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A16864	A consolation for our grammar schooles: or, a faithfull and most comfortable incouragement, for laying of a sure foundation of all good learning in our schooles, and for prosperous building thereupon More specially for all those of the inferiour sort, and all ruder countries and places; namely, for Ireland, Wales, Virginia, with the Sommer Ilands, and for their more speedie attaining of our English tongue by the same labour, that all may speake one and the same language. ...	Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.	1622 (1622)	STC 3767; ESTC S106549	63,526	102

all my louing brethren to the full perfecting of that which hath bene by his goodnesse brought thus far forward towards the same Why should we suffer the industrie of the enemies to be a condemnation to vs for omitting our opportunities of accomplishing any seruice which may concerne the glory of our God the welfare of this people and the perpetuall benefit of this our deare nation when they watch all occasions not onely to hinder whatsoeuer good they can amongst vs but to put out for euer the candle of Israell When as they will toyle day and night with the perill of their liues to vndermine and blow vp our royall King and Prince our Nobles and worthies with all our glorie at once thereby to make an easier passage to their most bloudie and accursed massakers to murder all who beare anie loue to Christs Gospell yea to destroy vtterly all the people of the Lord euen through the whole world if it were possible as their furious rage doth at this day proclaime though with the endlesse destruction of themselues both soules and bodies and euen of their natiue countrey their mother which bred them Notwithstanding I haue not rashly attempted to enter into this so great a worke but I hope that I may truly say that the Lord our louing God who hath holpen me hitherto hath called me vnto it And this hath he done partly enforcing me by necessitie to seeke out the easiest speediest and best meanes to manage this my calling and wherby I might do most good in my place to be thereby in some sort answerable to the same Partly by giuing me a confident assurance euen from the beginning of this my trauell what a benefite might come to all sorts by the read●est courses once found out and more also in this that I haue seemed to my selfe by his goodnesse to haue from time to time gained euer somewhat by my search haue withall obserued how much some few schooles haue excelled others chiefly through the better courses which they haue followed Partly by vouchsafing me strength and cheerfulnesse to proceed thus farre still adding vnto me some new experiments More specially by causing me to haue an earnest desire and an hope by this meanes to answer the loue of certaine worthie friends in seeking that good to theirs which I was not able to performe vnto themselues But aboue all hath he called me hereunto by the encouragement which I haue receiued from some principall benefactors to schooles good learning who though they might by their authoritie and fauours haue commanded all my seruice yet knowing my endeuour herein haue both most louingly cheared me and withall somewhat supported me to goe through with this so weightie a businesse for the good of their own schooles and places and of all others Who haue not thought it enough to found or bestow the places and to endow them with meete maintenance vnlesse they shall also do what may be to leaue in them the best meanes of all good instruction and education To whom not onely my selfe but the Church of God as I trust shall euer be beholden But to passe ouer this point That worthie desire of our royall Soueraigne whom the Lord long preserue to his glory and the good of all his people namely to haue all good learning to florish in these his dominions declared so many wayes specially in that his gracious incitement to all Schoolemaisters in the conclusion of his Maiesties letters set before our common Grammar ought not onely to prouoke but to binde vs all who haue this function and charge to indeuour our selues to the vttermost to search out still the best meanes for the most fruitfull training vp of our Scholars in all good literature and vertuous conditions where he so royally assureth vs that as we shall receiue reward of Almightie God for the same so of his Maiestie worthy commendations And therefore whatsoe●er comfort we shall finde by our trauels therein to make the same fully knowne for the generall good of all as God shall vouchsafe vs fit occasions thereunto For the manner which I haue vsed in all this proceeding the Preface to the Reader in the same our common Grammar hath directed me where hauing affirmed that the varietie of teaching is diuerse and alwayes will be for that euerie Schoolemaister liketh that which he knoweth seeth not the vse of that which he knoweth not and therefore iudgeth that to be the most sufficient way which he seeth to be the readiest meane to bring a learner to haue knowledge therein it directeth vs thus Wherefore it is not amisse saith it if one seeing by triall an easier and a readier way then the common sort of Teachers do would say that he hath proued and for the commoditie allowed it that others not knnwing the same might by experience proue the like then by proofe reasonably iudge thereof not hereby excluding the better way when it is found but in the meane season forbidding the worse This course haue I followed in all directions which I haue here obserued set them downe accordingly Whereas it may be obiected and said that sundry haue written very learned treatises concerning the trayning vp of youth I answer that it is so indeede yet that I may speake in modesty as the truth is all the learned do well know that they are such as do onely set downe the same in a generall maner or do write of some one piece or two alone or at most of some few parts of Grammar learning and matters appertaining thereunto and the principall of them vnknowne to the common sort of teachers or else they are beyond the capacity and reach of the meaner sort for whom this is cheifly intended or at least they haue specially fitted their course for the instruction of two or three alone to be trained vp in priuate houses as our renowned Maister A●kam But none whom I know or haue heard of haue in this kind of search and triall gone through the seuerall parts of our Grammarschoole learning applying themselues for the weakest for the common countrey Schooles thus leading them as by the hand thorow all the whole courses thereof onely according to our common Grammar and most approued classicall Authors Neither haue I in this followed mine owne priuate conceit but besides searching by reading triall and obseruation I haue first for many yeares inquired further as I said the best courses from the most experienced who haue proued them euen of such as haue sent most excellent scholars vnto the Vniuersities as I haue bene assured from some of the chiefe in the same Secondly I haue made triall to see a demonstration of euery thing Thirdly I haue had so much as I could the iudgement of all the learned with whom I could confer or communicate Fourthly so far as I haue bene able I haue procu●ed yearely trials to be made by some of

may ioyntly submit themselues to Iesus Christ. And for the Watch being agreeable to the word of the Lord as I trust euery one that tries aright shal find it I dare boldly a vow that euery soule that shall truely put in practise first that Rule and Way of life to walke in it shall find more true comfort by it then by all the commodities in Virginia yea more true ioy with all heauenly riches and felicity then all the golden mines of the Indians can possibly promise vnto them Secondly for that Rule of Praier in the same that euery one who shall learne to exercise it as the Lord Iesus hath taught him shall obtaine whatsoeuer good thing his soule shall desire and finally that so watching and praying he shall be kept safe euen in the midst of Diuels and ten thousand other perils and haue the Lord to be vnto him as he was to Abraham God all-sufficient whither soeuer he calleth him to be seene of him in the Mount and the inheritance of Abraham to him and his so walking for an euer lasting possession Thus haue I presumed to tender vnto you right Honourable and right Worshipfull whatsoeuer the Lord hath vouchsafed me whereof I haue had hope that it might help you in your gouernments and charges for the good of those poore people committed to you and specially which might further the happy successe of that so much desired Plantation for the conuersion of the heathen and training them vp in good learning and the feare of the Lord and that so from the children it may please God more easily to deriue the same vnto their fathers from the younger to the ancients and so in time by some of themselues so trained vp to propagate it to all their posterity which if after further triall made by you it shal be as curteously accepted as it is heartily and cheerefully offered according to that which I haue receiued from the Lord I shall not onely haue more cause to blesse his heauenly Maiestie but also be encouraged still to prosecute these poore trauels and to study the further good of them all during life especially for drawing the poore natiues in Virginia and all other of the rest of the rude and barbarous from Sathan to God and so rest Yours in all humble obseruance and hearty prayer to God for you IOHN BRINSLEY A CONSOLATION FOR OVR GRAMMAR SCHOOLES THE vncomfortable and fruitlesse toyles which the Lord hath left vnto men to humble them thereby haue euer caused many to bēd their wits and beate their braines to find out more plaine and profitable wayes both to rel●eue themselues and to make their burdens more light Amongst others my selfe hauing first had long experience of the manifold euils which grow from the ignorance of a right order of teaching and afterwards some gracious tast of the sweetnesse that is to be found in the better courses truly knowne and practised I haue betaken me almost wholly for manie yeares vnto this weightie worke and that not without much comfort through the goodnesse of our blessed God And thence the more earnestly haue I pursued this same for that I haue bene fully perswaded vpon happie experience I trust that I could neuer employ my thoughts and trauels more acceptably in anie earthly thing or whereby a greater benefite might redound both to Church and Commonwealth and in some sort to euery soule then in searching out and setting forth to the view of all the shortest surest and most easie entrance to all good learning and how with certaine hope of good successe all may proceed therein Who knowes not the grieuous complaints which to the disgrace of learning are made almost in euerie place for the iniuries done to countries townes parents and children because in so manie schooles the children which are the chiefe hope of parents and posteritie are either spoiled altogether or else do profite so verie litle And for the most part wherein any good is done that it is ordinarily effected by the endlesse vexation of the painfull Maisters the extreme labour and ●errour of the poore scholars with enduring far ouermuch and long seueritie Now whence proceedeth all this but because so few of those who vndertake this function are acquainted with anie good method or right order of instruction fit for a Grammer schoole This therefore hath bene in my heart to shew my loue and dutie to all sorts in seeking for my part to deliuer the poore painfull honest minded Schoolemaister from this reproch and griefe and to helpe withall to supply this so great a want And in stead hereof my earnest desire hath bene to procure a perpetuall benefite to all estates and degrees euen to euery man for his children and posteritie by endeuoring to make the path to all good learning more euen and pleasing in the first entrance then former ages haue knowne and thereby also in the continuall proceeding afterwards so farre as the Lord shall vouchsafe me his mercifull assistance in this great attempt That children being so entred in a plaine manner may striue towards the goale with vndoubted certaintie of obtaining their desire with pleasant delight and chearefulnesse throughout all their time Concerning the singular benefits and blessings which come by good learning like as to euery particular soule and so to whole nations no man truly wise did euer yet make doubt No not anie one who hath knowne aright what learning meant or who vnfainedly loued his coūtrey the soules of Gods people or the Gospel of Christ. For what maketh a nation to be a glorious nation but that the people are a wise and an vnderstanding people What is it whereby we come so neare vnto the Highest or to that blessed estate from which by our first parents we are so fallen and to which we must be renewed and restored if euer we shall inherit againe the tree of life as by true vnderstanding and knowledge especially if the same be sanctified vnto vs Yea what is it else whereby we excell the beastes but by this diuine reason with which the more we are enlightened by the spirit of the Lord through the meanes of learning the more we differ the more we do excell Or who is he that can giue God that glorie for which he was created and redeemed from hell or can in anie measure honour him as he ought to do to his owne saluation but onely he who is endued with right knowledge and vnderstanding Contrarily whence is that inhumanitie as amongst manie of the Irish the Virgineans and all other barbarous nations but frō their extreme ignorance of our holy God and of all true and good learning If anie man should dislike of learning or thinke that there is ouer-much of it for the strange licentiousnesse and outragious courses of sundrie learned ones or for that so manie do abuse their learning euen to their own perdition without vnfained repentance why doth not

Gods true religion there that Iesus Christ may reigne amongst them Sathans kingdome fall and they saued eternally if the Lord vouchsafe them that mercie To this purpose I cannot but oft thinke of the speech of a worthy learned man whom Cambridge in his time much reuerenced who hauing laboured many yeares with little fruite amongst a blinde and superstitious people was wont much to lament that he was enforced to labour in a barren soyle where salt had bene sowen whence he vsed to affirme that the chiefe hope of Gods church for all such pleaces so nuzled vp in rudenesse and superstition was to come out of our Grammar schooles And indeede for bringing men vnto ciuility the very heathens saw this to be the onely way according to these verses of the Poet which are familiar to euery child Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros Right learning of ingenuous Arts The sauage frames to ciuill parts This was one chiefe cause that all the wisest among them did so much prefer and euer so aduance learning and learned men To shut vp this point this I trust shall bring a blessing in due time to euerie one when this way of attaining to learning shall become so plaine and direct as that each poore mans child may with a litle cost and labour get some vnderstanding to know how to serue the high God and his owne necessary occasions and that the children and posteritie of those may come to the knowledge of the truth who themselues haue liued in most grosse ignorance and extreame blindnesse By the meanes hereof euery one shall be the better enabled to pay that debt which by his very birth he oweth vnto the Lord and to his natiue countrey For we are none of vs borne vnto our selues but as the heathen Oratour could say Our countrey doth challenge a part of our life seruice our parents a part our freinds a part c. So that all the course of the life of euery one of vs should be bent to the faithfull discharge of this our debt so to leaue to posterity a thankfull remembrance of our well deseruing of them If the heathens professed this how much more should we Christians oft bethinke our selues how much we owe not onely to our countrey to the Church of God in generall but euen to euery particular soule and more specially to those whom he hath linked vs to by nearer bonds And to this end ought each of vs to seeke as he offereth opportunity to be alwayes paying this debt of ours which none are likely to discharge so well as they who haue bene best instructed in their youth Hereupon there shall neuer be wanting many cheerefull aduancers of all good learning from which so many blessings do proceed especially when learning shall come into the right estimation This also shall be the chiefest glorie of all such in the earth to haue bene benefactours and furtherers vnto the best learning and true pietie and likewise a notable euidence of the eternall happinesse prepared for them To this purpose if that heathen Orator could likewise say further euen by the light of nature That to all who haue preserued helped or any way augmented the happinesse of their countrey there is a most certaine place ordained in the heauens where they shall enioy eternall happinesse how much more boldly may we Christians auouch the same vpon certaine grounds out of the word of God That there is indeed a place of euerlasting happinesse and glorie prepared for all those who in witnesse of their loue thankfulnesse to Iesus Christ and to their countries shall employ their studies and their wealth to the greatest aduancement of all heauenly learning and vnto the vertuous education of youth the hope of the succeeding ages Finally from all these shall the glorie of our nation be enlarged continually when men of true wisedome godlinesse do both rule and obey euerie where A state most certaine to endure long A Prince ten times happie and renowmed to be the head of a people so excelling in all true wisedome and vnderstanding Being thus vndoubtedly perswaded of so manie and rich blessings to ensue vpon the right finding out and making knowne the best courses of teaching in the Grāmar schoole without the least euill that I can surmise I haue thought that this shall be a speciall part of my comfort and a mercie aboue all other outward fauors which the Lord hath euer vouchsafed me if I may but do the least seruice herein or but shew my desire to further so great a good Hereupon haue I bene encouraged as I said not onely to trauell thus farre in it but also to tender this my poore seruice vnto all presuming vpon the kind acceptance of it amongst all sorts which the Lord hath hitherto vouchsafed so far forth as I know Because my confidence hath bene from my first entrance into this trauel according to the desire of my heart that these small beginnings might soone receiue such plentifull augmentations as in time to accomplish all the good which hath bene mentioned and as the Lord hauing verified amongst verie manie will I trust euerie day more manifest vnto all I also at the first edition of it hastened it the more because as we are borne for all as before was said and receiue all our talents for the benefite of euerie one to whom they may do good and are thereby each so deeply indebted vnto them so I haue endeuored since to increase my former experiments and to make them vndoubted by full and most certaine triall as I trust and heartily pray that all sorts for whom they haue bene written may reape some benefit by them so long as schooles or learning shall remaine And what is my life but a vapou● so that I might haue bene taken away before the work● had euer come to light like as some of my fellow labou●ers in this kind haue bene of whom I receiued some of these directions and those not of the smallest moment who had bene able to haue done farre greater seruice in this kind most of whose worthie experiments in this behalfe were buried with them Or how could I haue euer stood before the Lord if being so fully resolued assured of the good that might come by this labour and for that likewise by the bond of the Communion of Saints all to whom this benefite of it might redound had interest in it the Lord also hauing offered me so fit oportunitie I should not haue sought the discharge of this my debt to the vttermost farthing Might I not iustly haue feared that he would haue bene displeased for my negligence and loitering in so necessarie a worke Why should I not then still communicate from time to time what he hath further vouchsafed me in my continuall trauell Yea why should I not stirre vp

the best authoritie learning and iudgement that I could obtaine this fauour of haue intreated them to censure all things frankely and to direct vs wherein they found or thought vs defectiue to confirme and encourage vs wherein we proceeded in a right course Neither haue I conferred with any louing friend hereof so farre as I remember who hath not approued of the course and wished all good successe to this my trauell So that I haue not posted it forward but hasted slowly and vsed so farre as God hath granted me opportuniy all meanes of due preparation and of mature deliberation thus enquiring of as I said and conferring with so many of the best experienced as either my calling or greatnesse of the charges in trauell would permit And moreouer before I published any thing hereof in print I sent some draughts vnto sundry learned for their helpe and direction though not to the hundredth man to whom I desired For that I was neither able to get copies enow written nor to procure them written truly much lesse to be at the charge to send thē abroad into all parts to many who I know would willingly haue laid to their hands and added their experiments Therefore herein also in steed of sending any moe written copies abroad I after a time by the coūsell of some faithfull and iudicious welwillers to this worke thought it best to follow that worthy President of most happy labours Maister Perkins who when he was in hand with his Probleme being aduised to send some copies first to his learned freinds answered that he could not get copies enow written though he procured some writtē forth and by good scholars yet they were so defectiue as that he could not well send thē And for that cause he would print some few of them first which might go forth to the view of the world and so he might heare the common censure of all and receiue the helpe of his freinds and then reforme accordingly Thus did I aduenture to send forth the former draught of my Grāmar Schoole with some other parts belonging to the same to the publique view of all that I might the sooner heare and receiue the free censures and better directions of all louing freinds and welwillers vnto this worke so to be forthwith trying reforming and supplying like as I haue continued vntill this day In the whole worke as I promised not any thing but my trauell which I haue striuen to performe with all the poore ability which the Lord hath vouchsafed me so I take nothing to my selfe but onely the wants and errours The rest is his who hath giuen this desire and prolonged my life granted me vnderstanding strength and opportunitie to bring it thus farre forward What directions or experiences herein I haue receiued from others as yet or lately liuing I would haue set downe with their names adioyned like as I haue done of some which I know might haue brought much credit to the worke for the authority of sundry of them and thereby euerie one of them haue had their due but that they did not thinke it meete desiring to be concealed What I haue gathered out of the writings of the chiefe learned who haue reuiued learning in this last age as Sturmius Melanchton Erasmus others either shortly set downe or plainly poynted at in them I haue omitted likewise to mētion particularly not any way to wrong or detract from them but partly for that I did not note the places at my reading of them and moreouer for that I thought that labour more troublesome then profitable to the Reader Neither take I vpon me any way to prescribe to the meanest knowing my self so far inferiour to the greatest part but do begin to thinke more and more of this weightie calling as Paul did of the sacred Ministerie and to breake out into that his admiration who is sufficient for these things who is meete to haue the treasure both of Church and Common-wealth with the hopes of all posteritie committed vnto him and much more to prescribe perpetuall rules in this behalfe Much lesse do I pre●ume to teach them of most excellent gifts but as a poore fellow labourer for the common good and a willing learner of all I do humbly desire the iudgement and helpe of all the chiefe learned both for their cause who wish this and for the vniuersall benefit of the present age and of all posteritie That I may see still both what they approue in the courses set downe also what they disallow and likewise vpon what grounds what may be bettered what is yet wanting and what is superfluous Thus is my hearts desire to trauel in it still according as I haue begun vntill the Lord shall accomplish the whole worke which although it should be seuen yeares more yea many moe before yet the Lord prolonging my dayes I shall euer increase in reioycing in my vndoubted assurance of the rich blessing which God will giue vnto it thinke all my labour most happily spent But herein let not any man expect from me great matters in a lofty kind of verse or prose or eminency in declamations orations or the like this I leaue to our worthy renowned schooles of Westminster Eaton Winchester and the rest both in London elsewhere and to our Schoolemaisters of chiefe fame whose breeding imployment in schooles hath bin accordingly and who haue ancient scholars long exercised in these kinds Cōcerning whom I am so far off frō enuying any excellent learning in them that I wish all others partakers of the like in their kind And for my selfe I content me with this mercie from the Lord and blesse him for it that I haue trauelled chiefly for our meaner ruder schooles and that he hath vouchsafed me this fauour to bring my worke so farre forward as to helpe to direct hitherto according to the things mentioned in the Contents Yet this I humbly desire of all such of principall note for education gifts and experience to further vs with their better directions in all these exercises and the rest now God hauing so accomplished my desire for the first foundation and let me see his blessing vpon the little on s I will labour to follow them in what I am too short as fast as his goodnesse shall enable vntill I shall likewise find by experience wherein that excellency and comfort of theirs doth consist and come as neare vnto them as I can Though therein Cum in primis non liceat in secundis tertijsve consistere pulchrum erit For the length of the worke in the Grammar schoole I haue in many things contracted very much in this edition And for those things wherein I may seeme ouer tedious as namely in the first entrance of children in teaching Accidence and Grammar also for construing parsing and making Latine I would haue all consider how therein I haue contended to direct the carefull Maister to incite both