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A05738	The Christian mans closet Wherein is conteined a large discourse of the godly training vp of children: as also of those duties that children owe vnto their parents, made dialogue wise, very pleasant to reade, and most profitable to practise, collected in Latin by Bartholomew Batty of Alostensis. And nowe Englished by William Lowth.; De oeconomia Christiana. English.	Batt, Barthélemy, 1515-1559.; Lowth, William. fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 1591; ESTC S101091	168,239	212

tender tongue be seasoned with swéete songes and Psalmes 3 Weigh not down her necke with gold and precious stones 〈◊〉 beset her head with pearles neither curle nor bushe out her heare nor die it into any vnnaturall colour 4 Let her not eate openly that is to say in the feastes banquetes of her Parentes lest shée sée such meats as shée might desire and lust after Let her not learn to drinke wine wherein is all excesse and riotte 5 Let her not delight and take pleasure in the hearing of musicall instruments Shalmes Sythe●●s Lutes Harps nor know wherefore they were inuented 6 Let her appoint her self some taske euerie day to read some speciall part of the holy scriptures chosen for the same purpose 7 Let her learne to carde spinne to make woollen cloth and to handle the whéele and distaffe to make her linnen cloth 8 Let her not set her minde on silkes as Taffata Damaske Satten and Vellet 9 Let her prouide and get such clothes wherewith colde may be defended not wherwith her bodie shalbe nakedly apparelled 10 Let her so eate as that shée may be alwayes an hungred that immediately after her meate shée may either reade or sing Psalmes 11 If it chaunce thée at any time to walke or ryde out of the Towne or Citie leaue not thy daughter at home without a godly gouernour for without thée shée knoweth not neither is shée able to liue and when shée shall chaunce to be left alone let her bée afraide 12 Let her not haue her secret méetings and fellowship with foolish and light maidens 13 In the stead of silkes pearles and precious iewels let her loue godly bookes not gaudely garnished and set out with gold but inwardly perfected and learnedly distinguished for the better increase of her faith 14 Let her first learne the Psalter or Psalmes of Dauid in méeter which may withdrawe her minde from light and vaine songues and baudie ballades And in the Prouerbes of Solomon which may instruct her to good and godly life And in Ecclesiasticus Let her exercise her self to seeke out things that apperteine to the world In Iob Let her folow the example of vertue and patience Prudens filia viro est vice haereditatis A wise daughter is to her husband in the stead of an inheritance Also a shamefast maid wil reuerēce her husband A daughter is another possessiō vnto her father If he get a good sonne in law than hath he found his daughter but if he chaunce of a wicked sonne in law thā hath he vtterly lost cast away his daughter Besides this it apperteineth to the duetie of a godly maid which would séeke for true and euerlasting saluation that also before all things shée haue the knowledge of the doctrine religion which hath béene set forth and deliuered vnto vs from the Patriarkes Prophets Apostles and which is conteined in the bookes of the holy scriptures It is necessary that shée know the lawe which may teach her not only what workes please ordisplease almightie God but also therby shée may learne to know her owne sinnes and be put in minde to seeke for the remission of the same And therefore it is also néedfull that shée know the Gospell of the sonne of God the cleanser washer away of our sinnes and the pacifier of Gods wrath that shée shewe her selfe faithfull herein and giue credite hereunto Theophilus These be good lessons for daughters in deed But if a young man haue vngodly parents infidels and altogether ignorant of Gods lawes is it not the sonnes duetie to teach instruct his father and mother Theodidactus Yea alwayes albeit it be not an vsuall or common thing For if a young man being a Christian haue vngodly Parentes in whō hée would wish and desire to haue sowne the séedes of vertue true knowledge of God hée ought to endeuour him by all meanes possible gently and reuerently to admonish them that hée might draw them vnto pietie and the true knowledge of Christ that at the last being instructed in the will of God of wicked and vngodly ones he might make them godly and vertuous Theophilus What young men at this day are to be deemed and iudged most happie Theodidactus Certes none are more happie than those which truely performe their duties to whō it is giuē frō their childhood to repose al hope in one y ● true god with sure cōfidēce to depēd of his only goodnes prouidence which thing appeareth to haue chaunced vnto Dauid Psal 71. Where most faithfully hée speaketh vnto God saying thus Quoniam tu es expectatio mea domine Domine spes mea à iuuentute mea For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope euen from my youth As though hée should say not now only but hitherto alwayes through my whole life thou art the thing I long for and my hope that is to say Séeing that I haue had none other God from my youth vp but thée alone howe shall I now not call vpon thée in this trouble And howe shalt thou forsake mee Parentes are hereby admonished that they instruct their children from their youth in such godlines knowledge fayth and hope of God that they become not wicked vnhappie but continue blessed with God and all his holy Angels and Saintes in heauen for euer But this instruction as I said ought to be proponed and set foorth vnto children euen from their young and tender yeares Nam quod noua testa capit inueterata sapit For looke what licour at the first the newe vessell taketh The tast thereof when it is olde it hardly then forsaketh And out of question nothing sticketh more surely in the minds of young men than that that is taught them in their gréene and tender yeares And if wée will giue credite to Quintilian Natura tenacissimi eorum quae rudibus annis percepimus We are the surest keepers of those thinges by nature which we haue learned in our rude ignoraunt yeares If thou puttest strong wine into newe vessels the tast thereof will continue verie long And who can reduce dyed woolles into their pristinate colour Theophilus How happeneth it that so few inheritours left very wealthily by their Parentes And also so few men seruantes and maydes haue so litle happinesse and prosperitie in this life Theodidactus Because so fewe at this day regard to obserue and fulfill the fift commaundement the breach whereof hath a curse thereunto annexed hereof it commeth to passe that the great treasures and possessions left vnto the heires helpeth them nothing It auayleth seruauntes and maydes nothing at all to labour and toile and to proll filtch and steale all their life long For God doeth not blesse them for their contempt disobedience towards their Parentes Magistrates Maisters Mistresses and Dames Hither may bée referred the examples of this present time not to be numbred of those

Drink no wine wherin is riotousnes excesse And it is certaine that of the superfluous drinking of wine procéed many euils which we may learne by the answere of Anacharsis who being strickē of a drunken an vnruly youngman at a great feast or banket said Adolenscens sinune vinū nō fers vbi senueris aquam feres Young man if thou caust not beare and indure wine now whē thou w●●●st old thou shalt be compelled to beare drink water It was a signe of great moderatiō in this Philosopher that hée imputed vnto the wine the malepertnes and disordered behauiour of this young man For those that immoderatly shall drinke wine chiefly at that age to which water better agreeth is more conuenient such verie often are compelled to drinke water when they are olde by reason of their pouertie when neuertheles the vse of wine vnto that age were most méet and necessarie Also Diogenes at a time hearing a faire comely young man vsing very vnséemely spéeches saide Non te pudet qui ex eb●rne●●ag●●a plumbeum educas gladium Art thou not ashamed to drawe a leaden sworde out of an Iuorie skaberd Iuorie in time past was had in great price as wée may read by this hée noted that garrulitie in young men is not to be suffered And Zeno the Philosopher reproued a young man pratling many thinges verie rashly saying vnto him after this maner Ob id binas habemus aures os vnicum vt plura audiamus loquamur paucissima For this cause nature hath giuen vs two eares and but one mouth to the ende wee should bee readier to heare than to speake Socrates espying a young man eating his meat verie gréedely at a feast and dipping his bread very often into his potage dish My guestes saieth hée which of you vseth his bread in the stead of soule his soule in the stead of bread Hereupon there was a reasoning amongst the guestes who it should bée which the young man perceiued and began to blush and after that he eat his meat more leasurely and with greater moderation than before Theophilus Verely that young man which hath purposed with him selfe to walke in the wayes of the Lord God in all thinges must both obserue and flee many things but yet in my iudgement there cannot be a more foule and horrible vice in a young man than whoredome and filthie lustes Wherefore I beseech you if you haue any thing that may tend to the detestation of this so horrible a vice disclose them vnto vs that the heartes of these children may bee throughly terrified and that they might not only shunne so pernicious and detestable a sinne both to bodie and minde but also loath it with their whole heart Theodidactus Whoredome and adulterie out of doubt are two horrible and detestable crymes wherefore young men ought to haue great care that they might liue godly and chastly and studie to preserue and kéepe them selues from all wanton and filthie lustes both of minde and bodie lest they prouoke the gréeuous wrath and indignation of God vpon them which they shall the more easilie doe if they shal alwayes fixe before their eies the writinges and testimonies of the holy Prophets and Apostles and the horrible examples of whoredom and adulterie which are set foorth vnto vs euerie where in the holy scriptures such as these are Fornicatio vinum ebriet as anferunt cor Fornication wine drunkennesse doe steale away the heart Fornicatores adulteros iudi●abit Deu● Fornicators and adulterers the Lord wil iudge The portion of fornicatours shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death And Moses saith Accursed be hée that shall lye and sléepe with an other mans wife And Tobias wishing well vnto his sonne and counselling him s●●eth My sonne kéepe thée from all whoredome and besides thy wi●● sée that no fault be knowne of thée Saint Mathew saieth Whosoeuer looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adulterie with her alreadie in his heart And Paul saith Know you not that your bodies are made the members of Christ shal I make thē the members of Christ y ● members of an harlot Do ye not know that hée which coupleth him selfe vnto an harlot is one bodie with her and hee that coupleth him selfe vnto the Lorde is one spirit● And againe Be ye not deceiued neither whoremongers nor worshippers of Images neither adulterers neither effeminate persōs nor those which defile them selues with mankind nor théeues neither couetous persons nor drunkardes neither cursed speak●r● neither pillers nor pollers shall receiue the inheritaunce of the kingdome of God Chrysostome saith The r●●●e of adulterie is the ●urious beholding of a womans face And one of the Fathers saith That fornication is stirred vp and lust procured with repl●●ion of meates and drinkes sacieti● of sléepe idlenesse and play wan●on wordes and the curious garnishing of the bodie Let wise young men haue alwaies in remēbrance these such like places not suffer thēselues to be polluted with such execrable wickednes folowing this example of Alexander which when hée had gotten into his kéeping the daughters of Darius being taken prisoners and when his friendes persuaded him that hée should goe and lye with those faire and bewtifull women Turpe foret inquit virorum victores à mulieribus vinci It were a foule shame and reproch saieth hee that the conquerours of men shoulde no we bee vanquished of women But nowe will I set before you certaine notable examples concerning this vice of adulterie It is written in the third Chapter of the booke of wisedome The children of aduouterers they shall come to an ende and the séeds of an vnrighteous bedde shall be rooted out and though they liue long yet shall they bee nothing regarded and their last age shall be without honour c. And in the fourth Chapiter hée saieth The multitude of vngodly children is vnprofitable and the thinges that are planted with whordome shall take no déepe roote nor laye any fast foundation hereby let yong men learne that adulterie greatly displeaseth the maiestie of God And let them hearken to the wholesome counsell of the Prophet saying I haue made a conenaunt with mine eyes that I woulde not once thinke of a virgine or els let them giue care to this that Iob saieth Auerte faciem tuam à muliere compta ne circumspicias speciem alienam propter speciem mulieris multiperierunt Turne away thy face from a gorgeous and fine decked woman behold not her straunge bewtie for many haue perished through the bewtie of women By these it appeareth that adulterie is a gréeuous sinne and prohibited and gréeuously punished of God as these places of scripture doe testifie Genesis 12. 20 Leuiticus 20. Deutro 22. Ieremie 3. Therefore it is néedefull that young men set before them the commaundements of God touching vnlawfull