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A65238	The gentlemans monitor, or, A sober inspection into the vertues, vices, and ordinary means of the rise and decay of men and families with the authors apology and application to the nobles and gentry of England seasonable for these times / by Edw. Waterhous[e] ...	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1047; ESTC R34735	255,011	508

have the report of great Fortunes and live as if they would be thought better portioned then they are are oftner the Engrossers of Young Gentlemens times and applications then they deserve to be or then they in the event find them worthy to be or are gainers by their so being For what what with the cost of Courtship before they are prevailed with the great Joyntures and expence of life when they are had the many expectations that must be satisfied both in themselves and to their Relations and Children they prove greater banes then helps to their Husbands Estates when as to marry a serious Woman neer ones Estate and with a reasonable portion and of a Genteel and thrifty Family is to obtain a convenience which will deserve every way if a Husband have Wit to chuse Grace to acknowledge and Wisdom to manage it aright Consider this which because too few have the ambition of Women is so little to excell this way For with the most of our now-a-day Husbands who have too few generous qualities in them but must live high and cannot deny themselves exuberancies and impertinent superfluities not what she is but what she has is most esteemed which makes Parents not breed their Daughters and Women not so much addict themselves to steddy and serious vertue as to this levity and gayity of humour which is such a credential to their reception with modish men that nothing seems more but God knows it is neither vertuous wise nor durable nor will it make those that delight in it or chuse for it happy in condition or rich in purse For since that of the Philosopher is most true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Arist. lib. 7. Repub. That the life of Men and Cities is then best when most vertuous and no further prais-worthy then it is vertuous And this way of the Town jollity profuseness I know so contrary to it and to the humour of good Husbands good Wives and to the prosperity of the descendants from them I will pray for better endowments in the Choyces and Marriages of either Sex and humbly commend to the Nobles and Gentry of England the choice of good Wives after King Solomons precept Prov. 31. and not hope to finde a restoration of pristine sobriety frugality hospitality and true friendship together with an Elimination of all deboyshery and rudeness contrary to them till the Generous spirits and great men of the Nation by the circulation of what is eminent in them thorough the whole body of the people according to the respective abodes and influences of them be restrained to their staies at home and not permitted to be all and almost altogether here for this as it causes an over-growing of these parts by too much succulency so will it atrophize other parts what the issue of such inordinateness and inequality in the body Politique will be is conjecturable from the effects of monstrosity and decay that thereby follows and therefrom threatens Which wise King Iames of blessed memory a Prince in whose daies Peace Riches and Religion as much flourished as in any times before him considering in his notable Speech in the Star-Chamber Anno 1616. P. 567. Of His Works in Folio thus declares himself Another thing to be cared for is the new Buildings here about the City of London concerning which my Proclamations have gone forth and by the chief Iustice here and his Predecessor Popham it hath been resolved to have been a general nusans to the whole Kingdom And this is that which is like the Spleen in the Body which in measure as it overgrows the body wasts For is it possible but the Countrey must diminish if London do so increase and all sorts of people do come to London and where doth this increase appear not in the heart of the City but in the Suburbs not giving wealth or profit to the City but bringing misery and surcharge both to City and Court causing dearth and scarsity through the great provision of victuals and fewel that must be for such a multitude of people And these buildings serve likewise to harbour the worst sort of people as Alehouses and Cottages do I remember that before Christmas was Twelvemoneth I made a Proclamation for this cause That all Gentlemen of quality should depart to their own countries and houses to maintain Hospitality amongst their Neighbours which was equivocally taken by some as that it was meant only for that Christmas But my will and meaning was and here I do declare that my meaning was that it should alwaies continue One of the greatest causes of all Gentlemens desire that have no calling or errand to dwel in London is apparently the pride of the Women For if they be Wives then their Husbands if they be Maids then their Fathers must bring them up to London because the new fashion is to be had no where but in London and heer if they be unmarried they marr their marriages and if they be married they lose their reputations and rob their Husbands purses It is the fashion of Italy especially of Naples which is one of the richest parts of it that all the Gentry dwell in the principal Towns and so the whole countrey is empty Even so now in England all the countrey is gotten into London so as with time England will only be London and the whole countrey be left waste For as we now do imitate the French fashion in fashion of Clothes and Lackeys to follow every man so have we got up the Italian fashion in living miserably in our houses and dwelling all in the City but let us in Gods name leave these idle forein toyes and keep the old fashion of England For it was wont to be the honour and reputation of the English Nobility and Gentry to live in the countrey and keep hospitality for which we were famous above all the countries in the world which we may the better do having a soile abundantly fertile to live in And now out of my own mouth I declare unto you which being in this place is equal to a Proclamation which I intend likewise shortly hereafter to have publiquely proclaimed that the Courtiers Citizens and Lawyers and those that belong unto them and others as have Pleas in Term time are only necessary persons to remain about this City others must get them into the countrey For besides the having of the countrey desolate when the Gentry dwell thus in London divers other mischiefes arise upon it First if insurrections should fall out as was lately seen by the Levellers gathering together what order can be taken with it when the countrey is unfurnished of Gentlemen to take order with it Next the poor want relief for fault of the Gentlemens hospitality at home Thirdly my service is neglected and the good government of the countrey for lack of the principal Gentlemens presence that should perform it And lastly the Gentlemen los● their own thrift

denied access Yea her God it was that when her Chamber was on fire preserved her from burning in it and kept up her spirit in a condition which she thought less comfortable then that of a poor Milk-maid in whose place she wished to be when she heard her cry Milk O quoth she that I were a Milkmaid 'T was he that was her hope and Saviour that maugre all these made her Mistris of these Nations and of the glory of Government in her Time And 't was he and he alone that was in the religious heart and pious pen of that Angelique King who in his sorest agonies if trouble could have discomposed so sublime and steady a soul leaves us his doleful Suhjects the Legacy of admiring his Vertues and Words I am confident the Iustice of My Cause and clearness of my Conscience Eicon Basil. Sect. 28. before God and Towards My People will carry me as much above them in Gods decision as their successes have lifted them above Me in the vulgar opinion who consider not that many times those undertakings of men are lifted up to Heaven whose rise is from Hell as to the injuriousnesse and oppression of the design Which considered who would not look upon God as the sweetest comfort and safest refuge and make his hiding place under the pavillio● of his protection Psal. 32. 7. who is a Rock of ages for his peoples establishment and has provided Salvation for their Walls and Bucklers Isa. 26. 1. who leads them by his Pillar of Cloud by day and by his Pillar of Fire by night under whom are his Everlasting arms Deut. 33. 27. and in whom his unerring Spirit is whom his Angels minister to his affection encompasseth and to whom his Truth performeth all that is good for them and in wrong to whom he hath said no weopon shall prosper no prayer but become sin no counsel but turn into foolishness for all is Babel and Nehushtan without and against God who will do whatsoever comes into the wisdom of his mind to be brought to pass by the power of his hand For as without God all perswasion is but as a sounding Brass and a tinkling Cimbal so without him all actions is but writing in the dust sowing on the rock emptying the Sea with a Sive as the barking of a whippet against the Moon invalid sottish nothing and if God be in our adventures and his glory rest upon smal things Aarons dry rod shall flourish with fruit and Sarahs dead womb spring forth a s●nne Davids indiscernableness shall increase into a Kingdom and Sauls Kingdome decline into contempt the great Monarchies be changed and small Forces prevaile against great Princes and Countries have not our eares heard and our eys read of the amazing providences of God bringing down Nebuchadnezzars and Bajazets and Iulians and unfortunating the Holy wars of Christians against Infidels Sequitur par● quae solet non immerito contristare in solitudinem deducere uti bonorum exitus mali sunt ut Socrates cogitur in mori Ru●ilius in exilio vivere Pompejus Cicero clientibus suis prebere cervicem Cato ille virtutum viva imago incumbens gladio simul de se de Republ. palam facere Senec. lib de tranq amici when he has suffered his enemies Banners to be exalted and their Empire to be expatiated into Christendome to correct Christians for their dissension and jealousies When I consider Charles the fifth and his puissant Army vanish and do nothing worthy Story and Charles the eighth of France a young man destitute of Money and Councell assault potent and Heroique Princes and over-run as much of Italy as he passed thorow without so much as the least resistance which caused Pope Alexander to say that the French came into Italy with Chalk in their hands to take up their lodging where they listed For they had not so much as occasion to put on their Armour one day in their expeditions I cannot but conclude that the way to render actions and Men and Families considerable is to promote God by all those several means of his appointment in the upshot of which his glory marches and by his blessing to his instruments he prospers in their subserviency to him and returns them that which indeed exceeds their desires or deserts For there is no contesting with God who has power and wisdom too effectual and commanding for us worms by policy or strength to cope with nor are any preparations how valid soever 〈◊〉 themselves proper to a successful issue but as the benediction of God rests o● them which Sir Iohn Arundel Holingshed p. 423. temps R. 2. found most true to his ruin and cost in his French Expedition upon which he entred with great pride and pomp for he had 52. new Suits of Cloth of Gold Tissue with him and all things suitable but a storm came drowned his person and bravery and defeated that voyage and long afore that the terrours that God ha● brought upon men and armies Thu●ydides lib. 4. p. 335. on no real apparent ground when they sear where no fear is and fly when none pursues them confirms this Which if men would more ruminate they would no● despise the day of Gods small things nor trust in Counsels Setlements Armies Navies Treasuries nor in any humane reserve or subterfuge which are failable carrying the worm of their corrosion in them and leaving often the ill aspect of paramount power impending them but they would apply themselves by prayer to God for conduct and counsel and refer the glory of their ayds and gainful expedients to him whose all men arts advantages defeats conclusions are and have no other dependance on emergencies or second ●●uses then his Almightiness by them ●●ves us view of the haults they make ●●d the stops by them put to our ●onfidentest Carrears for as there is 〈◊〉 arrest of the worlds greatness but by ●●e officer of providence who seises the ●ltanish pride and humbles the Lionlike ●ightiness of Might so is there no bayl 〈◊〉 be taken to relax his prey from its sei●re but by mercy conceding to the mil●er methods of power and turning to it ●he softer edge of its Regal absoluteness ●hich is more Gods delight to manifest to ●●e sons of men then his severity which ●e calls his strange act And I think that 〈◊〉 the survey of the providences of God Isai. 28. 21. the meditation and learning of which is ●ery prudent and Christian to be fre●uent in It will appear that to one of ●enal nature there is ten of mercy and ●ndulgence Nequaquam ergo nobis dolenda est ●aet asslictio infirmit●●●m quum intelligimus matrem esse virtutum Salvianus lib. 1. de Gubernat Dei p. 9. for the good and Philan●hropique manifests of God are such as ●ow from his being and benignity and ●o come upon us with all the adjuncts of ●indness compassion indoctrination when

envy you for nothing that you have but for one Hooded fellow meaning the Bishop who was better for the defence of a Kingdom then Ten thousand with Helmets on their heads but also serious in the things of God Holy in their lives Fervent in their prayers Frequent in their preachings Exact inspectors Just censurers Liberal benefactors Of Learned minds of Incessant study of Matchless ingenuity in their Writings eloquent in their Disputes strenuous in their Discourses florid Optandum est ut ii qui Episcopale munus suscipiunt quae suae sint partis Agant ac se non ad propria commoda non ad divitias non ad luxum sed ad labores a● solicitudines pro gloria dei vocatos esse intelligant ne● enim dub●●andum est fideles reliquos ad religionem innoe●ntiamque facilius inflammandos si praepositos suos viderint non ea quae mundi sunt sed animarum salutem a●c caelestem patriam cogitantes Sess. 25. c. 1. de Reformat Impr. Romae Paul Manutlo edit 1564. good Masters in their Families good Friends in their Neighbourhood good Commonwealths-men in their Countries good Fathers in their Diocesses good Examples in their Conversation and Subjection well born well bred well resolved and therefore so influential on others because presidential to others and Imperial over themselves This even the perverse Councel of Trent being overcome by that Interest which Truth and Piety had gained upon the Ingenious Fathers and Learned men in it who being busie and vigorous Assertors of it gave such testimony to the consequence conscience of Reformation in Church-men notwithstanding the pestilent design of Paul the fourth then Pope and his Politique a●d Atheistique creatures in it who craftily designed their own grandeur and the Churches diminution I say the Majesty of Gods cause managed by those few Zelots in it did by Gods aid so lord it over their contradiction and influence who were bent and conjured against it that That Counsel concluded it the most effectual way to make the Church prevalent in Christs way upon the people was to mind Churchmen that their main work in the Ministery high or low is to renounce the World to seek not themselves but the peoples salvation and example them by their own lives to become holy And therefore when I consider what renowned Bishops and Presbyters the Church of England has had in all Times Sacrosancta Ecclesia Anglicana in st●tu Praesulum intra Regnum Angliae per Angliae Regem ejus Progenitores ad populum in Lege Dei instituendum hospitalitatem colendam Eleemosynam erogandam ad alia charitatis opero exercenda fundata faisset Stat. Carleoli 25 Ed. 1. and how fit they have been for and reall in Execution of their Charges Dignifying their Dignities When I read the learned Sermons and hear of the ample Charities and Christian Lives of so many of them who have left their Praises and Pieties for their Remembrances When I remember that renowned Arch-Bishop Bradwardine whose Grace kindled in the cause of God to confront Pelagianisme when it was in power and request Cambdens Brit. p 206. and Generous Bishop Grandison who prevailed with the Clergy of Exceter Diocess to leave their Estates to his dispose discharging his trust right piously in endowing Churches and in building and adding to Hospitals Domini Papae Regis redargutor manifestus Praelatorum correptor Monachorum corrector Presbyterorum director Clericorum instructor Scholasticorum sustentator Populi praedicat●r c. M. Paris in H. 3. p. 876. converting not a doyte to his own use and Stout Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln who durst when Enormities were raunting reproach and withstand them approving himself The zealous Reprover of Pope King and Prelats the Chastiser of the Monks the Director of Priests the Instructor of the Clergy the Supporter of Scholars the Peoples Preacher the Incontinents Prosecutor the exact Scripturist the Mall and Hater of Rome at his Table plentiful pleasant courteous at the Lords Table and in Spiritual Exercises full of tears and mortifyed contrition in short a Pastor industrious venerable vigilant as Mat. Paris characters him When I muse upon the later Parallels to these antique Heroiques The Iewels the Andrews's the Abbots the Halls the Vshers the Kings the Lauds the Davenants the Carletons the Mountagues the Bilsons the Brownriggs the Sandersons the Potters the Whites the Gaudens preaching and writing Bishops and others since no less worthy to be remembred and honoured who are mentioned by a better Pen then mine Eloquent and learned Bishop Gauden in his Hieraspistes as Stars of the first Magnitude in our Firmament and must be honoured as Champions to our Religion as it opposes Popery I say when these and others Prefermentaries in this Church of England are thorowly considered and their virtues have their due valews with us I think a sober consideration being had of the learned and pious succession of Bishops since the Reformation of our Church I perswade my self I may with much truth and if I did not think so I would abhorr to write it my Spirit being I bless God too bigg to flatter either Bishops or their Betters That the Church of England has had since the times of H. 8. more holy Episcopi officium est authoritate divina fiducialiter veraci●er absque ullo timore vel adulatione loqui verbum Dei Regibus Principibus omnibus dignitatibus nunquam veritatem subterfugere nulli parcere neminem injuste damnare neminem sine causa excommunicare omnibus viam salutis tam erbis quam exemplis demonstrare Concil Calcuthense Legatinum ad Annum 787. Spelman Concil p. 296. learned preaching Bishops then any Church of its capacity in so many years at any time since Christs time ever had And I hope it will still continue to deserve the same attribution from succeeding Times And therefore how can the bounty of our Kings and the Justice of our Lawes and the Gratitude of our Piety express it self by any other or less commendable way then by wishing them a prosperous enjoyment of what Riches and Honour they now have and how can they evade the desert of rude ingrateful and absurd who malign these Rights so usefully vested in them Yea I think I may say it without offence I am sure without falshood that the splendor of Bishops and other Dignitaries in our Church is that which makes our Clergy most considerable abroad and most powerfull at home For by reason of their port and place are they capacitated not onely to entertain Strangers Beneficia Ecclesiastica conferenda sunt propter officia putae propter veritatem doctrinae sanctiatem vitae equitatem justitiae haec enim personam faciunt dignam Ecclesiastica Praelatura Augustin Triumphus de Potestat Eccles. quaest 47. art 1. in Resolut p. 252. gather out of Libraries and Universities the choisest books and learnedst men preferr those that are virtuous but also