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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54462	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the Eton-scholars, at St. Mary Le Bow, on Decemb. the 6. 1681 by William Perse ...	Perse, William, 1640 or 41-1707.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1653; ESTC R11012	16,268	40

Ancient Foundations were Built upon a firm Basis and ground of Reason Such exact Methods of Teaching such regular Discipline such free and open Communication of Notions such generous Emulations as are common and usual in Publick Schools cannot be expected in those small and inconsiderable Laboratories as I may call them that are set up in Countrey Villages Indeed it is not every ones good Fortune to go to Corinth or to be brought up at the feet of a Gamaliel but it were to be wish'd that we had more Publick Nurseries and so conveniently Situated that none of those who are designed for the Study of good Letters might want the benefit of a Liberal Education nor be exposed to the hazards which divers run by being tampered with in their first years by those little Mountebanks those Dabblers in Grammar who like other Quacks Kill more than they Cure who by infusing their unsound and Sophisticate Notions into their easie and tender Minds fix such ill habits upon the several Faculties as are scarce ever to be eradicated by the most potent Remedies of a contrary Institution Like Diseased Nurses they Infect those Children they should nourish and by conveying their unwholsome Juices into the empty veins of their Young Pupils they not only weaken and corrupt the before Healthy Constitution of the Soul but leave such Marks and Characters of their own Imperfections upon them as are never to be obliterated and worn out Those raw Beginners who it may be have made a transient Visit to the University for Fashion-sake cannot have those Qualifications that are requisite in those to whom the Government of wild and unbridled Youth ought to be committed They want that Discretion Prudence and Moderation to say no more which are the most commendable Qualities in those who take that difficult but withal most useful Profession upon them And not being able to Govern their own Passions nor having Judgment to proportion their Corrections to the measure of the Fault committed nor to distinguish between the several dispositions of Youth by their unreasonable and exorbitant Cruelties they force their little Flock to take Sanctuary at their own home or else create such an aversion and prejudice against all manner of Learning in their Minds which is never to be removed And indeed what else can be expected when the Young Orbilius who hath scarce the sound of the Ferula out of his Ears nor the smart of it out of his Hands having gotten that wooden Sceptre into his power begins to Rule Arbitrarily in his little Aedileship and thinks it but just to deal with others as he was served himself Whereas the grave Rector of the Publick School takes his measures from the Capacities and Dispositions of those who are under his Care whose Inclinations he knows as well as their Faces and from thence suits his demeanour towards them he knows how to quicken the Slothful and to reclaim the Extravagant by shaming them into better Manners and reduces more to Obedience by Stratagem than by Force He knows by proposing little Praemio's to make all so run as to strive for the Mastery and by mixing some few grains of pleasure with those useful Principles he instills into them he makes his Scholars in love with himself and their Books at the fame time But alas nothing of this Nature is to be expected from the Countrey Chancel which seldom produces any thing fit for the Use and Service of the Church Indeed some of us may remember and may we never see such days again when divers of the choicest of Gods Servants some of the Chief and most Eminent Pastors of our Church whose only Crime was their Loyalty were forced for the Testimony of a good Conscience to wander up and down in Desarts to bide themselves in Dens and Caves of the Earth destitute and Afflicted of whom our English World was not worthy These I say were glad to Teach Youth in some private corner for a mean Livelyhood to retire into some by unfrequented place to shelter themselves from the Tyranny of those Oppressors which then rid on the Necks of Gods People Under those shades did those great Shepherds feed their Lambs being driven from their Sheep in the Noon-day in the heat and fury of that Persecution that then raged amongst us Amongst those were many of our Loyal Nobility and Gentry bred and by their wholsom Doctrines kept stedfast in the Purity of that Worship and in those just and honest Principles for which their Worthy Parents then Suffered either by Death or Banishment or Consiscation of Goods or else Imprisonment But he that will urge this as an Argument for the countenancing of private Schools may as well make the secret Meetings and Nocturnal Assemblies of the Primitive Christians in Dens and Caves during the heat of Persecution an Argument to uphold those unlawful Conventicles which are but too frequent amongst us at this day Neither do I Condemn all private places which are made use of for the Breeding of Youth in some of which without question divers Worthy and Eminent Men have been Educated who either have met with some extraordinary Master or else who by the strength of their Natural parts have conquered the Malignity of those ill Principles wherewith they were first tainted But still give me leave as our Learned Apostle St. Paul says upon another account to tell you That I shew unto you a more excellent way And thus having shewn you the Usefulness of Humane Learning as to the several Occasions and Emergencies wherein we can be concerned in the World and the most probable way of attaining that Knowledge by an early Education in publick Schools Suffer me in the last place that I may conclude my Discourse with something pertinent to the Solemnity of this present Day to offer somewhat in behalf of that Royal Foundation of Eton Colledge the Pious and Charitable Work of Henry the Sixth one of the best though most unfortunate of our Princes at which we received the better part of our Education and from which divers of us amongst whom I my self which I shall ever gratefully acknowledge though the most unworthy derived other secular Advantages I will not say that though her Sisters of which she hath many and of great Renown but few of the same Noble extract with her self have all done virtuously that yet she hath excelled them all But I think I may affirm that which our Apostle does of himself That she comes not behind the very chiefest of them all If Experience which cannot lye be a sure Rule to go by I have many living Instances before me at this time to Witness those great and extraordinary Improvements and Accomplishments which are the result and effect of those many hours they carefully spent under the happy Tuition of the several Masters of that Famous and well Disciplin'd School and who do Naturally commend the same Education to others which they found so useful and beneficial to