in the Common-Law of England to which purpose some advise I. Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliae II. Terms of the Law III. Smith de Republicà Anglorum IV. Doctor and Student V. Sir Francis Bacon's Introduction to the Laws of England at the end of his Maxims VI. Wingat's Abridgement VII Coke upon Littleton His Institutes and some of his Reports occasionally read VIII Bracton IX Fleta with Selden's Notes consult the Learned Directions for the beginning a compleat Course in the Study of Divinity by the help of the Apparatus ad Theologiam Written for that purpose and sold by Walter Kettilby and Sam. Smith in St. Paul ' s-Church-yard and the Booksellers in Oxford 1. SInce the different Perswasions in Religion and Controversies shelter themselves mainly under the Authority of Scripture the first Step and I am certain the surest Footing for a young Divine must be on a sound Knowledge of the Language and Text Sence and Context of Scripture and a sincere search after Truth must exclude all prejudice in the Application 2. The Hebrew Language being narrow and therefore obscure I advise that the close Study of that Tongue be deferred for the first Two or Three Years because it may discourage and stop the beginnings of the Study 3. For perfecting his Knowledge in the Greek it will be requisite to buy the Septuagint and a Greek Testament the larger the better and get them Interleaved to write down the explication of such Words he knows not with their various Significations and Authors who use them 3. He must also have an English Bible Interleaved of a large Size and if bound up in two Volumes no matter wherein he may put down the Interpretations of all difficult places which he either Casually or Industriously finds to he constantly in his Study differing from the Bible he is afterwards to use in the Pulpit 4. He must get the Art of Writing down his Observations and Explications very briefly otherwise his Transcriptions will be infinite and tedious A Method of Marking difficult places See Apparat pag. 120. 5. Several Observations to be made in reading the Scriptures concerning I. The Chronology so far as till the Heathen Computation of time begins to have certainty II. The History of the illustrious Examples of Good and Bad Men of Deliverances and Judgments c. III. The Geography especially as far as concorns the Holy Land and bordering places mentioned IV. Weights Measures and Distances and what Proportion they bear to ours now V. The English Phrase and Rhetorick which will be of great use hereafter in the Pulpit VI. Such Texts as are a kind of Common-place Texts either of good Life and Manners or to Preach on upon occasion VII Next to the Study of Scripture he must acquaint himself with the Doctrine of his own Church out of the Articles Homilies and especially the Collects as also to be well vers'd in Canons and Rubricks VIII The various opinions dissenting from the Doctrine and Practices dissenting from the Canons of his own Church Arch-Hereticks Scismaticks Ancient and Modern c. IX Then to read the Lives of the Apostles Apostolical Men Fathers Heads and Founders of differing Opinions the Eives of the Emperors with a Chronological Series to be learned without-without-Book and frequently repeated this will help the knowledge of Church-History X. Two great paper-Paper-Books for Heads and Common places the first for things Theological See Apparatus pag. 45. The second for some other promiscuous matters See pag. 13. cap. 6. this will be useful all his life-time to set down or referr to what he reads but with brief and contract writing mentioned before XI A short Catalogue of the best Books for his purpose which for the first Two or Three Years are absolutely necessary he must be directed to and then what private Tracts are most Orthodox and Learned on any part in his Divinity Head-Book XII He must seriously consider to which part in the Study of Divinity his Nature inclines him for the main bent of his Indistry according to that Division Apparatus pag. 1. As for Preaching both Method Materials and Delivery it is not convenient to be published it is best taught by Discourse and Example when the Person 's Capacity Knowledge and Temper is known This I think is a safer Course for a young Divine than to begin with Systems and suck in Opinions before he understands them If the Divine be a Person of Condition and Quality I would advise him the Assistance and Tutorage of some experienced Person it would turn to great Account by easing Difficulty shortening the Course and effectually obtaining the Design Something like this Project I approve of very well which a very worthy Gentleman of good Sence and Fortune is now putting in Practise He hath one only Child Heir to a very considerable Condition in the World and who for Personals might make as fair pretensions to the Vanity and Courtship of it as Men of less Discretion do but his Parents are resolved that the World shall not have him for they will give him back again to God and which is something more strange the young Gentleman himself is as willing as they can be to be lent unto the Lord so Hannah called her Son Samuel's Ministry And I perswade my self that a dutiful Compliance with so pious a design at the rate of God's Mercifulness can hardly fail of the desired Blessing The Method the Father intends to go by is this After the Advice of Tutors in a round Course of University-Studies he intends to provide his Son a Tutor for Divinity which by the the way is as necessary as for Logick and Philosophy and so I might say for Physick and Civil Law too His great aim is to find a Man knowing in the Studies and experienced in the Practice of a Divine And the advantage may prove very great For what is written in Books is dead and stiff in comparison of what is delivered Viva Voce When Friendship and Familiarity beside solid and fundamental Instruction shall draw out a Thousand little Advices of great moment though not fit to be Printed neither doth any Man care to publish to all the World what himself knows and hath practised in his Function Two Years of such an Institution rightly managed and intelligently received would give so great a lift into the Pulpit and to Preferment also if that were wanted or aimed at as is not to be valued New Instructions TO THE GUARDIAN The Third Part. THE CONCLUSION In behalf of Holy Orders London Printed in the Year 1694. THE CONCLUSION In behalf of Holy Orders WHY may not a Man be bold to perswade the Nobility and Gentry after such an Education of their Children as hath been prescrib'd to make more of them Clergy-men 1. From the Nature of the Profession Certainly every good Man must needs own that it is a singular Blessing to have that for a Man 's peculiar Business and Calling which is the greatest concern
be-fore before me II. Thou shalt not make un-to unto thy self a-ny any Graven Graven I-mage Image or the like-ness likeness of a-ny any thing that is in Hea-ven Heaven a-bove above or that is in the Earth be-neath beneath or that is in the Wa-ter Water un-der under the Earth thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jea-lous jealous God vi-si-ting visiting the I-ni-qui-ty Iniquity of the Fa-thers Fathers up-on upon the Chil-dren Children un-to unto the Third and Fourth Ge-ne-ra-ti-on Generation of them that hate me and shew-ing shewing Meâ—cy Mercy un-to unto Thouâ—sâ—nds Thorsands of them that love me and keep my Com-mand-ments Commandments III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guilt-less guiltless that ta-keth taeth his Name in vain IV. Re-mem-ber Remember the Sab-bath Sabbath day to keep it Ho-ly Holy Six Days shalt thou la-bour labour and do all thy Work but the Se-venth Seventh Day is the Sab-bath Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do a-ny any Work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daugh-ter Daughter thy Man-Ser-vant Man-servant nor thy Maid-ser-vant Maid-servant nor thy Cat-tel Cattel nor the Stran-ger Stranger that is with-in within thy Gates for in Six Days the Lord made Hea-ven Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and re-sted rested the Seventh Seventh Day where-fore wherefore the Lord bles-sed blessed the Se-venth Seventh Day and Hal-low-ed it V. Ho-nour Honour thy Fa-ther Father and thy Mo-ther Mother that thy Days may be long up-on upon the Land which the Lord thy God gi-veth giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill VII Thou shalt not com-mit commit A-dul-te-ry Adultery VIII Thou shalt not Steal IX Thou shalt not bear false Wit-ness Witness a-gainst against thy Neigh-bour Neighbour X. Thou shalt not co-vet covet thy Neigh-bour's Neighbour's House thou shalt not co-vet covet thy Neigh-bour's Neighbour's Wife nor his Man-ser-vant Man-servant nor his Maid-ser-vant Maid-servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor a-ny any thing that is thy Neigh-bours Neighbours Glo-ry Glory be to the Fa-ther Father and to the Son and to the Ho-ly Holy Ghost As it was in the be-gin-ning beginning is now and e-ver ever shall be World with-out without end A-men Amen The Grace of our Lord Je-sus Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Fel-low-ship Fellowship of the Ho-ly Holy Ghost be with us all e-ver-more evermore A-men Amen The Church Catechism after this This is a method the easiest I could think of for a Child at first to be taught in And here I leave him to be farther perfected in this Language by useful Books to this purpose If any Man complain that I might have spent my time on bigger and louder Subjects let him read the Catalogues of Famous Men collected by Elzevir Crenius Morhofus and others And then he will pardon a Man of my Size The second Stage From Six to Fourteen AFter the Child can read the Bible which may be presumed about six Years of Age let him immediately fall to Latin And because Latin cannot go down so easily as English which is the familiar Language of the whole Family and which the Childs Necessities make him earnest to understand I therefore think it convenient that this dry and tough Diet be larded now and then with some English Exercises which may be diverting and useful also which I thought fit to prefix before the Rules for learning Latin and Greek 1. It will be fit now to fix his Memory by some such like Method as this which follows repeating the things over once every day From the Creation of the World to the great Flood of Noah The First Chapter of Genesis to the Seventh From Noah's Flood to Abraham's going into the promised Land Genesis the seventh Chapter to the twelfth From Abraham's going into the promised Land to Jacob's going into Aegypt to Joseph his Son Genesis the Twelfth Chapter to the Forty sixth From Jacob's going down into Aegypt to the deliverance of the Israelites from Aegypt by Moses Genesis the forty sixth Chapter to the thirteenth Chapter of Exodus From Moses carrying the Israelites out of Aegypt to Joshua's bringing them into the promised Land over the River Jordan The thirteenth Chapter of Exodus to the fourth Chapter of the Book of Joshua From Joshua's carrying the Israclites into the promised Land to Saul the first King of the Israelites anointed by Samuel The fourth Chapter of the Book of Joshua to the first Book of Samuel and the tenth Chapter From Saul's being annointed King of Isnael to the Dividing of the Kingdom by the Ten Tribes running away to Jeroboam the first Book of Samuel and the tenth Chapter to the first Book of Kings and the twelfth Chapter From the Division of the Kingdom under Jeroboam to the Destruction of the Israelites and Samaria by the King of Assyria The first Book of Kings the twelfth Chapter to the second Book of Kings and the eighteenth Chapter From the Destruction of the Israelites to the the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews The second Book of Kings the eightteenth Chapter to the second of Kings the twenty fifth Chapter From the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews to Cyrus delivering the Jews from Captivity The second Book of the Kings the twenty fifth Chapter to the first Chapter of the Book of Ezra From the Deliverance of the Jews from Captivity by Cyrus King of the Persians to the Destruction of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great The first Chapter of the Book of Ezra to the first Chapter of the first Book of Maccabes From the Destruction of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great to Judas Maccabaeus The first Chapter of the first Book of Maccabes to the first Book of Maccabes and the third Chapter From Judas Maccabaeus to Jesus Christ The first of Maccabees the third to the first Chapter of St. Mattew As the Child grows up and Memory ripens you may add the Years from time to time and fill up these distances with more or fewer Particulars according to the Method of the Apparatus ad Theologiam pag. 102. And practice him in the Years after Christ by Centuries only from one Emperor to another 2. Because nothing more contributes to the enlarging of a Childs Capacity than variety of Matter though in things at first not fully understood it may be useful between whiles to pratle with him at such a rate as this Take the Figures from 1 2 3 c. to 12. and place under each Figure such things promiscuously as fall under every Number As for Example I. One World One God One Mediator c. II. Two Testaments Two Tables in the Commandments Two Sacraments in the New Testament III. Three Persons in the Blessed Trinity Three Creeds or Summs of Faith in the Trinity Three Offices of Christ King Priest Prophet IV. Four Parts of the World Four Great
Faculty The Nature also Scanning and Pronouncing Verses may now begin to be taught and some Rules in order to Composing that he may not be altogether ignorant of the Mechanical part of Poetry and may perceive the different make of Latin in Verse from Latin in Prose He also may be assisted how to invent Sense upon some plain and obvious Subject which will be the way to stir up Fancy But because inventing Sense for Verse is much more difficult than in Prose exercise him for a while to learn the Rules concerning the Feet in long and short Verses in making Nonsence Verses without any regard to Concordance and only for Metre's sake Fifth Year I Presume at this time Knowledge will begin to thicken and Composition will ripen apace by showing the Parts and Method of Speeches and also of common Themes He will now be able to read Authors himself and therefore must be guided what to Remark as observable in Authors according to the Method prescribed in the Apparatus de Grammaticâ A Play in Terence now and then will divert by the Matter and give a new kind of Relish by the finery of the Phrase In Florus the Wit and Juvenile Elegancy will affect a Youthful Fancy which Martial and Ovid's Works will heighten The variety of Subjects in Valerius Maximus will please Sixth Year IT is odds but some Persons will wonder why not a Word of Greek all this while and because Wonderers must sometimes be answered in their folly I will tell the reason I am afraid it is one great hinderance to progress in those Schools wherein before a Boy can turn his Pater Noster into true Latin he must play at Blind-Man's-Buff with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and make his Mother quite stun the next Company she meets with the Gossiping News what an horrible Grecian her Son is When all this while the Boy is but going to unlearn his little Latin and acts like a crippled Turn-Spit in a Wheel he takes great pains to get up forwards and all he gets is to come down back again the faster But now at such an Age as this it is to be presum'd that he may be so far gone in Latin as that some leisure Hours may be spared for the Rudiments of Greek For the more Pains is taken and the more Skill he gets in the Latin Tongue will enlarge his Capacity and make the Greek Language more easie to be learned than Latin was when Memory and Fancy were weak Let him spend this Year to be made fully understand the Greek-Grammer getting without Book Declinations of Nouns and Conjugations of Verbs and the use of Pronouns Conjunctions Prepositions and Adverbs But Care must be taken that Pretension to Greek may not make the young Man think that Latin is not the more useful Language Now Quintus Curtius and Lucan will be worth his Study and composing Verses and Speeches may be taught him though Versifying beyond the bare forme how unsit it is for a Gentleman See the Apparatus de Grammaticâ Seventh Year WHen he is well instructed in the Greek Grammar for Nouns Verbs and the Syntax of both the next thing is to furnish him with the Knowledge of the Greek Themes I have seen a Book the Name I cannot remember wherein all the Original Greek Words were comprized in so many Sentences with Latin annexed so that they might be learned in little Time and by being often read over fixed in the Memory for want of such an help let him take Leusden's Compendium Novi Testamenti and practise upon that Book first for single Words and Stobaeus his Fragmenta Epictetus with some of the minor Poets For Latin Cicero Virgil and Livy This Year and the next must be mightily employed with all manner of Exercises not one Hour to be lost unless for Health's sake And lest that Health should be made use of to make the Child Idle to no purpose in seasonable Weather and at leisure Times let him learn to Dance because these Exercises will divert from worse or more tedious loss of Time They will also prevent antick and misbecoming Gestures which Children are apt to get and which prove afterwards difficult to be Cured for at this tender Age thsee Mascular Motions are easily shaped to decency of Address and Carriages which looks Delicately in Children and which by degrees will grow up into so easie an Habit as that the Art and Stiffness of it being with his Age quite lost his Gentility shall seem Natural and so Infinitely more Delighting This is an odd Digression hut perhaps useful Now some skill in the Globes Now the Epochas in the Apparatus de Munere Historico are to be fill'd up and distances determined and a Method of Cronological History after Christ by Centuries contrived Eighth Year THis Year being the last at School is to be very Laborious especially for Greek it is like the distance Post at a Race here they are to whip and spur Homer and Xenophon's Cyrus for Greek Horace Caeshr's Commentaries and Tacitus for Latin Here I must make all the hast I can to tell the Tutor that when I name respective Books for each single Year I do not mean that the Child should read them all over in that Year but go so far in each Book as to tast the relish of the singular Latin in one and the other and hereafter to study the Mastery of each Neither do I take my self to be so wife as to make what I have said a Standard unalterable but sincerely my only Design is to prescribe a Scheam for a young Tutour or School-Master to build upon exchanging Method or Books at his own Discretion The Third Stage From Fourteen to Twenty One. AFter a just Practice of the foregoing Methods it may be reasonably presum'd that the young Gentleman is very well furnished with skill in the Latin Tongue and no Stranger to Grock and then I conceive him fit for the Us niverllty because publique Assairs and his own Family Concerns will hastily require him into the World And here I will lay down the Resolutions which after some Experience I would take were I now chosen Tutor to a Person of great Quality and good Capacity 1. Conscientious Care must be taken of his Moral Behaviour in the University 2. Care must be taken the Child understand that though he be come to Oxford and expects the Taylor should put on him Philosophy with his Gown yet that Philology is still improveable and that Speeches and Theams will still deserve a good share of his Thoughts though Logick and Philosophy must make the greatest Noise in his Head 3. That Seriousness may not be thought a foreign Qualification to an Oxford Scholar the Tutor will do well to explain and advise the frequent reading over the Directions for a more easie quiet and less disturbed Life Guardian 's Instruct p. 7. which if he be made fully and warmly to comprehend he will know the value of his own Thoughts and
would take the young Gentleman along with me round all the Circuits with the Judges The diversion of the Company and the security on the Road will ballance any Inconvenience I can foresee And by this means in few Weeks time you will view all Counties and Cities most eminent in the Nation III. The History and Geographical Description of the Country you travail to should be first studied How it Borders and how it is Divided by tracing the famous Rivers and Branches of them IV. Some Grammatical Instruction in the Language would prepare you more easily to learn to Speak it V. A Catalogue ought to be collected and always with you of such Curiosities Ancient and Modern in Provinces and Cities as are most observable and the old and new Names of Places compared by this you will readily know what to enquire for VI. As for Cloaths take only a Travailing Suit and dress your self a-la-mode when you arrive there Good Skill in the Prices of things is absolutely necessary for his Tutor VII Besides Bills of Return it will be convenient to have some Letters of Credit to Merchants in case your Bill should fail and some advise to take with you a Jewel or any precious thing which may easily be carried and concealed about your Cloathes VIII You must resolve upon a great inoffensiveness of Conversation Patience of disagreeable occurrences and avoidance of Earnestness in Dispute especially about Matters of Religions or Honour of Kingdoms IX You must not be too open as if every one you met were an English-man neither yet so reserv'd as to beget a suspicion of your Jealousie X. When you receive Money keep it private least it be borrowed one of the two ways XI When you remove from one Province to another keep the time of your departure secret laest other Foreigners or your own Country-men who sometimes prove the most impertinent of Acquaintance pin themselves upon you XII You must study your own Constitution and carefully observe how it relishes the great change of Air and Diet and remember to eat Fruit wisely XIII You must not expect that all you see others practise and do your self abroad must be equally practised here when you return For Example If you see a French Nobleman run a poor Peasant through for not taking notice of him a Mile off you must not do that here for fear of a Knock in the Poll with a Club or an Ax. If you see a Venetian Lady standing at a Window and looking as who should say you must not Complement her with a Billet Douce lest you receive a dry'd Peare for your Kindness If you see a Fopp ambling in the Street his Toes awayward as if the had fallen-out simpering as Formally and cringing as stiffly as the two Beaux do on the Sign of the Salutation and you practise that here you will be as much Laugh'd at in England when you come back as you were in France when first you went over to learn it If you see a poor Animal run a Mile for one Farthing to open a Gate for a Passenger and wear out his Wooden Shoes to the Bargain by scraping Thanks you must beware of expecting that here lest the same Fellow shut the Gate against you when you come that way again Because you care not Three-pence for any Man you meet in the Streets of Paris Rome Venice or Amsterdam you must not bring hither such a Selfishness as to despise Relations old Acquaintance Friends and Neighbours for if you do so they will all wish you gone again Above all things if you see others Atheistical and careless do you double your own private Devotions for Fear keep your Soul diligently and secure the Blessing of Him whom Wind and Sea obey XIV Now lastly you must make me one Promise That you will tell no more when you return than you saw And so I wish you a good Journey and if you can send me News of any Nation the King of France hath not made Fools of 't is odds but I and my Friend may follow 2. If his Temper rather inclines him to settle and spend his Talents in the Country how he may pay his Duty to God in being useful there I referr him to the Directions given in the Guardian 's Instruction pag. 13. in the Honourable Offices he may be called to and if he merit a Promotion into the Parliament-House he may sind some thoughts spent upon a young Gentleman's Carriage there Guardian 's Instruction pag. 85. See more on this Head in the Gentleman 's Calling 3. If the delight of the Study or gainfulness of the Practice make him fancy the Profession of Physick then good and more than ordinary skill in the Greek Tongue is necessary for understanding Terms of Art and Authors to be met withal As also considerable understanding both in old and new Natural Philosophy As for a Method of entring on the Study Advices being various he must consult with his Friends knowing in it I have heard a Person learned in the Science and skilful in the Practice recommend Chymistry first as most agreeable to the order of Knowledge For since we can have but little or no Notion of the Saliva ferment of the Stomach Chylisication and all other Ferments and Juices upon which the Oeconomy of all Human and Animal Bodies depends as likewise but an imperfect Knowledge of the Medicinal qualities of Simples without a previous and general insight into the nature of Salts and the various Effects their mixture with Liquors may produce It seems but resonable to give Chymistry the first place in a Study of this Nature Now though Anatomy hath not that Relation to Botany as Chymistry hath to both yet because the use of the latter as far as it makes a part of the Materia Medica depends wholly upon a nice acquaintance with the former it would look like a preposterous Method to consider that first 4. If the noble Study of the Civil-Law makes his Mouth water after good Latin Reason and History these following Books are thought adviseable by the Learned I. Duc de Authoritate Juris Civilis This shews of what Authority it is now in the several Nations of the World II. Ridley's View of the Civil-Law III. Justinian's Institutions to be read with an easie Comment the most easie is Mynsinger in Institut IV. Bronchurstius de Regulis Juris V. The first and last Books of the Digests The first and Three last Books of the Codex These H. Grotius doth particularly recommend to a Person of Quality and may best be read with the Assistance of Calvin's Lexicon and Wesenbeehii Paratitla VI. Vulteii Juris prudentia Romamana which gives a full view of the Roman Law under most exact Divisions Lastly should be read several useful Questions exactly stated viz. in VII Zouch Questiones Juris Civilis VIII Hotomanni Questiones Illustres 5. No Study can make a Gentleman more considerable and useful to his Country than good skill