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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15011	A pithie, short, and methodicall opening of the Ten commandements. By Master William Whately, preacher of the word of God at Banburie in Oxford-shire	Whately, William, 1583-1639.; Lee, Richard, d. 1650.	1622 (1622)	STC 25315; ESTC S119736	77,294	265

good workes and ready to distribute according to the eminencie of their estate and meanes Great and rich men must practise 1. Bounty 2. Munificence 2. The lesse gifted are bound to two things 1. To acknowledge their gifts with all due and respectiue cariage towards them agreeable thereto in all ciuilitie and curtesie 2. To be willing to be beholding vnto them and to enioy helpe and assistance from their gifts as occasion shall be offered Hitherto of vnequals without gouernment Now of those with gouernment because the difference betwixt them ariseth from some office or estate which the one hath more then the other Their duties are of two sorts 1. Mutuall 2. Seuerall 1. Mutuall such as they are reciprocally and these are three 1. A speciall degree of loue each to other according as they are more neerely combined in their estates The parent owes a parentall loue the yoke-fellow a matrimoniall loue and so in the rest each must haue a more earnest plentifull and stedfast affection to other in regard of their places 2. A particular mentioning of each other in their prayers vnto God 3. A speciall care of each others comfort and credit and endeuour to procure it more then to other men 2. Their duties seuerall such as are peculiar to either 1. To Gouernours towards them that are gouerned 2. To gouerned towards them that gouerne them 1. The duties of Gouernours are twofold 1. Common to all Gouernours 2. Peculiar to each kinde of Gouernours 1. The duties common to all Gouernours are two 1. To keepe reuerence and respect to themselues in the hearts of those that are vnder their gouernment by a vertuous conuersation and by giuing themselues examples to them in all goodnesse 2. To exercise their authoritie ouer them to which end it must be declared and that in three respects 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised 2. What is the next end that all must aime at in their gouernment 3. The manner of vsing that authoritie 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised and those are towards 1. All vnder their gouernment 2. To the different kinds of them 1. Towards all vnder their gouernment two wayes 1. To direct them in their wayes 1. By minding lawfull and fit things 2. By forbidding the contrary 2. To defend them from the iniuries that might be offered them by any other of the common inferiours chiefly 2. The second part of power and gouernment to be exercised is towards the different kindes of them 1. To the good 2. To the euill 1. To the good and obedient 1. By praises and commendations 2. By rewards and recompences 2. Towards the euill and disobedient 1. By reproofe and reprehension 2. By chastisements and corrections according to the difference of faults and places differently 2. The second dutie to be declared is what is the next end that all men must aime at in their gouernment viz. the welfare good and happinesse of those vnder their gouernment as well as and together with their owne welfare and content 3. The third dutie to be declared is the manner of vsing their authoritie to this end by the practise of foure things 1. Iustice 2. Prudence 3. Mildnesse 4. Courage 1. By the practise of iustice in a twofold regard 1. Of persons towards whom gouernment is exercised by being indifferent and vnpartiall the same to all in the same cases 2. In regard of the speciall acts of power and that in two regards 1. By commanding nothing but what is lawfull to be done in regard of conscience to God and forbidding nothing but what may be omitted without sinne against God 2. By correcting and reprouing for nothing but a fault praising and rewarding for nothing but a vertue and that according to the proportion and quantitie both of vertues and vice 2. By the practise of prudence or discretion two wayes 1. By obseruing the different dispositions of those that are vnder ones gouernment 2. By making choise of two things 1. Fit things to command and forbid and fit kindes of reproofes corrections praises rewards agreeable to the difference of the persons dispositions with whom one hath to deale 2. By making choise of fit times and places wherein to exercise any part of authoritie both 1. In regard of ones selfe that commandeth reproueth 2. In regard of them that are commanded reproued c. The fittest time is when neither are transported with passion or distemperance 3. By the practise of mildnesse to shew it selfe two wayes 1. In commandements 2. In reproofes and corrections 1. In commandements two wayes 1. By abstaining from hard difficult and painfull commandements vnlesse in case of necessitie 2. By mollifying commandements with louing familiar sweet and perswading speeches different according to the diuers kindes of inferiours 2. In reproofes and corrections by giving them 1. Moderately for kinde and measure so that the reproofe and correction neither exceed the fault nor the power and strength of the corrected 2. Compassionately and with demonstration of loue and pitty for the manner chiefly when necessitie calls to some roughnesse 4. By the practise of courage and resolution in going on forward to performe what is fit notwithstanding 1. Any importunitie intreatie and suit 2. Ill speeches or shew of danger Hitherto of duties common to all superiours in gouernment Peculiar duties of seuerall kindes of gouernours both in the 1. Familie of the Master Dame or Mistresse do follow 2 Common-weale do follow The Masters dutie is twofold 1. To all his familie ioyntly 2. To the seuerall members of his familie 1. To all his familie ioyntly as lie is a common ruler of that societie wholly considered and so he must regard 4. things 1. That Gods name be called vpon and worshipped in his familie for the families are cursed that call not vpon the name of God 2. He must haue regard to catechize them in true religion and bring them all vp in information of godlinesse 3. He must haue regard to prouide things necessarie for them 1. In health Food and the like 2. In sicknesse Attendance Physicke 4. He must haue regard to ouersee their wayes and cariage and 1. Set them to fit imployments 2. To redresse and reforme their disorders 2. The masters dutie is to looke to the seuerall members of his familie 1. To those whom it is in his power to chuse as wife and seruants to chuse vertuous and godly ones a woman fearing God and seruants fearing God 2. To vse them all well viz. the Wife Children Seruants 1. The wife and that two wayes 1. By familiar and kinde behauiour towards her person 2. By liberall and bountifull allowance of all comforts vnto her 2. The children two wayes 1. By good education 1. In younger yeeres causing them to be taught to write and reade c. 2. In riper yeeres setting them to some calling according to their capacitie and their parents abilitie 2. By good prouision for them

1. Of goods and portion euer remembring the distinction of age and goodnesse so that the eldest haue his double portion and the youngest their single portions 2. Of yoke-fellow husband or wife in due season fit for them one that at least is not impious nor Infidell 3. The seruants in a twofold regard 1. To imploy them moderately in worke neither toyling them nor giuing them leaue to be idle 2. To reward them liberally with wages and gifts according to euery mans estate and abilitie and Gods blessing vpon their labours Hitherto the Masters dutie the Dames followes and that is twofold 1. Towards her infants to nurse them with her owne milke if it may stand with her health as the law of nature teacheth why else doth God giue breasts and milke at that time and as godly women haue done 2. Toward the whole familie to ouersee their wayes as the husbands deputie and helper still according to his good will and liking and chiefly to attend to the maidens So much of the gouernours of the familie in priuate The duties of the publique gouernours follow These are of two sorts 1. The highest and chiefest gouernours 2. The subordinate and inferiour 1. The highest and chiefest gouernours who must obserue these foure things 1. To establish the true religion and worship of God in their iurisdiction and prohibit the contrary 2. To see good vertuous and wholesome lawes made for the welfare and good behauiour of the people 3. To defend their owne country and their oppressed neighbours by iust warres defensiue or offensiue 4. Being a King to sit personally in the seat of iudgment diuers times yea vsually for the Kings in Israel succeeded Iudges 2. The second sort of gouernours are subordinate and inferiour 1. Iudges truly to administer distributiue iustice in finding out and sentencing malefactors with all iust seueritie and equitie of proceedings 2. Other officers of all sorts to be helpfull to the vtmost of their power to the execution of all good lawes and orders according as for the most part their oaths doe binde them So farre of the duties of gouernours next are the duties of the gouerned 1. Common to all 2. Peculiar to each 1. The duties of the gouerned common to all are twofold 1. To the persons of their gouernours 2. To their power and authoritie 1. To the persons of their gouernours reuerence and that twofold 1. Inward in heart by standing in awe of them and not daring to offend them for conscience sake to God that hath setled gouernours in the world 2. Outward reuerence 1. In words and speeches 2. In gestures and behauiours 1. In words and speeches three wayes 1. To themselues that they be submissiue and dutifull mannerly and reuerent as Sarah called Abraham Sir 2. To others before them that they be neither ouer many nor loud and vehement but moderate temperate 3. To others of them behinde their backs that they be respectiue and loyall for so was Sarahs very thought of her husband 2. Outward reuerence is in gestures and behauiours as bowing the knee doffing the hat arising vp to them and all other like respectiue cariages 2. The dutie of the gouerned common to their power and authoritie two wayes 1. By a willing obedience to all their lawfull commandements 2. A due receiuing of all their reproofes and corrections 1. Submissiuely gently patiently though they be vniust and ouer-rigorous 2. Fruitfully and with care of reformation if they be iust and causefull The peculiar and proper duties are 1. Those that are priuate 2. Those that are publique 1. Those that are priuate in the familie viz. Of 1. The wife 2. The children 3. The seruants 1. The peculiar and proper duties of the wife and yoke-fellow are twofold 1. Sociable cariage and cheerefull behauiour to his person 2. Huswifely sauing and thriftie disposing of the goods of her husband 2. The peculiar and proper duties of the children are twofold 1. To maintaine the parents if need be in sicknesse and age yea rather to want ones selfe and that his owne children want then suffer them to want 2. To be ruled by them in the choice of a yoke-fellow wife or husband 3. The peculiar and proper duties priuate of the seruants are twofold 1. To be trustie in sauing and keeping their Masters goods committed to them 2. To be painfull and diligent in their businesses as well in the absence as the presence of the gouernours 2. The peculiar and proper duties publique in the Common-wealth are two 1. Defence of their persons against all treasons conspiracies violence offered to them by any according to their places 2. Payment of accustomed and iust dues as tole tribute and the like for their maintenance in their places So much of the duties depending vpon speciall naturall bonds Now follow spirituall bonds with the duties on them dependant for there is a spirituall life and things that doe pertaine to the spirituall life and therefore it cannot be but that some consideration should be set from them to binde men to diuers speciall duties Now there is 1. A spirituall kinred 2. A spirituall degree 1. A spirituall kinred betwixt all Christians members of Christs bodie 2. Betwixt some Christians peculiar 1. Betwixt all Christians members of Christs bodie to whom euery other member of the same bodie oweth two things 1. Brotherly loue which is an accounting of them specially deare desiring their good and delighting in it and grieuing for the contrary and taking content in their societie aboue all other kinde of people 2. Speciall helpfulnesse to them in their crosses and afflictions doing good chiefly to the houshold of Saints 2. There is a spirituall kinred betwixt some Christians peculiarly whom God hath made especially beholding or beneficiall each to other as 1. The father in Christ 2. The sonnes in the faith 1. The father in Christ is that man by whose Ministerie it hath pleased God to conuert another to the faith and to true pietie he owes three things 1. A speciall care to further their proceedings whom he hath brought to goodnesse by bold and diligent admonishing comforting exhorting and that frequently as occasion will serue 2. Ioy and thankfulnesse to God for their well-doing and good proceedings in pietie 3. Sorrow and speciall humiliation before God for their disorders decay or reuolting 2. The sonnes in the faith they owe two things 1. A singular thankfulnesse such as should make them thinke no cost nor paines too much to doe them good making account that they owe to them euen themselues 2. They owe a greater readinesse to receiue their admonitions exhortations as men hauing a speciall power ouer them Hitherto of kinred 2. Now of a spirituall degree and that is twofold 1. Of gifts 2. Of gouernment 1. Of gifts in regard of which some are 1. Stronger Christians 2. Weaker Christians 1. Stronger Christians that haue a greater measure of sanctification these must vse their strength in a milde and