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A36258	Two letters of advice I. For the susception of Holy Orders, II. For studies theological, especially such as are rational : at the end of the former is inserted a catalogue of the Christian writers, and genuine works that are extant of the first three centuries.	Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711.	1672 (1672)	Wing D1822; ESTC R16080	115,374	358

remaining of Porphyry's work on that Subject his V●●a Pythagorae and of Plotinus and very much of that Eastern both Babylonian and Indian learning in the expeditions of Apollonius Tyaneus written by Philostratus and the late Mr. Stanley especially for their Opinions you may consult the excellent collection of Stobaeus And though all the three Sects of Philosophers both Jonick Italick and Eleatick seem originally to have been derived from the Barbarians as you may see learnedly discoursed by Clemens Alexandrinus and so would be beneficial to your design yet I think there are hardly any professed works remaining of any of them but the Pythagoraeans and the Platonists For the former you may read the golden verses with Hierocles and his Symbols with Giraldus on them usually both bound together with Hierocles's works together with the late Collection of Pythagoraean Authors and Fragments at Cambridg MDCLXX For the later you may have Plato's works and doctrine cleared by Marsilius Ficinus and others that have endeavoured to reconcile him to Aristotle The mystical senses of the Poets besides what you shall meet with commonly in the Ancients you have explained by N●talis Comes Vossius de Idololatriâ and Giraldus de Dijs Gentium and among the Ancients by Phurnutus and Palaephatus professedly Their Oracles I have already mentioned For their Oneirocriticks there are Artemidorus and Achmedes alone and Astrampsychus at the end of the forementioned Edition of the Oracles For their Historians and Geographers I refer you to Bodinus his Methodus Historiae at the end whereof he has a Catalogue of them and an account of the times which they lived in but above all to their late Princes Scaliger and Petavius for the one and Ortelius and Bochartus for the other And this may serve for your initiation in these Studies which is at present my uttermost design XI But the way for avoyding confusion and distraction in such a variety of them which will belong to the Fourth particular of my propounded Method will be to shew which of them are not necessary to be Studied at the same time but in order and for them which are so what times distinctly are most seasonable For the former you may from what has been said perceive what Studies are requisite for others and therefore necessary to be first prosecuted and besides what are more necessary for your present uses and what may as yet be more conveniently omitted onely it were well you would endeavour to overcome the rudiments of whatever you design as soon as you can though they be not of present use for you will find them more tiresome when you are older Of these therefore it will be unnecessary to speak any more That therefore in those that are at present to be followed you may avoyd distraction and yet loose as little time as is possible you may distinguish them into such as are more easily apprehended and entertained with more present and sensible pleasure and so leave a more tenacious impression on the memory and these you may apply your self to immediately after your recreations and afer a little reflection you may proceed to those that are more serious and require a greater recollection for such I esteem History and Geography for which I would have you begin with the Ancients in their own tongues with the Annotations of noted Criticks who both may put you in mind and satisfie you in difficulties which you had not otherwise expected and refer you to Parallel places in other Authors where you may find that which probably you may sometimes be desirous of some things discussed more largely which in your present Author are more briefly intimated which it will be very beneficial to read immediately whilest the other things are more fresh in your memory and when you are so far skilled in them you should have your Paper Books by you to note and compare and exercise your own conjectures concerning what is singular and worthy of especial observation or such as will more exercise your judgment and require a mind more composed and serious and therefore afford less pleasure in reading and upon that account will require more meditation for such I intend School-Divinity for which I think it were well you allotted your morning-Studies wholly allowing onely some time before Dinner for Meditation wherein also I would have you not onely exercise your memory in reflecting on what was produced by your Author but also your judgment in examining what means may be used for the determination of the whole Controversie And the same way you may take at Night which is another convenient time in preparing materials for your morning Thesis according to the Praescriptions already mentioned The rest of the Afternoon you may design for the Apologies and your other humane Studies And I think it very commendable if you would employ the Praxis of your Grammatical Studies for the understanding of the Scriptures and therefore that you would with them together with your Devotions begin and conclude your Morning and Evening Studies but so as that you may afterwards draw from them some moral and practical observations that may be of use for the ordering or examination of your behaviour for the whole day And the same advantage you may get by reading the Lessons at Publick Prayers in your Greek or Hebrew Bible and noting in the Margent with Black-lead the unusual Idioms or obscure passage you may meet with that so if afterwards you remember or find any thing that may contribute to their explication in your other Studies you may know whither to refer them And thus I think I have gone through all the particulars of your present proposal both how to order your Studies to Divinity what were most conducing to that end and what first to be taken in hand as briefly as was possible conveniently though I confess very much more largely than I had originally intended and I must ingenuously acknowledge that as I have already professed my self willing so I am my self suspicious that it will be necessary that I be corrected in some instances wherein I cannot pretend to any considerable experience I believe you may your self easily guess what they are for I cannot now stay to enumerate them particularly and as I should be willing my self so I shall advise you to consult men whom you know to be skilled in each of them severally if you have any conveniency before you practice them But if in any of the rest wherein I am able or in any of your particular Studies you shall meet with any important difficulties I hope you will use the Ingenuity of a Scholar in freely communicating them to Your very affectionate Friend and Servant H. D. a 1 S. Pet. V. 3. b Rev. ● 6. V. 10. xx 6. c 1 S. Pet. ii 9. d Rec●gn I. III. VI. e Pras. Catech III. * Bishop Taylor * Do you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to t●ke upon you this

this means your duty shall become not a task but a real pleasure proceeding from such a pleasing and endearing principle and having the omnipotence and good will of God to secure you from the fears of disappointment when your desires are reasonable and as a sure refuge and Sanctuary to have recourse to when they are not and that you will not be subject to the slavery of such desires themselves which are the Originals of all misery even in this life and your performance of your duty will be more universal not onely in things agreeing with your humour but even in those which are most contradictory to it which will be so much the more acceptable to God by how much it is less so to our selves Besides it were well that you would endeavour to render your love as rational as you can and as little dependent on the passions of the lower appetites for by this means your tranquillity will be continual and not depend on the vicissitudes of humours seeing if you be led onely by reason that being alwayes true must consequently be alwayes seasonable and that the reason whereby you judge concerning your own condition were rather grounded on your Actions than your Affections so as never to think better of your self when you find your affections warm if your actions are not correspondent nor the worse when your affections Flagg your actions still continuing conformable This rational rectifying of your intention would still oblige you to keep an habitual attention and watchfulness over your actions and yet would make attention it self less necessary by being habitual and make it less affected It would make it less necessary because virtuous habits as well as vitious would breed a facility and inclination to virtuous actions even antecedently to deliberation It would make it less affected because Piety would appear in such actions where affectation could not take place as well as where it might for indeliberate actions are not capable of affectation and because it would make an uniformity in all actions of your life which were remarkable Which must needs make your life exemplary with more advantage to your self as well as to the vulgar to your self because observing of Rules could not be practiced but in actions deliberate which are but few and must be handled more tediously whereas this way of securing acts by habits and habituallyright intentions would at once provide for all by diminishing their number and by directing such as would remain to the multitude who by this means must better be convinced of the truth and sincerity of their Pastor when their most accurate inspection could discern no affectation and that by all appearances it seemed real not hypocritical XXVII For. managing your Cure it were well that you would constantly allot some time daily from your Studies for visiting them when you shall think them best at leasure And because the particular persons may be more than you may be able to deal with in an ordinary way therefore for their ordinary Cure you should first win Parents and Masters of Families to a sense of Piety which being once performed you may then easily induce them to a care of the Souls of their Children and Servants by shewing them how their Religion would conduce to their verry secular interest that hereby their Servants would prove more faithful and their Children more obedient and comfortable to them that therefore they should keep up their Family Duties constantly their Morning and Evening Prayers that occasionally they would instill an instruction in their duties by having some good book read to them all especially the Whole duty of Man according to the method of the Partitions therein prescribed every Sunday one that they would by your advice prescribe some select passages of Scripture fitted for their practical use to be gotten by heart by them to instruct them as they find them capable in the Art of Holy Meditation and mental Prayer to stir them up to a frequent Communion and to desire your Advice upon occasion of any important scruple whether in order to the Sacrament or upon any other occasion and to influence them all by their word and example and exhortation and peculiar encouragement Then endeavour what you can to abolish the Nurseries of vice and publick Debauchery not by imploring the Magistrates assistance that becomes secular persons rather than your self and would be apt to harden the hearts of the persons concerned against you when they should find your exhortations backed with no better arguments but by perswasions partly by disswading the multitude of such Callings as are interessed in mens vices such are Taverns and Ale-houses especially the most debauched of them to give over that kind of Calling and betake themselves to something more profitable for the Commonwealth and more secure for their own Souls Concerning this you may make use of the advice and assistance of your more able Parishioners who may be best experienced in the commodities of the Countrey and may be able to employ them even in raising new advantageous Arts of Trading if it be necessary But for those Trades that are directly unlawful if they be not able to undertake any other it were better that they were maintained on the publick Charity than that they should be suffered to return to their former employments You may see for this St. Cyprians Epistle ad Eucratium L. j. Ep. 10. So also it were well that those Taverns and Ale-houses which might be permitted after the detraction of their superfluous number were confined to Inns who by their paucity might gain sufficiently and virtuously a convenient maintenance And to this purpose you might perswade them to keep small drink that none may be necessitated to use their strong and to take care of either tempting or permitting any to drink beyond their measure as they would tender the security of their own Souls from a participation of their Sins Then it were well in the next place that you frequented the Schools if there be any and according to the Authority the Law allowes the Clergie in such cases examined the care and method of their Masters and especially to take care of a method of instilling Piety into their Children which their Masters may practice them in or if their Masters be negligent you should allure and encourage them your self Do not despise this mean employment for both you will find them more capable of virtue than such as are confirmed in vitious habits by a more inflexible age and longer custome and by this means you may more easily secure the hopes of the next Generation which you may live your self to see grown up according to your own desire Then for giving them more particular prescriptions you should stir them up to a particular Confession of their Sins and Temptations according as our Mother the Church of England and Ireland approves it but to give them no formal Absolution till a long experience has