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A57163	A sermon touching the use of humane learning preached in Mercers-Chappel at the funeral of that learned gentleman, Mr. John Langley, late school-master of Pauls School in London, on the 21 day of September, 1657 / by Ed. Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1287; ESTC R9227	19,525	40

but though he professed himself to be at that time an eye Witness of the truth of Jesus his being in glory yet in a rage and outcry they cast him out of the City and stoned him The stronger were his Arguments for the truth the more excessive was their malice against him for it The words of the Text are a branch of the second Argument drawn from the testimony of Moses and the historical narration touching him and they contain the fruit which followed upon the noble education which he received from the hand and care of Pharaohs Daughter he so prospered under it that he became learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was a mighty man both for Oratory and Action The Lord by these civil accomplishments fitting him in part for the Government whereunto he reserved him In the Words we have first his intellectual perfections He was Learned and instructed together with the object of that Learning All the wisdom of the Egyptians Secondly His civil moral and religious perfections a mighty man for Elocution a mighty man for Action He improved and put forth his intellectual abilities for the good and service of others laid up all his power to do good to his Brethren in due time when God should call him thereunto Moses was learned or instructed and instituted It noteth acquired Knowledge by the benefit of learned Education In all the wisedom of the Egyptians that Nation was antiently famous for wisedom From thence some think that the Grecians derived their learning for we read in Diodorus S●culus and others that Orpheus Homer Pythagoras Plato Lycurgus Solon and others did travel into Egypt for institution But Cadmus who first brought Letters into Greece was a Phanitian as Eusebius and after him other learned men have fully proved Therefore from the Egyptians the Greeks did not primitively derive their Learning What this wisdom of the Egyptians was wherein Moses was learned is by Philo in the life of Moses by Diodorus Siculus lib. 1. c. 2. By Sixtus Senensis Biblioth. lib. 2. and others described viz. Mathematicks Astronomy Geometry Arithmetick Musick Natural Philosophy Physick Symbolical and Hieroglyphical Writing Civil and Political Knowledge for which that people seemeth to have been famous Isa. 19.11 14. I shall not here enquire into the most antient rise or original of Learning or seat thereof which some carry beyond the Flood and tell us of Pillars with Hebrew Inscriptions and Characters set up by Enoch and Seth Nor shall I inquire whence the Egyptians derived their Learning which some ascribe to Ioseph and the people of the Iews living there Others to Abraham of whose being in Egypt we read Gen. 12.10 It is sufficient for us to know that at this time there was Learning there and that Moses was brought up and proved excellent in it Now we may here observe First The great care of the Kings Daughter to bring up Moses in in all kinde of good Literature that thereby he might be fit for such great Services as his so near relation to a Princes Court might probably have brought him unto And truly so great hath been the care of w●se Heathens in this particular as we read of the Lacedemonians Persians and others as may justly put to shame many Christians who breed up their children many times so loosely so ignorantly so sensually to gameing sporting and excess as if an inheritance did serve to no other purpose but to make the Heir of it useless and good for nothing And as we see many times good ground grow moss● and barren for want of culture so is it with good wits which being neglected do usually become more vitious then those of less hope and pregnancy The foundations of an honorable and comfortable Age are laid in the minority of children if the plant be not kept strait at first the tree will be crooked incurably at the last No doubt but David had special care of the education of Solomon for quickness of parts without special culture would hardly have arrived at so great a pitch of Learning especially in a disposition as the event proved by nature sensual enough and therefore he maketh mention both of his Fathers and his Mothers teaching him Prov. 4.1.31.1 It is as great a folly to lay up Estates for children and to take no care of themselves who must enjoy them as to be curious for an handsom Shoe and then to put it upon a gouty f●ot And the greater men are the greater should their care be for free and honorable learned and religious education of their children First Because it is a very incongruous mixture greatness of estate and meaness of understanding the one will be a perpetual blemish and reproach unto the other Secondly Because there will be the more fuel of lust if Learning and Piety be not laid up to season a full estate We see nothing grow upon a fat heap of muck but weeds and trash Therefore we find what great care Theodosius had to have a good Tutor to shape the minds and manners of his children The famous Arsenius and Iosephus telleth us that Moses had a special care of the education of children in good Literature and we find some evidence of it in the Scripture where he commandeth the people to teach the words of the Law diligently unto their Children Deut. 6.7 And herein must our care exceed this of Pharaohs Daughter we must so provide to breed up our Children unto wisedom as that we forget not the chief thing to have them seasoned with the knowledge and fear of God which is the onely true wisdom Iob 28.28 Iulian the Apostate had great Schollars Mardonius and Maximus to his Tutors but being prophane Heathens and Scoffers at Christian Religion they laid the foundations of that desperate Apostacy whereby he fell from Christ to the Devil He that begets a Fool or by careless breeding maketh one hath been the Author of his own sorrow a wise Son maketh a glad Father If thine heart be wise saith Solomon I shall rejoyce Prov. 23.15 It is very sad for children to have wicked Parents who wholly neglect their Education and of whom Cyprian tels us they will cry out at the last day Parentes sensimus parricidas Our Parents have been our Parricides Now then by this important duty we learn 1. To set an high value upon such wise learned and religious Tutors as at any time we enjoy for the discarge of this great Work And 2. To bewail it as a more then ordinary loss when men whom God hath every way fitted with Learning industry piety and fidelity for so excellent a work are by a sudden stroke taken away from us We have considered the Care of the Kings Daughter for the education of Moses let us in the next place consider the blessing of God upon it in that thereby Moses was learned in all the Learning of the Egyptians Where first It is very observable the different