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A54288	New instructions to the guardian shewing that the last remedy to prevent the ruin, advance the interest, and recover the honour of this nation is I. a more serious and strict education of the nobility and gentry, II. to breed up all their younger sons to some calling and employment, III. more of them to holy orders, with a method of institution from three years of age to twenty one.	Penton, Stephen, 1639-1706.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1440; ESTC R5509	42,499	186

be-fore before me II. Thou shalt not make un-to unto thy self a-ny any Graven Graven I-mage Image or the like-ness likeness of a-ny any thing that is in Hea-ven Heaven a-bove above or that is in the Earth be-neath beneath or that is in the Wa-ter Water un-der under the Earth thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jea-lous jealous God vi-si-ting visiting the I-ni-qui-ty Iniquity of the Fa-thers Fathers up-on upon the Chil-dren Children un-to unto the Third and Fourth Ge-ne-ra-ti-on Generation of them that hate me and shew-ing shewing Me●cy Mercy un-to unto Thou●s●nds Thorsands of them that love me and keep my Com-mand-ments Commandments III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guilt-less guiltless that ta-keth taeth his Name in vain IV. Re-mem-ber Remember the Sab-bath Sabbath day to keep it Ho-ly Holy Six Days shalt thou la-bour labour and do all thy Work but the Se-venth Seventh Day is the Sab-bath Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do a-ny any Work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daugh-ter Daughter thy Man-Ser-vant Man-servant nor thy Maid-ser-vant Maid-servant nor thy Cat-tel Cattel nor the Stran-ger Stranger that is with-in within thy Gates for in Six Days the Lord made Hea-ven Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and re-sted rested the Seventh Seventh Day where-fore wherefore the Lord bles-sed blessed the Se-venth Seventh Day and Hal-low-ed it V. Ho-nour Honour thy Fa-ther Father and thy Mo-ther Mother that thy Days may be long up-on upon the Land which the Lord thy God gi-veth giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill VII Thou shalt not com-mit commit A-dul-te-ry Adultery VIII Thou shalt not Steal IX Thou shalt not bear false Wit-ness Witness a-gainst against thy Neigh-bour Neighbour X. Thou shalt not co-vet covet thy Neigh-bour's Neighbour's House thou shalt not co-vet covet thy Neigh-bour's Neighbour's Wife nor his Man-ser-vant Man-servant nor his Maid-ser-vant Maid-servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor a-ny any thing that is thy Neigh-bours Neighbours Glo-ry Glory be to the Fa-ther Father and to the Son and to the Ho-ly Holy Ghost As it was in the be-gin-ning beginning is now and e-ver ever shall be World with-out without end A-men Amen The Grace of our Lord Je-sus Jesus Christ and the Love of God and the Fel-low-ship Fellowship of the Ho-ly Holy Ghost be with us all e-ver-more evermore A-men Amen The Church Catechism after this This is a method the easiest I could think of for a Child at first to be taught in And here I leave him to be farther perfected in this Language by useful Books to this purpose If any Man complain that I might have spent my time on bigger and louder Subjects let him read the Catalogues of Famous Men collected by Elzevir Crenius Morhofus and others And then he will pardon a Man of my Size The second Stage From Six to Fourteen AFter the Child can read the Bible which may be presumed about six Years of Age let him immediately fall to Latin And because Latin cannot go down so easily as English which is the familiar Language of the whole Family and which the Childs Necessities make him earnest to understand I therefore think it convenient that this dry and tough Diet be larded now and then with some English Exercises which may be diverting and useful also which I thought fit to prefix before the Rules for learning Latin and Greek 1. It will be fit now to fix his Memory by some such like Method as this which follows repeating the things over once every day From the Creation of the World to the great Flood of Noah The First Chapter of Genesis to the Seventh From Noah's Flood to Abraham's going into the promised Land Genesis the seventh Chapter to the twelfth From Abraham's going into the promised Land to Jacob's going into Aegypt to Joseph his Son Genesis the Twelfth Chapter to the Forty sixth From Jacob's going down into Aegypt to the deliverance of the Israelites from Aegypt by Moses Genesis the forty sixth Chapter to the thirteenth Chapter of Exodus From Moses carrying the Israelites out of Aegypt to Joshua's bringing them into the promised Land over the River Jordan The thirteenth Chapter of Exodus to the fourth Chapter of the Book of Joshua From Joshua's carrying the Israclites into the promised Land to Saul the first King of the Israelites anointed by Samuel The fourth Chapter of the Book of Joshua to the first Book of Samuel and the tenth Chapter From Saul's being annointed King of Isnael to the Dividing of the Kingdom by the Ten Tribes running away to Jeroboam the first Book of Samuel and the tenth Chapter to the first Book of Kings and the twelfth Chapter From the Division of the Kingdom under Jeroboam to the Destruction of the Israelites and Samaria by the King of Assyria The first Book of Kings the twelfth Chapter to the second Book of Kings and the eighteenth Chapter From the Destruction of the Israelites to the the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews The second Book of Kings the eightteenth Chapter to the second of Kings the twenty fifth Chapter From the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews to Cyrus delivering the Jews from Captivity The second Book of the Kings the twenty fifth Chapter to the first Chapter of the Book of Ezra From the Deliverance of the Jews from Captivity by Cyrus King of the Persians to the Destruction of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great The first Chapter of the Book of Ezra to the first Chapter of the first Book of Maccabes From the Destruction of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great to Judas Maccabaeus The first Chapter of the first Book of Maccabes to the first Book of Maccabes and the third Chapter From Judas Maccabaeus to Jesus Christ The first of Maccabees the third to the first Chapter of St. Mattew As the Child grows up and Memory ripens you may add the Years from time to time and fill up these distances with more or fewer Particulars according to the Method of the Apparatus ad Theologiam pag. 102. And practice him in the Years after Christ by Centuries only from one Emperor to another 2. Because nothing more contributes to the enlarging of a Childs Capacity than variety of Matter though in things at first not fully understood it may be useful between whiles to pratle with him at such a rate as this Take the Figures from 1 2 3 c. to 12. and place under each Figure such things promiscuously as fall under every Number As for Example I. One World One God One Mediator c. II. Two Testaments Two Tables in the Commandments Two Sacraments in the New Testament III. Three Persons in the Blessed Trinity Three Creeds or Summs of Faith in the Trinity Three Offices of Christ King Priest Prophet IV. Four Parts of the World Four Great

Envy Hatred Malice and all Uncharitableness are wrong Signs of Justification Such is the Oppressor I speak of what he calls Religion shall do him no more Service at the Hour of Death than a strong Potion doth a Malefactor who is going up the Ladder he takes it not to save his Life but to prevent shewing Fear or feeling Pain at the present Thus doth the fair Pretence of Godliness stupifie the Man's Conscience like a sweet Morsel which Charms the Dog that by Barking should save the House there is no Roaring no Horror no Distraction on the Death-Bed which makes the Fooll who tends him tell the World he went away like a Lamb whereas when the Scene is shifted and he gone out of sight instead of a Lamb he is doom'd to the Kennel of Dogs Foxes and Woolves to everlasting Howling and gnashing of Teeth With what Amazement will he receive the Sentence stare about him grumble and mutter all the way and wonder 'till he comes to know what such a Saint as he is going to Hell for And now since the Revenues of the Church and Pious Donations are setled and confirmed by as wise Laws as any Man's Patrimony and the Purchaser is considered for the Tythes what a sad thing is it that it should be so hard to perswade the generality of the Vulgar that it is a Sin to cheat the Parson the Vulgar I say because the Gentry know better and the Generality I say because some Country People pay honestly and chearfully and many of them that grudge it yet they dare not make so bold with their Consciences as to Lie Cheat and Steal And methinks it should confound the Guilty Soul of every one who is told That the Great God to whom Vengeance belongs hath said He that despiseth you despiseth me That God who withered Jeroboam's Hand Destroyed the Children who mock'd the Prophet made Vzziah a Leper rotted the Flesh of Antiochus alive 2 Maccab. 9.9 and struck Ananias and Saphira Dead Acts 2. is as jealous of his Honour now and still as well able to revenge it and many a Man's Heart would ake if every one would read Spelman de non Temerandis Ecclesiis The great muttering among those that do not love Church-men is this That many of the Clergy have much more than they deserve Live too High and are too Great and that the Inferiour Clergy are many of them Idle Ignorant Quarrelsom or Loose this is often murmur'd and when they are in a good Humour spoken out aloud therefore something shall be replyed As for the First part of the Objection that some of the Clergy have much more than they deserve Truly if God should measure out every Man's share in England according to their deserts if he should lay Judgment to the Line and Righteousness to the Plummet it would be Impudence in any Man to think he deserves the Bread he eats And if God be so Gracious as to bless any Man's Industry in an honest Profession I hope he will have so much manners as not to Sacrifice to his Net or burn Incence to his own Dragg as if by them his Portion were made fat and his Meat plenteous But if Merit were to be the Standard of Worldly Happiness what great desert is there in being born Eldest Son and Heir to several Thousands a Year when sometimes it falls out that the Person is hardly able to Answer Two or Three the easiest Questions in the World wisely enough to save himself from being Begg'd And therefore I think we were better to let the Word Desert alone and leave the Law to judge of that which gives the Right and Title No doubt the Day-Labourer murmurs now and then at his Miserable condition and the unequal distribution of Riches in the World and thinks he deserves better than to work late rise early and eat the Bread of Carefulness and be an everlasting Drudge in the Service of others who would be thought to deserve their Luxury less than he doth his Bread if the judicious Rabble should undertake to be Judges as under the Tribunes in Rome and in the Sanguinary Tumults of Germany they did The next part of the Objection is that many of the Clergy live too high and are too great If they do live too high they are very much to blame and now I think of it that is the folly of the whole Kingdom at this time Men live as profusely and as unthinkingly as they did when they paid no Taxes and I dare say there is scarce a Man of any wealthy condition but might pay the Taxes by bateing some needless excesses in Habit Diet Pocket-money c. and if they would wear nothing but our own Cloth drink nothing but our own Liquor keep none but their own Wives they need not quarrel at the King and Parliament for burthensome Impositions By the 〈…〉 I suppose the Bishops are a●●ed at The King is the Fountain of Honour and let him be Judge of the most convenient Disposal and of the serviceableness of Persons who are to be in that mighty Meeting And why may not His Majesty presume that the laborious Education of the Clergy may furnish them with Abilities capable to administer Pradent Counsel to the great concerns of the Kingdom The last and heaviest weight of the Objection is That many of the lower Clergy are Idle Ignorant Quarrelsom or Loose There is not one Word of Excuse to be made for this where-ever it is found though where the Profits are poor it can hardly be avoided But I seriously believe that if the utmost of our Enemies Malice were gratisied if there were an universal change in the Nation and a new Set of Clergy of any Perswasion whatsoever put into all the Cures and Dignities of the Church considering the great number there would hardly be fewer exceptionable Persons for any due Qualifications than there are at this day And if the Clergy were kept up in Credit and Esteem then they would exercise their Function with some Authority which I am afraid this Age will never endure St. Ambrose and Theodosius were remarkable Instances of the Power of a Bishop and the Christ anity of a Prince The good Emperor did not alledge Greatness to Indemnify the horrid Murder of Seven Thousand People in a Fit of Sovereignty He did not call the Bishop Pragmatical Prelate for telling him that he should never come into the Church and could never go into Heaven without Repentance He took the Censure as one of the Arrows of the Almighty sticking in him and the Poyson thereof had well-nigh devoured his Spirits he was like to have perished by a voluntary Famine he cried and tore the Hair from his Head and fell flat on the Ground Such was a Bishop then says Theodoret gloriously and such was an Emperor And forasmuch as Heaven and Hell is the same thing now it was then and few Men are wiser better or more Religious than he and no Man greater than Theodosius was why should any Man's Wealth Greatness or something worse make him think himself above the Sins of Human Infirmities or notorious Guilt He should thank the Hand that gives him the Sacrament and the Man who helps him in Confession of his Sins begging Pardon promising Amendment and Prayers for assistance to perform these Promises This was the design of the Holy Function this it did heretofore and this it does do still where-ever we are looked on as the Ministers of Christ and not the mere Servants of Men But 〈…〉 Apostolical Maxim The Less is blessed of the Greater is not now without all Contradiction Oh good God! that after the Blessing of so much Knowledge by the Gracious Liberty of Preaching and Reading the Gospel we should run counter to all Mankind Examine all the too many several Persuasions of Christians in the World Papists Lutherans Calvinists Presbyterians Independants the word Priest and Pastor is a Term of affection deference and Veneration Ask a Jew Turk or Infidel he will tell you that no Subjects are more Honourable than those who serve their Publick Worship Therefore if we worship the True God and if the Communion we profess be altogether as good or much better than any other whatsoever why should not those who Administer to the National Religion be esteem'd for their Works sake St. Paul would have spared some of his Rhetorick in Magnifying his Office and Celebrating the Ministration of the Gospel above the Law He would never have dressed up the Function with such Glorious Titles as Enthassadors Stewards Overseers and Co-workers with God had he thought that Contempt would have been the English of all this When the same words applied to Secular Persons here and every where else are words of an Honourable Distinction Worth and Reputation And why should more Pride Malice Covetousness or Atheism make English Men an Exception to all Ages and Nations in the World To summ up the Import of this Conclusion If the Nobility and Gentry breed up their Sons Clergy-men they would be able to maintain the Interest and support the Honour of the Priesthood which Men of mean Birth and Fortune are like to sink under And so farewel to Priest-Riding as they call it that is farewel to that Courage in the Preaching and Power in the Governing-Clergy which should reprove and restrain the Wickedness of the Nation and prevent the fatal Measure of Iniquity It is hard to leave off and it is pity to go on and if the Reader will believe that there is more Grief than Anger in all this he will do Justice to a Mind full of terrible Apprehension that our Destruction cannot linger For of National Sins the Punishment is much more likely than the cure So it is where Selfishness hath eaten out all the good Qualities of our Ancestors where shall we find any true Generosity of Spirit Where is the old true Justice and Righteousness in Dealings Sincerity in Words and Promises is lost and no true Charity and Friendship to be found So that whereas there is much Talk of mending the Clergy alass there is such an ill habit in the whole Body of the Kingdom that I pray God mend both the Failings of the Clergy and the Gainsaying of the Laity too if God will not I fear an Earthquake or the French King must do it FINIS