which flieweth, how every particular man 

 muft governe his life, to be partaker of a hap- 

 py eternity. And confequently, if a States- 

 man hath not this fcience, hemuftbefubject 

 to a braver man then himfelfe, whofe pro- 

 vince is to direct all his actions unto this end. 

 We are told , how reverently great C<efar lift- 

 ned to the difcourfes of learned sfcboreus, how 

 obfervant Alexander was of his Mafter ^rifto* 

 tie, how fecure Nero trode, whiles Seneca gui- 

 ded his fteps, how humble Conftantine was to 

 Saint Sjlvefters precepts, how Charlemaine go- 

 verned himfelfe in his moft important acti- 

 ons>by Alcuims advice :In a word,all the great 

 men of Antiquity ,as wel among the Romans, 

 as among theGretians ? had their Philolbphers, 

 and Divines in thdr kind,belonging to themj 

 from whom they might derive rules of living 

 and doing as they ought upon all occafions,if 

 themfelves were not Mafters in that fuperiour 

 inxl all-directing fcience. He that feeth not by 

 his ownc lightjrnuft in this dangerous Ocean 

 fteere by the lanterne which another hangeth 

 out to him. If the perfon he relyeth upon,d- 

 ther withholdeth the light from him , or 

 fiicweth him a falfe one, he is prefently in the 



dark, 



