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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	knowledge_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	151	3	9.5029	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09487	The counsellor of estate Contayning the greates and most remarkeable considerations seruing for the managing of publicke affaires. Diuided into three parts. The first contaynes the meanes to settle an estate. The secund, the meanes to perserue it. And the third, the meanes to encrease it. Written in French by one of the ancient counsellors to the most Christian kings, Henry the Fourth, and Levvis the thirteenth. Translated by E.G.; Conseiller d'estat. English	Béthune, Philippe de, comte de Selles et de Charost, 1561-1649.; Grimeston, Edward.	1634 (1634)	STC 1977; ESTC S101680	238,642	366

and hauing instructed many with such Disciples and his sonnes hauing some aduantages agaynst the Christians turned their Armes agaynst the Kings of Fez and Morocco and setled themselues in their places with their Religion Prudence is next to Piety the principall part which they should haue which vndertake such an enterprize and so much the more necessary for that many times an indiscreet zeale hinders his function and ruines that which he would Establish And although that the counsels of these zealous persons succeed sometimes which notwithstanding is but seldome God hauing giuen prudence to men to serue them for a guide all hauing not deserued that God should daily imploy his power to worke miracles Ananias hauing perswaded Isates King of the Adiabones and his mother to receiue the jewish-Iewish-Religion held it fit that he should forbeare to cause himselfe to be circumcised vntill he had disposed his people But Eliazar the Gallilean prest him to do it and not to preferre the feare of men to the grace of God Which was the aduice of a Diuine more zealous then discreet the which although it succeeded well at that time their spirits being better prepared then the Prince expected yet it were dangerous to follow it in all Encounters For the Apostle commaunds that zeale should be guided by Knowledge We know in our time that this rash zeale hath done more harme to the Catholicke Religion then good I doubt whether to this inconsiderate zeale we should not attribute that opinion which some haue of the greatnes of the spirituall power by the which and their Rules they minister cause of Iealousie to all temporall powers the which they submit vnto it agaynst the ancient beliefe and the custome of former ages A proceeding quite contrary to that of Iesus Christ whom the Iewes desiring to surprize by this meanes in the crime of high treason and to bandy the Magistrate agaynst him declared openly that his Kingdome was not of this world and commaunded to yeild vnto Caesar that which was Caesars although he were a Tyrant and an Vsurper of another mans liberty After him his Apostles haue spoken of the ciuill Magistrate with honour and respect commaunding to obay him and it cannot be found that by vertue of the Spirituall power they haue aduised to attempt any thing agaynst the Magistrate It is true that among Christians the Spirituall power hath beene alwayes much respected but only when it hath bee●e practized in matters which are meerely Spirituall the which looseth the dignity and grace which is due vnto it when it deales in matters which are temporall terrien These be the bounds which haue alwayes beene set in France betwixt the Ecclesiasticall lurisdiction and a Regall power and with this distinction the Christian Religion hath beene preserued aboue a thousand yeares in France without any blemish But inconsideration or ambition which is vsually blind hath proceeded further to breed a Iealousie among all Christian Princes For by a consequence altogether absurd and foolish they would make the VVorld beleeue that the obedience of the Subiect towards his Prince the which being a temporall thing cannot be reputed but temporall may be prohibited by the Spirituall power the which notwithstanding hath no power nor Iurisdiction ouer temporall things The which is a meanes not only to hinder that such Princes as are distracted from the ancient beleife do not re-vnite themselues seeing they cannot do it without dimunition of their authority and power but also makes others which are not yet separated to free themselues from this subiection leaue it or fauour all which oppose themselues to this Doctrine neuer insisting vpon the errors which they may adde thereunto There is as little wisedome to ●rosse the Rules of a receiued pollicy if they were not altogether impious neyther must they presse to change the Religion of the conscience if without impiety this apparence may be preserued The ancient Christians made no difficulty to apply vnto the Diuine Seruice many of the Iewish and Pagan ceremonies In diuers changes of Religion hapned in our time Luther in Germany and Peter Martyre in England haue carried themselues more discreetly hauing retayned the greatest part of the ceremonies of the Catholicke Religion approoued therein then they which haue made their Religion bald and destitute of all ornament and to make it the more sauage and to seeme more different from the common beleife they haue changed the names and termes by an in●ise●ee● vanity Behold part of the principall considerations which they must obserue in the setling of a Religion Let vs now see how we are to carry our selues to preserue the ancient beleife amidst the diuersitie of other Religions which are crept into the Estate CHAP. 17. That the diuersity of Religion is dangerous in an Estate how they ought to carry themselues to preserue the ancient Beleife in the diuersity of Religions crept into the Estate IN old time the Kings of Aegypt entertayned this diuersity in Religion among their Subiects Some worshipping a Dogge others a Bird and some a Crocadile with other things according vnto their fancies which was a tyrannicall practize to the end their Subiects might not agree to controule and reforme their Actions But it is certayne that if in the Concord of an Estate consists the good and quiet of the Subiects it is more expedient to re-vnite themselues all in one Religion when they may For Religion is the cyment which binds the Quick-siluer that drawes together all the members of the Estate into one perfect vnion And contrariwise there is nothing that doth more dis-unite a people then the diuersity of opinions or the vse of diuers ceremonies in matter of Religion Hence haue proceeded the most violent and furious passions that cuer troubled an Estate and the life of men And in this poynt all other interests are so implyed as it hath drawne with it all that which makes a part of the honours goods and fortunes of men For Religion the children haue left the Fathers cause seruants haue denied their masters seruice and subiects their fidellity to Princes Finally all naturall rights and offices of humanity haue ceased whereas Religion hath resisted Euery man esteeming that which he followes to be the most pure and the true manner of worship and condemning all that which is not conformable to his beliefe VVherefore we must flye this diuersity euen in light things for that a multitude being vncapable to iudge of things by themselues nor by reason or motion in Religion suffring themselues to be carried away by chance and apparent shewes contrary to that which Faith should perswade them aboue the perception of their vnderstanding when they haue once shaken some opinion which he had in Reuerence he presently falls into the like vncertaynty of the other peeces of his beliefe which haue no more authority nor ground with him then those which they haue already shaken Finding then this diuersity in

Y●t out of the Country of c●nquest And in like manner to giue them Estates and S●ignouri●s ●●se-where He must obserue the contracts co●u●n●io●● priui●edges vnder which the Country was ye●l●●ed for th●t one breach made by the Prince makes them to feare the lesse of the rest Hee must breed vp ●●ny Y●u●g men of their conquered Countrey after the manner of his naturall Subiects As Alexander did thirty thou●and young Persians of whom he m●de choice to be instructed after the Macedonian manner The Romans erected Colledges and Seminaries vpon pretext to ciuillize the Nations which they conquered but in effect it was to imploy them otherwise then in the Warre an● to traine them vp after the Romans manner And they which were best conceipted of their intentions sayd that it made a part of the Seruitude vnder which they reduced the Prouinces which they conquered The Turke holds another course in the b●eeding vp of his Ianizaries the which although it seems violent yet it is grounded vpon reason and iudgement For choosing them among the Christians Children he fortifies his power in weakning his Subiects which are most suspected vnto him Marriages and Alliances helpe much to ioyne and vnite a conquered Prouince with the naturall Subiects Alexander purchased much loue of the Persians hauing married a Persian Lady And as Titus Linius sayth there was nothing did so much hinder the Cap●uans from accommodating themselues with Hannibal then the priuate alliances they had contracted with the Romans The Romans also made vse of another meanes hauing interessed in the preseruation of their Estate the greatest part of the neighbour Prouinces conquered by them receiuing them into their Citty giuing sometimes to priuate persons and sometimes to a whole Prouince the right of Burgeois●e and making them sharers in the honours of the Citty But to reduce them wholy to the forme of naturall Subiects by little and little they brought in their owne Language as since the Arabians haue done in all their conquest And William the Conquerour and before him the Saxons in the greatest part of England not suffering the Lawes to be written or published but in their languages nor the audiences for the dispatch of affaires and Cōmissions for Letters patents The contracts of priuate men were past in the same language to the end they might force them mildly to learne it As for t●e Customes and ancient Lawes of the Countrey w●ich co●c●rne onely the ordring of priuate mens goods and not the Estate nor the obedience due vnto the Prince he may not change them Or if he doth it must be done by degrees For what Iustice soeuer there be in a new Law the people being not accustomed vnto it will suspect it But if the change of Lawes be preiudiciall to a Conquerour the change of Religion is much more there being nothing wherein the people grow more obstinate then to retaine their ancient Religion Yet this will be no hinderance but by the erecti●g of Colledges and Seminaries of Piety the Conquerour may bring in Learning and Knowledge by meanes whereof g●●ning dayly someone he may by little ro●te out t●at of the Countrey without force And if he cannot speedily attaine to his designe at the least he shall haue this aduantage that those of the conquered Subiects which adhere to his Religion will be co●fident vnto him and making shew to fauour them the rest will be soone reclaimed But whatsoeuer the Conquerour be to bring in newly among a conquered people be it Religion Customes Tributes or Lawes the establishments must bee made whilest the amazement of the conquest last and that the people are in feare of worse For if you suffer them to k●ow themselues and to grow assured besides the difficulty you shall finde to make them taste these Innouations it is to be feared they will make vse of it for a pretext of reuolt But if all these meanes proue too weake as they will be with an vntamed multitude to keepe such people in awe and obedience there is no other meanes to contayne them then to make vse of the same force which conquered them The Romans haue imployed whole Armies yet mutinies being too ordinary and of a dangerous consequence in these great Bodies this example hath not beene followed by the ●i●est Conquerours But instead thereof they haue made vse of strong Forts and good Garrisons well commanded and gouerned And some haue therein imi●ated the Romans in planting of Collonies the which are of lesse expence and seeme more milde but in effect they are more vniust in their establishments For that you must ruine many people to settle them with commodity and moreouer they are difficult to settle as well for the choice of men which you are to send as for the planting of any good order amongst them to make them liue in p●ace If you send of the chiefe men of your Estate y●u vnfurnish it if they be many in number if few they will make themselues Masters of the rest If you take them all poore as the Romans did disorders will easi●y grow amo●gst them and to liue at their owne pleasures they will at neede ioyne with them of the Countrey against you as many Roman Collonies haue done against the Romans But if you gather them out of diuers parts of your Estate they will hardly agree Yet if the conquest were of so great an extent as the expence would proue excessiue to maintaine them in their duties by force you may make vse of this meanes with these considerations First your Estate must be such as sending a good number of your Subiects to that end you may not vnfurnish your selfe That the Warre had so vnpeopled the conquered Countrey as after the conquest you shoold not be forced to commit so open an iniustice as to ruine part of the Inhabitants for the planti●g of Collonies These spoyles and vnpeoplings are excusable during the time you are in Armes But afterwards they can admit no excuse what considerations soeuer are brought to the contrary and this vnpeopling made during the Warre giues place and excuse to a Collony The third consideration is that you must send Souldiers which haue beene accustomed to liue in discipline and order The which must not be so old as they cannot accustome themselues to the place where they shall be planted nor yet so young as they shall be incapable of Discipline but being mingled one with another they may liue together with some good order and equality Besides this meanes they haue added three others to containe vntamed Subiects The first is to abate and mollifie their courages The second to weaken them of forces and to take from them all meanes to doe euill when you cannot make them loose the desire And the third to keepe them from assembling together or from ioyning with their Neighbours To attaine vnto the first some as the Turke hath ruined the Nobility and the Princes to take