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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18304	Precepts, or, Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertisements added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes; Certaine precepts	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, attributed name.	1636 (1636)	STC 4899; ESTC S118517	27,423	208

the Princes of his people Likewise he casteth downe the mighty from their seate exalting them which are meeke and lowly that all the world might be obedient unto God his glory only exalted The seventh abuse Chap. 7. A Christian man full of brawling and contention A Most irkesome and pernicious thing is this seventh abuse which now we have in hand to wit a Christian man full of contention who by faith and baptisme being a partaker and a bearer of the name of Christ doth against the sayings and minde of Christ delight in pleasures of the world which are transitory and doe daily fall away Because all manner of things for which a man doth strive doe cause the same strife either for the love that is borne to them being a covetous desire for himselfe or for the love of some other thing which lyeth hid under an odious and hatefull matter As for example warre although it be odious and an hatefull thing yet is it holden and maintained on both sides with a bold and fierce courage for the love and desire which men have to winne the victory and for the purchasing of liberty In like manner many other things are desired and sought after with contention who may have them first before another by no lesse hatefull and painefull labour yea and feare than the other which are got by most detestable warre And therefore a man may perceive there is no contention but for that which is loved that is to say for a loving and a friendly reward which followeth to their minde after it is ended Whosoever therefore striveth for any manner of thing of this world sheweth evidently and plainely that he loveth this world How then doth the holy Ghost by the mouth of Saint Iohn forbid that this world should be loved to whom he saith Love not the world nor the things that be in the world For the love of God and the love of the word cannot dwell together in one heart even as the eyes of a man cannot behold the heaven above and the earth beneath both at once with one looke But let us search and see whether there be in the world any thing indeed that is to be loved and what is the world which the speech of God forbiddeth us to love We are not commanded to love the earth nor the things which come out of the earth but onely our neighbour for whose sake all things are made Him thou art commanded to love for all other things which doe perish and fade away cannot goe up with us to heaven But our neighbour is heyre as well as we of the kingdome which shall never fayle and therefore we must love together one another heartily For so much therefore as we shall not continue alway in the world but shall fayle also with the world we are commanded not to love the world but our neighbour because yea being on earth he is a part and portion of the heavenly kingdome although he be among these low Elements which makes him worthy to be loved of all such as are desirers of the heavenly blisse forasmuch as in the high Country which is the kingdome of heaven he shall be heyre with his brethren for ever For this cause God doth forbid us to love this world lest he which so loveth be separated and made a stranger from the love of God That thing then should not be striven for which a man may not love because a man bearing the name of Christ must see that he have also the selfe-same or like manners in him that Christ had For no man can worthily be called a Christian man except he agree with Christ in manner and good living As touching Christ the Prophet doth write of himselfe these words Behold the childe whom I have chosen mine elect my soule is well pleased in him I will send my spirit upon him He shall not strive he shall not be an outcryer nor extend his voyce in the street Behold Christ doth not strive or cry out therefore if thou doe covet to be like him in manners strive not lest thou appeare to doe nothing but abuse the name of Christ in the Church For God commandeth them which follow him saying Be not ye called Masters for there is but one your Master who is in heaven And call ye no● father upon the earth for ye have one father which is in heaven For ye are altogether brethren whom he commandeth to make common supplication and prayer after this manner O our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name c. He then contendeth and laboureth in vaine to have a father in earth when he professeth that both his Country and father is in heaven which Country no man can possesse and enjoy but he that refuseth to set all his care on this world as one passing not for it The eighth abuse Chap. 8. A poore man prowd TO behold a poore man prowd may worthily in this place stand for the eighth abuse because although he have nothing yet is he puffed up with an high aspiring mind which thing even they that are rich men are forbidden to doe That they should not be high minded What thing is more foolish than that he who through great poverty and extreame misery is brought low and as it were to the very ground because that in respect of that consideration hee might behave himselfe lowly should in this meane estate bear a prowd heart against God For this fault even they that were created in the high habitacle of heaven were dejected and throwne down from thence Wherefore then will he be prowd and high minded here on earth as though he were a man of exceeding great power who before all other men should carry and behave himselfe both humble and lowly But that the poore people shall not beare their poverty heavily with sorrowfulnesse and sadnesse of heart let them heare what they shall receive of God he saith Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of heaven For the mercifull Iudge doth handle all things so indifferently that to them to whom he hath not given the riches of this world he giveth the kingdome of heaven that hee may be a rich man in that glorious place who on earthly things hath not set his care or delight Poore men therefore must take heed lest while in poverty and need they passe over the pleasure and kingdome of this world they should through the lacke of wisedome lose also the kingdome of heaven For although by the order and dispensation of God they doe live in earthly poverty yet they may endeavour to be poor and meeke in spirit For the kingdome of God is not promised to all poore men without exception indifferently but to them onely in whom the humble and lowly meeknesse of the heart doth accompany the want and lacke of outward riches Because an humble poore man is called poore in spirit who when he is outwardly poore and needy doth