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A41549	The reformed bishop, or, XIX articles tendered by Philarchaiesa, well-wisher of the present government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law, in order to the further establishment thereof.	Gordon, James, Pastor of Banchory-Devenick.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1279; ESTC R10195	112,676	318

Errant to be compared unto that vain Roman Ventidius Bassus of whom it was said That he spoiled a good Muleter and made but a bad Consul But I shall shut up this Paragraph with the Observation of some very Judicious Persons That the Principal Reason wherefore Pallas hath so few painted Shields in this Nation is because the Sons of Minerva receive so little Encouragement from their Superiours the much easier Arts of Adulation and implicit Obedience being more valued than the wearisom Trade of Evisceration it being no unfit Etymology of the Word Minerva quod nervos imminuat and of Pallas quod pallidos reddat For there is much Sence in that of the Poet Sint Maecenates non deerunt Flacce Marones And some in this too quis enim Virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia si tollas Time was even among the Heathen that Learning was a sufficient Protection against Tyranny Winess Antonius Triumvir who when Varro his Enemy and of a contrary Faction was listed for Death thus gallantly superscrib'd his Name Vivat Varro vir doctissimus Not to mention Alexander the Great his sparing of the House and Family of Pindarus in that total Eversion and Epidemical Destruction of the Thebans because he was the Renowned Prince of the Lyrick Poets and unimitable as Horace terms him For though this Domitian Maximinian and Lycinian Age affords but few Examples of this nature yet ancient Records have almost innumerable Instances to this Purpose It cannot rationally be expected that this Article should be confirmed as the former are with many Ecclesiastical Canons seeing in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of our Citations there were few Universities in the World that of Pavia and Bononia the oldest in these Western Parts of the World being by many years posteriour thereunto and scarce any Doctors Honore Doctoratus as it is now used which is not properly an Ecclesiastical Dignity but a Civil Honour conferred by the Secular Prince upon Incorporations I mean the Faculty of dispensing it or on particular Persons Thus D' avila in his excellent History of the Civil Wars of France tells us of that Privilege which Henry the third the French King vouchsaf'd on the Cardinal Bur●on 〈…〉 make Doctors 〈…〉 or liberal 〈◊〉 For it being a 〈◊〉 Honour most originally desire it's 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 Yet 〈◊〉 somee mention of Doctors and some Orders concerning them in a Councel holden within the Intervall of our Allegations viz. Concil Caesar Augustan which was celebrated in the 6th Century But whether it was that Honour we have been lately describing or a Dignity purely Ecclesiastical adhuc dubitant Doctores though it is most probable that it ●lludes unto those Catechists who were appointed to instruct the Catechumem gra●des which was an Office equivalent to our Professours of Theology such were Pantaenus Clemens and Origen in the School of Alexandria And if we give Faith to S. Hierom. Lib. De Script Eccles. there was a continual Series of such Ecclesiastical Doctors in that Church from the Days of S. Mark the Evangelist unto Pantaenus Of which some interpret those Teachers mentioned Eph. 4. 11. For as pastors govern the Church so these Theologues say they govern the Schools But of this Article enough if not too much THE PERORATION BEing stirred in Spirit I have adventured yet with all due submission to tender these Nineteen Proposals unto the serious Consideration of the Governours of this Church And sure I am the Conscionable Practice of them would be found more Honourable and much more useful both to Church and State than were the Propositions of an equal number which by the mischievous Long Parliament were sent after that Glorious Martyr King Charles the first whom they had first driven from his Royal Residence by most insolent Tumults If the Author had not resolved long ago never to raise his insignificant Name out of the Dust of Oblivion by giving the Press the Trouble thereof which is already too much oppress'd with a Shoal of others he would not have been asham'd to owne those Lines before all the World with as much Confidence and more Innocency too than Heliodorus espoused his ingenious Romance But this ingenuous Boldness had never its Rise from a Reflection upon the Eloquence of these few Sheets for he is throughly convinced that his blunt Style is very far from the Art of Oratory and his Genius no less removed from any Affectation of the Flowers of Rhetorick but it is the Sense of these sad Truths and good Wishes embosom'd in those Lines which did create that Confidence with something also which his Conscience calls Zeal for the Glory of God and good of his Church Wherein he hath endeavoured to trace the Footsteps of Salvian that zealous Bishop of Marseils who in a Parallel case to Ou●s speaks to this Purpose Non verba sed res non Ornamenta sed Documenta affectamus nudus enim Veritatis ensis intimiùs penetrat at vitrum fucatum veritatis Lucem excludit and Gildas his ruthful Lamentations for the great Degeneracy of the British Church And if his heart deceive him not very much he may confidently appeal to the Searcher of all Hearts That it was no Dissatisfaction with the present Form of Church-Government which prompted him to pen this Pamphlet but rather a sincere Affection thereunto and an ardent Desire to see the Glory of the second Temple transcend the Splendour of the First which he would account a kind of Beatifical Vision upon Earth and wisheth not to live one minute Longer than to behold this Church once in Possession of that Blessing For since he was blessed with any Understanding he had alwayes a Veneration for that mode of Government as having in the greater Lines thereof a greater Analogy to the Primitive Regiment than any other Form coyn'd in the Mint-house of Geneva And if the most ancient Records of Church-History and Fathers of the Church be made Judges in the matter which in matters of Fact must needs be unless any be so Enthysiastick as to expect Divine Revelation de novo to determine this Controversie I suppose the little Antiquity which he hath read would engage him to pawn his natural Life upon the Probation of that Assertion against all the Paralogisms of Blondel and Salmasius the two great Genevian Champions and the more foolish Cavils of many other Praters to the same Purpose Now though the Author hath humbly tendered this Advice unto all of that Sacred Order yet he would not have any to imagine that he undervalues any of them or that he values all alike He knows that there were some two or three Stars among them of the First Magnitude now Eclipsed from us the dark Curtain of Death being drawn divers years ago betwixt them and this World who when they were in it were looked upon by all honest men as Persons of approved Integrity and who suffered much for Conscience-sake even Imprisonment Banishment and Confiscation of their Goods yea some

intrusted to their Charge be well Governed by causing exact Discipline to be observed in them and edifying Doctrine alwayes taught even all the Learned Languages and Liberal Arts if there be competent Maintenance settled for these several Professions or which may be provided by a right improvement of the old Revenues and the encouragement of pious Christians who are in bonis to make some Charitable Donations for that effect And let them regard all Professours impartially by hugging them all as a common Father with an equal Paternal Affection provided they be men of Conscience Learning Prudence and Authority joyn'd with a faithful Sufficiency to exercise their respective Functions seasonably and diligently And above all that they be Persons of Loyal Principles both in reference to Church and State as also peaceably disposed and averse from intrinsecal Factions As for these Salamanders who like the Seditious in Ierusalem are still jarring within when they should be opposing the Common Enemy from without let such be speedily turned out lest that Brood of the Viper at last tear out the very Bowels of their Mother But seeing the Education of Youth at their first appearance upon the University-Theatre is immediately intrusted to the care of the Professours of Philosophy Let not these Masters be permitted to be vain in their Conversation or Apparel as if they were School-Boys themselves who needed to be tutor'd and have not as yet attain'd to that measure of Prudence as to govern themselves aright but let them be ordered to be patterns of Piety Gravity Sobriety and all kind of Temperance to Young ones that they may edifie them both by their Example and Doctrine And let them be careful to teach Youths the most Solid Parts of Philosophy viz. The most useful part of Aristotle's Logicks which was his greatest Talent wherein his strength did lye and whereby he did merit most from the World Remitting the vain pursuit of these Aëreal Notions concerning Vniversale Ens rationis c. to Brain-sick Creatures whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is Festucas legere and chief Employment Nugas quisquilias prosequi Let them be also taught somewhat of the Physicks Ethicks and Metaphysicks But I humbly suppose Moral Philosophy may be more exactly learned from the Platonists and Stoicks than from Aristotle's Ethicks viz. The Books of Plato Hierocles Plotinus Epictetus Simplicius Antoninus Arian Cicero Seneca and Plutarch But seeing Christians are to call in Auxiliaries from such there is no question but Thomas Aquinas his Secundae Secundae would be very useful in this Affair And I should wish that the most Learned Solid and Discreet Philosophers of an University or Nation were employed not only to draw up an exact Systeme of Moral Philosophy but also of Natural Collected from Des Cartes Gassendus the French and English Virtuosi not forgetting the Learned Works of Sir Francis Bacon whose profound Philosophical Wit gave the first Rise to the Modern Experimental Philosophy especially his Natural History and Novum Organum yea his Advancement of Learning his History of Winds and The Prolongation of Life would be found also good Adminicles 〈◊〉 such a Design But as that Systeme should be very material so it ought to be succinct like to that brief but excellent Epitome composed as some suppose by M. Arnold and term'd Ars cogitandi which is a notable Summary of Logick Such a Systeme should serve at least as a Text both to Masters and Scholars a little Latitude being indulg'd to Professors to Paraphrase on that Diuturnal Ephemerides But let not capricious Brains presume to set forth a new Philosophical Almanack every year with a design to put the former out of Date till a new Authority re-enjoyn it But above all in destitution of a particular Professour of the Mathematicks Let every Master of Philosophy Teach his Scholars every Year some of the most useful Species of that excellent Science viz. Arithmetick Geometry Geography and Astronomy which will be found infinitely more useful than these Operosae nugae taught heretofore in those Places which have no better Effect than to stuff the Brain like to a Bubble of Water or a blown Bladder and which directly resembles those delicious Viands wherewith Necromancers pretend to feed their Guests but when they go away they find their Maws as empty as when they began that imaginary Feast So that when these deluded Youths come to Commence Masters of Arts their Instructors may say of them though not with a good Conscience Accipiamus pecuniam c. And without any humble Modesty to be their Prompter they may say of themselves with as much truth at least as Socrates when he was pronounced by the Oracle to be the wisest man in the World This I know That I know nothing And that with Secular Learning they may drink in the first Milk of Piety from the Breasts of that Alma Mater Let the Principles of Christian Religion be early instilled into the Minds of young ones that Being seasonably taught to remember their Creator in the Dayes of their Youth they may not forget him in their old Age nor be forsaken by him For Quo semel est imbuta c. For that end let such a Book as H. Grotius his excellent little Treatise De veritate Religionis Christianae which without any Hyperbole is worth it's weight in the purest Gold be so inculcated into their Memories that they may not only have it all by heart but also throughly understand it As also that notable Summary of Christian Offices call'd The whole Duty of man composed by an unknown Author or the Practical Catechism of the Learned D. Hammond or that of D. Vsher of Armach Primate of Ireland provided they be first jure Latii donati For all the Communications of the Lycaeum ought to be in the Dialect of old Rome or that of the City of Minerva that the tenacious Memories of the young ones may be habituated to those Learned Languages And how necessary the good Education of Youth is may appear from that excellent Observation of the great Lo. Verulam That The great Multiplication of Vertue upon humane Nature resis on Societies well ordered and disciplin'd For Common-wealths and good Governments nourish Virtue grown but do not much mend the Seeds Whence he infers That there ought to be a most exquisite Delectus of the Tutors of Youth And if we give Faith to Plato Seneca and Plutarch they should be as well qualified Persons as are lightly to be found in the World And sure this solicitous Choice of the Educators of Youth was never more necessary than in this Iron Age wherein many have been so marred in their Education by Schismatical and Disloyal Principles too early instilled into them that this foundering in the Feet hath caused Convulsive Fits and unsteady Motions in them as long as they lived But if the Universities of this Land were blessed with such Professours as we have above described it is most probable that

undertakes it in this Age becomes rather the object of Pity than Envy it being truly said by the Emperour Dioclesian Difficillimum est rectè imperare how much more in this Iron Age in which that Wish is absolutely unnecessary Materiamque tuis tristem Virtutibus opta And as for any imputation of Malice if his heart deceive him not very much he would be much more ready to make Use 〈…〉 Paludamentum of Constantine the 〈…〉 make any i●vidious Detection And till the Reader can convince him that there cannot be Pax cum hominibus bellum cum vitiis in sensu composito he hopes Charity will dissever them in his behalf Yea as Seneca hath observed well Cato the Elder was no less useful to the State of Rome than Scipio Africanus because as this Noble Roman did defeat the Physical Enemies of his Countrey so that austere Censor did successfully Combat against the Moral Adversaries thereof That Apology which St. Hierom made for his Tartness is a sufficient Vindication of the Author For if a Stylus aculeatus be allowable against a Charge of Heresie it is no less lawful in the Cause of God For when the Honour of the Divine Majesty and the Interest of his Church are deeply concerned we ought to regard the Glory of the Supreme infinitely above that of any other Superiour For Amicus Socrates amicus Plato sed magis amica Veritas To which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Truth and Interest of the Church all truly zealous Ecclesiasticks are animated by that notable Saying of Saint Augustine Qui veritatem occultat qui prodit Mendacium uterque reus est ille quia prodesse non vult hic quia nocere desiderat But though Tiberias none of the best of Emperours used to say In Civitate libera linguam mentemque liberam esse debere yet sure I am If these Gravamina which would amount to the number of German ones if they were subdivided and sold by Retail had been heard patiently in private they needed not have been told in Publick though there were never more Provocations for all men to speak than now when all the Mischiefs that other Ages did but imagine are now practised and when Oppression hath made a Wise man mad and in the mean time the dumb Asses are taught to forbid the Madness of the Prophets But there being too many in the world who as Aristippus said have their ears in their feet and they who are straight finding it very inconvenient to stoop so low therefore are necessitated to take other measures of Communication Desperata ejus Principis salus est as said a Wise man cujus aures ita formatae sunt ut aspera quae utilia nec quicquam nisi jucundum accipiant Nam Libertas Consilii est ejus vita essentia quâ ereptâ Consilium evanescit But perhaps it may be objected That it is fit that all Papers which are design'd for the Press should in prima instantia be presented unto those who Iure eminentiae are appointed Supervisors thereof I shall refer it to the Judgment of the Candid Reader if the Author had not good reason to conclude that he might spare his pains in making such an Address by the strange ensuing Narration told him not long ago by one who had designed something very useful as he supposed for the Church viz. An exact Method of studying the Primitive Fathers even to the Death of Gregory the Great whom he accounted the Last of those Worthies as one called Brutus and Cassius Vltimi Romanorum though Venerable Bede Holy Anselm and Devout Bernard have merited eternal Remembrance in the Church Which Method if prosecuted as he intended he humbly conceiv'd would be found more useful for all Unbyassed Readers than the Treatises of Baronius Sixtus Senensis Bellarmin Possevin Perron Lawney Sirmundus and Contius to that purpose or the Tractates of the Magdeburgenses with their Epitomator Osiander Scultetus Reinolds Cocus Rivet Blondel and Dallee the Popish Authors being generally too lax though the four last in order are either Nasutiores or much more ingenuous than the rest and the Reformed too strict on that Subject the former discovering too palpable a Design to buoy up a forlorn Cause by Supposititious Fathers and Spurious Books and the latter having too much of the Critick and Satyrist in them The Diagram of which great Design being presented by the Author to a Principal Member of that Order in order to the giving of his Judgment as to the propos'd Method And what he concluded to be either defective or redundant therein the Author was resolved to take in very good part thinking himself bound to reverence the Opinions of his Superiours But he did meet with no other Verdict or Complement save this astonishing Answer from such a Person That he had no Leisure to look after such Books he being distracted too much with other Imployments and that there were too many Books already in the World which hasty Censure he passed on that whereof he had never read one Line Which could not but appear very strange to any in his right Wits when he reflects upon the Disposition of the Country whereof it was spoken We find indeed in a late Satyrist who had the Spirit of his Calling as abundantly as any a Nation taxed as being Epidemical because they send forth many Examina of the Fruit of their Bodies into forreign Countries and divers Colonies to New Plantations but it is the first time I have heard them charged with the exuberant Spawn of the fruit of their Brains And though that Observation concerning Africa semper aliquid adfert novi may be also applyed to this Country yet it is not to be understood of the one or the other in reference to new Books but rather of renewed monstruous Productions both these Countries being in these latter Ages of the World sandy and barren as to intellectual Births But in fine he remitted the perusal of that Platform to another of his Order who was no less taken up with the Study of Modern Politicks than himself yea was become so much in Love with that Trade that he had put the intervall of many German Miles and Years betwixt himself and his proper Charge that he might practice the Principles of his beloved Art upon a fitter Scene whereby this ghostly Mountebank did emulate the Sagacity of a Sharleton as to the Conveniency of the Erection of his Stage all Quak-salvers who have the Spirit of their base Calling being sure to resort unto those places where there is most Money and the greatest Concourse of People The slighted Brother finding such Addresses to be in vain immediately call'd to mind the Answer which that cruel Duke de Alva gave to Henry the 4th of France who having demanded of him if he had observed that great Ecclipse of the Sun which had lately happened the Duke ingenuously reply'd That he had so much adoe upon Earth that he could not