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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55386	A model for the maintaining of students of choice abilities at the university, and principally in order to the ministry with epistles & recommendations, and an account of the settlement and practise of it in the universities from the doctors there : as also with answers to such objections as are most plausible, which may be made against it : and with the names of the trustees.	Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2841; ESTC R38154	17,545	32

A MODEL For the maintaining of Students Of choice Abilities at the UNIVERSITY and Principally in order to the MINISTRY WITH EPISTLES Recommendations and an Account of the Settlement and Practise of it in the UNIVERSITIES from the DOCTORS there As also with Answers to such Objections as are most Plausible which may be made against it And with the Names of the Trustees PROV. 3. 9. Honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first-fruits of thine increase LONDON Printed by I. H. for I. Rothwell at the Fountain in Goldsmiths Row in Cheapside 1648. more conducing than another to the attainment of that great end that way is most eligible by wise and pious Christians And although it is a laudable and necessary work to exercise Charity towards the bodies of distressed persons yet those must needs be the most noble acts of Charity which concern the souls of men seeing both the object of them is more excellent and the effects more durable And as the means instituted by Christ for the good of souls is the erection and maintenance of his Church and the supplying of it with an able and pious Ministry So it hath been in all ages the care of those whose hearts have been touched with a sense of Gods honour and a fervent desire of the Churches enlargement to afford such liberall supplies and encouragements as might both prepare men for and support them in the work of the Ministry And these are the ends which have been principally aimed at by all but all have not used the same means to those ends nor are all means equally effectual It is therefore our desire in this Model to make choice of such waies as to us seem most usefull for the forementioned purposes And because the foundation of the Work lies in the excellency of the natural parts of such as are designed that way a few such being more worth than a farre greater proportion of other men it is therefore of great use and we shall endeavour that it may be our great care to single out such persons to whom God hath given the most high and promising abilities Who if they be placed under the most learned and godly Tutors we can finde and obliged as farre as possibly we can to a diligent and eminent improvement in knowledge of all sorts and solid piety we conceive it will be no arrogance humbly to expect a more then ordinary advantage to the poor Church which now if ever cals for Teachers of exquisite abilities And because there are some Church-works of great concernment which cannot be conveniently managed by such as are overwhelmed with preaching work such as the resolution of weighty doubts and cases of conscience the stopping of the mouthes of gain-sayers and the like it must needs be judged of great advantage to have some particular persons exquisitely fit for such works both in regard of natural and acquired endowments who should be set apart for them and attend upon them without distraction The rather because there are divers men peradventure not eminent for preaching gifts who being wisely improved may be very serviceable to other of the Churches necessities And these are the chief intendments of the following Model Yet for as much as there may be divers towardly youths of competent parts though short of the eminency that some others attain to and mean condition who may be of good use in the Ministerial work and seeing the ordinary necessities of the Church are not to be neglected especially the condition of Ireland and Wales and some dark parts of England being so dolefull and dismall we hope it will be an acceptable work to lay in provision in this Model whereby fit persons may be sent into those places which by reason of their d●stance many cannot and others do not go into We confesse as we shall not be wanting in our prayers and endeavours as farre as God shall enable us sincerely and impartially to look to these ends and waies propounded so we cannot but hope in God that the bowels of many precious souls will be refreshed by these means And we are confident whoever shall engage their hearts in this free-will-offering to God will have no cause to repent of it nor shall it be a grief of heart to any at the last day when the rust of other mens silver shall rise up against them to their everlasting confusion to have been the happy instruments of enlarging the Church and propagating the Gospel and saving of souls and in this life also the generations to come shall call them blessed Read and Approved and appointed to be Printed by the Trustees Mat. Poole To the Rich that love Christ the Church the Gospel and themselves Gentlemen I Have here a happy opportunity to offer you an excellent benefit by inviting you to an excellent duty If receiving be unpleasant to you how came you to be rich If you like it come while the Market lasts Come before Thieves or Fire or Souldiers have seized upon your perishing wealth come before death hath taken you from all You see here that Christ is contented to be your Debtour at the usury of a hundred for one in this world and in the world to come eternal life Mat. 19. 29. If you are covetous take this bargain for all the world cannot help you to the like for your Commodity If you are not covetous you will not be tenacious of your money The offer is so fair and so unmatchable that I know not what can keep you from accepting it unless it be that you dare not trust the word the Promise the Covenant of Christ And whom then will you trust who shall keep your wealth will you But who shall keep you then will you undertake to keep your selves Alas how long Is God to be trusted with the sustentation of the whole Creation and the government of all the world and with the lives of you and all the living and with the prospering of your labours and your daily preservation and provision and yet is he not to be trusted with your money you 'l say you trust God let us see now that you do not play the Hypocrites If you are friends to Christ you may see in the work here offered to you your Masters name and interest and honour It 's certainly his voice that cals you to this adventure and therefore never make question of your call If you are friends to your Countrey now let it be seen If you live an hundred years perhaps you will never have a better opportunity to shew it If you are Protestants and love the Gospel shew it by helping to plant and water the Seminaries of the Lord Perhaps you cannot dispute for the Truth or preach for it your selves But you can contribute for the maintenance of some to do it This then is your work know it and perform it You may have a Prophets reward without being your selves Prophets Matthew 10. 41. At least therefore shew