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A31052	The pollution of vniversite-learning or sciences (falsly so called) whereby most of the youth are so infected, and both they and their parents so deceived, that when they come to age, they prove either unprofitable or hurtfull members to the common-wealth ... / by that faithfull martyr of Iesus Christ, Mr. Henry Barrow ...	Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593.; Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593. Plain refutation of M. Giffard's booke.	1642 (1642)	Wing B922; ESTC R18358	15,109	18

be seen These studies and Arts we may not call perierga curious because Mr. Giffard saith Luke speaketh onely of conjuration Acts 19. But let him approve these lawfull by the Scriptures and surely I will gladly confesse mine ignorance and sin in calling these studies and Arts prophane curious unfit for a Christian much more for a Minister of the Church Otherwise let not any through mine unskilfulnesse who peradventure repeate not aright or in due place the termes of these Arts as having either forgotten them through long discontinuance or it may be never learned them a right take occasion either to carpe at me therefore or especially to thinke the better of these vaine and curious yea unlawfull and unchristian Arts and studies which have not onely no warrant in Gods Word but are directly contrary unto and expresly forbidden in the same as were not hard to shew and prove if the subject were not too large and should not make too wide a Parenthesis in this Treatise and draw it out to a greater length then I would I will not therefore stand here to discusse their philosophicall problemes paradoxes axiomes or severall sentences and opinions which are authenticall and currant amongst them how evill they agree to the Word of God or to shew how farre these curiors Inquisitors these Star-gazers Astrologians Calcars Wizards Devines exceed the bounds of faith and sobrietiy and passe the limits of Gods revealed Will or whether they may wander by these heathenish or divellish opinions of the Heavens Stars and their revolutions influence c. Motors Demones or Spirits and how neere this approacheth to conjuration Or to show how farre they are suffered to proceed yea professe and practise in these divellish Arts Let the bookes that I charge no persons which are commonly bought and studied in the Vniversities and in all other parts of the Realme without their controlement shew Neither will I here proceed to repeat their other vaine curious fond trifling and vile Arts and Studies which were endlesse Only in this place I must here adde unto those publike professed Arts above recited the study of all Heathen and prophane Histories of all ages nations persons wherein they must of necessity be prompt and expert as from those fountaines to draw their examples and platformes of manners and the government of States as from whence to fetch the chiefe ornaments of their stile Orations Sermons Bookes to exemplyfie illustrate prove or improve yea as whereby to open and expound the Scriptures both of the old and new Testament chiefly the old Prophets without which they cannot be understood but especially Esay and Daniel As to Rethoricke and Logique they are so necessary as without which it is impossible to understand or divide any part of the Scriptures aright as without which they cannot understand or declare to the people by what trope or figure by what form of argument or Syllogisme the holy Ghost speaketh In these Arts and Studies are the Academicall Divines or rather Peripateticke Philosophers trained and exercised In these they must needs spend seven of their first yeeres at the least else should they be unfit to take those degrees of Batchelor and Master of Art or to make that publike profession they doe of the Arts at their Commencements In these Arts and Studies when they are once a little exercised and instructed that they begin to perceive the grounds and method thereof then are they trained both publikely and privately to defend or oppose against some of these Axiomes or Positions both by way of Oration and Argument in their Sophismes and Disputations and therein all being approved or at the least allowed they then take the first degrees of Schocles and commence Bachellors of Art and have as ensignes of their degree and knowledge speciall attire and furniture assigned them to be knowne from other common schollers as the square Cap troncke Gowne the Hood of one shoulder the habite c. which they must weare Afteward having spent more then three yeeres in study on these Arts and having done their publike acts Pro gradu then they commence Masters of the said Arts and are againe solemnly sworne and made Regents and Lecturers of their Schooles and sit reade and dispute of the same Arts publikely in a solemne high Seat Pulpit or Chaire for Orations as also reade private Lectures thereof in their Colleges Now I would here by the way know of Master Giffard what time and leisure a Bachelor of Art that continueth in the Vniversitie and proceedeth in those orders and degrees can have to study Divinity or to grow so prompt in the knowledge judgement and exercise thereof as he dare ingage his credit he shall be found farre to passe therein such as in therein 〈…〉 been allowed publikely to preach and of the Bishops been made full Ministers But to our purpose when these Clerkes are thus instituted and furnished with these liberall sciences and this ground-worke throughly laid then may they in good time proceed to the study of Divinity as they call it which is set out unto them in great volumes and infinite bookes of mens writings both old and new where they have such variety of Paraphrases Commentaries Common places Catechises c. Not to trouble them at the first with the Primitive Histories Doctors Councells as they may in short space if they study hard become pretty Divines and be able to shew their Authors judgement yea through the help of Rotoricke and a good memory to make a Sermon an houre long Alwayes carefully provided that they utter no more then that they have read in some allowed Author having the privilege of the Church of England and presume not either to understand the Text otherwise then their Authors interpret it or to adde one note of their owne observation for that how consonant soever to the truth were great presumption rashnesse Neither may they over-far apply or inforce the judgement of their Authors against any present enormity established by authority in the Church of England for that were intollerable against the peace of the Church yea seditious against the Magistrates authority c. Thus whilest these Divines are held within these limits of modesty and sobriety and continue with their Mother the Vniversity they may in due time set up their bills of challenge upon the Schoole doores that they meane to dispute upon such and such questions of Divinity and doe their acts pro gradu Which being dispatched either in tenebris or in luce then are they fit for the Commencement to be made Batchelors of Divinity In like manner against that day must such of them as have before passed all these degrees and now are fit to proceed Doctors of Divinity doe their acts in the publique Schoole accordingly in these Divinity Disputation Sermons ad derum c. And against this solemne Commencement must especiall choice be made of those that are to commence Batchelors and Doctors of Divinity to keepe the publique

acts that day And these for their further credits often times will undertake to defend against all commers such Propositions as are most odious to all men in whome is any light conscience knowledge or feare of God As that it is lawfull for one man to have more Benefices and Flockes to attend on then one at one time That it is lawfull to be a Non resident to live from his flocke whereof hee taketh charge That the unpreaching Ministers are true and lawfull Pastors and the Sacraments by them delivered true and holy Sacraments That Christs outward government in his Church practise and set downe by his Apostles is not of necessity or perpetuall but variable and arbitrable at the will of men according to times estates c. These and such like these Graduates publish and defend the Vice-Chancelor and and whole Senate of the Vniversity conclude and confirme as Catholike Orthodox and most sound rejecting whatsoever Scriptures or Reasons shall by these comicall Disputers eithe Vniversity Doctors and Divines be brought against them Well unto this famous act are these Commencers solemnly brought in their severall attires and arrayes in their scarlet gownes hoods habits caps tippets c. with the Bedells proclaiming and carrying staves and maces before them with a great troupe of Graduates and Clerkes following them And thus they march thorow the streets to the place appointed and prepared for these prizes where they have their sticklers and moderators ready to rescue when they are in any distresse and where their adversaries fight booty being of their owne confederacie Where it is not lawfull for any that will to oppose or to speake for the truth of God Neither are these questions discussed in the English tongue before those multitude of people and strangers but in the Latine tongue after their Syllogisticall and Romish manner lest the folly of these Prophet should be laid open unto all men and these gamesters be hissed off the Stage by the people Thus though with many other trifling ceremonies and circumstances then either I can or care to recite are these Academicall Divines advanced to their degrees Which degrees titles ceremonies orders oathes vowes manner of disputations c. how consonant they are to the Ministry of Christ by the Apostles rules let Master Giffard or those learned Divines approve by Christs Testament as it standeth them upon that bring them in and exercise them in the Church For our selves we protest we never there read or heard of any such and therefore cannot but thinke them fond strange and Antichristian such as no way belong to or beseeme the Ministry of Christ neither are necessary or tolerable in Christs Church Thus even by this very brief and insufficient recitall of but some of their Arts studies orders degrees c. I hope this assertion will not prove so false or incredible That the learned Ministry of the Church of England is nourished even from their cradles with the make of superstition instructed in the Schooles of heathen vanity brought up in the Collidges of more then Monkish idlenesse and disorder For of such kinde of Societies and Colledges of Ministers and Clerks to live together after this Monasticall manner we never read in the whole Booke of God How like they are to the Schools of the Prophets at Naioth Rama Iericho let their Arts studies vowes customes orders ceremonies degrees disputations exercises c. declare And as to the holy exercise of prophesie spoken of in the new Testament it belonged unto and alwayes was exercised in some Christian Congregation in a more holy reverent and free manner and not after those Heathenish Popish customes above said We in Christs Testament never reade of such a Monastical Ministry so withdrawne and sequestred from any particular Congregation Office Charge and Function as these Vniversitie Divines and Ministers are in their Colledges Halls Cells Where they must needs live in idlenesse and disorder that are thus licentiate and dissolute that will beheld within no Christian bonds or order Wee never reade in Christs Testament of any such Societies or Ministers that lived in no particular Congregation that were called to no particular Office or Flocke that live idlely professing to be Ministers and yet execute no certaine Ministry or Function When Master Giffard shall directly prove by the Scriptures these things to be lawfull then so farre forth wee shall allow of these Vniversitte Divines these Collegiat Ministers And the rather if hee also approve by Gods Word their worship in their Service-booke and last of all not to comber him with their manifold other superstitious enstomes Commemoratons c. if hee can shew it to be lawfull for any Minister or Christian to joyne unto and live in any such Colledge Societie or Fellowship where Gods holy Ordinance of honest marriage is by expresse law forbidden all the Fellowes and Schollers of these Colledges they being no longer to remaine in that Societie then they live unmarried I say not now chastely For how possibly or likely that is for so many young men in the flower of their youth and prime of their strength especially being noseled in such heathen vanity prophanenesse vaine-glory curiositie superstition disorder dissolutenesse and as is said contempt of Gods Ordinances let any judge yea let the Scripture it selfe judge where God sheweth the reward of these sinnes how hee therefore giveth them up to the lusts of their owne hearts unto uncleannesse to shamefull lusts Rom. 1. contrary to nature to worke filthinesse and to dishonour their owne bodies amongst themselves c. And so untill some of them can justifie this their life orders custome vowes and proceedings of these Academicall Devines in their Schooles and Colledges we must number and leave them with their brethren and sisters the Monkes Friers Nuns c. under Gods fearefull judgements utterly in this estate unfit for the Ministrie or Church of Christ Yet would I not here that any should deeme or suppose that wee condemne any lawfull Arts or necessary Sciences or any holy Exercises or Schooles of institution and so doe labour to bring in barbarisme as Master Giffard Master Some and others have given out No we are so far from it as wee blame these Vniversities Colledges and Schooles for their heathen prophane superstitious unchristian societies disorders customs ceremonies for their vaine curious unlawfull Arts and studies and their manner of teaching and exercising them c. We desire with our whole hearts that the tongues and other godly Arts were taught not in the Vniversities or a few places onely but in all places where an established Church is at the least in every City of the land Yet this indeed we hold That every Christian man ought to have his abiding and dwelling and to bring up his children in some such place where a Christian Congregation is and that all Schools of learning ought to be kept in such places where both Teachers and Schollers may be under the holy

government and censures of Christ in his Church and may live and be kept in holy order Then that the Arts and Sciences which are thus taught or studied be not vaine curious or unlawfull but necessary and godly Thirdly that they be not taught exercised or practised after any prophane vain-glorious or superstitious manner but in all sobriety modesty and in the feare of God To these few rules if their Vniversities Colledges Schooles were reformed then should they not be as they now are the Seminaries of Antichrist the bane of the Church the corruption of all youth in the Land But then should they be that which they now pretend the Schooles of all godly learning to garnish the Church to furnish the Commonwealth with fit and vertuous men for every place office and estate Here they will with one voyce answer that the Vniversities are the Seminaries of Religon of the Ministery of the land the Schooles and Colledges of learning wherein the sonnes of the Prophets are trained up as they were in Naioth in Bethel Ieriche Iorusalem and Corinth If the tree be knowne by the fruit the Cockatrice by the poisoned Egges the Viper by the spawne the nest by the birds then let the Religion and Priests of the Land shew what kinde of Seminaries and Colledges these Vniversities are If these be the best fruit and famoufest men that are instructed in nothing but 〈◊〉 corrupt and cavill against the truth then let them take heed for the Axe is laid to the root of the tree c. If also these your Vniversities be compared to the Cities whither these faithfull men repaired because of these famous Prophets to be instructed in the Lawes of God we shall find them more like to the Sodomiticall Colledges and Fellowships of the Idolatrous Monks and Friors brethren of a birth even by both parents then unto the holy assemblies of the Prophets And this will appeare if we compare them either in the persons assembled or in the manner and ends of their education and training What the sonnes of the Prophets were is already shewed namely godly men that repaired to the Cities where these famous Prophets were most resident to be instructed in the Law of God But the persons that resort to these Vniversities are the children of all the prophane in the Land that repaire thither to be instructed in heathen and vaine Arts whereby they may get their living or if they study Divinitie as they call it they make an occupation of it It is but for their belly for worldly promotion and not for the glory of God as the greedy seeking after their Ecclesiasticall livings by the one sort the selling of their cunning and letting forth their tongues to hire of the other sort declareth Third holy companies of Prophets mentioned in the Scriptures were trained up in the Law of God lived orderly in the feare of God together with their wives and families But these Vnivensity Colledges are a misse line rowte of very young men for the most part and boyes together leading their lives in Idolaity confusion disorder spending their lives if vanity folly idlenesse living neither in the feare of God not in an well established order of his Church neither in any lawfull calling in the Common-wealth They are forbidden in these societies to live in holy wedlocke If he be married he may not there enter If hee being entred marry he may not there tarry An endlesse discourse it were but to recite their severall Idolatrous prophane usages mysteries others vows ceremonies all which evidently shew from whence they had their originall namely from Antichrists chaire to which they have ever served and still mall places do serve fighting stoutly under his banner against the Faith and Church of Christ supplying him continually with fresh soldiers to carry abroad his merchandise and fet abroach the deceits of Satan Neither are they more like unto the Churches of Christ Revel 〈◊〉 1 Iohn 〈…〉 2 Cor. 〈…〉 then unto the Schooles of the Prophets the Church of Christ is no cage of such uncleane and hatefull birds of their frie and off-spring the Churches of Christ have no such Colledges Societies Fellowships the Churches of Christ have no such heathenish and Idolatrous customes excercises usages othes vowes ceremonies they have no such prophane Arts 1 Tim 〈…〉 4. 〈…〉 3.4.5 〈…〉 1 Tim 〈…〉 Tit. 〈…〉 1 Pet. 〈…〉 Acts 〈…〉 1 Cor. 〈…〉 Mat 〈…〉 Acts 〈…〉 vaine education and literature they have no such degrees and ostentations of learning neither are there found either Batchelors or Doctors of Divinity Their Pastors and Teachers are chosen for their knowledge gravity goodnesse of life they have no such fastuous and blasphemous titles but are called to a labour and a charge for the faithfull performance whereof they rather desire to be commended then to be thus greeted in the Market-place As they are by the Church wherein they serve called to to this office so are they orderly and reverently ordained by and in the same Congregation with fasting and prayer c. and not arrayed in searlet with the habit hood tippet corner-cap with their maces and beadles proclaiming before them and such a traine of the Popes Olerks young and old following them through the streets till they march to the place where they play their prifes Neither are they in this manner dubbed Doctors by the delivering a booke unto them sworne upon a booke to their fathers fidelity and their mothers mysteries adopted their sonne by a ring and a kisse or enthronized in a chaire with many other ceremonies and made Doctors of Divinity Doctors in name and title onely Act 〈…〉 1 〈…〉 without any certaine office or Church wherein and whereunto to administer For this title of Divinity I know not how to give it unto any mortall man without blasphemy Christ onely excepted Col. 〈…〉 in whom the fulnesse of the God head dwelleth bodily Rev. 〈…〉 Rev. 〈…〉 The English of Christian Religion and Profession of the Gospell and faith of Christ I can well away with and digest but this English Romish abstract of Divinity I am assured came from the same forge that their title of the supreme Head of the Church did and cannot with all the glosses scholions and learned interpretations they can devise be made other then most high blasphemy against the sacred person of Christ 〈…〉 who is onely universall Doctor of all his Disciples and of all true Religion And evill may D. S. either defend or paterne his Doctorhood by Saint Paul who in the same verse by him alledged 1 Tim. 2.7 sheweth a lawfull calling a lawfull and certaine office and also a sincere and faithfull administration thereof But now as Saint Pauls Apostolique office is ceased the Church being established and delivered to other certaine offices so if Pauls Apostolique roome of Doctorship as he calleth it were void I suppose D. Some not the fittest man in the world for it although if it

be as I heare he can be no lesse then an Apostle by his offices hee being a Pastor if not a double or plurified Nonresident Pastor of many Churches a Doctor you see by priviledge and stile and a Deacon I meane also at Ely And what was or could any Apostle be more Yet seeing all these are but forged stuffe and that he hath neither any true office in the Church neither any true calling thereunto c. we can take him but for a false Apostle at the best if he sit not in an Apostataes chaire that I say not an Apostataes gowne somewhere else and so leave him either to repentance or to follow his predecessors to his appointed place But by following this bird over farre I had almost been trained from the nest I was shewing what little affinity there is betwixt the Churches of Christ and these Vniversities these Colledges of Clerkes these Schooles of Prophets In the churches of Christ the names and offices of Chancellor Vice-chancellor Commissary Proctors Taskers Bedells Provosts Masters of Colledges vice-Masters Bowcers Deanes Fellowes c. are all strange and unheard of as also their severall statutes customes ceremonies their manner of degrees and disputing for their degrees and order of teaching which were no small labour but to reckon up All which as they are strange to the Church of Christ who find not in all Gods Word any of these offices degrees statutes orders customes ceremonies vows c. neither any such Vniversities colledges Societies of Schollers so seeing they have no ground in the Word of God no fellowship or communion with the Church I see not why they should have any more toleration then their elder brethren the Monks who every way had as great shew of holinesse and colour of utility to the Church as they or these other Cathedrall Collegiate dens have yea and might both as soone and as well have beene purged of their Masse and Latine-service as these are so that the same end that is besalne the one remaineth the other The Lord is not pleased with any voluntary Religion That building that hath not the Word of God for the foundation though it be dawbed with never so great cunning and learning 〈…〉 and undershored with never so great policy and power though it be built as high as Babel yet shall it assuredly fall and the greater shall be the fall thereof As there is no building without the Word of God for the foundation so is there no fellowship or communion out of the Church of God And therefore no such consused Colledges no such Idolatrous assemblies as are not gathered unto Christ but unto Antichrist as live not in that Christian order and fellowship which Christ hath appointed to all his servants in his Church but leade their lives in Antichristian disorder in Babylonish if not Sodomitish confusion no such heathen Schooles wherein youth is not trained up in the feare knowledge and order of Christ but in vaine Arts Ephes 〈◊〉 Prov. 〈◊〉 superstition Idolatry disorder c. have any foundation in the Word of God any fellowship with or allowance in the Church of God But here will the Vniversity Knights draw mee within the compasse of these two absurdities First that I condemne all good Arts and Literature then that I quite drive them out of the world by taking away the Schooles of the same wherein youth might be trained and brought up Nothing lesse I with my whole heart allow of any Art or Science that is consonant to the Word of God and to the Doctrine which is according to godlinesse onely the curious and heathen Arts prophane and vaine babblings and oppositions of Science falsly so called which they professe and wherewith they poyson and corrupt all the youth of the Land I abhorre because God condemnech As sor Schooles to teach the Tongues or any laudable or necessary Art I wish them in abundance that if it were possible not onely the youth but even the whole Church might be trained therein I with my whole heart wish that all the Lords people were Prophets such an enemy am I to the true knowledge and learning that I would not have it any longer kept secret in a mysterie but even proclaimed upon the house top in every Cit and in every street yet still and ever with this caution that these Schooles both be in an established Church I meane in such places where the Saints live together in the faith order obedience and communion of Christ and not in such Monkish Idolatrous confused idle prophane Colledges and Fellowships as theirs are Likewise that the Tongues or Sciences be here taught in an holy sanctified reverend grave manner and not in such an unsanctified vaine manner as they use So shall the earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters that cover the sea for in the Church of Christ are all his springs inclosed which by this meanes should runne at every conduct and water the whole land abundantly whereas now they lie in miserable darknesse wholly overgrowne with brambles and briers And surely I even with marvell wonder how these men can be so blinded to compare these wicked Idolatrous societies to the assemblies of the Prophets or unto the Church of Christ when you see they have nothing common with them or like unto them either in the people assembled Doctrine taught manner of teaching and learning or order of life when they utterly want warrant in the Word of God for such kinde of Colledges Societies and Schooles these having beene derived either from the Heathens Egyptians Greekes Persians that had their peculiar Colledges and Schooles to their peculiar Sects or else have issued out of the smoke of Antichrists inventions out of the bottomlesse pit They alwayes have beene and still are the very hives and nurseries of these armed poisoned Locusts and venomous Scorpions I meane either that false Ministery of Antichrist even all the governing and teaching Priests as Cardinalls Archbishop Bish Suffraganes Archdeacons Chancellors Commissaries Civill Doctors Advocates Proctors Vagrant roving Ministers and Preachers parish Priests c. or those counterfeit religious hypocrites Monks Friers Nuns Clerkes or as we now of late call them Schollers All which have in innumerable multitudes from time to time and at all times swarmed and issued out of these hives into the face of the whole earth corrupting and destroying every greene thing poysoning the pure founraines of Gods Word with their accursed glosses deepe learning subtill and figurative interpretations darkning the sunne and infecting the ayre therewith as also with the blasphemous traditions of their King Apolluon that Angell of the bottomelesse pit They have alwayes most pestilently fought under this their Captaine against the Lambe his Gospell and Church plentifully furnishing and continually supplying all the offices and roomes belonging to that huge Midianitish Host of Antichrist the Leaders Captaines and Officers whereof are and ever have beene wholly taken out of these Seraliaes even from the Popes person to the lowest Priest How they are reformed by having this English portesse their service-booke in stead of their old mass-masse-booke may partly by that which is above written concerning the same appeare but more manifestly by taking a view of fome of the blasphemous Idolatrous customes which still remaine in practise with them in the same manner as they did under the Pope all or any of which it is not here my purpose any further to describe It sufficeth me to have shewed them to be confused Idotrous unchristian unlawfull assemblies and societies so farre from being to be compared unto or justified by the assemblies of the Prophets or that heavenly exercise of prophesie now in the Church of Christ as they are not to be suffered in a Christian Common-wealth And therefore here againe once more I conlude that both these ungodly assemblies as also the Cathedrall Dennes and Colledges ought by as good right to be abolished as their other brethen and sisters of a birth the Monasteries and Nunneries are seeing they all want foundation in the Word had one and the same hellish originall had and these still retaine the same blasphemous incurable abuses which can by no way be reformed but by their utter dissolution FINIS A PROTESTANTS ACCOUNT Of His Orthodox Holding in Matters of Religion at this present in difference in the CHURCH For his own and others better confirmation or rectification in the points treated on Humbly submitted to the censure of the Church of ENGLAND Printed by ROGER DANIEL Printer to the Universitie of Cambridge 1642. 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