Com.6. Duties ofTutors and Scholars. Chap.6. 359 The neglea of this, by taking into the Church all corners, was the caufe, that as the Prophet complainegd, the Sun was gone down upon their Prophets, that they were Match: 3, fach ignorant Sote, PAdi,fuckJfupid, blind guides, which caufedthepeople to err, and brought fuch darknefs into the Church, that as the Prophets Jeremy and Micah Jer 23. t3' complained in their time beforè the Captivity and defirufìion of theCity, Tbe people perkedbecaufe Prophefyfailed. As the Mil and fundamental Dutyma} beperformed by making a fitchoice, fo the particular vermes and qualificationswhich Teachersmuft look to in their choice are three, Solertia, Docilitas, Diligentia. The wife-man fpeaking of the Ant, betides her induftry, faith, that the bath a na- Peov.1.6,7,t. tural quality, that without Guide, Overfeer or Governour, the provideth her meat in the fummer, and in harveft for winter, and this is the firfi endowment, Solertia naturalfit, a natural cunning, or ability ofnature, which ought to be in them, that are intended to be leaders ofothers. And this ability is by the ailive part ofthe under- ffanding, the intellettus agent, whereby they are apt to dilate and enlarge what they hear, and to work upon what they are taught, and thereby become aJraJ`lhotroi, able to learn ofthemfelves, by improving thofe principles they have received from others. This appeared in Saint Angeline, Erafmst, and others, who in many things were aúródhditavot, and without help ofTeachers in thofe things became ex- cellent. 2. Then they are to have pofbilem intellerïum, ability to conceive what it Taught, which is that we call docilitatem, and is termed in Holy writ eor latum, a large heart, fach a one as God gave to King Solomon, whereby the aClive part of the underflan- ding by that Solertia we fpake of, may have matter to work upon, and to a Kings 4.29. deduce one thing from another, which was termed forecaft in the Duty of Ser- vants. 3. To thefe the Wife-man addeth a third ; they mull in(lauter operari, by working diligently and infiantly. Saint Paul by labouring more abundantly than the other Eceke rr. 6.. Apotiles, became moll fruitful to the Church. And where it pleafeth God to be- a Cor, t9: to. flow, thisfolertiam naturalem,natural underjfanding,and poffibilitatem intelleClno,a large heart to conceive, and lathy inffanter operari, diligent working, tofom in the morning, at noon, and in the evening, ( as the Preacher fpeaks ) and never to let the hand tell, there is hope offuch perfons, that they may prove profitable Infiruments in the Church or Common-wealth ; and therefore fuchperfons, and fo qualified are prin- cipally to be chofen. Thus it mull be prefuppofed,that thechoice is rightly made,elfe dificultasfubfequens arguet erroremab initio,tbe hardneft inproceedingbetweenMaffer andScholar will argue, that there was a fault in choofmg at the fief, and then no inftruáion will amend it; as in Phyfick, if there be a fault in the firli concotion, the fecond cannot help it. 2. Nòw the choice being rightly made, in the fecond place we come to the in- ffruElion it felf: of which we are to conceive, that ás we fee in other things, di- vers things are effeáed by an exteriour Agent, as things artificial; and fome things mull have interimsprincipiuma Foundation within, as things natural have their prin- ciple within them; and in fome things there mull be both, as in Phyfick. For though in a body ill-affetled, fometimes theftrength of nature alone ofit felt is able to=cod the humour, and make digeflion, and fo many times it falleth out, that fome become extraordinarily learned without pains taking, as Amos , yet in bodies to help conco lion, Phyfick is to beapplied, fomething muff be given from without,to comfort and helpnature. So we muff conceive in Teaching, every one bath not tbofe natural parts which are fufficient, nor is every man fupernaturally and extraordinarily infpired and qualified by God, but mull have Teaching and InffruElion by the Minifiry of man without : every man muff not look to be aod'sJ`dn1O-,taught immediately ofGod, but mull inordinary courfe have aTeacher which doth not add any thing to the Soul, but minifler to it, and help it; as Phyfick doth not add to nature, but minifters to it, to comfort and firengthen it, though indeed they that are infiruéled by men, may be faid to be taught of God, as they are faid to be healed ofany infirmity by him, which are cured by Phyfick. And
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