches different according to the diuers kindes of inferiours 2. In reproofes and corrections by giving them 1. Moderately for kinde and measure so that the reproofe and correction neither exceed the fault nor the power and strength of the corrected 2. Compassionately and with demonstration of loue and pitty for the manner chiefly when necessitie calls to some roughnesse 4. By the practise of courage and resolution in going on forward to performe what is fit notwithstanding 1. Any importunitie intreatie and suit 2. Ill speeches or shew of danger Hitherto of duties common to all superiours in gouernment Peculiar duties of seuerall kindes of gouernours both in the 1. Familie of the Master Dame or Mistresse do follow 2 Common-weale do follow The Masters dutie is twofold 1. To all his familie ioyntly 2. To the seuerall members of his familie 1. To all his familie ioyntly as lie is a common ruler of that societie wholly considered and so he must regard 4. things 1. That Gods name be called vpon and worshipped in his familie for the families are cursed that call not vpon the name of God 2. He must haue regard to catechize them in true religion and bring them all vp in information of godlinesse 3. He must haue regard to prouide things necessarie for them 1. In health Food and the like 2. In sicknesse Attendance Physicke 4. He must haue regard to ouersee their wayes and cariage and 1. Set them to fit imployments 2. To redresse and reforme their disorders 2. The masters dutie is to looke to the seuerall members of his familie 1. To those whom it is in his power to chuse as wife and seruants to chuse vertuous and godly ones a woman fearing God and seruants fearing God 2. To vse them all well viz. the Wife Children Seruants 1. The wife and that two wayes 1. By familiar and kinde behauiour towards her person 2. By liberall and bountifull allowance of all comforts vnto her 2. The children two wayes 1. By good education 1. In younger yeeres causing them to be taught to write and reade c. 2. In riper yeeres setting them to some calling according to their capacitie and their parents abilitie 2. By good prouision for them

commanded in the celebration of the Sabbath proper to gouernours are these namely that they be diligent in looking to their inferiours that they may at the least outwardly keepe the Lords day Hitherto of the affirmatiue part of this commandement the negatiue followes forbidding sinnes 1. Of omission in the neglecting of any of the things commanded either in whole or in part 2. Of commission in doing the contrary in two regards 1. Before the Sabbath come 2. When it is come 1. Before the Sabbath come in 2. things 1. In an vniuersall carelesnesse of it all the weeke and so by carelesnesse or immoderatenesse so ill disposing of businesses that they interrupt vs in sanctifying the Sabbath which fore-sight diligence and moderation might haue preuented 2. Immoderate toylesomnesse and watching the day before to the hindring of one from doing the workes of the Sabbath through sleepinesse and wearinesse 2. When the Sabbath is come 1. In regard of all men 2. In regard of gouernours 1. In regard of all men 1. For matter 2 For manner 1. For matter two wayes 1. Against resting 2. Against sanctifying 1. Against resting 1. Inward by thoughts 2. Outward by 1. Words 2. Deeds 1. By words either 1. Of our ordinarie busisinesses out of the forenamed exceptions 2. Of sports and pastimes 2. Against sanctifying 1. Publiquely 2. Priuately 1. Publiquely in three things 1. A slow and vndue comming to Church 2. Sleeping drowzing or like misbehauiour at the Church as talking c. 3. Running away from the Congregation disorderly afore all be concluded vnlesse vpon some necessarie occasion 2. Priuately in spending the time 1. Idlely in slugging slothfulnesse as sitting at doore or in the chimney corner and doing iust nothing 2. Prophanely in surfeting drunkennesse riot reuelling and the like 2. In regard of the manner by being weary of the day and wishing it ouer as a thing burdensome 2. When the Sabbath is come in regard of Gouernours if they command their inferiours to worke or play or without iust cause to be absent from the word or sacraments And yet one way there is a more generall breaking of this commandement by denying the moralitie of this law and cashiering it among other Leuiticall ceremonies Indeed the Sabbath is in part ceremoniall figuring both our rest of sanctification here and glory hereafter but that contradicts not the perpetuitie of it For it is not a ceremonie leading to Christ and at his comming to determine as appeares Mat. 15.17 I came not to dissolue the Law and vers 19. who shall breake the least of these commandements where each commandement of the ten commandements is ratified and consequently this fourth Luk. 23.56 They rested according to the commandement And Luke writ that diuers yeeres after the resurrection of Christ the things were done after his death when all Leviticall institutions lost their power of binding Iam. 2.11 He that keeps the whole Law and breakes one commandement is guiltie of all Therefore the whole Law and each principle thereof doth binde vs vnder the Gospell also the time of first instituting a particular date of time for the beginning of the Sabbath of the old Law viz. in innocencie 2. The writing of it in Tables of stone 3. Putting of it into the Arke proued morall So much of the commandements of the first Table enioyning our dutie to God Now follow the precepts of the second Table concerning our dutie to our selues and our neighbours and first of the fifth commandement Honour thy father and thy mother c. THis Commandement enioynes the performance of all such duties as appertaine to men in regard of their place that is that respect a speciall reference which passeth betwixt some men more then others in some speciall and peculiar bond binding them mutually one to another These duties are of two sorts 1. Such as concerne euery mans selfe 2. Such as respect others 1. Such as concerne euery mans selfe which are foure 1. To take notice of his place and the seuerall duties thereof that he may the better performe the same 2. To labour for all such graces and vertues as are requisite for the discharge of these duties 3. To maintaine the dignitie of his place 4. To be satisfied and contented with the present place wherein God hath set him and with the dignitie and honour thereof 2. Such duties as respect others in regard of speciall bonds and obligations tying them together These bonds are of two sorts 1. Naturall 2. Spirituall 1. Naturall taken from things naturall in this present life and these are twofold 1. Arbitrarie 2. Necessarie 1. Arbitrarie such as it is in a mans power to haue or not to haue according to the freedome of his owne choice and election and this is called friendship whence we are denominated friends 2. Necessarie such as are by God and the course of nature established and depend not meerely vpon the choice of will and these are two 1. Kinred 2. Degree 1. Kinred or neerenesse of bloud whence men are termed kinsmen 2. Degree whereby one is ranked in a certaine order towards others Degree is twofold 1. Of equalitie whence men are called equals 2. Inequalitie wherein one is aboue another or vnder him and this is 1. Superioritie wherein one is preferred before another 2. Inferioritie wherein one standeth vnder or behinde another 2. The bonds of spirituall things are taken from things that doe concerne the estate of another life hereafter And these are all or the chiefe bonds that doe passe betwixt man and man tying them to each other and causing them to become indebted in speciall duties towards such persons which are not owing in common to all Now let vs consider the duties themselues depending vpon each of those respects 1. Of friends Friends are those that are tied together by the bond of friendship Friendship is a speciall obligation of amitie or good will vniting the hearts of men together in a greater neerenesse and dearenesse then ordinarily is or is required of all men Now friendship and so friends is of two kindes 1. Common and imperfect being amitie confirmed and strengthned and raised to an higher degree then vsuall in regard of long and familiar liuing abiding dealing or conuersing together 2 Perfect more peculiar which is amity in the highest degree that can be wrought through the mutuall acknowledgement of each others vertues vpon some good time and acquaintance and established and ratified by some solemne couenant promise or oath taken each to other as is to be scene in the example of Ionathan and Dauid The duties of friends are twofold 1. Common 2. Proper 1. Common to both kinds of friendship 1. To chuse and accept none into friendship but vertuous honest and religious persons for what communion can there be betwixt light and darknesse vertue and vice 2. To carry themselues friendly to each other and that two wayes 1. By auoiding all those things that may alienate their hearts one from an

ordinary conuersation must be ordered well and that 1. By restraining speech 2. By vsing speech 1. By restraining speech 1. Of their bad deeds 2. Of their good deeds 1. Of their bad deeds behinde their backes but 1. Vpon iust cause 2. In good manner 1. Vpon iust cause 1. If they bee publique and openly knowne to glorifie the iustice of God and edifie others 2. If they be priuate and knowne to none or few but our selues then 1. To warne those that might else be infected 2. To aduertise those that haue authority to redresse it 2. In restraining speeches of their bad deeds in a good manner that is 1. Sparingly rather with the least then most 2. Pitifully with compassion and louing affection 2. By restraining speech of their good deeds before their face but 1. Vpon good occasion 2. With manifest referring of the praise to God 1. Vpon good occasion 1. Of encouragement and that 1. Against temptations 2. Against oppositions 2. Of thankfull acknowledgement of good receiued 2. With manifest referring of the praise to God that they may not be puffed vp 2. Our words in ordinary conuersation must be ordered well by vsing speech 1 In their presence 2. In their absence 1. In their presence of their deeds 1. Good encouragement to proceed 2. Bad reprehension admonition 2. In their absence 1. Praise to stirre vp others to imitate them 2. Iust defence against slanders and calumniations Hitherto of the right ordering of our selues in regard of our owne speeches Now for that that concernes the words which we heare others speake of our neighbours which is twofold 1. In generall wee must examine that that is spoken vnto vs and call for due proofe 2. In speciall 1. For the euill reported we must 1. Be vnwilling to heare it and reiect such tales 2. Vnwilling to giue any credit to it without very sufficient proofe and then sorrowfull for it 2. For the good reported we must 1. Be glad and willing to heare it 2. Willing and desirous to beleeue it if there be any probable proofe that it is true So much for the ordering of our words Now for our deeds 1. We must vse all ciuill and respectiue cariage to our neighbour tending to grace him 2. We must by all meanes striue to draw him to good and vertuous behauiour that may deserue commendation And this for our ordinary conuersation Now for matters of iudgement in it there are vsually amongst vs foure sorts of men exercised 1. The witnesse 2. The aduocate 3. The jurors 4. The Iudge 1. The witnesse whose duty is to declare 1. The whole truth without adding diminishing or altering for fauour or ill will 2. Nothing but the truth no intermixture of falshood is allowable 2. The aduocate pleader or counseller who must with an vnpartiall eye seeke to finde out and cleare the truth though it be to the detriment of his client 3. The jurors who must 1. Indifferently consider of the euidence and throughly search it 2. Bring a right verdict according thereto without fauour anger 4. The Iudge who must 1. Giue free scope to the proceedings of iustice 2. Passe a right and vnpartiall sentence according to the proofes that shall be substantially produced Hitherto the things commanded in this commandement Now of the sinnes against it which are 1. Of omission 2. Of commission in regard of the name 1. Of onesselfe 2. Of ones neighbour 1. Of ones selfe 1. Inward 2. Outward for Words Deeds 2. Of ones neighbour 1. Inward 2. Outward for 1. Ordinary conuersation 1. In words 2. In deeds 2. For matters of iudgement This Commandement is broken in regard of our owne good name inwardly so farre as concerned 1. A mans opinion of himselfe 2. The opinion of other men concerning vs. 1. A mans opinion of himselfe and that 1. In excesse 2. In defect 1. In excesse by two sinnes 1. Selfe-conceitednesse which hath three degrees 1. To imagine ones selfe to haue the vertues he hath not 2. To thinke that hee hath more then it is 3. To bee good in his owne eies because of that hee hath The second sinne in excesse is selfe-flattery which hath also foure degrees 1. A counting ones selfe free from the vices which he is not free from 2. Calling his owne vices by the names of vertues as prodigality good neighbourhood c. 3. Esteeming his grosse sinnes to be infirmities and small faults 4. Imagining to scape reproach for all his great faults confessed so to bee because hee saith in his heart no man shall know it 2. A mans opinion or himselfe in defect by two sinnes 1. Deiectednesse 2. Rigorous condemning 1. Deiectednesse is a false accusing of ones selfe as an hypocrite when he is not because of afflictions and imperfections 2. Ouer-rigorous censuring ones owne actions is a condemning of them excessiuely as foule wicked naught in extremity when indeed they be alone weaknesses and imperfections These two sinnes are not so vsuall but the children of God in temptation doe fall into them These things are faults in regard of our owne opinion of our selues those follow which respect 2. The opinions of other men concerning vs which are 1. Good 2. Bad. 1. Good and that 1. In excesse 2. In defect 1. In excesse where are foure faults 1. Hypocrisie a desire to make a shew of goodnesse to men-ward without any care of being so indeed 2. Vaine glory which is an inordinate desire of praise from men and is of two kindes 1. When we doe our good deeds only or principally to be seene of men which alwaies goes hand in hand with hypocrisie 2. When we desire to be magnified for wit learning wealth parentage and such toyes that may befall a bad man as well as a good chiefly when in truth we haue them not 3. The third fault is accepting and reioycing in false praises as Herod was content to be magnified as a God 4. Swelling and being puffed vp with true praises 2. Faults which respect defect disregarding a good name and not caring whether men thinke well or ill of vs. 2. The bad opinion of other men concerning vs and that also 1. In excesse 2. In defect 1. In excesse in two things 1. False shame 2. Vexation at false reports 1. False shame in being ashamed of that that is not shamefull as 1. Of scoffes taunts for well doing 2. Of pouerty a poore coat or house or a poore kinsman c. 2. Vexation at false reports and being troubled and led ouer-much by what men will say of vs. 2. The bad opinion of other men concerning vs in defect as impudency when a man is not ashamed of his ill workes though all the world talke of them to his reproach Hitherto of inward disorders about our owne good name The outward follow first in regard of our words and that 1. Generally 2. Specially 1. Generally which is 1. In quantity of words 2. In quality of words 1. In