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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44507	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the Eton-scholars at St. Mary le Bow on November 18, 1679 by Thomas Horn.	Horne, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2813; ESTC R30339	15,428	36

inspection than the larger c. yet it must be allowed that private Schools usually fare best under the care of such who have brought with them the experience of their public nurture and moreover public and Royal Encouragements draw to those places Men of greater skill But letting that alone this is that which I aim at That the sparks that would go out of themselves for want of Fewel or be suffocated in too narrow a compass have larger play here and more encouragement to feed their Flame Here we have opportunities of comparing our own endeavours with others of polishing our selves by them that do better of raising our hopes by seeing others whom we seem to gain upon The emulations here are more frequent among our equals and the success of Battels being uncertain sometimes we are flusht with a Victory and anon ashamed a little by the cross chance of War So Industry is kept up between Glory and Shame And these ingenuous strifes turn the Toil into Play Studio fallente laborem In public places also the Contentions are more warm for here the Victories on the one hand are more open and conspicuous and so more desirable and on the other hand the shame more dreadful For to these youthful combatants 't is as if either the Senate were decreeing them a Triumph and the neighbouring States were to send them in their aurum coronarium or else they were to be led in scorn behind their insulting Enemies Chariot There are two special advantages of this kind almost proper to the place of our Education designed questionless by the Religious Wisdom of our Royal Founder for our good whose design seems a little to resemble the policy of that great Shepherd Jacob Gen. 30.37 38 c. by which he gain'd the stronger Lambs For first we were placed in a retirement from the World and yet in the midst of an eminent Society adorned with Learned Men and grave Divines who besides their good Counsels they may instil their oversight of the youth the reverence they infuse into them the encouragements they can give to the pregnant and virtuous and checks to the lazy and extravagant afford also by their presence and example a lively influence to them that are to be brought up there who beholding every day somthing of goodness to be imitated of excellency to be admired are apt to desire and endeavour to be like them They see that in its perfection which they are labouring after which is a ready way to put that Spring into their young heads which I have been speaking of that sets them on work There also they have before them an excellent pattern of Unity Secondly the Royal Founder designing his School partly for Collegiats and partly for others indifferently the former whose hopes necessitate them to a greater Industry than ordinary are helps to the latter for their industry spurs on the rest And in a large number of Persons of different parts 't is much if there be not one Egregious who will put Life and Spirit into the whole Company Which is the more likely to take effect for this reason because 't is natural for all of them from one end to the other to observe who is the leading lad he is their Master of boasting they rejoyce in him they speak of him with bragging wherever they go Third Part. These are some of the advantages of Education in Religion and other Knowledge all which in the Third place turn to a greater account the more early Children are imbued therein whether we consider 1. First The gaining of Time which so insensibly passes and so irresistibly that all the Powers in nature can neither command nor oblige a moment of it to stand still for us and when it is past is impossible to be purchased again the loss of which is lamented most heartily by the wisest of Men. And no wonder since the whole Portion that is allotted to any of us is so short for the business we have to do in 't that there is little to spare for the quickest Man Now the sooner we begin the greater improvements may be timely made and when we are fitted early for the business of life the longer time we have of making good use thereof Instruction comes too late when we are going out of the World or when we should be using of it 2. As for Religious Education 't is necessary to begin that early because of the evil Inclinations which proceed from the corruption of our Nature for let us begin as soon as we can Nature is before-hand with us Wherefore we have no reason to give her more advantage against us by delay The Weeds need not be sown you need not Plow nor manure the Ground for them 'T is but letting them alone and they rise and spread apace as if they had an original Right to the Ground and the very dirtiness of the Earth were their Seed So that wickedness comes up so fast and so soon grows into rank Habits that as 't is impossible totally to prevent its being so 't is very difficult to prevent its quick growth soon enough to overcome it Religion wants a cultivated Ground and an extraordinary Seed and much of that when 't is sown is apt to be scattered by the way or devoured by the Fowls of the Air or choaked by Thorns or withered by Heat 'T is a tender Seed subject to sundry injuries none of which Sin is liable to There needs no care to be wicked nor serious thought nor wise consideration the abandoning all thought of what one does gives it increase 3. Early nurture of Children in Religion is necessary because of the evil Examples and treacherous Instruction which they are otherwise apt to be misled by after which all better Institution becomes feeble and useless for what good is to be done with a Lad after a corrupt Nature has been made worse by Art After he has fallen into the Education of a Slave or the management of the impious Hangby's of the Family who instruct their young Master in Pride and swell his Heart with the expectation of an Estate 'till they have made him impregnable against the fear of God and all prudent Advice lest he should grow wise and good enough to discard them But if you begin betimes to plant pious Principles into the Child before he be misimproved Religious thoughts may be infused into him and through the blessing of God become powerful enough to rectifie the byas of natural inclination in a great measure for we have some helps on Nature's side too the apprehension of a God is Natural and a part of us and so is the sense of Good and Evil and the presagings of Immortality 4. Timely Education is of like benefit in the gaining human Knowledge because of that Docility and yielding Humility that is at first in Children and because 't is easier to guide the Reason before it has used it self to wandring Moreover the