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A05287	The sixty sixe admonitory chapters of Basilius, King of the Romans, to his sonne Leo, in acrostick manner that is, the first letter of euery chapter, making vp his name and title. Translated out of Greeke by Iames Scudamore.; Basilii Imperatoris Constantinopolitani exhortationum capita sexaginta sex ad Leonum filium, congomento Philosophum. English	Basil I, Emperor of the East, ca. 812-886.; Scudamore, James, 1624-1668.	1638 (1638)	STC 1543; ESTC S118848	21,566	136

THE SIXTY SIXE ADMONITORY Chapters of Basilius King of the Romans to his Sonne Leo in Acrostick manner That is the first letter of euery Chapter making vp his name and title Translated out of Greeke by IAMES SCVDAMORE * ⁎ * Printed at Paris M.DC.XXXVIII Quod Foelix faustúmquesit SERENISSIMO PRINCIPI CAROLO VVALLIAE PRINCIPI POTENTISSIMI REGIS CAROLI MAGNAE BRITANNIAE c. REGIS FILIO HAEC BASILII IMPERATOris ad suum Filium Leonem capita Admonitoria ex Graeeis Anglica facta Dicat consecrátque IACOBVS SCVDAMORVS OF THE Author BASILIVS the Author of this Treatise vvho calleth himselfe King of the Romans as their manner vvas succeeded Michael in the Easterne Empire and is sayd to haue restored the state of the Empire vvhich vvas much decayed by the ill gouernment of Michael He raigned vvith Michael one yeare and after him nineteene He dyed in the yeare 889. BASILIVS HIS PRECEPTS Sixtie sixe admonitory Chapters of Basilius King of the Romans to his sonne Leo in Acrostick manner That is the first letter of euery Chapter making vp his name and title BASILIVS BY Christ King of the Romans to Leo his beloued sonne and Coemperour CHAPTER I. Of Instruction INSTRVCTION is a thing that doth much profite the life of man and is much to be esteemed not only of Kings but also of priuate men For it greatly benefits them that haue it both in respect of the body and soule It benefits the one by the meditation of diuine Oracles and the other by the exercise of laudable workes or by the vse of laudable exercises Therfore I thy Father and Coemperour doe exhort thee my beloued sonne to be guided by it in the gouernment of thy Kingdome For it is both an ornament to Royalty in present and doth make the rulers to be renowned for euer For as the Sunne not shining vpon the earth all things are obscure and vndiscernable So the soule being without Instruction all things are confused and out of order Embrace th●rfore Instruction and thou shalt attaine to a vertuous life For vertue only of all possessions is immortall CHAP. II. Of right Faith MAKE Sincere Faith in Christ the principall and sure foundation of all thy life that is account true Faith the principall of all things in this life and the groūd of thy hapinesse here and hereafter Worship the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost the consubstantiall Trinitie one and the only God without diuiding or confounding the same And beleiue the Dispensation or Incarnation of God the word in the flesh by which the world was deliuered from the bondage of corruption as the lawe or doctrine of thy Mother the Church doth teach thee This Faith is the perfection of all vertues This Faith is the summe and Cheife of all good things Therfore keepe this Faith safe as a speciall thing committed to thy charge with which thou hast bene brought vp from thy swadling clothes I taught thee it Doe not shame mee thy louing Father by being vnlike to mee For it is the worke of paynters indeed to draw in colours the Portraits of Princes but the Children of Kings ought to prooue liuing Images and Portraits of the vertue of their Fathers CHAP. III. Of the honour which is to be giuen to Preists KEepe thy vnderstanding sound in orthodoxe opinions and exceedingly honour thy Mother the Church which by the Holy Ghost hath bene a noursing Mother to thee and by the grace and fauour of God in Christ by my meanes hath set a crowne vpon thy head For if thou oughtst to reuerence and honour thy Parents according to the flesh much more oughtst thou to honour with exceeding honour those that haue begott thee by the Spirit of God For they doe impart but a temporary life to their Children but these doe procure vnto vs an euerlasting life by regeneration Honour therfore the Church that thou mayst be honoured of God and reuerence the Preists as our spirituall Fathers and mediators towards God For the honour of Preists redounds to God For as for thy sake it is reason that thy seruants should be honoured so it is a holy and religious worke for Gods sake to honour his Preists and as the honour which is done vnto them doth reach vnto God so the dishonour which is done vnto them doth exceedingly prouoke God to anger CHAP. IV. Of the Iudgment and Retribution to come BELEIVE that the world is subiect to corruption seeing it had a beginning but that after corruption it shall be changed againe into incorruption For none of those things that are made by God shall returne into nothing although the trangression of sinne hath togeather with vs condemned euery creature to dissolution But expecting againe the creature I meane the world to be incorruptible confesse also the Resurrection of the dead and expect that there shall be a iust Iudgment and tryall of the things that haue bene done of euery one For no euill shall escape the diuine Iudgment without punishment neither shall any good lye hid vnrewarded Neither thinke that the rewards of good workes are mortall nor that the punishments of euill workes shall euer haue an end For both haue euerlasting continuance and in both there shall be Eternity CHAP. V. Of Almes ALMES doth oftentimes according as the Scripture saith repriue from death and life seemes as it were to be bought for mony when God for our life and saluation suffers himselfe as it were to be bribed Therfore scattering mortall riches vpon earth thou dost gather immortall riches in heauen and besides it procureth vnto thee the blessings euen of this world also And in very deed doing good to others is wealth inexhaustible For by scattering it is gathered and by giuing it is againe receiued and not only with blessings of this life doth it make them rich that possesse it but also it doth make them happy with blessings of the world to come CHAP. VI. Of care and vigilance KEEPE continually in thy mind the manners of thy parents and according vnto them diligently perfect and square thy life For wee doe neither carelesly or negligently carry our selues in those things which we striue to effect but doe labour to set our selues before thee as examples and patternes of vertue thinking negligence worthy of reprehension and esteeming labour praise-wortly And vse not things of this life out of season and vnfitly but exercise thy selfe to enjoy the seeming good things of this life as one that must dye at last and mind the obtayning of the good things to come as one that is to liue euerlastingly That is vse the things of this life so as a mortall man should vse them that by the right vsing of them thou mayst gett eternall good things He that vseth them otherwise doth as our Author saith vse them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of season or vnfitly CHAP. VII Of conuersation with good men BE conuersant often with thy Ghostly Physicians that thou mayst be well and