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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52756	A discourse concerning schools and school-masters offered to publick consideration / by M.N.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1663 (1663)	Wing N387; ESTC R308	12,205	20

into I shall readily crave pardon of any one which shall be injured in that information which I have received but must think my self oblig'd in justice to the publick to let it be understood what ill offices may be done it as I have heard in private There are at this time about the City several Masters of private Schools which have bin and are still Covenanters Presbyterians Non-Conformists some of whom have been outed out of their other mens places for Schism who yet are incouraged by the confluence of youth from the City and 〈◊〉 the favour of some Noble Families One at Clapham One at Totenham High-Cross One or two at Chelsey One or two at Newington One at least at Hackney c. and so as I am told throughout the whole Kingdom those of that party are designing the same course Whether this be the fault of the under-Officers a sort of men that by ill execution of good Lawes have alwayes brought an odium upon the Episcopal Authority which imployes them and the sacred Order it self upon which they depend or whether it be the craft and cunning of those Merchants of the Faction who rather then sit out will play any game I am not able to discern Authority may be satisfied if it may be at leasure but to make the inquiry However it hath a very ill face and portends unluckily enough to the peace of the Nation that there are suffered such Seminaries of Faction as if it were designed that Posterity should retrive the Good Old Cause and the Children should carry on the Work of the Lord in the following Generation which hath proved too hot in ours Thanks be to God for the Father's fingers Will not these suffering Brethren have a fair Opportunity of being revenged on the Reverend Fathers of our Church for their severity in turning them out of unjust Livings by training Youth to a contempt of Church-Authority and Order and keeping on foot Nurseries like Barksteads Regiment of those who may hereafter make up a Schismatical Army My Lords You had much better have continued them in the Pulpit they will do ten times more mischief now amongst the Lambs then they could have done amongst the Sheep What they did then was like stealing of standing Corn out of the Field but rubbing the Ears but what they do now is stealing the Seed the next years Crop which the Civil Law hath determined to be a far greater theft They have sufficiently spoiled the present Age must they now be turned loose to spoil the next Age too If those Spirits by their Religious canting could carry away Men and Women from their Obedience to the Father of their Country and from the bosom of their Mother the Church ah My Lords Are they to be trusted with the Children I am of Opinion that if the Vicar General would instead of School-Licences give them Licences to practise Physick he might doe the whole Nation 〈…〉 good Office For by this means those of their own Tribe being the onely persons that would probably make use of them they might in some reasonable time give a fair account of the whole Fraternity as we use to rid our houses of Rats by teaching one to eat Rats flesh and then hanging a Bell about his neck he will never give over till he have ferreted all the gang away In good earnest it would be more prudent to advise his Majesty to allow all that have suffered in that kind and are otherwise unprovided which will not be many a moderate Pension out of his Exchequer then thus to admit them to an imployment which may be of so dangerous a Consequence to the publick Peace And whereas they pretend not to intersmeddle with the Instruction but leave that to a little Officer some puny Fellow they get from the Vniversity who may subscribe according to the Act while themselves keep their own Conscience free to the Godly Design besides that it is plain enough what danger there is in their very Converse and Example in their Hums and Haws in their Graces and Family-Exercises it being so familiar with Men of that Principle to sow Sedition in their very Prayers and to make Religion it self a Stale to Faction I say besides this it will be found upon inquiry that they do too execute the Teaching Part by spending considerable portions of their time in examining and taking account how their Children profit though this must be said in their behalf that for their teaching of Letters there is not that fear of a Presbyterian's doing much mischief seeing it may be supposed they cannot be very comunicative of what most of them have not but it is believed it was the intention of that Act to take from them the Opportunity of spreading the Leaven of their Factious and Disloyal Opinions which they can more effectually do in the Duties of the Family And it may be easily guessed by the Relations on what errand those Children are sent to such Masters or Landlords namely that they may learn to fear God and disobey the King and the Church as their Fathers before them have done I am somwhat the more earnest on this Subject because it must be confessed that those who were censured unfit for Church-work ought to be judged much less fit for the work of the School and if the Priests are denied to the Fathers much more should the Children be kept from them unless we would verifie that Proverb that The Fathers have eaten sour Grapes and now the Childrens teeth must be set on edge To come then to the last and chiefest Consideration How School-Masters themselves are to be qualified that they may laudably perform the great Trust and Duty which is charged upon them What difficulties the Work hath in it to encounter all kind of Tempers and improve all sorts of Wits to be ingeniorum morum artifices to fashion Minds and Manners to cultivate rude Soil and dispose Youth to Virtuous behaviour against their Natural inclinations what cares and pains what great abilities of Prudence and skill and all Virtue what a Cycle of Knowledge it requires to instruct others in the grounds of Literature to raise their Parts to heighten their Fancy to fix their thoughts and to crane their Genius to the pitch and so prepare them for publick Service is a thing more easily discoursed then considered more talked of then taken notice of It is a great wonder of Providence when we look on the present Constitution of Schools how much contempt and how little incouragement is shewn to the Profession that there are any able and worthy men of that way and sure whoever they are it was at first not the spontaneous Election of their own mind but some outward necessity of Fortune or some other Fatality that condemn'd them to those Galleys and tied them to that Oare seeing those that are ingaged do most upon the stocke of their own credit work through the flint So true is that Quem