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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45023	An humble motion to the Parliament of England concerning the advancement of learning, and reformation of the universities by J.H.	Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1649 (1649)	Wing H350; ESTC R6718	26,750	48

men out of one small observation could be bold to raise abundance of vaine consequences and for one and the same experiment there were sundry reasons brought and it was easily wrested and salved by divers principles I judged that as there was an extreame deale of diligence and nicity to the practicall pursuance of Nature so that it was not safe to draw any one principle from any one observation unlesse there could not possibly be any other reason given for it or else alike discoveries had confirmed it that if any other interpretation were put upon it it was unproper and vaine For as it is easie for men of acute wits to mis-judge and mis-expect Nature so when an axiom is rightly gained it is easie to work it up and to draw from it many strange and magicall Productions And because there are abundance of extraordinary appearances both at home and abroad I judged it necessary that all these should be carefully gathered and registred so that those many varieties comming into a long Catalogue and digested by a sober minde might afford many rare and beautifull discoveries of the glory of their Creator What other meanes might be used both in this and Medicine would be too large now to insist on since I at first purposed but a Synopsis which I cannot despair my selfe if it were rightly or hotly pursued could not but bring forth a more plentifull harvest then we at the present expect There are no doubt many of nobler thoughts who might furnish you with more exact and high designations and truly I shall thinke my selfe abundantly satisfied if from these poore reflections you may be invited to take their advice and follow their vast and judicious considerations in this nature However for my part let this humble Essay be as much neglected or revil'd as may be I shall sit down quiet with a conscience of the discharge of my duty though it can reap no farther then the putting of these wishes upon the file and transmitting them to Posterity These things as I have but briefly touched so to particularize them had been extreame folly your Wisdomes being so able to direct you in case God stir your hearts for to take in hand this taske which if you cheerfully goe through no doubt but that gale of divine favour which hath constantly gone along with you will not now leave you but bring you to the end And as your eyes have been blest with many strange fights and your mouths oftentimes filled nay strucken dumbe with wonder so there is no doubt but if you doe this one thing which now remaines you shall see the Taper of a learned Piety burne among us I hope like an immortall lampe fed w 〈…〉 refined and sublimest knowledge whilst all those false ligh● of ignorance humane forgery and superstition shall vanish away or be put out and the stubborne pervicacy of humane reason turn'd into a gentle compliance to divine truth You shall see Nature traced through all her Turnings to a cleare demonstration of her first cause and every day bring forth varieties of experiments either to the reliefe astonishment or delight of men you shall then see us freed from all these fabulous illusions and impostures which have hitherto beset either Traditions or Cures and Nature which now disguises her selfe into so many shapes forced into an open veracity and pure nakednesse You shall see the number of Arts daily increased and th 〈…〉 we knowne already wonderfully promoted You shall then see Scheams of Common-wealths brought forth easie and naturall and not varied into a multiplicity of crooked Hypotheses You shall then see Policy reconciled to Divinity Morality and it self and yet better able to lay designes and prevent dangers You will then have it in its native simplicity and your posterity may at once learne to be both wise and innocent You shall have the use of the Tongues daily increase and that judgement of confusion which hath so long and so heavily laine upon mankinde by degrees removed You shall have the wayes of Education made smooth and your children with a pleasant successe possessed of all the Treasures of reall knowledge ere they could have thought they had entred the gates So that when you have added these fights to the former and witnessed by a happy old age the blessednesse of this Land you may see the reines also prosper in the hands of those that shall be your Successours and melting away in a soft dissolution finde that Crown above which is owing to fidelity and that reward below that the best Law-givers have ever met with that is your Names shall increase in the silent motion of Time and all Posterity shall looke backe upon you with an eye of Piety and Adoration The End

bodings cannot be of nothing but upon 〈…〉 arrower recognition will appeare full of miracle which amounts with me to no lesse then the chasing away of shadows before the breake of the great day 〈…〉 d surely that begins a fuller manifestation of himselfe suffers us to approach him by these degrees and therefore hath diffused a great and a restlesse Genius in this age far greater then any hath been of a long time And as Astrologers say that there are at some certaine times some powerfull influences showred by the conjunction or positure of some Planets which if they be not received and magically applied at that very time do immediately passe away and become ineffectuall and are not to be expected againe till after many ages so any tract of time when it meets a sublime and elevated spirit to assist and guide it cannot certainly witho●t disadvantage and losse refuse to entertaine it nay they cannot be so stupid as not to thinke both that the time is unregainable and that a judgement awaits them for being so bold as to resis 〈…〉 the discoveries of it But I cannot thinke so ill of these men among whom I was borne that they will shut their eyes against this light that breaks so brightly and glistringly in upon them and be lethargically content to please themselves with the reverend follies and dreams of their forefathers T is no matter what some frozen Sadduces or some others of a worse name if there be any can scoffe that it is folly to entertaine any such vaine imaginations and madnesse to prosecute them T is folly will prove the happiest wisdome and no more a deviation of the understanding then the entertaining a new naturall exact scheame of heaven and nature in lieu of the old broken interfering Hypotheses which rely on no other probability but a sent of sense distorted by education and brawned by custome T is no matter what some purblinde Polititians or sneaking worldlings talke of the difficulty of times and say that these soft aires of peace cannot be heard 〈…〉 midst the loud musicke of Warre and that mens thoughts are too much broken and harrassed to fall 〈…〉 pon these things which must be the fruits of the 〈…〉 eepest and most silent leasure You have the highest destiny favouring your designes put an end to all 〈…〉 ch Tumults and we have now no more of War then 〈…〉 necessary to the preservation of our peace which 〈…〉 ems to smile on us againe and promise us that she 〈…〉 ill not flye away for fear lest her snowy garments 〈…〉 ould be stayned in blood But put the case that your Enemy were as visible 〈…〉 d powerfull as ever yet I dare be knowne to thinke 〈…〉 at it were much more honourable for you to assume 〈…〉 ese thoughts nay that they both were not consistent together What can you imagine to doe 〈…〉 re worthy of memory or imitation then in the 〈…〉 dst of your most urgent dangers to lay a modell and 〈…〉 w the lines of happinesse and security for all poste 〈…〉 y How can you better demonstrate your selves 〈…〉 rlesse and hearty in what you goe about then by 〈…〉 wing such a severity and composition of spirit nay 〈…〉 h a contrary neglect of what opposition is set be 〈…〉 e you as to minde those vast designes of litterall ●gnificence or further acquisition What more 〈…〉 ning in all the Annalls of Rome then the porten 〈…〉 us bravery of sending Forces into Spaine when 〈…〉 nniball was at the Gates and selling that field 〈…〉 ereon he en camped at so deare a rate as it would 〈…〉 e passed at had he been prisoner within the walls 〈…〉 d his Army dispersed yea and to shew that these 〈…〉 er times want not parallels of the Ancient Gran 〈…〉 rs what will be more illustrious in the History of Holland then their high and visible cares and al 〈…〉 prodigall magnificence for learning while as they y 〈…〉 strugled with a sad war and had not yet released the 〈…〉 necks from the sway of a per●idious and horrid Tyrant For the people whom you are to care for it can not be but that peace might have softened and ema 〈…〉 culated them whereas their calamities have brought them into a better agility and constitution to promo 〈…〉 their excellent desires to liberty in any thing which they may conceive really conducible and there is n 〈…〉 cause to doubt but they will facilly be swayed 〈…〉 that power under whose valorous conduct they 〈…〉 asserted themselves from all impressions and marks 〈…〉 dishonour and slavery which usurpation iniquity 〈…〉 time or forreigne force had put upon them It cannot be denied but by the invaluable losse 〈…〉 bloud and Treasure the body of this Nation is become thin and leane and therefore he were a Vi 〈…〉 that would offer to gnaw or suck it any more for 〈…〉 farther pressure be it never so little is now excessi 〈…〉 and therefore it would be but just to wave a Pet i 〈…〉 for any publicke contribution though possibly the hath been some liberality exercised to worse e 〈…〉 which had it been directed this way might have 〈…〉 qualled any of the ancient magnificencies and hono 〈…〉 able profusenesses upon learning although if y 〈…〉 were urged to some small liberality or rather p 〈…〉 vented any suit for it it would be a huge further a 〈…〉 to what is desired of you yet we onely beg nay o 〈…〉 jure you by all that is deare to you or desired you that you will imploy this which you finde 〈…〉 〈…〉 ady left to your hands and doe these things without any charge and onely lend us your Authority to 〈…〉 oe this longed for worke and no doubt if you cannot or will not lend any fewell to it God will stir 〈…〉 the hearts of many private persons and inflame 〈…〉 em with equall intentions and make their hands 〈…〉 ing it in in a full measure And now that which remaines of me to doe for I 〈…〉 nceive I have quitted my selfe of the Objections 〈…〉 d therefore may dismisse them will be a triple 〈…〉 ske First to shew how farre the state of our Uni 〈…〉 rsities needs a reformation Secondly how it may 〈…〉 brought about And thirdly I shall particularize 〈…〉 me ends which I have transiently before glanced at 〈…〉 t as ends but as fruits and enjoyments of your 〈…〉 ble piety And herein I shall the rather be short 〈…〉 cause these being at the most but the best sort of wishes I shall observe that course which the best 〈…〉 en do in their devotions to pray for the best things 〈…〉 ey can yet not limit the power they pray to to 〈…〉 ch or such a way of granting their requests as being 〈…〉 olved by what meanes soever it comes to receive it 〈…〉 earfully and knowing that power which they ad 〈…〉 esse themselves unto cannot onely doe it in a bet 〈…〉 r manner