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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31087	Certain proposals humbly offered, for the preservation & continuance of the truly reformed Protestant religion, in these three kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland by a professor of the said truly reformed Protestant religion ...	J. B.	1674 (1674)	Wing B96; ESTC R11223	33,531	39

would every where all England over as in some places I know they do meet together and that not only to pray with each other and repeat Sermons a practice very commendable and profitable but also to confer together upon the Fundamentals of Religion which they have read and learned out of some well-approved Catechism with the Scriptures alledged for the proofs of them Many of these especially if under the age of sixteen years may meet together for such religious purposes and be no Conventiclers What pity is it then that such Meetings of young ones are not every where in use for mutual edification and instructions which that they might thrive the better would not some one grave person among them to guide and assist them therein very much help them in such a pious work Were this and the like endeavours by Parents and others as aforesaid every where in common practice what blessed advantages would from thence arise as to the propagating of the truly Reformed Protestant Religion Among which would not this be one great one above the rest namely the facilitating the work of the publick Ministry both as to Conviction Conversion and Edification too whilst the respective Auditories up and down the Kingdom would be as it were all bespangled and richly enamell'd with well-instructed Families and piously affected Auditors What tractable attentive and understanding Hearers would the Congregations be replenished withal What flourishing effects what pleasant fruits would the Labourers in Christ's Vineyards find their faithful Labours to be crowned withal Sure if any way can possibly be thought of not only to preserve and restore the true Protestant Religion but to put it into a more prosperous estate than ever it was known to be in in this Kingdom before this is it But though what hath been said hitherto may through the blessing of God if put in practice prove good and effectual means to raise and revive as it were the truly Reformed Protestant Religion from the present swooning and almost dying state in which it seems every where to be yet there is another thing no less important to be most intensely minded and laid to heart by all considerate and sound Protestants and that is what is like to become of the true Protestant Religion a few years hence if no better course be taken for the continuance and support of it than is any where now on foot As for Popery that is kept up and maintained not only by the Powers and Potentates of most Parts of Christendom but by a continued numerous succession of Learned though miserably blinded men as Christ sayes in another case the men of that dark Antichristian Kingdom are wiser in their generation than the Children of Light they are careful from Age to Age to find out and set apart the very Flower of their Youth the most pregnant fine-witted Lads that they can any where meet with throughout their Popish Kingdoms upon these they spare no cost nor pains to educate and bring them up in the profoundest Learning and largest improvement of their Parts according to their respective Genius's and inclinations to become serviceable in the propagation and defence of their false Religion But alas how little of this in comparison is done by the Protestant Party all Europe over Insomuch that if God in his good providence doth not some way prevent it and provide against it the Protestant Religion ere long is not like to have many men of Parts and Learning able to defend it against its subtil and inveterate Adversary the Church of Rome And how doth this glad the Romish Catholick at the very heart and fill him with hopes that in the next generation he shall carry all before him and that how zealous and successful soever some may now be in preaching writing and disputing against them yet that the Children of them that do so will be otherwise minded or at least through Ignorance and want of Learning will not be able to maintain the noble and righteous Cause which their Forefathers did and that irrefragably and invincibly Now therefore since the case is thus O all you zealous true-hearted and sound Protestants throughout these Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland let me humbly propound an Expedient to you that hath been upon my heart for some years an Expedient which I conceive is as feasible as obvious if God give men hearts readily to comply with what I shall here suggest concerning it which if they shall every where unanimously and vigorously set then selves about I shall no way doubt but that within the space of fifteen or twenty years the truly Reformed Protestant Religion shall have no want of such as in due time through the Blessing of God shall become the learned and unconquerable Defenders of it against the greatest Champions the Church of Rome shall be able to produce Now that which in order hereunto I have to propound will briefly fall under two Propositions First That assoon as may be all the Children of such true-hearted and Religious Protestants as are scattered up down in the three Kingdoms and the several Schools in them whether publick or private and shall be found of pregnant parts and well-grounded in Grammar-learning be speedily committed to such Pious Orthodox and Learned men as shall be found able and willing to instruct and educate them in Vniversity-Studies and especially in those Languages Arts and Sciences as may render them able Disputants and good Divines I confine my self to the Children only of true-hearted and Religious Protestants because I presume no others will make their Children so happy as to be so bred up Secondly That from time to time all true hearted and Religious Protestants as aforesaid whether rich or poor will set apart such of their Children as they shall find most eminent and hopeful for natural Parts Capacities and Dispositions unto this great service of the Gospel and as they grow up to send them to the Grammar-Schools and so to higher Studies Several Objections perhaps may here come in against these two Propositions one from the rich Protestants the other from the poor From the rich We have Estates to give our Children say they and thereupon intend some of them for the Inns of Court and from thence for higher employments others we intend for Merchants or such and such gainful Trades for what encouragement is there to bring them up to that sort of Learning which may fit them for Services in the Church when they are not like to get any preferment or employment without such sinful Compliances and time-serving Conformities both in Doctrines and Manners as may corrupt their Hearts debauch their Consciences and endanger their Souls for ever To these I answer First To those that design their Children to high employments in case they bring them up to the aforesaid great Service of the Gospel and as Hannah did her Son Samuel consecrate them to the Lord and to his Temple-work I conceive they thereby