§. Sect. 1 What things are required vnto wise go∣uernement.
ANd these are the duties of gouernours in families, which re∣spect instruction. The second mayne duty, is wise and reli∣gious gouernment, whereby they are to mooue and draw their inferiours to put in practice, and to make an holy vse of all which they teach them, in their liues and conuersa∣tions; vnto which, some things are required in the persons of their gouer∣nours, and some things in the administration of their gouernment. In their persons diuers things are required. As first, wisedome and Christian prudence in all their courses, that they may not onely guide themselues in their owne wayes, but be able also to giue direction vnto all that belong vnto them. For that which the Apostle Peter requireth specially of hus∣bands, doth generally belong vnto all gouernours, that they dwell with their inferiours, according to knowledge, as being a principal meanes to gaine from them due honour and authority. Secondly, that they bee not light and vaine in their carriage and gouernement, but behaue themselues in all things grauely, and with a kinde of Christian Maiesty and authority; ac∣cording to the example of Iob, who obserued such grauity in his carriage, that when the young men saw him, they hid themselues, and the aged arose and stood vp; the Princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. The which, as it gaineth authority to gouernours, so the contrary leuitie and lightnesse of behauiour, doth expose their persons to scorne, and their gouernement to neglect and contempt. Thirdly, there is required, that piety, iustice, and sobriety, doe shine in the whole course of their conuer∣sation, that so they may become examples vnto their inferiours, of an holy,