1Jirefliom for yotmg Swdents. 9· 1 5· Direct. 7 • Yea, _fee that you rxceU the 11~/earned as m:tcb i11 H.~.tlil~efs a,t yon do .inl(nowl~dge ,: Direlf. 7• JiJIL!ji yozt n>ill pe1fn•ade them tbat yoHr ~nowledge ts a Jtjllefi worthlcfi th.mg' and nntr[.t you would bt . judged af tmprufitable fervanJJ. . . . . §. 1 6. Every degree of Kuowledge IS for a further degree.2[Holmefs : Ten Tale.nts I;Ilu!l be rm– pmved to tenmon:. They that k11ow, and do not~ are bcate~ w_irh mtJn} jlripu. The. Dc:~ils Scbo~ . ars look on the gcd!y that are mtliarned, with hatred ~nd ~1fdam, and preach to. tht;l~ ~ifcouragr· mrift a 1 1d difgrJJct, and {hive to fc:t and keep true Godhntfs In the tlocks: Bur Chnlls M1mfiers love He,lincfs where ever they fee ir, and are afhamed to think that t_he unlearned ChoulP be more ho ... Jy and heaveuly than they; and firive to go beyond them as much in _the ufe and endt ofknow– ledge, as in knowlcdg~ it (elf : And wid1 Attflin lal~en~, ~h~t wht.lc the unlearned t:z.~ Hea– ven by violence, the learned arc thrujt out into fleU, as thtnkmg It IS thetr part to know and teach, and etlH:r mens to praCl::ife. . 9· •7· DireCt. 8. Caft 1tot away amoment of ~om· p,·etioru time, in idlcncfi, or imptrtinenciel; bHI Direlf, S. foliow )'Oztr JVorJt diligently, and witb all yoJ~r nuglu. ~· 1 8. 1 mean not that you thould over-do, and overth~ow y_our br.ain: and _hodi~s, no~ forbear fuch fobcr cxercife as is moll necctfary to your health; I- or a hck body IS an 1ll compamon for, a Swdent; and much more a craud brain•• But time-wajlert are Lovers of plea[Hre or idlentfi, more than of knowledge. and holinefs : And wifdom falleth not into idle fluggi!h ·dreami9g fouls. If you think it not worth your painfullcJl and clofefi fiudies , you . mutt take up with idle ignorance, and go abroad wid1 [welling Titles and empty bnins, as thedeceivers and the {courgcs of the Church. . §. 19· Dirdt. 9· Keep up aVcliJ?Jn i1t aU y~ur ftudiu, and carry them not on i11 an rmwiUing wta· Dircl1. 9. rhufi : .A~td, if it be 1Wt by ,zotable error in matte~ or method, gratifie your delight witb fucb things At ) ozt art brjl pleafcd wi1b, tbottgb they briilgfome JmalJtr inco~tvenience .- becaufo elfe your wegrint{t may bring mucb more. §. 20. 1 know that a delight in ji1r and vanity is not to be gratified•: and force mull be ufed with ~ backward mind in cafes of neccllity and weight. But if it be but in the variety of fubjeCls, and the choice of pleafing tludid which are profitable, though (Imply fom~ other mighibe litter, Come– thing is to be yielded to delight. But efpecially the heart mull be got to a delight in holy thingr; And then, time will be improved; the memory will be helped ; much will be done; and you will pcrfevcre : And it will preferve the mit-ru, from temptatiops to nccdlefs recreations, and from the deadly plague of youthful lulls , when your daily labour is a greater plea(ure to yot~ . . . Y. 2 r. Direct. IO· Gn fome judiciom man to drafr' you HP tiJctifles of a threefold Commo1t'fltJct- Virea. 10, BouJt: One part for difinitioni, dijtinl1ion1, axionH, tJIId neceffary dcl1rinu: Another part for what if ufof.ul for vrna1J!ent and oratory : And anuthcr for Rcfermcu aJ a common Indtx to all the B~o~J of that. Science which yo1e read: For memory wiU not forve fur aU. , . ~· 22· Ordin:.uily Students have not judgement enough to form their own Common·place·Bo.oks till they are old in Scudies, and have read moll of the authors which they. would remember: And therefore the young mull l1ere have a judicious helper. And when they have done, injqdicioufn~fs will be apt to fiU it with lcfs necdfary things, and to make an unmeet choice of matter, if they have not care and an inthuGter. . 9· >3· Dirdt. 11. Higbly rfleem of a jufl Mctbad in Divinity, and in aY your fiudier; and labottr to Direl1. u; get an accurate Scheme or SJtelftrm, where 3t o;tce, you may fie evtry part in iu propcrplact. But rt· ~inccthe ~ri·· membtr that ifit be not JGrmd, it wiU be afnare; a11d one error in your Scbeme or Method will be ~PI to tin£: 0~ this,~ introduce abundance t119fe, ~';.b If e~~ r:l 9· 24:· I1s a voor and pitiful kind of knowledge, to know many loofe parcels, and brokeO mem· tJ/()~i:. tU a.... bers ot truth:, without .knowing the whol~, or the place, and relation which they have to the re,fi. " To know letter~ and not JjUablu, or fypablt.f and not words, or wordJ .and not [eHttnce~,or fentenctt and not the[cope ofthe difcowji, are all but an unprontable knowledge. He knoweth noScience rightly that hath not anatomized it, and carryeth not a true Scheme or Method of it in his mind. .But ~mong the ma~y that are extant, to commend any on.e to you which I mofi elleem, or take to be without error, ts more than I dare do. §. 25· DireCT. J2. StiU l{,iep the primitive fundamental veritie.f in yo~tr mind, and jee epery other v· a tr.utb whi~b you lea~n aJ fpringin;g. out. of them, and receiving their life and nouri{hmcnt from th~m : An4 R::~ ~:~f·~ jt1U k!_cp m your mzndt ~ cletzr diftml1ton between the 1'rmh1 of[tveral Dtgreu, both o[Ncccf!ity, and Vinmti 1 u Li~ Ccrtamt}', alwayeJ rcducmg the ltfs Nect§ary to the more Nect§ary, and the Jcfi certain 10 the more cer~ rinc;~fts. tain, and not contrarily. ' . 9· 26. IfGod had made all po~nts of faith, ·or Scripture revelation of equal necellity, ou~ Bap, t1fm would not only have mtntloned our Belief in tht Father, the Son, and tb( Efo/y Ghoj! : nor fliould we. ever have iee~ the antiwt Cr~ed; nor the ten Commandment!• And if all points .were of equ~ll Evzdcnce, and plamnefi, and certamty to us, we !hould nqt have fome fo much controverted above otherS: So;;~e 1hi1:.r,t ~n Scripture are bard_to.be Hnderftood, but nOt a_tl thing I, 2 Pet. 3, 16. To Pre-:– tend that any Truth 1S more neceffary than 1t Is, doth teud to uncbarttablenefs and contention; And IO fay that any is lVi nmffary than it is, dothten~..'O the. ntgle[J of it, and to the 4angcr of'{ouls: To pretend any pom_t to be more plam ~nd certa1n than tt t~, _doth but .Chew o~r prid~ an~ i.gnoram:('., But to fet up uncertam and unnecr.f[ilry pomts, and make.a Rehg1on of them, :ind reduce things ctrtaih Qr necrffar) to them; this is the method of curbulent Hereticks; Tt • f· •7·
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