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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54288	New instructions to the guardian shewing that the last remedy to prevent the ruin, advance the interest, and recover the honour of this nation is I. a more serious and strict education of the nobility and gentry, II. to breed up all their younger sons to some calling and employment, III. more of them to holy orders, with a method of institution from three years of age to twenty one.	Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1440; ESTC R5509	42,499	186

in the Common-Law of England to which purpose some advise I. Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliae II. Terms of the Law III. Smith de Republicà Anglorum IV. Doctor and Student V. Sir Francis Bacon's Introduction to the Laws of England at the end of his Maxims VI. Wingat's Abridgement VII Coke upon Littleton His Institutes and some of his Reports occasionally read VIII Bracton IX Fleta with Selden's Notes consult the Learned Directions for the beginning a compleat Course in the Study of Divinity by the help of the Apparatus ad Theologiam Written for that purpose and sold by Walter Kettilby and Sam. Smith in St. Paul ' s-Church-yard and the Booksellers in Oxford 1. SInce the different Perswasions in Religion and Controversies shelter themselves mainly under the Authority of Scripture the first Step and I am certain the surest Footing for a young Divine must be on a sound Knowledge of the Language and Text Sence and Context of Scripture and a sincere search after Truth must exclude all prejudice in the Application 2. The Hebrew Language being narrow and therefore obscure I advise that the close Study of that Tongue be deferred for the first Two or Three Years because it may discourage and stop the beginnings of the Study 3. For perfecting his Knowledge in the Greek it will be requisite to buy the Septuagint and a Greek Testament the larger the better and get them Interleaved to write down the explication of such Words he knows not with their various Significations and Authors who use them 3. He must also have an English Bible Interleaved of a large Size and if bound up in two Volumes no matter wherein he may put down the Interpretations of all difficult places which he either Casually or Industriously finds to he constantly in his Study differing from the Bible he is afterwards to use in the Pulpit 4. He must get the Art of Writing down his Observations and Explications very briefly otherwise his Transcriptions will be infinite and tedious A Method of Marking difficult places See Apparat pag. 120. 5. Several Observations to be made in reading the Scriptures concerning I. The Chronology so far as till the Heathen Computation of time begins to have certainty II. The History of the illustrious Examples of Good and Bad Men of Deliverances and Judgments c. III. The Geography especially as far as concorns the Holy Land and bordering places mentioned IV. Weights Measures and Distances and what Proportion they bear to ours now V. The English Phrase and Rhetorick which will be of great use hereafter in the Pulpit VI. Such Texts as are a kind of Common-place Texts either of good Life and Manners or to Preach on upon occasion VII Next to the Study of Scripture he must acquaint himself with the Doctrine of his own Church out of the Articles Homilies and especially the Collects as also to be well vers'd in Canons and Rubricks VIII The various opinions dissenting from the Doctrine and Practices dissenting from the Canons of his own Church Arch-Hereticks Scismaticks Ancient and Modern c. IX Then to read the Lives of the Apostles Apostolical Men Fathers Heads and Founders of differing Opinions the Eives of the Emperors with a Chronological Series to be learned without-Book and frequently repeated this will help the knowledge of Church-History X. Two great Paper-Books for Heads and Common places the first for things Theological See Apparatus pag. 45. The second for some other promiscuous matters See pag. 13. cap. 6. this will be useful all his life-time to set down or referr to what he reads but with brief and contract writing mentioned before XI A short Catalogue of the best Books for his purpose which for the first Two or Three Years are absolutely necessary he must be directed to and then what private Tracts are most Orthodox and Learned on any part in his Divinity Head-Book XII He must seriously consider to which part in the Study of Divinity his Nature inclines him for the main bent of his Indistry according to that Division Apparatus pag. 1. As for Preaching both Method Materials and Delivery it is not convenient to be published it is best taught by Discourse and Example when the Person 's Capacity Knowledge and Temper is known This I think is a safer Course for a young Divine than to begin with Systems and suck in Opinions before he understands them If the Divine be a Person of Condition and Quality I would advise him the Assistance and Tutorage of some experienced Person it would turn to great Account by easing Difficulty shortening the Course and effectually obtaining the Design Something like this Project I approve of very well which a very worthy Gentleman of good Sence and Fortune is now putting in Practise He hath one only Child Heir to a very considerable Condition in the World and who for Personals might make as fair pretensions to the Vanity and Courtship of it as Men of less Discretion do but his Parents are resolved that the World shall not have him for they will give him back again to God and which is something more strange the young Gentleman himself is as willing as they can be to be lent unto the Lord so Hannah called her Son Samuel's Ministry And I perswade my self that a dutiful Compliance with so pious a design at the rate of God's Mercifulness can hardly fail of the desired Blessing The Method the Father intends to go by is this After the Advice of Tutors in a round Course of University-Studies he intends to provide his Son a Tutor for Divinity which by the the way is as necessary as for Logick and Philosophy and so I might say for Physick and Civil Law too His great aim is to find a Man knowing in the Studies and experienced in the Practice of a Divine And the advantage may prove very great For what is written in Books is dead and stiff in comparison of what is delivered Viva Voce When Friendship and Familiarity beside solid and fundamental Instruction shall draw out a Thousand little Advices of great moment though not fit to be Printed neither doth any Man care to publish to all the World what himself knows and hath practised in his Function Two Years of such an Institution rightly managed and intelligently received would give so great a lift into the Pulpit and to Preferment also if that were wanted or aimed at as is not to be valued New Instructions TO THE GUARDIAN The Third Part. THE CONCLUSION In behalf of Holy Orders London Printed in the Year 1694. THE CONCLUSION In behalf of Holy Orders WHY may not a Man be bold to perswade the Nobility and Gentry after such an Education of their Children as hath been prescrib'd to make more of them Clergy-men 1. From the Nature of the Profession Certainly every good Man must needs own that it is a singular Blessing to have that for a Man 's peculiar Business and Calling which is the greatest concern