it supports it and without which honour would be honourless and he is much to be pitied who hath hands and head and has not taught them some subserviency to his necessities 't is a loose breeding and degenerous which provided not some stay against an evil time The learned and worthy S r In o Cheek Tutor to Edw. 6. being one of those that avowed the Title of the Lady Jane for which he was fain upon Queen Mary's coming to the Crown to fly was glad to take up his old Trade and relie upon that hidden Treasure of Parts which rendred him fit to be chosen Professor of the Greek Tongue at Sirasburg They are too coy who wholly trust on Lands and Moneys and cannot labour not want but are miserable when they miss a ceremonious folly they never mean to be Martyrs or be prescribed or suffer under the force of barbarous Rebels as the Irish Nobility and Gentry have done a long time who can do nothing but eat and drink and sleep and play and talk It is good to be Clerkly and acquainted with business to be handy and disposed to Country thrift a very great wisdome to be able thorow Gods blessing to do somthing towards subsistence Quaelibet patria Ingenioso patria Ingenuity and courage has given entertainment to great minds and persons when their friends and Tenants have disowned and their Lands yeelded them no bread I will conclude the Parallel of the Church and Professors of England with those of elder times in writing Books warily and so as truth had honour by them and the better to promote this here was ever an Imprimatur to pass upon all Books publickly to be vented and the Licensers were bound to take notice exactly of all things that went under their eye as they would answer the neglect upon their censure and great displeasure of Authority I know that Books have stollen into light which had they received their deserts should have been as Vives saith Cum authoribus suis ex toto consortio humani generis eliminandi deportandi in insulam ubi solae degunt ferae aut in illas Africae desertas arenas ubi nihil nascitur praeter venena Books derogatory to God to Government to civil property profane scurrilous and every way detestable they are not to be charged as faults on our Supervisors so long as they declare against them when they see them or would proceed against the Authors of them if they could be discovered But in Books of controversie our Church hath been exact and allowed those her best Champions who have least wandred from sound Authours and Doctrines A just weight and ballance gives adversaries least advantage Some in controversie are so rigid that they give no way keeping so high a dam that all bursts in pieces by their severity Others yeeld so far that they are at last nonplust how to make an honourable retreat to their party and not lose what may give their enemy the boast of conquest Ex utroque periculum In rough Seas shores are safe so rocks be avoided Passion is an ill ingredient to contests especially when it is permanent and such as doth not suit viro constanti therefore those who have with least acrimony entered the lists of controversie have been most success full for 't is easie in an humour or out of high animosity to say that which shall disadvantage a whole profession But this God be blessed few of our Church have done we have in all controversies so carried Arguments that there hath no blemish rested on us but that which we account our virtue that we are constant And as our Polemiques so our practical Books have been rare and by all Christians that could reade and understand them requested What accounts has our Nation had and yet has from her Preachers and Writers of the treasures of art and holy Theologie what rare discourses are there extant in all Sciences on all Subjects for all Seasons The world judgeth our Church and Nation Learned to a wonder and yet some amongst us who know better prefer forreign counsels and models above those at home which I think with submission to their better judgements will appear when moderated most convenient and usefull to carry on peace and piety amongst us Indeed I should rejoyce to see beauty and order in Church-matters and I blesse God for so much of it as yet there is that which grieves me is that the Charret-wheels of our settlement go so slow that passions are more in request then praiers and tears and that men fear not to run mad when to use a womans phrase they bark against the Crucifix and revile the Spouse of Christ of whom they ought not to speak but calmly and with reverence It is no good Argument of Gods being amongst us when we are thus broken in judgement and so evil-eyed to one another But I hope God will send Peace and Truth in our daies I trust to see Religion and Learning a praise in the earth My ambition is to finde that in Christians now adaies that Baroniuâ— notes was soon after Christs time It was saith he Christians praise tc have little to do which arose to a debate but if casually Christians were at variance care was to take it up and avoid scandal For our Lord hath given the rule to be at peace one with another FINIS Errata PAge 14. marg reade M. Marshall p. 43. l. 21. r. to the Ministry p. 76. l. 15. r. infesti p. 82. l. 22. r. Versipelles p. 90. l. 9. r. pretend p. 92. l. 20. r. omina p. 93. l. 17. r. there p. 95. mar r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 96. l. 15. r. ingenious p. 98. l. 15. r. should p. 121. l. 27. r. Feoffees p. 125. l. 18. for presumption r. persecution pag. 126. l. 20. r. Teechy p. 128 l. 2. r. it p. 138. l. 20. for purposed r. proposed p. 153. l. 19. r. habuere p. 162. l. 25. r. Austrians p. 192. l. 6. r. Ismaels p. 199. l. 3. r. horarum l. 9. r. him l. 28. r. that p. 199. l. 11. r. had they p. 204. l. ult r. vacillating p. 208. marg r. Bernardus p. 223. l. 19. r. communicative John 8. Josn 9. 5. Quia progrediendum a facililioribus Acts 8. 9. 1 Cor. 15. 32. Euseb hist. l. 2. e. 12. l. 3. c. 20 21 23. Histor Magdeb. Ceut 1. l. 2. c. 7. p. 368 371. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stob. Serm. 147. p. 488. Vir nobilis â—lâ—quens audax suae alienae fortunae pudicitiae prodigus homo ingeniosissimè nequam foecundus malo publico Paterc l. 2. p. 450. Edit Sylv. * Nihil novi asserunt quin hujusmodi applaudente sibi perfidiâ— simplices quidem indoctos decipiunt sed Ecclesiasticos viros qui in lege Dei die nocte meditantur decipere non valent S. Hyeron ad Ctesiphont adv Pelagianos Philosophi Patriarchae Haereticorum
Francos Perturbavi Madritensem sapientiam c. who besides the violence acted at home discovered Spanish counsels before taken revealed their secrets before machinated brought Madrid to Paris and kept Paris at its own distance from Madrid terrified Italy shook Germany vexed Spain supported Lusitunia Lotharingia and Catilonia supplied Sweden spoyled Flanders troubled England yea and made a disport of Europe utinam non faxsit sibi alio in orbe qui in hoc Europae suit as that Author hath it Ex pede Herculem Let men judge then what tenebrious souls those men have who will be the Gundomars and Protopoliticoes of their ages Such I mean as Lewis Debonair Charls the bald of France the Great Evan Vasilowick of Muscovia Don Pedro of Castile and others these are monsters not men whodesign every minute for mischief to all that they think disaffected to them As did the forementioned Cardinall of whom one saith Ainsi non seulement la Royne Mere du Roy matis tout les grands du Royaume sont criminels pour rendre le Cardinal innocent Tout ainsi que sur les ruines de S. M. de la plus grande partie des Princes de France il a basli sa fortune il faut aussi qu'on fonde sa gloire sue le des-honneur de tout ceux que'il a persecuté who refuse nothing which accomodates their ends I have it from Lottinus a man well versed in this trade Nullam quidem tantum est vitium quod non tolerabile aliquando existimetur pro minùs malo accipiatur ita suadente rerum statu semper sive occasione que quidem inconficiendo quolibet negotio utramque quod dicitur paginam implet No wonder then the death-beds of Statesmen wrings from them great pennances while they bemoan with Henry the fift of this Land that they have wonne the courtesies of mens knees with the loss of many mens heads nay of their own souls The confessions of two eminent in their times are very remarkable One Cardinall Woolsey whom Charls the fift called the butchers curr that had worryed the fairest Buck in Christendom And was so great as never any man before him a subject was in this land ruled all knew all enjoied all that heart could wish yet lived to see himself accused of Treason seized upon forsaken of his friends insomuch that he cried out bemoaningly If I had served God as diligently as I have done the King he would not have given me over in my gray hairs but it is the just reward that I must receive for the diligent pains and study that I have had to do him service not regarding my service to God but only to satisfie his pleasure Thus the Cardinall There is a second a man of great experience and business S r Thomas Randolph who had been thrice Embassadour to the Peers in Scotland thrice to John Basilides Emperour of Russia thrice to Queen Mary of Scotland after her return from Frrnce seven times to James the sixth of Scotland once to Charls the ninth once to Henry the third of France yet this Gentleman writing a letter to Secretary Walsingham a little before his death mentions how fit and necessaay it was that one meaning Walsingham should leave off the tricks of a Secretary and the other meaning himself of an Embassadour and employ their time before their death in repentance for the sinne of their life which occasions my mention of a passage in S t Germaine where comparing the death of the Queen-Mother with the Cardinall her enemy he sayes here was the difference que nostre Princesse a acheueé la fienne en Royne Tres Chrictienne que son per sequuteur cest retire eu homme politique So true is that of the Emperour Otho I had rather be Mucius Decius Regulus or any other worthy and unwanting private Citizen of Rome then Marius or Cinna or Sylla or any of the other most potent men of that Commonwealth The consideration of this presses hard upon all men to do good while they have opportunity all things here are casuall no man knows what a day may bring forth 'T is a true note of Causabon Dies hora momentum evertendis dominationibus sufficit quae Adamantinis credebatur radicibus esse fundatae Therefore wisedom layes up against an evil day versa rota fortunae ante vesperum potest esse miserimus looks at nothing so much as what is the most reall and catholique good All Christians are to serve God and their relations in their sphere and according to their proportion but Princes and Governours chiefly are concerned to do worthily their families their fames are at stake yea their subjects weal or woe is moulded according to their care or neglect Is it not a happy thing to rule and live so as to deserve Inscriptions on our Monuments as Constantine had Restitutor humani generis propagator imperii ditionisque Romanae fundator eternae securitatis as Claudius had Cujus vita probitas omnia quae in Republica gessit tantam posteris famam dedere ut Senatus Populusque Romanus novis eam honoribus post mortèm affecerit It was a Princely vertue in a vicious man Galba Veterum morem obstinatissimè retinet and he deserves the top step of the ascent of honour who dum privatus fuit major privato visus as Tacitus says of one They have too narrow souls for Soveraignty who think ought worthy their endeavour but piety and power and preserve those darlings by any thing but Justice which Severus said was dearer to him then kindreds and alliances Justice is the great basis of Government as it forbids Governours to be mock-shews sorting the Purple robe with the Reed no emblem either of state or might so it presents as amiable moderation Aureliane clementer te age si vis vincere was the Philosophers speech to Aurelian the Emperour calling for distinction between offences of infirmity and malicious contrivance and awes from picking quarrels upon words and trifles and on grounds which may as well not be taken notice of as remembred It was no inconspicuous vertue of Alexander Severus before-named who sent no man sad from him gave access to the meanest expressed affability to all yet with success enough man aged his affairs nor have Princes shewed themselves wiser in any thing then by giving fair termes to enemies rather then either to hazzard successes or wast their own dominions to obtain victory Dioclesian said not amiss when he answered That bounty and mercy were the proper qualifications of Princes and where these are not Ducem esse debuisse non principem Philip the second of Spain none of the most vertuous Princes but fouly stained in glory yet had this fore-thought to declare in the case of the Netherlands That it should be lawfull for any that would not embrace the
to 1 Eliz. c. 1. confirmed by 5 Eliz. 1. so Canon 1. Convocat Anno 1640. In this was maintained the antique Episcopacy as of Divine right and of annexed Prelacy as of civil foundation and Regall bounty the sacred Order of Presbytery and the validity of Ordination by Imposition of hands and holy separation to to the Ministry Thirdly This Church of England hath answered Antiquity in countenancing Truth and opposing Errour both in Doctrine and Manners It hath ever yielded stout Princes who have been warm and kindled in the Cause of God against errours of all sorts Prelates and Preachers have flourished in it whose breasts and brains by constant reading and meditation became Christs Libraries As S t Jerom saies of Nepotian They that consider but the expences and rewards given by Ed. the 6. to learned men sent for hither to assist in our refinement the grave Councill took in the declaring of the Christian faith and doctrine of the Sacraments for avoiding of diversity of opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion the zeal and open Protestation of many of our Prelates and Professorâ— against Toleration of Popery By name the not long since deceased Primate of England Archbishop Abbot M r Powell Chaplain to the then Bishop of London D r Suâ—liff Dean of Worcester D r Willes D r Hackwell and others Yea all the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland as appears by the Instrument read and pronounced by the then famous B. of Derry Doctor Downham before God and the whole Estate of Ireland at the Cathedrall of Dublin The proceedings of King James with the States of Holland in the case of Voâ—stius and against others in the Synod of Dort the Synod of this Nation in Anno 1640. Can. 3 4. against Socinianism yea and the judgements against Hamâ—unt 21 Eliz. Anno 1579. and Lewis 25 of the same Queen and Hacket with others together with the many excellent laws and prudent sanctions for promoting the honour of God by incouraging preaching praying and holy exercises by commanding sanctification of the Lords day and prohibiting any servile work therein with sundry other provisions of like nature They I say that well weigh these things cannot but commend our Churches well-grounded zeal I wish those that rend from her would consider what S t Jerom said to some in his time Segregas te cúm tuis vermulis novâ—m balneum aperis si te Angelus aliquis aut Apostolus rebaptizavit non infringo quod sequeris si vero in sinu meo natus si uberum meorum lacte nutritus adversum me gladium levas redde quod dedi esto si potes aliter Christianus Fourthly This Church of England hath had the blessing of God accompanying her in her waies of study and practise of general learning and holy preaching 'T were endless to enumerate the learned Bishops laborious Presbyters renowned Physicians accomplisht Lawyers florid Philologers and practicall Clerks bred up in her yea so great so considerable they were that the whole Body of the University of Oxford in An. 1603. published There were then more learned men in the Ministry in this Land then were to be found amongst all the Ministers of the Religion in France Flaunders Denmark Germany Poland Geneva Scotland or all Europe beside This touch concerning the piety of our Church No less her charity This Church was much at unity with it self few snarling or factious spiritati's in her all her notes were by the book her language Canonique things were so carried as offence to tender consciences might be as much as possible avoided I know there were ever and ever will be smaller differences in the Church and who can help it since God concludes them necessary that those who are approved might be made manifest c. I am not ignorant that many bitter invectives and hot ragings were currant between the Disciplinarian and Conformable party but yet I trust I may say they kept the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and were not alienated in affection each from other Nor were they wanting in works of Charity to the poor Gods poor and the Nations poor to both there are instances of charity since the Reformation and extrusion of the Pope I 'le begin with the renowned liberality of King Ed. the 6. who by the advice of that after famous Martyr D r Ridley then Lord Bishop of London and after his Sermon preached at the Court upon mercy and charity was moved to found the Hospitals of Christ for poor Orphans and of S t Thomas and S t Bartholmews for diseased people besides which he gave great relief to house-keepers at their own houses To perfect which charity the Bishop travelled greatly and brought the Citizens of London into the work To them and their successors for ever he gave the charge thereof and on them setled lands to the value of 100 l per annum with license to take lands in Mortmaine to the yearly value of 4000 Mark all which he setled not above two daies before his death At which time in the hearing of his Councill he uttered these words Lord God I yield thee most hearty thanks that thou hast given me life thus long to finish this work to the glory of thy Name The greatest and most noble Work that ever I read of done by One man and he a subject was that of the Memorable Gentleman M r Thomas Sutton the Princely Founder of the Charterhouse for the entertainment of youth and decayed Gentlemen who by maims in the Warres or other casualties had been ruined The provision there is so bounteous that it hath scarce a match to it in Europe the very house and appurtenances cost him to purchase 13000 l which he endowed with five Mannors in Essex two in Lincoln and eight in Wiltshire besides very many rich Pasture grounds of near 4000. Acres in that County Two in Cambridgeshire besides his Lands in Hackney Marsh and Tottenham in the County of Middlesex and with all and singular the Woods Reversions Presentations and Rights of him the said Thomas Sutton in any the aforesaid Mannors Over and above this he hath given great gifts to poor Towns to mend High-waies to loans of young men to set up trade with gratis To the Prisons to certain Colledges to make additions to his Hospital â—5000 lb and to the Treasury of the House to defend their right if need were 1000 lb and other Gifts he hath given right liberally Next The Royal Foundations of the Exchange for the meeting of persons of trade and business and Gresham College by S r Thomas Gresham in part of which poor people are lodged and provided for and in the rest Lecturers in all the Arts are allowed is a most memorable act of charity and bounty So also is that of S r Thomas White Lord Mayor of the City of London who first purchased Glocester Hall
him error is a purpresture which the Tenants of the Lord of glory ought to present as a grievance I must not cut large thongs out of Christs leather the Churches and every Christians power is by and under not besides or above Christs I finde amongst the Ancients two chief practises for estâ—â—ishment of truth and conviction of error One was to preach and write truth taking all opportunities to call their auditors and disciples together and when their own parts were ripest and their hearers in fittest temper to be wrought upon then they catechized them they explicated Scripture to them In many of the Fathers we finde Homilies for every day almost especially at some times of the year as also upon Feasts and great solemnities And as their preachments were frequent so were their lives continued Sermons those Pilgrims and strangers here l'ved as having their conversation in Heaven as bringing themselves under subjection as disâ—ntangled by the world I ever think moderate and unengaged men competentest Judges Anchorites are likest to give the truest account of divine contemplation they who care not to die are most valiant for the truth and value not those theeves of fear and flattery that misguide the most to their own infamy and other mens seduction I read in S t Jerom of Anthony Hilarion Paul and Malchus who left the world out of zeal to serve Christ in a severity of life and in the Church story there is frequent mention of Ignatius Polycarpus Athanasius and others whose whole lives were spent in circuit of doing good instructing the ignorant convincing the obstinate confirming the wavering comforting the dejected reclaiming the exorbitant and restoring the lapsed Christians Not solliciting their own gain not labouring their own preferments not jubilating their own praises not seen in Princes courts not the Parasites of their Tables not partakers of their pleasures not busie at publike conventions of State and seducing this and that mans soul by the tickle of his ear No this is the traffick and guise of pieties Apollyons of Court Sollicitors Jesuited spirits such as Philip the second of Spain called Clericos negotiatores such as Marcus Antonius Columna Viceroy of Naples described to have la mente al cielo le mani al mundo l'anima al Diavolo not of Church-men men sacrated to God The old Fathers were in fastings often in prayings often much upon the pearch of holy meditation these Elijahs had left the mantle of earthly care when they passed to Heaven in the whirl of a holy rapture O hearts set on fire by divine charity O hands elevated in zealous oratory O eyes fixed on Heaven in devout confidence O souls in your Saviours bosom while in your own breasts What seek ye for whom are ye pleaders If ye ask grace ye have it 't was that which moved you to ask it If ye seek a Kingdom 't is yours you have the prelibation in assurance aud ete long you shall have the possession are ye not contented to be happy your selves but would ye have others also joynt partakers with you in your Crown O inculpable ambition O immitable love O grace like the giver of it free and indeterminable But if these Church-Champions saw error come in like a mighty flood daring with Goliah any to encounter it then they took up the Sword of the Spirit and bestir'd themselves with all their might S t Jerom mentions not only Athanasius encountring Arius and after him Eustathius Bishop of Antioch but Origen taking Celsus to task and Methodius Porphyrius so S t Augustine the Pelagians and Manichees S t Cyprian the Jews and Novatians And if Powers menaced rhem as the Proconsul did S t Cyprian that he will write the Christians rules of obedience in his blood all they make of it is the will of God be done they had no cursings and anathema's no bloody execrations or unchristian imprecations on Governours but holy submissions to that Power before which they had the honour to make their confessions Christ bore a highher price in ancient times then a little pelth or a breath of favour or a small compass of land amounted to S t Jerom tells of famous Apollonius a Roman Senatour in the time of the Emperour Commodus who being by his servant discovered to be a Christian and asked by the Senate whether he were so in all hast replied Yea producing a large Confession of his Faith which before them all he read and by their decree was put to death according to an old custom among them That no Christian convented before them ever came off with his life without deniall of his faith O glorious conquest of faith over frailty when never men with more animosity contested for temporall Crowns then these for Martyrdom never pusillanimy more willing to save life then these Martyrs daring to lose it for Christs sake O stupendious masteries of nature when destroying flames were to Christians as Jubilees to bondmen that day of death beyond this of life Lord what fair copies have our foul lives and faint deaths How farre short ought we to come of Martyrs Crowns who have not in our selves the courage to dare nor deserve to have from God the honour to die for his cause O Antiquity our shame our accuser how art thou acclamated by the Mercuries and Orators of Ages for thy Piety Charity Zeal Order there is no blemish in thee thou art all lovely compared to us who envy thy praise but follow not the pattern Let then the world hang out what Trophies it will let the Grandees and excellentissimo's of it dream with Julius Coesar that they are joyning hands with Jupiter and making a League offensive and defensive between their two great Monarchies of Heaven and earth the Church will glory in nothing but the Cross of Christ and in her Cross for his sake her peace is founded upon the blood of her Saviour and her encrease owns much the bloud of Martyrs as S t Jerome elegantly Religion for above a thousand years together was next to Gods mercy supported by praiers and tears It never leaned on these worldly props of power 'T was never a bond of iniquity or a holy League of disloyalty Holy men never attempted to resist authority though they had number to make good their opposition Their faith in God put them upon praier for their Princes though Persecutors We pray saith Tertullian for Emperours that they may have long life peaceable Raigns orderly Courts Valiant Armies Faithfull Councels Discreet Subjects and all the world in amity with them yea so true were Christians to heathen Governours that they served them faithfully both in Armies and Councels Eusebius tels us of Marinus a Christian in great command in the Roman Army and of Astyrius a Christian who was a Romane Senator so much meditated they on that Scripture There is no power but of God and he that resists the power resists the Ordinance
times in Rome summes them up thuâ— Tâ—â—c finita sunt bellae civilia sepulta exterâ—a revocata paâ—â— sopitus â—bique aâ—morum furor restituta vis legibus judicâ—â—s authoritas senatui majestas rediâ—t cultus agris sacris honos securitas hominibus certa cuique rerum suarum possessio And if the Magistrate be the instrument of so great emolument to subjects if he mannage his affairs with clemency shunning cruelty as the falsest guards of Government if he prevent factious and uproars which sometimes make such havocks of men as would force a compassionate Patriot to cry out with Meâ—â—â—rates O unhappy country which within thy self hast destroyed so many worthy men as would have sufficed to conquer all the Nations barbarous Wherein can he be loved and encouraged beyond his deserts Kings Princes and Fathers of their countries must have the honour of reverence to their persons of obedience to their laws of patience to their punishments of maintenance to their estates and of fidelity to their crowns and if Governours be lesse carefull and obliging To pray for their amendment is more Christian then to contrive their ruine God hath armed his Saints with prayers and faith by which they overcome the world and all the injuries of it And good men own Gods will confining and concluding theirs what they want in the hands of force and power they have in the wings of faith and prayer and by how much the liker men they are who revenge injuries the more of the likeness of God they have who pass them by as unworthy their revenge Next elder times were considerable in their care to educate their children which Luther saith is res seria quae Christi universaeque Christianitatis plurimum intersit not lightly and to antique frolicknesse but to the precise square of vertue and in proportion to their futâ—re probabilities and dispose of life Câ—to would do nothing before his children but what he would do before the vestall Nuns And good Parents will not permit Children to do ought in their sight which is â—ncomely without reproof and high disallowance There is nothing so great a fâ—et to the mindes Nobility as idlenesse and inoccupancy which made the elder ages educate their children thriftily and in some kinde of toil The Patriarchs and their posterity kept flocks watching them by day and night And most of the Nations Eastern and Northern busied their youth in some Art manual not only to keep their fancy from wander but also to be a hidden stock for them whatever distresse God should cast them into It is a good Proverb amongst us Breeding is no burthen If many mens hands aâ—d arts had not ministred to their necessities they might have begged their bread and been bare-back'd for want of cloathing It was a notable Providence of Ethelward the Grandchilde of great Alfred the Saxon who had many children Sons and Daughters all after great Priâ—ces and Princesses yet thus they were brought up His Daughters he set to spinning and to the needle his Sons to the study of Learning Vt quasi Philosophi ad Rempublicam gerendam non jam rudes procederent a very noble President worthy the imitation of every one who as the Proverb saies knows his beginning but not his ending and may be brought to a condition so abject and necessitous that he may wish he had been the childe of a Corydon rather then heir to a greater person That may befall any one which reproachfully is written of Cardinal Richlieu Parvus cinis modo est qui magnus ignis fuit teter fumus nunc est qui nuper coruscans splendor â—omnium oculos perstringebat Inheritances are no durable Freeholds of mortality Riches have wings and that which hath wings will away Honours are the bitter sweets which choak more then they make happy In the Court of H. 8. was a Noblemans Son that said It was enough for Noblemens Sons to winde their horn and carry their Hawk fair and that Study was for children of a meaner rank To whom Doctor Pace nobly replied that then Noblemen must be content that their Sons winde their horns and carry their Hawks while meaner mens Sons do wield affairs of State Those only are praearm'd against changes who rest upon this world but as uncertain and know how to lay their mouths in the dust when there is onely hope for them in their humiliation and to earn their bread by labour when toyl and travell is by God designed their portion and penance Let no man disdain poverty and reproach the abjectnesse of that condition lest he curse himself and his posterity who may time enough and sooner then they expect come to ecclipse Families have ebbs and honours have their Syncope's Sad is the Story of the great warlike Belisarius who served the Emperour Justinian and wanted nothing that this world could present to his accomodation whom his Master loved and his souldiers so respected that they would not disobey his commands in any thing Suidas sets him out as a guard to property none of his Souldiers durst violate any man nor take any fruit from the Trees in their march so valiant and expert in conduct that with 8000 Greeks he chased almost 200000 Goths out of Italy recovered all Asia from the Vandals and by a grave and resolute Epistle to Totilas the Goth diverted his course against Rome and prevented its ruine Yet this man after all his merit is by the power of Trebonianus Chancellor to the Emperour reduced to such a condition that he was not only as write some strip't of all and a guard set upon him as a publique enemy but as others report had his eyes put out and was reduced to such want that he was enforced to get a little shed by the High-way sideclampt up wherein he kept making moan to the passers by and praying them thus Date stipem Belifario quem rerum prosperè gestarum magnitudo extulit nec error sed livor inimicorum invidentia excoecavit There is then policy in Parents to breed children thriftily and to industry and prudence in Children while they may to take it and to imbibe it with all greedinesse Forasmuch as the evil day may come wherein what we can do will more steed us then Moneys Lands Friends times may come that will try the greatest and dismount the proudest happy he that hath his Quiver full of those artifices that may befriend him in his want which idlenesse and vain education will not doe I will conclude this head of Elder times policy in writing of Books warily and cautioning that Books of publique offence to true Religion be either not written or when written suppressed or at least stigmatiz'd There is nothing more to the honour of God then to propagate his Gospel by pen and to confute gainsayers at distance and by argument And by nothing is errour more woâ—nded then when it is denied safe conduct when it