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A30972	Autoschediasmata, De studio theologiae, or, Directions for the choice of books in the study of divinity written by ... Dr. Thomas Barlow ... ; publish'd from the original manuscript, by William Offley ...	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.; Offley, William, 1659 or 60-1724.	1699 (1699)	Wing B824; ESTC R22775	44,127	90

And yet so it is Not that I think that either their Questions or Resolutions are always wise but they will surnish a wise Man with many Material Questions and with some very Material Answers and deliver him from the Danger of ever being impos'd on with School-Falacies And a Man who reads them with this Design and this Caution will find great Benefit by it For tho' I am no Admirer of School-Divinity I doubt the great Ignorance of some Persons may be ascrib'd to a Contempt of it without knowing it But then he ought also to read other Systems of Divinity as Calvin's Institutions and Zanchius whom I take to be one of the best and subtilest Writers of Calvinists and Arminius Episcopius or the late Remonstrant Philip à Limborch For a Man who will throughly enquire ought to have the different Schemes of Religion in his Head But especially to read and consider well the Articles Homilies and Canons of our Church which every one who intends to be a Minister of the Church of England ought to do Having thus far advanced you may think I bring him back again when I come to more particular Enquiries But if you think well of it you will find he is not sufficiently prepar'd for them before And now I begin from the very Foundations of Religion To enquire strictly and severely into the Reasons of Our Faith And 1. Why He believes there is a GOD. And here he must review all the several Hypotheses of Philosophy and examine the Powers of Nature and the Arguments of Atheists Tully and Dr. Cudworth will sufficiently furnish him if his Curiosity does not draw him further The next Enquiry is Whether GOD has made any Revelation of his Will to the Word And here he must consider the Authority of Revelation and the Canon of Scripture And Dr. Stillingfleet's Origines Sacrae Huetius or Dr. Cosin's Canon of Scripture will furnish him with all that is needful to be known or direct him where he may enquire further And this is the most proper time to read the Apologists for Christianity Justin Martyr Tertullian Minutius Felix Arnobius Lactantius St. Austin de Civitate Dei Theodoret contra Gentes and such like as Eusebius's Praeparatio and Demonstratio c. And now especially it is time to read the Scriptures with greater Care both to understand the Grammatical and Critical Sence of them by comparing the various Versions especially the Septuagint with the Original of the Old Testament and by our Volumes of Criticks which have more than all that is useful and to understand the true Sence of them As for particular Commentators I know not how to direct because there is so great variety of them But Ainsworth upon the Pentateuch is allow'd by all Josephus and Philo-Judaeus tho'a Platonick Jew are very useful for the Old Testament and Maimonides Nevochim and such Tracts of Jewish Writers as he may meet with Dr. Lightfoot I think has prescrib'd the best Method of Reading the Scriptures by digesting the Historical and Prophetical Books into the order of Time And the Prophesies are certainly understood by considering the times to which they relate Tho' I must needs say That the shortest and most compendious way to useful Knowledge is to study the New Testament and those parts of the Old Testament which he there finds apply'd to the state of the Gospel which will enable him the better to understand the Old Testament when he has more leisure for the thorough Study of it And for Modern Authors let him read Mr. Poole's Synopsis Criticorum allowing for the different Hypotheses of the Authors and reading with Caution Tho' if I may advise when he intends thoroughly to understand any Book of Scripture let him read it several times over and make himself Master of it Then let him read it Verse by Verse and observe what the Difficulties are and try by the Construction and Signification of the Words and the Series of the Discourse what he can make of it and after that consult Expositors This is the most laborious and slow but the most useful and will be found at last the shortest way to true and substantial Knowledge I have found such advantage by it my self that I dare recommend it From hence he may proceed to the Enquiry into particular Controversies which he is now well furnish'd for with a great compass of Knowledge And here he may begin and end if ever he can find an end where he pleases And he will easily inform himself of the best Writers on both sides As for the Fathers and Councils and Ecclesiastical Historians I think the best way at first is to examine as he has opportunity such Citations as he meets with and see to what purpose their Authority is urg'd on all sides or to read any particular Tract in them as he has occasion for it And then when he finds leisure to read them he will know how to use them This is sufficient Employment for some Years and as imperfect as the Rules are if observ'd will certainly make him a very good Divine and furnish him with useful Knowledge and before he has done half this he will need no Director I have taken no notice of Reading the Ancient Moralists and observing the Differences of their several Sects and how they differ from or agree with the Precepts of Christianity nor of the Nature of Laws c. These being suppos'd necessary Prolegomena FINIS a Sir P. P. S. W. b Genuine Remains c. a St. Ives Huntington Buckden and St. Neots a 68 when Consecrated and 85 at his Death * Five Counties and in half * Above 1300 Clergy in Lincoln Diocese * Six Shillings and Six Pence a Theologia Revelata in its full Latitude may be 1. Patriarchalis containing the Positive Revelation of God's Will and Worship made to the Patriarchs before Moses for to them the Messias was promised and Salvation by him they had the Covenant of Grace and Sacrificia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which were Sacraments and Seals of it 2. Mosaica which contain'd many further positive Revelations of God's Will and Worship 3. Evangelica of which only at present 〈…〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suid. in Joh. Stob. vid. Photii Biblioth Cod. 167. pag. 366. Theologia 〈◊〉 Bibles pr●pe● for the Te●t of the Old Testament For the New Testament * Vid. Suidam verb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bibles Concordances a Extant Concordantiae Hebr. per Mazi Calasium in 4 Tomes printed at Rome 1621. in Bodley's Library much larger than Buxtorf's but whether better Docti judicent a Heb. 1. 3. b 2 Cor. 9. 4. and 11. 17. c Heb. 3. 14. d Tindal renders it so Faith is a sure Confidence of e Gloss. vet in calce Cyrilli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arguo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Probatio oecumen Theophylac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in loc a Concil Trident. Sess. 6. de Justificat cap. 8. Vid. Vasq. in

Brochman universae Theol. System Tom. 1. de Sacra Script Bellarm. Tom. 1. Controv. 1. de Verbo Dei G. Amesius contra Bellarminum Vet. Erbormannus Jesuita in sua pro Bellarm. Replica contra Amesium Herbipoli 1661. 5. It will be convenient also to consult what the Ancient Fathers and Canons of Council determine concerning the Canon of Scripture as that I may name some 1. Canon Apostol 85. apud Balsamonem pag. 278. apud Zonaram est Canon 84. pag. 42. Dionysius exiguus antiquissimus Canonum Collector Apostolorum Canones tantum habet spurius ideo est hic Canon 85. vet 84. c. 2. Canon Concil Laodiceni 59. apud Justellum in Cod. can Eccl. Univer can 163. seu ult 3. Canon 47. Concilii Carthag 3. apud Joverium Conc. part 2. p. 19. col 2ª in Conciliis per Labbe Paris 1671. Tom. 2. pag. 1177. But this Canon is Spurious as might evidently be prov'd if need require 4. Athanasius in Synopsi Tom. 2 pag. 55. Gr. Lat. he reckons the Books of Scripture as we do 5. Nicephorus Patriarch of Constantinople his Catalogue of Canonical Books apud Eusebium Chronologic pag. 312. Gr. Editionis Amstel 1658. 6. Hieronymi Prefatio 106. quae est in lib. Regum Tom. 3 pag. 682 689. ubi libros vet Testamenti eodem plane modo quo Ecclesia Anglicana enumerat tum addit Quicquid extra hos est inter Apocrypha reponendum 7. Ruffinus in Symbolum Apostolorum inter Opera Cypriani per Pamelium pag. 552 553. per Goulartium pag. 575. where he has a Catalogue of Canonical Books of both Testaments the very same with Ours of the Church of England 8. Epiphanius de Ponderibus Mensuris § 4 5. Tom. 2 pag. 161. 9. Nazianzenus carm 33. operum Tom. 2. pag. 98. utriusque Testamenti libros nisi quod Apocalypsis desideratur eosdem plane quos Ecclesia Anglicana agnoscit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eusebius out of Origen reckons the Canonical Books as we do only he neither the Protestants nor Papists do reckons an Epistle of Jeremy's with his Prophesie and Lamentations Eccles. History lib. 6. cap. 25. pag. 225. Edit Valesii Vide etiam Cyrillum Cateches Mystog 4. pag. 36 37. Nicephorum Hist. Eccles. lib. 2. cap. 46. pag. 216 217. For the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers it will be convenient to know who they were when they lived and what they writ And for this such Books and Tracts as these may be consulted 1. Nomenclator praecipuorum jam inde a Christo nato Ecclesiae Doctorum Scriptorum Professorum Episcoporum Testium Veritatis Scholasticorum Conciliorum Haereticorum Imperatorum Pontificum Rom. c. per Hen. Ozaeum Hanoviae 1619. He in an Alphabetical order only sets down the Age or Year they flourish'd in 2. Hieronymus de Illustribus Eccl. Scriptoribus Extat operam Sancti Hieronymi per M. Victorium Tom. 1. pag. 263. Gr. Lat. ubi Sophronius dicitur Versionis Gr. Author cum tamen inepta est Versio Sophronio indigna Prodiit Hieronymus de Script Illustr una cum Gennadio Massiliensi de Illustr Eccles. Doctoribus Helmest 1611. Prodiit postea cum aliis 1639. quod ex sequente Aub. Miraei opere constet 3. Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica seu Nomenclatores septem Veteres Hieronymus Gennadius Ildefonsus Sigebertus per Aubertum Miraeum cum ejus Scholiis Auctariis Antverp 1639. Fol. Sed hi Authores à Miraeo editi caute sunt legendi Miraeus enim non uno loco Romae potius quam veritati favet 4. Illustrium Eccl. Orientalis Scriptorum qui secundo saeculo sloruerunt vitae monumenta Authore Pet. Halloix Duaci 1636. habet etiam Pontifices Imperatores Persecutiones Concilia istius saeculi c. Fol. 5. Scriptorum Ecclesiast Abacus Chronologicus Vet. Nov. Test. a Mose ad Annum Christi 1589. Authore Phil. Labbe Paris 1658. 6. Tabulae Ecclesiasticae quibus Scriptores Ecclesiastici eorumque Patria Aetas Ordo Obitus exhibentur a Christo nato ad Annum 1517. Lond. 1674. 7. Phil. Labbe de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis c. in 2. Tom. 80. Paris 1660. in calce Tom. 1. Tractatus Jo. Papissae Coenotaphium eversum 8. Joh. Tritthemius de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis cum Appendicibus duobus Paris 1546. There are many such as these who have given an account of the Time wherein they liv'd and the Writings of the Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers and upon occasion may also be consulted But because there are in the Works of the Ancient Fathers and Ecclesiastical Writers many Apocryphal and Spurious Books and Tracts which are indeed none of theirs whose Name they bear it will be necessary for a Divine to know and have some of those Authors who have writ Critica Sacra and Censures of Books discovering the Fraud or Ignorance of those who have publish'd Erroneous and Heretical Books under Catholick Names amongst others such as these may be consulted 1. Photii Bibliotheca by Shottus 1611. Folio 2. Hierom de Scriptoribus Eccles. of the Edition of Paris 1630. or rather of Labbe's Edition with his Additions in 2 Volumes Paris 1660. 3. Censura quorundam Scriptorum quae sub nominibus Sanctorum Veterum Authorum a Pontificiis citari solent c. per Rob. Cocum in Quarto Lond. 1623. 4. A Treatise of the Corruption of the Fathers by Dr. James Quarto Lond. 1612. 5. Andr. Riveti Crit. Sac. libri quatuor in Octavo cum Tractat. de Authoritate Patrum Errorum causis Nothorum Notis Genevae 1626. 6. Abrahami Sculteti Syntagma Medullae Theologiae Patrum in Quarto Francof 1634. he gives an Account of almost forty very ancient Writers of their Genuine Works of their Suppositions of their Errors of their Consent with Protestants and the Particulars wherein and an Analysis of all their Genuine Writings 7. Joh. Dallaeus de Pseudepigraphis Apostolicis Harderb 1653. 8. Davidis Blondelli Pseudo-Isiodorus Turrianus Vapul in Quarto Edit 1628. veterum Roman Pontificum à Clemente X. ad Sirisium i. e. An. 383. Epistolas decretales ab Isiodoro Mercatore suppositas a Ioh. Bosco editas ac tandem a Francisco Turriano defensas spurias esse demonstrat Blondellus 9. Bellarmine de Scriptoribus Ecclesiast Sixtus Senensis in Bibliotheca Possevinus in Apparatu Sacro c. and many other Popish Authors confess and prove many supposititious Books printed and publish'd with the Genuine Works of the Fathers and yet very usually cite those Tracts when they make for them against Protestants In the Edition of Hierom's Works the whole ninth Tome consists of such Tracts as are now confess'd to be all Spurious In the 17th Tome of the Magna Bibliotheca Patrum Paris 1654 There is Index Chronologicus and Index omnium Patrum Alphabeticus in which we have many things well and truly said of the Times and Writings of the Ancient Fathers 10. Vide Gratian. Dist. 15 16. praecipue can