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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57163	A sermon touching the use of humane learning preached in Mercers-Chappel at the funeral of that learned gentleman, Mr. John Langley, late school-master of Pauls School in London, on the 21 day of September, 1657 / by Ed. Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1287; ESTC R9227	19,525	40

ignorance for scientia neminem habet inimicum nisi ignorantem Or from Malice and a desire to have Religion betraied and therefore it is reckoned amongst the persecutions of the Church that Iulian prohibited the children of Christians to be trained up in the Schools of Learning Or from Avarice and out of a sacrilegious desire to devoure those Revenues wherewith the bounty of Benefactors hath from time to time endowed the Schools of Learning I shall not spend time to confute so ignorant an absurdity Ar●tius a learned Protestant hath fully done it to my hand But I cannot but take notice of it as doubtless a calumny cast upon Carolostadius and Melanchton as if they taught the Youth at Wittenberg to cast off all Philosophy and Humane Learning having been themselves so taught by Luther and that they turned to Mechanick imployments one to Husbandry the other to the Art of Baking and that thereupon many young men did burn their Books of Liberal Arts and betook themselves to Manufactures But how honorably both Luther and Melanchton thought of Humane Learning in it self though they might inveigh against the abuse of it in Popish Academies is by learned men so abundantly cleared out of their own practice and Writings that I shall not need add any more in their vindication Thirdly We must get our Learning seasoned with Holiness else it will not serve us to repress any temptation Great Learning will consist with monstrous Wickedness Who more learned then the Scribes and Pharisees and who more graceless and more bitter enemies to the doctrine of Salvation Who more learned then the Athenian Philosophers and who greater deriders of the Apostles Preaching Never had Christian Religion more bitter Enemies then Celsus Porphyrie Iulian Libanius and the like great Professors of Humane Learning None do the Devil more service in his opposition to the Church of God then men of great parts that are enemies to Godliness A proud Heart and a learned Brain are Satans Warehouses and Armories the Forge where he shapeth all his Cyclopical Weapons against divine Truth The Egyptians here are noted for wise men and yet they were of all others the most sottish Idolaters insomuch that other Idolaters derided them for theirs as we finde in Iuvenal Oppida t●ta canem venerantur nemo Dianam O sanctas gentes quibus hac nascuntur in hortis Numina Though therefore we must covet the best gifts yet we must still remember there is a more excellent way and consider if the knowledge of the wisdom of Egppt be so honorable how glorious is the excellency of the knowledge of Christ in comparison whereof all other knowledge is loss and dung Si tanti-vitrum quanti veram margaritam If a glass jewel be so valuable how excellent is an inestimable Pearl Themistocles though he was ignorant of Musick yet knew how to govern a State and a Beleever though he be ignorant of all other learning yet by the Knowledge of Christ will be a blessed man whereas all the learning in the World without this will leave a man miserable To know the whole Creation and to be ignorant of the Creator to know all Histories and Antiquities and to be unacquainted with our own hearts to be good Logicians to other purposes and in the mean time to be cheated by Satan with Paralogisms in the business of our own Salvation To be powerful Orators with Men and never to prevail with God To know the constellations motions and influences of heavenly Bodies and have still unheavenly Souls To know exactly the Laws of men and be ignorant and rebellious against the Laws of God To abound with worldly Wisdom and be destitute of the fear of God which makes wise to salvation is all but a better kinde of refined misery the Devils have much more then all this comes to and yet are damned We must therefore study to improve our Learning unto the use and furtherance of holiness to better our minds to order our affections to civilize our manners to reform our lives to adorn and render our profession the more amiable to consecrate all our other endowments as spoils unto Christ to lay our Crowns at his feet and make all our other abilities and acquirements Handmaids unto his glory When Learning is thus a servant unto godliness godliness will be an honor unto Learning Fourthly Since Learning is so excellent an Endowment The Teachers of it ought to be had in great Honor And I scarce know a greater defect in this Nation then the want of such encouragement and maintenance as might render the Calling of a School-master so honorable as men of great Learning might be invited unto that Service Errors in the first concoction are not mended in the second what is lost in the School is hardly ever fully recovered in the University And by how much the fewer men of great worth and parts are imployed in that service by so much the more should the loss of rare and worthy men in that way be bewailed by us And certainly were they while we enjoy them so honored as they should be they would be as much lamented when we are deprived of them We read of the honorable Interment which Augustus gave unto his Master Of an honorable Statue with M. Antoninus Philosophus erected unto his Gratianus the Emperor made Ansonius his Master Consul and Achilles made his a fellow-sharer with him in his own honour And we read in the Imperial Law that Learned Grammarians after they had taught diligently for Twenty years had special honour conferred upon them and were numbered amongst those who were Vica●iae dignitatis What necessity there is to have the mindes and manners of Children formed and seasoned while they are pliant and ductile before licence break out into pride and luxury before lust grows head-strong and intractable while they are a Rasa tabula tender trees and capable of shaping we need not to be told Omnium hominum gravida est anima said Philo and want Masters as Midwives to shape and fashion the Off-spring of them And even Heathen men have complained of the carelesness and neglect of Parents in this particular Diogenès was wont to say that a man were better be some mens Sheep then their Son the care of their Cattel being greater then of their Children If then you set a value upon your Children you ought accordingly to prize religious and learned Instructors of them and to take care to put them under such For if Grammer Schools had everywhere holy and learned men set over them not onely the Brains but the Souls of Children might be there enriched and the work both of Learning and of Conversion and grace be timely wrought in them Great was the happiness of this City in this particular while it enjoyed this Worthy man and great the loss in being deprived of him For though through Gods goodness there be many