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A14293	The golden-groue moralized in three bookes: a worke very necessary for all such, as would know how to gouerne themselues, their houses, or their countrey. Made by W. Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law,	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1600 (1600)	STC 24610; ESTC S111527	151,476	422

heare do some of our brazen-faced Caualeers cease to blaspheme God by denying most impudētly his euerlasting essence O foolish men when they see a faire house they immediatly presuppose some one or other to haue built it So in like maner whē they behold one another will not they sometimes euē by natural discourse aske who made them The heathen Oratour saith that there is no natiō so sauage no people so sēceles which wil not cōfesse that there is some God euen they that are Libertines Epicures and in other points of their liues differing little from bruite beasts do reserue some seed of religion Also the very Deuils beleeue that there is a God and do tremble as saith the Apostle Yea the very obstinacy of the wicked is a substanciall witnesse that the Deitie is knowen which with their furious striuing yet cā neuer wind themselues out of the ●eare of God But what need I dally thus with doltish Atheists let them read the holy scripture they shall find fiue generall meanes whereby God is made manifest vnto man The first are the framed things wherin God did first reueale himself for the heauens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his hādy worke The secōd is the sparke of nature wherby all men as it were by naturall instinct obtaine the infallible admonition of the truth The third way whereby God is made knowen is the verball will which successiuely from time to time in some countrey or other hath bene holden vp by worldly blessings apparitions ceremonies prophesies and last of all by the presence of the Messias himselfe The fourth is the holy Ghost who openeth our misty eyes wherby we embrace the true and Apostolicall doctrine The fift meanes whereby God is knowen are his miracles at the sight of which the very Atheists themselues being affrighted must exclaime with Iulian the Apostata O God O Galilaan thou hast ouercome our vnbeleefe Of Atheists Chap. 3. OF Atheists there are two sorts the inward and the outward The inward Atheist is he that slyly carieth the countenaunce of a sheepe and yet is no sheepe but a sheep-biter He swaloweth vp aduowsons hospitals and other mens goods vnder pretence of simplicity He raiseth rents incloseth commons and enhaunceth the price of corne With his wooll or wealth hee vseth to snarle deceyue honest-minded men whom at length hee notwithstanding hauing Scripture in his mouth snatcheth at most greedily clappeth in irons This kind of Atheist I will decipher hereafter The outward Atheist on the other side openly professeth nature to be his God And euen as the spider infecteth with poyson the fragrantst liquours hee suckes so the outward Atheist most wickedly extracteth common places out of the secretes of nature and turning them to his owne vse hee blasphemeth God whom he neuer knew Is there any rayne without a clowd any apples without trees any portraiture without a painter any kingdome without rulers can the heauens moue without a mouer say thou viper for a better name thou deseruest not wilt thou not beleeue that which thou beholdest with thine eies wherfore I pray thee was the world framed was it not for man what idiot when hee passeth through a village though halfe ruinous will not presently suppose that it was contriued by some or other Much rather O sensuall beast shouldst thou imagine that a quickning maker euē God hath created not onely thee but all the world besides If no reason will persuade thee yet me thinkes the extraordinary punishments of God which alwaies such Atheists as thou art haue felt should be of force to recall thee from thy most damnable opinion It is written of Diagoras one of the first authours of this sect that being fledde from Athens and his bookes burnt by vniuersall consent he was slaine by certaine men whom the Athenians had hired for that intent Pliny the elder one likewise of the same stampe while hee was ouercurious in searching y e causes of nature was choakt neere to the mountaine Vesuuius with smoake and with the smell of brimstone issuing out of the same Pope Leo the tēth who often said that Moses Christ and Mahomet were three of the greatest dissemblers was by the iust iudgement of God sodainly strooken dead with an extreame laughter Likewise an Italian Captaine of late daies in the low countries leading his company to skirmish with the enemy thus encouraged them Sirs quoth he remember the former glory of our nation and fight valiantly as for your sinnes if you die you shall vnderstād there is no God Which when he had said he fought was the first man that was slaine Not inferiour to these was one Christopher Marlow by profession a play-maker who as it is reported about 7. yeeres a-goe wrote a booke against the Trinitie but see the effects of Gods iustice it so hapned that at Detford a litle village about three miles distant from London as he meant to stab with his ponyard one named Ingram that had inuited him thither to a feast and was then playing at tables he quickly perceyuing it so auoyded the thrust that withall drawing out his dagger for his defence hee stabd this Marlow into the eye in such sort that his braines comming out at the daggers point hee shortlie after dyed Thus did God the true executioner of diuine iustice worke the ende of impious Atheists Furthermore some of our worldlings may worthily bee ranged in the forefront of this hellish route They I say that belch out this accursed theoreme of Machiauel namely that the heathenish religion made men couragious wheras our religiō makes men fearfull O foolish sots● is the feare and loue of God become the cause of your foolish feare Nay rather it is your consciences that bring feare into your hearts The more wicked ye be the more you feare Me thinks that albeit ye had no demōstration of God yet this ought to satisfie you which proceedeth of a natural fear For whosoeuer feareth sheweth necessarily that there is some supreme power which is able to terrifie hurt him As contrariwise he that is assured that nothing can appall or diminish his valour is altogether free from feare The second part Of Man Chap. 4. ABdala one of the wise men of Arabia being on a time demaunded what was the most wonderfull thing in the world answered Man Hermes Trismegistius termed mā the great miracle Others called him the little world Likewise the wisest Philosophers agreed that mans body is composed of the foure elements and of all their qualities For the flesh agreeth fitly with the earth his vitall spirites with the aire the fire and his humours with the water The sense of touching consenteth with the earth The sense of seeing with the fire that of smelling with the aire and fire that of tasting with the water that of hearing with the aire Yea there is no part in the whole body of mā wherein

the Kings side saw in a gallerie Allen Chartier a learned Poet leaning on a tables end fast asleepe which this Princesse espying shee stouped downe to kisse him vttering these words in all their hearings Wee may not of Princely courtesie passe by and not honour with our kisse the mouth from whence so many golden poems haue issued Frauncis the first French King in the yeere of our Lord 1532. made those famous Poets Dampetrus and Macrinus of his priuie Counsell King Henrie the eight her maiesties Father for a few Psalmes of Dauid turned into English meeter by Sternhold made him Groome of his priuie chamber and rewarded him with many great gifts besides Moreouer hee made Sir Thomas Moore Lord Chauncelour of this Realme whose Poeticall works are as yet in great regard Queene Marie for an Epithalamy composed by Verzoza a Spanish Poet at her marriage with King Philip in Winchester gaue him during his life two hundred crowns pension Her Maiestie that now is made Doctour Haddon being a Poet master of the Requests In former times Princes themselues were not ashamed to studie Poetrie As for example Iulius Cesar was a very good Poet. Augustus likewise was a Poet as by his edict touching Virgils bookes appeareth Euax King of Arbia wrote a booke of pretious stones in verse Cornelius Gallus treasurer of Egypt was a singular good Poet. Neither is our owne age altogether to bee disprayed For the old Earle of Surrey composed bookes in verse Sir Philip Sydney excelled all our English Poets in rarenesse of stile and matter King Iames the sixt of Scotland that now raigneth is a notable Poet and daily setteth out most learned Poems to the admiration of all his subiects Gladly I could goe forward in this subiect which in my stripling yeeres pleased mee beyond all others were it not I delight to bee briefe and that Sir Philip Sydney hath so sufficiētly defended it in his Apologie of Poetrie that if I should proceede further in the commendation thereof whatsoeuer I write would bee eclipsed with the glorie of his golden eloquence Wherefore I stay my selfe in this place earnestly beseeching all Gentlemen of what qualitie soeuer they bee to aduaunce Poetrie or at least to admire it and not to bee so hastie shamefully to abuse that which they may honestly and lawfully obtaine Obiection The reading of Catullus Propertius Ouids loues and the lasciuious rimes of our English Poets doe discredite the Common-wealth and are the chiefe occasions of corruptions the spurres of lecherie therefore Poetrie is blame-worthie Answere In many things not the vse but the abuse of him that vseth them must bee blamed The fault is not in the Art of Poetrie but rather in the men that abuse it Poets themselues may bee traitours and felons and yet Poetrie honest and vnattainted Take away the abuse which is meerely accidental and let the substance of Poetrie stand still Euerie thing that bringeth pleasure may bring displeasure Nothing yeeldes profit but the same may yeeld disprofit What is more profitable then fire yet notwithstanding wee may abuse fire and burne houses and men in their beds Phisicke is most commodious for mankind yet wee may abuse it by administring of poysoned potions To end this solution I conclude that many of our English rimers and ballet-makers deserue for their baudy sonnets and amorous allurements to bee banished or seuerely punished and that Poetrie it selfe ought to bee honoured and made much of as a precious lewell and a diuine gift Of Philosophie Chap. 43. ● PHilosophie is the knowledge of all good things both diuine and humane It challengeth vnto it three things first contemplation to know those things which are subiect vnto it as Natural Philosophy teacheth vs the knowledge of the world Geo o●●trae of the triangle the Metaphysick of God and morall Philosophie of vertue and felicitie Secondly Philosophie chalengeth the execution and practise of precepts Thirdly the promotion of a good man * Which three concurring together in one man do make him a wise Philosopher The Iewes diuided Philosophie into foure parts namely into Historical Ciuill Naturall of the contemplation of sacrifices and into Diuine of the speculation of Gods word Of which I will at this time content my selfe with the natural and the ciuill Naturall Philosophie is a science that is seene in bodyes magnitudes and in their beginnings or ground workes affections and motions Or as others say Naturall Philosophie is a contemplatiue science which declareth the perfect knowledge of naturall bodyes as farre foorth as they haue the beginning of motion within them There bee seuen parts of it The first is of the first causes of nature and of naturall bodyes The second of the world The third of the mutuall transmutation of the elements and in generall of generation and corruption The fourth is of the meteours The fift of the soule and of liuing creatures The sixt of plants The seuenth of things perfectly mixed and of things without life as of Minerals and such like Ciuill Philosophie is a science compounding mans actions out of the inward motion of Nature and sprung vp from the fulnesse of a wise minde insomuch that wee may in all degrees of life attaine to that which is honest This ciuill Philosophie is diuided into foure parts Ethicke Politicke Oeconomicke and Monastick Ethick is the discipline of good maners Of Oeconomick and Politick I haue discoursed before Monastick is the institution of a priuate and a solitarie life But of the worthinesse of this ciuill Philosophie and by how much it goeth before the naturall I haue expressed in another booke Of the Art Magick Chap. 44. THe auncient Magicians prophesied either by the starres and then their Art was termed Astrologie or by the flying and entrailes of birdes and this they called Augurie by the fire and that they named Pyromancie or by the lines and wrinckles of the hand which was termed Chiromancie or Palmistrie by the earth called Geomancie by the water and that they termed Hydromancie or by the diuell and this we call coniuring or bewitching All which superstitious kindes of illusions I feare mee haue beene too often vsed heere in England witnesse of late yeeres the witches of Warboise witnesse figure-casters calculatours of natiuities witnesse also many of our counterfeit Bedlems who take vpon thē to tell fortunes and such like Now-a-dayes among the common people he is not adiudged any scholer at all vnlesse hee can tell mens Horoscopes cast out diuels or hath some skill in southsaying Little do they know that this Art if it b●e lawfull to call it an Art is the most deceitfull of all Arts as hauing neither sure foundations to rest vpon nor doing the students thereof any good but rather alluring them to throw themselues away vnto the diuel both body soule Wo be vnto thē that delight therein for it were better for them that they had neuer beene

the Scots In the yeere 1544. chaūced foure Eclipses one of the sunne and three of the Moone Wherupō the L. high Admiral of England arriued with a fleet of two hūdred saile in Scotland where he spoiled Lieth and burned Edinburgh King Henry the eight went himselfe in person to Fraunce wiith a great army cōquered Boloigne The Marques of Brandeburge died in his banishmēt And before three yeeres after the fight of the said Eclipses were fully expired king Henry the eight deceased Likewise the French kings sonne the Duke of Bauarie the Queene of Polonia the Queene of Spaine the Archbishop of Mogunce Martine Luther ended their liues In the yeere 1557. a blazing starre was seene at al times of the night to wit the sixt the seuenth eight ninth and tenth of March when presently after open war was proclaimed between England and Fraunce and a great army was sent by Q. Mary ouer to S. Quintaines The Protestants were persecuted and cruelly dealt withall in this Realme And Queene Mary before a tweluemoneth came about departed out of this life In the yeere 1572. was seene towards the North a straunge starre in bignesse surpassing Iupiter and seated aboue the moone At which time succeeded the bloudy massacre and persecution of the Protestants in Fraunce Many great personages ended their liues as King Charles the ninth of Fraunce Mathew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury and sundry other Pirats robbed and spoyled many of our marchants on the West seas The sect of the family of loue begā to be discouered at London Sebastian the king of Portingal and Mule the king of Moroco were both slaine within lesse then sixe yeeres after In the yeere 1581. appeared a Comet bearding Eastward Whereupon a little while after certaine cōpanies of Italians Spaniards sent by the Pope to strengthen the Earle of Desmond in his rebelliō landed on the west coast of Ireland and there erected their Antichrists banner against her Maiesty Campian and other Seminary priests returned to this Realme and were attached In the yeere 1583. appeared another Comet the bush wherof streamed southeast But the effects thereof followed in the death of Edmund Grindal Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Earle of Sussex and in the apprehending of Arden Someruile and other traitours in Warwickshire Also within a while ensued a great dearth here in England In the yere 1596. appeared a Comet northward At which time Hēry Carew L. Hunsdon L. Chamberlaine of her Maiesties houshold and Sir Frauncis Knowles ended their liues Robert Earle of Essex and Charles L. high Admiral of England Generalles of the English fleet burned the Spanish nauy sacked the towne of Cales Moreouer there continued here in England a great dearth of corne with straunge inundations of waters Graue Maurice got a famous victory ouer the Spaniards in the low countreyes Alphonsus Duke of Ferraria departed out of this life The Pope and the Bastard of Ferraia had diuers bickerings about the Dukedome Finally before the yeere went about died Gunilla the Queene mother of Swethland and Gustaue Duke of Saxony her Nephew Likewise Iohn Marquesse of Brādeburge one of the Electours Anne Queene of Polonia daughter to Charles Archduke of Austria being great with child ended their liues In the beginning of the yeere 1598. was seene a most fearfull Eclipse of the sunne in the seuenteenth degree of Piscis neere to the Dragons head the like whereof was seldome heard off at any time before for the sunne was darkened full eleuen poynts which very neere is the whole compasse of his body The effects of it are these following Sigismund Prince of Transyluania not finding his power sufficient to encounter the Turks voluntarily resigned his dominion to the Emperour Rodolph the second The King of Swethland returning into his Realme from Polonia had diuers conflicts and skirmishes with his subiects William Lord high Treasurer of England deceased And so did king Philip the second of Spaine albeit after a more strange maner For it is credibly enformed that this tyrant was eaten vp of lice and vermine A punishmēt no doubt befitting his vsurping life Rome was againe ouerflowne by the riuer Tiber whereby fifteene hundred houses perished and in a maner all the Popes treasure was lost Cardinall Albert sent Mendoza Admirall of Aragon with his rascalitie into the Low Countries where vpon his owne confederates of Cleueland he hath exercised many bloudy tragedies Theodore Duke of Muscouie ended his life There was a great deluge of waters in Hungarie The Turks had wonderfull bad lucke vpon the seas The vnited States of the low Countries sent a huge fleete into Spaine where they had verie good successe to the vtter vndoing of many a Spaniard What shall I write of the terrible rumours of warres which were noysed throughout all England this last summer Assuredly these enents were foreshewed vnto vs by the horrible Eclipse which appeared now aboue two two yeeres agoe Since which time I waited continually for some notable effect or other neither could my mind otherwise presage but that such things would come to passe which now GOD be thanked are ouerpast This after a sort I communicated at that time to master Ia. Pr. an auncient wise gentleman and a deare kinsman of mine at whose house I as then being lately come into my countrey after my fathers decease soiourned God grant vs better and happier successe in this new yeere Of the causes of sedition and ciuill broyles Chap. 54. THere be sixe causes of sedition The first and chiefest is the contempt of religion For if men loued God which they cannot doe except they loue their neighbour doubtlesse no such effects would follow from their actions The loue of religion breaketh swords into mattocks and speares into sithes and causeth that nation shall not lift vp sword against nation neither learne to fight any more The second cause of sedition is the factions of the subiects which euer haue beene and euer will bee the subuersion of estates The third cause is riotous prosperitie for ouer-great aboundance of wealth is the prouocation of mischiefes and maketh men to become diuels The fourth is when the Prince ouerchargeth his subiects with tributes and when hee substituteth niggardly and deceitfull Treasurers and Lieutenants to receiue the leuied money that will not sticke to detaine a part thereof for their owne priuate gaine The first cause of Sedition is iniquitie as when that which is due by proportion is not giuen to them that bee equall and when the Prince bestoweth honour which is the hire and guerdon of vertue vpon raw and meane men This was one of the originall causes of the late troubles in France when the Queene mother for the establishment of her regencie dubbed simple Gentlemen knights of the honourable order of Saint Michael first instituted by King Lewis the eleuenth and til that time held in great estimation The sixt cause of sedition is