Chap.i8,. and the Covenant ofGrace. name and worfhip,muft know it ; and this is the way to attain to knowledge; for the forbidding of labour I know no Iùch ex- preffe flatute, but the very being ofschools of this kinde is incon- liftent with it. A School for Tongues and Arts cannot be a Ihop for Trades ; Can we think thofe Sonnes of the Prophets that flu- died under EliJha, or thofe Prophets under Samuei, had their :em- ployments of manufactures or tillage ? If they had been men of labour, they fure would have had an Axe among them, and not have been put to borrow. To be a Prophet and an Husbandman, as Zach. t 3. 5. taughtfrom youth to l \eep Cattel, cannot Band to- gether, as bath been Ihewen. The Levites had nó land for tillage, nor yet do we reade that they drove any trades; their work we findeprefcribed them, Dent. 33. ro. They (hall teaeh Jacob thy juclgemenrs, and Ifrael thy lames, they 'hall put incenfe before thee, and whole bfrnt.o ffering before the Altar. So for Minifters of the Gofpel, we hear of their labour in Word and Dotlrine, their charge to preach in feafon and out offeafon. 'For_the forbidding of marriage, there is no fuck thing; who hath not known men in that fiate in the Univerfities, and Refident in Colledges ? It is true that thofe Students that have their maintenance from the Founders do- nation, upon marriage lofe their place; but do not incurre ex pil- lion. And the thing is very equal, feeing thofe places are not in- tended for a retied abode,(as Come abufe them) but for Preparati- on for publike employment,whether in Church or State; and who . blames thofe ties of Apprentices from marriage, for the terme of their fervice to know their trades ? If wives and families fhould be taken in they would foon finde the inconvenience that the fons of the Prophets complained of, their dwellings would be too (trait for them. Object. Have not' the Vniverfitier facrilegio.nsfly fiole this bleffed, name of Ghrifls Schollent from his People? Is not the very Scripture language it fell become abfurd,Y to wit, to call Gods People, effiecially, Women (as `Dorcas) ScholUers ? Bloody tenent, ibid. And was it not an equal facriledgefór fome peculiar men to take the title of the Sons of the Prophets , wbo (as it is plain) were not their chil- dren; bit their Schollers, and therefore the Prophets, (under whofe tuition they were) were called by them, as by the name of Father', z 1Cings z. 1z. fo alto by the name of Malloy, z Kings 6.5 . being thofe Matters of the Affemblies that the wife man fpeaks of, S 2 cclef, ObjeEí. Anfw.
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