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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05091	Politique discourses, treating of the differences and inequalities of vocations, as well publique, as priuate with the scopes or endes wherevnto they are directed. Translated out of French, by Ægremont Ratcliffe Esquire.; Discours politiques sur la voye d'enter deuëment aux estats. English	La Place, Pierre de, 1520-1572.; Radcliffe, Egremont, d. 1578.	1589 (1589)	STC 15230.5; ESTC S110593	110,171	164

the propertie of the inclination thervnto most conuenable to the end that he that shoulde be founde participant of golde might serue and be accommodated and applied to the most excellent estate and manner of liuing and he that should be founde participant of yron might be placed in some inferiour meaner office hard painfull and so consequently of other The indigence of man proceedeth of his owne vice But we passing beyonde the reach knowledge of nature say that this necessitie and want procéedeth of mans imperfection and vice for punishment of the which vice he is inioyned to liue in trauell and sweat of his bodie eche one according to the grace gift and manner of liuing imparted him to the Common reléefe and profit not by fortune but by the certeine pleasure of God whiche we call vocation And of this imperfection and imbecillitie of men be the Particular and Priuate vocations we haue nowe treated of issued parte of whiche Diuision of priuate vocations apperteine to the nouriture decking and health of mans bodie parte to his abode and recreation or pleasure Those which béelong to mans nouriture be they which consiste in husbandrie and tilthe of the grounde traffike and sale of the fruits thereof and therewithall in the bringing vp of beastes created for his foode husbanmen and merchantes béeing therevnto ordeined and appointed in sundrie manners As also for his apparell and interteinement there be sundrie vocations and occupations yea almost as many as there be members in him beginning from the head to the foot For his health there be Physicians Surgians Barbars and other like instituted For his habitation or dwelling place all Architectes and other whiche serue for vtensiles mouables and housholde stuffe For his recreation Chaunters Musicians and other ordeined to giue honest pleasure and recreation vnto man Not comprehending a great many moe whiche be for the commodite and ease of man impossible al to be writen Pointes to be recommended in priuate vocations To al which aboue rehersed eche one in his degrée ought in generall and chéefly to be recommended to witte To them that be dedicated to labour and tilth of the ground attendance diligence and trauell To merchantes and handicraftes men good delight truth and loyaltie To them which be for health and cure of men learning experience and fidelitie And to the last whiche be for recreation a readie and pleasaunt grace without fantasticalnesse CHAPTER IIII. ¶ Of the Politique vocation whiche consisteth in Publique office of the diuision thereof into spirituall and secular and firste of the spirituall or ecclesiasticall and also of the same whiche belongeth to Maisters and Rulers THe Publique vocation ensueth nowe whiche we call so because it consisteth in the conduction administration and gouernement of the Publique in generall and is as the head of a mans bodie in respecte of other members of the same which is ordeined partly for the interiour or secret gouernment of man and partly for the exterior or apparant The one called Spirituall and the other Secular The spiritual vocation The Spirituall vocation whiche we call Ecclesiastical is that which is instituted for the gouernement and inwarde peace of conscience and reformation of the minde Plato whiche is the chéefe and principall part of man this béeing most certeine that Plato saithe that all good and euill procéedeth and commeth of the soule in the bodie The Secular The secular vocation whiche we call Politique respecteth corporall temporall things which apperteine to the policie rule gouernment of this present life among men The Emperour Valentinian Saint Ambrose B. of Milen That whiche me thinketh the Emperour Valentinian giueth sufficiently to vnderstand speaking of the promotion of S. Ambrose being before a secular Iudge vnto the Bishop sea of Milen We giue thankes vnto GOD for that saide he that it hath pleased him to giue the gouernment and charge of soules vnto him into whose handes it had before vouchsafed to committe the gouernment of bodies We wil then speak first of the Ecclesiastical vocation and then come to the Politique The Ecclesiasticall vocation The Ecclesiasticall vocation is Minister of the word of God guide of all wisdome enseigne of vertue purgation of vice and without the whiche the knowledge of man is ignorance his light darkenes his life eternall death To begin then to speake firste therof the same consisteth in Doctours and Pastours of the Church Doctours Pastours The Doctours be appointed for the interpretation of scriptures the Pastors for Ecclesiastical discipline for the administration of Sacramentes and exhortatiō to the word of God Vnder which name of Pastours be comprised Bishops Priestes and other like hauing the cure of Churches As for Archedeacons Deacons Subdeacons Lectours Chaunters Acolites other their constitutiō is inferior destined appointed to the Ecclesiastical seruice Al which Bishops Pastors other superiors haue thus ben appointed by the degrées not to vse the dominion or power reserued to the Politique estate of Magistrates The order of Ecclesiasticall vocation not appointed to rule and commaund The ecclesiasticall vocation ought not to be intangled with the politique Aristotle The Church hath her iurisdiction seuerall from the politique magistrates The ecclesiasticall office The dutie of them which be taught The vocation of Magistrates Socrates Preceptors ought to be reuerenced as Fathers Alexander whereof we will speake streight but for the conseruation of Ecclesiasticall discipline and aboue all thinges it be houeth to take diligent héede least those two vocations he confounded or intermedled the one with the other For Aristotle himselfe saith expressely in his Politiques that the order of people instituted for the religion is to be reiected or put out of the number of Magistrates as from them vnto whome power and authoritie to ordeine iudge command is reserued And yet for all that the Church hath her proper iurisdiction for the discipline and policie of manners and spirituall thinges though altogether distinct and other then that of Magistrates but howbeit verie auailable for the succour and aide of the same whereof here is no place to speake further And al persons called to this vocation be admonished to instruct the people well to liue vertuously without reprehension As they also that be instituted by them be taught to beare honour vnto their Pastors as vnto them that watch for their flocke The vocation of Preceptors Maisters and those whiche teache sciences and manners commeth in good time to be spokē of here because it is ioyned with the Ecclesiasticall and discharged by the selfe meane either of the tending to the institution instruction and interiour reformation of the mind Socrates speaking whereof saide that he that would institute or conforme many to the Publique gouernement was to be preferred before them whiche gouerned the Common weale them selues Preceptors being no lesse to be honoured and respected then our owne fathers because that of