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A05311	The sanctuarie of saluation, helmet of health, and mirrour of modestie and good maners wherein is contained an exhortation vnto the institution of Christian, vertuous, honest, and laudable life, very behoouefull, holsome and fruitfull both to highest and lowest degrees of men ... / written in Latin verie learnedly and elegantlie by Leuinus Lemnius of Zirizaa, physitian, and Englished by H.K. for the common commoditie and comfort of them which understand not the Latine tongue ...	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Kinder, Hugh.	1592 (1592)	STC 15454.5; ESTC S3877	132,793	266

we all come soone and shortly this dutie must be fulfilled Old men must be honored So by the ordinance of God doth Moses teach saying Leuit. 19. Rise vp before the hoarie head and honour the person of the old man Lycurgus the Lacedemonians lawmaker appoynted this also to be obserued He would not haue the rich and mightie men to haue the greatest honour but the old men according to the degree of their age And surely age● not more honoured in any place of the wo●… Amongst this sort and order we must recla●… and repute the Magistrate To whome honor must be giuen Rom. 13. Magistrates must be honored the dignitie of th● Consull or chiefe Iustice Pretor or Maior whose wise gouernment policie and authoritie is a stedfast stay to the safetie of the Common wealth by meanes wherof all the realme hath peace and tranquillitie without any section tumult or rebellion To these must we adde and accompt men that be of approoued honestie and well known and well grown in yeares or Gentlemen and Barons that come of gentle and noble house and auncestrie or them also that bee excellently furnished with the studies of good learning and thereby become worthie ornaments of their countrey But the higher dignitie and more chiefe estimation in this respect Ministers of the Church must be honored and in obseruing of this dutie doo I asscribe and assigne vnto them which labour feruently in the Ministerie and holy functions of the Church or congregation and bestowe their studie labour and trauaile in enforming the mindes and reforming the depraued manners of men So doth S. Paule pronounce the Elders 1. Tim. 5. that is to say they which giue light and ensample to their flock by sober and discreet behauiour by sage fatherly wisedome and integritie of life and doo feede the hungrie multitude with wholesome doctrine and with the pure and syncere foode of the word of the Gospell these I say Rom. 12.13 Philip. 2. he affirmeth to be worthie of double honour and all things requisite must be bestowed on them plenteously and copiously not only reuerence according to their age but also such necessarie aydes and allowances as they may therewith moderatly be susteyned and be furnished and stored with necessarie houshold substance What commoditie instruction bringeth to a man and how it must be vsed and of what manner and sort it ought to be CHAP. 10. GReat respect The good that man hath by instruction care and regard ought to bee had in what manner of learning any one is to be trayned vp Wherefore so soone as euer age is capable of discipline and apt and meet for the studie of good letters let it be seasoned and sauoured speedily with liberall and gentle Artes. For by them chiefly the nature of man is fashioned and well framed vnto good behauiour and trimly polished with the ornament of humanitie But the most conuenient commodious and prosperous beginning of trayning vp of youth is first to bring their manners into good fashion For which cause let a yong man addicted to studie first re●… his manners to good order and then let 〈◊〉 learne eloquence and the cunning skill of ●…tering his cogitations learnedly In Epist which 〈◊〉 Plinie saith cannot well bee atchieued w●… our good demeanour For better is the tr●… and manner of liuing honestly then of sp●…king finally and eloquētly and the integri●… of life is more to be desired then the skill 〈◊〉 eloquence although indeed these two ought to be lincked together and not separate and finally the one to bee a helpe to the other In like manner may we reason perswade concerning the choyse Knowledge of things and words must be acquired discerning and iudgement of words and matters for although the knowledge of things is more to bee wished and sought then the knowledge and elegancie of words yet neuerthelesse matters must be declared with such words as are plaine manifest and meete for the same And this is the cause that the precepts documents of life which doo garnish and adorne the minde and informe and frame the heart vnto godly conuersation although of themselues they be honest and wholsome Lib. 1. ca. 1. Lib. 1. ca. 3. yet notwithstanding as Lactantius and Fabius doo affirme they haue more importance and efficacie vnto perswasion whensoeuer a plausible stile and laudable composition of words dooth illuminate and set forth to the vnderstanding of the hearers the excellencie of the matter For those things flowe into mens mindes the more effectually which are compact framed with such pith and force of words as is conuenient and bee artificially amplified with rhetoricall skill And albeit we must be so studious of words and haue so great delight therein as some that haue small skill vse to doo being destitute of the knowledge of things yet for all that it is better to ioyne prudencie and good experience with eloquence and elegancie of words and vtterance thereof least by little and little we fall to the vse and custome of such words Barbarousnesse to be esch●wed as are growne out of vse as are barbarous vnfit fond and strange whereby the discourse and treatise although it be pit●ie and sententious is rather obscured then adorned If therefore fine trim and elegant words haue no wisdome nor grauitie weight nor pithinesse of sentences in them experience and skill without eloquence is more to bee commended then babling foolish loquacitie Wisdome saith Cicero as it is the foundation of other things so is it also of eloquence Wise wittie Lib. 2. de Orat. and learned is that saying of Horace which euery man must follow in euery profession In art Poet. The Poets red doo profit men or doo delight them well And lessons good they now and then among such pleasures tell The prayse of perfect skill is his which mingleth goodwith sweete His reader he dooth greatly please and giues him counsaile meete But the sacred Scripture giuen and vttered by the inspiration of the holy Spirit needeth no such helpe of man For it delighteth draweth winneth and transformeth the hearts of men not with eloquence not with gloriousnesse of words but with a certaine secret hidden and diuine efficacie Which thing when S. Paul the Apostle would testifie and make known to the Corinthians he saith thus 1. Cor. 2. When I came vnto you and opened vnto you the testimonies of God I vsed no glorious finesse of words nor great shew of wisdome neither was my word and preaching in the entycing and perswading words of mans wisdome but in shewing of the spirit and power that your faith should not consist in the wisdome of men but in the power of God Pauls meaning is declared By which words he dooth not reiect the pithie importance of words and sentences wherewith he was plētifully stored furnished neither doth he take frō himselfe the power efficacy of perswasion

THE SANCTVARIE OF SALVATION HELMET OF HEALTH AND MIRROVR OF MODESTIE AND GOOD MANERS Wherein is conteined an exhortation vnto the institution of a Christian vertuous honest and laudable life very behoouefull holsome and fruitfull both to highest and lowest degrees of men which desire either health of bodie or saluation of soule Written in Latin verie learnedly and elegantlie by Leuinus Lemnius of Zirizaa Phisition and englished by H.K. for the common commoditie and comfort of them which vnderstand not the Latine tongue and to be as it were a glasse wherein men may behold their life and conuersation MAT. 11. Come vnto me all ye that are wearie and laden and I wil ease you Take my yoke on you and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in hart and ye shall find rest vnto your soules For my yoke is easy my burden light GOD IS MY HELPER Printed at London by Hugh Singleton The printer to the Reader THe gentleman frendly reader to whom this booke in the english tongue was dedicated and who for the excellencie thereof reserued it for his owne priuate Reading without suffering it to bee published is now deceased The worke thereupon comming to the handes of a gentleman his kinsman he is desirous by my presse to make thee partaker of it as of a worke vnworthie to be obscured Take then to thy profit gentle reader this booke which being writen by a famous author summarilie containeth precepte in what soeuer necessarie to humane knowledge either concerning bodie o● soule The preface of no lesse importaunc● for instruction then the booke it selfe I prai● the also looke into and be thankfull to o● learned countrey-man the traslator for hi● trauaile herein And so fare thou well in the lord who prosper thee in thy good and vertuous studies To the right worshipfull Maister Stephen Thimelby Esquier Recorder of the Citie of Lincoln Henry Kinder wisheth in this life all good hope worship and prosperitie and in the life to come saluation and euerlasting glory and felicitie in Iesus Christ AFter that I had atchiued the enterprise of the translation of this litle booke right worshipfull to the end I might communicate illustrate and explanate the same to them which vnderstand not the latine tongue aswell for the commoditie of the studious reader as the commendation of Leuinus Lemnius the learned author I called to mind a certain brief graue poeme of Rhianus the Greke poet concerning the imprudencie incōstancie of some men whiche cannot moderate their troublous affections perturbations of mind with equanimitie which is a singular vertue soueraign remedie of al griefes incident vnto humane life which moderation of mind whosoeuer wanteth is either puffed vp with prosperity or discouraged with aduersity We saieth that poet do erre iudge amisse cōcerning the manifold giftes of God and receiue them foolishly and vnaduisedlie For he that is poore destitute of liuing doeth with sorow griefe heauines of heart lay great blame on the determination and appointmēt of God but he neglecteth the vertue industrie and apt inclination of his owne mind neither dare he for feare say or do any thing where rich men bee in presence but bashfulnes pensiuenes do consume his heart Contrariwise he which liueth in prosperitie to whō God hath giuen riches preeminence authority oftē times forgetteth his cōdition beginning educatiō and mortalitie and eleuating himselfe with arrogancie and depraued hautines of hart thūdereth like Iupiter though somtime he be of little stature he stretcheth vp his head on high with amiable armes wooeth faire Minerua and seeketh to attaine to the top of Olympus When I had well pondered this pithie poesie I was animated and encouraged therby to dedicate these my little labours lucubrations to your worship as a testification of my prompt wil readie mind grateful hart So that I was dismaied neither with the consideration of my poore lowe estate neither with the feare of some such highminded mē as the poet here doeth reprehend who being aduaunced and adorned with worldly welth wisdom dignity prosperitie euery daie expecting and desiring most exquisit and pleasaunt nouelties will peraduenture cōtemne this rude and vnpolished peece of worke Therefore submitting the same to your fauour and protection I attempered my penne not to be plausible to the learned whereunto I am not able to attaine but to please and profite the meane vnlearned multitude which is my only desire And although I know there be an infinite nmber of learned students whose diligence herein might haue bene farre more commendable in polishing this translation with perfect and excellent Rhetoricall skill and so could haue come nearer to the elegant stile of the learned author Yet I thought it better thus boldly and rudely as I could to attempt the same then that it shouldly hidden from the vnlearned for whose instruction admonition and exhortation it was meete and requisite to dinulgate the same For to what end is a man borne brought forth into the light of this life but by his industrie to glorifie his Creator and to benefite his neighbour He hath liued long inough whosoeuer hath liued vnto nature wel and sufficiently vnto himselfe his owne saluation blessedly and happily vnto the comfort of others profitablie vnto the glorie of God acceptablie and thankefully Hee hath not liued which hath left no issue proceeded of him which graffeth not trees for another age to come and so profite his posteritie which sheweth not some good and profitable doctrin vnto the people that shal be born after him For as we at this day are the better stablished more surely confirmed groūded in the true faith because we haue learned and receiued the same into our harts of Christ of his Apostles of the fathers of the primitiue Church and likewise of this last Church which was a disciple and scholler of sinceritie and veritie Euen so our posteritie shall learne and acquire vnderstanding and knowledge of this our age of their auncestors fore-elders and will be glade to heare of our cōsent and agreement in true religion and our mutuall confirmation and establishing of our assured and liuely faith in Christ Iesus and will be delighted with the proper erudition of humanitie and profitable precepts of morall doctrine which we deliuer and leaue vnto them Therefore trusting your worship will accept this fruite of my studies be it neuer so vnripe so vnseasonable and vnpleasaunt and wil regard rather the beneuolent affection of the giuer then the gift it selfe I am therevpon emboldened to present the same vnto you as a token of this good and happie newe yere many moe and also as a declaration of my willing and dutifull mind towards you if able power were correspondent to the same Truly I haue good and iust cause to assure my selfe of your fauour prompt readines alacrity towards me in cōdescēding to this my humble request haue