Of Mr. Henry Scougat 397 who could eafilyhave tlrchafed their par– .don by the payment 0 an ,inconfiderable n1ultt, and <the a:ffurancc of their good beha– \'iour afterwa·rds; and wht:n fuch was their ,perverfenefs tl~at they would not do it~ though ·his paying it in their 'nanTe would haye done the b1.1finefs; yet, rather than do– fuch a feen:ringlyunworthya&, w:hichmight profl:itute authority, arid encourage them to the like tumultuous praCtices, he fuffered them to be expdled, to his own confider– able detriment, as 't6 his word1y iaterefl:.s,. having but ·a few -left behind. He wa·s careful to inftrutt the youth in the m·oft in– telligible and nfeft1-l principles of -humafi knowledge. And it·deferves ·to be rei·nem·– bered, 'that he was the fi·rfl: in this corner of the land (perhaps in the whole nation) who taught the ·youth that philofophy w'hich has nowuniverfal preference by all t11e knovving world. He looked upon 'it as t11e n1ofl: proper ·for framing their,judg– ments, and difpo:G.ng them to conceive . tl1ings aright; for taking then1 off £rori1 a difputing humour, and a vanity i1~ ha-rd words and difiintli0ns, and .in thin~ing fhey knew fe>mething when ·they kne'v nothing. He thought it ferved to enlarge .and raife their apprehenfions of Almighty L l God
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