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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87570	A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing J681CA; Thomason E1361_1; ESTC R209182	21,533	64

A Ministers Mite Cast into the stocke of a weake MEMORY HELPT BY RULES AND Experiments With a winter Night schoole tutoring Discourse to Generous Youth LONDON Printed by T.H. and are to be sold by John Saywell at the Greyhound in Little Brittaine 1650. The Booke to the Buyer I Do not promise here for some few ponce In Schooles of Knowledge thou shal s so commence To be Pansóphós by this little booke Gnostick or Beauclarke if on it thou looke As with a Magazine and Treasury To furnish thy discourse and memory I no Philantist am Narcizzide else So far to be conceited of my selfe As though my Crows were Swans my mentall issues Phebus or Pallas darlings cloathd in Tissues Yet confidently this I do aver Such Rules and Cannons here prescribed are That for some triple part of one poore shilling Thou shalt have some few mites if thou beast willing Cast to the stock of thy memorative So much in knowledge and discourse to thrive That by short practise thou shalt in thy brain Learn'd notions read or heard more strong retaine This being but a Pinace of small worth To afraught ship ere long to be launcht forth The brain-Brain-book to be cal'd most brains it will With subjects sacred secular so fill By the Lucubrations of Steven Hierome Ecclesiastes Grenewichensis Good Reader take notice of some few Errours escaped in the Printing Page 17. line 23. reade diverted Page 21. line 10. reade Vrine Page 23. line 15. reade Vinum A Ministers Mite Cast into the stocke of a weake Memory Helpt by Rules experiments With a winter nights schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth Preceptor COme neere my best of Pupills the flower of my School as besides your publick Lectures have dictated unto you many things in private for your profit in hearing and reading by remembring your eare more then your eye being the sence of Knowledge so as a triall of your wit to attaine and memory to retaine what I lately Dialoguized with you now play the pretty talking Eccho and before your father and your friends resonate our discussions and wherin your memory is short like some Minister of much reading in his Pulpit read the rest in your Notes Puer I thanke you Sir that I am so much in your Bookes as to afford mee the benefit of my Booke with Notes I note it as a speciall favour and amongst the rest of my studies I will study to deserve it Pr. Not to plucke the least feather out of the wings of Time what thing hath perfection but not period in Unity Pu. God ens ontium the thing of things the Alpha and Omega beginning of beginnings and end without end an Unity of Essence in a Trinity of Persons as one and the same light in the Sun Moone and Starres one and the same fire in three kindled stickes one and the same flame in three lighted candles one soule in man in three faculties so three persons in one God three in one a Trinity of persons in an unity of Essence in Triune Jehovah Elohim Pr. What things are sole and alone without Dualls or Pluralls besides this Triune God Pu. One humane nature one divine nature making one Messias as body and soule make one man one sole-justifying fayth one Christ one immortall spirit in man one true Church of Saints militant in earth one of saints and spirits triumphant in Heaven one Arke in the Sanctuary one of Noah types of one Church one sun one moone one way one truth one life one salvation one rocke to build on one Phaenix writ on one Baptism to beleevers not to bee reiterated in Cyprians errour and one Bible to be beleeved and rested on as the rest touchstone of all our facts and faith without building on the sands of Popes erring Councels Fathers Superstitions and Traditions bogging and sinking thousands of soules into that bottomlesse pit which sends forth Locusts of Jesuits Familists new Donatists Enthusiasts Swinckfeldians and all Hell hatcht Heretiques Pr. In what things for use may a wise modest and moderate man terminate and limit his will and desire in one Pu. In the prime place in one God crushing as the Arke did Dagon all Paganish Turkish and Popish deities one Christ weighing downe to hell all old and new Antichrists one Orthodoxe truth dissolving all errors and heresies as the sunne mists and clouds Pr. And what more Pu. One good horse is enough for a journey by Land one stauncht ship as a Sea-horse for the Sea one good Pilot for a ship one Pastour for my soule one Physitian for my body a Tutor for my learning a booke for my present reading Pr. What booke should that be as your choice delight besides the Bible Such as Homer was to Alexander Tertultian to Cyprian Quintus Curtius to Alphonsus and Livie to Prontisperge Pu. In History as you told me to bee confined unto one booke it should be Pliny or Diodovus Siculus or Gesner or all epomitizing Zuinglius In Morality Plutarchs Ethicks Picolomineus in positive Divinity Calvins Institutions or Polanus Syntagme or the workes of Zanchy or Gerauld for Logick Keckerman or Downam on Ramus for Rhetorick Vossius for common places Peter Martyr or Aretius or Musculus for Philosophy Zabarell for witty passages the French Stevens his translated World of Wonders or Boccace his Decamerou or the Queene of Navarres Novells or the Bee Hive of the Romish Church Pr. What Catechismes did I tell you were best to acquaint you with the Fundamentalls of Religion Pu. Vrsinus and Bastingius Catechismes which now speake English that of Mr. Ball and the Lancashire Ministers purposely compiled for Families those for brevity compiled by Mr. Perkins Egerton Burton chiesly the large Body of Divinity by the learned Primate deserving prime place and next to it in our tongue the Questions and Answers of Dr Babington on the Creed Lords Prayer and Ten Commandements Pr. What parents trayned up their children and families in the Rudiments of Religion in private as Origen and Didimus Alexandrinus in Alexandria Vrsinus in Belgia and others in publique Pu. Adam trayned so his sacrificing Abel Abraham his Isaac his soldiers and servants Joshua his houshold David his Job his Buthshebah her Solomon Helena her Constantine Macrina her nurse-child St. Basil Monicah her Augustine Auna her consecrated Samuel Euuice and Lois good Timothy with others who prooved excellent instruments of Gods glory in their times and great comforts to their Parents Pr. What is the heart and minde of a Childe nakedly in it selfe considered Pu. It s white paper fit to take any writing soft wax fit for any impression tabula vasa a playne board or stone fit for any carving or sculpture a new vessell fit for any seasoning with bad tarre and smelling oyles or sweet wines and white Cloth fit for any colour or tincture in dying Pr. But to reflex a little further on your Unities what onely one may content a wise man as a Sculler without a