126                                 OF COUNSEL.

Memento quod cs homo, and Memento quod es Deus,
or, Vice Dei—the one bridleth their power and the
other their will.
 

XX.
 

OF COUNSEL.

The greatest trust between man and man is the
trust of giving counsel, for in other confidences men
commit the parts of life—their lands, their goods,
their child, their credit, some particular affair; but
to such as they make their counsellors they commit
the whole. By how much the more they are obliged
to all faith and integrity. The wisest princes need
not think it any diminution to their greatness or
derogation to their sufficiency to rely upon counsel.
God himself is not without, but hath made it one of
the great names of His blessed Son. The counsellor
Solomon hath pronounced that in counsel is sta¬
bility. Things will have their first or second agita¬
tion ;  if they be not tossed upon the arguments of