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A05311	The sanctuarie of saluation, helmet of health, and mirrour of modestie and good maners wherein is contained an exhortation vnto the institution of Christian, vertuous, honest, and laudable life, very behoouefull, holsome and fruitfull both to highest and lowest degrees of men ... / written in Latin verie learnedly and elegantlie by Leuinus Lemnius of Zirizaa, physitian, and Englished by H.K. for the common commoditie and comfort of them which understand not the Latine tongue ...	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Kinder, Hugh.	1592 (1592)	STC 15454.5; ESTC S3877	132,793	266

we all come soone and shortly this dutie must be fulfilled Old men must be honored So by the ordinance of God doth Moses teach saying Leuit. 19. Rise vp before the hoarie head and honour the person of the old man Lycurgus the Lacedemonians lawmaker appoynted this also to be obserued He would not haue the rich and mightie men to haue the greatest honour but the old men according to the degree of their age And surely age● not more honoured in any place of the wo●… Amongst this sort and order we must recla●… and repute the Magistrate To whome honor must be giuen Rom. 13. Magistrates must be honored the dignitie of th● Consull or chiefe Iustice Pretor or Maior whose wise gouernment policie and authoritie is a stedfast stay to the safetie of the Common wealth by meanes wherof all the realme hath peace and tranquillitie without any section tumult or rebellion To these must we adde and accompt men that be of approoued honestie and well known and well grown in yeares or Gentlemen and Barons that come of gentle and noble house and auncestrie or them also that bee excellently furnished with the studies of good learning and thereby become worthie ornaments of their countrey But the higher dignitie and more chiefe estimation in this respect Ministers of the Church must be honored and in obseruing of this dutie doo I asscribe and assigne vnto them which labour feruently in the Ministerie and holy functions of the Church or congregation and bestowe their studie labour and trauaile in enforming the mindes and reforming the depraued manners of men So doth S. Paule pronounce the Elders 1. Tim. 5. that is to say they which giue light and ensample to their flock by sober and discreet behauiour by sage fatherly wisedome and integritie of life and doo feede the hungrie multitude with wholesome doctrine and with the pure and syncere foode of the word of the Gospell these I say Rom. 12.13 Philip. 2. he affirmeth to be worthie of double honour and all things requisite must be bestowed on them plenteously and copiously not only reuerence according to their age but also such necessarie aydes and allowances as they may therewith moderatly be susteyned and be furnished and stored with necessarie houshold substance What commoditie instruction bringeth to a man and how it must be vsed and of what manner and sort it ought to be CHAP. 10. GReat respect The good that man hath by instruction care and regard ought to bee had in what manner of learning any one is to be trayned vp Wherefore so soone as euer age is capable of discipline and apt and meet for the studie of good letters let it be seasoned and sauoured speedily with liberall and gentle Artes. For by them chiefly the nature of man is fashioned and well framed vnto good behauiour and trimly polished with the ornament of humanitie But the most conuenient commodious and prosperous beginning of trayning vp of youth is first to bring their manners into good fashion For which cause let a yong man addicted to studie first re●… his manners to good order and then let 〈◊〉 learne eloquence and the cunning skill of ●…tering his cogitations learnedly In Epist which 〈◊〉 Plinie saith cannot well bee atchieued w●… our good demeanour For better is the tr●… and manner of liuing honestly then of sp●…king finally and eloquētly and the integri●… of life is more to be desired then the skill 〈◊〉 eloquence although indeed these two ought to be lincked together and not separate and finally the one to bee a helpe to the other In like manner may we reason perswade concerning the choyse Knowledge of things and words must be acquired discerning and iudgement of words and matters for although the knowledge of things is more to bee wished and sought then the knowledge and elegancie of words yet neuerthelesse matters must be declared with such words as are plaine manifest and meete for the same And this is the cause that the precepts documents of life which doo garnish and adorne the minde and informe and frame the heart vnto godly conuersation although of themselues they be honest and wholsome Lib. 1. ca. 1. Lib. 1. ca. 3. yet notwithstanding as Lactantius and Fabius doo affirme they haue more importance and efficacie vnto perswasion whensoeuer a plausible stile and laudable composition of words dooth illuminate and set forth to the vnderstanding of the hearers the excellencie of the matter For those things flowe into mens mindes the more effectually which are compact framed with such pith and force of words as is conuenient and bee artificially amplified with rhetoricall skill And albeit we must be so studious of words and haue so great delight therein as some that haue small skill vse to doo being destitute of the knowledge of things yet for all that it is better to ioyne prudencie and good experience with eloquence and elegancie of words and vtterance thereof least by little and little we fall to the vse and custome of such words Barbarousnesse to be esch●wed as are growne out of vse as are barbarous vnfit fond and strange whereby the discourse and treatise although it be pit●ie and sententious is rather obscured then adorned If therefore fine trim and elegant words haue no wisdome nor grauitie weight nor pithinesse of sentences in them experience and skill without eloquence is more to bee commended then babling foolish loquacitie Wisdome saith Cicero as it is the foundation of other things so is it also of eloquence Wise wittie Lib. 2. de Orat. and learned is that saying of Horace which euery man must follow in euery profession In art Poet. The Poets red doo profit men or doo delight them well And lessons good they now and then among such pleasures tell The prayse of perfect skill is his which mingleth goodwith sweete His reader he dooth greatly please and giues him counsaile meete But the sacred Scripture giuen and vttered by the inspiration of the holy Spirit needeth no such helpe of man For it delighteth draweth winneth and transformeth the hearts of men not with eloquence not with gloriousnesse of words but with a certaine secret hidden and diuine efficacie Which thing when S. Paul the Apostle would testifie and make known to the Corinthians he saith thus 1. Cor. 2. When I came vnto you and opened vnto you the testimonies of God I vsed no glorious finesse of words nor great shew of wisdome neither was my word and preaching in the entycing and perswading words of mans wisdome but in shewing of the spirit and power that your faith should not consist in the wisdome of men but in the power of God Pauls meaning is declared By which words he dooth not reiect the pithie importance of words and sentences wherewith he was plētifully stored furnished neither doth he take frō himselfe the power efficacy of perswasion

to the conscience For in euery action which wee doe not performe with firme stedfastnesse and sure constancie of purpose but with a wauering scrupulous and doubtfull minde surely we are condemned euen our owne consci-being iudge For whatsoeuer proceedeth not of fayth whereby wee approue our mindes and become acceptable before God whatsoeuer is done against the consent of conscience it is an offence and in daunger of sinne And the reason is this because that when a man doubteth whether a thing be euill or no and yet committeth the same thing being of it selfe not euill he declareth plainly that hee would commit some wicked and flagitious fact if occasion doe happen or opportunitie be offered But true godlinesse and well stablished wisedome enuironed and fenced with fayth and strengthened with the holy spirite discerneth and discusseth all things prudently and wisely and cannot abide to attempt any thing which hath any appearance of euill or which may temerate the minde or contaminate the conscience with any griefe The rewards of vertue and vice CHAP. 47. THat good wise admonition which Cate the elder was wont to inculcate and often repeate to his companions in warre that same ought to be fixed and fastned in euery mans minde and memory Vertue is eternall If with labour thou doe some excellent act and honest exployt the paines taken departeth thy honest deede remayneth Pleasure or voluptuousnes is momentanie If with voluptuousnesse any euill fact bee committed the pleasure as a thing transitorie flieth and vanisheth away soone and quickly but the lewdnesse and wickednesse as a stayne of infamy and note of reproch that cannot be blotted out abideth and sticketh stil continually A Prouerbe against thē that goe and grow out of kind Hereunto we may well referre this prouerb Hee that hath once beene a malapart iester or saucie scoffer will neuer be good housholder For he that hath once in an ignominious matter lost his good name and cracked his credite shal not easily get the commendable report of an honest man no although he wax rich or become very wealthy An exhortation of Plato vnto vertue In like maner Plato doth instigate and exhort yong men to the winning obtaining of felicity by setting before thē the image of famous vertue vicious pleasure For soone sodain repentance anguish of heart vnquietnesse of mind continual griefe sorrow doth accōpany the momētany sweetnes sweet entisements of voluptuousnes according to the cōmō saying Sweet meat must haue soure sauce But contrariwise quietnes of mind tranquility of hart safety of conscience finally sure perfect perpetuall ioy doth immediatly follow the labors miserable toyle trauaile of vertue Sentence of S. Gregory The whole effect hereof may bee briefly comprehended in this sentence That which delighteth is caducall that which afflicteth is perpetuall The beginning of all our actions must we take of God CAP. 48. The beginnings of our actions must we ask haue of God WHatsoeuer thou art minded to attēpt performe ask counsaile of our most gracious and most mighty God And if thou purpose to dilate intreat of any matter if thou goe about to administer or fulfill any offices or dueties either priuate or publike humbly and lamentably beseech his diuine power will and maiestie to inspire into thine heart by his holy Spirite those things that bee good necessary profitable and expedient vnto saluation For I am not able to expresse howe much it helpeth and auayleth vnto the happy and prosperous successe of our works to refer al the beginnings of our actions committe all our wayes purposes and desires vnto God For those things which are not begonne attempted or taken in hand with such beginning we see commonly for the most parte that they proceed vnfortunatly and vnluckely For this cause the Lord threatneth by the Prophet Esai saying Esai 30. Woe to you yee shrinking children which take counsayle but not by me which we are a web and not by my spirit By which words he denounceth vnto them vnhappy and vnlucky successe because they seeke the defence protection and assurance of their saluation from some other place and by some other meanes rather then at God his hand neither doe they aske counsaile of him nor pray and desire to receiue answere of him God gouerneth our doings to whome all thinges are subiect and in whose hand and power the domination rule and gouernance of the whole world doth consist For by him as Salom●… sayth Prouer. 8. Kings raigne and law-makers decree iust ordinances By him princes beare rule and all iudges of the earth execute right iudgement For counsaile and equitie is his wisdome is his in his hande is all strength honour and power whereby they that haue gouernment and are set in authoritie doe stablish their dominions and keepe their subiects in due obedience God is the first principall cause of things Wherfore sith that all things are done atchieued accōplished brought to passe according to the iust iudgement good will and pleasure of God and that he is the first chiefe principal cause of things We must with most effectual praiers desire of him prosperous succes of our works we must craue and begge of him all things that be profitable and expedient vnto our saluation and necessary to the leading of our liues well and happily Which precept and document Christ doth inculcate and often beat into our mindes when hee sayth Mat. 6. Luk. 12. First seeke ye the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and other things shall come franckly and freely vnto you and shall bee added and giuen in surplusage or ouerplus And therefore that beginning of the day is most fortunate luckie and prosperous which is commenced with contemplation of heauenly thinges with the doctrine of the Gospell with worshipping and honoring the maiestie of God The dawning of the day and betimes in the morning is the most meete and conuenient time to order dispose prepare the mind and to lift vp the heart vnto God CHAP. 49. The early morning is meet for prayer THere is no part of the day more conuenable to eleuate direct the mind vnto God then a little before day-light For then when the darknesse of the night is dispearsed the minde is the more chearefull prompt and apt to conceiue good cogitations that be conducible for health and profitable vnto saluation The bookes of the Bible doe in euery place testifie that the holy Prophets vsed so to do Dauid being wrapped in perplexity and distresse calleth on God for helpe thus Psal 5. O God thou art my God Psal 63. early do I wake vnto thee Betimes will I stand by thee wil look vp Early in the morning shall my prayer come before thee So Esai Esa 50. The Lord lifteth vp mine eare yea hee lifteth vp mine eare betimes that I may heare him at a maister

worthie to be sought laboured for is in this books verie orderly and aptly first set downe according to that diuine and principall precept of our Sauiour Mat. 6. Seeke yee first the kingdom of God his righteousnesse Whereby we are admonished that as the soule being as I said before a diuine spirituall and immortall substaunce doth farre excell the bodie which is nothing els but dust earth and ashes Genes 18. Euen so the sacred and eternall foode and assured saluation of the soule ought to be acquired with far greater care and more earnest studie zeale loue desire and affection then the health and welfare of the bodie But alas how lamentable a thing is it in these dayes wherein the light of the Gospell shineth so clearely to see the preposterous peruersitie of many of vs whose minds like vnto brute beastes are fixed vpon present and caducall things and are plucked and cast downe frō heauen and heauenly desires vnto earth and earthly vanities and do care and trauaile incessantly for the pampering and cherishing of the bodie but are so slouthful careles and negligent in seeking the saluation of our soules 1. Cor. 2. And albeit I confesse with the Apostle that no man knoweth the thinges of a man saue the spirite of a man which is in him Neither doth any man knowe and vnderstand the heartes of men but God onely Psal 33. Mat. 12. yet bycause a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good thinges and an euill man out of an euill treasure bringeth forth euill thinges for of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh Therefore by the outward man may the inward mā be perceiued of them which intentiuely looke thereupon examine the conuersation of men by the lawe of God and trie the spirites whether they be of God 1. Iohn 4. by the touchstone of truthe And againe although wee ought not to iudge any thing of our brethren before the time vntill the Lord come 1. Cor. 4. who will lighten things that are hid in darkenes and make the counsels of the hearts manifest lest wee our selues by iudging be iudged and in condemning be condemned Luke 6. Yet if wee looke not euery man on his owne thinges but euery man also on the things of other men Philipp 2. and behold some mens sinnes that are open before hand and go before vnto iudgement 1 Tim. 5. and take heed both vnto our selues and to all the flocke whereof the holy Ghost hath made vs ouerseers Act. 20. to feede the Church of God which he hath purchased with his owne bloud I speake to them that are called thereunto wee may easily and euidently see 1. Iohn 5. if wee will not winke one at anothers faults that the whole world lyeth in wickednes that is all men generally as of themselues lye as it were buried in euill and that many wicked people forget God Psal 9. and therefore as the prophet sayeth shall be turned into hell For of two detestable iniquities most grieuous enormities namely maliciousnes and forgetfulnes of God we haue in these our dayes two manifest arguments apparent signes and plaine tokens to wit mens negligence coldnes and slackenesse in the inuocation of God by praier and their ingratitude in not ascribing praise and giuing thanks to the Lord of life for his benefits bestowed vpō vs. These two kinds of impietie do spring from two most horrible and filthie fountaines of all iniquitie namelie ignorance and securitie Ignorance when a man knoweth neither God nor him selfe rightly nor his due obedience to God Securitie● when a man knoweth and yet regardeth not but contemneth the iudgements and law of God Therefore as all the faithfull ministers of the word of God in fulfilling their functions diligently faithfully 〈◊〉 rebuking the people for their disobedience and iniquities meekely and modestly 1. Tim. 5. 2 Tim. 2. must needes see a●… note these foure pernitious and pestilent maladie●… wherewith the flocke of Iesus Christ is moste mi●…rably assayled daungerously depraued and dea●… annoyed by that auncient malicious and subtile serpent and do like good Physicions apply wholesome medicines of the worde of God vnto these cruell wounds of the enuious enimy and after the example of that mercifull Samaritaine cure and comforte the wounded afflicted consciences Luke 10. giuing two pence vnto the host for the reliefe and succour of him that is thus robbed and spoyled of the grace of God that commeth by Iesus Christ which two pence are the two testaments which our Sauiour hath deliuered vnto the host that is to say to the faithfull preacher and syncere disposer of the secrets of God cōmanding him to take care cure of his members which are desttiute of the knowledge of God and to minister vnto them the most comfortable meditine of his mercie in the merits of Iesus Christ So I being one of the lest of the ministers of Iesus Christ which ●…m not worthie to be called his minister bycause I ●m not any waie at all able to fulfill the due office perfectly nor do the dutie throughly of that high holy worthie excellent reuerend vocation seeing and ●amenting the ignoraunce and negligence of the people of God the flock of Iesus Christ my brethren ●y adoption and grace in Christ was moued and in●lamed with zeale of the Lordes house to bring somwhat vnto the buylding thereof by writing sith that cannot by preaching being not called to the diuine ●acred and reuerend function Mat. 25. Luke 19. For as our Sauiour ●ayeth he that receiueth but one talent ought not to ●…igg and hide the same in the earth or lay it vp in secret Cic. pro Arch. poe And as Cicero saith in his oration Pro Archia Poeta Caeteros pudeat siqui ita se literis abdierunt vt nihil ●…ssint ex his neque ad commimen● afferre fructum neque 〈◊〉 aspectum lucemque proferre That is Let others be shamed or other men maie be ashamed if any such ●ere bee that haue so studyed in secret that out of ●…eir studies they can neyther affoorde any thing vnto the commoditie of the common wealth 〈◊〉 bring any thing abroade into the sight and light of the world Let such be admonished of theyr charge and excited and stirred vp vnto diligence and vigilancie with this sage sentence of Cicero Cic. Cornific Famili 12. Nulla lassi●… impedire officium fidem debet That is No wearyne●… ought to hinder men in doing theyr dutie duty fully and faithfully Therefore let vs not bee wearye 〈◊〉 well doing but labour to reape the fruit I write 〈◊〉 this to dispraise or reprehende the negligence of any man or to commend mine owne industrie which were a point of errogancie but to animate and encorage them whom duety byndeth and the gift of knowledge enableth hauing receyued many tale●… of the Lord to labour in the Lordes