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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34114	A reformation of schooles designed in two excellent treatises, the first whereof summarily sheweth, the great necessity of a generall reformation of common learning : what grounds of hope there are for such a reformation : how it may be brought to passe : the second answers certain objections ordinarily made against such undertakings, and describes the severall parts and titles of workes which are shortly to follow / written ... in Latine by ... John Amos Comenius ... ; and now ... translated into English ... by Samuel Hartlib ...; Pansophiae prodromus. English	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.; Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1642 (1642)	Wing C5529; ESTC R9161	78,056	98

flowing brooke The Sonne of SYRACH brings in wisedome thus speaking of her selfe I came out as a brooke from a river and as a conduit into a garden I said I will water my best garden and will water abundantly my garden-bed and loe my brooke became a river and my river became a Sea Ecclesiast 24. 30 31. Therefore in this last part of Pansophie it will be our work to consider of and designe such fit channels as may convey these waters abroad on every side that so the vast Commons of humane affaires together with the private garden-plots of every ones soule and the whole Paradise of the Church may be therewith watered And this among others is the reason why we sayd this Temple of wisedome was to be consecrate to Christs Catholique Church gathered and to be gathered out of all nations to wit 1. Because she as a mother may justly challenge from her children whatsoever they are able to invent or do for her honour and comfort 2. Christ saith Matth. 5. 19. Men do not light a candle that they may set it under a bushell but upon a candlesticke that it may give light to all that are in the house Now this light of universall wisedome which puts every thing in subordination to its true end is as it were Gods candle and must therefore be set up in his house which is the Church that it may give light to all 3. This house of the living God the Church as it is called 1 Tim. 3. 15. is built after the same patterne according to which this Temple of wisedome is reared so that by beholding hereof she may be advanced much in knowledge of her selfe According to to that in Cantic 1. 8. If thou know not thy selfe O thou fairest among women goe thy way forth by the footsteps of the flocke c. For here by these continually deduced footsteps of Things the Church is guided the right way to the discovery of her owne and her eternall Spouses comelinesse And seeing that the manifold wisedome of God is made knowne unto Angels by the Church Eph. 3. 10. we ought also to take speciall care that the Church in contemplation of her selfe Angels and of God may have all advantages supplyed her for her promoting in the knowledge of this manifold wisedome of God 4. But chiefely because God hath foretold that the Glory of his new Temple the Church of the New Testament should be most conspicuous in the last times and hath promised a large affluence of light and blessing to it For thus hath God declared by the Prophets ISAIAH and MICAH and by divers others at severall times and twice in the same words that he might manifest the certainty of his decree It shall come to passe in the last dayes that the mountaine of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountaines and it shall be exalted above the hils and all Nations shall flow unto it c. Isaiah 2. 2. Micah 4. 1. And it shall come to passe in that day that the mountaines shall drop downe new wine and the hils shall flow with milke and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters and a fountaine shall come forth of the house of the Lord and shall water the valley of the choyce Cedars Joel 3. 18. For living waters shall goe out from Jerusalem halfe of them toward the former Sea and halfe of them toward the hinder Sea in Summer and in winter shall it be And the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his name one Now because these things remaine yet to be most certainly fulfilled men should be stirred up by all meanes possible not onely to behold but also to promote as much as in them lies this glory of the house of God to enlarge the Churches bounds and to derive such rivulets from Gods streame as may water even dry places which were never yet moystned with this heavenly dew that at last all with one accord standing as it were upon a Sea of glasse with harpes of God in their hands might begin to sing the song of MOSES the servant of the Lord and the song of the Lambe saying Great and marvellous are thy workes Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgements are made manifest Revel 15. 2 3 4. And now I beleeve it appeares sufficiently what manner of booke it is that wee would have compiled and what are our reasons for the urging of it Let therefore all feare and suspicion of confounding sacred and prophane things together be utterly banished For first all things are pure to those that are pure Tit. 1. 15. The gold and silver which was gotten away from those impure Egyptians did not at all defile the Israelites or the Tabernacle Againe here is no confounding of things together but provision is made of remedies against those confusions which so much distract mens minds by a distinct and graduall knowledge of all things which may or ought or are worthy to be knowne Therefore first we declare such generall and knowne truthes as are cleare of themselves by the testimony of common sense next such things as fall under the outward senses to be seene or felt without any errour or mistake afterward such things as are rationally and certainly deduced from sensuall apprehensions but with an application of their truth also to sensible Objects Lastly those things which Divine revelation imparts to us and faith onely receives but so that Sense and Reason may also beare record unto God and the truth of things invisible revealed to us may be acknowledged in the analogie of such things as are visible that the voyce of eternall Truth uttered from all sorts of things may be found to agree in one eternall harmony This confusion therefore beeing so harmonious is nothing else but perfect order But they object Christ taught no such matter he onely declared the way of Salvation Answ 1. Why do you then by your selves or by others take care to have your children instructed in the meaner things of this life as in Arithmeticke Logicke and other sorts of learning 2. Be it so that Christ taught not these things it is most certaine he forbad them not but rather signifies unto us that we ought not to be ignorant of them in that he so often borrowes from things naturall and artificiall both the occasion and the manner of unfolding spirituall mysteries thereby declaring to us that there is such proportion betweene things visible and invisible that these cannot be easier understood than in reference unto them Therefore they would be wiser than Christ himselfe who restraining themselves onely to spirituall and heavenly things reject from the study of Christianity all such things wherewith as they terme