z68 VERSE 2. (i) 8' ,rav 36hts ps6rov,,a«. ;!.)7 ItOa' STA 7,`"reA'" &c. Aril. Ethic. k Aug. in lib. de 'DoeirCbrifi de Catechi. feud, Gregor. deOfficio Paitoral.part.3. Cap :I.&c. 1 therm, dpol, adver,Raidn. ug. tieDoar. Cap. r5, 17.39. a Theodoret, Hi .17.3, cap 7. b ...bag. de Dab^. Chri(I. lib. z. cap.z8. Vad. Greg, Isla- s, The goffiellfint by god. FIMIM....nt Touching the abilitie required in the difchargeofthis great office, there are (asI conceive) two fpeciall bran- ches thereunto belonging. Fill+, Learning for the right informationofthe confciences oFmen,that men may not pervert the Scripture. Secondly , trifedome orffiirittiall prudencefor feafonable application ofthe truth toparti-, cular circumilances, which is that which rnaketh4wife builder. For this latter, it being fovarious, i according to thole infinite varieties of particularcafes and conditions, which are hardly reducible unto generall rules,I cannot here fpeake, but referre the Reader CO thegrave &pious counfels of thofe k holymen whohave given fome dire- &ions herein. For the other,two great workes thereare whichbelong to this highcalling. rnflruilionofthe Scho- ler, &Convallenofthe Adverfarie. Vnto the perfeaion of which two ferVices , when wee duly confider how manydifferent parts oflearning are requifite, as know- ledge of the I tongues,for thebetter underflanding ofthe holy Scriptures by their originall idiomeand ernphafis ; ofthearts,toobferve the connexton,and argumentation, andmethodof them , ofancient cufiomes, Hitiories and antiquitiesofthe Babylonians,Perfians,Greeks andRo- manes , without infight whereinto the full meaningof many paiTages of holy Scripturecannot bee cleerly ap- prehended; ofSchoole leaming,for difcovering & repel- ling the fubtilty ofthe adverfaries a thing required in a Rhetorician by Arifletle and Quintifian,infomuch a that Alban the Apoflate complained of the Chriflians , that theyufed the weapons ofthe Gentiles againfi thern,and threfore interdi&ced them the ufeofSchooles oflearning; b Laftly,ofHiflories and Antiquities of theChurch,that wee mayobferve the fucceflion of the Profeffors , and Doarines hereof, the originals.and fproutings ofherefie therein,the better to anfwere the reproaches ofour info- lent adverfaries,who lay innovation to our charge.I fay, when wee duly confider thefe particulars, wee cannot fuffi-
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