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A46794	The Christian tutor, or, A free and rational discourse of the sovereign good and happiness of man, and the infallible way of attaining it, especially in the practice of Christian religion written in a letter of advice to Mr. James King in the East-Indies / by Henry Jenkes ... ; and now published for the benefit of all others.	Jenkes, Henry, d. 1697.; King, James.	1683 (1683)	Wing J628; ESTC R1916	24,940	82

Cosmica in two Folio's Couringii Oldenburgeri Thesaurus Rerum publicarum Totius Orbis Quadripertitus in four Octavo's The first will instruct you fully in the General part of Geography and the others in the Special part of it as to the Topography and Situation of all particular Countries and also as to the Government Customs and Manners of the People III. Johannis Cluverii Epitome Historie Vniversalis in Quarto I have pitched upon this Book because in my judgment I think it the best in the universal way of History it is very good Latin and well digested as to the matter of it After this read Marci Zuerii Bu●hornii Historia Sacra Prophana Novi Testamenti in Quarto A learned and most excellent Book both for Ecclesiastical and Civil History For Chronology the best in that way of History are D. Petavii Rationale Temporum in Twelves Sethi Calvisii Chronologia in Folio as to Computation and Synchronisms IV. Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World in Folio This excellent Author was a great Traveller both by Sea and Land and a great States-man to boot and therefore well accomplished to write such an History Had it been compleatly finished as he designed to have it done you could not have read a better Book in the kind However so far as he hath carried it on with great judgment and discretion it is exceeding well worth your reading V. Doctor Howell's General History in two Folios A Book so well worth my recommending to you and your reading of it over that I heartily wish the learned and worthy Author of it had quite finished it for your sake and all others that love History as I hope he will do so in due time VI. R. Verstegan's Antiquities c. in Octavo R. Sheringhami de Anglorum Gentis Origine Disceptatio in Octavo Milton's History of England in Octavo Medulla Historiae Anglicanae or a Comprehensive History of England in Twelves Cambden's Britannia Baker's Chronicle and Speed's Chronicle all Folio's The Present State of England Twelves I would not have you ignorant of your own Country nor the History of it and therefore you may serve your self out of these good Books with such profitable Instructions as will render you very knowing in those matters VII Doctor Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation in two Folio's This judicious and learned Author in this Book of his hath given you a true and impartial Account of the Reformation of the Church of England from the most Authentick Records of those Times Here you will see with what Prudence and Moderation our Reformation was begun and continued Which excellent Book I would have you therefore read when you have time and leisure that you may be well grounded and satisfied in the present established Religion of the Church of England An account of some Books that Vindicate and defend the Church of England If you desire to know more particularly what those Books are of Eminent Note that have been written in Defence of the Church of England against those that dessent from her I shall only recommend to you these few viz. I. Bishop Jewell his Apologia Ecclesia Anglicanae in Twelves A Book of great Sense and written in a very Elegant Latine stile II. Bishop Laud against Fisher in Folio with Dr. Stilling fleet 's Rational account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion c. in Fol. III. Mr. Richard Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity in Folio IV. The Serions and Compassionate Enquiry c. in Octavo V. Dr. Patrick's Friendly Debate in Octavo and then Dr. Parker's Case of the Church of England briefly and truly stated in Octavo A farther Account of some other good Books in Philosophy and Mathematicks I know not whether you have a mind some time or other to entertain your self with some other parts of Human Learning as Philosophy and Mathematicks if you be so minded these are the Books that I would recommend to you I. Antonii Le Grand Institutio Philosophiae grounded upon the Great Des-Cartes his Principles together with his Historia Naturae in Quarto Item Petri Gassendi Syntagma Philosophiae Rel qua ejusdem in four Folio's Rehaulti Tractatus Physicus in Octavo Sir Francis Bacon's Works in Folio And The Honourable Mr. Boyl's Choice Pieces in Experimental Philosophy some in Octavo's and some in Quarto's to which you may adjoyn Dr. Sprat's History of the Royal Society in Quarto A Book of great Excellency and Eloquence Item Mr. Oldenburg's Philosophical Transactions in several Quarto's To entertain Inquisitive minds withal Item The Weekly Memorials for the Ingenious relating to most Arts and Sciences in Quarto Item Pancirollus his Treatise de rebus repertis deperditis in Quarto with Salmuth's Annotations A Book of very Curious Learning as to things newly found out and lately lost In Moral Philosophy especially read P. Charron of Wisdom in Quarto Henrici Mori Enchiridion Ethicum in 80. Puffendorff de Officiis Hominis Civis in Octavo Hermanni Conringii Pro-Politica vel Prudentia Civilis in Quarto Hugo Grotius de Jure Belli ac Pacis in Quarto Doctor Cudworth's true System of the Intellectual Universe A Book of great Learning and invincible Reason there wants nothing to recommend it further but his Moral Vniverse c. After this you may read some of the Ancients as Plato Aristotle Plutarch's Morals and Lives and sometimes Tully and Seneca some of which are in Folio and some in lesser Volumes Besides Horis Subsecivis when you have not much to do you may turn over some of the Ancient Poets in which you were brought up as Lucretius Virgil Horace Ovid Plautus Terence Seneca's Tragedies c. Books of several sizes that contain a great deal of the Natural and Moral Philosophy of the Ancients II. Petri Galtruchii Institutio Mathematica in Octavo Andreae Tarquiteti Opera Mathematica in Folio De Chales Cursus seu Mundus Methematicus in three Folio's The most complete System of Mathematical Learning that I know Books that will sufficiently instruct you either in Philosophy or the Mathematicks and by reading of them you will come to the knowledge of others that are eminent in all the particular Arts and Sciences But so much for Books and the best Account of them I could have mentioned more in each kind but I was not willing to create you too much trouble nor to swell the Letter to a greater bulk than I designed at first and therefore I have forborn And now for a Close that in the reading of them and others Some Directions concerning Reading and the right use of good Books you may attain your End and so come to the most Vseful Knowledge always take along with you These Monita a few Directions The first Direction Wisely and well consider what you read that is understand the sense and reason of every Author you read and make the best Use of his Notions in order to Practice and Human Conversation By this way of Procedure Liberty

truth and reality by a constant practice of this holy self-denial of your self Secondly 2 In making much of our selves in some other things I say you must also make very much of your self in some other things I mean 1. Such Internal Excellencies and Perfections must be minded by you besides 2. Some other external good things as will in the way and in the end make you truly happy Now these Internal Excellencies and Perfections of your Nature either relate to the body or the mind What those things are is here delared as for instance or to the whole man The external good things without you but very convenient for you to have them also are such as relate either to your good Name and Reputation or real and personal Estate Therefore what concerns your body 1 The good health of the body must be minded you must chiefly mind the good health and constitution of it For a sickly and crasie body is not fit for action nor a good Servant for the Soul The best way of attaining it under the Divine Blessing The best Rule for that is to use moderate and wholsome Diet good Exercises and innocent Recreations to live always temperately soberly and according to Rule for they that do so sleep quietly in utramque aurem they are seldom overcharged with noxious humours or arrested by any satal distempers their heads are clear and their hearts sound their blood moves briskly and vigorously in their Veins and wherever they go they carry about with them a chearful mind in an healthful body Mentem sanam in corpore sano and that surely is a great happiness not to be parted with for all the voluptuous man's most sumptuous Cheer and extravagant Jollity for that commonly ends in pains lingring diseases and a miserable death Secondly 2 The Perfections of the Mind The perfections of your mind which must be looked after and for which you may justly love your self and make much of your self in the enjoyment of are such as these viz. 1. To acquire as much useful knowledge as you can 1 Vseful knowledge for as light is pleasant to the Eye so is truth to the Understanding above all knowledge therefore labour to attain that which is most beneficial to you which really will make you wise unto Salvation as certainly the knowledge of the true Religion of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is An Account of some of the b●st Books and that you may easily learn from those good Books I have formerly re-commended to you when you went to the East-Indies I think they were such as these tho' I shall add some few more that have been publish'd since to perfect this Account An Account of the best Books in Christian Religion I. Bishop Wilkin's Principles and Practices of Natural Religion in Octavo Hugo Grotius of the Truth of the Christian Religion of Dr. Patrick's Edition in Twelves Dr. Patrick's Witnesses in 2 Octavo's and Dr. Parker's Demonstration of the Divine Authority of the Law of Nature and of the Christian Religion in Quarto These good Books will acquaint you with the true Grounds and Principles of all and of Christian Religion in general II. Bishop Pearson upon the Creed in Folio Here this worthy Author gives you a most rational Account of the Fundamental Articles or Doctrines of our Christian Faith as to the Verity and Necessity of them to a good Life III. Doctor Hammond's Practical Catechism in Octavo The whole Duty of Man in Octavo Doctor Taylor 's Holy Living and Holy dying in Octavo The Grand Exemplar in Folio Mr. Scot's Christian Life in Octavo These five most useful Books thus put together will instruct you in all the worthy Practices of our holy Christian Religion Whatever concerns a pious and vertuous life you may learn from hence As for the Historical part of Christianity that you may know what manner of men the Primitive Christians were you shall do well to read Doctor Cave's Primitive Christianity in Octavo The Lives of the holy Apostles and primitive Fathers by the same Author in two Folio's IV. Doctor Patrick's Devout Christian in Twelves Next to the Common-Prayer-Book this excellent Treatise will be a good help to you in your Devotions with this you may entertain your self upon all Occasions to very good purpose V. Doctor Patrick's Parable of the Pilgrim in Quarto A most excellent Book in its kind This will always put you in mind what you are by Profession and should be in very deed a Christian Pilgrim Here you have a Guide that will instruct you in the true way to Heaven and direct you so to steer your course of life that by the Blessing of God upon your good endeavours you shall not fail to come thither in God's own due time VI. Dr. Tillotson's Sermons in Octavo This is one of the best sermon-Sermon-Books that I know and therefore I would have you read it frequently and make the best use of it as also Bishop Wilkins's Sermons lately published and Doctor Isaac Barrow's Sermons all Octavo's VII Doctor Henry More 's Grand Mystery of Godliness and Iniquity in two Folio's Divine and most excellent Books to inform you in all the great things of Christian Religion or the grand Mystery of Godliness and how some people have apostatized from it by advancing the grand Mystery of Iniquity VIII Mr. Will. Chillingworth's Protestant Religion the safe Way to Salvation in Folio I know you are a good Protestant Christian and therefore to secure you in your Religion I commend this incomparable good Book to you Next to this most useful Knowledge which so much conduces to your own Happiness and the Way of attaining it and is in the aforesaid Books very well explained and demonstrated if you have any time of leisure hereafter you shall do well to study History and Geography Studies that are both Pleasant and Profitable and will fit you for Discourse and ingenious Conversation The best in that kind I have also heretofore named unto you and given you my advice how to proceed methodically in the reading of them Another Account of the best Books in Geography and History I think for your memories sake they were such as these and may be with some new ones ranged in this Order I. Abbot's Geography in Twelves A Book for young Beginners that contains a great deal in a little room and will give you a very good description of all Countries and the most remarkable things in them II. Doctor Heylyn's Cosmography in Folio This Book gives you a larger Account of all Countries as appears by the Title Page thereof In subsidium for a farther help and direction in your Geographical Studies you shall do well to take in these viz. Varneii Geographia Absoluta in Octavo P. Bertii Tabula Geographicae in Quarto G. Fournier Geographica Orbis Notitia in Twelves Mercatoris Atlas Bleau's or the English Atlas All in several large Folio ' Goth-fredi Archontologia

of Judgement and Probity of Will at best hand The second Direction Observe a due Order and Method in your Studies that is pass on leisurely and surely from one thing to-another from what you know certainly from Self-evident principles proceed to the knowledge of other things that you may know them as certainly too Never Assent to any thing that is doubtful and questionable Assensum Cohibe till you meet with something of Certainty that approves it self to the mind either by the clearest conviction of Reason or the best Attestation of others in matters of Fact if you do so you are then and not till then in a Good and Safe Way of Knowledge The third Direction For the Relief of your Memory that you may the better remember what you have read and well consider'd commit that to writing especially what you meet with in any Author that is Great and Considerable and therefore to that purpose make to your self an Alphabetical Common-place Book especially for Archaeologys and curious Notions relating either to Persons or Ancient Customs The fourth Direction In all your Particular Studies mind the main Drift and Vse of them as for instance according to our former Account of Books 1. Christian Religion îs the most useful knowledge the best Learning in all the World in order to a better and therefore cannot be minded and studied enough For it makes us Truly Wise and Truly Good Happy here and Eternally Happy hereafter In the studying of which that your profiting may appear to all men give your self very much to serious Meditations Devout Exercises of Piety and Vertue and reading of sound Books in Religion and when you do so always have your recourse to the Holy Scriptures for the ultimate Resolution of all your Doubts and Difficulties entertain no Opinions or Sentiments in Religion but what are consonant to this Infallible Rule of Faith and all good Manners For the better understanding of them you shall do well to have at hand Sebastian Castellio his Latine Version with Hugo Grotius his Annotations upon the Holy Bible And Dr. Henry Hammond's Paraphrase and Annotations upon the New Testament all in Folio Books that will acquaint you with the True and Rational Sense of the Holy Scriptures The Book of Books 2. Geography a very Delightful and Profitable Study by this kind of Learning you may converse with the Inhabitants of our little World tho' never so remote from you by this you will be no Stranger to any Place or Country whatsoever from all which you may Learn something or other that is very useful and well-becoming you as you are a Traveller especially if you take Notice all along as you go of the Choicest Productions of Nature and Art the main End of this Study 3. History Most useful in its kind for by this you may acquaint your self with all the Grand changes and revolutions of the world that have happened before you were born and since your time Here as in a great Theater you may behold humane Nature under several Persons Acting its several Parts exercising its Vigour in the greatest and most Heroick Actions of Life and that under the Conduct of Divine Providence whatever therefore you meet with of Note in your reading the History of several Ages or of Persons in Every Age I mean that is Truly Vertuous and Praise-Worthy transform it to your own Vse and make the best Improvement of it Consider your self not only as a bare Reader or Spectator that stands by to look on whilst others are a Doing But as One that is an Actor in every Scene of Human Life as One that is really concern'd in every thing that is said and done by others Always taking the right side and adjoyning your self to those Hero's and Worthy Men that have appeared in Publick and upon the Stage in the behalf of Truth Honesty and Justice The Rule and Solid Foundation of all History as also the proper Use and Result of it 4. Philosophy and Mathematicks very pleasant and delightful Studies Studies for Minds and Abstracted Souls from worldly Business that desire to know the Nature of things with all their Affections and Phaenomena and that from their Immediate Causes This is the Standard and Great Rule in this kind of Learning and to this you must make your Appeal not to the Authorities of Men but the Vncontroulable Reason of things the Constans Invicta ratio rei whereever it resides either in your own mind or in the minds of others that judge aright from clear and distinct perceptions without Prejudice or Partiality But I consider that you are now Secretary to the Council in the East-Indies and so that Part of Philosophy which relates to Politicks will be most proper for you to mind the Maxims of which you will find in those Books I have reckoned under the Head of Moral Philosophy for that is the true Source of Politicks and consequently must Govern all Political Learning in its utmost Extent for you may take it for an infallible saying Nemo nisi vir Probus Bonus est Civis aut esse potest The Best man in Morality is certainly the Best Citizen and truest Polititian For your Conduct herein I shall only recommend to you my own Political Compass by which you may steer your Course in all Human and Civil Affairs as I have done before you very evenly and steddily and notwithstanding all the blustering winds and storms in the State come at last to your Port and attain your Sovereign Good The Author 's Political Compass It consists but of Eight Points and therefore may be easily remembred they are these Verity Probity Liberty Sovereignty Property Charity Unity Piety Words of great Moment and Impor●ance so duly connected and consequent one after another That if they were made the Imperial and Standing Laws of Politicks nothing could conduce more to the Publick Peace and Tranquillity of all mankind than they Truly and Really do for Verity by its kindly and effectual Persuasions inclines the minds of well disposed men to Piety and Probity and they in Conjunction to Vnity if that may not easily be obtained which to me seems somewhat hard that it should not be so Liberty and Charity will certainly adjust it and procure it too among rational and good natur'd men But if these Lovely Graces should do it neither because some men are unreasonable in their pretensions and ill natur'd in their deportment towards others Sovereignty must at last determine all our unhappy Differences and Establish every man in his just Rights and Beloved Property so it should be and there is very great reason for it That by those Eight Words of Wisdom we should Govern all our Political Transactions the Great Concerns of Human Life and Conversation I am sure King Charles the First the Martyr of Blessed Memory Governed himself and ●his People committed to his Charge by all these Points and tho' he met with hard Usages and an Untimely Death