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A50546	A sermon preached to the Artillery company, at St. Mary le Bow, September 13. 1676 by Richard Meggot ...	Meggott, Richard, d. 1692.	1676 (1676)	Wing M1625; ESTC R9843	13,160	41

designs were selfish and Traiterous there were people that went after him in the simplicity of their Hearts 2 Sam. 15.11 Though Theudas was no better than a Confident Rebel yet a number of Men joyned themselves to him Acts 5.36 Such Disturbances and Combustions often spring where there is want of Knowledg in Civil things But these are not to be spoken of if compared with those that have ensued upon it when it hath been in things Sacred O the Flames the Confusions the Tragedies it hath caused then This the Seditious and they that are given to change know so well that they seldom if ever fail to have recourse to it A thing so well understood by elder times that since Christianity the Canons of most Churches as well as our own have charged the Authorizing and Licensing of all who taught Schools and had the instilling of first principles of Religion into Youth upon the Bishops They suffered not any one to take this Employment that had a mind to it but such as upon Tryal appeared fit to be trusted with it considering of what concernment it is to the Publick to prevent their being Abused and Poysoned here If they are there is nothing so wild and desperate they may not be put upon This hath been evidenced so oft among Christians that the Turks have observed and learned it Knoles Hist Turk Mab. 1. It was Burgluzes Counsel to Bedredin puzled and at a loss how to raise a War against Mahomet the first to broach a new Sect among the People and it took so well they themselves and other of their Creatures with wonderful Gravity turning Preachers that of their Proselytes they formed such a Force as met those Forces that were sent out under Amurath against them and fought very bloodily though unfortunately But I need not enlarge upon this among English-men nor give them instances what Pageantries and Shows uncouth Words and affected Names will do in Religion among Souls that are without Knowledge and had rather use a Mantle to cover these things than a Pencil to set them out with I shall conclude the whole that I have been saying with a short Address to you who make this Days Solemnity I think my self happy Brethren and Companions of my earliest years that I am to speak this Day before you touching these things especially because I know you to have had Advantages of being expert in all such kinds of Knowledge as may accomplish you and Wisdom will be justified of her Children So that I have no more to do than to stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance that you would improve it to proper purposes Let your Light so shine before Men that others may be convinced of the worth of it by the use they see you make of it Let it be a defence to you both against the Vices and Errors of the Age you live in both against the Immoralities and Imprudencies that the weak and they that have not had your Advantages so often run into Let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober for they that sleep sleep in the night 1 Thes 5.6 7. and they that be drunken are drunken in the night The Poets say that when the Gods and Goddesses were choosing the Trees they would have sacred to them and that after Apollo had chose the Laurel and Venus the Myrtle Pluto the Cypress and Hercules the Poplar when Minerva chose the Olive Jupiter in transport imbraced his Daughter and for that action called her Wise Those Trees the other chose were for little but shew and fancy but this bore Fruit fit both for Food and Physick This is that denominateth Men truly knowing when they know those things which are material and really useful to secure their Souls to discharge their duties to govern their Passions to adorn their Stations to support their Families to serve their Generation Imploy it so whatsoever the measure that you have of it be Some make no use of their Knowledg any further than by their impertinent affected significations of it to affront themselves with it be above the pittiful humour of contenting your selves with this If it lie in you as Wind in the Hollow of a Bladder only to puff you up or as a tinkling Symbol in the Hand of a Child only to make a sounding noise with it will speak you only the more aggravated Fools as being both the more inexcusable ones and the more incurable Others make an ill use of it Have all the Workers of iniquity no Knowledge It is too notorious that this may be abused as much as any of the rest of God's Blessings it may be abused as Achitophels to the fomenting of publick disturbances as the Pharisees to the disparaging of Christ's Doctrine as Simon Magus's to the bewitching of the People with Sorceries as the Devil 's to the colouring the worst of Vices But though it is a Fountain that if not cleansed and looked to may send forth such bitter waters it is more natural to it to send forth sweet ones such as may refresh both our Souls Bodies both our selves and others Your Consciences bear you witness that this benefit you may reap by it and therefore bless God for every degree of it and that not slightly and cursorily in some empty formal words but by some agreeable and worthy deeds Those which are most proper for me at this time to press you to are such as may express your gratitude to the place of your Education that flourishing happy School where the day first dawned and began to break in upon you What our Saviour saith of the Mustard-Seed It is the least of all Seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest among Herbs and becometh a Tree so that the Birds of the Air lodg in the Branches thereof I may apply here little and inconsiderable as Schools seem they are of mighty consequence and importance All the superstructure that is built afterwards still beareth a proportion to this Foundation and the falling into unskilful Hands here experience showeth is e'ne as hard to be overcome and corrected afterwards as an error in the first Concoction Let me for this reason desire you to look to the Rock from whence you were hewen you ow more to it than without some consideration you will be sensible of By the Piety and Liberality of a worthy Churchman its Founder Dr. Colet sometimes Dean of St. Paul's it hath indeed a fair and honourable maintenance of its own but though the condition of it be such as not to stand 〈◊〉 need of your Alms yet there are some things wherein it is capable of your respects there was a Library furnished with the choicest Books of Philological Learning burned by the late dreadful Fire that is not yet recruited there are several poor Children taught there above the number that Foundation alloweth any thing in the University to who with your encouragement may be one day Ornaments to the Nation I might exhort Per spem crescentis Jüli but you are Persons of so much Ingenuity that I know it would be but needless to provoke and yet more needless than that to dictate to your Charity I end therefore with one Observation of Quintilian In his Chapter whether Private or Publick Schools are best for Children to be brought up in J●lit l. 〈◊〉 ● preferring Publick ones among many other reasons he giveth this for one the Acquaintance and Friendships which Youth of all degrees there gain and contract with one another which leave such impressions as usually are not worn out with time but last to Manhood and Maturest Age. Non enim saith he est Sanctius Sacris iisdem quam studiis initiari I hope that this days Meeting will shew it so wherein we are come to a Love-Feast to renew and tye faster that knot of Kindness we had for one another so long ago This I know not how better in my Station to encourage and promote than by expressing the Sentiments of my own mind to the Scholars of that School which beareth the Name and Memory of St. Paul in the words of that Apostle Phil. 1.8 9 10. with which I shall dismiss you God is my record how greatly I long after you in the Bowels of Jesus Christ And this I pray that your love may yet abound more and more in Knowledg and in all Judgment that ye may approve things that are excellent and that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ To him with the Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed by us and the whole Church The Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen Errata Page 4. line 14. dele the. Page 23. line 12. for hate read have Imprimatur Ex Aedibus Lambethanis Jan. 27. 1676. Antonius Saunders Reverendissimo Archi-Episc Cant à Sacris Domesticis