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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

THE POLLUTION OF Vniversitie-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 as now in these dangerous dayes all the truly godly have dolefull exeperience As it was well observed almost threescore yeers agoe by that faithfull Martyr of Iesus Christ Mr. Henry Barrow in divers of his Bookes for Separate or independent CHVRCHES The evill of which kinde of learning so attained with many others flowing from thence may be remedied henceforth by the grave determination of the King and Parliament Read 1 Tim. 6.20 21. and Colloss 1.2 8. LONDON Printed in the yeare Anno Dom. 1642. The Preface to the READER IF thou that readest this Treatise be one that hast drunken of those polluted Fountaines of Vniverstie learning which upon the termes thou diddest believe it is so much the more poysonable for the soule then the waters of Mara were bitter for the body as the soule is more excellent then the body yet if thou hast any true desire though never so small to be refreshed with the cleare and fresh waters of life or if thou wilt awaite at the Poole of Bethesda untill the Angell of the Covenant come and cure thee surely there is a possibility of thy recovery and God that separated light from darknesse can easily make a separation betweene the evill thou hast received there in thy tender yeers and the good thou hast attained otherwise even as he did both in Moses when he was pleased to call and fit him for his speciall service being trained up in all the wisedome as well as the profits and pleasures of Egypt and also in Paul who was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and could speake more languages then all the Philosophers of Corinth Or if thou be one that bast been taught in all godly learning which truely both deserveth and getteth the name in Gods Word as the sonnes of the Prophets were of old and wherein Timothy was brought up from a childe though thou be ignorant of all Vniversitie learning especially upon such hard or rather intolerable termes as whereby it is obtained surely thou hast great cause to rest contented use it to the right end and praise the wise God who knoweth best what is for thy good And as for the tongues which God gave at the first for a curse or judgement to binder the building of the Tower of Babel the same God that can bring good out of evill did at the first preaching of the Gospel change that curse or judgement into a blessing or mercie to all Nations through the divulging thereof to each Nation in their owne language if these I say or any godly learning may be had in a holy way doubtlesse a happy and sanctified use may be made thereof to the glory of God and good of his Church but no otherwise nor upon any unlawfull termes such as wicked oaths orders degrees and ceremonies neither Idolatrous places nor yet in nor amongst the company of such ungodly Docters Batchelors graduates Masters of Arts Fellowes Professors nor Students whose lives and conversations are in this Treatise described to be like Rome if not like Sodome And although these dayes be very hard and harsh unto many thousands as I and mine have had long and dolefull experience yet in many respects especially of a hopefull plantation of Christs glorious Gospell in the purity and authorithy thereof for any other reformation can hardly or possibly be good these dayes I say are far better then the former dayes wherein we and our predecessors went on superstition sinne and ignorance and when we would not commit sinne enough and that with greedinesse there were both wicked lawes and taske-masters to urge us as it was both in Egypt and 〈◊〉 in the dayes of Phraoh and Jeroboam but praised be our good and 〈…〉 that hath so mercifully and beyond both our expectation and deserving infinite degrees raised up the Scottish nation both to breake all their bands and cut their cords yea and to make such a happy way for us that both live and sojourne here whereby to escape the crafty snares of the bloody enemies as a bird out of the hands of the fowler Many Prophets and righteous men in Christ would have beene glad to see the dayes that we see and could not see them and to heare the things that we heare but could not heare them But lest I be too tedious I will not insist by way of preamble beeause few words are sufficient for the wise I meane for the godly wise and not those mentioned 1 Cor. 1.18 19. I referre thee to this little portion of a worthy Martyrs observations of never dying memory notwithstanding all the Clergies cruelty who when he was close prisoner in the Fleet many yeeres being not onely urged to write anumber of bookes against ambitious and covetous Clergie men but to answer all their objections in many severall disputations and examinations two of them being sent after two by the Bishops to forge quarrels and to try if they could entangle either him in speech or Master Greenwood who was a close prisoner also and executed with him earely in a morning before either any competent number of people gathered or Queene Elizabeth heard being twice rescued by her before whose severall examinations excellent observations and their adversaries calumniations as also those of that that other worthy martyr Master Penry are yet extant in print though the light thereof bath beene long eclipsed and obscured with many other worthy mens Workes through the injury and iniquity of the times untill now that by Gods speciall providence undederserved and unexpected love to us in Christ that the strong deludge of bookes which hath been so long by such wicked lawes decrees and persecutions stopped as that most severe booke of statutes made in the Star Chamber against printers and the cruelty used against John Lilbourne can testifie doth I say overflow all the banks both of hellish and Romish limitation All whose Workes with learned Master Henry Ainsworths Wilkinsons Robinsons with many others of the separation I wish thee to peruse and so regard them for thine owne good as thou seest them tend to the glory of God being tried by the touchstone of his Word and then I hope thou wilt give him the whole praise and howsoever thou esteems either of the Author or mee his fraile instruments I bid thee fare-well Faults escaped in the aforegoing page In the preceding page line 3. for believe reade receive and line 20. reade onely wise God The unlawfulnesse of Vniversity Learning Or Sciences falsly so called extracted out of Mr. HENRY BARROWS Booke ONE sort of the Ministery of the Church of England is the Collegiat or idle Ministery which may be divided or rather distinguished because sometimes they are mixed and joyned one man being a Master of a