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A14293	The golden-groue moralized in three bookes: a worke very necessary for all such, as would know how to gouerne themselues, their houses, or their countrey. Made by W. Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law,	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1600 (1600)	STC 24610; ESTC S111527	151,476	422

subdue his cruell affectiōs not yoke himself to the foule liberty of vicious motiō In sūme h turne again euery mā frō his euil way frō his wicked imaginations i Submit your selues to God and resist the Diuell and hee will flie from you draw nigh vnto God and he will draw nigh vnto you Cleanse your hearts you sinners purge your hearts you wauering minded That a man must not delay to become vertuous chap. 10. THere bee many of our worldlings which seek to shrowd their vices vnder this cloake that they mean to amend al in time and this time is driuē from day to day vntil God in whose hands the moments of time are doth shut them out of all time and doth send them to paines eternall without time Little do they thinke that their vices are by wicked custome fortified and as it were with a beetle more strongly rammed into their harts midriffes It is an vsuall prouerbe that whatsoeuer is bred in the bone will neuer out of the flesh so likewise a wound being for a time deferred becōmeth infectious and past cure Why then O mortal men doo yee builde on such a weake foundation why doo yee not at this instant without any further procrastinations prostrate your selues before the most highest ere the darke night of death steale vpon you and ere yee stumble at that foule black hillock Oh imitate not those foolish virgines who because they gaue not good attendaunce were shut out of doores by the bridegrome We see by common experience that if a man deliuer a reasonable petition vnto an earthly King he may perhaps attend a yeere or two before he be fully satisfied What then shall yee expect of the heauenly King whom yee haue a thousand times most wilfully displeased Is it possible for you after you haue obstinatly resisted him all the dayes of your liues to sue vnto him at the period of your yeeres and to obtaine remission No no it is not presumptuous delay that worketh vnfaigned repentaunce You must beginne to day if you will heare his voice and speed of your suites God will not be limited and restrained according to your willes His wrath will come vpon you at the sodaine and you shall be thrust into hell like sheep Like as the Poetes say of Titius so shall you being as it were food vnto death confume in hell and yet reuiue againe so that still ye may be euer dying Then shall yee crie vnto the mountaines and say O you mountaines fall vpon vs you hilles couer vs. Then shall you repent to your paine but your repentaunce shall not at all auaile you If an husband-man for lazinesse deferre to sow in the winter he is like in summer to starue or begge Sow therefore O ye that are Christians while you haue time to sow euen this day conuert vnto the Lord and yee shall reap perpetuall happinesse for your reward Repentaunce that is done at the last day most cōmonly is done vpon feare of future tormentes Besides the Aethiopian can assoone chaunge his blacke skinne as you do well hauing learned all the dayes of your liues to do euill My selfe haue knowen a young Gentleman that sometime hauing bene disobedient to his parents and also misdemeaned himselfe diuers other waies besides was vrged to repentaunce by some of his well willers To whome he aunswered that now this was his full intent and by the grace of God quoth he assoone as I come home to my Father hee being as then about forty miles off I will vtterly renounce my former maner of liuing and will become a new man But see the ineuitable will of God He was scarce seuen miles on his way homeward when as it was his wofull chaunce to encounter with some of his enemies and by them to be slaine For which cause I say cut off all delayes least in a matter of such importaunce yee be sodainly surprized Yee haue not two soules that yee may aduenture one The night is past and the day is come the day of the Lord is come as a snare on all them that dwel vpon the face of the earth in which the heauens must passe away with a noyse and the elements must melt with heat and the earth with the workes therein must bee burnt vp Bee yee therefore sober watchfull in prayer for in the houre that ye thinke not will the Sonne of Man surely come to iudge the world Remedies against vice Chap. 11. THe roote of vice is the originall corruption wherewith mankind hath bene ouerwhelmed euer since the fall of Adam Which corruption in processe of time beyng growne by continuall custome into a sinfull habite becommeth damnable three maner of waies First by thoughts next by wordes as swearing lies lastly by deedes as murther adulterie Now for the curing of this Hydra-like malady sixe things are to be obserued First we must oft consider that the actes of vertues themselues cannot bee of any value with God except we continually exercise our selues therein For the longer wee delay the more is the kingdome and power of the Diuell established and confirmed in vs. Secondly wee must once or twice a day at least call to remembrance our vices with a contrite heart aske God forgiuenes Thirdly we must waigh with our selues how that we are wandring pilgrimes in this world and like vnto them that vpon their iourneys abide not in those Innes where they are well lodged but after their baite do depart homeward vttering these words of the Prophet * Woe is me that I remaine in Mesech and dwell in the tents of Kedar The fourth remedy against vice is that we thinke on the manifold miseries of this life on the end thereof The fift wee must oftentimes repeat that fearful saying of the Apostle * If the iust shall scarce be saued where shal the wicked man and sinner appeare The sixt we must muse vpō the day of iudgemēt at which time euery one must beare his owne burthen and sinners must giue an account of euery idle word about them shall be their Iudge offended with them for their wickednes beneath them hell open and the cruell fornace ready boyling to receyue them on the right hand shall be their sinnes accusing thē on the left hand the Diuels ready to execute Gods eternal sentence vpon them within them their consciences gnawing them without them all damned soules bewayling on euery side the world burning Of Iustice. Chap. 12. JVstice is a thing belonging to policy sith the order of a ciuill society is the law iudgemēt is nothing els but the decision of that which is iust This vertue as the Diuine Philosopher writeth is the chiefest gift which God gaue vnto men For if she were not amongst vs what would our commonwealth be but a receptacle for theeues From whence the sect of Democritus

created without cause Wherefore did God create man of stature straight and erected towardes the aspect of heauen the originall place of his true pedegree but that he should perswade himselfe that he is of a heauenly nature surely the conscience which discerning betweene good and euill answereth the iudgement of God is an vndoubted signe of an immortall soule For how could a motiō without essence come to the iudgement seate of God throwe it selfe into feare by finding her owne guiltinesse Further if the soule were mortall what rewarde is left to the iust what punishment to the wicked Also if this were true the wicked haue that which they most desire and the iust that which they most abhorre But shall punishment bee inflicted on the iust whereas it ought to bee executed on the wicked Many reasons I could alleadge but of all others this is most forcible which God hath giuen vs in the resurrection of his sonne our sauiour Iesus Christ whereby his soule was vnited againe to his body and taken vp into heauen in the sight of his Disciples Likewise we reade that God sayde to Moses I am the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob wherhence our sauior Christ concluded that Abrahā Isaac Iacob do liue yet after their death seeing that * God is the God of the liuing and not of the dead Now to be breefe I may fitly compare these Epicurian hogges vnto drunkards who so long being drunke vntil they haue by sleepe sufficiently alayed the furious force of the wine which they drunk know not whether they haue any wit or conscience any soule or sence Obiection Men as Plinie writeth breathe no otherwise then beasts do for wee see nothing of the soule of either of them therfore the soule as wel of men as of beasts being nothing els but a breth is mortall Answere Plinie seeing smoake come out of the mountaine Vesuuius iudged that there was fire within although hee behelde it not also he knew by his nose that there was brimstone issuing out of the same albeit hee sawe it not howe chanceth it then that when by his sences he perceiued somewhat more in men then in beasts hee was not brought thereby to beleeue that consequently there must be somewhat within which causeth men to differ from bruit beasts Furthermore men discourse learnedly of all naturall things they are endued with reason and their speech followeth reason which are such things as haue a resemblance of Gods spirit shining in them but beastes haue not in them this apprehension for that they are produced out of the power of that matter whereof they are ingendered Finally the soule of man is bred in the bodie by God aboue all the matter of the same The third part Of Vertue Chap. 8. WHosoeuer meanes to sowe a godly field with corne must first rid the same field of thornes and shrubs and cut away the fernes with his sithe that the new corn may grow with ful cares so likewise O mortall man thou hauing beene all the daies of thy life as it were in a goldē dreame awake at last and withdraw thy selfe from that fonde delight that vertue which is surer better then all Arts may the sooner enter into thy minde Be not like vnto a child who seeing a bable wherwith he plaieth taken out of his hand powtingly throweth away that which he hath in his other hand although it bee far better then the former Al worldly things be they neuer so glorious do fade away yea worldlings themselues are so soone suffocated and choaked with euerie small moth that they are ready to stumble at euerie straw and to become daunted at euerie trifling cause But cōtrariwise they which are bedewed with the sweet droppes of Vertue wil neuer be ouerturned eyther with worldly guiles or with the losse of life and bloud Vertue is alway permanent shee is quiet in most stormie times shineth in the darke beeing driuen from her seate she neuerthelesse remaineth in her coūtry she giueth continual light and neuer becōmeth spotted with any filth Euerie thing that is atchieued by her meanes is good and soueraigne For her loue Anacharsis the Philosopher left his kingdom of Scythia to his yonger brother went into Athens to find her there This also moued the Emperor Maximili● the 2. in the yeere of our Lord 1574. to answer a Dutchman that craued his Letters Patents to make him a nobleman It is in my power quoth he to make thee rich but Vertue must make thee noble Happy therfore is he that wooeth her thrise happy is he that is contracted to her for euen as the prowesse valour of a horse maketh him apt and fit for his rider to attend couragiously the onset of the enemy so vertue strengthneth her owner against cōcupiscēce restoreth him ready to abide any brūts of variable fortune Moreouer a vertue is said to be three manner of waies in man either infused by God or planted by nature or gotten by pains and industrie Vertue is infused by God when we call her either faith hope or charitie b she is by nature whē we terme her nobil●ti● Shee is saide to bee gotten through paines and industrie when wee name her either morall as iustice truth magnanimitie fortitude temperaunce magnificence liberalitie clemencie modestie affabilitie friendship patience or intellectuall as Art science vnderstāding prudence and wisedome al which together with their extremes and subordinate qualities I wil decipher hereafter Wherfore to be breefe let vs embrace vertue so pretious and manifold a palme tree which the more it is pulled downe the more it returneth vpward let vs I say follow her who hath this singular propertie in al-her actiōs namely that c she maketh the man that knoweth her so to affect her that forthwith hee liketh all her actions and desireth to imitate them that are vertuously disposed Of Vice Chap. 9. EVen as a vertue is the beautie of the inward man the way to attain vnto an happie life so vice is the sicknes therof and fighteth against nature d All things that are borne haue vices as it were sowen in their minds He is best that is least troubled with them For we see that neither fire nor feare doth carry a man away so violently as vices They onely haue beene the vndooers of all cōmon-wealths and as soone as they once haue entred into the mind they wil neuer forsake it vntil they ouerwhelme it with al kinds of sin f hurt it with their griping and ouerthrow al things which are next vnto them vnhappie man is he that is vexed with them farre better it were for him not to liue at al or els liuing g to be throwne into the sea with a milstone about his neck Although a man bee fast loden with irons yet his captiuitie is nothing to him y t is enuironed with vices He then that will bee mighty must

authority and maiestie of a Prince cōsisteth in the opiniō of prudence for euen as the sicke man obeyeth the wise Physician and the passenger hearkeneth vnto the skilfull pilot so in like maner subiectes are obedient vnto their prudent Prince will gladly follow whatsoeuer he prescribeth vnto them O peerelesse paragon O noble Prudence thou rairest downe knowledge and vnderstanding and bringest to honor thē that possesse thee Thou defendest our commonwealth from the Spanish yoke Thou holdest the supremacie in felicity and sauest vs from aduersity Take away this Iewell our liues will be filled with folly wickednesse and barbarisme This politiciās do very wel know for how is it possible that a common-wealth should be well ruled vnlesse the gouernours thereof do perfectly prudently vnderstand the nūber of souldiers the loue of the leaguers the scituation of the countrey the nature of the inhabitaunts King Henry the seuenth therefore her Maiesties Graundfather deserueth great commendations in that hee kept a priuate booke for that purpose therein registred the force of his realme the treasure which yeerely his officers receiued into the Excheker As concerning the nature of people I find that windy places do make men sauage and inconstant and that in calme countreys they become ciuill courteous Also we see that they which dwell neere the sea and farre from London are for the most part more fierce and hardy then those which liue in the midst of England Moreouer it behoueth a prudent man to consider that some kind of people be angry by nature some be impudent some fearefull and othersome be giuen to newfangled fashions to drunkenesse and lechery In like maner the nature of Englishmen is to be couragious to neglect death to abide no torment and therfore in no place shall you see malefactours go more constantly more assuredly and with lesse lamentation to their death then in England The nature of Welshmen is kind haughty and prodigall of life and bloud The Irish are accounted rude and couragious which doubtlesse proceeds of their countries cold climate for as the Philosopher saith they that liue in the North and in a cold countrey are commonly called treacherous To end this chapter of prudence I thinke it expedient that a prudent man yeeld vnto the necessity of the time and take heed that anciēt lawes customes be not altered because they are the foūdations of a cōmonwealth whereof if any be changed the whole building must consequently fall to wrack and destruction Of Sapience or Wisedome Chap. 68. WIsedome among the auncient heathen was no other thing but a certaine kind of prudence to manage and handle great causes matters of policy which profession beginning in Solon did cōtinue and was taken vp from man to man as a sect of Philosophy But wisedome among Christians hath obtained a higher title to wit a knowledge to expound the word of GOD concerning our saluation redeemed through his Sonne Iesus Christ. This is that Diuine vertue which was ordayned from euerlasting before any thing was made before the earth the seas the hilles and the riuers were she was conceyued and brought forth When GOD prepared the heauens shee was present when hee enuironed the sea with her bankes and layd the foundations of the earth shee was with him making all things and shee delights to be with the children of men The Chymistes write that one dragme of their power of proiection will turne a thousand dragmes of any mettall into gold What then shall the least grayne of the celestiall powder of wisedome be able to effect Verily it will lift whole milliōs of soules out o● Sathans net and will transport them vp into the highest spheare where for euer residen● they shall enioy vnspeakeable pleasures For this cause the Emperour Charles the fourth went on a time to a colledge in Prage to heare Diuinity disputations there and remained standing aboue foure howres And when his Courtiers to whome that kind of exercise seemed irksome told him that his supper was ready hee aunswered that the hearing of those disputations was more pleasant vnto him then all the suppers in the world What greater testimonies of fauour towards wisedome can we wish thē those of the Princes of England who frankly and freely granted such large charters priuileges vnto the 2. Vniuersities of this Realme Surely I should be too ingrateful if I do not remēber in this place Elizabeth our gracious Soueraigne who so spareth neither care nor means to preferre scholers that shee meriteth the name of the Nurse of Wisdome Next the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that now is deserueth to be had in remembrāce in that hee daily purgeth the Church of spots and Schismes and aduaunceth all students euery man according to his desertes Likewise Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Keeper so tendereth fostereth the professours of true wisedome that he is worthily named the Reuiuer and restorer of wisedome yea I haue heard it sundry times blazed that Englād neuer had the like zealous patron of scholers There be also other furtherers of wisedome whome I leaue to name by reason that our bookes which continually are published do royalize and eternize their heroical names God continue them in their noble minds To finish this discourse I aduise al mē both high and low which haue an entraunce in them towards God to coūtenaunce the followers of wisedome and to strike an euerlasting league of amity with them As for worldly wisedome I wish them not so pretiously to esteeme it as they doe for what else are the wise men of this world saue gay politicians Machiauellians and niggards falsely vnder the colour of wisemen purloyning the poore and preparing their owne selues to be scourged of the Diuell and to bee scorched in the fierie flames of hell Of the Ignorance of our times Chap. 69. ALas what ignorance leadeth wretches astray and bringeth them into a wrong way cleane contrarie from happinesse and knowledge The Egyptians accounted it a most grieuous calamitie to endure the Darknesse which God sent them by Moyses but three dayes Howe much more ought wee to bee afraide when wee remaine all our liues time in the night of Ignorance Manie there bee that wish our Colledges to be vtterly suppressed and our schooles of learning to bee made barnes or wooll-houses which were euen to wish vs peasaunts and witals like themselues But God forbid that any such ignorant wishes should be fulfilled Sooner shall the earth bring foorth starres and the heauens be eared with plowes then that barbarisme and ignorance should in such sort ouerflow vs. Take the Sunne out of the firmament and the light from the skie what else would the world seeme saue a massie Chaos or a rude and confused lumpe In like maner if learning bee extinguished would not wee become dizarts or cuckoes Nay to seeke the decay and abolishing of learning is to prepare a way for Atheisme