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A16864	A consolation for our grammar schooles: or, a faithfull and most comfortable incouragement, for laying of a sure foundation of all good learning in our schooles, and for prosperous building thereupon More specially for all those of the inferiour sort, and all ruder countries and places; namely, for Ireland, Wales, Virginia, with the Sommer Ilands, and for their more speedie attaining of our English tongue by the same labour, that all may speake one and the same language. ...	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1622 (1622)	STC 3767; ESTC S106549	63,526	102

rightly weighed but all who are wise hearted will easily beare with me in my confident reioycing trusting moreouer that God will verifie all things to euerie one who shall duly make triall And in this affiance and testimonie of my conscience before his sacred Maiestie I wholly relie my selfe Therefore before I conclude giue me leaue a little to turne my speech to you my deare fellow labourers and namely to all you of the weaker sort for whom I haue and do still chiefly trauell whose hearts are set as mine to do all the good you can in your seuerall places all your dayes To you all I wish that as we haue bene sometimes companions in fruitlesse toile and vexation so we may be now in reioycing at and admiring the new fruites of our labours What a griefe may this iustly be vnto vs when one shall come and crie out of vs to our faces My sonne hath bene vnder you six or seuen yeares and yet is not able so much as to reade English well much lesse to construe or vnderstand a peece of Latin or to write true Latin or to speake in Latin in any tolerable sort which he might haue bene well able to haue performed if that you had taken that course and those good paines with him which you might haue done for in such a schoole others much yonger then mine are able to do it Another shall complaine My sonne comes on neuer a whit in his writing Besides that his hand is such that it can hardly be read he also writes so false English that he is neither fit for trade nor any employment wherein to vse his pen. When all in a towne generally shall murmure against vs in this or the like manner that their children do no good vnder vs but lose their time and spend their friends mony being brought vp idlely made fit for nothing and therefore what should a schoole do amongst them That it were much better to turne the maintenance giuen to the schoole to beare the charges of the towne for other duties and seruices then so vnprofitably to employ it Moreouer how must this needs trouble vs when manie shall crie out of our seueritie some shall wish I would my child had neuer knowne him If he had not dealt so cruelly with my child he had bene a scholar wheras now he is vndone Or when our scholars coming to mans estate shall curse vs for that by our blowes they were made dunses or deafe though this oftentimes vniustly or to hate all learning Or shall generally bewaile the losse of their time vnder vs complaining as the vsuall maner is My Maister neuer taught me anie vnderstanding or right vse of good learning that though I was with sundrie yet I was neuer the better I got more sence and saw more light for the vse and excellency of learning and also felt more sweetnesse therein in one halfe yeare in the end with one who directed me in a better order then in all my time with all others The rest deceiued my parents and were my vndoing Or when they shall thus complaine Our Maister had not anie care of our gouernment and manners He neuer taught vs the feare of the Lord nor made the least conscience to plant anie Religion or grace in vs. Finally what a terrour shall this be vnto vs and what a wounding to our consciences when we shall but thinke how the Lord and all good men may most iustly lay this vnto our charge that the cause hath bene chiefely in vs that Gods religion hath not thriuen any better in our Land in so long a time but that Popery ignorance Atheisme and all irreligiousnesse haue farre more growne vp in many places If we had bene as carefull to season our youth in the truth of Christ and to settle them in the grounds of his holy religion truly professed amongst vs to their saluation as the Popish schoolemaisters are to corrupt them with Idolatry and superstition vnto perdition the knowledge and loue of Gods true worship and pietie had flourished amongst vs euery where long ago all Popery and Atheisme rooted out And what answer can we thinke to make to God for his religion and people for so many who haue bene lost chiefly through our lacke of care How should these things touch euery one of vs euen to the very hearts and cause vs to bethinke our selues at length of this our weighty function to the end to take away all this reproch and to begin to recouer the credit of our worthy profession You know well that we are they to whose charge that rich treasure both of Church and Cōmon wealth is committed in trust as was said and the hope of a more happy age hereafter yet to come We are they who helpe either to make or marre all for that all the flower of our Nation and those who become the leaders of all the rest are committed to our education and instruction that if we bring them vp aright there is great hope that they shall prooue goodly lights and marks to all the rest of the Land especially to the townes and countries where they are and cleane contrarily most wofull ensamples as are euery where to be seene if they be spoiled through vs or for lacke of our better care So that we must needs do the greatest good or the greatest euill As we are before them so we may expect that they shall prooue for the most part after vs. We are therefore the men vpon whom the flourishing of this our Canaan doth very much depend We cannot then but know that as our worke aud charge are so weighty and in course of education next vnto the worke and charge of the holy Ministery which we also are to helpe to furnish so our account must be according to that which our God hath trusted vs withall and our reward answerable dreadfull if we haue bene negligent glorious if we haue bene faithfull We cannot be ignorant how our enemies the Iesuits not onely in their Semina●ies but also in their lesser schooles do bend their wits to go beyond vs in this verie kind Giue me leaue to put you in mind of that which was written vnto me from an ancient acquaintance in the Vniuersitie now sundrie yeares ago and which I do gladly acknowledge to the praise of God that it hath from the first relation put more life vnto me in this businesse The summe of it was this The Iesuites the Popish schoolemaisters beyond the seas do combine themselues together and all or at least manie schooles do reade the same bookes at one time and the same places and do change euery quarter and set vpon the schoole dores the Authors place lectures exercises euerie quarter newly printed and for this they haue great suite made vnto them by the Printers This haue I lately learned of certaine whom I vsed beyond the seas to this end Thus farre my louing friend

of the same These things likewise will certainly accompanie such a right order of proceeding both a maruellous freedome of the Maisters from their wearinesse and discontent and from that ouer-great seueritie which they are enforced to exercise or else to do litle good and withall a ioyfull deliuering of the poore children from that continuall feare whereby in manie schooles the greatest part haue bene wont to be exceedingly dulled and to be made most vnwilling to their bookes That now contrarily Maisters may teach with much delight and comfort and scholars learne with an ingenuous emulation like as they recreate themselues in their ordinarie sports And for the time spent in getting learning assuredly more true sound and substantiall learning will be found to be gotten in such places in seuen yeares then is in others commonly in seuen and halfe seuen For this is a thing notorious that in the greatest part of our common schooles abroad some few of principall note excepted the scholars at fifteene or sixteene yeares of age haue not commonly so much as anie sense of the meaning and true vse of learning for vnderstanding resoluing writing or speaking but onely to construe and to parse a little to steale an exercise and to write such Latine as anie of iudgement will disdaine to reade That in respect of being fit to be sent to the Vniuersities with credit that they may proceed with delight and vnderstanding when they come there they are commonly so senslesse as that they are much meeter to be sent home againe And if they be admitted into the Vniuersities it is not without the griefe of all who respect the credite thereof So as that they enter commonly with fowle disgrace and continue with much contempt to spend their friends monie their owne precious time which might haue bene farre better employed That they become there a great deale more readie to anie kinde of exercise then vnto the studie of good learning the ignorance whereof proues such a reproach vnto them Hence also after sundrie yeares so euilly spent manie of them return home againe almost as rude as they went thither or are sent abroad to be vnprofitable burdens both of the Church and Common-wealth perpetually Or if such do light into the hands of painfull and conscionable Tutors and fall to their studies yet their Tutors must then act for them the School-maisters part which must needs be verie harsh and vnpleasing yea rare to be found amongst them So that in stead of their Academicall readings they must be enforced to supplie that which was wanting in the Grammar schoole Such schollars must likewise vse extraordinarie paines and industrie and be of most happie capacities if euer they shall come to that pitch and height of good learning which being trained vp rightly from the beginning they might verie easily and in shorter time haue attained vnto Hereof the complaints of the worthiest and most carefull Tutors in the Vniuersities giue too sufficient testimonie And though such scholars proue neuer so well yet shall they feele the want of the Grammar schoole all their life long But to leaue the Vniuersitie a litle and to returne to our schooles againe for the gracing of thē Whereas now in sundrie of them yea some which are of good maintenance there are to be found some few like vnprofitable drones not by the vnaptnesse of nature but for lacke of better guidance and education then contrarily should we haue all such schooles generally as the litle bee-hiues euerie one in his owne cell and each knowing his owne taske and all gathering iointly to fill the hiues with the most excellent life honie So that tast wheresoeuer you pleased you might euer find most sweete contentment if thus the best courses were alike made known to all and care had that they might be constantly put in practise euerie where Yea then it would come to passe that whereas now there is litle or nothing in verie manie of them wherein the eye or eare can take delight but rather those who come to make triall haue enough at the first and euer take iust cause of griefe that there should be such lamentable spoiling of so manie toward youths so wretchlesse mis-spending of their golden age with such inualuable and irrecouerable losse and iniurie to all yet in short time we should see the same as the goodly gardens as amongst the litle singing birds in the flourishing Spring where we still looke and hearken after more sweete varietie of pleasant flowers and of melodious tunes Then should we find by ioyfull experience that each meane schoole would ●ot onely excell it selfe but be equall to manie of chiefer note And as much as the goodliest garden doth excell the place ouer growne with briars and nettles the litle bee-hiues the nests of drones so much should these each way surpasse those same which now they are That as we haue bene grieued formerly for the one we should be rapt with admiration of the other and thinke all our paines and cost farre too litle to be bestowed vpon them Maisters should be much more encouraged to go on with cheerefulnesse in seeing Gods blessing vpon their labours and by hearing the due commendations giuen to their scholars then by anie other rewards whatsoeuer The children should euer likewise haue their emulation increased which of them all should most excell And to conclude this point hence it should come to passe that although all could not be expected to excell in learning for then should we be left destitute of husbandmen to till the ground and much more of meete supplies to furnish all other callings neither is it possible by all the meanes or paines in the world to make such to be scholars to whom God in their naturall co●stitution seemeth to haue denied it chiefly where parents or teachers thēselues are too indulgent or remisse so that their children are disobedient much absent from schoole come and go at their pleasures neglect their exercises or the like or haue bene spoiled by ill entrance at the first yet these things would follow through a right and carefull gouernment That a good part would be found in euerie forme to credit the schoole some to store the Vniuersities others to adorne all other places and conditions of life that thereby might be had men expert in each kinde as necessitie should require for the common benefite and good of all All these things we may see verified in some few and rare schooles by comparing of which with most others and so by considering what a difference there is onely through the better courses practised constantly in them we may fully iudge of the truth of all that hath bene said and most necessarily be enforced to subscribe thereto Vpon the due consideration hereof and vpon much and loug experience of diuerse places together with the certaine assurance of these

Gods true religion there that Iesus Christ may reigne amongst them Sathans kingdome fall and they saued eternally if the Lord vouchsafe them that mercie To this purpose I cannot but oft thinke of the speech of a worthy learned man whom Cambridge in his time much reuerenced who hauing laboured many yeares with little fruite amongst a blinde and superstitious people was wont much to lament that he was enforced to labour in a barren soyle where salt had bene sowen whence he vsed to affirme that the chiefe hope of Gods church for all such pleaces so nuzled vp in rudenesse and superstition was to come out of our Grammar schooles And indeede for bringing men vnto ciuility the very heathens saw this to be the onely way according to these verses of the Poet which are familiar to euery child Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros Right learning of ingenuous Arts The sauage frames to ciuill parts This was one chiefe cause that all the wisest among them did so much prefer and euer so aduance learning and learned men To shut vp this point this I trust shall bring a blessing in due time to euerie one when this way of attaining to learning shall become so plaine and direct as that each poore mans child may with a litle cost and labour get some vnderstanding to know how to serue the high God and his owne necessary occasions and that the children and posteritie of those may come to the knowledge of the truth who themselues haue liued in most grosse ignorance and extreame blindnesse By the meanes hereof euery one shall be the better enabled to pay that debt which by his very birth he oweth vnto the Lord and to his natiue countrey For we are none of vs borne vnto our selues but as the heathen Oratour could say Our countrey doth challenge a part of our life seruice our parents a part our freinds a part c. So that all the course of the life of euery one of vs should be bent to the faithfull discharge of this our debt so to leaue to posterity a thankfull remembrance of our well deseruing of them If the heathens professed this how much more should we Christians oft bethinke our selues how much we owe not onely to our countrey to the Church of God in generall but euen to euery particular soule and more specially to those whom he hath linked vs to by nearer bonds And to this end ought each of vs to seeke as he offereth opportunity to be alwayes paying this debt of ours which none are likely to discharge so well as they who haue bene best instructed in their youth Hereupon there shall neuer be wanting many cheerefull aduancers of all good learning from which so many blessings do proceed especially when learning shall come into the right estimation This also shall be the chiefest glorie of all such in the earth to haue bene benefactours and furtherers vnto the best learning and true pietie and likewise a notable euidence of the eternall happinesse prepared for them To this purpose if that heathen Orator could likewise say further euen by the light of nature That to all who haue preserued helped or any way augmented the happinesse of their countrey there is a most certaine place ordained in the heauens where they shall enioy eternall happinesse how much more boldly may we Christians auouch the same vpon certaine grounds out of the word of God That there is indeed a place of euerlasting happinesse and glorie prepared for all those who in witnesse of their loue thankfulnesse to Iesus Christ and to their countries shall employ their studies and their wealth to the greatest aduancement of all heauenly learning and vnto the vertuous education of youth the hope of the succeeding ages Finally from all these shall the glorie of our nation be enlarged continually when men of true wisedome godlinesse do both rule and obey euerie where A state most certaine to endure long A Prince ten times happie and renowmed to be the head of a people so excelling in all true wisedome and vnderstanding Being thus vndoubtedly perswaded of so manie and rich blessings to ensue vpon the right finding out and making knowne the best courses of teaching in the Grāmar schoole without the least euill that I can surmise I haue thought that this shall be a speciall part of my comfort and a mercie aboue all other outward fauors which the Lord hath euer vouchsafed me if I may but do the least seruice herein or but shew my desire to further so great a good Hereupon haue I bene encouraged as I said not onely to trauell thus farre in it but also to tender this my poore seruice vnto all presuming vpon the kind acceptance of it amongst all sorts which the Lord hath hitherto vouchsafed so far forth as I know Because my confidence hath bene from my first entrance into this trauel according to the desire of my heart that these small beginnings might soone receiue such plentifull augmentations as in time to accomplish all the good which hath bene mentioned and as the Lord hauing verified amongst verie manie will I trust euerie day more manifest vnto all I also at the first edition of it hastened it the more because as we are borne for all as before was said and receiue all our talents for the benefite of euerie one to whom they may do good and are thereby each so deeply indebted vnto them so I haue endeuored since to increase my former experiments and to make them vndoubted by full and most certaine triall as I trust and heartily pray that all sorts for whom they haue bene written may reape some benefit by them so long as schooles or learning shall remaine And what is my life but a vapou● so that I might haue bene taken away before the work● had euer come to light like as some of my fellow labou●ers in this kind haue bene of whom I receiued some of these directions and those not of the smallest moment who had bene able to haue done farre greater seruice in this kind most of whose worthie experiments in this behalfe were buried with them Or how could I haue euer stood before the Lord if being so fully resolued assured of the good that might come by this labour and for that likewise by the bond of the Communion of Saints all to whom this benefite of it might redound had interest in it the Lord also hauing offered me so fit oportunitie I should not haue sought the discharge of this my debt to the vttermost farthing Might I not iustly haue feared that he would haue bene displeased for my negligence and loitering in so necessarie a worke Why should I not then still communicate from time to time what he hath further vouchsafed me in my continuall trauell Yea why should I not stirre vp

the best authoritie learning and iudgement that I could obtaine this fauour of haue intreated them to censure all things frankely and to direct vs wherein they found or thought vs defectiue to confirme and encourage vs wherein we proceeded in a right course Neither haue I conferred with any louing friend hereof so farre as I remember who hath not approued of the course and wished all good successe to this my trauell So that I haue not posted it forward but hasted slowly and vsed so farre as God hath granted me opportuniy all meanes of due preparation and of mature deliberation thus enquiring of as I said and conferring with so many of the best experienced as either my calling or greatnesse of the charges in trauell would permit And moreouer before I published any thing hereof in print I sent some draughts vnto sundry learned for their helpe and direction though not to the hundredth man to whom I desired For that I was neither able to get copies enow written nor to procure them written truly much lesse to be at the charge to send thē abroad into all parts to many who I know would willingly haue laid to their hands and added their experiments Therefore herein also in steed of sending any moe written copies abroad I after a time by the coūsell of some faithfull and iudicious welwillers to this worke thought it best to follow that worthy President of most happy labours Maister Perkins who when he was in hand with his Probleme being aduised to send some copies first to his learned freinds answered that he could not get copies enow written though he procured some writtē forth and by good scholars yet they were so defectiue as that he could not well send thē And for that cause he would print some few of them first which might go forth to the view of the world and so he might heare the common censure of all and receiue the helpe of his freinds and then reforme accordingly Thus did I aduenture to send forth the former draught of my Grāmar Schoole with some other parts belonging to the same to the publique view of all that I might the sooner heare and receiue the free censures and better directions of all louing freinds and welwillers vnto this worke so to be forthwith trying reforming and supplying like as I haue continued vntill this day In the whole worke as I promised not any thing but my trauell which I haue striuen to performe with all the poore ability which the Lord hath vouchsafed me so I take nothing to my selfe but onely the wants and errours The rest is his who hath giuen this desire and prolonged my life granted me vnderstanding strength and opportunitie to bring it thus farre forward What directions or experiences herein I haue receiued from others as yet or lately liuing I would haue set downe with their names adioyned like as I haue done of some which I know might haue brought much credit to the worke for the authority of sundry of them and thereby euerie one of them haue had their due but that they did not thinke it meete desiring to be concealed What I haue gathered out of the writings of the chiefe learned who haue reuiued learning in this last age as Sturmius Melanchton Erasmus others either shortly set downe or plainly poynted at in them I haue omitted likewise to mētion particularly not any way to wrong or detract from them but partly for that I did not note the places at my reading of them and moreouer for that I thought that labour more troublesome then profitable to the Reader Neither take I vpon me any way to prescribe to the meanest knowing my self so far inferiour to the greatest part but do begin to thinke more and more of this weightie calling as Paul did of the sacred Ministerie and to breake out into that his admiration who is sufficient for these things who is meete to haue the treasure both of Church and Common-wealth with the hopes of all posteritie committed vnto him and much more to prescribe perpetuall rules in this behalfe Much lesse do I pre●ume to teach them of most excellent gifts but as a poore fellow labourer for the common good and a willing learner of all I do humbly desire the iudgement and helpe of all the chiefe learned both for their cause who wish this and for the vniuersall benefit of the present age and of all posteritie That I may see still both what they approue in the courses set downe also what they disallow and likewise vpon what grounds what may be bettered what is yet wanting and what is superfluous Thus is my hearts desire to trauel in it still according as I haue begun vntill the Lord shall accomplish the whole worke which although it should be seuen yeares more yea many moe before yet the Lord prolonging my dayes I shall euer increase in reioycing in my vndoubted assurance of the rich blessing which God will giue vnto it thinke all my labour most happily spent But herein let not any man expect from me great matters in a lofty kind of verse or prose or eminency in declamations orations or the like this I leaue to our worthy renowned schooles of Westminster Eaton Winchester and the rest both in London elsewhere and to our Schoolemaisters of chiefe fame whose breeding imployment in schooles hath bin accordingly and who haue ancient scholars long exercised in these kinds Cōcerning whom I am so far off frō enuying any excellent learning in them that I wish all others partakers of the like in their kind And for my selfe I content me with this mercie from the Lord and blesse him for it that I haue trauelled chiefly for our meaner ruder schooles and that he hath vouchsafed me this fauour to bring my worke so farre forward as to helpe to direct hitherto according to the things mentioned in the Contents Yet this I humbly desire of all such of principall note for education gifts and experience to further vs with their better directions in all these exercises and the rest now God hauing so accomplished my desire for the first foundation and let me see his blessing vpon the little on s I will labour to follow them in what I am too short as fast as his goodnesse shall enable vntill I shall likewise find by experience wherein that excellency and comfort of theirs doth consist and come as neare vnto them as I can Though therein Cum in primis non liceat in secundis tertijsve consistere pulchrum erit For the length of the worke in the Grammar schoole I haue in many things contracted very much in this edition And for those things wherein I may seeme ouer tedious as namely in the first entrance of children in teaching Accidence and Grammar also for construing parsing and making Latine I would haue all consider how therein I haue contended to direct the carefull Maister to incite both

translated grammatically For the Greeke 1. For getting speedily the Greeke Radices or Primitiues the Clauis linguae Graece is made much more plaine easie and profitable first by the Latine set in the margent according to the Greeke answering word for word in such places where it now differs and the whole Latine sentences to be placed in the page opposite to the Greeke to leade the learner rightly by the hand to the knowledge of the Greeke whereas now many of the Sentences in Latine do onely expresse the sense and so set the learner at a stand or carry him quite amisse 2. By the principall Etymologies set in the margent of the Greeke Sentences directed with letters to know them speedily 3. By a grammaticall construction of the same in English answering the Greeke so neare as may be adioyned in the end of the Clauis with proprietie and varietie of the sense in the margents By the h●lpe whereof as experience will soone shew all the Sentences may be gotten in a very little time both for Latine and Greeke by studying them out of the English onely helped by looking vpon the Greeke and Latin as need requireth to be able thereby to giue the Greeke and Latine words to the English and contrarily so to serue for any good vse thereof and euer easily by this means to keepe all perfectly without any trouble or charge of memorie through the help of the perfect vnderstanding of it by this translation Also for the easier entrance of the young Scholar to runne cheerefully and speedily through the best Greeke Authors in prose as well as in verse is prepared Isocrates ad Daemonicum translated both in Latine grammatically and also with another translation in a more pure Latine style So likewise the first booke of Zenophons Cyropaideia in like manner Which three bookes being well gone through scholars will easily and speedily run through all other Greek Authors by the ordinarie helpes of translations and the like meanes which God hath so bountifully prouided for this last Age especially if they haue said a good foundation in the Grammar first Hebrue For laying speedily a sure foundation first for the right knowledge of all the Hebrue Primitiues in their first and proper signification secondly by what Tropes their significations are changed into other senses and so thirdly by what reasons or notations all their deriuatiues and issue come thereof and finally for getting speedily all the Hebrue Primitiues without booke and with the getting of them to learne also so much of the Hebrue Bible in most profitable matters and sentences there hath bene long thought of and is now in preparing First a briefe Hebrue Lexicon after the manner of the Fundamentum linguae Graecae And secondly another little booke after the manner of Clauis linguae Graecae wherein all or most of the Hebrue Primitiues are to be comprized in certaine choise sentences of the sacred Scriptures of sundry kindes of matt●r This may be called fi●ly Ianua linguae Hebraicae the other the Clauis vnto it As these two may be of notable vse to make speedily perfect Hebricians and likewise to helpe to prepare the way to the calling of the Iewes thereby so they require the cunningest workemen for the more curious framing and finishing of them whom God hath also prouided if some noble minded fauourers of good learning and of the Church of Christ will but a little lay to their helping hands for defraying the charges of their maintenance till they shall be able to go through the worke to bring them to perfection for the full accomplishment of all the good therein desired For all these bookes and helpes more particularly and for the right vse of euery of them and how to auoid all the abuses and other in conueniences and so for attaining all those parts or learning mentioned in the Contents see the Booke called 〈…〉 or the Grammar-schoole in this second Edition where in a familiar Dialogue betweene two Schoole-maisters all these things are full discussed and set foorth and yet the booke in many things abridged and made lesse then before For matter of charges to prouide so many helpes the gaining of one yeares learning will plentifully recompence if we vse onely the necessarie and all the other benefits be a sufficient ouerplus For all other obiections I referre you likewise to the Grammar-schoole where I hope you shall see your selfe well satisfied in all And what is still wanting I trust the same good hand of our God will in his due time f●●ly supply FINIS ❧ The Examiners Censure March 16. 1620. WHere as this Author still desirous to communicate all the new comforts which God hath vouchs●fed him in his long and painefull trauels for the generall good and specially for our Grammar-schooles and fearing lest in anie matter he should deceiue himselfe or others hath intreated vs to make some further triall of the things which he hath written h●rein for the better confirmation of himselfe and of all others we could not denie his so honest a request Therefore 〈…〉 Labours in this kinde by 〈…〉 of Worcester at the first 〈◊〉 of his Gramm●r-schoole as appeares in the 〈…〉 Preface before it and by other 〈◊〉 since yet now that it is to come foorth 〈…〉 much more compleate and perfect after so much long trauell and experience we haue her●upon made new and further triall accordingly In which we haue found so much content in euery forme from the lowest to the highest for the time which we then had as perswaded vs of the trueth of whatsoeuer he hath written concerning the same and giues vs withall much assurance of a very great blessing to be hoped for both to Church and Common-wealth in all places for which he hath trauelled by these his happie Labours rightly put in practise which all well-willers to Religion and Learning are to wish to their Countrey and by all meanes to promote for the good of the present and of all succeeding ages IAMES VSSHER Doctour and Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Dublin DANIEL FEATLY Doctour of Diuinity and Chaplin in house to his Grace of Canterburie 2. Thes. 1. 8 9 Luke 16. 24. ● 〈…〉 1 Pet. 4. 18 Occasion of this worke The vsuall complaints against non-proficiencie in schooles Where good is done how hardly it is effected commonly A chief cause hereof want of knowledge of a right course of teaching The authors desire to help all this And to procure a perpetuall benefite to all posteritie Of the rare benefits of learning no good man euer doubted The licenciousnesse of some learned or abusers of learning ought not to cause vs to thinke the worse therof Iob. 3. 19. 2. Thes. 2. 10. Learning is the glorie of man in the verie naturall mans account Prou. 4. 7. The first and principall meanes of good learning the schooles of learning In what schooles the best learning nurture are to be found A wonderfull