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So compare morall Phylosophy with Divinity 't is much inferiour compare it with the other lower arts 't is a Divinity 5. Naturall Philosophy Hence a Divine hâ—s many things concerning the Soul of the nature of stones plants living Creatures c. And the Scripture in many places sends us to the laâ— of nature Prov. 6.6 Goe to the Ante thou Sluggard consider her ways and be wise where the Holy Ghost would spur us up to be industrious by the example of an abject worme Jer. 8.7 The Storke in the heavens knowes her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their comming but my people know not the judgment of the Lord where God upbraids the people of their supinesse and the not foreseeing their imminent dangers from Creatures that are without all understanding So our Saviour Christ Mat. 6. bids his disciples Consider the Fowles of the are and the Lilies of the field and so cast themselves upon Gods providence Againe 't is said 1. Cor. 11 14. Doth not even nature it self teach you that if a man have long haire c. The grace of God supposes nature and the Scripture teaches it not but takes it for granted that we know whatsoever of nature may be known by the light therof 6. Metaphysicks This is the noblest of all sciences that contemplates upon the nature of God his attributes and his workes and on those spirituall substances the Angels It tells us how the divine nature is united to the humane in Christ and how to confute the Papists in their vanity of Transubstantiation their Quantitas sine extensione their Corpus sine loco their materia sine formâ their Accidents without a Subject Lastly it helps much for the explaining those great mysteries of predestination regeneration and Justification by faith in Christ 7. Mathematicks As there is both profit and delight in them so they are exceeding necessary to attaine other Arts more clearly and demonstratively but especially tend to the study of divinity For they are as the Platonists style them Disciplinae Purgatoriae whilst they take the mind off from grosser materiall things and many irrationall desires and so render it most fit for the contemplation of things that are more divine Of what use they are of for the understanding and interpreting holy Scripture St. Austin l. 2. c. 16. de Doct. Chr. Iargly declares Shewing that through the ignorance of Musick many things are not well understood as being metaphorically and mystically put in the Scriptures He instances in many examples and reiterates this his opinion very fully in the same book c. 37. So Jerome is of opinion that the knowledge of numbers is of great virtue for understanding the mysteries of the Scripture In which place also where he speakes that hee asserts that Geometry is of great use to Divines And again St. Austin in the place forementioned says Musick is very necessary for one that preacheth Christ adding withall that Divines should be very well instructed in Geography Greg. Nazianzene knowing that right well does highly commend his Master for his being so very well skil'd in Astronomy Geometry Arithmetick and other Mathematicall Sciednes How can a Divine without Geometry auswere an Atheisticall Julian or a scoffing Lucian that laugh at the arke for a Mosaicall figment to be reported to containe Noah with his whole family and all sorts of living Creatures besides Yet Euteon an excellent Mathematician has demonstrated to be there not only space enough for them all but also to containe a twelvemonths victuals for them Again How can a Divine without Astronomy tell the Eclyps the Chronology of the Scripture and what it speakes concerning the constellations of heaven the Sunns degrees the sun and moons course of which speakes Iob 9.9 5.38 Amos ch 5. v 8. As alsoe the Prophet Isaiah St. Mathew and others It may therfore shame a divine to be ignorant of Astronomy that by its stars leads us as it did of old the wise men to Christ to worship him In short all other subordinate Sciences are of very great use to ripen our reasons heighten them to contemplate the wisdome of the Creator in his beautifull creation of all things And as a bladder if not blowne is uselesse and if with wind is more ready for any use So the Arts and Sciences sharpen our faculties and proportion them for greater things 3. History and that for these foure respects 1. Because there are many allusions in the bookes of Ezra Nehemiah and Esther to the Customes of the Persians many passages in the Prophets illustrable out of the historyes of the times and places to which they referre many expressions in the New Testament best explicable out of the Roman Laws and Antiquities Many passages exquisitely paralle'd in humane Authors and receiving much light from them as Mr. Gataker has observed Furthermore the historyes of the Scripture and them iracles of Moses of Christ and his Apostles may even out of Heathen writters be confirmed and a testimony from Adversaries is of great validity as has been largly prov'd by Mornay and Grotius de veritate Chr. Religionis As the most learned Dr Reynolds hints in a sermon of his 2. Because the Propheticall Scriptures of the four Empires of the Turke and Pope and various state of the Church cannot be understood without history As also the knowledge of times by the Olympiads the Fasti consulares and other standing wayes of computation are exceeding necessary to the exact distinguishing and digesting of sacred Chronology and of the occurrences of Scripture to their proper times as Austin hath noted l. 2. b. 28. de doct xtina 3. Because History adds much to the understanding of antient writers and without Ecclesiasticall hiâ—â—ory first read the Fathers cannot be 4. Lastly Because the History of all times is a theatre to behold the singular providence of God that continually watches o're his Church and takes vengeance on the enemyes thereof Now as to Classicall Authors we suppose them to be taught every Scholar in his minority The which though a Preacher is not to mix with divinity so as to stuffe up his Sermon with quotations and scraps of sentences out of them yet by his preaching it will appear whether he ever read them or no. Thus young men are taught to dance not so much for to tread such a measure of steps to the tune play'd as to carry their bodies well at all times and places So that you may easily see whether any one has been tâ—uht that Art though he makes not Coupes before you by the neat and gracefull depoâ—tment of his body Now how far Classicall Authors may advantage a divine for promoting Christianity in preaching we may fairly guesse from Julian the Apostate who in his Epistle to Iamblichus tacitely hints that he should forbid the Christians to interpret publickly the antient authors as Homer Hesiod Demosthenes Herodotus Thucydides Isocrates Lysias and the like
least from thence they might perswade the Gentiles to Christian holynesse That so being destitute of all eloquence they might be lesse able to winne upon the minds of the Gentiles Lastly As to the Civil Law it refers especially to the Scripture and without it a divine can't well and clearly explain adoption justification the power of the keys and very many heads in divinity And how much it is necessary the Prudent learned and pious Mr. Barlow now Provost of Queens Coll. in Oxford has judiciously pointed out in a Manuscript that I have seen very frequent in the hands of others I will not now speak of its prayses that it whets directs cleares and confirmes our reason It is the Seminary of wisdome and the storehouse of all prudence and of so neer affinity to divinity that they who take degrees in it before they doe in Theology have according to ancient custome higher priviledges then others I am confident Mr. Calvin had never arrived to that maturity without it In conclusion I contend not for the knowledge of the whole Encyclopedy to be in a minister as though none were to enter into that office but what runne through it all But I say it prepares men for divinity and is to be premised In a word Every one should be initiated in secular learning It is a stock to graft divinity on a better blue to the taking of the right black And I wish all first well studied Humanity that so they may be the abler Doctors in Divinity whom their formalities may minde of what the dyers thereof doe who first dye their cloath i th some inferiour Colour that it may be a more perfect Purple Now after all If any aske me how far we should enter into the study of the Tongues Arts Philosophy History and the rest before we take upon us the function of the ministry and with what conditions we should study them it would require a longer consideration and is more then I can or dare take upon me to prescribe And we have in this nation most learned men that are able and ready to advise and direct Dr. Wilkins Ecclesiastes and others But if it may be lawful for me to speak sâ—ne praejudicio alterius aut paris aut melioris intelligentiae as one speakes upon the same matter you may be pleased to call to mind that ancient distinction of knowledge in eminentem sufficintem mediocrem Now for that knowledge which they call eminentem It is more then is necessary for a minister Then That which they call sufficient however the word seem tolerable yet as they understand it is too little A mediocrity is the best which may as well be required in a minister as Castalio in a Courtier or Tully in an orator or Vitruvins in a Architect Whom we expect not to be a most excellent Grammarian as was Aristarchus nor yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not an absolute Musitian as was Aristoxenus neither yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not an excellent Painter as Apelles neither yet imperitus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor a Physitian as Hippocrates nor yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thus in a minister is required not singular excellency in the Sciences but a convenient mediocrity And in order to this it is lawfull and necessary to study prophane learning with this condition resectis unguibus Capillis setting aside all vanities and superfluities For that there is both good and bad in those writings the most heathen Poet of them all confesses who deserves especially to be castrated Cum legis Aedipodem caligantemque Thyesten Colchidas Scyllas quid nisi monstra legis Quid te vana juvant miserae ludibria chartae Hoc lege quod possis dicere jure Tuum est Martial So that as we read in Exodus c. 4. How Zepphora circumcised her children which the Angel else had slain according to Gods command and by that meanes preserved them alive So the Carnale praeputium as I may say of secular learning being taken away what remaines may be Israëliticall Thus you may gather the roses only whilst you let alone the briars and bushes and imitate the Bee that though she fall upon bitter as well as sweet tasted flowers she leaves what is unsavoury behind and sucks out nothing but the hony part 4. By the Examples of 1. Moses Daniel and Solomon in the old Testament Whether the Philosophers borrowed their Sciences from the Scripture or that they had them otherwise taught them by the Holy Ghost whose gifts and most excellent gifts no doubt they are is not greatly materiall But this we finde which may serve for our instruction that Moses and Daniel were instructed in them Sure it is Moses had a most Noble Education in a Princes Court and was brought up in all kind of good literature says one of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And in the Acts of the Apostles c. 7. v. 22. it is said of him Moses was learned in all the learning of the Aegyptians and was mighty in word and deed Here we have first his intellectuall perfections described in that he was learned in all the learning of the Aegyptians and secondly his Civill morall and religious perfections a mighty man for oratory a mighty man for action His book of Genesis is full of naturall philosophy and that he as skild in Astrology and Physicks does often appear from his lawes And Iosephus tells us Moses had a speciall care of the education of Children in good literature and we find some evidence of it in Scripture where he commandeth the people to teach the words of the law diligently unto their Children Deut. 6.7 And as to Daniel 'T is mentioned to his honour and his three Companions that God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdome Dan. 1.17 meaning as appears v. 4. of the same chap. the Caldeans learning Shall I speak of Solomon no doubt but David had a speciall care of his education And I think none ever arived to a higher pitch in learning His Proverbs witness his Ethicks Oeconomicks and Politicks And in his Ecclesiastes 't is apparent he was a most excellent naturalist as we read in the booke of Kings And these are the copies that Preachers should transcribe that so they might bring great reputation to Religion 2. Paul Stephen Apollos Nathaniel and Nicodemus in the new Testament Paul he was brought up at the feet of a most learned Lawyer instructed in Philosophy and Poetry as is manifest from his writings And he quotes even Heathen Poets sayings in the holy Scripture As Act. 17.28 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of Aratus And 1 Cor. 15.33 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of Menander and Titus 1.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. out of Epimenides Apollos is commended in that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stephen is said to have been of so poverful a reason that he stopt his Adversaries mouthes as we may read it