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A29099	The description and the benefits of a regular education a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the anniversary meeting of the gentlemen educated at St. Paul's School, January 25th 1699/1700 / by Samuel Bradford.	Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731.	1700 (1700)	Wing B4109; ESTC R25288	12,549	25

The Description and the Benefits of a Regular Education A SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. PAUL AT THE Anniversary Meeting OF THE GENTLEMEN Educated at St. Paul's School January 25th 1699 1700. Published at the Request of the Stewards By Samuel Bradford Rector of St. Mary le Bow and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty London Printed by William Redmayne and to be Sold by John Nutt near Stationers hall 1700. TO MY HONOURED FRIENDS AND School-Fellows THE STEWARDS OF St. Paul's School Feast John Tully Esq Richard Robinson Esq Richard Crawley Gent. Richard Lloyd Gent. Anthony Smith Gent. Robert Paltock Gent. Edward Nelthorpe Esq Dr. Thomas Sutton 2 Timothy III. 14 15. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learn'd and hast been assur'd of knowing of whom thou hast learn'd them and that from a Child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures THese are the Words of St. Paul that excellent Apostle whose Memory we this Day justly celebrate We whose Ancestors were Sinners of the Gentiles to whom he was particularly ordain'd a Preacher and an Apostle and a Teacher in Faith and Verity We who inhabit an Island 1 Tim. 2.7 to which 't is probable that this Apostle brought the first glad Tidings of Christianity and finally We who besides our general Obligation as Christians are now assembled upon a more particular occasion also to bless God for our Education in a School which bears his Name where we learn'd as many other good Lessons so particularly those which this great Apostle taught and were in out Childhood daily exercis'd in reading the Holy Scriptures in the writing of which our Apostle had so considerable a part It would add mightily to the Solemnity of our present Assembly and strangely increase the Joy of it if on this Day and in this Place we could have St. Austin's wish granted us to hear St. Paul speaking from the Pulpit to us But since that cannot be I judg'd it might prove both to our Satisfaction and Edification to entertain our selves with meditating upon some of his Words and those too such as he might probably have himself utter'd to us if he had been here present with us exhorting us to continue in the things which we have learn'd c. They were written to Timothy whom as St. Paul had taken along with him whilst he was yet Young first to attend and afterwards to assist him in Preaching the Gospel so finding him extraordinarily qualified he appointed him to abide at Ephesus to settle and govern the Church planted there and to do the Office of a chief Pastor or Bishop in that City And whereas there were certain Seducers started up whom our Apostle describes as Men equally vitiated in their Judgments and their Tempers v. 8. Men of corrupt Minds and reprobate concerning the Faith so in opposition to these and as the Duty of his Office he frequently admonisheth Timothy to continue stedfast himself and to endeavour that others should do so in the Profession of that Faith which he had receiv'd 1 Tim. 6.20 2 Tim. 1.13 14. 2 Tim. 2.2 Thus O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust and again Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me That good thing which was committed unto thee keep and lastly The things which thou hast heard of me among many Witnesses the same commit thou to faithful Men who shall be able to teach others also all which Passages as well as that in our Text do evidently refer to that Formulary of Faith call'd by the Writers of the following Ages The Rule of Faith which was committed both to those who were enter'd into the Christian Church by Baptism and to the Bishops and Pastors of it at their Ordination and is the same in effect with that which we now call the Apostles Creed This especially with whatsoever other particulars for the farther explication of this Rule of Faith Timothy had at any time heard and learn'd of St. Paul or any other of the Apostles he exhorts him to retain Continue thou in the things which thou hast learn'd And hast been assur'd of the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the vulgar Latin reads it credita sunt tibi as if it had been in the Copy they made use of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but to keep to those Copies which our Translators follow'd the Word here us'd carries in it a fuller sense importing that Timothy had not only receiv'd the things here spoken of by hearsay but been fully inform'd and upon considering the information entirely satisfied upon solid and good grounds of the truth of those things which he had learn'd and accordingly it follows knowing of whom thou hast learn'd them If it be read as in our Copies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the singular number it must denote St. Paul if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the plural as the Alexandrian Manuscript has it it must take in one more at least probably Barnabas St. Paul's Companion but whether one or more it matters not since the Persons he intimately convers'd with had been Eye and Ear Witnesses of the things which they taught and were of known Veracity and Probity St. Paul to be sure was one of them who was intimately known to Timothy and had upon all occasions testified an especial regard to him so that it could not be imagin'd that he would impose upon him Besides that he himself upon account of his miraculous conversion to the Christian Faith was a more than ordinary Witness to it Such were the Persons of whom Timothy had learn'd and from a serious consideration of what they had taught him he became assur'd Now was this all but he had yet a farther advantage both in order to his embracing and being confirm'd in the Faith of Christ namely that he had known the Scriptures from his very Childhood by the Piety of those who had the care of his tender Years which Scriptures viz. those of the Old Testament gave abundant evidence to the Doctrine of the Apostles and were a standing Testimony to what they taught Having thus explain'd the Words we may observe in them these Three Particulars very proper to be consider'd upon this Occasion First The view which they give us of a just and regular Education Secondly An Intimation contain'd in them of something necessary on the part of the Learner as well as of the Teacher And Thirdly The great Obligation which such Persons are under who have been well instructed and assur'd of those things which they have learn'd to continue in them First We have here a view given us of a just and regular Education in the instance of Timothy to whom the Words are directed He had known St. Paul tells him the Holy Scriptures from a Child no doubt by the pious care of his Grandmother and Mother mention'd by our Apostle a little before 2. Tim. 1.5 where commending the unfeigned Faith which was in him