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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48116	A letter of advice to a young gentleman of an honourable family, now in his travels beyond the seas for his more safe and profitable conduct in the three great instances, of study, moral deportment, and religion : in three parts / by a True son of the Church of England.	True son of the Church of England.	1688 (1688)	Wing L1566; ESTC R7895	45,890	138

well as the Benefits of Study are so charming and delightful that 't is next to impossible for a Scholar to be idle Especially considering as a Learned Man observes the many Improvements of Reason the sweetness and delights of Knowledge the great range and multitude of Thoughts and Speculations for there 's much wit in Poetry in Philosophy Reason improved in Mathematicks Acuteness in History curious and strange Events in Politicks variety of Projects and Designs in Oratory sweet and delightful Eloquence in Divinity supernatural Light Rules of holy Living and Dying and heavenly Devotions Which last will be a means to sanctifie all Endeavours to your use and make all your other Studies both pleasant and profitable Now a strict and diligent Enquiry into all these several sorts of Learning will fill up all the empty Spaces of your Time which is commonly mis-imployed if not vainly mis-spent by all those Gentlemen that are not Scholars You may alter the Methods and Course of your Studies as you please so that there shall never be any spare Time upon your hands nor will it ever seem to pass away slowly But seeing the Husbanding of Time well is a thing of the greatest advantage and importance to a Student I shall give you an account of the Method which I have used and found very successful in the Conduct of mine own Studies Yet I would not have you to observe it so exactly as to neglect the more seasonable Advice of others Now I have always thought that 't is the Duty and Interest of every Christian to be well skill'd in the divine Arithmetick of numbring his Days For Time is a precious Jewel for which we must all be accountable and therefore he who loses a Day is dangerously prodigal but those that dare mis-spend it little less than desperate For the prevention then of those Evils and Mischiefs resulting from the fruitless expence of Time I shall propound to you this following Method And First Rise early in the Morning if your Health permit for Aurora musis amica and the sooner the more early the Blessing Let your first Thoughts be always with God return him most humble and hearty Thanks for your Refreshment and Protection from the dangers of the Night Present the first Fruits of your Reason and other Faculties to your Maker think on him whilst you are dressing and humbly beg that you may be clothed upon with the Robes of your Saviours Righteousness and the most precious Ornaments of his Grace and Spirit Then return to your Closet and pray earnestly servently constantly devoutly and affectionately unto God for your Preservation that day and for ever from Temptation Sin and Danger and that he would sanctifie your Person and bless and prosper you in your Studies 'T was Luthers observation of himself that bene or asse est bene studuisse and if your Heart be early season'd with Gods Presence 't will relish of him all the day after And when you have thus happily performed your Morning Devotions then Secondly Sit down a little and consider especially if you have occasion to go abroad or entertain Company that day at your Chamber what Temptations or Sins you are in danger to run upon resolve against them and see that your Purposes be fixt and steady So that if any of those Temptations should afterwards assault you call to mind what you have resolved on in your Closet and then endeavour to arm your self against them with the Arguments of your Religion as the considerations of Death Judgment Heaven and Hell. But if you expect nothing extraordinary that day intending to continue in the course of your Studies then a serious Recommendation of your Person and Assairs to God in a general Petition will be acceptable and sufficient Thirdly Begin your Studies with reading a Chapter or more of the New Testament every morning till you have read it all over and then begin again always observing the same Method Meditate of and consider well what you read that you may thence collect some useful Notes and Observations for the Confirmation of your Faith and Conduct of your Manners in the ways of Religion And having read some Portion of the Holy Scripture seriously and deliberately for the better understanding of it you may consult Dr. Hammonds Paraphrase or Grotius this with your Prayers will prepare you for your other Studies Wherein Fourthly Your Tutor will be careful to give you the most proper and seasonable Advice Your Vniversity Learning will be chiefly as I suppose Logicks and Philosophy Now if you 'l but take pains to be an accurate Logician and thorow-paced Philosopher which will not require very much time if you be always careful to attend the Lectures and Disputations in the Schools you 'l readily understand any Author and the whole course of all your future Studies will not only thereby become beneficial but pleasant and delightful Yet herein I desire to caution you not to spend too much Time in dry and useless Notions and Speculations being a Fault which I have observed in the Methods of reading Philosophy in Foreign Vniversities for no Study is worth a Mans while that 's not accompanied with Profit and such unanswerable Reasons and Arguments as are in a great measure able to silence all future Debates seeing the capacity of the Ignorant lyes as much below such Philosophical Curiosities as the more knowing and judicious are above them so that there remains to all in things dubious and only probable a Power to admit or reject what Opinions they please Therefore I would recommend Mathematicks next to Logicks as the most useful part of Philosophy for this Science proposes nothing but what 's apparent by most undeniable Demonstrations which Knowledge is not only the chief we can acquire upon Earth but will also accompany us to Heaven Fifthly When you have leisure read over your Classick Authors and remark with your Pen what you find most observable in them for as you 'l hereby understand the Customs and Manners of the most antient and celebrated Heathens so this sort of Learning will qualifie you to write and speak Latin well And when you have obtained this Faculty you cannot be a stranger in any place where you come nor can any thing be a greater Ornament to a Gentleman and a Scholar Sixthly And seeing your Quality and Estate will exempt you from all other Professions but that of a States-man the Knowledge of all sorts of History will be very useful and necessary but especially French Authors being of all others the most accurate in Negotiations and Memoirs recorded by publick Ministers and publisht by their Secretaries after their Deaths For 't is observ'd by a Person of great Judgment and Policy that none make more faithful Reports of things done in all Nations than Ambassadours having the best and most authentick Intelligence from their Princes Pensioners who are obliged to acquaint them with all they can discover Seventhly Consult likewise all the

they are not yet agreed amongst themselves where to fix this Infallible Judgment whether in the Pope alone or Council or the Pope and his Council and therefore their Church and Pope for any thing they have yet prov'd or determin'd are erroneous and fallible in the first Principle of their New Creed and monstrous Doctrin of Infallibility The the Pope is the Supreme Head and Christ's chief Vicar in and has an Unlimited Jurisdiction over the whole Catholick Church that he has power to dispense with the Laws of God and can set up Laws of his own devising which obliges all Men's Consciences to pay him the Tribute of Fealty Obedience as will more fully appear afterwards This is a grand Usurpation upon the Rights and Priviledges of Kings Emperours and all other Christian Bishops two parts of Christendom having rejected his Authority and that upon most reasonable and just grounds For the Jurisdiction of the Bishops of Rome was limited for the five first Centuries to the Suburbiarion Regions and had only a Primacy of Order not Jurisdiction over his Fellow Bishops See Hammond's Fundament Dr. Barrow upon the Supremacy and Dr. Fulwood's Roma ruit Which Usurpation do's also directly overthrow Christ's Kingly Office. Council of Trent Sess 13. Chap. 1. Canon 1. That the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist is transubstantiated into the real Body and Blood of Christ which was sacrificed for our Sins upon the Cross at Hierusalem the Colour and other accidental Qualities of the Elements only remaining without their Substance This violates the Truth of Christs Human Nature which themselves do confess is in Heaven and yet according to their Hypothesis must be in a thousand places on Earth at the same time contradicts the holy Scripture Man's best Reason common Sense and the Nature and Design of the Sacrament of Christs holy Supper Lib. 6. p. 465. Hist Council Trent That there is no real difference between Christ on the Cross and Christ in the Mass it is the very same in both only differing in the Reason of Offering For on the Cross he offer'd himself immediatly in the Mass he offers himself by the Ministry of his Vnder-Priests Which Doctrin of the Popish Mass is one of the greatest Idols that ever was invented in the World For a piece of Bread is made the Saviour of Mankind and a proper Sacrifice for the pardoning all Sin is worshiped as God and of singular benefit not only for the Living but the Dead And this they are bound to believe tho the Apostle has told them in express terms That there remains no more Sacrifice for Sins because Christ once appear'd to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself Heb. 9.26 Council of Trent Sess 6. Chap. 16. Canon 3. That Good Works are meritorious of Grace and eternal Life which are not so much given of God freely and out of liberality as out of debt Which Doctrin destroys Justification by Faith and the Merits of Christ Jesus who came down from Heaven on purpose to redeem us from all Iniquity and tells us when we have done the best we can we are unprofitable Servants deserving nothing but Hell and Damnation every hour Decret Council Flor. about 200 Years ago That there 's a certain place call'd Purgatory wherein as in a Prison Souls are purged after this Life that were not fully purged here to the intent they may enter pure into Heaven Which Article of their New Creed destroys the Satisfaction of Christ and his meritorious Intercession with the Father for Vs makes good Men afraid to die being a terrible thing as their Priests represent it to enter into Purgatory and bad Men less careful to prepare for Death because a great part of their business may be done by other hands when they are gone Council of Trent Sess 8. Canon 9. That if any say that the Clergy who have received Holy Orders or Regulars who have sosemnly professed Chastity may contract Marriage and that such Contract notwithstanding the Ecclesiastical Law and their own Vow is valid and that the contrary Assertion is no other than to condemn Marriage and that all altho they have vowed Chastity may contract Marriage that do find they have not the Gift of Continency let him be accursed Forasmuch as God will not deny this Gift to those who rightly seek it neither will he suffer Us to be tempted above what we are able Now this Doctrin is expresly contrary to the Word of God which saith That Marriage is honourable in all c. Heb. 13.4 See also 1 Cor. 9.5 Tit. 1.6 1 Tim. 3 2 4 5 11 12. 1 Cor. 7.1 2 8 9. Besides the Prohibition of Priests Marriage has been the cause of much Lewdness and Villany as Adultery Fornication Incest Sodomy Murder c. Council of Trent Sess 9. That the Saints reigning with Christ and offering up their Prayers for Men it is good and profitable humbly to invocate them and that we may obtain Benefits of God thro his Son Jesus Christ our Lord who is our only Redeemer and Saviour to have recourse to their Prayers Aid and Assistance c. This Doctrin has no Foundation in nor Warrant from God's Word For there 's not one Precept nor Example of praying to Saints in the whole Bible nor Promise that such Prayers shall be heard and accepted but the contrary is every where evident Besides this Practice is irrational and absurd For the Saints and Angels are neither omnipresent nor omnipercipient and therefore they cannot hear Us. Cassand de Merit Intercess Sanct. And they do also solemnly invocate and worship many of their reputed Saints whose Saintship nay whose Existence says one of their own celebrated Authors is very questionable Not to trouble you with Citations at large there are several other known and received Doctrins of their Church which bear the same Impression and Character but those I have mention'd already being the most considerable the rest will either stand or fall by ' em Yet their Doctrin of Oral Tradition which I had almost omitted deserves its place amongst the rest For this vilifies the Holy Scripture destroys its Authority and Sufficiency by a certain Dependance upon the Church whereby they make our Saviour's Prophetical Office a meer Nullity in saying no less than that He has not sufficiently reveal'd the Will of God to the Sons of Men but all the World must be beholden to the Church of Rome for their Oral Tradition In a word all their Pardons Confessions Indulgences Satisfactions Merits c. do expresly contradict the great End and Design of our Saviours Incarnation and set up the Pope and Priests in his stead These are the New Articles of Popery which as incredible and absurd as they are the Subjects of that Communion are bound to believe under the pain and peril of the Pope's Anathema And indeed they are all New you may see the Original of 'em in Dr. Comber's Advice