364 Chap. t á. Of Schools and Colledges. Cóm.4 without the true God, and without the PrieR to teach the Law, in no nation can s King.16.i . be found (even fuch notable changes in fo (hort a time, as you may read in the bookof the Kings: and this was afcribed to the want of the Prie[t, and the Law of God. Therefore it was before that time the with and delire of Wes, that /149. all the Lords people were Prophets, and that the Lordwould put his Spirit upon Nufi.r45 them. And this was the delire of Saint Paid too, that they could (peak all with tongues, but rather that all could prophecy. We fee by experience, that our ad- verfaries take occafionto invade us in thofe places, where the people are lea(t in- ftru&ed, and molt ignorant in the word of God. All manner of tin molt abound- eth, where leali care is taken for their in(iruftion in the ways of God and the knowledg ofhis Laws. It is our fhame therefore, that we take no better courfe for the increafe and propagation ofit to po(ierity, but that our children are noua- bfi.39.8. led up in ignorance. We are many ofus of King Ezechia's mind : let there be peace 2 tüng.2o.19. and truth in our dayes. Our care reacheth no further than our own time in point ofReligion, and it were well if we had fo much, though in other thingsour care extends to pollerity. Whatfoever order is taken in government, no doubt but thiswill appear, that thecivil and temporal laws of the land would be betterob= ferved and kept, ifbetter order were taken for obferving the fpiritual Law,the Law ofGod, and encouraging thofe that are to teach and inftru& men in this Law.Thus much for the perlons. CI1ÁP. xï. OfMaintenanceforfucb asattend at the Aaltar. Schools andColledges, feminariesofthe Church. The ancient aft of them among the Jews, when they were in Egypt, and afterward in Canaan. In the primitive Church, care to be taken againfi admitting novices or young men into the[actedcalling. Maintenance due by the ordinance ofChriff is. r. Tithes. Reafons that theTenth is Jfill due under the Gofpel, to the Prieffhood of Chriff. Addition 27. about Tythes. That the Tenth part wasfacred toGod from the beginning bypofirive divine Law obliging all mankind, and 11111 in force. The :Lawof nature dictatesnot theproportion. Humane Laws and willow about the mo- dus decimandi to befollowed, provided that they give not left than the true value of the Tenth, ifotberwif they are void. 2. Oblations alwayesin rife in the Church. Addi- tion28. About Oblations,fornemay be due and limited,by Law (idioms, contrall,or ne- cefity of the Church, othersVoluntary andfree. Nopower in the Magijtrate toalienate things dedicated toCod. Of the Alb?. He tall is, that fufhcient means May be appointed for the Maintenance of fucia truant[ of the Y PP clergy. Perlons whereof we have fpoken, that fpend their days in the Miniltrÿ of the Gofpel and delivering the Oracles.of God unto us. And becaufe they mull be fitted byeducation and Rudy for that, fervice, therefore the inflitutionof Schools andcolledges(as feminaries ofknowledg divide and humane)is neceffary.And which we find to have been anciently among the people of God, when the wdrlhip r King.4.30, ofGod ceafed to be in onefamily : after 7acobs po(lerity' waft multiplied into aFpeo- 31. pie in Egypt, we, read of Ethan the Ezrahite and Heenan Milo!, and Darda, four men famous for learning, knowledg and wifdom, four great Philofophers ; for it is laid of Solomon, that his wifdom excelled the wifdom of the Karr, that is, the ArabianPhilofophers, and the wifdom of Egypt, and that he waswifer than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Chalcol and Darda. Nowwe may Chron.2.5: readin t Chron. 2.5. that thofe four were the forts ofZerab, one ofthe fons of 7u- A&.9.28. dab by Thamar. And as they were men famous while they lived in Egypt, fö Mlles who brought them out of the Egyptian bondage, was learned in all the learningof the Egyptians. Now the learning of the Egyptians confi(led, as in o- ther parts of Philofophy, fo chiefly in the Mathematicks, efpecially in Agronomy, as we may read in the moll ancient records of Pagan Antiquities, and therefore was no doubt well skill'd in thefe fciences. After they were trine out of Egypt, when they came to fettle in Canaan, they came to Debir, . a City which was metly called Kirjatb Sepher, civitas literarum, the city of learning; the Chal- ee-
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