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justice_n	law_n	peace_n	statute_n	3,455	5	7.8676	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74632	Herbert's remains, or, sundry pieces of that sweet singer of the temple, Mr George Herbert, sometime orator of the University of Cambridg. Now exposed to publick light.	Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1279_1	88,323	339

the elements be of the best not cheape or course much lesse ill-tasted or unwholsome Secondly hee considers and looks into the ignorance or carlesness of his flock and accordingly applies himselfe with Catechizings and lively exhortations not on the Sunday of the Communion only for then it is too late but the Sunday or Sundayes before the Communion or on the Eves of all those dayes If there be any who having not received yet is to enter into this great work he takes the more pains with them that hee may lay the foundation of future Blessings The time of every ones first receiving is not so much by yeers as by understanding particularly the rule may be this When any one can distinguish the Sacramentall from common bread knowing the Institution and the difference hee ought to receive of what age soever Children and youths are usually deferred too long under pretence of devotion to the Sacrament but it is for want of Instruction their understandings being ripe enough for ill things and why not then for better But Parents and Masters should make hast in this as to a great purchase for their children and servants which while they deferr both sides suffer the one in wanting many excitings of grace the other in being worse served and obeyed The saying of the Catechism is necessary but not enough because to answer in form may still admit ignorance but the Questions must be propounded loosely and wildely and then the Answerer will discover what hee is Thirdly For the manner of receiving as the Parson useth all reverence himself so he administers to none but to the reverent The Feast indeed requires sitting because it is a Feast but man's unpreparednesse asks kneeling Hee that comes to the Sacrament hath the confidence of a Guest and hee that kneels confesseth himself an unworthy one and therefore differs from other Feasters but hee that sits or lies puts up to an Apostle Contentiousnesse in a feast of Charity is more scandall then any posture Fourthly touching the frequency of the Communion the Parson celebrates it if not duly once a month yet at least five or six times in the year as at Easter Christmasse Whitsuntide afore and after Harvest and the beginning of Lent And this hee doth not onely for the benefit of the work but also for the discharge of the Church-wardens who being to present all that receive not thrice a year if there be but three Communions neither can all the people so order their affairs as to receive just at those times nor the Church-Wardens so well take notice who receive thrice and who not CHAP. XXIII The Parson's Completenesse THe Countrey Parson desires to be all to his Parish and not onely a Pastour but a Lawyer also and a Phisician Therefore hee endures not that any of his Flock should go to Law but in any Controversie that they should resort to him as their Judge To this end he hath gotten to himself some insight in things ordinarily incident and controverted by experience and by reading some initiatory treatises in the Law with Daltons Justice of Peace and the Abridgements of the Statutes as also by discourse with men of that profession whom he hath ever some cases to ask when he meets with them holding that rule that to put men to discourse of that wherin they are most eminent is the most gainfull way of Conversation Yet when ever any controversie is brought to him he never decides it alone but sends for three or four of the ablest of the Parish to hear the cause with him whom he makes to deliver their opinion first out of which he gathers in case he be ignorant himself what to hold and so the thing passeth with more authority and lesse envy In Judging he followes that which is altogether right so that if the poorest man of the Parish detain but a pin unjustly from the richest he absolutely restores it as a Judge but when he hath so done then he assumes the Parson and exhorts to Charity Neverthelesse there may happen somtimes some cases wherein he chooseth to permit his Parishioners rather to make use of the Law then himself As in cases of an obscure and dark nature not easily determinable by Lawyers themselves or in cases of high consequence as establtshing of inheritances or Lastly when the persons in difference are of a contentious disposition and cannot be gained but that they still fall from all compromises that have been made But then he shews them how to go to Law even as Brethren and not as enemies neither avoyding therfore one anothers company much lesse defaming one another Now as the Parson is in Law so is he in sicknesse also if there be any of his flock sick hee is their Physician or at least his Wife of whom in stead of the qualities of the world he asks no other but to have the skill of healing a wound or helping the sick But if neither himselfe nor his wife have the skil and his means serve hee keepes some young practicioner in his house for the benefit of his Parish whom yet he ever exhorts not to exceed his bounds but in tickle cases to call in help If all fail then he keeps good correspondence with some neighbour Phisician and entertaines him for the Cure of his Parish Yet is it easie for any Scholer to attaine to such a measure of Phisick as may be of much use to him both for himself and others This is done by seeing one Anatomy reading one Book of Phisick having one Herball by him And let Fernelius be the Phisick Authour for he writes briefly neatly and judiciously especially let his Method of Phisick be diligently perused as being the practicall part and of most use Now both the reading of him and the knowing of herbs may be done at such times as they may be an help and a recreation to more divine studies Nature serving Grace both incomfort of diversion and the benefit of application when need requires as also by way of illustration even as our Saviour made plants and seeds to teach the people for he was the true householder who bringeth out of his treasure things new and old the old things of Philosophy and the new of Grace and maketh the one serve the other And I conceive our Saviour did this for three reasons first that by familiar things hee might make his Doctrine slip the more easily into the hearts even of the meanest Secondly that labouring people whom he chiefly considered might have every where monuments of of his Doctrine remembring in gardens his mustard-seed and lillyes in the field his seed-corn and tares and so not be drowned altogether in the works of their vocation but sometimes lift up their minds to better things even in the midst of their pains Thirdly that he might set a Copy for Parsons In the knowledge of simples wherein the manifold wisedome of God is wonderfully to be seen one thing would be carefully observed which

enough to abuse both others and himself and who is ready to ask if he shall mend shoos or what he shall do Therfore the Parson unmoved sheweth that ingenuous and fit imployment is never wanting to those that seek it But if it should be the Assertion stands thus All are eitheir to have a Calling or prepare for it He that hath or can have yet no imployment if he truly and seriously prepare for it he is safe and within bounds Wherefore all are either presently to enter into a Calling if they be fit for it and it for them or else to examine with care and advice what they are fittest for and to prepare for that with all diligence But it will not be amisse in this exceeding usefull point to descend to particulars for exactnesse lyes in particulars Men are either single or marryed The marryed and house-keeper hath his hands full if he do what he ought to do For there are two branches of his affaires first the improvement of his family by bringing them up in the fear and nurture of the Lord and secondly the improvement of his grounds by drowning or draining stocking or fencing and ordering his land to the best advantage both of himself and his neighbours The Italian says None fouls his hands in his own businesse and it is an honest and just care so it exceed not bounds for every one to imploy himselfe to the advancement of his affairs that hee may have wherewithall to do good But his family is his best care to labour Christian soules and raise them to their height even to heaven to dresse and prune them and take as much joy in a straight-growing childe or servant as a Gardiner doth in a choice tree Could men finde out this delight they would seldome be from home whereas now of any place they are least there But if after all this care well dispatched the house-keepers Family be so small and his dexterity so great that he have leisure to look out the Village or Parish which either he lives in or is neer unto it is his imployment Hee considers every one there and either helps them in particular or hath generall Propositions to the whole Towne or Hamlet of advancing the publick Stock and managing Commons or Woods according as the place suggests But ●…hee may bee of the Commissio●… of Peace there is nothing to th●… No Common-wealth in the wor●… hath a braver Institution then that of Justices of the Peace For it is both a security to the King who hath so many dispersed Officers at his beck throughout the Kingdome accountable for the publick good and also an honourable Imployment of a Gentle or Noble-man in the Country he lives in inabling him with power to do good and to restrain all those who else might both trouble him and the whole State Wherefore it behoves all who are come to the gravitie and ripenesse of judgement for so excellent a Place not to refuse but rather to procure it And whereas there are usually three Objections made against the Place the one the abuse of it by taking petty-Countrey-bribes the other the casting of it on mean persons especially in some Shires and lastly the trouble of it These are so far from deterring any good man from the place that they kindle them rather to redeem the Dignity either from true faults or unjust aspersions Now for single men they are either Heirs or younger Brothers The Heirs are to prepare in all the fore-mentioned points against the time of their practice Therefore they are to mark their Fathers discretion in ordering his House and Affairs and also elsewhere when they see any remarkable point of Education or good husbandry and to transplant it in time to his own home with the same care as others when they meet with good fruit get a graffe of the tree inriching their Orchard and neglecting their House Besides they are to read Books of Law and Justice especially the Statutes at large As for better Books of Divinity they are not in this Consideration because we are about a Calling and a preparation thereunto But chiefly and above all things they are to frequent Sessions and Sizes for it is both an honor which they owe to the Reverend Judges and Magistrates to attend them at least in their Shire and it is a great advantage to know the practice of the Land for our Law is Practice Sometimes he may go to Court as the eminent place both of good and ill At other times he is to travell over the King's Dominions cutting out the Kingdome into Portions which every yeer he surveys peece-meal When there is a Parliament he is to endeavour by all means to be a Knight or Burgess there for there is no School to a Parliament And when he is there he must not only be a morning man but at Committees also for there the particulars are exactly discussed which are brought from thence to the House but in generall When none of these occasions call him abroad every morning that hee is at home hee must either ride the Great Horse or exercise some of his Military gestures For all Gentlemen that are not weakned and disarmed with sedentary lives are to know the use of their Arms and as the Husbandman labours for them so must they fight for and defend them when occasion calls This is the duty of each to other which they ought to fulfill And the Parson is a lover and exciter to justice in all things even as John the Baptist squared out to every one even to Souldiers what to do As for younger Brothers those whom the Parson finds loose and not ingaged into some Profession by their Parents whose neglect in this point is intolerable and a shamefull wrong both to the Common-wealth and their own House To them after he hath shewd the unlawfulness of spending the day in dressing Complementing visiting and sporting he first commends the study of the Civill Law as a brave and wise knowledg the Professours whereof were much imployed by Queen Elizabeth because it is the key of Commerce and discovers the Rules of forraine Nations Secondly he commends the Mathematicks as the only wonder working knowledg and therefore requiring the best spirits After the severall knowledg of these he adviseth to insist and dwell chiefly on the two noble branches therof of Fortification and Navigation The one being usefull to all Countreys and the other especially to Ilands But if the young Gallant think these Courses dull and phlegmatick where can he busie himself better then in those new Plantations and discoveryes which are not only a noble but also as they may be handled a religious imployment Or let him travel into Germany and France and observing the Artifices and Manufactures there transplant them hither as divers have done lately to our Countrey 's advantage CHAP. XXXIII The Parson's Library THe Countrey Parson's Library is a holy Life for besides the blessing that that brings upon