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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85927	A publique lecture on all the languages, arts, sciences, and noble exercises, which are taught in Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1650 (1650)	Wing G568; Thomason E595_3; ESTC R202282	11,690	23

A Publique LECTURE On all the Languages Arts Sciences and Noble Exercises which are taught in Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers ACADEMY PROV 8. ver 12. Ego sum sapientia cohaereo astutiae scientiam summae solertiae praesentem habeo Wisdome dwelleth with Prudence and findes out knowledge of witty Inventions Imprimatur Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti Printed at London for Robert Ibbitson dwelling in Smithfield neer Hosier Lane 1650. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the most famous City of LONDON Right Honourable HAving during my being conversant with Forreigne Nations observed among sundry of their honourable and most usefull establishments that of publick Academies wherein Lovers of all noble Exercises as well as of Arts Sciences and Languages are instructed and improved without repairing to other parts without giving to other Nations the glory and the advantages of their Education I have bin so much the sooner moved to apply my self to the establishment of such an Academy for the honor and benefit of this Nation for that it wanted such an advantage and that the same proved to be so prejudiciall to Sons of honorable Parents when they are constrained to travell towards forreigne parts for such improvements for that they often meet with wicked persons who doe endeavour to infuse into them most pernicious principles to their native Country but the most deplorable case of all is the subversion of their Religion to a worse And whereas on such just considerations and motives I have beene moved to advertise the publique of the advantages offered by the said Academicall Exercises and to cause publicke Gratis Lectures to be read first at the Academies Summer Residency at Bednall-Green and for the Winter Months in this place where not onely the Fathers of Families but also the Mothers mutually interessed in the good educations of their Sonnes could be more frequently informed of its method As I thought it not strange that sundry Ladies of Honour and other Gentlewomen though their vocation is not the maintaining of Arguments and Theses in any Universities Academies or Free-Schooles would be satisfied by their owne hearing of this Academicall institution and this moved me also to cause one Lecture to be read concerning all Languages Arts Sciences and noble Exercises which is that now by me presented to you which may inform you at full of all what is meant herein by me as you will soone perceive that it doth not only concerne the glory and good of the Nation in generall but particularly that of this great and famous City which ought not to yeeld to any other in the World and therefore not to be to seeke in the possession of one Academy when Paris maintaines twelve besides a number of Universities and famous Free Schooles and that there should not be any more cause nor ground for Paris to pretend unto the dignity of a second Athens then London since such a Metripolitan of this Land abounds in men of knowledge and Masters of Arts who cannot chuse but have one and the selse-same ayme and marke that which is excellent honourable just necessary and usefull May all such as are endued with excellent capasities joyne to the promotement of what is so really meant by me and may it be so well understood as that Forreigners may henceforth be moved to come from Salamanca in Spaine from Padua in Italy and from Paris in France to this Academy therein to learne what they have hitherto wanted in theirs and that finding themselves also in a State wherein by the great mercy of God his sacred Word is expounded in godlinesse and truth those that have been misled by spirits of delusion may turne unto the best turne unto God I say and live unto righteousnesse and that this may be in your dayes and during your great Government I shall most fervently pray to God as one that is sincerely Right Honourable From the Academy this 6 of March 1649. Your most humble and addicted Servant Balthazar Gerbier A generall Lecture read at Sir Balthazar Gerbiers Academy on all the Languages Arts Sciences and Noble Exercises which are taught in the same AS all Arts and Sciences doe raise Men farre above all other Animals so according to the Latine saying Nobilis est ille quem nobilitat sua virtus and as knowledge is a good consisting in two Branches the First bearing fruites pleasing unto God the Second beneficiall unto men so that all men being Vines of Gods owne planting are bound to make good the first by gratitude the second in regard of brotherly love which need not to be edged on either by the ancient or moderne examples of the Learnedst wisest or noblest Persons of the World for as vertue in its selfe beares its value so it needs no other motive But if so be men are not acquainted with her there will be then an absolute necessity to set forth her invisible Dimensions and Latitude Which can be no more perceived by externall objects then those inscrutable Attributes of God viz. his Justice to punish sinners his Mercy to pardon and his Truth to accomplish his Promises The invisible qualities of Vertue may be said to be originally seene by her selfe as God knoweth himselfe by himselfe and how to love himselfe by the knowledge of his eternall goodnesse So all men should love that which is undeniably so being that which makes men despise the meanes of Fortune and such a despising is an operation of the Soules greatnesse and generosity and indeed true vertue The only thing that elevates man and places him farre above all that the world admires and accounts most deare Now as there are certain degrees by the which men are introduced and guided from one knowledge to a greater perfection of knowledge even as there are severall steps to attaine unto the top of Pyramides Trojan Colommes Mausoles and Pantheons so Languages and Sciences though they teach not simplicity modesty sobriety frugality not clemency yet they are most necessary for that a Lover of knowledge must endeavour to have his Garland adorned with Leaves and Flowers which are the fittest ornaments to accompany the producement of fruits Let it then be farre from a well composed minde to entertaine so unworthy a beleefe as certaine Hereticks have laboured to sustaine That the greatest Art is to know nothing and who consequently would place Languages Arts and Sciences amongst the number of superfluous things since in all Ages experience it selfe hath constantly proved the contrary and that they never were found burthensome lesse prejudiciall Troy may be destroyed by fire nothing of moment saved nor gotten out but that precious burthen which a good Sonne had carried away on his shoulders to wit his Father The wise and learned man amidst these combustions looseth nothing leaves nothing behinde him neither doth any thing trouble him for that he is seene to walke away quietly saying Omnia mea mecum porto I doe carry all with me And that we may proceed