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A31052	The pollution of vniversite-learning or sciences (falsly so called) whereby most of the youth are so infected, and both they and their parents so deceived, that when they come to age, they prove either unprofitable or hurtfull members to the common-wealth ... / by that faithfull martyr of Iesus Christ, Mr. Henry Barrow ...	Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593.; Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593. Plain refutation of M. Giffard's booke.	1642 (1642)	Wing B922; ESTC R18358	15,109	18

THE POLLUTION OF Vniversitie-Learning OR SCIENCES Falsly so called Whereby most of the youth are so infected and both they and their Parents so deceived that when they come to age they prove either unprofitable or hurtfull Members to the Common-wealth as now in these dangerous dayes all the truly godly have dolefull exeperience As it was well observed almost threescore yeers agoe by that faithfull Martyr of Iesus Christ Mr. Henry Barrow in divers of his Bookes for Separate or independent CHVRCHES The evill of which kinde of learning so attained with many others flowing from thence may be remedied henceforth by the grave determination of the King and Parliament Read 1 Tim. 6.20 21. and Colloss 1.2 8. LONDON Printed in the yeare Anno Dom. 1642. The Preface to the READER IF thou that readest this Treatise be one that hast drunken of those polluted Fountaines of Vniverstie learning which upon the termes thou diddest believe it is so much the more poysonable for the soule then the waters of Mara were bitter for the body as the soule is more excellent then the body yet if thou hast any true desire though never so small to be refreshed with the cleare and fresh waters of life or if thou wilt awaite at the Poole of Bethesda untill the Angell of the Covenant come and cure thee surely there is a possibility of thy recovery and God that separated light from darknesse can easily make a separation betweene the evill thou hast received there in thy tender yeers and the good thou hast attained otherwise even as he did both in Moses when he was pleased to call and fit him for his speciall service being trained up in all the wisedome as well as the profits and pleasures of Egypt and also in Paul who was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and could speake more languages then all the Philosophers of Corinth Or if thou be one that bast been taught in all godly learning which truely both deserveth and getteth the name in Gods Word as the sonnes of the Prophets were of old and wherein Timothy was brought up from a childe though thou be ignorant of all Vniversitie learning especially upon such hard or rather intolerable termes as whereby it is obtained surely thou hast great cause to rest contented use it to the right end and praise the wise God who knoweth best what is for thy good And as for the tongues which God gave at the first for a curse or judgement to binder the building of the Tower of Babel the same God that can bring good out of evill did at the first preaching of the Gospel change that curse or judgement into a blessing or mercie to all Nations through the divulging thereof to each Nation in their owne language if these I say or any godly learning may be had in a holy way doubtlesse a happy and sanctified use may be made thereof to the glory of God and good of his Church but no otherwise nor upon any unlawfull termes such as wicked oaths orders degrees and ceremonies neither Idolatrous places nor yet in nor amongst the company of such ungodly Docters Batchelors graduates Masters of Arts Fellowes Professors nor Students whose lives and conversations are in this Treatise described to be like Rome if not like Sodome And although these dayes be very hard and harsh unto many thousands as I and mine have had long and dolefull experience yet in many respects especially of a hopefull plantation of Christs glorious Gospell in the purity and authorithy thereof for any other reformation can hardly or possibly be good these dayes I say are far better then the former dayes wherein we and our predecessors went on superstition sinne and ignorance and when we would not commit sinne enough and that with greedinesse there were both wicked lawes and taske-masters to urge us as it was both in Egypt and 〈◊〉 in the dayes of Phraoh and Jeroboam but praised be our good and 〈…〉 that hath so mercifully and beyond both our expectation and deserving infinite degrees raised up the Scottish nation both to breake all their bands and cut their cords yea and to make such a happy way for us that both live and sojourne here whereby to escape the crafty snares of the bloody enemies as a bird out of the hands of the fowler Many Prophets and righteous men in Christ would have beene glad to see the dayes that we see and could not see them and to heare the things that we heare but could not heare them But lest I be too tedious I will not insist by way of preamble beeause few words are sufficient for the wise I meane for the godly wise and not those mentioned 1 Cor. 1.18 19. I referre thee to this little portion of a worthy Martyrs observations of never dying memory notwithstanding all the Clergies cruelty who when he was close prisoner in the Fleet many yeeres being not onely urged to write anumber of bookes against ambitious and covetous Clergie men but to answer all their objections in many severall disputations and examinations two of them being sent after two by the Bishops to forge quarrels and to try if they could entangle either him in speech or Master Greenwood who was a close prisoner also and executed with him earely in a morning before either any competent number of people gathered or Queene Elizabeth heard being twice rescued by her before whose severall examinations excellent observations and their adversaries calumniations as also those of that that other worthy martyr Master Penry are yet extant in print though the light thereof bath beene long eclipsed and obscured with many other worthy mens Workes through the injury and iniquity of the times untill now that by Gods speciall providence undederserved and unexpected love to us in Christ that the strong deludge of bookes which hath been so long by such wicked lawes decrees and persecutions stopped as that most severe booke of statutes made in the Star Chamber against printers and the cruelty used against John Lilbourne can testifie doth I say overflow all the banks both of hellish and Romish limitation All whose Workes with learned Master Henry Ainsworths Wilkinsons Robinsons with many others of the separation I wish thee to peruse and so regard them for thine owne good as thou seest them tend to the glory of God being tried by the touchstone of his Word and then I hope thou wilt give him the whole praise and howsoever thou esteems either of the Author or mee his fraile instruments I bid thee fare-well Faults escaped in the aforegoing page In the preceding page line 3. for believe reade receive and line 20. reade onely wise God The unlawfulnesse of Vniversity Learning Or Sciences falsly so called extracted out of Mr. HENRY BARROWS Booke ONE sort of the Ministery of the Church of England is the Collegiat or idle Ministery which may be divided or rather distinguished because sometimes they are mixed and joyned one man being a Master of a

College and a Deane a Fellow of a House and a Preband and each of them have a Parsonage or two for a need into these two kindes Academicall and Cathedrall The third sort the Monasticall being by the hand of God and the Magistrates sword cut off and suppressed These Academicall Divines live have their education and degrees in the Colleges Halls and Cells of the two Vniversities The originall corrupt customes and use of which places it is not my purpose here to discourse neither indeed have I skill aright to discusse whether and how they sprang from the Heathens or from the Papists Only this I dare affirme that from the Booke of God they never derived these their Colleges Schooles Halls Orders Degrees Vowes Customes Ceremonies Attire that I say not their Arts Authours exercise and use of their learnings disputations commencements c. But as they have received them elsewhere so have they ever belonged to another head and Kingdome and can by no means in this state they now stand and have time out of mind continued be made to accord to the Gospell and Kingdome of Christ whereof these Vniversitie Divines have ever been the professed and most bitter enemies furnishing Antichrists Hoast in all the roomes and places even from the Popes chaire to the Parish Priests pulpit or pue with fresh servitors continually corrupting the pure Fountaines and perverting the text it sefe with their glosses paraphrases notes figures c. fighting with their Schoole-learning vaine arts philosophie rethoricke and logicke against the truth and servants of God striving hereby to uphold Antichrists ruinous kingdome and abominable wares which these merchantmen set to saile for gaines as we by present experience see now their portion and idle Monasticall life beginneth but even a little to be reproved by the light and power of the Gospel how these crafts-men these Vniversitie Clerks rage and take on and with their Schoole-learning seeke to turne away the evident truth of God to colour and plead for all the abomination and sinne of the times to heale the wound and uphold the throne of the Beast to rend reproach and blaspheme such as speake and witnesse against it as their vituperous unchristian and erroneous bookes which they daily publish declare Neither is their education and learning if they be duely examined such as is required in the holy Ministery of Christ All of them as is said being nourished even from their Cradles with the milke of superstition instructed in the Schooles of heathen vanity brought up in the Colleges of more then Monkish idlenesse and disorder exercised in vaine and curious arts whose divinity is by tradition c. The truth of these things Mr. Giffard not being able to gainsay seeketh to shuffle off with a bold boasting challenge against men unto himselfe unknowne upon the dispence of bearing the shame If he find not in the Vniversities many Bachelours of Art for exceding in the knowledge of the liberall Arts the three Tongues Hebrew Greek and Latin or in sound judgement of Divinity even the Principall Masters of Brownisme which if it could in so few yeeres be obtained with more then Monkish idlenesse then may the Brownists in some thing be believed First we give him to wit that there are of those he calleth Brownists sundrie of greater continuance and that have as high degree in those Schooles with as high commendation as himselfe although they boast not of such things whereof they ought to be ashamed Then that there are as many of his brethren the Monkes that thinke themselves as skilfull as himselfe or the greatest Clerke in the Vniversity But now in all this what will our ignorance helpe him or their store of learning shew that they have not been and are not thus initiate and brought up In their Grammer Schoole it cannot be denied but they learned and learne the Latin tongue from the most heathenish and prophane authors lascivious Poets c. which are allowed with the priviledge of the Church of England as most Christian rudiments to be taught the youth in the publique Schoole When they have passed all these formes and can both say much of those Authors by heart and use their phrase then are they sent to the Vniversitie to learne the arts and to be instructed in Philosophie c. Hitherto it cannot be denied but Heathenisme and such execrable Idolatry as is found in those Authors is written and engraven upon the tables of their heart and filed upon their tongues even from their infancie Well and when they are come to the Vniversitie there are they first salted as they call it in the Colledge and matriculate in the publique Schooles solemnly sworne upon the Proctors booke to keepe their mothers statutes and secrets and not to reveale her Mysteries or teach her Arts any where but in the Vniversitie Then are they instructed both publiquely and privately in Logique and Retorick in the Elenches and Topicks in the Tropes and Figures of all kindes wherein they must be perfect for these Arts are of speciall use unto them and to serve at all assayes Then proceed to Philosophie and there Aristotle is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amongst them out of whose mouth and writing they fetch their Positions and Axiomes Definitions Aphorismes Distinctions c. out of his Ethicks Oeconomicks and Politicks they fetch the order and government of their manners private estates and common-wealth He yet further instructeth them of the Soule and of the World in large and speciall bookes of the heaven of naturall and supernaturall things of Nature Fortune the eternity of the world and perpetuity of all creatures in their kind in specie of the regions of the ayr and severall things in them contained the Meteors c. there learne they the causes of the Rainbow the making of the winds clouds and of the whole skie farre otherwise then is set downe in Genesis Yet leadeth he them higher and sheweth them the celestiall Spheares Planers Stars Quintessences even from the Moone to their Caelum cristallinum empiraeum and their Primum Mobile with their severall places dimensurations motions and Motors yea yet learne they more secret things with their constellations radiations influence and predomination according to their signes houses oppositions aspects eclipses c. whereby most strange and wonderfull things are prognosticate and foretold concerning the weather seasons of the yeere the state of Kingdomes the diseases and dangers to come c. concerning nativities and times of death commonly called Fortanes concerning things to come or things past stollen lost found c. These things it were frensie if not blasphemy to call vaine and curious Arts. Master Giffard would never beare it at the hands of such blind Schismaticks whose bane such deepe learning is seeing these Sciences are vulgarly taught studied practised allowed and maintained not onely in the Vniversities but of the whole Church of England as by their yeerly Prognostications every where to be sold is to

be seen These studies and Arts we may not call perierga curious because Mr. Giffard saith Luke speaketh onely of conjuration Acts 19. But let him approve these lawfull by the Scriptures and surely I will gladly confesse mine ignorance and sin in calling these studies and Arts prophane curious unfit for a Christian much more for a Minister of the Church Otherwise let not any through mine unskilfulnesse who peradventure repeate not aright or in due place the termes of these Arts as having either forgotten them through long discontinuance or it may be never learned them a right take occasion either to carpe at me therefore or especially to thinke the better of these vaine and curious yea unlawfull and unchristian Arts and studies which have not onely no warrant in Gods Word but are directly contrary unto and expresly forbidden in the same as were not hard to shew and prove if the subject were not too large and should not make too wide a Parenthesis in this Treatise and draw it out to a greater length then I would I will not therefore stand here to discusse their philosophicall problemes paradoxes axiomes or severall sentences and opinions which are authenticall and currant amongst them how evill they agree to the Word of God or to shew how farre these curiors Inquisitors these Star-gazers Astrologians Calcars Wizards Devines exceed the bounds of faith and sobrietiy and passe the limits of Gods revealed Will or whether they may wander by these heathenish or divellish opinions of the Heavens Stars and their revolutions influence c. Motors Demones or Spirits and how neere this approacheth to conjuration Or to show how farre they are suffered to proceed yea professe and practise in these divellish Arts Let the bookes that I charge no persons which are commonly bought and studied in the Vniversities and in all other parts of the Realme without their controlement shew Neither will I here proceed to repeat their other vaine curious fond trifling and vile Arts and Studies which were endlesse Only in this place I must here adde unto those publike professed Arts above recited the study of all Heathen and prophane Histories of all ages nations persons wherein they must of necessity be prompt and expert as from those fountaines to draw their examples and platformes of manners and the government of States as from whence to fetch the chiefe ornaments of their stile Orations Sermons Bookes to exemplyfie illustrate prove or improve yea as whereby to open and expound the Scriptures both of the old and new Testament chiefly the old Prophets without which they cannot be understood but especially Esay and Daniel As to Rethoricke and Logique they are so necessary as without which it is impossible to understand or divide any part of the Scriptures aright as without which they cannot understand or declare to the people by what trope or figure by what form of argument or Syllogisme the holy Ghost speaketh In these Arts and Studies are the Academicall Divines or rather Peripateticke Philosophers trained and exercised In these they must needs spend seven of their first yeeres at the least else should they be unfit to take those degrees of Batchelor and Master of Art or to make that publike profession they doe of the Arts at their Commencements In these Arts and Studies when they are once a little exercised and instructed that they begin to perceive the grounds and method thereof then are they trained both publikely and privately to defend or oppose against some of these Axiomes or Positions both by way of Oration and Argument in their Sophismes and Disputations and therein all being approved or at the least allowed they then take the first degrees of Schocles and commence Bachellors of Art and have as ensignes of their degree and knowledge speciall attire and furniture assigned them to be knowne from other common schollers as the square Cap troncke Gowne the Hood of one shoulder the habite c. which they must weare Afteward having spent more then three yeeres in study on these Arts and having done their publike acts Pro gradu then they commence Masters of the said Arts and are againe solemnly sworne and made Regents and Lecturers of their Schooles and sit reade and dispute of the same Arts publikely in a solemne high Seat Pulpit or Chaire for Orations as also reade private Lectures thereof in their Colleges Now I would here by the way know of Master Giffard what time and leisure a Bachelor of Art that continueth in the Vniversitie and proceedeth in those orders and degrees can have to study Divinity or to grow so prompt in the knowledge judgement and exercise thereof as he dare ingage his credit he shall be found farre to passe therein such as in therein 〈…〉 been allowed publikely to preach and of the Bishops been made full Ministers But to our purpose when these Clerkes are thus instituted and furnished with these liberall sciences and this ground-worke throughly laid then may they in good time proceed to the study of Divinity as they call it which is set out unto them in great volumes and infinite bookes of mens writings both old and new where they have such variety of Paraphrases Commentaries Common places Catechises c. Not to trouble them at the first with the Primitive Histories Doctors Councells as they may in short space if they study hard become pretty Divines and be able to shew their Authors judgement yea through the help of Rotoricke and a good memory to make a Sermon an houre long Alwayes carefully provided that they utter no more then that they have read in some allowed Author having the privilege of the Church of England and presume not either to understand the Text otherwise then their Authors interpret it or to adde one note of their owne observation for that how consonant soever to the truth were great presumption rashnesse Neither may they over-far apply or inforce the judgement of their Authors against any present enormity established by authority in the Church of England for that were intollerable against the peace of the Church yea seditious against the Magistrates authority c. Thus whilest these Divines are held within these limits of modesty and sobriety and continue with their Mother the Vniversity they may in due time set up their bills of challenge upon the Schoole doores that they meane to dispute upon such and such questions of Divinity and doe their acts pro gradu Which being dispatched either in tenebris or in luce then are they fit for the Commencement to be made Batchelors of Divinity In like manner against that day must such of them as have before passed all these degrees and now are fit to proceed Doctors of Divinity doe their acts in the publique Schoole accordingly in these Divinity Disputation Sermons ad derum c. And against this solemne Commencement must especiall choice be made of those that are to commence Batchelors and Doctors of Divinity to keepe the publique