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<P><HI>Bibliotheca Parochialis:</HI> OR, A SCHEME OF SUCH Theological Heads BOTH General and Particular, AS ARE More peculiarly Requi&s;ite to be well Studied by every <HI REND="blackletterType">Pa&s;tor of a Pari&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>Together with a Catologue of BOOKS Which may be Read upon each of tho&s;e Points.</P>
<P>PART. I.</P>
<P>By <HI>THOMAS BRAY,</HI> D. D.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Robert Clavel,</HI> and are to be Sold by <HI>John North,</HI> Book&s;eller in <HI>Dublin.</HI> MDCXCVII.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE Right Honourable, and Right Reverend Father in GOD, HENRY Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>LONDON,</HI> AND One of His Maje&s;ty's mo&s;t Honourable Privy-Council, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THAT I pre&s;ume to lay the&s;e following Papers at Your Lord&s;hip's Feet, is out of the high Veneration I have to Your Lord&s;hip's Great Conduct and Good|ne&s;s (in which Your Dioce&s;s have been &s;o long happy) and out of that deep &s;en&s;e of Duty, which will always make me en|tirely
<PB REF="3"> &s;ubmit to Your Cen&s;ure and Correction, whatever Mea|&s;ures I &s;hall take for the Good of that Church, to who&s;e Ser|vice You are pleas'd to de&s;ign me.</P>
<P>And how can it be, but that upon this occa&s;ion I &s;hould propo&s;e and endeavour &s;omething more than ordinary for the Good of the Place I am going to? For tho' indeed the Glory of God, and the eternal Happine&s;s of the Souls of Men are Con&s;iderations &s;ufficient at any time to animate Chri&s;tians to &s;uch Attempts, as &s;hall conduce thereunto; yet when Provi|dence places &s;uch Governours at the Helm in Church and State, as being of a Publick Spirit, do them&s;elves most vigo|rou&s;ly pur&s;ue &s;uch Ble&s;&s;ed Ends; and being ea&s;ie of Acce&s;s, do with the utmo&s;t Candor and Conde&s;cention (of which truly Noble Excellencies, Your Lord&s;hip is an extraordinary Ex|ample) give ear to the Overtures of Inferiour Per&s;ons, upon the &s;ame De&s;igns; it &s;eems as if God did then intend to be propitious to the Undertaking.</P>
<P>Now, my Lord, the whole Aim of what follows is to make a provi&s;ion for the implanting &s;uch Mea&s;ures and Degrees of Chri&s;tian Knowledge, as it is requi&s;ite every one who profe&s;&s;es Christianity, &s;hould be acquainted withal, and that the Minds of Men may happily be deliver'd from that Ignorance wherein lies the &s;trength of Satan's Kingdom.</P>
<P>Knowledge is the faire&s;t Ornament of the Soul of Man, and who&s;oever is endowed therewith, let it be of what kind &s;o|ever, fails not of Re&s;pect amongst all &s;orts of Per&s;ons; but
<PB REF="3"> e&s;pecially Knowledge is then valuable, when it is in things of the greate&s;t Moment and Con&s;equence. And that the Know|ledge which I have endeavour'd in the&s;e following Papers to provide for, is &s;uch, is too evident to need Proof or Illu&s;tra|tion. For why? It is a Knowledge that is conver&s;ant about the greate&s;t Objects, <HI>viz.</HI> God and our Selves; and that about the grande&s;t and mo&s;t concerning Truths relating to tho&s;e Objects. It is a Knowledge to which the mo&s;t con&s;iderable of other Sciences are &s;ome way or other Appendent and Sub|&s;ervient: But above all, it is the only Knowledge which can Conduct us &s;afe through the Mazes and Labyrinths of this World, to our Re&s;t and Happine&s;s in the other.</P>
<P>Nor will the Advantages to Mankind of &s;uch a De&s;ign as this be le&s;s con&s;picuouus, if we look upon the contrary Evil from which it tends to deliver the Minds of Men, <HI>viz.</HI> Igno|rance of Divine things. For why? The Power of the Prince of this World, is by no other Character &s;o muoh known, as by the Title of the Kingdom of Darkne&s;s. And what Sins and Mi&s;eries are there, which this Ignorance and Darkne&s;s is not the fruitful Parent of? It were enough to &s;et Ignorance out as the mo&s;t dreadful Evil, to &s;ay that it is the cau&s;e of all tho&s;e Slavi&s;h, Barbarous, and Savage <HI>Super&s;titions</HI> that are in the World.</P>
<P>But alas, it is not of one &s;ingle Sin, or &s;ort of Mi&s;ery that Ignorance in Chri&s;tianity is productive; but it is the na|tural Parent of all tho&s;e fearful Crimes, and outragious Wick|edne&s;&s;es that are committed upon the Face of the Earth, and
<PB REF="4"> when it once prevails over a whole People, it is &s;o fruitful in Mi&s;ery al&s;o, that the State of &s;uch Men becomes a per|fect Emblem of Hell, as will ea&s;ily occur to the Ob&s;ervation of any that are at all acquainted with the &s;tate of the World, &s;o as to be able to compare one People with another, with re&s;pect to their Knowledge of God and Religion.</P>
<P>For In&s;tance, let but any one compare the People of this Nation, amongst whom (prai&s;ed be the infinite Goodne&s;s of Heaven for &s;o invaluable a Ble&s;&s;ing) the Light of the Go|&s;pel &s;hines with a Meridian Brightne&s;s; if we do but compare the&s;e with the Naked <HI>Indians,</HI> the African <HI>Cannibals,</HI> or rather with the <HI>Georgians,</HI> a Degenerate Race of Chri&s;tians in <HI>A&s;ia,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>John Chardin</HI>'s Travels.</NOTE> amongst whom the No|tions of God and Religion are in a manner quite extinct; and amongst our &s;elves there are &s;ome tolerable degrees of Humanity, Hone&s;ty, and Goodne&s;s; whereas the others are &s;o much wor&s;e for Blood&s;hed, Lu&s;t, Cruelty, Revenge, and whatever Bruti&s;h and Savage Man|ners, than Wolves, Bears, and Tygers; ina&s;much as being Rational Creatures, they have greater Cunning and Capa|city of doing Mi&s;chief one to another, than tho&s;e Bruits have.</P>
<P>And indeed in any part of the World we &s;hall find that proportionably to the Increa&s;e or Decrea&s;e of Chri&s;tian Know|ledge, do Vice or Vertue make their Advances re&s;pectively; &s;o that as on the one &s;ide innumerable are the Mi&s;eries and horrid are the Sins, the Barbarities, Cruelties, Perjuries,
<PB REF="4"> Murthers, Adulteries, and whatever other Violations of the Laws of God, Nature, and Nations, that proceed from the bitter Fountain of Ignorance of the true Nature of God and Religion: So un&s;peakable on the other &s;ide would be the Be|nefits con&s;i&s;ting in Ju&s;tice, Mercy, and Peace; in Piety to God, and well order'd Affections as to our &s;elves, were but the World throughly enlightened with the Knowledge of God, and the true Nature of <HI>pure and undefiled Religion.</HI></P>
<P>And now if we con&s;ider the&s;e things, how &s;trange is it there &s;hould be tho&s;e among&s;t us, who, as much as they owe their Security and Happine&s;s at home, to the Influence that Religion has upon our Publick Laws and Private Actions; yet are perfect Enemies to the propagation thereof abroad. But yet it is not to be wonder'd, that &s;ome &s;hould <HI>hate the Light, it is becau&s;e their Deeds are Evil.</HI> I &s;hall &s;ay no more to 'em, but that the Day will come, when they will find their Omi&s;sions in promoting, or rather their Ob&s;tructions to the Progre&s;s of Christianity, the mo&s;t terrible part of all their Accounts.</P>
<P>But God be prais'd, as Lukewarm in Religion as this wor&s;t of Ages is, I mu&s;t not forbear to acknowledge it to the Honour of &s;ome, that they have already &s;hew'd them&s;elves to be of a contrary Spirit by their Liberal Benefactions to our pre&s;ent De&s;ign, by who&s;e means we have been able to lay a good Foundation to our Parochial Libra|ries, and to &s;end &s;ome over already into <HI>MARY|LAND.</HI></P>
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<P>And as our Succe&s;s is in a great mea&s;ure owing to the Liberality and Countenance given to the De&s;ign, by &s;everal Great Men of Your Lord&s;hip's Order; and by Your &s;elf in particular; &s;o that God may long pre&s;erve among&s;t the re&s;t, &s;o great a Patron of Learning and Religion, &s;o firm a Pillar of our Church, and &s;o great an Orna|ment to Your Sacred Order, &s;hall be the Hearty and Devout Prayers of,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hip's, mo&s;t Humble, and mo&s;t Obedient Sevant, THO. BRAY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Reverend, THE <HI REND="blackletterType">Parochial Clergy</HI> OF ENGLAND and IRELAND.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reverend Sirs,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>HAving been &s;o well acquainted, by being concern'd in a Parochial Cure my &s;elf, with the Method of Indigent Travellers, who always make fir&s;t to the Mini&s;ter of the Pari&s;h; and be&s;ides his own Charity, de&s;ire him to recommend 'em to &s;uch as are well di&s;pos'd Per&s;ons therein; I pre&s;ume the more to apply to you in the &s;ame manner, in the behalf of your Brethren going abroad into the Plantations to &s;erve the Great Ma&s;ter of us all, our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t; and who having a Zeal for his Work, want only tho&s;e means for the propagating of Chri&s;tian Knowledge, <HI>viz.</HI> good and proper Books, without which it is &s;carcely conceivable how they &s;hould be either furni&s;hed with a &s;ufficient mea&s;ure thereof them&s;elves, or impart it to others. I have little rea&s;on indeed to doubt of your own Liberality in this matter, the Charity and Genero&s;ity of the Clergy being &s;o very apt upon mo&s;t occa&s;ions, to out go their Ability. And the Members of our Univer&s;ities particu|larly,
<PB REF="6"> if we con&s;ider the Noble Donations and Additions which have been made by them to their Libraries, Chappels and other Buildings, they will be found to have erected more Monuments of their Zeal for the Advancement of Learning and Religion in a few years la&s;t pa&s;t, than any other Per&s;ua&s;ion or Body of Men (not the Romani&s;ts excepted) have done in many Ages heretofore.</P>
<P>Nor &s;hall we de&s;pair of a &s;avourable An&s;wer from tho&s;e to whom we would de&s;ire your Application on our behalf, provided they are &s;ea&s;oned with any tolerable mea&s;ure of Zeal for the Glo|ry of God and of true Religion, for tho&s;e who are really Pious, cannot but ea&s;ily receive the Impre&s;&s;ion, when they are given to under&s;tand that there is no Charity in the World whereby they can &s;o much contribute to the Honour of God, and the good of Souls, as this; That it is an Apo&s;tolical Work to have an hand in converting Souls to God, and that there is no way whereby the Laity can have &s;o immediate a hand therein, as that which is here offered to them.</P>
<P>I could urge how that in agreat mea&s;ure from the Colonies abroad, our Citizens and Merchants have had their prodigious Wealth, and that hither it is that the Countrey-Man and the Trade&s;man do vend their Manufactures and Commodities; and it were but rea&s;onable to propo&s;e it al&s;o to the Con&s;ideration of our Per&s;ons of Honour and Quality, as a thing not unworthy their Reflection, that &s;ince the Di&s;covery of the Plantations, their Rents have been advanced, and their Splendor increa&s;ed treble to what their Noble Ance&s;tors before 'em were acquainted with. And upon all this, it were natural enough to expo&s;tulate with 'em; what rea&s;on there can be, that they &s;hould reap all the advantages to them&s;elves from the Dangers and Fateigues of other Men, and repay nothing back towards their chiefe&s;t well-being.</P>
<P>But that which I would de&s;ire might be chiefly con&s;idered and &s;ugge&s;ted to all Ranks and Degrees of Men, is this, That as &s;carce any People have receiv'd greater Advantages from the Foreign Plantations, than we have done; and no Nation in the World, I am &s;ure, has a better Religion to requite them with, for the &s;ame than we have; yet to the no &s;mall Di&s;credit both
<PB REF="6"> of our Countrey and Religion, no Per&s;ua&s;ion of Men upon Earth have been hitherto &s;o cold and wanting to promote it, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s we have been. In&s;omuch that whereas a Neighbouring State&punc; which we do often reproach as having once (&s;ome of them) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">n'd their Countrey with the di&s;avowing of their Religion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o expend 20000 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> in the <HI>East-Indies</HI> alone in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ropagating Chri&s;tianity, I can hear of little Charity of that nature that goes from hence; which, whether it may not have been a provo|cation for tho&s;e terrible &s;troaks of Providence that &s;ome have lately felt, and tho&s;e but as warnings, that they may not by &s;uch an unconcernedne&s;s for the cau&s;e of Chri&s;tianity, provoke the Divine Indignation to follow the blow with greater, is no more than what becomes Chri&s;tians to con&s;ider.</P>
<P>Now I can &s;carcely believe that a People who profe&s;s &s;o much Zeal, and that mo&s;t de&s;ervedly, for the Prote&s;tant Religion, as the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> do, &s;hould be &s;o in&s;incere in their Profe&s;&s;ions, and have really &s;o little e&s;teem for it, as to be unconcerned for the &s;ame abroad; e&s;pecially in tho&s;e Colonies which are as much <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and as much the parts of His Maje&s;ty's Dominions, as the&s;e I&s;lands are wherein we live.</P>
<P>Much le&s;s can I think, that the Merchants, a Rank of Men of as great Genero&s;ity as any of what Quality &s;oever, and who do daily &s;ignalize the &s;ame by many Noble Gifts to Pious and Charitable U&s;es; and from whom it is expected to do more for the encou|ragement of Religion in the Plantations, than others, it (being the Plantations which in &s;o great a mea&s;ure have enriched them:) Much le&s;s is it to be imagin'd, that they &s;hould be unconcern'd for the propagation of Chri&s;tianity therein, but for want of being more put in mind of the nece&s;&s;ity thereof, and of being excited there|to; and give me leave to &s;peak it, of our frequent and earne&s;t Applications made to 'em to that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>I crave leave to &s;ay, for want of Applications to 'em by us; for &s;o it is, that the Romi&s;h Clergy having heretofore in this Nation, and continuing &s;o to do to this day, in other Nations, mo&s;t gro&s;|ly abu&s;ed the Credulity of the Laity, by Preaching up nothing &s;carcely but the Merit of good Works; and that to &s;uch a Degree, as
<PB REF="7"> to make a Donation to their &s;ort of Pious U&s;es (as they would have 'em thought) &s;ufficient to attone for all the Atrocious Villanies of a mo&s;t Flagitious Life; we on the other &s;ide, out of an exce&s;s of Mode&s;ty, as little as we baulk other Duties, and forbear to warn our People of other Sins; yet it is rarely that we are found much to mind 'em of works of Piety (as tho&s;e we do here endea|vour to promote, are really &s;uch) and to do which is a Duty as ne|ce&s;&s;arily Incumbent upon all Men, according to their Ability, as any other Duty what&s;oever, and the omi&s;&s;ion as much a Sin. Par|ticularly, and e&s;pecially it is &s;eldom they are put in mind how much it lies upon 'em to contribute towards the &s;upport and ex|tent of the Chri&s;tian Name: And that the &s;lighting the Oppor|tunities which God hath given us of &s;etting up the Banners of Chri&s;t's Kingdom, where Satan does &s;till &s;olely govern the Minds of Men, is a great Sin; and indeed, &s;ince the Divine Providence has been &s;o propitious to us in our Temporal Concerns and In|tere&s;ts, as to extend the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Dominions to the Remote&s;t parts of the Earth, &s;uch an Ingratitude to God, as is not the lea&s;t among&s;t tho&s;e National Sins we are guilty of, and are to An&s;wer for.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s indeed, that where People will be &s;o &s;ini&s;ter in their Interpretations of what we do or &s;peak, as to call our Di&s;cour&s;es and Per&s;wa&s;ions to Works of Piety, a Preaching of our &s;elves, and our own Intere&s;ts, it is hard enough for generous Spirits, who &s;corn what does in the lea&s;t &s;avour of Selfi&s;hne&s;s, to be found in &s;uch Arguments. And therefore I believe it is, that tho' our Par&s;onages, and Vicarages do continually &s;uffer greater Diminutions by far in their Dues, from the Sacrilegious Invaders of the Churches Patrimony, and from pretended <HI>Modus</HI>'s and Pre&s;criptions (not to &s;peak of gro&s;&s;er Methods) than our poorer Vicarage Hou&s;es do by their Dilapidations, yet it is &s;eldom or never that any of us trouble our Auditories with a&s;&s;erting our own Rights, and in warning our People lea&s;t they <HI>rob God in his Tythes and Offerings,</HI> as careful as we are to Preach up a|mong&s;t 'em that Ju&s;tice to one another which concerns the Pre|&s;ervation of their own <HI>Meum</HI> and <HI>Tuum.</HI> The rea&s;on is the re|luctance
<PB REF="7"> we find in our &s;elves to be thought, or &s;o much as &s;u&s;pect|ed to &s;eek our &s;elves in the Di&s;pen&s;ation of our Mini&s;try: And hence al&s;o it is not without difficulty that we can be per&s;waded to trou|ble Mankind with tho&s;e ungrateful Arguments which wou'd draw any thing from 'em towards the &s;upport and &s;ervice of the be&s;t of Churches among&s;t us. But here in the Ca&s;e we are now upon, there is no danger of &s;uch Imputations, &s;ince what goes into the Plantations goes too far from You, <HI>Reverend Sirs,</HI> to terminate upon your &s;elves.</P>
<P>But however, we are &s;ecure enough in the Nature of the thing here de&s;ir'd, for with as evil an Eye as the World looks upon the Preferments of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Clergy (not con&s;idering the in&s;upportable Charges appendant to the greate&s;t part of them) and hate to &s;ee us Rich, yet to do the Layty right, I never knew any of 'em envy us Books, Learning, Knowledge; much le&s;s can it be &s;uppos'd they will, when the Books we de&s;ire are of &s;uch a Nature, and do &s;o directly enable us to impart u&s;eful Knowledge and In&s;truction to them&s;elves, as the following Ca|talogue in the whole Compo&s;ition of it, is de&s;ign'd to do. So that the ca&s;e of the Plantations we are thus Bold to commit to your Management, we do humbly conceive is what You may with a good Grace, and A&s;&s;urance enough &s;olicite in our be|half.</P>
<P>And indeed, &s;ince I am &s;o throughly per&s;waded, that nothing can &s;o directly tend to encourage Good Men, and Lovers of Souls, to venture them&s;elves in the Labours of the Go&s;pel a|broad, as good Books; and nothing can &s;o immediately tend to render 'em Good and u&s;eful when they are there, as the &s;ame. I mu&s;t therefore conjure you my Brethren, as you will approve your &s;elves to our Heavenly Ma&s;ter, to have had his Glory prin|cipally in your Eye, that you will a&s;&s;i&s;t with the utmo&s;t of your Power and Eloquence in the obtaining what you can towards the providing of the&s;e Libraries, as a principal Means of pro|moting the Intere&s;t of Chri&s;t's Kingdom.</P>
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<P>I cannot tell what Apprehen&s;ions other Men may have of the&s;e Matters, but for my own part I am &s;o fully per&s;waded of the u&s;efulne&s;s thereof, that &s;ince it is not ea&s;ie in &s;uch Times of Publick Nece&s;&s;ities as the&s;e are, to get Libraries for all the &s;maller Vicaridges of this Kingdom (as the Noble Sir <HI>Roger Twi&s;den,</HI> did &s;o worthily and piou&s;ly project) whereby the Mini&s;ters there|of might be in a Capacity to In&s;truct the People with &s;ound and &s;olid Doctrine in all the E&s;&s;entials and Nece&s;&s;aries of Chri&s;tianity; The next Good thing, even equal, if not beyond the Endow|ments of their Vicaridges, I could wi&s;h for the good of God's Church among&s;t us, is, that there were but a Library in every Deanary of the Kingdom, and that plac'd either in the Center of the Deanary, or rather in &s;ome Market-Town, where it lies convenient for the Clergy to borrow Books out of it, when at any time they &s;hall have occa&s;ion to Read upon any Important Point of Religion, in order to clear their apprehen&s;ions therein, that &s;o they might with Judgment and Safety to the Peoples Souls, treat thereof to 'em; and tho&s;e Lending Libraries having the Books mark'd upon the Covers to what Deanary they belong, and lock'd up in Book-Pre&s;&s;es made on purpo&s;e to keep 'em in, and Repo&s;ited with the Rural Dean, the Mini&s;ter, or the School-Ma&s;ter of &s;uch Town, they might with very little Trouble be &s;ent for on any Market-Day, and as ea&s;ily return'd within a con|venient Time, (as there ought to be a limited time for it, as a Month for a <HI>Folio,</HI> a Fortnight for a <HI>Quarto,</HI> and a Week for an <HI>Octavo.</HI>)</P>
<P>In the <HI>fir&s;t</HI> place, The having of the&s;e Libraries di&s;pers'd through|out the Kingdom, for the u&s;e of the Clergy, would mo&s;t manife&s;tly and directly tend to the good of the Laity; who in &s;uch ca&s;es might promi&s;e them&s;elves a full In&s;truction in all the Points of Faith and Practice, whereas with the pre&s;ent Provi&s;ion, all that they can ex|pect to hear are general Exhortations to Religion, and &s;ome Mo|tives to the Practice of the Duties thereof: But without a very con&s;iderable number of very good Authors, it is morally impo&s;&s;ible they &s;hould have their Judgments truly and throughly Inform'd in the Nature and Extent of all the Duties to God, their Neighbour
<PB REF="8"> and them&s;elves, which cannot be done without much Reading: Much le&s;s &s;hall a Mini&s;ter be able, without good Skill in the Scriptures, and being much conver&s;ant in &s;everal Critical and Dogmatical Writers, be able to explicate and inforce all the Do|ctrines and Principles of Chri&s;tianity; without the Knowledge and Belief of which, and a Vertuous Practice acted upon tho&s;e Principles, the greate&s;t Regularity in Manners cannot be call'd a Chri&s;tian Life, nor entitle tho&s;e that live, tho' never &s;o agree|ably to the Rules of Morality, to a Chri&s;tians Reward: which two things being well con&s;ider'd by the Laity, <HI>viz.</HI> That they can neither be duly In&s;tructed in Faith nor Practice, except the Clergy &s;hall be &s;ufficiently provided of Books for that purpo&s;e: And withal, that it is the bu&s;ine&s;s of a Pa&s;tor, not only to Feed his Flock, with whol&s;ome In&s;truction, but al&s;o to defend 'em from the Contagion of Erroneous and Heretical Doctrines, which cannot be done without a competent Skill in Modern Contro|ver&s;ies, and tho&s;e not a few; even the Laiety would then think them&s;elves extreamly concern'd to have &s;uch a Provi&s;ion of ne|ce&s;&s;ary and u&s;eful Books made for the Clergy.</P>
<P>And then <HI>Secondly,</HI> As to the Clergy them&s;elves, I am &s;o fully per&s;waded of the Benefit to them, of the&s;e Lending Libraries, that they &s;eem to me to be the mo&s;t likely means, and to be in a good mea&s;ure &s;ufficient, to re&s;tore even tho&s;e of the lowe&s;t Ca|pacities in the Mini&s;try, from both tho&s;e Evils, which the Author of the <HI>Contempt of the Clergy</HI> &s;ays, are the Cau&s;es of our Contempt, <HI>viz.</HI> Ignorance and Poverty. And,</P>
<P N="1">I. As for Ignorance in our proper Calling, it mu&s;t indeed of nece&s;&s;ity cau&s;e the Contempt of tho&s;e who are found to be &s;uch. In any Calling a Per&s;on is valu'd proportionably to his Know|ledge and Skill therein; e&s;pecially in ours. And yet I do not &s;ee how it is po&s;&s;ible for mo&s;t of us but to fall &s;hort of a compleat Knowledge in the whole Body, even of Preachable Divinity, as the Ca&s;e &s;tands with mo&s;t of us; for one Third of the Livings of <HI>England</HI> come not up to 50 <HI>l. per Annum,</HI> which I am &s;ure will afford but very little, if any thing at all, to purcha&s;e Books
<PB REF="9"> with, when Dome&s;tick Charges, and Publick Payments are &s;a|tisfy'd; and yet without the Reading of &s;uch Books, at lea&s;t, as are of more immediate u&s;e to inform our&s;elves in all the Terms of the Covenant of Grace, that &s;o we may be able to in&s;truct others, how is it po&s;&s;ible (now that In&s;piration is ceas'd) but that we &s;hould be ignorant to our own extreme Di&s;grace, and the infinite Prejudice of tho&s;e Souls committed to our Charge? And again, except we &s;hall have a Collection of &s;uch Books, either of our own, or &s;omewhere near at hand, whence we may borrow 'em, how is it po&s;&s;ible we &s;hould ever read 'em?</P>
<P N="2">II. And the having of the&s;e Lending Libraries near at hand, I do al&s;o humbly conceive, will contribute not a little, to prevent that other occa&s;ion of our Contempt, <HI>viz.</HI> Poverty, at lea&s;twi&s;e, as to many of us: For this I am very certain of, that many of the Clergy in Poorer Livings, who are Booki&s;hly given (and 'tis pity that ever any &s;hould enter into Holy Orders who are not of this Spirit) can &s;carce keep them&s;elues clear of the Book&s;ellers Accounts, nor Money in their Pockets for their nece&s;&s;ary Occa|&s;ions, becau&s;e of their Charges that way; which yet I think are as much their Nece&s;&s;aries as Meat and Drink, which give Nou|ri&s;hment only to the wor&s;er part of us.</P>
<P>Well, and if there be any Truth in that other Imputation, as the Cau&s;e of our Contempt, which the Adver&s;aries of our Church are &s;o apt to charge us withal: <HI>viz.</HI> The &s;candalous Immoralities, which perhaps it may be too true that &s;ome may be guilty of; I do humbly conceive that this Scandal al&s;o may be in a great mea&s;ure remov'd, by the &s;ame means of having Lending Libra|ries. For whence is it that many &s;eek for Company and Diver|&s;ion abroad, but for want of the better Society of good enter|taining Authors at home: The Truth of it is, there are a &s;ort of Writers which are traditionally handed down from one Old Study to another, who are not &s;uch a good Humour'd and In|viting Society as to make one delight much in their Conver&s;a|tion: But what Man of Spirit or Education, had he a <HI>Ju&s;tin Mar|tyr,</HI> a <HI>Tertullian</HI> or <HI>Cyprian;</HI> a <HI>Sander&s;on,</HI> a <HI>Hammond</HI> or <HI>Tillot|&s;on,</HI>
<PB REF="9"> come to vi&s;it him, would leave &s;uch Men of Sen&s;e for the Society of the Sons of <HI>Belial.</HI></P>
<P>Not to &s;ay, that our Acquaintance with &s;uch Excellent and No|ble Authors, will render our Society when we do meet together &s;uch as becomes Men of Education and Learning; will elevate our Thoughts and Di&s;cour&s;e above the vulgar and u&s;ual Conver|&s;ation, in which it is much below us to be found, will &s;upply us with tho&s;e Notions and Matter for Di&s;cour&s;e, as will render us not de&s;picable, but venerable among&s;t tho&s;e we &s;hall happen to conver&s;e withal.</P>
<P>In &s;hort, I look upon the thing of Libraries to be the great <HI>De&s;ideratum,</HI> even here in <HI>England;</HI> and yet &s;o &s;anguine am I, that I am fully per&s;waded I could propo&s;e tho&s;e ways to the Reverend Clergy of the Kingdom, whereby they might be provided therewith with very little Charge to them&s;elves or others. But to let that pa&s;s; and I &s;hall think my &s;elf &s;uffici|ently happy, if I can accompli&s;h a De&s;ign of this Nature el&s;e|where; the rea&s;on I &s;o much in&s;i&s;t upon the <HI>&V;&s;efulne&s;s</HI> of 'em here, is to prove the <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity</HI> thereof in the foreign Plantations; for here &s;ome few of the Clergy are able to buy a &s;ufficient Stock of Books for them&s;elves, but it is very rarely that tho&s;e who go into <HI>America</HI> are in &s;uch a Condition; for Men of Intere&s;ts and Fortunes love their Native Country too well, to venture them|&s;elves abroad.</P>
<P>But the great Objection again&s;t our De&s;ign, will be the charge|ablene&s;s thereof, in which re&s;pect when the Catalogue is read over, it will appear almo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible to be accompli&s;h'd. There are &s;everal Books laid down upon particular Heads, and the Charges of &s;uch a Library for every Pari&s;h will amount to many Hundred, if not &s;ome Thou&s;and Pounds. But the Method I de|&s;ign to take in the di&s;po&s;ing of the&s;e Libraries, will take off very much from the Formidablene&s;s of this Objection; for whereas there are &s;ometimes a &s;core of &s;everal Authors pre&s;crib'd upon the &s;ame Subject, it is intended, that not above one or two upon every Point &s;hall be alotted into each Private Library; and tho&s;e who will not be &s;atisfied without reading all that has been writ|ten
<PB REF="10"> by Authors of any Eminency upon every Theological Head (who&s;e Noble Curio&s;ity, Indu&s;try, and Thir&s;t after u&s;eful Know|ledge, I cannot but highly commend) tho&s;e Worthy Per&s;ons may borrow of their Neighbouring Clergy the Books they them|&s;elves want, and they again of the&s;e; by which means there will al&s;o this Good acrue, that hereby a mutual Corre&s;pondence with one another will be maintain'd by the Clergy; a Cor|re&s;pondence in <HI>Re Literaria,</HI> the mo&s;t u&s;eful and noble&s;t Cor|re&s;pondence in the World, and which will render 'em as con&s;ide|rable in Learning and Knowledge, as others are for their Wealth and Riches. And if over and above the&s;e le&s;&s;er Libraries canton'd into &s;o many Parts, we can obtain but one General Library in the Province, con&s;i&s;ting but of the whole &s;et laid down in the following Catalogue: This is the utmo&s;t of our Expectation or de&s;ires.</P>
<P>And here in the&s;e general Libraries alone it is that we &s;hall di&s;|po&s;e of the Antient Writers, whether <HI>Fathers,</HI> or <HI>Philo&s;ophers</HI> mentioned in the Catalogue. I thought fit indeed to &s;pecifie the particular Tracts written upon the &s;everal Heads by tho&s;e Vene|rable Authors, as well as tho&s;e which have been made by Modern Writers, as the mo&s;t likely means I could think of, in order to their being read by the Lower Form of our Clergy. For as it is the &s;ame thing to the Learned part of the World, whether &s;ome Manu&s;cripts and Pieces of the Antients be really and utterly lo&s;t, or whether they be buried in du&s;t in unfrequented Libraries, till now that &s;ome Per&s;ons of a Great and Noble Genius, are &s;earch|ing 'em out, in order to give us a Catalogue thereof: So the great Rea&s;on, as I apprehend, why the Lower Form of the Cler|gy are not more conver&s;ant in the Antient Writers, is becau&s;e &s;e|veral perhaps are not much acquainted, that many of the Sub|jects they have written upon, are the very &s;ame they them&s;elves do daily Preach to the People: Whereas for in&s;tance, he that con&s;iders that <HI>Tertullian, Ambro&s;e</HI> and <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI> have written upon Repentance, who among&s;t us would not ride &s;ome Miles to a Publick Library to con&s;ult the Sen&s;e of tho&s;e Per&s;picatious Writers before we put Pen to Paper our &s;elves.</P>
<PB REF="10">
<P>And now Reverend Sirs, I mu&s;t earne&s;tly reque&s;t your Can|dour in pa&s;&s;ing a favourable Cen&s;ure upon what follows. I have had but very little lei&s;ure, and was con&s;trained to a very &s;hort time to draw up this following Catalogue: And at the be&s;t do pretend to very &s;mall Skill for &s;uch an Undertaking; But being de&s;ign'd for the Service of the Plantations by my Superiors, at who&s;e ab&s;olute di&s;po&s;al I &s;o much am, that I &s;hould think it a &s;in to di&s;pute their Commands into any part of the World, where I have any rea&s;on to think it may be to the Service of God's Church to be &s;ent by them; I did not know how I could be any ways &s;erviceable in the Place I am de&s;ign'd for, without &s;ending before me, or carrying over with me, for the u&s;e of the Church, I go to, &s;ome Provi&s;ions of this nature.</P>
<P>But now my Hand is in, if I &s;hould find this part accepted, I do further de&s;ign to draw out into a more particular Scheme, tho&s;e two great Conditions of the Covenant of Grace; <HI>The &s;e|veral Articles included in our Creed,</HI> which we are to believe; <HI>And the various and numerous Duties included in Obedience,</HI> which we are to practice; And in the &s;ame Method as before, to &s;ubjoin the &s;everal Authors of be&s;t account, both Antient and Modern, who have written upon tho&s;e more particular Subjects.</P>
<P>And al&s;o to this Part, I would add a Li&s;t of all the mo&s;t Con|&s;iderable, both among&s;t the Antient <HI>Homilies,</HI> and Modern <HI>Ser|mons,</HI> which have been publi&s;hed upon all the foregoing Heads of Pulpit Divinity, whether General or Particular.</P>
<P>And when I &s;hall have thus far provided Directions to tho&s;e of my Brethren, I am likely to be concern'd with beyond Sea, as to give 'em an entire Scheme of what I humbly conceive more im|mediately nece&s;&s;ary for 'em to under&s;tand them&s;elves, and to in|&s;truct others in, in order to Salvation; I &s;hould be glad if &s;ome abler Pen, one that can pretend to Univer&s;al Learning, would give us a draught of tho&s;e Studies, which th&ocirc; not &s;o immediate|ly nece&s;&s;ary, are next thereunto, <HI>viz.</HI> exceedingly u&s;eful to perfect a Divine, &s;uch as the whole cour&s;e of Hi&s;tory, both Eccle&s;ia&s;ti|cal and Civil; Phy&s;iology, and &s;everal other parts of Humane Litherature, which are of no &s;mall concernment to the Mini+&s;ters
<PB REF="11"> of Chri&s;t's Church to be Ma&s;ters of: But if no one el&s;e &s;hould undertake this part th&ocirc; I have not Skill my &s;elf, I have Zeal enough to attempt any thing, th&ocirc; above my Power, for the good of God's Church, and the Honour of his Clergy, the great Intere&s;t of which, I think I can, and hope I &s;hall be ever able to prefer to any of my own.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<HEAD>ERRATA.</HEAD>
<P>PAge 27. line 7. read <HI>Idololatria,</HI> p. 28. l. 3. r. <HI>Anonymum,</HI> p. 29. l. 16. r. <HI>Xeno|phon,</HI> ib. l. 29. r. <HI>Antoninus,</HI> ib. l. ult, r. <HI>Macrobii,</HI> p. 34. l. 8. r. <HI>Hieronymi,</HI> p. 37. l. 23. r. <HI>fodder,</HI> p. 38. l. 3. r. <HI>Judaeorum,</HI> p. 41. l. 6. r. <HI>Bey.</HI> ib. l. 7. r. <HI>prae|fecturis,</HI> p. 41. l. 5. of the la&s;t of the inner Notes, r. 331. p. 43. l. 5. r. <HI>Scapula</HI>'s, ib. l. 18. r. <HI>Gla&s;&s;ii,</HI> p. 44. l. ult. r. <HI>Studio,</HI> p. 48. l. 3. dele <HI>it was,</HI> ib. l. 22. dele <HI>our,</HI> p. 50. l. 19. r. <HI>ad Relationem,</HI> p. 54. r. <HI>Mediation,</HI> p. 64. l. 26. r. <HI>Legantur,</HI> p. 70. l. 7. r. <HI>Legantur,</HI> p. 74. l. 16. r. <HI>dige&s;ta,</HI> p. 75. l. 31. r. <HI>&s;ubjungi,</HI> p. 76. l. 1. r. <HI>In&s;titutiones Ju&s;tiniani,</HI> p. 78. l. 18. r. <HI>Ignoratio,</HI> p. 65. l. 15. r. <HI>than,</HI> p. 74. l. 1. of the inner Note, r. <HI>&s;peret,</HI> and l. 5. <HI>Ob&s;ecret,</HI> p. 93. l. 21. r. <HI>In&s;tructio|nes,</HI> p. 100. l. 28. r. <HI>Con&s;titutions.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="introduction">
<PB N="1" REF="11">
<HEAD>THE INTRODUCTION</HEAD>
<P>THE De&s;ign of Publi&s;hing the following Pro|po&s;als, and Catalogue, is in hopes that fal|ling into the Hands of &s;uch who are Piou&s;ly di&s;pos'd, they may be thereby wrought upon to con|tribute towards the promoting the two be&s;t Things in the World, <HI>Religion</HI> and <HI>Learning,</HI> in tho&s;e Parts which are mo&s;t uncultivated therewith, the <HI>American</HI> Plantations.</P>
<P>And indeed it is &s;carcely to be imagin'd, that tho&s;e Per&s;ons who are throughly &s;ea&s;on'd with true Piety, and are &s;en&s;ible of the ine&s;timable Benefit which they them&s;elves have received by the Preaching of the Go&s;pel (by which alone they are di&s;tingui&s;h'd from tho&s;e Barbarous <HI>Indians,</HI> who&s;e Spiritual Condition is truly deplorable; and who&s;e Conver&s;ion is one thing herein aim'd at, as well as the In&s;truction of tho&s;e of our own <HI>Colonies.</HI>) It is not to be Imagin'd, I &s;ay, but that they &s;hould be hearty Well-wi&s;hers to &s;uch a De|&s;ign,
<PB N="2" REF="12"> and contribute &s;o far as they are able, towards carrying it on. It was Emphatically &s;poke to St. <HI>Peter</HI> by our Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, <HI>When thou art Converted, &s;treng|then thy Brethren,</HI> Luke 22.32. For a Soul throughly Converted, and burning with a fervent Love to God, will not only wi&s;h well to the Labours of others, but by all po&s;&s;ible means will it &s;elf endeavour, that the Image of that God he loves, may be impre&s;t likewi&s;e upon other Mens Souls; and that all the World may joyn with him in the Adoration and Prai&s;es of that Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, from whom he does receive &s;uch un|&s;peakable Benefits.</P>
<P>Now, in reference to our Foreign Plantations, the Subject of our pre&s;ent Concern, I humbly conceive, there is &s;carcely any more effectual way to te&s;tifie our Love to God, or the Souls of Men, by promoting the Glory of the one, and contributing to the common Salvation of the other, than by imparting &s;omething towards the providing of &s;uch <HI>Libaries</HI> therein, where|by the Clergy &s;ent thither, may be enabled to in&s;truct tho&s;e People in the Doctrines of &s;ound Belief and good Morals; the two great con&s;tituent parts of Chri&s;tianity.</P>
<P>For this in the fir&s;t place, I will be bold to a&s;&s;ert, That however &s;ome Per&s;ons, who&s;e Enmity to the Clergy proceeds from their want of Love and Venera|tion to that God and Religion, to whom they do Mini&s;ter (as is notorious, if we con&s;ider the Principles and Practices of tho&s;e Men;) notwith&s;tanding, I &s;ay, &s;uch
<PB N="3" REF="12"> are pleas'd to traduce the whole Order as u&s;ele&s;s, and a burden to the World; yet it is evidently owing to the Men of that <HI>Tribe,</HI> that Mankind has been &s;o happily recover'd from the Ignorance, Barbarity, and Bruti&s;h Manners into which it was &s;unk; and that Licentiou&s;|ne&s;s, Rapine and Violence have given way to Purity, Ju&s;tice and Humanity in tho&s;e parts of the World where Pure and Genuine Chri&s;tianity is taught; Nay, and it is owing to them, that where Humane Sacrifices were once offered, now the <HI>Rea&s;onable Service</HI> that the Go&s;pel pre&s;cribes, which is <HI>to live Soberly, Righteou&s;ly, and Godly,</HI> has prevail'd in the World; and that where whole Provinces were Slaves to the Devil, they are now the Servants of God. And &s;hould a Nation, through the heavy Judgment of Heaven, become de|&s;titute of a Learned and a Pious Clergy, and be de|livered up to the Malignant Principles of tho&s;e who hate the Profe&s;&s;ion; Good God, to what Impurities, Rapines and Murders mu&s;t &s;uch a wretched People be inevitably expos'd! Such an ine&s;timable Benefit to Mankind, are a Clergy that do throughly under&s;tand, and indu&s;triou&s;ly preach the Genuine Doctrines of Chri&s;tianity.</P>
<P>Next, I pre&s;ume I may &s;afely a&s;&s;ume this, that as the Clergy are more or le&s;s u&s;eful to tho&s;e Excellent Ends of Improving and Perfecting the Minds of Men, accordingly as they are more or le&s;s Ma&s;ters them|&s;elves of that Divine Knowledge which they are to Teach others; &s;o it is not po&s;&s;ible according to the
<PB N="4" REF="13"> pre&s;ent Di&s;pen&s;ation of Divine Providence, that they &s;hould throughly under&s;tand it them&s;elves, without the help of &s;uch Books as treat of all the Sacred Truths of Chri&s;tianity. For now the Go&s;pel being fully re|veal'd, <HI>In&s;piration</HI> is ceas'd, and Per&s;ons of all &s;orts, Clergy as well as Laity, are left to Study and Reading, as the only Means, whereby, together with God's Ble&s;&s;ing, they can attain to that mea&s;ure thereof, which is &s;ufficient to inform them&s;elves and others.</P>
<P>And therefore La&s;tly, from hence it does follow, that &s;uch Charitable Per&s;ons as &s;hall contribute towards the furni&s;hing of the Clergy de&s;ign'd for the <HI>Engli&s;h Colonies</HI> abroad, with &s;uch means of Knowledge, as we pro|po&s;e, cannot but have a proportionable &s;hare both in the Vertue and in the Reward of that Ble&s;&s;ed Work, whereby God's Kingdom is exalted in the World, and the Devil di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;s'd of that U&s;urp'd Dominion he has gain'd over &s;o great a part thereof. Such will in &s;ome mea&s;ure, be accounted to have been <HI>Evangeli&s;ts</HI> them|&s;elves, and will partake in the Reward of tho&s;e who have <HI>turned many to Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> by carrying the Go&s;|&s;pel to other Nations.</P>
<P>And who is it that is piou&s;ly Ambitious of being high in the Favour and Love of God, and of being exalted to a higher Station among&s;t the Ble&s;&s;ed Saints above, that would not at the Charge of a Moderate Benefaction, be &s;o In&s;trumental as this may render him, towards the Salvation of a con&s;iderable part of Mankind? The <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> we do all know, are to <HI>&s;it upon Twelve
<PB N="5" REF="13"> Thrones judging the Twelve Tribes of I&s;rael.</HI> And where|fore is it that they &s;hall be thus Honoured above all Men, but becau&s;e they were the Grand Propagators of Chri&s;tianity, <HI>and &s;par'd not to &s;pend, and be &s;pent</HI> in that Service, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.14. to reduce Mankind to the Obe|dience of God? And may not then tho&s;e Per&s;ons ex|pect a proportionable degree of Honour and Reward above their Brethren, who &s;hall offer of their Sub|&s;tance towards the &s;ame Noble and Ble&s;&s;ed End? Cha|rity, indeed of what&s;oever kind it be, will have its Reward. He that gives Alms to the Poor, He that Cloaths the Naked, or Feeds the Hungry, will find ic upon his Account at the Day of Judgment. But then as there are different ways of doing Good; &s;o to provide Spiritual Food for the Souls of Men, is a Cha|rity of as much a more exalted Nature, as the Spirit is more Excellent than the Body.</P>
<P>Nor will this Charity terminate only on the Minds of tho&s;e that receive it, but will al&s;o have a mo&s;t happy Influence to the procuring of their Bodily Comforts, for where&s;oever the Go&s;pel of our Saviour prevails, it takes off that Ferity of Nature whereby Mankind become Bea&s;ts of Prey, even Wolves and Tygers, to one another, and renders 'em Benign and Kind to all tho&s;e who have to do with 'em; and ready to do all manner of good Offices to their Brethren in Humane Nature. So that you may ever ob&s;erve, that proportionably as Divine Knowledge prevails in the World, in the &s;ame degrees do Barbarity, Rapine,
<PB N="6" REF="14"> Violence and Brutality decrea&s;e, and Humanity, Ju|&s;tice and Order gain ground among&s;t Men. And if the Authors from whence this Knowledge is deriv'd, are not corrupted with &s;uch Principles as undermine Mo|rality (which is vi&s;ible in the Writings of &s;ome &s;ort of Men) the tendency of Chri&s;tian Books, as &s;uch, is to improve Mankind in all the Faculties and Powers of Soul and Body, to a &s;imilitude with the Holy An|gels them&s;elves; and indeed to render 'em Partakers of the Divine Nature.</P>
<P>This I &s;ay, if the Authors from whence this Know|ledge is deriv'd, be them&s;elves good; for Men are generally &s;uch in their Principles, Tempers, and Di&s;|po&s;itions, as the Books and Company are with which they Conver&s;e, &s;ince <HI>Evil Communications</HI> in either way <HI>do Corrupt good Manners:</HI> but &s;uch as do truly repre&s;ent the Nature of that Covenant we have made with God in our Bapti&s;m, and do &s;hew us from thence, the indi&s;pen&s;able Obligation lying upon us to a Holy Life; &s;uch as do &s;et forth the Principles of our Religion as the mo&s;t forcible Motives to live according to the Di|ctates of Right Rea&s;on, and the Improvements of Revelation; &s;uch Authors as the&s;e do manife&s;tly tend, not to Debauch the Manners, but to Improve the Morals of Mankind, to that degree, as to bring down a kind of Heaven here upon Earth, and to render the Inhabitants thereof Guardian-Angels to one another.</P>
<PB N="7" REF="14">
<P>And this has been the great Aim in that Collection of Books here Recommended, as proper to enable our Clergy to Advance the Ble&s;&s;ed Work propo&s;ed in tho&s;e Plantations where they are to Mini&s;ter. It is hard to be an&s;werable for every thing contain'd in all of 'em. There is no Humane Writing free from Faults or Defects in &s;ome kind or other; But however there are no Errors in any of tho&s;e Books here Propos'd, which the Orthodoxy of others in the Catalogue will not rectifie. And take 'em in the whole Bulk, they are thought to be &s;ome of the mo&s;t u&s;eful in their kind, to give a competent Under&s;tanding of the whole Body of Chri&s;tianity, and all its Parts. And as it is endeavoured, together with the Catalogue of Books here exhibited, to give a Scheme of Chri&s;tian Truths in that Order wherein they do mo&s;t naturally lie; &s;o the very &s;tudying of 'em in &s;uch a Method, may probably tend, not a little to the Improvement of our <HI>American Clergy</HI> in Chri&s;tian Knowledge, and to ena|ble 'em the better to Edifie others. For as the Study|ing of any Science incoherently, begets nothing but confus'd Apprehen&s;ions of things in our own Minds; &s;o it will render us incapable to give clear and adequate Repre&s;entations thereof to other Men.</P>
<P>And indeed it ought not to be di&s;&s;embled, that this Catalogue is publi&s;hed with &s;ome de&s;ign to help our Young Students in Theology, even on this &s;ide the Water, &s;ince it maybe a piece of Service to &s;ome of them, to direct 'em in the Choice of &s;uch Books, as
<PB N="8" REF="15"> will be of mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary and immediate u&s;e to them in their Mini&s;terial In&s;tructions to the People, and which yet by the brevity of the Catalogue may be had, (&s;ome one at lea&s;t on each Head) without any great and in&s;upportable Charge. True it is, there have been various Methods of Study given us by learned Men, with a Li&s;t of tho&s;e Authors they would Recommend to our u&s;e: But it is the general Com|plaint, that few or none &s;eem to have Adapted their Catalogues to the <HI>Proper</HI> and <HI>Immediate</HI> Bu&s;ine&s;s of a Pari&s;h Mini&s;ter, as he is one who mu&s;t in&s;truct his People in all things belonging to his Salvation; much le&s;s to the Circum&s;tances of the greate&s;t part of that Body, who&s;e &s;mall Livings, e&s;pecially if they have Families, will not afford 'em wherewith to Purcha&s;e a third part of the Books Recommended to them in tho&s;e Catalogues.</P>
<P>Nor indeed, if they could buy them, would it be very agreeable to the Nature of their Bu&s;ine&s;s to do it; for either the&s;e learned Directors give us Li&s;ts of all the Authors that have Writ upon each Subject, or at lea&s;t of as many as they have perus'd and read them&s;elves, and this generally through all the general parts of Learning, however remote and unnece&s;&s;ary to the par|ticular bu&s;ine&s;s of a Preacher or Catechi&s;t; or if they have confin'd their Catalogues to &s;uch Books as are more <HI>Immediately</HI> U&s;eful and Practical, yet they do not &s;eem to have de&s;ign'd 'em in any great Order, where|by the <HI>Rationale</HI> of their Catalogue may clearly ap|pear
<PB N="9" REF="15"> with re&s;pect to a Pari&s;h Mini&s;ter, as if they in|tended thereby a Provi&s;ion, e&s;pecially for a through and entire Information of Teacher or Hearer in all the nece&s;&s;ary and e&s;&s;ential points of Chri&s;tianity And hence it is that many Young Divines, if you come to examine their &s;helves, will be found either to have laid out what they could &s;pare, in Books of a more remote concern, and thereby to have di&s;enabled them&s;elves to purcha&s;e tho&s;e of a more immediate Importance. Or if they have expended their &s;mall Stock in Practi|cal Divinity, yet their Collection will &s;eem to be very <HI>Rickety,</HI> having a great redundance in Authors upon &s;ome points, and as great a deficiency on others. Whereas tho&s;e in the mean Livings by cutting off Superfluities, might be able by degrees to purcha&s;e one or two Books at lea&s;t, upon every of tho&s;e Heads of Doctrine wherein it is nece&s;&s;ary they &s;hould in&s;truct the People; and for want of which, all the <HI>Terms</HI> of the <HI>Bapti&s;mal Covenant,</HI> are &s;carcely Preach'd over to them in many places, I fear, in the whole Cour&s;e of &s;ome Mens Mini&s;try.</P>
<P>And probably it is from this Ob&s;ervation, that &s;ome have been &s;o importunate with me to Print the fol|lowing Catalogue of Books de&s;ign'd for Parochial Libra|ries in the Foreign Plantations, upon which con&s;ideration I hope, it will not be imputed to me, as Arrogance, to offer what looks like a Direction in this ca&s;e, e&s;pecial|ly when it is to my Brethren of the lowe&s;t Form in the Church that I do herein apply my &s;elf.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="16">
<P>And yet &s;o far am I from a&s;&s;uming to Dictate what Books, it may be &s;ufficient, even for the mo&s;t Inferior Rank of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Divines to read, that I do thus far <HI>Retract</HI> what I have &s;aid with re&s;pect to any advanced to Holy Orders in this part of the World, where good Literature does &s;o much flouri&s;h, and makes &s;uch a di|&s;tinction in the value we put upon Men, that I do freely acknowledge it were much to be wi&s;ht that every one of the Clergy here in <HI>England,</HI> &s;hould <HI>Launch out far</HI> into the va&s;t Ocean of Univer&s;al Learning. For be&s;ides that we live here in a very Inqui&s;itive Age, wherein Per|&s;ons of all Ranks and Profe&s;&s;ions have arriv'd to great Attainments in all the parts of Knowledge; and it is not a little indecent to &s;ee a Gowns-Man, who&s;e very Garb denotes him one Devoted to Study, outdone by any ordinary Laik, in <HI>Philology, Philo&s;ophy, Mathematicks, Antiquity,</HI> or any part of u&s;eful Learning (except by Per&s;ons in their own proper Profe&s;&s;ion, to whom it is as decent on the other &s;ide to &s;ubmit) be&s;ides this, I &s;ay, the Bu&s;ine&s;s of a Divine is of that comprehen&s;ive extent, that good Skill even in Nature, Mathematicks and Laws, which may &s;eem mo&s;t remote from his Bu&s;ine&s;s, is not only Acce&s;&s;ary and Ornamental to his Profe&s;&s;ion, but of exceeding great u&s;e for the Explica|tion and Proof of &s;ome of the principal Subjects he is to Di&s;cour&s;e upon to the People, and al&s;o for the Defence of the mo&s;t <HI>Fundamental Articles</HI> of Faith, that he is to maintain again&s;t the <HI>Atheist</HI> and <HI>Anti-&s;cripturist.</HI></P>
<PB N="11" REF="16">
<P>The Knowledge of <HI>Nature</HI> affords the be&s;t, the plaine&s;t, and the mo&s;t demon&s;trative Proofs of the Exi&s;tence, and Providence of God, to the E&s;tabli&s;h|ing of our Faith, and the Rai&s;ing the Admiration and Devotion towards the Divine Maje&s;ty, both of the mo&s;t Intelligent and of the Meane&s;t of the People. <HI>Mathematical</HI> Knowledge is in &s;ome mea&s;ure nece&s;&s;ary, to enable one to give a Rational Account of the Truth of the <HI>Mo&s;aick Hi&s;tory</HI> of the Creation and Deluge; and to an&s;wer the Cavils and Exceptions of the Super|ficial and Half-learned Athei&s;t, (as has in the In&s;tance of the Ark, been unan&s;werably done by Bi&s;hop <HI>Wil|kins,</HI> and in the like Ca&s;es bv other Pens.) And a competent Knowledge of the <HI>Laws,</HI> e&s;pecially of the <HI>Civil Law,</HI> and of the Law of <HI>Nations,</HI> enables a Di|vine with the mo&s;t convincing Arguments and Rea|&s;ons to E&s;tabli&s;h the Doctrine of Chri&s;t's Satisfaction, one of the principal Articles of Reveal'd Religion. In|&s;omuch that <HI>Crellius</HI> him&s;elf confe&s;s'd before his Death, that he had never Written again&s;t <HI>Grotius</HI> upon that Subject,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Didici, paul&oacute; antequam motenetur, dixi&s;&s;e Crellium, &s;e nunquam contra me Scrip|turum fui&s;&s;e, &s;i ante Scrip|tionem legi&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t mea de pe|narum Communicatione in Jure Belli &amp; Pacis <HI>Ep. 556. 2</HI> parte.</NOTE> had he fir&s;t &s;een his Chapter <HI>de Communica|tione paenarum.</HI> And indeed, many of the Social Duties of the Civil Life, are not likely to be &s;o exactly &s;tated by any, as by one well acquainted with the Laws and Cu&s;toms of Nations. So that it is very re|qui&s;ite, that every Pa&s;tor of a Flock, e&s;pecially in this Curious and Incredulous part of the World, &s;hould
<PB N="12" REF="17"> give him&s;elf up to farther Enquiries into Uni|ver&s;al Learning, &s;till making this his Rule, that he &s;pends mo&s;t of his Time and of his Thoughts upon what is E&s;&s;ential and immediately nece&s;&s;ary to Man's Salvation, <HI>viz.</HI> the Terms of the Covenant of Grace; &s;ince to pur&s;ue any other Knowledge to the neglect of this, would in him be to gratifie a &s;inful Curio&s;ity.</P>
<P>But as for tho&s;e who are to &s;erve in the Plantations, I do no not at this di&s;tance fore&s;ee the nece&s;&s;ity of their being provided of more than &s;uch a Sett of Books, as &s;hall be of ab&s;olute nece&s;&s;ity to enable 'em to declare the whole Will of God, &s;o as may &s;uffice to the Information of Plain and Illiterate Men, that &s;o they may be able with St. <HI>Paul,</HI> &s;peaking to his Converts, to call the Con&s;ciences of tho&s;e committed to their Charge, to atte&s;t al&s;o to them, that they <HI>are pure from the Blood of all Men, not having &s;hunned to declare unto them all the Coun&s;el of God.</HI> Not but that we could wi&s;h to have one Library of more Univer&s;al Learning, to have recour&s;e to upon occa&s;ion, in every <HI>Province,</HI> and &s;hall e&s;pecially endeavour to have one in the College which is now Erecting in <HI REND="blackletterType">Virginia,</HI> by the Favour and Bounty of his mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty and our late B. Queen, and by the Liberal Benefactions of many Right Reverend, Noble, and Generous Per&s;ons, and by the E&s;pecial Indu&s;try, Care, and Expen&s;e of one of the be&s;t <HI>Provincial Governours</HI> in the World.</P>
<P>But however, as it is fit we &s;hould be contented with &s;mall Beginnings, &s;o we &s;hall be deeply &s;en&s;ible
<PB N="13" REF="17"> of what A&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;hall be given us towards <HI REND="blackletterType">Paro|chial Libaries,</HI> and &s;hall &s;tudy in all manner of ways to expre&s;s our Gratitude to our Benefactors for the &s;ame: particularly, as in order to the pre&s;ervation of tho&s;e Books, be&s;ides the Lettering upon their Covers to what Pari&s;h they belong, and the making of &s;everal Regi&s;ters of 'em; one to be left with our mo&s;t Honoured Dioce&s;an the <HI>Lord Bi&s;hop</HI> of <HI>London;</HI> one with His Maje&s;ty's <HI>Governour</HI> in each Province; one with the <HI>Suffragan</HI> or <HI>Commi&s;&s;ary;</HI> and one to be depo&s;ited in the <HI>Vestry</HI> of each Pari&s;h; as all this to pre&s;erve 'em from Lo&s;s or Imbezelment, or in order to recover 'em if any wi&s;e dimini&s;hed; &s;o in <HI>gratam rei Memoriam,</HI> there will be moreover added in each of the&s;e Regi&s;ters, a Li&s;t of our Benefactors, and of their re&s;pective Bene|factions.</P>
<P>But that which I am &s;ure will be mo&s;t grateful to &s;uch Lovers of Religion and u&s;eful Learning, we will by the Grace of God, make that good u&s;e of 'em we ought, to the purpo&s;es de&s;ign'd. We &s;hall indeed think it hard to be &s;ent to Work in the <HI>Brik-kilnes</HI> with|out out Allowance of <HI>Straw,</HI> but give us Materials and Tools, and we'll endeavour to be an&s;werable to God and Man for our <HI>Fidelity and Labour.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="14" REF="18">
<HEAD>A general View of tho&s;e Heads of Divinity, wherein it is nece&s;&s;ary for every Pa&s;tor of a Flock to be well Read him&s;elf, that he may be able to In&s;truct the People committed to his Charge, in all the nece&s;&s;aries to Salvation, and may be &s;ufficiently provided to defend 'em again&s;t the Infection of Here&s;ie and Error.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<P>The Belief of the Divine Exi&s;tence and Providence being the Foundation of all Religion, as well Natu|ral as Reveal'd; it is very nece&s;&s;ary in &s;uch an Age as this, wherein the very Foundations of both are tore up; that every Pa&s;tor of a Flock &s;hould not only be fully per&s;uaded in his own mind of the&s;e mo&s;t impor|tant Truths, but &s;hould be al&s;o very able to give the mo&s;t convincing Evidence to all others of the &s;ame, and in order to that end, that he &s;hould be &s;upply'd with the Learned Writings of the be&s;t Au|thors both Philo&s;ophers and Divines, upon tho&s;e points. But,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<PB N="15" REF="18">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P>Natural Religion, or that Train of Religious Prin|ciples, and Duties re&s;ulting from 'em, which by a due u&s;e of Rea&s;on, Experience and Con&s;ideration alone, without the Di&s;coveries of Revelation; a Man may conclude he is oblig'd to Believe and Practice: This being the Religion that all Mankind, meerly as Ratio|nal Creatures, are oblig'd to, and without the know|ledge and ob&s;ervation of which, the very <HI>Pagans</HI> them&s;elves will be without excu&s;e: It will be very re|qui&s;ite, that every Divine &s;hould well under&s;tand the extent and end thereof, both that he may be able to warn his People, lea&s;t under all the Advantages and Improvements in the Principles and Practice of Ver|tue made by Chri&s;tianity, they fall &s;hort of the very Heathens in both; and e&s;pecially that they may perceive them&s;elves, and let others &s;ee the ine&s;timable advantages we Chri&s;tians have receiv'd in manifold re&s;pects, by the Light of the Go&s;pel, which gives us a much better Rule to walk by, and propo&s;es infinite|ly greater Rewards for our encouragement in &s;o doing; and to this end therefore it will be very requi&s;ite he &s;hould be furni&s;hed with &s;ome or other of tho&s;e many Books which have been &s;o excellently written upon that Sub&s;ect.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<PB N="16" REF="19">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P>The mere Light of Nature being not &s;ufficient to di&s;cover to us the Knowledge of God and our &s;elves, much le&s;s to direct us to the enjoyment of this God, and all tho&s;e un&s;peakable ble&s;&s;ings wherein con&s;i&s;ts our future happine&s;s; and the Holy Scriptures being the Fountain of Divine and Saving Knowledge, from whence the Pa&s;tor of the Flock of Chri&s;t is to draw forth the Waters of Life both for his own and others benefit: It is principally requi&s;ite he &s;hould be pro|vided of &s;uch Books as &s;hall enable him, 1. To know the Text it &s;elf, and that both in the Original and Vulgar Tongues, 2. To under&s;tand the mean|ing of it; and 3. To apply it skilfully to the Edifi|cation of others.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P>The de&s;ign of God's revealing to us the Holy Scriptures, and that whole Evangelical Doctrine contained therein, being it was to de&s;troy the King|dom of Satan, which ever &s;ince the Fall, that rebeli|ous Spirit had begun to &s;et up in the World, in oppo&s;i|tion to God's; and had advanced to almo&s;t an Univer|&s;al Monarchy over Mankind, by that time the Son of God de&s;cended from Heaven to reduce us to the obe|dience of our Maker: And on the other &s;ide, its
<PB N="17" REF="19"> De&s;ign being to advance the <HI>Kingdom of God,</HI> con|&s;i&s;ting <HI>in Righteou&s;ne&s;s and true Holine&s;s,</HI> and withal to humble us with a &s;en&s;e of our own Imperfect Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s, by making us depend &s;olely upon the Media|tion of Chri&s;t with the Father, for the Acceptance thereof to our Ju&s;tification; This, I &s;ay, being its De|&s;ign, and Satan being therefore enraged, that his U|&s;urp'd Dominion &s;hould be wre&s;ted from him: So it is, that the Church-Militant is ever &s;ince, through his In&s;tigation, and the Malignity of his Agents, in that unhappy State, that like the Walls of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> it mu&s;t be defended with a Sword in one hand, whil&s;t Built with a Trowel in the other. All which con&s;idered, it is very requi&s;ite that our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tor &s;hould, next to his Knowledge in the Holy Scriptures, (out of who&s;e Materials he is to build) be provided of tho&s;e defen|fen&s;ive Weapons wherewith he may be inabled to op|po&s;e the Gain&s;ayers to that Chri&s;tianity he is to propa|gate in the World: And for this End that he &s;hould be furni&s;h'd with tho&s;e Apologies, both Ancient and Mo|dern, which have been written in defence of the Au|thority of the Scriptures, and of the Truth of Chri&s;tia|nity; And al&s;o with &s;uch Di&s;cour&s;es as Illu&s;trate tho&s;e Noble and Ble&s;&s;ed Ends above-mention'd, which it was de&s;ign'd to &s;erve.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<PB N="18" REF="20">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P>Our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tor being thus far prepar'd towards his great Work of Preaching the Go&s;pel, as to know and under&s;tand the Scriptures, and to be convinc'd him&s;elf, and to be able to convince others, both of their Truth; and of the great De&s;igns, they, and the whole of that Religion contain'd in 'em, are to &s;erve: He may be &s;uppos'd capable by this time to take a comprehen&s;ive View of the whole Scheme of Chri&s;tia|nity; and al&s;o to form a true Judgment of all that which really does, or is pretended by the &s;everal Par|ties of Chri&s;tians to belong thereunto. And indeed &s;ince it is generally accounted the be&s;t Method in the pur&s;uit of any Knowledge, to begin fir&s;t with &s;ome ge|neral In&s;titution, and then to de&s;cend to inquire into the particular Parts thereof: For the more comprehen|&s;ive Knowledge of the whole Body of Chri&s;tian Theo|logy, and that all Divine Truths may be under&s;tood in that natural Order and Connection wherein they depend upon, and add Strength one to another; it is much de&s;ired that our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tor might be fur|ni&s;h'd with &s;ome few Bodies of Divinity, and that both Schola&s;tical and Catechetical.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<PB N="19" REF="20">
<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P>But tho' the Prie&s;ts and Mini&s;ters of Religion, <HI>who&s;e Lips &s;hould pre&s;erve Knowledge,</HI> are to take in a much greater Compa&s;s thereof, than is nece&s;&s;ary they &s;hould In&s;truct all Chri&s;tians in; nay, and tho' tho&s;e narrower Bodies of Divinity, which under the la&s;t Particular we term'd <HI>Catechetical,</HI> becau&s;e they treat on|ly of Points nece&s;&s;ary to Salvation: Tho' Books of this Nature, I &s;ay, are what all who pretend to teach others, ought to be well acquainted with them&s;elves (be the Method they proceed in what the Author plea&s;es) yet &s;ince the Covenant of Grace, that Covenant, which was obtain'd for the fallen Race of Man from God the Father, by the &s;ole Mediation of his only Begotten Son, and that with no le&s;s a Price than his own mo&s;t precious Blood; &s;ince this Cove|nant, we are &s;ure and certain, contains the full Summ and Sub&s;tance of what God has promis'd to us, and what we have engaged to God; This Covenant mu&s;t therefore be that Subject, which every Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel ought to penetrate above all others, to the very Bottom, and to be mo&s;t exqui&s;itely skill'd in the Na|ture, Terms and Conditions thereof; and in every the lea&s;t circum&s;tance pertaining thereunto. And there|fore, &s;ince of all the Catechi&s;ms that the Church of God has at this day, that of the Church of <HI>England</HI> does mo&s;t fully, without the Defalcation of any Article of
<PB N="20" REF="21"> this Covenant, and yet mo&s;t &s;incerely, without the mixture of any Heterogeneous, Di&s;putable, or Schola|&s;tical Tenets, and (that no perfection may be want|ing) mo&s;t Methodically al&s;o, handling this noble Sub|ject fir&s;t Generally, and then particularly; Since the Catechi&s;m of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> I &s;ay, has deli|ver'd to us the Covenant of Grace &s;o very full, defe|cate, and methodical; it mu&s;t be therefore the concern of every Mini&s;ter of Religion, as to comprehend en|tirely this Ble&s;&s;ed Covenant; &s;o to &s;tudy throughly this excelleent Catechi&s;m; and all this with the utmo&s;t Application, till he &s;hall make both one and the other the Ma&s;ter-piece of his Knowledge. And therefore, in order to a compleat and exact under&s;tanding of Both, we cannot forbear here mo&s;t importunately to de&s;ire that our <HI>Indian</HI> Clergy &s;hould be provided of &s;uch Authors, as pur&s;uant to the Method of our Church Catechi&s;m, may accordingly inform 'em in this Cove|nant of Grace, and thereby enable 'em to in&s;truct the People in all its weighty Parts, &s;o as every Private Chri&s;tian may fully under&s;tand his Bapti&s;mal Vow, as well in the general extent of the whole, as in the par|ticular Articles of every Branch thereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<P>But &s;ince it is not enough for a Chri&s;tian to know his Covenant Engagements towards God; but he mu&s;t be al&s;o acquainted with the means whereby he may
<PB N="21" REF="21"> effectually perform all tho&s;e Conditions pre&s;crib'd for the obtaining the Pardon of his Sins, and eternal Life and Happine&s;s; 'Tis therefore very requi&s;ite, that e|very Pa&s;tor of a Flock &s;hould be furni&s;h'd with &s;uch Books as Treat mo&s;t Judiciou&s;ly both of that Divine A&s;&s;i&s;tance, which is the &s;upernatural Means whereby we &s;hall be enabled to di&s;charge our Obligations to|wards our Maker, and al&s;o of Prayer and the Sacra|ments, which are the Moral and Po&s;itive Means; the former of which is pre&s;crib'd by God as the way to ob|tain, the latter ordain'd as the means to convey this Grace to the Souls of Men, whereby they may be enabled to perform all the Conditions requir'd of them by Chri&s;t in the Covenant of which we are now &s;peaking.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<P>Furthermore, being the End of that Divine Know|ledge before-mention d, is to enable the Pa&s;tor to feed his Flock with all that is nece&s;&s;ary to Salvation; and &s;ince Preaching (now that Catechi&s;ing is &s;o much neglected, more is the pity) is become, in a manner, the &s;ole Method of Publick In&s;truction: The better to enable our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tor mo&s;t skilfully and &s;uc|ce&s;sfully to apply thereby that knowledge he has made him&s;elf Ma&s;ter of, to the greate&s;t good of tho&s;e Souls committed to his Charge, it will be very requi&s;ite he &s;hould be furni&s;h'd with the be&s;t Pre&s;idents and A&s;&s;i|&s;tances to that Purpo&s;e; if not with the ancient Ho|milies
<PB N="22" REF="22"> of the mo&s;t Renowned Preachers among&s;t the Primitive Fathers (which are ea&s;ier wi&s;h'd than ob|tain'd) at lea&s;twi&s;e with the Sermons of later Writers: But e&s;pecially I mu&s;t in&s;i&s;t upon having &s;ome of the Modern Sermons of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Divines, which as they are (many of them) incomparably the Be&s;t, and the exacte&s;t Performances of that Nature, and there are &s;carce any of the foremention'd Subjects of Practi|cal Divinity which have not been handled in 'em; &s;o the be&s;t Di&s;cour&s;es of that kind are doubly nece&s;&s;a|ry for our <HI>Indian</HI> Pa&s;tor; namely, both to the farther Improvement of his own Under&s;tanding in tho&s;e great Terms of Man's Salvation, and al&s;o for his Imitation in his own Compo&s;ures in that Nature for the Edifi|cation of his People.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<P>Hitherto we have been providing only for a Peace|able and Practical Divinity, who&s;e whole tendency being to reduce us from the Slavery of Satan to the Obedience of God; to promote in us a Holy Life: And then to humble us in the &s;ence of its Imperfecti|on, by &s;ending us to the Mediation of Chri&s;t for the Acceptance thereof to our Ju&s;tification; the&s;e being, I &s;ay, the noble Ends of the Chri&s;tian Religion; tis pity we, who are its Mini&s;ters, &s;hould be troubl'd with any Amu&s;ements to di&s;tract us from being &s;er|viceable in &s;uch its Glorious De&s;igns, to the Reforma|tion
<PB N="23" REF="22"> and Benefit of Mankind: And therefore it is not without the greate&s;t regret, that I can think of ad|mitting Polemical Di&s;cour&s;es into our Foreign Li|braries, wi&s;hing that the Church of God might be Built like <HI>Solomon</HI>'s Temple, without the Noi&s;e of Axes and Hammers: But &s;ince through the Artifice of Satan the corrupt Seed of Here&s;ie and Error has here|tofore, and will be hereafter &s;ow'd in the Church, to the &s;ubver&s;ion of a &s;ound Faith, and the good Life of too many; to obviate or cure the Poy&s;on thereof, there is too &s;ad an occa&s;ion for admitting &s;ome Con|trover&s;ial Divinity even into our Parochial Libraries.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<P>And &s;ince it has been found by Experience in every Age, that the &s;ucce&s;s of all our Labours, whether in Preaching or Di&s;puting, depends entirely, in a man|ner, upon the Holine&s;s of our Lives: And through the Malignity of the World, (which is more quick|&s;ighted to di&s;cern the minute&s;t Failures, than the mo&s;t &s;hining Vertues of the Mini&s;ters of Religion) the &s;can|dals of one vicious Clark &s;hall Influence a Pari&s;h to more Wickedne&s;s, and occa&s;ion the Peoples running more into Here&s;ie and Schi&s;m, than the Indu&s;try and Piety of Ten the mo&s;t Vertuous and Laborious of the Clergy &s;hall be able to retrieve from either. To compleat our <HI>American</HI> Clergy for the Purpo&s;es of their Mini&s;try, and our Libraries al&s;o, for the Purpo&s;es al&s;o
<PB N="24" REF="23"> of making 'em fit for it, and &s;ucce&s;sful in it: lt is de|&s;ir'd they &s;hould have always before 'em &s;uch Authors as will fir&s;t direct 'em in their Studies, Offices, and Duties, and excite them to Care and Vigilance in the Practice of them. Secondly, as will lay before them the Be&s;t Examples of each to be a Copy and Pattern for them to follow: And la&s;tly, &s;uch Materials and Helps for Devotion, as will advance 'em to the high|e&s;t degrees of Perfection in a Holy and Spiritual Life.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e foregoing Heads are a train of &s;uch Theological Points, as with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to better Judgments, are thought to be of more Immediate concernment both to Mini&s;ter and People; to the former, to be throughly read, to the latter, to be well in&s;tructed in. There are be&s;ides the&s;e other parts of Knowledge al&s;o, which may be very &s;ub&s;ervient to Theology, but they being rather to be e&s;teemed acce&s;&s;ary, and in &s;ome mea&s;ure u&s;eful, than ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for the Phy&s;ician of Souls to be skill'd in, they may perhaps have a particular draught made of them di&s;tinctly by them&s;elves.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="25" REF="23">
<HEAD>The foregoing General Heads of Theology drawn out into Particulars, with a Cata|logue of Books proper to be Read upon the &s;everal Points contain'd therein.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<P>THE Belief of the Divine Exi&s;tence and Provi|dence being the Foundation of all Religion, as well Natural as Reveal'd, it is very nece&s;&s;ary in &s;uch an Age as this, wherein the very Foundations of both are tore up, that every Pa&s;tor of a Flock &s;hould not only be fully per&s;uaded in his own Mind of the cer|tainty of the&s;e Important Truths, but be very able likewi&s;e to give the mo&s;t convictive Evidence of their Verity to all others: And in order to that End he ought to be &s;upply'd with the Learned Writings of the Be&s;t Authors, as well Philo&s;ophers as Divines, upon each of the&s;e two Fundamental Points, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="26" REF="24">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> The Divine Exi&s;tence and Providence.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Cudworth</HI>'s Intellectual Sy&s;tem. Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dris. <HI>Sam. Parkeri</HI> Di&s;putationes de Deo. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>The&s;e or any of 'em are proper to be the fir&s;t Read upon this Subject, as giving an Hi&s;torical Account of Athei&s;m and its Authors, as well as a Confutation of their Opinions. And there is no coming to a true under&s;tanding of the &s;tate of any Que&s;tion, without fir&s;t knowing the Hi&s;tory thereof; After which may be read,</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Amongst the Ancient Writers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cicero</HI> de Natura Deorum Lib. 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; de Divinatione Libri 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Plutarchus</HI> de iis qui tard&egrave; &agrave; Numine Corripiuntur.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Juvenalis</HI> Satyrae 10 &amp; 13.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Seneca</HI> cur Bonis Viris mala accidunt.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lactantius</HI> de Opificio Dei.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> de Providentia Concio 22.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomi</HI> Orationes 5 de Providentia Divina.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; de Providentia Dei ad Stagirium Monachum Lib. 3.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Theodoreti</HI> de Providentia Orationes 10.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Salvianus</HI> de Gubernatione Dei.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Vide</HI> Minutii <HI>Faelicis Octavium p.</HI> 16. <HI>&amp;c. ex</HI> Ed. Ouzelii. Lactantii <HI>In&s;t. Lib.</HI> 1. 2.</P>
<P>N. <HI>As to the Editions both of the Fathers and Philo&s;ophers hitherto and here|after to be mention'd, I referr the Reader to Dr.</HI> Cave<HI>'s <HI REND="blackletterType">Hi&s;toria Literaria, Ellies Dupins New Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Hi&s;tory,</HI> and <HI REND="blackletterType">Sir Thomas Pope-Blounts Cen&s;ura Authorum,</HI> which as they are Books that ought not to be wanted, if po&s;&s;ible to be obtain'd; &s;o they give the fulle&s;t Account of the va|rious and be&s;t Editions.</HI></P>
<PB N="27" REF="24">
<P>Secondly, <HI>Amongst later and more modern Writers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Charles Wole&s;ley</HI> again&s;t Athei&s;m. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Henry Moor's</HI> Antidote again&s;t Athei&s;m. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Ward</HI>'s E&s;&s;ay towards an Eviction of the Being and Attributes of God, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gerar. Vo&s;&s;ius</HI> de Theologia Gentili &amp; Phy&s;iologia Chri&s;ti|ana, &s;ive de Origine ac progre&s;&s;u Idolatriae, deque Natu|rae Mirandis quibus Homo adducitur ad Deum. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Matthew Hales</HI>'s Primitive Origination of Mankind. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Bates</HI>'s Con&s;iderations of the Exi&s;tence of God. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Bentley</HI>'s Sermons at Mr. <HI>Boyle</HI>'s Lecture. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Boyle</HI> of Final Cau&s;es. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Ray</HI>'s Wi&s;dom of God in the Creation of Man. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Pelling</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e on the Exi&s;tence of God. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI> upon Providence. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Charnock</HI> upon Providence. 8<HI>o.</HI> or at the End of the Attributes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Le&s;&s;ius</HI> de Numine eju&s;que Providentia inter Opu&s;cula. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hackwel</HI>'s Apology. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Henry Moore</HI>'s Divine Dialogues concerning Providence. 2 Vol. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Edward</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e on the Exi&s;tence and Providence of God, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Vide Joh. Dama&s;cenum de Fide orthodoxa. Lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Petr. Lomb. Lib.</HI> 1. <HI>Di&s;tinct.</HI> 3. <HI>And all the other Summaries and Sy&s;tems of Theology hereafter mentioned, in the common Places</HI> de Deo, &amp; de Provi|dentia. <HI>As al&s;o the Expo&s;itions of the Creed upon the fir&s;t Article thereof: Particularly Dr.</HI> Barrow <HI>on the Creed, from p.</HI> 87. <HI>to p.</HI> 139. <HI>Dr.</HI> Scot<HI>'s</HI> Chri&s;tian Life, <HI>Part</HI> 2. <HI>from p.</HI> 81. <HI>to p.</HI> 271. Origenes Sacrae <HI>from p.</HI> 361. <HI>to p.</HI> 533. <HI>Mr.</HI> Smith<HI>'s Select Di&s;cour&s;es, from p.</HI> 1. <HI>to p.</HI> 165. <HI>and particularly with re&s;pect to the Athei&s;tical Tenets of</HI> Hobbs <HI>and</HI> Spinoza <HI>may be read;</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="28" REF="25">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Teni&s;on</HI> again&s;t <HI>Hobbs.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gi&s;berti Coquei Hobiani&s;mi</HI> Anatome. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Regneri &agrave; <HI>Mansfelt</HI> adver&s;us Anonimum Theologo-Politi|cum Liber &s;ingularis, in quo omnes &amp; &s;ingulae Tractatus Theologo-Politici Di&s;&s;ertationes Examinantur &amp; Refel|luntur, cum praemi&s;&s;a Di&s;qui&s;itione de Divina per Natu|ram &amp; Scripturam Revelatione. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Poireti Cogitationes de Deo. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P>Natural Religion, or that Train of Religious Principles and Duties re&s;ulting from them, which, by a due u&s;e of Rea&s;on, Experience, and Con&s;idera|tion, a Man may, without the Di&s;covery of Reve|lation, conclude he is oblig'd to Believe and Practi&s;e: This being the Religion that all Mankind, meerly as Rational Creatures, are govern'd by, and without the knowledge and ob&s;ervation of which, the very Pa|gans them&s;elves will be without Excu&s;e: It will be very requi&s;ite that every Divine &s;hould well under|&s;tand the extent and end thereof; and that for the&s;e two Rea&s;ons, Fir&s;t, That he may be able to warn his People, lea&s;t, under all the Advantages and Im|provements in the Principles and Practice of Ver|tue made by Chri&s;tianity. they fall &s;hort of the very Heathens in both: And Secondly, That he may per|ceive him&s;elf, and &s;hew to Others, the ine&s;timable Advantages we Chri&s;tians have receiv'd by the Light of the Go&s;pel, which gives us a much better Rule to walk by, and propo&s;es infinitely greater Rewards for
<PB N="29" REF="25"> our Encouragement in &s;o doing; And therefore, for the Ends afore-mentioned, it will be requi&s;ite our Di|vine &s;hould be furni&s;hed with &s;ome or other of the&s;e following Books:</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> Of the Ancient Philo&s;ophers.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diogenes Laertius</HI> de vitis Philo&s;ophorum.</P>
<P><HI>N.</HI> I place him fir&s;t, <HI>renitente Chronologia,</HI> among&s;t this Sett of Writers, becau&s;e it may be very u&s;eful to know the Hi&s;tory of our Subject, before we enter upon farther Inquiries therein; and therefore for that Rea&s;on I &s;hall al&s;o adventure to place here, though &s;o much more remote in point of Time.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Stanley's <HI>Lives of the Philo&s;ophers,</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ger. Vo&s;&s;ii <HI>de philo&s;ophia &amp; Philo&s;ophorum Sectis Libri 2. 4</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>I&s;ocrates.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Zenophon.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Platonis <HI>Opera.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ari&s;totelis <HI>Opera.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Aeliani <HI>Varia Hi&s;toria per</HI> Kutinium.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stobaei <HI>Opera.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ciceronis <HI>Opera.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Valerius Maximus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seneca <HI>per</HI> Lip&s;ium.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Maximus Tyrius.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Epictetus <HI>cum Scholiis</HI> Simplicii <HI>&amp;</HI> Ariani.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Plutarchi <HI>Moralia.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Salu&s;tius <HI>Graec. &amp; Latin. Inter Galei Opu&s;cula Mythologica, 8</HI>o. <HI>Cant. 1971.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>M. Antoninas &Tgr;&ohcirgr;&ngr; &Kgr;&agr;&thgr;' &egr;&agr;&ugr;&tgr;&ogragr;&ngr; <HI>per</HI> Gatakerum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Plotinus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hierocles.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Macrobrii <HI>Opera.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="30" REF="26">
<ITEM>Jamblicus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Proclus <HI>De Theologia</HI> Platonica.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> And to the&s;e may be al&s;o added tho&s;e a|mong&s;t the Ancient Poets, in whom there is found &s;uch Excellent Morality, as
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ovidius. <HI>Cum Notis Variorum, aut In U&s;um Delphini.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Horatius. <HI>Cum Notis Variorum, aut In U&s;um Delphini.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Juvenalis. <HI>Cum Notis Variorum, aut In U&s;um Delphini.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Per&s;ius. <HI>Cum Notis Variorum, aut In U&s;um Delphini.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Senecae <HI>Tragediae. Cum Notis Variorum, aut In U&s;um Delphini.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Phaedri. <HI>Fabulae.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ae&s;opi. <HI>Fabulae.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>N.</HI> In the&s;e Heathen Morali&s;ts may be &s;een, how far the meer Light of Nature, without the help of Revelation, could direct tho&s;e that attended to its Dictates, in the Knowledge of God and them&s;elves, and in the Practice of Vertue; except it be &s;aid as to &s;ome of the later Platoni&s;ts &s;ince our Saviour's Time, that they having had a &s;ight of the Go&s;pel, they were taught thence to refine their Theology and Morals.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> Of the later and more Modern Writers upon Natural Religion.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Pfhanneri <HI>Sy&s;tema Theologiae Gentilis Purioris, qu&acirc; quam prop&egrave; ad veram Religionem Gentiles acce&s;&s;erint per cuncta fer&egrave; ejus Capita, ex ip&s;is praecipu&egrave; illorum Scriptis o&s;tenditur, 4</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> Wilkins <HI>of Natural Religion, 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Raymundi <HI>de</HI> Sabunde <HI>Theologia Naturalis, 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dr.</HI> Scot<HI>'s Chri&s;tian Life, Part 2. Vol. 1.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ld. Ch. J.</HI> Hales<HI>'s Knowledge of God and our Selves, Part 1.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A Di&s;cour&s;e of Natural and Reveal'd Religion, or the Light of Nature a Guide to Divine Truth, 8</HI>o. London <HI>1691.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> To the&s;e it may be al&s;o thought proper to add that Sett of Authors who have written upon the Laws of Nature, as <HI>Grotius,
<PB N="31" REF="26"> Puffendorf,</HI> &amp;c. But the&s;e Learn|ed Writers con&s;idering the Duties that Natural Rea&s;on dictates,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In Theologia, Lex con&s;ideratur prout innexam habet divinam promi&s;&s;ionem, &amp; quandam rationem Foederis inter Deum &amp; Homines. Abs qua con&s;ideratione jus Naturale ab&s;trahit, quod finis Di&s;ciplinae Naturalis tantum ambitu hujus Vitae includa|tur, adeoque ea hominem format prout hanc Vitam &s;anabilem exigere de beat. <HI>Puf|fendorf. de Off. Hom. &amp; Civis Ep. ad Lec.</HI></NOTE> not as re&s;pecting God and another World, but as relating to the well-being of the Animal and Social Life here up|on Earth: The&s;e Duties as handled by them, will &s;carcely come under the Notion of Religious: Or if they do, they are but one part of Natural Re|ligion, and fall under our con&s;ideration properly enough when we &s;hall come to that Article of the Covenant, Evangelical Obedience; whereas our De&s;ign is in this Place to &s;et down tho&s;e Authors both Pagan and Chri&s;tian, who have deliver'd to us, as well the <HI>Principles</HI> of Natural Religion, as the <HI>Duties</HI> re&s;ul|ting from them.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>III.</HI> And for a <HI>Nexus</HI> between Natural and Reveal'd Re|ligion.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Boyle</HI> of the U&s;e of Rea&s;on in Religion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Excellency of Theology compar'd with Natural Philo&s;o|phy, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Velthu&s;ius</HI> de U&s;u Rationis in rebus Theologicis, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Glanvil</HI>'s Vanity of Dogmatizing, or Confidence in Opi|nions, manife&s;ted in a Di&s;cour&s;e of the Shortne&s;s and Un|certainty of our Knowledge and its Cau&s;es, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;A &s;ea&s;onable Recommendation and Defence of Rea&s;on in the Affairs of Religion again&s;t Infidelity, Scepti&s;cim, and Athei&s;m of all &s;orts, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>To which al&s;o may be added, &s;uch as di&s;|cour&s;e of tho&s;e Di&s;po&s;itions of Mind nece&s;&s;ary to the Reception of Divine Truth, e&s;pecially of the Chri&s;tian Doctrine: To which End may be read Mr.</HI> Smith <HI>of the True Way and Method of attaining to Divine Knowledge, in his Select Di&s;|cour&s;es, from</HI> p. 1. <HI>to</HI> p. 21. <HI>Dr.</HI> Jack&s;on <HI>in his Works</HI> fus&egrave;.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<PB N="32" REF="27">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P>The meer Light of Nature being not &s;ufficient of it &s;elf, to di&s;cover to us the full Knowledge of God and our Selves, much le&s;s to direct us how to attain to the Enjoyment of God, and all tho&s;e un&s;peakable Ble&s;|&s;ings wherein con&s;i&s;ts our future Happine&s;s: And the Holy Scriptures being the Fountain of Divine and Sa|ving Knowledge, from whence the Pa&s;tor of the Flock of Chri&s;t is to draw forth the <HI>Waters of Life,</HI> both for his own and others Benefit: It is principally requi&s;ite he &s;hould be provided of &s;uch Books, as &s;hall enable him, I. To know the Text it &s;elf, and that both in the Original and Vulgar Tongues; II. To Under&s;tand the meaning of it; And, III. To apply it skilfully to the Edification of others.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> For the Knowledge of the Text it &s;elf.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, It will be requi&s;ite to have it in its &s;everal Languages.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>In the Original and Learned Languages.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Athias</HI>'s Heb. Bible, Ed. per <HI>Leu&s;den,</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arias Montanus</HI>'s Interliniary Bible, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Septuagint</HI> Bible, <HI>Camb.</HI> 12. or <HI>Amstel.</HI> 40.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Beza</HI>'s Greek Te&s;tament, <HI>Fol.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Novum Te&s;tamentum, Graec. Curcellaei variis Lect. 8<HI>o</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Novum Te&s;t. Graec. Oxonii variis Lect. 8<HI>o.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<PB N="33" REF="27">
<ITEM>Novum Te&s;t. Doctoris <HI>Millii</HI> Variis Lect. <HI>when Pub|li&s;h'd,</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Biblia Vulgata Sixti 5<HI>ti.</HI> Rom. 1590. <HI>Or, &s;ince this is &s;carce.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Biblia Vulgata <HI>Clementis Octavi, often Printed.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Both the&s;e la&s;t are declared by the Church of</HI> Rome <HI>to be Authentick, th&ocirc; they contradict each other. Or in&s;tead of all the former (as containing the re&s;t for the mo&s;t part, and a great deal more, and of as ea&s;ie a Purcha&s;e as all of them will be.)</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Biblia Polyglotta. <HI>Waltoni</HI> cum Ap. 6 Vol. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Biblia Lat. <HI>Junii &amp; Tremellii, Fol.</HI> or 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. <HI>In the Vulgar Tongue.</HI></P>
<P>An Engli&s;h Bible.</P>
<P>N. <HI>Of which the the mo&s;t u&s;eful at pre|&s;ent is that with Bi&s;hop</HI> U&s;her<HI>'s Chronology, and Dr.</HI> Scattergood<HI>'s References in the Margin, Fol. or</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> It will be requi&s;ite to di&s;tingui&s;h the Ca|nonical Books and Parts thereof from tho&s;e bound up with it, which are Apocryphal.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Raynolds</HI> de Libris Apocryphis, 2 Vol. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bi&s;hop <HI>Co&s;in</HI>'s Schola&s;tical Hi&s;tory of the Canon of the Holy Scripture, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Morus</HI> de Canone Scripturae, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here may be read the Controver&s;ies with the Papi&s;ts hereafter mention'd upon the Title</HI> de Canone Scripturae; <HI>as al&s;o</HI> Elies Dupin<HI>'s Preliminary Di&s;&s;ertation about the Authors of the Bible in the</HI> 1&s;t. <HI>Vol. of his New Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Hi&s;tory, from</HI> p. 1. to p. <HI>the</HI> 50.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="34" REF="28">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> To under&s;tand the meaning of the Text, it will be requi|&s;ite to have,</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Such Books as give preparatory Directions for the Under&s;tanding, and Explaining, and the Profi|table Reading of the Holy Scriptures.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Among&s;t the Fathers and Ancient Writers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Augu&s;tini</HI> de Doctrina Chri&s;tiana Libri 4.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hieronomi</HI> Ep. ad <HI>Paulinum.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Among the Later and more Modern Writers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Hyperius</HI> de Sacrae Scripturae Lectione, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bi&s;hop <HI>Patrick's</HI> Search the Scriptures; A Treati&s;e &s;hewing that all Chri&s;tians ought to Read the Holy Books; with Directions to them therein, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Such as Interpret and A&s;&s;oil the Difficulties that Occur in Reading; whether tho&s;e Difficulties lye in Under&s;tanding, <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> the Subject-Matter of &s;ome of the more extraordinary and uncommon Things contain'd in the Scriptures; or <HI>Secondly,</HI> in the Language or Expre&s;&s;ion wherein the Holy Writ does declare the Will of God to Mankind; or <HI>Thirdly,</HI> in both Matter and Expre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>As to the Difficulty of under&s;tanding &s;ome of the more uncommon Matters contain'd in the Scriptures, &s;uch as the Mo&s;aick Hi&s;tory of the Creation and Deluge; the Scripture-Geography, Chronology, and History; the Structure and Dimen&s;ions of the Ark and Temple, Jewi&s;h Laws, Rites, Cu&s;toms, Wor&s;hip and Sacrifices;
<PB N="35" REF="28"> The Nature of Sacred Dreams, Vi&s;ions, Oracles and Pro|phe&s;ies; Scripture-Coi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s, Weights, and Mea&s;ures; and la&s;tly the Natural Hi&s;tory of Scripture Animals, Plants, and al&s;o Di&s;ea&s;es; The&s;e Matters being purely Scriptu|tural, it is requi&s;ite a Divine, as he would aim at being perfect in his Profe&s;&s;ion, &s;hould have &s;ome competent Skill therein. And for that End,</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Upon the Mo&s;aick History of the Creation and Deluge may be Read,</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Matthew Hale</HI>'s Primitive Origination of Man|kind, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Woodward</HI>'s Natural Hi&s;tory of the Earth, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Whi&s;ton</HI>'s New Theory of the Earth, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o Read</HI> Origines Sacrae, <HI>Book.</HI> 3. <HI>Chap.</HI> 2, 3, 4, 5.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Upon Scripture-Geography.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Adrichomii</HI> Terrae Sanctae De&s;criptio, &amp; Tabula Cho|rographica. <HI>Item.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jacobi Bonfrerii</HI> Annotationes in <HI>Adrichomii</HI> De&s;cri|tionem; &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Joh. Lightfoot</HI> Animadver&s;iones <HI>in Tabulas Chorogra|phicas Terrae Sanctae. Haec tria in Ap. Bib. Polyglot. Walton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bocharti</HI> Geographia Sacra, cum <HI>Stephani Morini</HI> Di&s;|&s;ertatione de Paradi&s;o Terre&s;tri, <HI>Fol. Ludg. Bat.</HI> 1692.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Nota Quod huic E|ditioni acce&s;&s;erunt variae Di&s;&s;ertationes &amp; Epi&s;tolae de Paradi&s;i Terre&s;tris &s;itu, ex Epi&s;tola ad Bochar|tum. Initio libri.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="36" REF="29">
<ITEM><HI>Ga&s;. Varerii</HI> de Ophira Di&s;putatio inter Crit. Sac. <HI>Tom.</HI> 8. <HI>p.</HI> 459.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fuller</HI>'s <HI>Pi&s;gah</HI>-Sight of <HI>Pale&s;tine,</HI> and the Confines thereof: with the Hi&s;tory of the Old and New Te&s;ta|ment acted thereon, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Lightfoot</HI>'s Chorography and Map of <HI>Canaan, Je|ru&s;alem,</HI> and of the Temple, in his Works.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>More</HI>'s large Map with Dr. <HI>William</HI>'s Amendments.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Map of St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Travels.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>For Scripture-Chronology.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ludovici Capelli</HI> Chronologia &s;acra a condito Mundo ad Captivitatem per Romanos, Deducta ex &s;ola Sacra Scriptura, perpetua Serie Concinnata, Certis &kgr;&rgr;&iacugr;&tgr;&eegr;|&rgr;&igr;&ogr;&igr;&sfgr; ex ea deductis quantum fieri pote&s;t, Firmi&s;&s;im&egrave; comprobata, Aliquot Tabulis cum eorum probationi|bus Comprehen&s;a. <HI>In Ap. Bib. Polyglot. Wal.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lightfoot</HI>'s Chronicle, and the Order of the Times of the Old Te&s;tament, with his Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New, which with the re&s;t of his Works, are in 2 <HI>Vol. Fol. London,</HI> 1674.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>For Scripture Hi&s;tory.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;ephus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sulpitii</HI> Severi Hi&s;toriae Sacrae Libri 2. <HI>And for both Scripture and concurrent Hi&s;tory al&s;o, together with a more exact Chronology.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>&V;&s;&s;eri</HI> Annales Vet. &amp; Nov. Te&s;tamenti cum Sacra Chronologia Par. 1673.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Spondani</HI> Annales Sacri a Mundi Creatione u&s;que ad Redemptionem. <HI>Lugd.</HI> 1659.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Spondani Annales ad haec Tempora, Extant</HI> 5 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="37" REF="29">
<ITEM><HI>Saliani</HI> Annalium Eccle&s;ia&s;ticorum Vet. Te&s;tamenti Epitome. <HI>Par.</HI> 1664. Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robin&s;oni</HI> Annales Mundi Sacri &amp; Seculares. <HI>Lond.</HI> 1677. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jani Bercherodii</HI> Lumen Hi&s;toriae Sacrae Veteris &amp; Novi Te&s;tamenti per Tabulas Chronologicas. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>My De&s;ign here being only to provide for the better &V;nder&s;tanding of the Scripture; I do not in this place make a Draught of Chronology aend Hi&s;tory below the Scripture Times; which however being a mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary Accompli&s;hment to a Divine, mu&s;t be done el&s;ewhere in its proper place.</HI></P>
<P>Fifthly, <HI>Upon the Dimen&s;ions of the Ark and Temple.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Of the Structure and Dimen&s;ions of the Ark.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Mathoei Ho&s;ti</HI> in fabricam Arcae diligens Inqui&s;itio inter Crit. Sacr. p. 103.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Buteonis</HI> Arca Noe, cujus formae Capacitati&s;que fu|erit Libellus ib. Tom. 8. p. 83.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>That that part of</HI> <HI REND="blackletterType">Bi&s;hop Wilkins</HI>'s <HI REND="blackletterType">Real Character, wherein he gives an account of the Dimen&s;ions of the Ark, and demon&s;trates its Capacity to contain all the Creatures, which are related by</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>to have been receiv'd therein, together with their Food and Fother, ne|ce&s;&s;ary for their Su&s;tenance, ought e&s;pecially to be read upon this Subject.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Of the Temple.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ludovici Capelli</HI> Templi Hiero&s;olymitani triplex Delineatio, una ex Scriptura, juxta mentem Vil|lalpandi, &amp; De&s;criptionem ab eo factam; Al|tera ex <HI>Jo&s;ephi</HI> mente &amp; De&s;criptione; Tertia ex <HI>Judaeorum</HI> in <HI>Talmude</HI> De&s;criptione, &amp; juxta men&s;uras ab ip&s;is i&s;tic traditas. <HI>In Ap. Bib. Poli|glot. Wa.l</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Lightfoot</HI>'s pro&s;pect of the Temple, e&s;pecially as it &s;tood in the Days of our Saviour, in his Works, 1 <HI>Vol. p.</HI> 1049.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="38" REF="30">
<P>Sixthly, <HI>Upon Jewi&s;h Laws, Rites, Cu&s;toms, Wor|&s;hip and Sacrifices.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Joh. Buxtorfii</HI> Synagoga Judaica de Judeorum fide, Ritibus &amp; Ceremoniis. <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> 1661. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Spencer</HI> de Legibus Hebraeorum Ritualibus &amp; earum Rationibus. <HI>Lond.</HI> 1689. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>But as many Learn|ed Men will advi&s;e,</HI> Caute Legendus, <HI>and e&s;pecially on the Subject of the following Author who has perform'd excellently upon it.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Outram</HI> de Sacrificiis. 4<HI>o.</HI> or 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>See al&s;o Mr.</HI> Thorndike's <HI>Religious A&s;&s;emblies, wherein there is much of the foregoing Argument</HI> per totum. <HI>And al&s;o Dr.</HI> Hooper <HI>on the Lent-Fa&s;t, from</HI> p. 149. ad finem.</P>
<P>Seventhly, <HI>Upon the Nature of Sacred Prophe&s;ies, Dreams, Vi&s;ions, and Oracles.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Molinoei</HI> Vates. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Amyraldus of Divine Dreams.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be read Mr.</HI> Smith<HI>'s Select Di&s;cour&s;es, wherein he Treats of Prophe&s;ie, from</HI> p. 169. <HI>to</HI> p. 280. Origines Sacrae, <HI>from</HI> p. 149. <HI>to</HI> p. 250. Hermanni Wit&s;ii <HI>Mi&s;cellanea Sacra quibus fus&egrave; agitur de Prophetia &amp; Prophetis.</HI></P>
<P>Eighthly, <HI>Upon the Jewi&s;h Sects.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Dru&s;ius</HI> de Sectis Judaicis Commentarius. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Vide</HI> Goodwin<HI>'s Antiquities.</HI></P>
<PB N="39" REF="30">
<P>Ninthly, <HI>Upon Scripture Weights and Mea&s;ures.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Brerewood</HI> de ponderibus &amp; pretiis Hebraicorum, Aliorumque veterum Nummorum, eorumque cum Recentioribus Collatione.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Briani Waltoni</HI> Supplementum de Siclorum formis &amp; In&s;criptionibus, cum eorum explicatione.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tractatus de Antiquis ponderibus, monetis &amp; men&s;u|ris Hebraeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum, ex variis Authoribus. Haec Tria Opu&s;cula in Ap. Bilior. Polyglot.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bi&s;hop <HI>Cumberland</HI>'s Scripture Weights and Mea&s;ures. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Bernard</HI> de men&s;uris &amp; Ponderibus Antiquis. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Tho&s;e who cannot have Lei&s;ure, nor think they are much concern'd to be Criticks upon this Subject; may take up with the Account of Scripture Weights and Mea&s;ures given 'em at the latter end of the Fol. and Qu. Bibles Printed of late Years at</HI> Oxford.</P>
<P>Tenthly, <HI>Upon the Natural Hi&s;tory of Scripture A|nimals, Plants, and Di&s;ea&s;es.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Vale&s;ius</HI> de Sacra Philo&s;ophi&acirc;.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bochartus</HI> de Animalibus Scripturae, opus Bipartitum, cujus Pars prior Libris 4 de Animalibus in genere, de Quadrupedibus, Viviparis &amp; Oviparis, pars po|&s;terior. Lib. 6. de Avibus, Serpentibus, In&s;ectis A|quaticis, &amp; fabulo&s;is Animalibus agit. 2 Vol. Fol. <HI>Lugd. Bat.</HI> 1692.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Thomas Brown</HI>'s Ob&s;ervations upon &s;everal Plants mentioned in Scripture being the fir&s;t of his Mi&s;cel|lany Tracts, 8<HI>o.</HI> or among&s;t his Works Collected into a Fol.</ITEM>
<PB N="40" REF="31">
<ITEM><HI>Guliel Ader</HI> Med. D. Enarrationes. Enarrantur Aegroti Nov. Te&s;t. quorum dum Explicantur morbi; ex eorum patria, temperies, Aetas, &amp; Vitae conditio inquiritur, ho&s;que arte Medic&acirc; Incurabiles fui&s;&s;e de|mon&s;tratur. Inter Crit. Sac. Tom. 9.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>La&s;tly, <HI>Upon the preceding, or any other parts of Jewi&s;h Antiquities, whether Reducible or not, to the foregoing Heads.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Philonis</HI> Opera Varia.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ariae Montani</HI> Antiquitatum Judaicarum Libri 9. In queis praeter Judaeae, Hiero&s;olymorum, &amp; Templi <HI>Solomonis</HI> Accuratam Delineationem, praecipui Sa|cri, ac profani, Gentis Ritus de&s;cribuntur.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Inter Crit. Sac. Tom.</HI> 8. p. 524.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cornelius Bertramus</HI> de Repub. Hebraeorum Recen|&s;itus, Commentarioque Illu&s;tratus, Opera Con&s;t. L'Empereur. ib. <HI>p.</HI> 750.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cunaeus</HI> de Repub. Hebraeorum. <HI>ib. p.</HI> 818.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sigonius</HI> de Repub. Hebraeorum. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Goodwin</HI>'s Jewi&s;h Antiquities. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Joh. Dieterici</HI> Antiquitates Biblicae de Rebus Judaeorum &amp; Gentilium 2 Vol. Gie&s;&s;ae Ha&s;&s;orum. Fol. 1671.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Herm. Wit&s;ii</HI> Mi&s;cellaneorum Sacrorum Libri Quatu|or. Quibus agitur de Prophetia &amp; Prophetis, de Tabernaculi My&s;teriis, de Synedriis Hebraeorum, de cultu Molochi, de Seculo hoc &amp; futuro. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ho&s;pinianus</HI> de Fe&s;tis &amp; Templis Judaeorum, Ethnico|rum, &amp; Chri&s;tianorum. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="41" REF="31">
<ITEM><HI>Seldeni</HI> varia hujus Argu|menti, viz.
<LIST>
<ITEM>De Diis Syris Syntagmata duo cum Bri|ero, 2 Vol. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>De Succe&s;&s;ione in Pontificatum Hebrae|orum Franc. ad Oderam 1673. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>De Anno Civili &amp; Kalendario Judaico, <HI>Lugd. Bat.</HI> 1683. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>De Synedriis &amp; prefecturis Vet. Heb. Lib. 3. <HI>Am&s;t.</HI> 1679. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Uxor Hebraica &s;ive de Nuptiis &amp; Di|vortiis Lib 3. <HI>Franc.</HI> 1673. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>It will not be wondred at that &s;o many Writers up|on Jewi&s;h Antiquities &s;hould be pre&s;crib'd, when it is con&s;idered that many Chri&s;tian In&s;titutions are derived by our Saviour and his Apo&s;tles from Jewi&s;h &V;&s;ages; nay, the whole Oeconomy and Government of the Church under the Go&s;pel is taken from the Synagogue, and carries an expre&s;s Analogy and Si|militude to the legal admini&s;tration of tho&s;e Times. So the Baptizing of Chil|dren bears Relation to the Baptizing the Children of the Pro&s;elytes, and is un|deniably to be Ju&s;tified from that &V;&s;age; the Lord's Supper an&s;wers to the Pa&s;chal Lamb; Liturgies among&s;t Chri&s;tians to Forms of Prayer among&s;t the Jews; Presbyters and Deacons to Prie&s;ts and Levites; the Twelve Apo&s;tles to the Twelve Heads of Tribes. And St.</HI> Clemens Romanus <HI>under the Title of High-Prie&s;t, Prie&s;ts and Levites,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Epi&s;t. prima ad Corinthios p. 119 Ed. Co|lome&s;ii.</NOTE> <HI>does ma|nife&s;tly de&s;ign the Bi&s;hop, his Prie&s;ts and Deacons. In &s;hort, Ordination by Impo&s;ition of Hands is deriv'd from their Ordi|nination in the Synagogue, and the Chri&s;tian way of Excom|munication is expre&s;ly taeken from theirs. And the Learned</HI> Lightfoot, <HI>as he has ob&s;erv'd and prov'd much of this Nature throughout his Works; &s;o of the whole Writings of St.</HI> Paul <HI>he tells us, that in all his Epi&s;tles, e&s;pecially in that to the</HI> Hebrews, <HI>he u&s;eth exceeding much,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lightfoot,</HI> Vol. 1. p. 341 or as it ought to be Printed, 333.</NOTE> <HI>not only of the Jews Dialect, Language and Learning; but al&s;o of allu&s;ion and reference to their Opinions, Traditions, and Cu|&s;toms: So that it will be a thing of great Con&s;equence for a clear comprehen&s;ion of the Go&s;pel, to be well &s;een in the Jewi&s;h Antiquities, both Sacred and Civil; the want of which, in the&s;e unhappy bleed|ing Times, has been the cau&s;e of &s;o many wild, and to knowing Men, ridicu|lous Di&s;putes, about Excommunication, Ordination, Infant Bapti&s;m,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="42" REF="32">2. <HI>As to the Difficulty of under&s;tanding the Language and Expre&s;sions wherein the Holy Writ does declare the Will of God to Mankind; To Ma&s;ter this it will be requi&s;ite,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> To under&s;tand &s;omething in general of the Nature, Origine, Divi&s;ion, Number, Mu|tations, and u&s;e of Tongues.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Briani Waltoni</HI> in Biblia Polyglot. Prolegomena in Ap|par.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Crine&s;ius</HI> de Con&s;u&s;ione Linguarum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chr. Cellarii</HI> Sciagraphia Philologiae Sacrae Linguarum Orientalium u&s;um Genuinum delineans Jenae 1678. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> It will be requi&s;ite to have &s;ome Glo&s;&s;aries and Lexicons for both Hebrew and the Helleni&s;tical Greek.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>For the Hebrew.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ca&s;telli Lexicon</HI> Heptaglotton 2 Vol. <HI>Fol.</HI> nece&s;&s;ary for tho&s;e who have the Polyglot Bible.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Buxtorfii</HI> Lexicon Talmudicum, Chaldaicum, Rab|binicum, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which he calls his <HI>Opus Triginta an|norum,</HI> and will not only &s;erve for a Dictionary, but is a great <HI>The&s;aurus Criticus</HI> of all Talmudi|dical and Rabbinical Words and Cu&s;toms, as well as of purer Hebrew. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert&s;on</HI>'s The&s;aurus Linguae Sanctae. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2"><PB N="43" REF="32">2. <HI>For the Hell<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ni&s;tical Greek.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>He&s;ychius</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Su<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">das,</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Phavorinus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stapula</HI>'s Lexicon.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert&s;on</HI>'s The&s;aurus Linguae Graecae, u&s;eful al&s;o for the Greek Te&s;tament. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> It will be of &s;ingular u&s;e towards the thorough under&s;tanding of the Scripture Lan|guage, to know the Idioti&s;ms, Phra&s;eology, and Schemes of Speech peculiar to the Sacred Pen-men, and to that purpo&s;e to have ready at hand the
<LIST>
<ITEM>Explicatio Idioti&s;morum &s;eu proprietatum Linguae He|braicae &amp; Graecae, quae &s;aepius in Scripturis occurrunt. In Ap. Bib. Polyglot.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Leigh</HI>'s Critica Sacra. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gla&s;&s;i</HI> Philologia Sacra veteris &amp; Novi Te&s;tamenti, de Stylo &amp; Rhetorica Sacrae Scripturae. <HI>Am&s;t.</HI> 1694. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Flaccii Illirici</HI> Clavis Scripturae.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Joh. Dru&s;ii</HI> cla&s;&s;es duae in quibus explicantur Proverbia Sacra, &amp; ex Sacris l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">teris orta; Item &s;ententiae Solo|monis, Allegoriae, &amp;c. Item Adagia Hebraica. Opus nece&s;&s;arium Theologis. Inter Crit. Sac. Tom. 8. 1596. <HI>And al&s;o &s;ingle by it &s;elf.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Delrii</HI> Adagia Sacra. Vet. &amp; Nov. Te&s;t. 2 Vol. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andreae Schotti</HI> Adagia Sacra N. T. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="3"><PB N="44" REF="33">3. <HI>To clear the difficulties that &s;hall occurr in Scripture, both as to the Matter and Expre&s;sion, it will be nece&s;&s;a|ry to be furni&s;h'd with Commentators.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> General, upon the whole Bible; of which &s;ome to be read all over, together with our daily cour&s;e of reading the Holy Scripture.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Grotius,</HI> 3 Vol. N.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>His Theological Tracts make the fourth Vol.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Heideggeri</HI> Enchiridion Biblicum, Analy&s;i Generali &s;ingulorum Vet. &amp; N. Te&s;t. Librorum, &amp; capitum Ar|gumento, unic&egrave; in&s;erviens. <HI>Ed. Am&s;tel.</HI> 1688. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Clark</HI>'s Survey of the Bible, or an Analytical Account of the Holy Scriptures. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>One or other of the&s;e Analy&s;es may be al&s;o read in a</HI> cour&s;e, <HI>to give us the Method of Scripture, a thing &s;o u&s;eful for the Memory, and for the di&s;tinct Apprehen&s;ion and full Comprehen&s;ion of the Matter thereof.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Others to be con&s;ulted upon occa&s;ion.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Critici Magni <HI>London.</HI> 9 Vol. <HI>Fol.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Critici Magni <HI>Am&s;telodami,</HI> quorum duo Vol. jam Extant. Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Poole</HI>'s Synop&s;is Criticorum, 5 Vol. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Which may be</HI> in&s;tar omnium; <HI>and &s;eems to be done with good judgment in placing the Opinions of the &s;everal Expo&s;itors, in &s;uch-an Order, that one &s;trengthens and explains, or Corrects and refutes the other.</HI> Or,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Poole</HI>'s Engli&s;h Annotations, 2 Vol. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mu&s;culus</HI> upon &s;everal Books of Scripture. N.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Audio partium non addictus.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="45" REF="33">
<ITEM><HI>Calvin</HI> upon &s;everal Books of Scripture. N.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>&V;bi ben&egrave; nemo meli&ugrave;s.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Particular upon the more nece&s;&s;ary and momentous parts of Holy Writ.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Upon the Pentateuch, or &s;ome parts thereof.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ayn&s;worth</HI> upon the Pentateuch. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rivetus</HI> in Gene&s;. &amp; Exodum 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Inter Opera Riveti.</HI> Fol.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI> upon <HI>Gene&s;is.</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Upon</HI> Job, P&s;alms, Proverbs, <HI>and</HI> Eccle&s;ia&s;tes.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick,</HI> 5 Vol. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> upon the <HI>P&s;alms. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Upon the Prophets.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Calvin</HI> ut &s;upra.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Pocock</HI> upon <HI>Ho&s;ea, Joel, Micah, Malachi.</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Upon the New-Testament.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI>'s Annotations. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>To be read in our daily cour&s;e of reading the Scripture.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Maldonatus</HI> in 4. Evangelia. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E&s;tius</HI> on the Epi&s;tles; <HI>Fol.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Oxford</HI> Paraphra&s;e on St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Epi&s;tles. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>This later e&s;pecially Convenient to be perus'd in our daily cour&s;e of read|ing the Scriptures, when we come to that &s;o con&s;iderable a part thereof, St.</HI> Paul<HI>'s Epi&s;tles, as giving at the beginning of each Epi&s;tle a general and accu|rate View of the Occa&s;ion and Matter thereof, and of the Apo&s;tles Scope and Method therein.</HI></P>
<P N="5"><PB N="46" REF="34">5. <HI>Upon the</HI> Revelations.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Mede</HI> on the <HI>Revelations,</HI> with his <HI>Clavis A|pocalyptica.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>More particular upon the more difficult Parts, Pa&s;sages, and Texts of Scripture, whether they be &s;uch as labour in Reconciling the &s;eeming Repugnan|ces that are found in Holy Writ, or tho&s;e that criticize upon &s;ome particular Parts or Texts of a difficult Nature.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cornelii Bertrami</HI> &s;pecimen Expo&s;itionum in difficilio|ra utriu&s;q, Te&s;tamenti Loca.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>E&s;tius</HI> in difficiliora loca, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Spanhemii</HI> dubia Evangelica, 2 <HI>Vol.</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Gregory</HI>'s Ob&s;ervations, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Lightfoot</HI>'s Horae Hebraicae inter Opera, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Mede</HI>'s Diatribe, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lud. de Dieu</HI> Critica Sacra, &s;ive animadver&s;iones in loca quaedam difficiliora vet. &amp; Nov. Te&s;t. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Edwards</HI> upon Difficult Texts, 2 <HI>Vol,</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>III.</HI> For the more skilful Application of Scripture according to various Occa&s;ions.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>A Concordance of Things.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Jac. Comis <HI>promptuarium Biblicum, ubi totus textus biblicus in &s;uos locos dige&s;tus ordine Alphabetico vi&acirc; Concordan|tiae di&s;po&s;itus e&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pet. Ravanelli <HI>Bibliotheca Sacra, cum additamentis, 3</HI> Vol.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wil&s;on<HI>'s Chri&s;tian Dictionary,</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Witte <HI>Repertorium Biblicum Rigae, 1689. 4</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="47" REF="34">
<P>Secondly, <HI>A Concordance of Words.</HI></P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> In the Learned Languages.</P>
<P>First, <HI>For the Hebrew.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Buxtorfius, <HI>4</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>For the Greek.</HI></P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> Of the <HI>Septuagint.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Kircherus, <HI>4</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> Of the New Te&s;tament.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Schmidius, Fol.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> The chief u&s;e indeed of the&s;e Concor|dances in the Original Tongues, is much the &s;ame as of Glo&s;&s;aries, and of Con|cordances of Things, that is, to find out the different Acceptations of the &s;ame Word, in order to clear an Ob&s;cure or Doubtful Text. For in the&s;e Concordances every con&s;iderable Word of Scripture being pre&s;ented to the Eye in one View of all tho&s;e Places where it occurs; it will be ea&s;ily gathered, by con&s;idering the Nature, Circum&s;tances, and Scope of the&s;e &s;everal Places, what are the diffe|rent &s;en&s;es it will bear, and what it mo&s;t properly &s;ignifies in any of tho&s;e, which by an ill rendring are made either Doubtful or Ob&s;cure. But however this being a part purely Critical, for which not many of our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tors may have lei&s;ure, the want of the&s;e may be ea&s;ily di&s;penc'd with, and may be &s;upply'd by the Glo&s;&s;aries and Concordances of Things before-mention'd. But Concordances in the Vulgar Languages are u&s;eful in another way, and nece&s;&s;ary for all. To proceed then,</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> In our Vulgar Tongue, or in Engli&s;h.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Newman<HI>'s Large Concordance for both Scripture and Apo|pocrypha,</HI> Fol. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Cambridge</HI> Concordance, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<PB N="48" REF="35">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P>The De&s;ign of God's revealing to us the Holy Scri|ptures, and that whole Evangelical Doctrine contain'd therein; being it was to de&s;troy the Kingdom of Satan which ever &s;ince the Fall, that Rebellious Spirit had begun to &s;et up in the World, in Oppo&s;ition to God's; and had advanc'd to almo&s;t an Univer&s;al Monarchy o|ver Mankind, by that Time the Son of God de&s;cended from Heaven to reduce us to the Obedience of our Maker. And on the other &s;ide its De&s;ign being to ad|vance the Kingdom of God, con&s;i&s;ting in Righteou&s;|ne&s;s and true Holine&s;s, and withal to humble us with a &s;en&s;e of our own Imperfect Righteou&s;ne&s;s, by making us depend &s;olely upon the Mediation of Chri&s;t for the Acceptance thereof to our Ju&s;tification; This, I &s;ay being its De&s;ign, and Satan being therefore enraged, that his U&s;urp'd Dominion &s;hould be wre&s;ted from him: So it is, that the Church-Militant is ever &s;ince, through his In&s;tigation and the Malignity of his Angels in that Unhappy State, that like the Walls of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> it mu&s;t be defended with a Sword in one hand, whil&s;t built with a Trowel in the other: All which con&s;i|der'd, it is very requi&s;ite that our our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tor &s;hould, next to his Knowledge in the Holy Scriptures (out of who&s;e Materials he is to Build) be provided of tho&s;e defen&s;ive Weapons wherewith he may be inabled to oppo&s;e the Gain-&s;ayers to that Chri&s;tianity he is to
<PB N="49" REF="35"> propagate in the World: And for this End that he &s;hould be furni&s;h'd with tho&s;e Apologies, both An|cient and Modern, which have been written in Defence of the Authority of the Scriptures, and of the Truth of Chri&s;tianity; And al&s;o with &s;uch Di&s;cour&s;es, as il|lu&s;trate tho&s;e Noble and Ble&s;&s;ed Ends above-mention'd, which it was de&s;ign'd to &s;erve.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> Ancient Apologi&s;ts.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ju&s;tini Martyris</HI> Paraene&s;is ad Graecos; Oratio ad Graecos; Apologia pro Chri&s;tlanis, prima &amp; &s;ecunda. Liber de Monar|chia Dei. Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo. Epi&s;tola ad <HI>Di|ognetum.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>This la&s;t is que|&s;tioned by &s;ome whether Genuine, but own'd by Dr.</HI> Cave. <HI>But whoever was the Author, it is an Excellent Apology, mo&s;t pathetically repre&s;enting the Innocency and Admirable Vertues of the Primitive Chri&s;tians, and the Malignity of their Enemies.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Athenagorae</HI> Athenien&s;is Philo&s;ophi Chri&s;tiani Apologia, &s;eu Legatio pro Chri&s;tianis. De mortuorum re&s;urrectione.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Theophilus</HI> Contra Chri&s;tianae Religionis Calumniatores.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tatiani</HI> A&s;&s;yrii Oratio ad Graecos quod nihil Eorum quibus Graeci Gloriantur &s;tudiorum, apud ip&s;os natum, &s;ed omnia Barbaris Inventa &s;int.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hermae</HI> Philo&s;ophi Gentilium Philo&s;ophorum Irri&s;io.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>All the&s;e fore|going Apologies are placed in the &s;ame Order they lye in the</HI> Paris <HI>Ed. of</HI> Ju&s;tin Martyr, 1636. Cologn. 1685. Fol.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Clementis Alexandrini</HI> Protrepticon ad Gentes in quo Gentiles redarguit, eo&s;&abque; ad Chri&s;tianam Philo&s;ophiam amplectendam hortatur. Stromata.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tertulliani</HI> Apologeticus adver&s;us Gentes. Ad Nationes Libri Duo. De Te&s;timonio Animae. Ad Scapulam. Adver&s;us Judaeos.</ITEM>
<PB N="50" REF="36">
<ITEM><HI>Minutii Faelicis Octavius.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Originis</HI> Contra Cel&s;um, <HI>Libri</HI> 8.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sanctus <HI>Cyprianus</HI> de Idolorum Vanitate Liber ad Demetria|num: Te&s;timoniorum ad Quirinum adver&s;us Judaeos Libri Tres.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arnobii</HI> adver&s;us Gentes, Libri 7.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lactantii</HI> In&s;titutionum Libri 7. De mortibus Per&s;ecutorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eu&s;ebii</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Praeparatio Evangelica</ITEM>
<ITEM>Demons&s;tratio Evangelica</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Lib. contra <HI>Hieroclem,</HI> qui ex <HI>Philo&s;trati</HI> Hi&s;toria Comparavit Apollonium Tyanaeum Salvatori No&s;tro Je&s;u Chri&s;to. Extat ad <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">alcem Eu&s;ebii de Demon&s;tr. Evang. Ed. Pari&s;ien. 1688. &amp; Colon. 1688.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Con&s;tantini M.</HI> Oratio ad Sanctorum Coetum; extat ad Cal|cem Librorum de Vita Con&s;tantini, in Eccle&s;ia&s;tica Hi&s;toria <HI>Eu&s;ebii.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Athana&s;ii</HI> Oratio contra Gentes. Oratio de Incarnatione Verbi.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;ii</HI> Re&s;pon&s;io Relationi Symmachi, ad imperatores con|tendentis, veteres Ritus circa Deorum Cultum &s;ervandos e&s;&s;e. Epi&s;tolar. Lib. 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomi</HI> adver&s;us Judaeos, Libri &s;ex.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Contra <HI>Gentiles</HI> &s;eu de Vita <HI>Babilae,</HI> Liber.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Prudentius</HI> contra <HI>Symmachum</HI> ac Veterem Deorum Gentili|um Cultum, Libri 2. <HI>Poeta Chri&s;tianus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Augustini</HI> de vera Religione Liber.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;De moribus Eccle&s;iae Catholicae, Libri 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;De Civitate Dei, Libri 22.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Oratio adver&s;us Judaeos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Oratio ad Catechumenos adver&s;us <HI>Judaeos,</HI> Paganos &amp; <HI>A|rianos.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Theodoretus</HI> de curandis Affectionibus Graecorum, Lib. 12.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>This Sett of Writers had the Kingdom of Satan vi&s;ibly before their Eyes, that Arch-Rebel having in their Times, and in tho&s;e Parts where they liv'd, erected his Idolatrous Temples and Altars; and brought it about that his Impious Ceremonies and Rites of Wor&s;hip were become the E&s;tabli&s;hed Religion over all the World, except</HI> Judaea: <HI>And
<PB N="51" REF="36"> therefore the Primitive Fathers did exert them&s;elves upon no other Argument, with that Strength of Learning and Force of Rea&s;on, as upon this, namely, in laying out the Ab&s;urdities and Vilene&s;s of the Pagan Super&s;tition, and the ad|mirable Nature and Tendency of the Chri&s;tian Religion. Be&s;ides it is to be con&s;idered that in the&s;e Writings of theirs, po&s;&s;ibly we meet with the fulle&s;t and ezacte&s;t Accounts of the Purity of the Doctrine, Manners, and Di&s;cipline of the Primitive Church; and as of the Purity of its Doctrines, &s;o of the Holine&s;s of its Profe&s;&s;ors; upon all which Rea&s;ons, immediately after the Holy Writ, our next Acquaintance ought to be with the&s;e Writings.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> Modern Vindicators both of the Authority of Scripture, and of the Truth of Chri&s;tianity.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Again&s;t Infidels and Anti-Scripturi&s;ts in general.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bi&s;hop <HI>Stiliingfleet</HI>'s Origines Sacrae, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Letter to a Dei&s;t, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Boyl</HI>'s Authority and Style of Scripture, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Charles Wole&s;ley</HI> of Scripture-Belief, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Edward</HI>'s Authority and Style of Scripture, 2 <HI>Vol.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Alix</HI>'s Reflections upon the Books of H. Scripture to e&s;tabli&s;h the Truth of the Chri&s;tian Religion, 2 <HI>Vol.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Nichols</HI>'s Conference with a Thei&s;t, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lowth</HI>'s Vindication of the Divine Authority and In&s;piration of the Writers of the Old and New Te&s;tament, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Du Ple&s;&s;is</HI> de Veritate Religionis Chri&s;tianae, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Grotius</HI> de Veritate Religionis Chri&s;tianae, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Huetii</HI> Demon&s;tratio Evangelica, <HI>Fol.</HI> or 2 <HI>Vol.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> of the Rea&s;onablene&s;s of the Chri&s;tian Reli|gion. At the End of his Practical Catechi&s;m.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Parker</HI>'s Demon&s;tration of the Divine Authority of the Chri&s;tian Religion, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bi&s;hop <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Witne&s;&s;es to Chri&s;tianity, 2 <HI>Vol.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Abady</HI>'s Vindication of the Truth of the Chri&s;tian Reli|gion, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wil&s;on</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e of Religion, &s;hewing its Truth and Reali|ty; or the Sutablene&s;s of Religion to Humane Nature, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>William</HI>'s Sermons at Mr. <HI>Boyl</HI>'s Lecture.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="52" REF="37">
<P>N. <HI>It is a &s;ad Sign of the Deplorable State of the Chri&s;tian Church at this day, that there &s;hould be more Vindications written in this one la&s;t Age, if one were to reckon them all, in Defence of the Holy Scriptures, and of the Chri&s;tian Religion, a|gain&s;t Athei&s;ts, Dei&s;ts, and Socinians, than there were Apologies written in all the fir&s;t Ages of the Church (&s;o far as does appear) again&s;t Jews and Pagans. But &s;o it is, that there has been too great a Cau&s;e for Learned Men to write &s;uch Books: And therefore there is as great a Nece&s;&s;ity for every Mi|ni&s;ter, who is</HI> earne&s;tly to contend for the Faith <HI>again&s;t &s;uch Pe&s;tilent Gain|&s;ayers, to read them, that he</HI> may be ready always to give an An&s;wer to every one that asketh him a Rea&s;on of the hope that is in him.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Again&s;t Jewi&s;h and Mahometan Infidelity in Particular.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Raimundi</HI> Martini pugio fidei adver&s;us <HI>Judaeos</HI> &amp; <HI>Mauros.</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Quadragnoli</HI> Apologia pro Chri&s;tiana Religione, qua re|&s;pondetur ad objectiones cuju&s;dam Mahomedani. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Kidder</HI>'s Demon&s;triton of the Me&s;&s;iah. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Limborchi</HI> Amica Collatio cum Erudito <HI>Judaeo.</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>&V;pon the whole fore|going Argument may be al&s;o read</HI> Diony&s;ii Petavii Dogmata Theologica, <HI>Lib.</HI> 16. <HI>Cap.</HI> 7, 8, 9, 10. <HI>Bp.</HI> Wilkins's Natural Religion, <HI>Chap. fir&s;t and la&s;t. Dr.</HI> Barrow on the Creed, <HI>from p.</HI> 188. <HI>to p.</HI> 233. <HI>Bp.</HI> Ward's Philo&s;ophical E&s;&s;ay, <HI>from p.</HI> 74. ad finem. Di&s;cour&s;e of Natural and Reveal'd Religion, <HI>from p.</HI> 178. <HI>to p.</HI> 290.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>III.</HI> Di&s;cour&s;es &s;etting forth the De&s;ign of Chri&s;tianity.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> As its De&s;ign is to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;s Satan of his u|&s;urp'd Dominion and Tyranny over Mankind, which before our Saviour's coming into the World, was almo&s;t univer&s;ally en&s;lav'd to him by Idola|try, Super&s;tition, and filthy Lu&s;ts.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Ancient Apologi&s;ts before-mention'd in <HI>quibus fu&s;&egrave; de hac re agitur.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="53" REF="37">
<ITEM><HI>Teni&s;on</HI> of Idolatry, as al&s;o of the means which God hath vouch&s;af'd towards the cure of it by the <HI>Shechinah</HI> of his Son. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> As its De&s;ign is to Re&s;tore us to the Image of God, con&s;i&s;ting, not in an outward and legal Righteou&s;ne&s;s, but a true, inherent and real Holi|ne&s;s, which by Sin is defac'd, and to exalt us to the Divine Life: To illu&s;trate this its De&s;ign, ought to be read,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Fowler</HI>'s De&s;ign of Chri&s;tianity. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Chri&s;tian Liberty al&s;o. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hen. Moor</HI>'s My&s;tery of Godline&s;s. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be read Dr.</HI> Scot<HI>'s Works</HI> per totum. <HI>Mr.</HI> Smith's Select Di&s;cour&s;es, <HI>mo&s;t of which have much of this Argument, particularly from</HI> p. 285. <HI>to</HI> p. 452. <HI>And to &s;hew how well the Chri&s;tian Law is fitted in its &s;elf to rectifie our Nature, and to what per|fection we may be re&s;tor'd, by the Influence thereof, may be here al&s;o read,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Dugard</HI> of the true Nature of the Divine Law. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Lucas</HI>'s Enquiry after Happine&s;s in &s;everal Parts. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> As its De&s;ign is withal to humble us with the &s;en&s;e of our manifold Failings, and to mani|fe&s;t the Goodne&s;s of God, in accepting through Chri&s;t, our imperfect Righteou&s;ne&s;s; I could be glad if I knew of any who have written ju&s;t or direct Di&s;cour&s;es upon that Subject: <HI>Pa&s;sim</HI> there is &s;omething of this nature to be found in the Or|thodox Writings upon the Satisfaction of Chri&s;t, and e&s;pecially in that excellent piece of
<LIST>
<PB N="54" REF="38">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Scot</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Life, Part 2. where the Doctrine of our Saviour's Meditation is &s;o admirably explain'd and prov'd.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>N. <HI>There is nothing of mightier Importance in our Inquiries after Truth, and towards a through under&s;tanding of any In&s;titution, than to have fixt in our Minds a determinate and di&s;tinct know|ledge of the De&s;ign it drives at. This is what our Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour pre&s;crib'd as the mo&s;t &s;ure and certain way to di&s;cover the Erroneous Doctrines of Sedi|tious Hereticks, bidding us to</HI> beware of fal&s;e Prophets, which come to us in Sheep's Clothing, but inwardly are Ravening Wolves, <HI>and telling us, that we might</HI> know them by their Fruits, <HI>that is, by the tendency of their Doctrines, which if they were naturally productive of &s;uch ill Fruits, as Chri&s;tianity is de&s;ign'd to de&s;troy, mu&s;t therefore nece&s;&s;arily be Erroneous or Heretical. And this very Rule has a peculiar Aptitude in it to di&s;cover the three great Errors, which have &s;o much corrupted Chri&s;tianity at this day,</HI> viz. <HI REND="blackletterType">Popery, Antinomiani&s;m, and</HI> <HI REND="blackletterType">Sociniani&s;m; Popery being a Super&s;tition that makes the neare&s;t approaches to the Pagan Idolatry, and tends to Indulge Men in Impurity;</HI> <HI REND="blackletterType">Antinomiani&s;m being a Scheme of Divinity al&s;o that manife&s;tly undermines a Holy Life: And</HI> <HI REND="blackletterType">Sociniani&s;m tending to make us value our &s;elves too much upon it, by taking us off from our dependance on Chri&s;t, for the Acceptance thereof. All which con&s;ider'd, As there is the greate&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;ity, that before we enter upon our Enquires into the whole Body of Chri&s;ti|an Doctrine, we &s;hould be fully po&s;&s;e&s;s'd with this Notion concerning it, that the whole and adaequate De&s;ign thereof is to de&s;troy the Power of Satan, Ido|latry, and Sin, and re&s;tore and advance the Kingdom of God, and in&s;tead of an external Legal Righteou&s;ne&s;s, to implant an inward and real Holine&s;s a|mong&s;t Men: And withal, &s;o to Humble the be&s;t of us, as to make us depend &s;olely upon the Mediation of Chri&s;t with God the Father, for the Acceptance thereof to our Ju&s;tification; &s;o e&s;pecially this Notion of Chri&s;tianity ought immediately to precede our Reading the &s;everal Sy&s;tems of the differing Parties among&s;t Chri&s;tians at this day: In mo&s;t of which, as there are &s;everal un|&s;ound Hypothe&s;es advanc'd; &s;o without this Te&s;t, we &s;hall not &s;o ea&s;ily di&s;tin|gui&s;h between their Heterodox and Orthodox Opinions. Not to &s;ay, that by thus having our Eye always on the De&s;ign of Chri&s;tianity, and by bringing every particular Doctrine delivered to us, as Chri&s;tian, to this Touch&s;tone, we &s;hall know how to judge concerning tho&s;e that are true, which are more, which le&s;s con&s;iderable in the Body of Chri&s;tian Doctrine, that &s;o we may be able accor|dingly to put a different value upon 'em, a thing of no &s;mall con&s;equence to the Peace and &V;nity of the Chri&s;tian Church.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<PB N="55" REF="38">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P>Our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tor being thus far prepar'd towards his great Work of Preaching the Go&s;pel, as to know and under&s;tand the Scriptures him&s;elf, and to be able to con|vince others both of their Truth, and of the great De|&s;ign, they, and the whole of that Religion contain'd in 'em, are to &s;erve, he may be &s;uppos'd capable by this time, to take a comprehen&s;ive View of the whole Scheme of Chri&s;tianity, and al&s;o to form a true Judg|ment of all that which really does, or is pretended by the &s;everal Parties of Chri&s;tians to belong thereunto. And indeed, &s;ince it is u&s;ually accounted the be&s;t Me|thod in the pur&s;uit of any knowledge, to begin fir&s;t with &s;ome General In&s;titution, and then to de&s;cend to enquire into the particular Parts thereof: For the more comprehen&s;ive Knowledge of the whole Body of Chri&s;tian Theology: And that all Divine Truths may be under&s;tood in that natural Order and Connexion wherein they depend upon, and add &s;trength one to another, after having, both for a farther Antidote a|gain&s;t the Poy&s;on of Here&s;ie and Error (a thing &s;o Pe|&s;tilential and deadly to the Souls of Men, and of which therefore we cannot be too Cautious) and to prevent or Cure what&s;oever Heterodoxies may be found in any Sy&s;tem contrary to genuine and pure Chri&s;tianity, and the Apo&s;tolical Doctrine and Di&s;cipline of this our Church; After having, I &s;ay, for the&s;e Rea&s;ons, been.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="56" REF="39">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> Provided of the</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Thirty-Nine Articles, with</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rogers</HI> upon the Thirty-Nine Articles, or rather,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Ellis</HI>'s Latin Edition of the Thirty-Nine Articles, with Objections and Solutions therein. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> It is much de&s;ir'd they &s;hould be furni&s;h'd with &s;ome Bodies of Divinity, and that both</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Schola&s;tical, of which &s;ort, one at lea&s;t, ac|cording to the different Sentiments of the &s;everal mo&s;t con&s;iderable Parties of Chri&s;tians in the World.</HI></P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> For the Papi&s;ts.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Such as have laid the Foundations of their Novel Doctrines; or at lea&s;twi&s;e who have fir&s;t introduc'd them into their Schemes and Bodies of Divinity.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Johan. Dama&s;ceni <HI>de fide Orthodoxa, Libri 4.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> Claruit Anno <HI>730.</HI> &amp; primus fuit inter Graecos, qui Theologiam ad Accuratiorem Methodum revocavit, eju&s;que Dog|mata in proprias cla&s;&s;es di&s;tribuit. <HI>Cave</HI> Hi&s;toria Literaria. p. <HI>695.</HI> He writes clearly and methodically, was a &s;ubtle Divine, and an able Compiler, &s;ays <HI>Dupin,</HI> Vol. <HI>6.</HI> p. <HI>106.</HI> he was a great Propugner of Images, and of the Wor&s;hip of them, of the perpetual Virginity of the Virgin, of Relicks, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And having comprehended the whole &s;ub&s;tance of Divinity in a Schola&s;tical and Methodical manner, he may very well be ranked here.</P>
<LIST>
<PB N="57" REF="39">
<ITEM>Petrus Lombardus.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> Libros <HI>4.</HI> Sententiarum ex Patrum, praecipue Au|gu&s;tini &s;criptis, compilavit; ex quo inter Latinos novam faciem induere cepit res Theologica, ad formam Elencticam, dubii&s;que in orbem recurrentibus in|&s;ervientem, reducta; ad Philo&s;ophicum &amp; Acroamaticum dicendi Genus re|&s;tricta, in Quae&s;tiones infinitas, membratim di&s;cerpta, rationibus in utramque partem agitatis, curios&egrave; nimis, pen&egrave; u&s;que ad ineptias, ventilata, methodo nihilominus brevi, nec u&s;qucq aque inconcinna, &amp; ad &s;ubtilem Argutamque de quae&s;tionibus Theologicis di&s;putandi rationem, &s;atis apt&egrave; compo&s;ita. <HI>Cave</HI> Hi&s;t. Literar. <HI>p. 695.</HI> Prodiit hic Liber <HI>Ludg. 1618.</HI> cui Ed. ad calcem Operis &s;ubjiciuntur Articuli erronei <HI>Pari&s;iis</HI> olim damnati, adjectis nonnullis ip&s;ius Magi&s;tri in quibus communit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r non Approbatur.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Durandi <HI>Commentaria &s;uper Libros 4. &s;ententiarum.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Quae Juvenis Inchoavit, Senex ab&s;olvit. venet. <HI>1571. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomae Aquinatis <HI>&s;ummae.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cajetani <HI>Commentaria in totam Summam</HI> Thomae.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> <HI REND="blackletterType">Lombard and Aquinas,</HI> are the Text to the re&s;t of the Schoolmen, who under two general Cla&s;&s;es Comment upon them, &s;ome on the Sentences, others on the Sums. And of the&s;e Commentators, the&s;e now mention'd are of the chiefe&s;t Repute, and may &s;erve in&s;tead of more. And as to my placing 'em in the fir&s;t Rank of Popi&s;h Sy&s;tems, our Learned Dr. <HI>Cave</HI> will ju&s;tifie me in that, who&s;e words are <HI>Quantum ad plura Romanae Eccle&s;iae placita Stabilienda contulerit nova haec Schola&s;tica Theologia, caecus &s;it, opor|tet, qui non videt.</HI> Hi&s;. Literaria <HI>p. 696.</HI> And indeed, as in this Shop of the Schoolmen mo&s;t of the corrupt Doctrines of the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> were fir&s;t forg'd, and for &s;everal Ages were in hammering, and increa&s;ing upon the World, &s;o they receiv'd their fini&s;hing &s;troke and &s;tamp of Authority in the Council of <HI>Trent.</HI> And concerning the Original and Progre&s;s of 'em may be read,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Danaeus <HI>in primum Librum Sententiarum.</HI> c. <HI>1.&mdash;6. 8</HI>o. Gen. <HI>1589.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ho&s;piniani <HI>Hi&s;t. Sacramentaria. Tom. 1. Lib. 4. p. 401.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="58" REF="40">
<P>Secondly, <HI>Such as having written their Bodies of Divinity after the Heretical and Erroneous Doctrines of the Church of</HI> Rome <HI>were arriv'd to their full growth, and receiv'd their e&s;ta|bli&s;hment in the Council of</HI> Trent; <HI>have Incor|porated all of 'em into their Sy&s;tems.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Catechi&s;mus ad Parochos ex Decreto Concilii Triden|tini.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gregorii de Valentia. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Va&s;quez. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Becanus. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Suarez. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ludovici Abelli <HI>Medulla Theologiae. 2 Vol. 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Du Hamel<HI>'s Theologia &s;peculativa &amp; Practica. 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> For the Lutherans.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Melancthonis <HI>Opera.</HI> Fol. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chemnitii <HI>Loci Communes.</HI> Fol. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Brochmandi <HI>Univer&s;ae Theol. Sy&s;tema.</HI> Fol. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gerhardi <HI>Loci Communes. 2 Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> For the Calvini&s;ts.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Calvini <HI>In&s;titutiones.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;r&s;ini <HI>Catechi&s;mus &agrave; Paraeo Edit. Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Turretini <HI>In&s;titutio Theologiae. 3 Vol. 4</HI>o. <HI>Or,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Turretini <HI>Compendium. 4</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> For the Arminians.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Arminii <HI>Opera.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="59" REF="40">
<ITEM>Epi&s;copius.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> Caut&egrave; Legendus in &s;ome things, and particularly in the Articles of the Trinity, and not without Dr. <HI>Bull</HI>'s <HI>Judicium Eccle&s;iae Catholicae de nece&s;&s;itate credendi quod Je&s;us Chri&s;tus &s;it verus Deus, 8</HI>o. Oxon. <HI>1694.</HI> And the like Caution is to be given about other Authors of that Set; and the rather becau&s;e being Learned Men, and clear Writers, their Heterodoxies are in greater danger of being unwarily imbib'd.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Philippi a Limborch <HI>Theologia Chri&s;tiana.</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="5"><HI>5.</HI> In the middle way, as Reconcilers.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Between Papi&s;ts and Prote&s;tants.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Georgius <HI>Ca&s;&s;ander.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Grotii <HI>Annotata ad Con&s;ultationem Ca&s;&s;andri. Inter Tractatus</HI> Grotii. <HI>quarto Vol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; <HI>Votum pro Pace.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thorndyke<HI>'s Ju&s;t Weights and Mea&s;ures. 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Forbe&s;ii <HI>Con&s;iderationes Mode&s;tae &amp; Pacificae.</HI> Lond. <HI>1658. 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N. Anton.</HI> &agrave; Dominis Ep. Spalaten&s;is may be al&s;o rekcon'd among&s;t the&s;e Reconcilers.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Between Calvini&s;ts and Arminians.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Le Blanc<HI>'s The&s;es.</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The&s;es Salmurien&s;es. 4</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> The&s;e Schola&s;tical Bodies take in not only what is purely e&s;&s;ential to Chri&s;tianity, but al&s;o the Controverted and Di&s;putable Tenets e|&s;pous'd by that Party of Chri&s;tians, the Compiler him&s;elf happens to be of: And here, in the&s;e their &s;everal Bodies, the be&s;t View of their different Hy|pothe&s;es is to be &s;een, becau&s;e here they lye in that Series and Concatenation wherein they &s;upport one another, better than when &s;tanding naked by them|&s;elves; &s;o that a true Judgment cannot be made, as of Chri&s;tianity it &s;elf; &s;o not of any Sect of Chri&s;tians, by examining their Principles &s;eparately, &s;o well as by con&s;idering 'em connected in their &s;everal Bodies: And it is a Ju&s;tice due to all Parties to &s;ee their Opinions in the cleare&s;t Light, and to
<PB N="60" REF="41"> con&s;ider them in their full &s;trength. And as to that general prejudice which has been of late Years taken up again&s;t all Sy&s;tems of Divinity what&s;oever; It &s;eems con&s;iderable to me what has <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">en &s;poken by a Learned Prelate upon that Point in his <HI>Pa&s;toral Care,</HI> p. <HI>167. viz.</HI> <Q REND="margDblQuotes">That there is a va&s;t Error in the fir&s;t forming of our Clergy, that a contempt has been ca&s;t on that &s;ort of Books. Indeed, to ri&s;e no higher than to a perpetual Reading over different Sy&s;tems is but a mean pitch of Learning; and the &s;wallow|ing down whole Sy&s;tems by the Lump, has help'd to po&s;&s;e&s;s Peoples Minds too early with Prejudices, and to &s;hut them up in too Implicite a following of others. But the throwing off all the&s;e Books, makes that many who have Read a great deal, yet have no entire Scheme or Method, and &s;o are ig|norant of &s;ome very plain things which could never have happen'd to them, if they had carefully Read and Dige&s;ted a Sy&s;tem into their Memories.</Q></P>
<P N="6"><HI>6.</HI> And for a <HI>Nexus</HI> between Scholastical and Cateche|chetical Bodies of Divinity.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Corpus Con&s;e&s;&s;ionum Fidei quae in diver&s;is Regnis &amp; Nationibus Eccle&s;iarum Nomine fuerunt authentic&egrave; editae; in celeberrimis Conventibus exhibitae, publi|ca&abque; Authoritate comprobatae; 4</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> I place the Con|fe&s;&s;ions of the Reform|ed Churches here, as being of a Nature, not altogether &s;o Controver&s;ial as Scho|la&s;tical, nor yet of &s;o &s;imple a Nature, as Catechetical Theology is, or ought to be. And I do not rank them under that Great Article of the Covenant, fol|lowing; namely, Points nece&s;&s;ary to be believed in order to Salvation, becau&s;e tho' &s;til'd Confe&s;&s;ions of Faith, yet are e&s;teemed by the re&s;pective Churches who&s;e Confe&s;&s;ions they are, rather as containing Terms nece&s;&s;ary to Communion therein, than as ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary to Salvation with God.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Catechetical, or Bodies that de&s;ign to treat only upon Practical Points, and &s;uch as are more immediately Nece&s;&s;ary and Fundamental to be under&s;tood by every Chri&s;tian; and therefore to be taught by every one that has the Cure of Souls. Of which &s;ort,</HI></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="61" REF="41"><HI>1.</HI> Among&s;t the Antients may be read,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Clementis Alexandrini <HI>Stromata,</HI> with his</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;<HI>Padagogus.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sti.</HI> Cypriani <HI>Te&s;timoniorum ad Quirinum, Libri 3.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lactantii <HI>In&s;titutionum, Libri 7.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sti.</HI> Augu&s;tini <HI>Enchiridion ad Laurentium de Fide, Spe &amp; Charitate.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>N.</HI> Scarce any of the&s;e indeed can be pretended to be entire and compleat Bodies of Practical Chri&s;tianity; nor per|haps do the Doctrines and Duties of our Religion lie therein in &s;o exact an Order and Method, as in our later Compo&s;ures; yet however there are many, both Articles of Faith, and Duties of Chri&s;tianity deliver'd in them; and what is wanting in the exactne&s;s of the Compo&s;ure, is abundantly made up by the Piety of the Di&s;cour&s;es, the con&s;tant pro&s;pect of Death before the Eyes of tho&s;e Primitive Saints, by rea&s;on of frequent Per&s;ecutions, to which they were expos'd, and the &s;everity of the Chri&s;tian Di&s;cipline in tho&s;e Days, ren|dring their Di&s;cour&s;es very Heavenly, and giving 'em &s;uch a Spirit and Force, as few of our modern Writings do come up to.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> Among&s;t the later and more modern Writers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Dr.</HI> Hammond<HI>'s Practical Catechi&s;m; with which may be al&s;o joyn'd his other Practical Di&s;cour&s;es,</HI> Fol. <HI>as Enlargements upon the &s;ame Points.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sir</HI> Matthew Hales<HI>'s Knowledge of God and our &s;elves. 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cradock<HI>'s Knowledge and Practice, with a Supplement. 4</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dr.</HI> Lucas<HI>'s Practical Chri&s;tianity. 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dr.</HI> Scot<HI>'s Works, 4 Vol. 8</HI>o.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>N.</HI> By Catechetical Do|ctrines, I mean no other than &s;uch as are nece&s;&s;ary to be known, believ'd and practic'd by every Chri|&s;tian; And therefore do take the liberty, notwith&s;tanding the Title, to range the <HI>Catechi&s;mus ad Parochos</HI> and <HI>Ur&s;in's Catechi&s;m</HI> under the former Head of Schola&s;tical Sy&s;tems, rather than here; And in like manner I &s;hould have di&s;pos'd of, even that call'd the <HI>A&s;&s;emblies Catechi&s;m,</HI> if I had had oc|ca&s;ion to mention it; as containing many Doctrines, <HI>viz.</HI> concerning Praede|&s;tination, Election, Reprobation, Grace, and Free-will, which are Points fitter by much to be Problematically di&s;cu&s;s'd in the Schools, than Dogmatically treated of from the Desk or Pulpit.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<PB N="62" REF="42">
<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P>But th&ocirc; the <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> and Mini&s;ters of Religion, <HI>who&s;e Lips &s;hould pre&s;erve Knowledge,</HI> are to take in a much greater Compa&s;s thereof, than is nece&s;&s;ary they &s;hould in&s;truct all Chri&s;tians in; nay, and th&ocirc; tho&s;e narrower Bodies of Divinity, which under the la&s;t Particular, we term'd <HI>Catechetical,</HI> becau&s;e they treat only of Points nece&s;&s;ary to Salvation; Th&ocirc; Books of this Nature, I &s;ay, are what all who pretend to teach others, ought to be well acquainted with them&s;elves (be the Me|thod they proceed in what the Authors plea&s;e) yet &s;ince the Covenant of Grace; that Covenant, which was obtain d for the fallen Race of Man from God the Father, by the &s;ole Mediation of his only Begotten Son, and that with no le&s;s a Price than his own mo&s;t precious Blood; &s;ince this Covenant, we are &s;ure and certain, contains the full Summ and Sub&s;tance of what God has promis'd to us, and what we have engaged to God: This Covenant mu&s;t therefore be that Sub|ject, which, above all others, every Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel ought to penetrate to the very Bottom, and to be mo&s;t exqui&s;itely skill'd in the Nature, Terms, and Conditions thereof; and in every the lea&s;t Circum|&s;tance pertaining thereunto. And therefore, &s;ince of all the Catechi&s;ms the Church of God has at this Day, that of the Church of <HI>England</HI> does mo&s;t fully, without the defalcation of any Article of this Covenant, and
<PB N="63" REF="42"> yet mo&s;t &s;incerely, without the mixture of any Hetero|geneous, Di&s;putable, or Schola&s;tical Tenents; and that no Perfection may be wanting, mo&s;t methodical|ly al&s;o, handling this Subject, fir&s;t generally, and then particularly; &s;ince the Catechi&s;m of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> I &s;ay, has deliver'd to us the Covenant of Grace &s;o very full, defecate and methodical; it mu&s;t be therefore the Concern of every Mini&s;ter of Religion, as to comprehend intirely this Ble&s;&s;ed Covenant, &s;o to &s;tudy throughly this Excellent Catechi&s;m; and all this with the utmo&s;t Application, till he &s;hall make both the one and the other the Ma&s;ter-Peice of his Know|ledge: And therefore, in order to a compleat and exact under&s;tanding of both, we cannot forbear here mo&s;t importunately to de&s;ire that our <HI>Indian</HI> Clergy &s;hould be provided of &s;uch Authors, as pur&s;uanr to the Method of our Church-Catechi&s;m, may accordingly inform 'em in this Covenant of Grace, and thereby enable 'em to in&s;truct the People in all its weighty Parts, &s;o as every Private Chri&s;tian may fully under|&s;tand his Bapti&s;mal Vow, as well in the general Ex|tent of the Whole, as in the particular Articles of eve|ry Branch thereof. And,</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> To under&s;tand the General Nature of the Covenant of Grace, or our Bapti&s;mal Covenant, may be read,</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Coccaei</HI> Summa Doctrinae de Faedere &amp; Te&s;tamento Dei, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Thorndike</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e of the Covenant of Grace, being the 2d in his Book &s;til'd the Epilogue, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Allen</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e of the Nature, Ends, and Difference of the two Covenants, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph Truman</HI>'s Grand Propitiation, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Benefits of our Saviour to Mankind, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be read. Dr.</HI> Hamond's <HI>Practical Catechi&s;m,</HI> Initio. <HI>whole Duty of Man, Preface. Mr.</HI> Mede <HI>of the Difference between the Old and New Covenant,</HI> p. 252. <HI>Mr.</HI> Smith's <HI>Select Di&s;cour&s;es,</HI> p. 308. <HI>Dr.</HI> Moor<HI>'s My&s;tery of Godline&s;s,</HI> Book 9th. Chap. 5. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> To under&s;tand the particular Articles thereof; namely,</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> The Mercies on God's part, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Justification or Pardon of Sins, may be read</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Allen</HI> again&s;t <HI>Fergu&s;on,</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI> and</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;on Ju&s;tification, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctoris Bulli Harmonia Apo&s;tolica, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph Truman</HI>'s Endeavours to rectifie &s;ome prevailing Opinions contrary to the Doctrines of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctoris <HI>Tullii</HI> Ju&s;tificatio <HI>Paulina,</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctoris <HI>Bulli</HI> Examen Cen&s;urae quo <HI>Trumanno</HI> re&s;pondit a pagina, 149. u&s;&abque; ad 173. &amp; <HI>Tullio</HI> in Apologia &s;ua pro Harmonia quae ad Calcem Examinis Cen&s;urae extat, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Bates</HI>'s Sermons of Forgivene&s;s, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>N. Legatur &amp; Dio|ny&s;iii Petavii Dogma|ta, Lib. 10. Cap. 16.17, 18, 19, 20, 21. <HI>Expo&s;itions of the Creed upon the Article of the Forgivene&s;s of Sins. The Sy&s;tems al&s;o</HI> in Locum de Ju|&s;tificatione.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Divine Grace and A&s;&s;istance, upon which may be read.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Vo&s;&s;ii Hi&s;toria <HI>Pelagiana,</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Augu&s;tini</HI> Polemica contra <HI>Pelagianos.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Hieronymi</HI> polemica contra <HI>Pelagianos.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Allen</HI> of Divine A&s;&s;i&s;tance, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Claget</HI> of the Operations of the Holy Spirit, 2 <HI>Vol.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o Read the Expo&s;itions of the Creed upon the Article of the Holy Gho&s;t, Dr.</HI> Scot<HI>'s Chri&s;tian Life,</HI> Part 2. p. 578. <HI>Dr.</HI> Hammond<HI>'s pacifick Di&s;cour&s;e of God's Grace and Decrees, among his pra|ctical Di&s;cour&s;es,</HI> p. 551. Petavii Dogmata, Lib. 10. <HI>The Summi&s;ts and Sy&s;tems</HI> in Locum de Gratia.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Everlasting Life and Happine&s;s.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Lactantius</HI> de Vita Beata, In&s;tit. <HI>Lib.</HI> 7.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomus</HI> de praemiis Sanctorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bellarminus</HI> de Aeterna faelicitate.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Le&s;&s;ius</HI> de Summo Bono inter Opu&s;cula.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI>'s Saints Everla&s;ting Re&s;t, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bi&s;hop <HI>Taylor</HI>'s Contemplations of the State of Man, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. Hic etiam Legatur Vir|gilii Aeneid. <HI>Lib.</HI> Sextus, quo tota Doctrina Paganorum de ju&s;torum Gaudiis, Impiorum&abque; &s;uppliciis habetur. Item <HI>Cicero</HI> Ora. pro Archia Poeta, &amp; <HI>Lib.</HI> 1. Tu&s;culan. Que&s;tio|num de contemnenda morte: <HI>As al&s;o the</HI> Expo&s;itions on the Creed <HI>up|on the Article</HI> Everla&s;ting Life. <HI>Mr.</HI> Mede <HI>of Different Degrees of Re|ward in the Life to come,</HI> B. 1. Di&s;c. 23. p. 48. <HI>The Summs and Sy&s;tems al&s;o in</HI> Locum de &s;ummo bono.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> The Conditions to be performed on our part, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Faith and the Doctrines thereof contain'd in the Apo&s;tles Creed. And &s;ince on this Subject the fir&s;t thing to be con&s;ider'd, is the Nature and Pro|perties of Ju&s;tifying Faith; The &s;econd, the Objects or Articles to be believed,</HI> vix. <HI>tho&s;e contain'd in the Apo|&s;tles Creed; towards the full understanding therefore of this great Article of the Covenant.</HI></P>
<PB N="66" REF="44">
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Upon the Nature and Properties of Ju&s;tifying and Saving Faith.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> de Vera &amp; Pia Fide.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>And among&s;t the Moderns it will be proper to read on this prime Subject the &s;everal Expo&s;itors of the Creed immediately hereafter &s;pecified, which treat upon the words,</HI> <HI REND="blackletterType">I believe; and particularly Dr.</HI> Barrow<HI>'s</HI> Expo&s;ition <HI>thereof, from</HI> p. 1. <HI>to</HI> p. 68 <HI>Mr.</HI> Allen<HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e on the two Covenants; e&s;pecially his Appendix to the Di&s;cour&s;e touching the Nature of that Faith which is Ju&s;tifying, and that which is not; and the Rea&s;on of that Difference. Dr.</HI> Bull<HI>'s</HI> Har|monia Evangelica; <HI>as al&s;o his</HI> Examen Cen&s;urae Harmoniae Evangelicae. <HI>Dr.</HI> Jack&s;on, Tom. 1. <HI>from</HI> p. 1. <HI>to</HI> p. <HI>the</HI> 10th, <HI>and from</HI> p. <HI>the</HI> 601. <HI>to</HI> p. <HI>the</HI> 832. <HI>In the</HI> Oxford <HI>Paraphra&s;e, the Preface to the Ep. to the</HI> Rom. <HI>As al&s;o the &s;everal Summaries and Sy&s;tems herein mentioned on the common place</HI> de Fide. <HI>But more e&s;pecially Dr.</HI> Hammond <HI>of Faith in his</HI> Pract. Cat. Le Blanc's The&s;is prima de Fide.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> On the Objects to be Believed, it is wi&s;hed they may be &s;upplyed with.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Hi&s;torical Di&s;cour&s;es of the Antiquity and Authority of the</HI> Creed.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>J. G. Vo&s;&s;ius</HI> de Tribus Symbolis. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>U&s;&s;erius de Romanae Eccle&s;iae Symbolo Apo&s;tolico vetere &amp; aliis Fidei formulis. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A&s;hwel</HI>'s Fides Apo&s;tolica, <HI>with his Double Appen|dix, the</HI> 1&s;t <HI>touching the</HI> Athana&s;ian, <HI>the</HI> 2d <HI>the</HI> Nicene Creed. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o read</HI> Ellies Du Pin<HI>'s New Hi&s;tory of</HI> Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Writers, <HI>Vol.</HI> 1. p. 9. <HI>Dr.</HI> Heylin<HI>'s Preface to his</HI> Theolo|gia Veterum. <HI>Dr.</HI> Cave<HI>'s Lives of the Fathers of the fourth Century, in which there is &s;o ample an Hi&s;tory of Creeds.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><PB N="67" REF="44">2. With Expo&s;itions upon all, or mo&s;t of the &s;everal Articles of the <HI>Creed</HI> it &s;elf.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>The Expo&s;itions of the Antient Fathers.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cyrilii</HI> Hiero&s;olymi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ani Cateche&s;es 18.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorii</HI> Ny&s;&s;eni Catechetica magna Oratio.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti Epiphanii Anchoratus; <HI>qui complures Fi|dei par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">es continct.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ruffini Expo&s;itio Symboli ad Laurentium Epi&s;co|pum. <HI>Extat ad calcem Cypriani.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Augu&s;tinus</HI> de Fide &amp; Symbolo.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Enchiridion ad Laurentium de Fide, Spe, &amp; Charitate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; De Agone Chri&s;tiano Liber. N. <HI>In quo ad finem, Symbolum Exponitur, &amp; Haere&s;es Contrariae refelluntur.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;De Symbolo &s;ive Regula Fidei ad Catechu|menos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ambro&s;ii in Symbolum Apo&s;tolicum Tractatus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Theodoretus Haereticarum Fabularum Libro Quinto.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> The Expo&s;ition of the later Writers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Heylin</HI>'s Theologia veterum. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>I place him fir&s;t, becau&s;e giving &s;omething of the Hi&s;tory of the &s;everal Articles.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Petavii Dogmata 5 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Jack&s;on</HI>'s Works. 3 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Pear&s;on</HI> on the Creed. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Tower&s;on</HI> on the Creed. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Barrow</HI> on the Creed. <HI>Fel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Kettlewel</HI>'s Practical Believer. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hen. Moor</HI>'s My&s;tery of Godline&s;s, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Scot</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Life, 2d <HI>Part. Vol.</HI> 1. &amp; 2d.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>The&s;e two la&s;t Pieces may be reckoned among&s;t the Expo&s;itions of the Apo&s;tles Creed; &s;ince they treat upon all or mo&s;t of its Ar|ticles, though not altogether in the &s;ame order as they lie therein.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Evangelical Obedience, to under&s;tand the true State and Extent of which va&s;t and comprehen&s;ive Article of that Covenant entred into betwixt God and us at our Bapti&s;m, and &s;o indi&s;pen&s;able a condition of our Salvation, as this is; <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Becau&s;e all Duty is mea&s;ured by &s;ome Law, as its Rule; and a Duty is more or le&s;s nece&s;&s;ary or incumbent upon us, accord|ing to the Nature and Obligation of the &s;everal kind of Laws that may oblige us thereunto; <HI>Secondly,</HI> Al|&s;o becau&s;e the Acts of &s;ome Duties do &s;o nearly bor|der upon Vices, and the Duties them&s;elves interfering; it is nece&s;&s;ary we &s;hould be able to &s;tate the mea&s;ures and extent of every &s;ingle Duty, and to know accord|ing to the variety of Circum&s;tances occurring, to which of the interfering Duties the preference in pra|ctice is to be given; And <HI>Thirdly,</HI> Since through the cour&s;e of a Man's Life (e&s;pecially where our People are con&s;ciencious, and to render all Men &s;uch, is the work we are to mind) there will ari&s;e &s;everal Ca&s;es of Con&s;cience (e&s;pecially in their Sickne&s;s, a time of Doubts and Fears) which every Pa&s;tor of a Flock ought to be able to Re&s;olve: And the&s;e Ca&s;es being Doubts about the Lawfulne&s;s, or Unlawfulne&s;s, or
<PB N="69" REF="45"> Indifference of Actions, ari&s;ing either from the inter|fering of &s;everal Laws, and different Duties, or from the Ignorance of the Force and Obligation of tho&s;e &s;everal Laws re&s;pectively, and of the ju&s;t Limits of every Duty; it is not po&s;&s;ible the Ca&s;e &s;hould be re|&s;olv'd with &s;afety of the Penitents Innocence, or the Tranquillity of his Mind, if we are ignorant of the Nature and Obligation of the Laws obliging, and the Duties re&s;ulting from them; All the&s;e things con&s;idered, I humbly conceive it is very requi&s;ite, as it is expected we &s;hould be u&s;eful to the World, that we &s;hould be very well provided of &s;ome of the be&s;t Authors up|on each of the&s;e particulars: That is, <HI>First,</HI> Upon the Nature and Obligation of Law in general, and of the different kinds of Laws in particular: <HI>Secondly,</HI> Upon Duties obligatory upon us from tho&s;e &s;everal kinds of Laws: <HI>Thirdly,</HI> Upon Ca&s;ui&s;try, whereby the Difficulties that &s;hall upon any occa&s;ion perplex Per&s;ons Con&s;ciences, with reference to tho&s;e Laws, and the Duties re&s;ulting from thence, may be re&s;ol|ved. And,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>As to the Nature and Obligation of Law in general, as al&s;o the Nature, Divi&s;ion and Obligation of the &s;everal kinds of Laws in particular; To great U&s;e and Purpo&s;e, may be read upon this Sub|ject, and accordingly it is de&s;ired our Pa&s;tor &s;hould be provided of.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Suarez</HI> de Legibus. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="70" REF="46">
<ITEM><HI>Daw&s;on</HI>'s <HI>Origo Legum:</HI> Or, a Treati&s;e of the Origin of Laws, and their obliging Power: As al&s;o of their great Variety; And why &s;ome Laws are Immutable, and &s;ome not, but may &s;uffer Change, or cea&s;e to be, or be &s;u&s;pended, or Abrogated, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Hic etiam Legatur</HI> Aquinatis &s;ummae, 1. 2. <HI>a Quae&s;tione</HI> 90. <HI>u&s;que ad</HI> 109. Ger&s;on <HI>Tract. de Vita Spirituali Lect.</HI> 2. <HI>&amp; &s;e|quent.</HI> Et <HI>&s;i Ciceronem audiamus, nullo in genere di&s;putandi, quam de jure, magis hone&s;t&egrave; patefit, quid &s;it homini tributum Natur&agrave;, quantam vim rerum optimarum mens humana Continent, cujus muneris colendi, efficiendi&abque; cau&s;a nati, &amp; in lucem editi &s;imus, quae &s;it conjunctio hominum, quae Naturalis &s;o|cietas inter &s;e.</HI> Cicero <HI>de Legibus</HI> Lib. 1. Sect 4.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>As to the Duties Obligatory upon us from the&s;e &s;everal Laws.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. From the Law of Nature: &s;uch as are deducible from the Law written in our Hearts, may be &s;een.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>In the Antient Philo&s;ophers,</HI> viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Plato</HI> de Legibus.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cicero</HI> de Legibus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; De Officiis.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>As al&s;o in all, or mo&s;t of the Antient Morali&s;ts a|bove mentioned: For as</HI> Suarez <HI>prooemio ad</HI> Lib. <HI>de Legibus.</HI> Ari&s;toteles <HI>licet proprium Opus de Legibus non reliquerit in &s;uis moralibus multa &s;par&s;im de Legibus tradidit, &s;icut &amp;</HI> Seneca, Plutarchus, <HI>&amp; Alii.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>In the later Writers upon the Laws of Nature and Nations.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Gulielmus Grotius</HI> de Principiis Juris Natura|lis. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hugo Grotius</HI> de jure Belli &amp; Pacis. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>And e&s;pecially upon this Subject ought to be read tho&s;e Books, which have been particularly written to Antidote Men again&s;t the Poy&s;on of</HI> Hobbs<HI>'s Principles.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="71" REF="46">
<ITEM>Doctoris <HI>Henrici Mori</HI> Ethica 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Cumberland</HI> de Jure Naturae &amp; Gentium. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Tyrril</HI>'s Epitome of Bp. <HI>Cumberland</HI>'s Law of Nature. 8<HI>o</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sharrock</HI> de Officiis &s;ecundum Naturae Jus; Seu de Moribus ad Rationis normam conformandis Doctrina, unde Principia, item &amp; Rationes <HI>Hobbe&s;ii</HI> ad Ethicam &amp; Politicam Spectantes, quatenus huic Hypothe&s;i contradicere videan|tur, in Examen Veniunt. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Puffendorf</HI> de Jure Naturae &amp; Gentium. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; De Officio Hominis &amp; Civis. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Parker</HI>'s Demon&s;tration of the Laws of Nature. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lowd</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e of the Nature of Man, both in his Natural and Political Capacity, both as he is a Rational Creature, and Member of Civil Society; with an Examination of &s;ome of Mr. <HI>Hobbs</HI>'s Opinions relating hereunto. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Echard</HI>'s Dialogues between <HI>Timothy</HI> and <HI>Philautus.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>And for a Nexus between the Laws Natural and Reveal'd, may be read.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Selden</HI> de Jure Naturae &amp; Gentium Juxta Di|&s;ciplinam Hebraeor. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mo&s;aicarum &amp; Romanarum Legum Collatio ex Integris Papiniani, Pauli, Ulpiani, Gaii, Mode|&s;tini, Aliorumque veterum Juris Auctorum Libris, ante Tempora Ju&s;tiniani Imperatoris de&s;umpta. Inter Crit. Sacr. <HI>Tom.</HI> 8. p. 160.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Crellii</HI> Ethica Ari&s;totelica &amp; Chri&s;tiana, cum Di&s;&s;ertatione praemi&s;&s;a de virtutis Ethnicae, Hebraeae, at&abque; Chri&s;tianae invicem compara|tione.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2"><PB N="72" REF="47">2. From the Written and Revealed Laws of God. And the Duties enjoin'd us therein are treated upon,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>By Ancient Writers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Philo Judaeus</HI> de Decalogo.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Clementis Alexandrini</HI> Paedagogus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Stromata.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cyprianus</HI> Libro tertio Te&s;timonior. ad Quirinum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> Ethica, Item &amp; A&s;cetica.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Grego. Ny&s;&s;enus</HI> de Beatitudinibus Orationes 8. <HI>Ambro&s;ius</HI> de Officiis.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>We &s;hall indeed &s;carcely find many ju&s;t and entire Bodies of Morality in the Writings of the Fathers; but what is wanting in the Art and Accuracy of their Compo&s;ures, is abundantly recompenc'd in the Ex|cellency of their Matter, for tho&s;e admirable Per&s;ons &s;peaking as they lived; as their contempt of the World, and their Mortifications of the Body, were wonderfully great, &s;o their Thoughts were very &s;ublime and elevated, and their Morality pure and refin'd. There are, true it is, many more pieces of Mo|rality inter&s;pers'd in their Works; but the&s;e being for the mo&s;t part, upon par|ticular Subjects and Duties, they will fall in to be rang'd properly under the &s;e|veral Heads of Duty, of which I de&s;ign hereafter, God willing, in a</HI> Second Part <HI>to draw a particular Scheme, and to exhibit a Li&s;t, as well of the Antient, as more Modern Writers upon each &s;ingle Duty.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>By later Authors: and tho&s;e,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Such who have Written Expo&s;i|tions and Di&s;cour&s;es upon the Deca|logue and Beatitudes.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Andrews. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Grotius</HI> in 20 Cap. <HI>Exod. Inter Annotata.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andreae</HI> Riveti Expo&s;itio in 20 Cap. <HI>Exod.</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="73" REF="47">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Tower&s;on.</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rawlet</HI> on the Decalogue. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Hopkins</HI>'s Expo&s;ition of the Ten Com|mandments. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Barrow</HI>'s Expo&s;ition of the Decalogue. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Buck</HI> on the Beatitudes. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Norris</HI> on the Beatitudes. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>And to pre|vent or Cure the Pe&s;tilential Infu&s;ions of</HI> Antinomian <HI>Hereticks, who would era&s;e out of the Minds of Chri&s;tians all &s;en&s;e of Obligations upon 'em to ob&s;erve, even the Duties of the Moral Law, may be properly and u&s;efully enough here read, both the Di&s;cour&s;es again&s;t the</HI> Antinomians <HI>hereafter mention'd, and al&s;o</HI> Suarez, de Legibus, Lib. 1. <HI>Ch.</HI> 18. 19. Petavii Dogmata, Lib. 10. C. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. <HI>Dr.</HI> Henry Moor<HI>'s</HI> My&s;tery of Godline&s;s, <HI>Book</HI> 8. <HI>Ch.</HI> 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Mea&s;ures of Chri&s;tian Obedience, <HI>Book</HI> 1. <HI>Ch.</HI> 1. <HI>Preface to Mr.</HI> Allen<HI>'s</HI> Di&s;cour&s;e on the two Covenants.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Others who have written more compleat Tracts of Chri&s;tian Morality upon the whole Body of Chri&s;tian Du|ties.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Danaei</HI> Ethica Chri&s;tiana. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The whole Duty of Man, together with the other Pieces of that Author. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor</HI>'s Holy Living and Dying. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Scot</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Life. Part 1. and 4.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ketlewel</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Obedience. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Directory. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sam. Cradock</HI>'s Knowledge and Practice, with the Appendix. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rawlei</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Monitor. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Hic etiam legantur Magi&s;tri &s;ententiarum Lib.</HI> 3. <HI>a Di&s;tim.</HI> 37. <HI>u&s;que ad finem; etiiam</HI> Thomae Aquinatis Secunda Secundae, quae Anro contra non ae&s;timanda, <HI>Item Commentarii in Sententias &amp; in &s;ummam &s;upra nomi|nati.</HI></P>
<P N="3"><PB N="74" REF="48">3. From the po&s;itive Laws of Man.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tical; and that both</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. General, or from the Canon Laws of the Church in general.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Arnoldi</HI> Corvini Jus Canonicum per Apho|ri&s;mos explicatum, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Franci&s;ci de Roye</HI> In&s;titutiones Juris Cano|nici. 8<HI>o. Par.</HI> 1681.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. Particular, or from the Canon Law more e&s;pecially in force in our own Country; As all that is &s;aid to be, which is not repugnant to the Prerogative Roy|al, and to the Common and Statute Laws of this Kingdom.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Rich. Co&s;ini</HI> Eccle&s;iae Anglicanae Politeia in Tabulas dige&s;tas. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Linwood</HI>'s Provinciale. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Reformatio Legum Eccle&s;ia&s;ticarum. <HI>Hen.</HI> 8. <HI>Ed.</HI> 6.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Godolphin</HI>'s Repertorium. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Book of Canons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sparrow</HI>'s Collection of Canons. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Nor will it be thought that the&s;e are Authors in which a Divine is not concern'd, when it is con&s;ider'd, that many Important Ca&s;es,</HI> De Spon&s;alibus, de Nuptiis, <HI>&amp;c. are no more de|terminable in</HI> foro Con&s;cientiae, <HI>than in</HI> foro Contentio&s;o <HI>without a com|petent Skill therein.</HI></P>
<PB N="75" REF="48">
<P>Secondly, <HI>Civil.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. General or Imperial: <HI>Jus &s;cilicet Civile &s;eu Cae&s;areum quod ab Imperiali Maje&s;tate pen|det, quo omnes fer&egrave; populi utuntur.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Zouche</HI>'s Elementa Juris-Prudentiae. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ju&s;tiniani</HI> In&s;titutiones. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sheidewinus</HI> in In&s;titutiones. 12<HI>o.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Corvinus</HI> in In&s;titutiones. 12<HI>o.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vinnii</HI> Commentarius in quatuor Libros In|&s;titutionum. 4<HI>o.</HI> Or,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Julii Pacii</HI> I&s;agogica in In&s;titutiones Imperiales, Di|ge&s;ta, Pandectas, Codicem, &amp; Decretales. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>How very u&s;e|ful &s;ome degrees of knowledge at lea&s;t, in the Civil Law may be to a Divine, will pre&s;ently ap|pear, when we come to &s;peak of what Preliminaries are nece&s;&s;ary to make a Ca&s;ui&s;t: But that a through &V;nder&s;tanding in all the Parts of that Noble Faculty is nece&s;&s;ary, is more than I dare affirm, being deterr'd from that, more perhaps by the formidable Pro&s;pect of &s;o va&s;t a Field of Knowledge to be travers'd over, than by the rea&s;on of the thing. But however, that we may have a general View how large it is, take this Account from a Learned Civilian,</HI> Julius Pacius <HI>in his</HI> I&s;agogica. <HI>p.</HI> 1. Jus Civile &agrave; Ju&s;tiniano Im|peratore in tria Volumina redactarum e&s;t: Primum In&s;titutionum, quo Juris Epitome I&s;agogica continetur: Alterum Dige&s;torum &s;eu Pandectarum,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dige&s;ta vocantur quia Tituli non &s;unt temere conge&s;ti, &s;ed ordine di|ge&s;ti. Pandectae ver&ograve; ap|pellantur, quia univer&s;am fer&egrave; juris artem ac pene omnes ligitimas deci&s;io|ones complectuntur.</NOTE> quod ex veterum Jure con&s;ultorum Libris compo&s;itum e&s;t: Ter|tium Codicis, quo Imperatorum Con&s;titutiones continentur, exceptis ip&s;ius Ju&s;tiniani Novellis, non uno tempore po&s;t compo&s;itionem Codicis promulgatis, quae in unum volumen &agrave; ne&s;cio quo relatae fuerunt. His &s;abjugi &s;olent Feudales &agrave; privatis quibu&s;dam Doctoribus literis Mandatae. <HI>Or as he el&s;ewhere &s;peaks,</HI> ib. p. 46. In&s;titutioues tantum prima Juris e|lementa continent, Codex practicas Deci&s;iones habet; in Dige&s;tis tam Legis Theoria quam Praxis plen&egrave; habetur. <HI>And now if the two later are thought nece&s;&s;ary to be &s;earch'd into by tho&s;e only who are Practitioners
<PB N="76" REF="49"> in</HI> foro contentio&s;o: <HI>However the former;</HI> viz. In&s;titutiones Ju&s;tinia <HI>with &s;ome Commentators thereon, wherein are contain'd the</HI> Principia Boni &amp; Aequi, <HI>are what it becomes no Divine to be a Stranger to. And that he may be &s;ufficiently prepar'd for his Enquiries therein, I &s;hall crave leave to add the Advice of that Great Man</HI> Hugo Grotius, <HI>which he gave his Brother, as the be&s;t Method wherewith he ought to begin his Studies of the Civil Law.</HI> Auctor &s;um ut rect&egrave; informeris ad Juris Di&s;ciplinam, an|tequam attingas Schola&s;ticos,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Grotii Ep. <HI>1751.</HI></NOTE> diligent&egrave;r perlegas &s;ecundum Ethicorum, Nichomacheorum, &amp; quintum apud Ari&s;totelem, aut ejus Optimum Paraphra&s;ten &agrave; D. Hein&s;io Editum. De|ind&egrave; eju&s;dem Ari&s;totelis Rhetorica, quae &s;eor&s;im extant cum erudito &s;atis Commentario. Mox Ciceronis Officia, Paradoxa, de finibus, &amp; de Legibus. Item Topica, &amp; de Inventione. Inter legendum vero cui|piam aut excerpas, aut diligenter ad Marginem Libri annotes ea, quae ad jus Naturae &amp; Gentium, ad Legum ac Magi&s;tratuum originem, de|nique ad Rempub. &amp; jus tam publicum tam privatum pertinebunt. <HI>Thus this Great Man pre&s;cribes what is requi&s;ite to precede our entrance upon the Study of the Civil Law. And as to what Books are to be always ready at hand, when we are actually upon the &s;tudy thereof; It will be nece&s;&s;ary to have &s;uch Glo&s;&s;aries and Law Dictionaries as explain the Terms of Law, &s;uch as</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Jo. Calvini</HI> Lexicon magnum Juris Cae&s;arii &amp; Canonici. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bernardi Bri&s;&s;onii</HI> de Verborum quae ad Jus pertinent &s;ignificatione Lib. 19 <HI>Francofurti.</HI> 1683. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="2">2. Particular, or the Municipal Laws of our own Country; To have a general In&s;ight into which, and to know the Rea&s;on and Grounds of 'em, as I do think it by no means foreign to the bu|&s;ine&s;s, even of a Parochial Mini&s;ter; &s;o I &s;hall adventure to lay down the&s;e fol|lowing Books, as proper to be read by him upon the Subject, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="77" REF="49">
<ITEM><HI>Cook</HI>'s In&s;titutes. 4 Vol. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor and Student, being two Dialogues be|tween a Doctor in Divinity, and a Student in the Laws of <HI>England,</HI> of the Grounds of the &s;aid Laws, and of Con&s;cience. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wingate</HI>'s Maxims of Rea&s;on, or the Rea&s;on of the Common Law of <HI>England. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>To which mu&s;t be added for the Interpretation of Law Terms,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cowel</HI>'s Interpreter, and <HI>Manley. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Blount</HI>'s Law Dictionary, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>N. <HI>And to Apologize for pre&s;cribing Books of this Nature, I mu&s;t take leave to Mu&s;ter up both Authority and Rea&s;on for &s;o doing. And I think</HI> Suarez, <HI>tho' a very Great Man, is not more con&s;idera|ble for his Authority, than for the weight of his Rea&s;on in this ca&s;e: Who&s;e words are the&s;e:</HI> Nulli mirum videri debet, &s;i homini Theologiam pro&s;itenti, Leges Incidant di&s;putandae.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Suarez</HI> Prooemio Tract. de Legibus.</NOTE> Imo &s;i res ip&s;a rect&egrave; di&s;piciatur, palam erit, ita Le|gum Tractationem Theologiae ambitu concludi, ut Theologus &s;ubjectum ejus exhaurire non valeat, n&iacute;&s;i legibus con&s;ide|randis immoretur. Theologicum enim e&s;t negotium Con&s;cientiis pro|&s;picere viatorum; Con&s;cientiarum vero rectitudo &s;tat legibus &s;ervandis, &s;icut &amp; pravitas Violandis, cum Lex quaelibet &s;it regula, &s;i ut oportet &s;ervetur, aeternae &s;alutis A&s;&s;equendae; &s;i violetur, amittendae; erg&ograve; &amp; legis in&s;pectio, quatenus e&s;t con&s;cientiae Vinculum ad Theologum pertinebit. Tand&egrave;m Catholica fides non &s;ol&ugrave;m docet quatenus paren|dum &s;it Deo &s;upernaturalit&egrave;r praecipienti, &s;ed etiam quid natura vetat, Jubeat, vel permittat; &amp; quaten&ugrave;s obediendum &s;it pote&s;tatibus &s;ub|limioribus, ut Paulus dixit, atque adeo quaten&ugrave;s parendum &s;it tum Ec|cle&s;ia&s;ticis Legibus, tum laicis, ante Oculos nobis ponit. Ergo ex his fidei fundamentis Theologi e&s;t Colligere, quid in hoc, aut in illo Le|gum genere &s;it habendum.</P>
<P><HI>And another Ingenious Author in &s;peaking of tho&s;e</HI> <Q REND="margDblQuotes">Stu|dies which are nece&s;&s;ary for all Men of Ingenions Birth;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Fleury</HI> Hi&s;tory of the Choice and Method of Studies, <HI>p. 123, &amp;c.</HI></NOTE> As to the Law, he tells us, that every private Per&s;on is o|blig'd to know &s;o much of it as is nece&s;&s;ary to keep what he has, and to do nothing again&s;t the Laws. Every one is thus far oblig'd by the Laws them&s;elves, which pre&s;ume that all Citizens are in&s;tructed therein, &s;ince they impute the Ignorance of them as
<PB N="78" REF="50"> a fault, and puni&s;h it, either by the lo&s;s of Goods, if they have failed to ob&s;erve the Laws in getting or pre&s;erving them, or by more &s;evere Puni&s;h|ments, if this Ignorance has betray'd 'em to &s;ome Crime.</Q></P>
<P><HI>And as to &s;uch an indifferent Knowledge thereof as is nece&s;&s;ary to all, he makes it to con&s;i&s;t in the&s;e three particulars: Fir&s;t,</HI> <Q REND="margDblQuotes">In under&s;tanding the Terms of Bu&s;ine&s;s, and which we meet in the Ordinances, Cu&s;toms, and other Law Books. <HI>Secondly,</HI> In Learning the mo&s;t general Maxims of the Law which relate to particular Subjects, as of Tutelage, Succe&s;&s;ions, Marriages, the mo&s;t u&s;ual Contracts, without entring into the Subtilties of the Law, or much affecting that Method: And <HI>la&s;tly,</HI> the manner of pro&s;ecuting ones Right in Courts of Judicature, he tells us &s;hould be under&s;tood. And with|out de&s;cending to all the particulars of the Proce&s;s, the order of it in general &s;hould be ob&s;erv'd, and the nece&s;&s;ity there is, of exactly ob&s;erving in Ju|dicial Proceedings, the Forms e&s;tabli&s;h'd. Thus far my Author.</Q></P>
<P><HI>But thus much is farther than I dare venture to declare my Mind, as being aware how jealous the World are, lea&s;t we &s;hould be over skilful in this &s;ort of Knowledge,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cicero</HI> de Leg. Lib. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> <HI>tho' if we may believe a great Judge,</HI> Po|tius Ingnoratio Legis Litigio&s;a e&s;t quam Scien|tia.</P>
<P><HI>And indeed, my great De&s;ign in pre&s;cribing thus much for the Knowledge of the Law, as I have done, is in order to enable us to di&s;charge a quite contrary Duty to Litigiou&s;ne&s;s. It is doubtle&s;s our Duty above all others to be Peace-makers among&s;t our Neighbours; and in order to that, to offer our A&s;&s;i&s;tance to compo&s;e their Differences: But how &s;hall we be able to do that without &s;ome general Skill in the Grounds and Rea&s;on of our Laws, and e|&s;pecially in the governing Maxims of it, which in few words do conci&s;ely In|&s;truct us in the Equity that pertains to mo&s;t Ca&s;es. I &s;ay, in the governing Maxims of our Law, which alone will enable us to Arbitrate equitably be|twixt Man and Man in mo&s;t Ca&s;es: For as a Gentleman Learned in that Profe&s;&s;ion tells us;</HI> <Q REND="margDblQuotes">The va&s;t multitude of Ca&s;es which the Follies or Pa&s;&s;i|ons, or Nece&s;&s;ities of Men have obliged us to be ac|quainted with,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Wingate</HI>'s Maxims of Rea|&s;on. <HI>Initio.</HI></NOTE> are all Accountable and Reducible to &s;ome few The&s;es; which being prime Emanations, and Grand Maxims of Rea&s;on, govern and re&s;olve the &s;ubordinate Mi&s;cellany of Queries, and may &s;erve for a Clue and Conduct through the Labyrinth of that perplext Variety: Saving us the labour of charging our Memories with every Particular, which in the Re&s;ult is le&s;s apt to profit, than to burthen and confound us.</Q></P>
<PB N="79" REF="50">
<P>Thirdly, <HI>As to Ca&s;ui&s;tical Divinity who&s;e Office it is to determine the Particulars and &s;ingle Instances of Chri&s;tian Duty, and to re&s;olve the Difficulties that &s;hall at any time perplex Per&s;ons Con&s;ciences, with Reference to &s;uch Laws as pre&s;cribe their Duty, and to the particular In&s;tances of the Duties them|&s;elves, which ari&s;e from the Obligation of &s;uch Laws:</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. As preliminary to the Attainment of &s;o excellent, u&s;eful, and nece&s;&s;ary a &s;ort of Knowledge, it is clear that
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ari&s;totle</HI>'s Rhetorick.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Aquinas</HI> Secunda Secundae. And,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tully</HI>'s Offices are &s;uch.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>N. <HI>I take it to be clear, to a de|mon&s;tration, that the&s;e Books, being well Studied, are excellent Preparations for a Ca&s;ui&s;t, becau&s;e the Incomparable Bi&s;hop</HI> Sander&s;on <HI>own'd that the&s;e were the Books he Studied mo&s;t when he laid the Foundation of his great and clear Learning, e&s;pecially in this way.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bi&s;hop</HI> Sander|&s;on<HI>'s Life, by</HI> I&s;aac Walton.</NOTE> <HI>And it may al&s;o appear from the Life of the &s;ame Bi&s;hop, That</HI> Zouches Ele|menta Juris prudentiae, 12<HI>o. will be very u&s;eful hereunto. And indeed, for the &s;ame Rea&s;on, All, or any of tho&s;e foremention'd Books upon the Na|ture and Obligation of Laws, and of the Laws of Nature and Nations, mu&s;t have a &s;ingular Tendency this way. And if I may have leave to add but another, I know nothing more wanting as preliminary, to make a Man a good Ca&s;ui&s;t than a good Writer or two upon that Important Title in the Civil Law</HI> Lib. 50. Dige&s;tor Tit. 17. De Diver&s;is Regulis Juris Antiqui. <HI>This Title contains very many Maxims of Law and Rea&s;on, &s;uch as are &s;o many Principles and Maxims of greate&s;t Evidence and Authority. And if this Prince of Ca&s;ui&s;ts now mention'd may be our Pattern, it is certain that by virtue of &s;uch</HI> Po&s;tulata <HI>and &s;elf-evident, unconte&s;ted Principles of Rea&s;on and Morality, he was wont &s;o &s;atisfactorily to determine what was Lawful in the mo&s;t knotty and intricate Ca&s;es. And tho&s;e who have explicated and limited the&s;e</HI> Regulae Juris, <HI>have been.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="80" REF="51">
<ITEM>Jac Cujacius. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Philippus Decius. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Everand. Bronchre&s;t. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. To Perfect a Ca&s;ui&s;t may be read.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Generally; To enable him to re&s;olve whatever Ca&s;es and Doubts may ari&s;e at any time in the Cour&s;e of a Man's Life.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Sander&s;on</HI> de Obligatione Con&s;cientiae; al&s;o,</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;His Ca&s;es, and his Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor</HI>'s Ductor Dubitantium. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Le&s;&s;ius de jure &amp; Ju&s;titia. <HI>Fol.</HI> Or.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Le&s;&s;ii Compendium. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ame&s;ius de Con&s;cientia &amp; ejus Jure. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Perkins</HI>'s Ca&s;es of Con&s;cience. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Hall</HI>'s Ca&s;es of Con&s;cience. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammon</HI>'s Re&s;olution to 6 Quaeries. <HI>In his Practical Di&s;cour&s;es. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Barlow</HI>'s Ca&s;es of Con&s;cience. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>More particularly to render him a good Confe&s;&s;or to the Sick and troubled in Mind.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Kettlewel</HI>'s Companion to the Penitent. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Death made Comfortable. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Wake</HI>'s Preparation for Death. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Go in Peace, being Directions to a Young Di|vine to Admini&s;ter Di&s;cour&s;e to the Nece&s;&s;ities of the Sick. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>&V;pon this Occa&s;ion ought al&s;o to be peru&s;ed,</HI> Lohneri In&s;tructionis Practicae In&s;titutio Tertia, complectens varios &amp;
<PB N="65" REF="51"> Solidos modos Juvandi &amp; con&s;olandi Diver&s;orum Statuum per&s;onas Af|flictas, praecipue aegras &amp; Captivas. Item &amp; Quinta Complectens de Confe&s;&s;ionibus rit&egrave; &amp; fructuo&s;&egrave; Excipendis Doctrinas, tam Generales quam Speciales, ad Varios Hominum Status accommodatas: <HI>As al&s;o</HI> Taylor<HI>'s Holy Dying, being the</HI> Second Part <HI>of his Book, Entituled</HI> Holy Living and Dying. <HI>And that u&s;eful Table of &s;elf Examination at the end of the</HI> Whole Duty of Man.</P>
<P><HI>Now that mo&s;t unrea&s;onable and pernicious re&s;ervedne&s;s of Per&s;ons, in not opening their Con&s;ciences to the Mini&s;ters of our Church, e&s;pecially as they ought, in times of Sickne&s;s, when it concerns 'em &s;o much to take all the Care immaginable, and to require all the A&s;&s;i&s;tance po&s;&s;ible to help 'em to &s;tate their Accounts with God again&s;t the great Audit. Such Contempt, I &s;ay, in the People, of our Gho&s;tly Coun&s;el and Advice, has made this part of Penitential Divinity to be &s;o much uncultivated by our Engli&s;h Divines. The Romi&s;h Church indeed, as they are in nothing more voluminous that in this, &s;o they abound in Confe&s;&s;ories and Penitentials: But in&s;tead of tying up the Con&s;cience to the &s;tricte&s;t Rules of Holy Living, the more peculiar bu&s;ine&s;s of a Ca&s;ui&s;t, by their great Doctrine of Probability, and &s;ome others of the like nature, their Moral and Ca&s;ui&s;tical, tend as much as their Doctrinal Divinity, to encourage Licen|tiou&s;ne&s;s, and to make Mens Con&s;ciences ea&s;ie in a cour&s;e of unrepented &s;ins; as is evident to tho&s;e who have either read their own Authors, or what is Col|lected to our hands, out of 'em, even by the Jan&s;eni&s;ts, Men of their own Com|munion,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the <HI>Je&s;uits Morals. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>And the <HI>My&s;tery of Je&s;uiti&s;m.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI> 5 <HI>Vol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>So that the Romi&s;h Ca&s;ui&s;tical and Penitential Divines, for the mo&s;t part, can be read to little purpo&s;e of benefit, but with great danger of Corruption, ex|cept it be by Learned Men, to enable them to demon&s;trate to the World, how far that Church is Apo&s;tatiz'd in all re&s;pects; Morals, as well as Doctrinals from the Truth of Chri&s;tianity. However the Author above-mentioned, &s;eems to me to have di&s;charged this part of giving us Directions concerning our Vi&s;ita|tion of the Sick, with tolerable Hone&s;ty, as to mo&s;t particulars. And to &s;up|ply the Paucity of Authors of our own upon this Subject, we mu&s;t make up the defect by &s;uch as have written upon the next, and la&s;t general condition of that Covenant e&s;tabli&s;hed by the Mediation of Chri&s;t, betwixt God and Man,</HI> viz.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="74" REF="52">3. Repentance concerning which it is requi&s;ite our Indian Clerks &s;hould be furni&s;h'd.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>With &s;ome of the Writings of the Antients up|on that Subject, if po&s;&s;ible to be had.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Tertullian</HI> de Paenitentia.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> ad Amphilochium Epi&s;tolae Canonicae Tres.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;ii</HI> de Paenitentia contra Novatianos Libri duo.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomus</HI> de compunctione Cordis ad Demetrium.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Ad Stelichium de eodem Argumento.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Ad Theodorum Lap&s;um Paraene&s;is.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;De Paenitentia plurimae Homiliae</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>The&s;e and the like Books written by the Primitive Fa|thers upon the Subject of Repentance and Penance, do infinitely de&s;erve to be read through and through, by every Mini&s;ter of the Church of Chri&s;t; and that not only, as they do mo&s;t admirably de&s;cribe the Nature and mea&s;ures of true Repentance; But al&s;o the Di&s;cipline of the Antient Church, with reference to tho&s;e who had laps'd into hainous Sins. An Account of which, if it were but repre&s;ented to the People in our Di&s;cour&s;es upon that Subject, how far would care|le&s;s Sinners be from thinking that a &s;lender Sorrow, and</HI> a Lord have mercy upon me, <HI>would be &s;ufficient to reconcile them to God after a very wicked Life, and that only upon a Death-bed?</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Penitents for their parts, out of an Holy Indignation again&s;t them&s;elves, for the &s;ins they had committed, did in tho&s;e days furrow their Cheeks with con|tinual weeping, and became pale as Gho&s;ts, by per|petual fa&s;ting;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tertul.</HI> de Paenitentia Lib.</NOTE> <HI>and did day and night &s;upplicate the God of Heaven for his Mercy in their Pardon.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Volo veniam reus &s;perat, petat eam Lacrymis petat gemitibus; petat populi to|tius fletibus: Ut igno&s;catur &amp; ob&s;ecrat: &amp; cum &s;ecundo &amp; terti&ograve; fuerit dilata ejus communio, credat remi&s;&s;ius &s;e &s;upplica&s;&s;e, fletus augeat mi&s;erabilior, po&s;tea rever|&s;us teneat pedes brachiis, o&s;|culetur o&s;culis, lavet fletibus, ut de ip&s;o dicat Dominus Je|&s;us: <HI>Remi&s;&s;a &s;unt Peccata ejus multa quoniam dilexit multum. Ambro&s;e</HI> de Paeni|tentia Lib. primo.</NOTE><HI>And &s;uch was the &s;en&s;e that the Church then had of the di&s;honour done to God by a flagitious Crime, &s;uch as they accounted Fornication, Adultery, Per|jury, Murder,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>that tho' the Penitents did pro&s;trate them&s;elves at the Church doors, and with Lamentations and Moans be&s;ought the Prayers of all that enter'd; embrac'd the Knees and ki&s;s'd the Garments of the Brethren, imploring their In|terce&s;&s;ions with God for Pardon, and that they
<PB N="75" REF="52"> might be admitted here on Earth to Communion: Yet it was not without repeated Importunities, Mor|tifications, and long continu'd Penances, that they were again receiv'd.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And indeed how would it awaken the &s;tupid Wretches in the&s;e wor&s;t of Ages, to find how long the Penance of &s;uch who had fallen into the more deadly &s;ins, was to continue, before they could be admitted to the Peace of the Church? &V;pon Fornication,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> Epi&s;tolas tres ad Amphilochium Canones Paenitentiales de his &amp; hu|ju&s;modi Criminibus conti|nentes.</NOTE> <HI>was impos'd a Penance of four years. &V;pon a Woman that had procured an Abortion, ten. &V;pon Adultery fifteen. For Perjury eleven. Even for an involuntary Mur|ther, &s;uch as we call Man&s;laughter, eleven; and for voluntary Murther was impos'd a twelve years Penance. And not to men|tion more: Tho&s;e who renounced the Faith of Chri&s;t, were not to be admitted till the hour of Death. And though having been taken by Barbarians, they were forc'd thereunto by Torments, yet they were oblig'd to a Penance of eight years be|fore they could be admitted to Communion with the Faithful.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And what then would they have impos'd upon tho&s;e Mi&s;creants of our days, who without force or compul&s;ion; nay, who contrary to our Laws, and in defiance to their Authority and Penalties, do every day, out of the malignity of their own Hearts, deny the everla&s;ting God, and their only Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t; And that with all the &s;pight and &s;corn, not only in Tran&s;ient Di&s;cour&s;e, but in lewd Songs, and prophane Plays, (which being edg'd with Wit, and flying a|broad, do corrupt the Minds of thou&s;ands, beyond their power ever afterwards to retrieve from the horrid Principles they have infus'd into 'em) what la&s;ting Penances I &s;ay, would they have impos'd upon &s;uch? Would they have look'd upon it as a wonderful Honour for&s;ooth, to God and Religion, to have &s;uch whi&s;per privately upon their Death-bed a few Penitential Confe&s;&s;ions within their Curtains? and then upon this would they admini&s;ter to them the Sacra|ment of Reconciliation, tho' they offer not &s;o much as a publick and &s;olemn Recantation of tho&s;e impious Principles they have &s;o indu&s;triou&s;ly propagated, to the infinite Di&s;honour of God, and De&s;truction of tho&s;e Souls for which the Son of God died? Would they not at lea&s;twi&s;e have required &s;o much towards the Reparation of the mi&s;chief done,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Tantum fiat conver&s;io ut qui Deum non Agno&s;ceba|mus, ip&s;i eam jam aliis de|mon&s;tremus. <HI>Amb. de pae|nit.</HI> Lib 1.</NOTE> <HI>as a publick and &s;orrowful Con|fe&s;&s;ion and Declaration to all the World of the &s;incerity of their Conver&s;ion? True it is, as our Church complains in the Office of Commination, that the Primitive Di&s;cipline, as much as it is to be wi&s;h'd, is not ea&s;ily to be re&s;tor'd; but however it is &s;till, and ever will be in our
<PB N="68" REF="53"> Power to declare to Fornicators, Adulterers, Perjur'd Per&s;ons, Murderers and Bla&s;phemers, as &s;he does, the true &s;tate of their Ca&s;e, and to let 'em know the Judgments of God hanging over &s;uch, as do not in the highe&s;t mea&s;ure they can, make Reparation for the Di&s;honour they have done to God, and the Mi&s;|chief they have brought to other Mens Souls. This we may do by letting 'em know, in the Di&s;cour&s;es we make, and the &s;tate we give of true Repentance, that &s;uch a Reparation towards God is as nece&s;&s;ary, as Re&s;titution to Man, to render their Repentance acceptable. For tho' it be commonly &s;aid in the modern way of &s;tating the Nature of Repentance, that God not &s;uffering by whatever we can do again&s;t him, Remi&s;&s;ion will follow upon our hearty Sorrow and Amendment only, but that our Neighbour being really damag'd by the injuries done to him, Re&s;titution mu&s;t be part of that Man's Repentance, who has any wi&s;e wrong'd him in his Reputation or E&s;tate; yet, with Submi&s;&s;ion to better Judgments, I do humbly conceive, that God is as capable of &s;uffering Injury from us as Man. All the Malignity indeed of Men and Devils can't make Him &s;uffer in his E&s;&s;ential Perfections, in his Nature and Happine&s;s, as to Him&s;elf; but his Honour and Authority in the World, which was &s;o dear to Him, that He &s;ent his only Begotten Son into it to Rein&s;tate Him in his Dominion over it, may certainly be impair'd by the &s;candalous Impieties of de&s;perately Wicked Men. And therefore if the Good Name of our Neigh|bour, of which he has been Rob'd by us, mu&s;t as openly, that is, to all the Pur|po&s;es of putting Him right in the Opinion of the World, be ju&s;tifi'd by a Pe|nitent, as it was formerly Defam'd by him; for much greater Rea&s;ons mu&s;t a Bla&s;pheming or Profane Athei&s;t be put upon the &s;olemn and mo&s;t open Decla|ration of his Repentance, and upon &s;uch a Recantation of his Principles and Practices, as will reach as far to the &s;etting God right in the Opinions of Men, as his Lewd Speeches, Songs, Plays, or Books have fled abroad to the Di&s;honour of Him. Thus a late (and till then an unhappy) Gentleman, Sir</HI> Duncomb Colche&s;ter <HI>did; and till &s;uch others as he was, do the like; as, notwith&s;tand|ing the utter lo&s;s of Publick Di&s;cipline, it is &s;till in, and cannot be out of our Power to refu&s;e Private Communion to &s;uch enormous Sinners; &s;o I do hum|bly conceive we ought not to give 'em the Sacrament of Reconciliation till they have done it. But to proceed,</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>As to our Modern Authors upon the Sub|ject of Repentance, it is requi&s;ite our</HI> Indian <HI>Clerks &s;hould be furni&s;h'd with,</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor's</HI> Di&s;cour&s;e of Repentance. 8<HI>o. Or in his Polemical Di&s;cour&s;es.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="69" REF="53">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Ingelo</HI> upon Repentance. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Goodman</HI>'s Penitent Pardon'd. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Pain</HI> upon Repentance. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> of late, or Death-Bed Repentance. <HI>In his Pract. Di&s;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Ellis</HI> of the nece&s;&s;ity of Serious Con&s;ideration, and &s;peedy Repentance, as the only way to be &s;afe both Living and Dying. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>And as Appendant to the Doctrine of Repentance, nothing is more Requi&s;ite, than that they be furni&s;h'd with Tracts both Ancient and Modern.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Upon Fa&s;ting and the Lent-Fa&s;t.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Among&s;t the Ancient Writers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Tertullian</HI> de Jejuniis.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> de Jejunio Sermones tres.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;ius</HI> de Elia &amp; Jejunio.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomus</HI> de Jejunio &amp; Eleemo&s;yna.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Homiliae plurimae.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Among&s;t the Later and more Modern Writers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Dallaeus</HI> de Jejuniis Quadrage&s;imalibus. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Gunning</HI> of the Lent-Fa&s;t. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI> on the Lent-Fa&s;t. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hooper</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e concerning Lent. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2"><PB N="78" REF="54">2. Upon the Power of the Keys, and of Binding and Loo&s;ing.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomus</HI> de Anathemate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> of the Power of the Keys, or of Binding and Loo&s;ing. <HI>Among&s;t his Pract. Di&s;c.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be read,</HI> Thorndike's <HI>E|pilogue</HI> Pa&s;&s;im. <HI>Likewi&s;e</HI> Dodwel of Schi&s;m, Pa&s;&s;im. <HI>In which there is much of this Argument.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<P>But &s;ince it is not enough for a Chri&s;tian to know his Covenant Engagements towards God; but he mu&s;t be al&s;o acquainted with the Means whereby he may effectually perform all tho&s;e Conditions pre|&s;crib'd for the obtaining the Pardon of his Sins, and Eternal Life and Happine&s;s; 'Tis therefore very re|qui&s;ite, that every Pa&s;tor of a Flock &s;hould be fur|ni&s;h'd with &s;uch Books as treat mo&s;t judiciou&s;ly, both of that Divine A&s;&s;i&s;tance, which is the &s;upernatural means whereby we &s;hall be enabl'd to di&s;charge our Obligations towards our Maker; and al&s;o of Prayer and the Sacraments, which are the Moral and Po&s;itive Means; the former of which is pre&s;crib'd by God as the way to obtain, the latter ordain'd as the means to convey this Grace to the Souls of Men; whereby they may be enabld to perform all the Conditions requir'd of them by Chri&s;t in the Covenant, of which we are now &s;peaking. And accordingly it is requi&s;ite he &s;hould have under his Peru&s;al; As,</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="79" REF="54">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> Concerning Divine A&s;sistance.</HEAD>
<P>The Authors before-mention'd, <HI>p.</HI> 64, and 65. So,</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> Concerning Prayer, e&s;pecially the Lord's Prayer.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Among&s;t the Ancient Writers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Tertullian</HI> de Oratione. <HI>In quo Tractatu exponit etiam O|rationem Dominicam.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cyprianus</HI> de Oratione Dominica.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Origenes</HI> de Oratione.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>In quo Libro de Natura, Vi, Varii&s;|que Orandi generibus, &amp; de Oratione Dominica accurat&egrave; &s;atis agit, praeter qu&ograve;d quaedam haud &s;atis &s;ana Dogmata, idque</HI> &ggr;&ugr;&mgr;&ngr;&eecirgr; &tgr;&eegragr; &kgr;&egr;&phgr;&agr;&lgr;&eecirgr; <HI>profert, &amp; quae vix ullis coloribus excu&s;ari po&s;&s;unt Dr.</HI> Cave <HI>Hi&s;t. Liter.</HI> p. 83.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorii</HI> Ny&s;&s;eni de Oratione Dominica Homiliae 5.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Synop&s;is Patrum in Orationem Dominicam. <HI>Trever.</HI> 1643.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ecloge ex diver&s;is Sancti <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomi</HI> Homiliis de Oratione. <HI>Par.</HI> 1647.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Among&s;t the Later Writers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Amyraldus</HI> in Orationem Dominicam.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Tower&s;on</HI> on the Lord's Prayer. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Hopkins</HI> on the Lord's Prayer. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Bright</HI> on Prayer. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pettis</HI> on Prayer. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e concerning Prayer. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>As al&s;o Sir</HI> Matthew Hales <HI>at the latter end of his Contemplations, Part</HI> 2. Rawlet <HI>in his Book on the Decalogue: And al&s;o Dr.</HI> Barrow <HI>in his Book on the Decalogue. On which Subject al&s;o may be read, the Sy&s;tems and Bodies both Schola&s;tical and Catechetical</HI> in locum de Oratione.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="72" REF="55">
<HEAD><HI>III.</HI> Concerning the Sacraments.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> For explaining the general Nature of Sacra|ments.</P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Tower&s;on</HI> of the Sacraments in general.</P>
<P>N. <HI>The School-men have written with much &s;ubtilty and nicene&s;s upon the Subject, and may be u&s;efully enough read</HI> in lo|cum de Sacramentis. <HI>And there is al&s;o much excellent Learning on this Subject in</HI> Dodwel <HI>on Schi&s;m,</HI> Pa&s;&s;im.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Particularly for the Explication of each Sacrament di&s;tinctly.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Of Bapti&s;m.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Among&s;t the Ancient Writers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Tertullian</HI> de Bapti&s;mo.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sti. <HI>Paciani</HI> Libellus de Bapti&s;mo ad Catechumenos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sti. <HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> de Bapti&s;mo, Lib. 2.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorii Nazianzeni</HI> Oratio in Sanctum Bapti&s;ma.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;ii</HI> de Initiandis Liber.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; De Sacramentis Libri 4.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> Vice Comes de Antiquis Bapti&s;mi Ritibus.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Among&s;t the Later and Modern Writers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Vo&s;&s;ius</HI> de Bapti&s;mo, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Harduini</HI> de Bapti&s;mo Quae&s;tio triplex. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Aqua Genitalis, <HI>at the end of</HI> Men&s;a My&s;tica.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Tower&s;on</HI>'s Fourth Part on the Catechi&s;m. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="89" REF="55">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> of Infant Bapti&s;m. <HI>In his Pract. Di&s;|cour&s;es.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hicks</HI>'s Ca&s;e of Infant Bapti&s;m. <HI>In the</HI> London Ca&s;es</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Walker</HI>'s Plea for Infant Bapti&s;m. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Indecency and Unlawfulne&s;s of Baptizing in Private without nece&s;&s;ity. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be read the Schoolmen with other Bo|dies both Schola&s;tical and Catechetical upon the Sacrament of Bapti&s;m.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> And as Appendant to the Doctrine of Bap|ti&s;m, it will be very requi&s;ite to have Writers upon the Doctrine of Confirmation.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor</HI> of Confirmation. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> de Confirmatione. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI> of Confirmation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Camfield</HI> of Confirmation. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be read Dr.</HI> Cumber upon <HI>the Office of Confirmation in his Companion to the Temple, as al&s;o Bp.</HI> Pa|trik<HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e upon it, in his</HI> Aqua genitalis, <HI>from p.</HI> 489. <HI>to the end.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> Of the Lords-Supper.</P>
<P><HI>First,</HI> Among&s;t the Antient Fathers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomi</HI> plurimae Homiliae.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>There is little to be found of &s;et Di&s;cour&s;e towards the Explication of this Sacrament, in the Writings of the Fathers, by rea&s;on of the Humour then among&s;t them to conceal the My&s;teries (for &s;o they then affected to call this Sacrament e&s;pecially) from the Infidels and Catechumens.</HI></P>
<PB N="90" REF="56">
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Among&s;t later and more Modern Writers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ho&s;piniani Hi&s;toria Sacramentaria, 2 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Cudworth,</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI> or <HI>Fol. At the end of his</HI> Intellectual Sy&s;tem.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Tower&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patricks</HI> Men&s;a My&s;tica 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Glanvil</HI> on the Sacrament. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Pelling</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;es on the Sacrament. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Horneck</HI>'s Crucify'd Je&s;us. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kettlewel</HI> on the Sacrament. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rawlet</HI> on the Sacrament. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<P>Farthermore, being the end of all that Divine Know|ledge before mention'd, is to enable the Pa&s;tor to feed his Flock with all that is nece&s;&s;ary to Salvation, and &s;ince Preaching (now that Catechi&s;ing is &s;o much ne|glected, more is the pity) is become in a manner, the &s;ole Method of Publick In&s;truction; The better to enable our <HI>American</HI> Pa&s;tor both skilfully and &s;ucce&s;s|fully to apply thereby, the Knowledge he has made him&s;elf Ma&s;ter of, to the greate&s;t good of tho&s;e Souls committed to his Charge, it will be very requi&s;ite he &s;hould be furni&s;h'd with the be&s;t Precedents and A&s;|&s;i&s;tances to that purpo&s;e; if not with the Antient Homi|lies of the mo&s;t Renowned Preachers among&s;t the Fathers (which are ea&s;ier wi&s;h'd than obtain'd) at lea&s;t|wi&s;e
<PB N="91" REF="56"> with the Sermons of later Writers; But e&s;pecially I mu&s;t in&s;i&s;t upon having &s;ome of the Modern Sermons of our Engli&s;h Divines, which as they are (many of them) incomparably the be&s;t, and the exacte&s;t Perfor|manes of that nature, and there are &s;carce any of the forementioned Subjects of Practical Divinity which have not been handled in them; &s;o the be&s;t Di&s;cour&s;es of that kind are doubly nece&s;&s;ary for our <HI>Indian</HI> Pa&s;tor, namely both to the farther improvement of his own Under&s;tanding in tho&s;e great Terms of Mans Salva|tion, and al&s;o for his Imitation in his own Compo&s;ures of that Nature for the Edification of his People.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>1.</HI> As to Antient Homilies.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> Homiliae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Gregorii Ny&s;&s;eni</HI> Homiliae, Conciones &amp; Orationes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorii Nazianzeni</HI> Orationes.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Johannis Chry&s;o&s;tomi</HI> Homiliae quamplurimae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Augu&s;tini</HI> Homiliae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alcuini Collectio Sermonum veterum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Combeficii Bibliotheca Patrum Concionatoria, 8 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>That wonderful, and that incomparable Spirit of Piety, Force and Energy, &s;o remarkable in the Di&s;cour&s;es of the&s;e Holy Fa|thers; This I &s;ay, in Conjunction with the great Accuracy of our Modern Compo&s;ures, would render our Di&s;cour&s;es &s;uch, as for their Authority and Weight, would be fit to be utter'd by the Me&s;&s;engers of God, and by their Hea|venly Air, Life and Spirit would demon&s;trate we our &s;elves</HI> &tgr;&agragr; &asagr;&ngr;&ohgr; &phgr;&rgr;&ogr;&ngr;&egr;&icirgr;&ngr;.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="92" REF="57">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> As to the later and more Modern Di&s;cour&s;es of this kind.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Latin.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Hoornbeck</HI> Theologiae practicae Tomi 2. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Engli&s;h Sermons.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Sander&s;on</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Wilkin</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Farrindon</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Litleton</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Matthew Hales.</HI> Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Ward</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Hopkin</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Outram</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Needham</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Claget</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Calamy</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Glanvil</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Burton</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Barrow</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Conant</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Marchs.</HI> Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kettlewel</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arch-Bp. <HI>Tillot&s;on</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stillingfleet</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>South</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Wake</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dorrington's. Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Norris</HI>'s. Sermons.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>To which might be al&s;o added many others of Per&s;ons now living, but want to be Collected.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<P>Hitherto we have been providing only for a Peace|able and Practical Divinity, who&s;e &s;ole tendency be|ing to reduce us from the Slavery of Satan to the Obe|dience of God; to promote in us an Holy Life: And then to humble us in the Sen&s;e of its Imperfection by &s;ending us to the Mediation of Chri&s;t for the Accep|tance thereof to our Ju&s;tification; The&s;e being I &s;ay, the Noble ends of the Chri&s;tian Religion; 'tis pitty
<PB N="93" REF="57"> that we who are its Mini&s;ters, &s;hould be troubl'd with any Amu&s;ements to di&s;tract us from being &s;erviceable in &s;uch its Glorious De&s;igns to the Reformation and Benefit of Mankind: And therefore it is not without the greate&s;t regret that I can think of admitting Pole|mical Di&s;cour&s;es into our Foreign Libraries, wi&s;hing that the Church of God might be built like <HI>Solomon</HI>'s Temple, without the noi&s;e of Axes and Hammers: But &s;ince through the Artifice of Satan, the Corrupt Seed of Here&s;ie and Error has been heretofore, and will be hereafter &s;ow'd in the Church, to the Subver&s;ion of a &s;ound Faith, and the good Life of too many; to ob|viate or cure the Poy&s;on thereof, there is too &s;ad an occa&s;ion for admitting &s;ome Controver&s;ial Divi|nity, even into our Parochial Libraries. And to be|gin.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>I. <HI>With the Papi&s;ts,</HI> to under&s;tand the State of that Con|trover&s;ie</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>As preparatory, it will be requi&s;ite to read Hi&s;tori|cal Accounts.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Forbe&s;ii</HI> In&s;tuctiones Hi&s;torico-Theologicae. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fa&s;ciculus Rerum Fugiendarum &amp; Expetendarum, 2 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here in this later we may &s;ee how &s;en&s;ible the be&s;t Men among&s;t the</HI> Ante-Trent <HI>Papi&s;ts were of the Corruptions of their Church, and how de|&s;irous of their Reformation.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>F. Paul</HI>'s Hi&s;tory of the Coun&s;el of <HI>Trent. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Steidan</HI>'s General Hi&s;tory of the Reformation of the Church from the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of <HI>Rome. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="94" REF="58">
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Burnet</HI>'s Hi&s;tory of the Reformation of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> 2 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stripe</HI>'s Life of Arch-Bi&s;hop <HI>Cranmer, Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lud. Seckendorf</HI> Commentarius Hi&s;toricus, &amp; apolo|geticus de Lutherani&s;mo, &s;ive de Reformatione Religionis Mart. Lutheri contra Lud. Maimbourg. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Spanhemii</HI> Chri&s;tianae Religionis apud Genevos re&s;titutae Hi&s;toria. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>It is nece&s;&s;ary in or|der to make a true Judgment of the different Per&s;ua&s;ions of Men, to know the Hi&s;tory of their Occa&s;ion, In|tere&s;t, Ri&s;e, Progre&s;s,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>by which alone we may &s;ee a great way into the Nature and Tendency of their Doctrines, proportionably to the Good or Evil of which, they are worthy to be received or rejected.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>To enter into the Merits of the Cau&s;e, it will be requi&s;ite to have more or le&s;s of the following Works.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Chemnitii Examen Concilii Tridentini. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dan. Chamieri</HI> pan&s;tratia Catholica, &s;ive Controver&s;iarum de Religione adver&s;us Pontificios Corpus, 2 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Epitome Pan&s;tratiae Cath. Chamieri per Spanhemium, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vorstii</HI> Anti-Bellarminus.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>M. Anton.</HI> de Dominis Archiep. Spal. de Rep. Chri&s;tiana, 3. <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Field</HI> of the Church, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Joh.</HI> and <HI>Francis White</HI>'s Works, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dallaei varia, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>De Sacramentali &s;ive Auricu|lari Confe&s;&s;ione, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>De Confirmatione &amp; Extre|ma Unctione Latinorum, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Adver&s;us Latinorum de Cultus Religio&s;i objecto Tradition. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>De vero u&s;u Patrum, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>&V;&s;her</HI>'s An&s;wer to the Je&s;uits Challenge, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="95" REF="58">
<ITEM>Arch-Bi&s;hop <HI>Bramhal</HI>'s Works, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor</HI>'s Di&s;&s;wa&s;ive again&s;t Popery, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chillingworth</HI> again&s;t <HI>Knot. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Arch-Bi&s;hop <HI>Laud</HI> again&s;t <HI>Fi&s;her. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stilling fleet</HI>'s Vindication of Arch-Bi&s;hop <HI>Laud. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Idolatry of the Church of <HI>Rome.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Defence of it. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rawlet</HI>'s Dialogue and An&s;wer to a Popi&s;h Catechi&s;m. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Barrow</HI> of the Pope's Supremacy. 4<HI>o. Or in his Works,</HI> Fol.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Ca&s;es of the <HI>London</HI> Divines again&s;t the Papi&s;ts; with &s;ome of the other mo&s;t con&s;iderable Tracts Written in the la&s;t Reign again&s;t Popery.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> Again&s;t the Socinians.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> As Preparatory to under&s;tand and confute that Here&s;ie, it may be requi&s;ite to read,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>The Ancient Hi&s;tory of the Antitrinitarians as we find it in</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Eu&s;ebius, Socrates, Sozomen,</HI> &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Cave</HI>'s Eccle&s;ia&s;tici, or Lives of the Fathers in the Fourth Century.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Te&s;timonies and Writings of the Fathers again&s;t the Hereticks who deny'd the Doctrine of the Holy and ever Ble&s;&s;ed Trinity.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> As to the former, <HI>viz.</HI> The Te&s;timonies of the <HI>Ante-nicene Fathers</HI> concerning the Ortho|dox Faith in this matter; A Learned Col|lection of the&s;e may be &s;een in,</P>
<LIST>
<PB N="96" REF="59">
<ITEM>Doctoris <HI>Bulli</HI> Defen&s;io Synodi <HI>Nicenae.</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Judicium Eccle&s;iae Catholicae trium primorum &s;eculorum, de Nece&s;&s;itate Credendi Je&s;um e&s;&s;e ve|rum Deum. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> As for the Writings of the Fathers who liv'd at, or &s;oon after, the Council of <HI>Nice,</HI> and who have written in Defence of the Catho|lick Faith, it may be of good u&s;e for tho&s;e who can be &s;o far Ma&s;ters of them, to pe|rufe,</P>
<P>Polemica
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Athana&s;ii.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ba&s;ilii Magni.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorii Nazianzeni.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;ii.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tomi.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hieronymi.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Augu&s;tini.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> Contra Arianos.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> To enter nearer into the Merits of the Cau&s;e, it is exceedingly nece&s;&s;ary at this time, that the Clergy &s;hould have under their peru&s;al, &s;ome at lea&s;t, of the&s;e following Books.</P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Addi&s;on</HI>'s Hi&s;torical Account of the Here&s;ie, denying the Godhead of Chri&s;t.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>A&s;hwel</HI> de Socino &amp; Sociniani&s;mo. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Herein we have an Hi&s;torical Account of the Author of that Here&s;ie, and his Artifices and Methods in propagating his wicked Principles.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cloppenburgii</HI> Compendiolum Sociniani&s;mi Refutatum. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>cui premi&s;&s;a e&s;t Prefatio Hi|&s;torica de Origine &amp; progre&s;&s;u Sociniani&s;mi.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<PB N="97" REF="59">
<ITEM>Synop&s;is Errorum Socinianorum &s;ub Prae&s;ide <HI>Jo. Oleario Lip&s;iae,</HI> 1695. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Smiglecii</HI> nova mon&s;tra Sociniani&s;mi. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo. Hoornbeck</HI> Sociniani&s;mi Confutati Tom. Tres. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Edwards</HI>'s Pre&s;ervative again&s;t Sociniani&s;m. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregory</HI>'s Divine Antidote. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Milbourn</HI>'s Vindication of the My&s;teries in Religion. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Norris</HI>'s Account of Rea&s;on and Faith, in relation to the My&s;teries of Chri&s;tianity, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stilling fleet</HI>'s Sermon concerning the My&s;teries of Faith.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; A Di&s;cour&s;e in Vindication of the Trinity, with an An&s;wer to the late Socinian Objections again&s;t it from Scripture, Antiquity, and Rea&s;on. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Of the Doctrine of Chri&s;t's Satisfaction. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Amyraldus</HI> de Trinitate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Archbi&s;hop <HI>Tillot&s;on</HI> concerning the Divinity and Incarna|tion of our Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Williams</HI>'s Vindication of the Arch-bi&s;hops Sermons concerning the Divinity and Incarnation of our B. Saviour, and of the Bp. of <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI>'s Sermon on the My&s;teries of our Chri&s;tian Faith. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bi&s;terfieldius</HI> de uno Deo contra Crellii Librum de Deo Patre. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Placaei Di&s;putatio de Incarnatione J. Chri&s;ti. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dan. Whitby</HI> de vera Chri&s;ti Deitate. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Grotius</HI> de &s;atisfactione Chri&s;ti. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Outram</HI> de Sacrificlis Judaeorum, Gentium profanarum, nec|non de Sacrificio Chri&s;ti adver&s;us Socinum, <HI>Lond.</HI> 1677. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chr. Wittichii</HI> Cau&s;a Spiritus Sancti in Tertia Per&s;ona a&s;&s;erta. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be &s;een in Bp.</HI> Bar|low's <HI>Remains,</HI> p. 73. Syllabus Quae&s;tionum praecipuarum quae inter Socinianos reliquo&s;que Eccle&s;iae Reformatae, &s;imul ac Pontificiae Theo|logos ventilantur.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="98" REF="60">
<HEAD><HI>III.</HI> Again&s;t the Di&s;&s;enters from our Church.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> In General, again&s;t all of 'em, of what De|nomination &s;oever.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Upon the Account of their Errors in Faith and Practice, by rea&s;on of tho&s;e</HI> Antinomian <HI>Doctrines &s;o rife a|mong&s;t that Party of Men e&s;pecially; tho' &s;ome of them, it mu&s;t be acknowledg'd to their Honour, have worthily labour'd to expel the Poy&s;on of that Pe&s;ti|lential Here&s;ie.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hi&s;tory of <HI>Antinomians.</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI>'s Aphori&s;ms of Ju&s;tification and the Covenant.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Catholick Theology. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI>'s Knowledge of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, 2 Vol. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dan. Williams</HI>'s Go&s;pel Truth &s;tated and vindicated; wherein &s;ome of Dr. <HI>Cri&s;p</HI>'s Opinions are con&s;idered, and the oppo&s;ite Truths &s;tated and confirmed. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>To which purpo&s;e may be al&s;o read tho&s;e Authors mention'd above,</HI> p. 73. <HI>in the fir&s;t Note.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Upon the Account of their Seperation and Schi&s;m from our Communion and Service; and in Defence therefore of our Liturgy and Wor&s;hip.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Comber</HI>'s Schola&s;tical Hi&s;tory of the Primitive and General u&s;e of Liturgies in the Chri&s;tian Church, with an An&s;wer to <HI>David Clark&s;on</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e concerning Liturgies in Two Parts 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Examiner Examin'd, being a Vindication of the Hi&s;tory of Liturgies. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="99" REF="60">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Durel</HI>'s View of the Government and Publick Wor|&s;hip of God in the Reformed Churches beyond Seas al&s;o Hi&s;torically &s;hewing their Conformity and Agree|ment with the Church of <HI>England,</HI> as it is E&s;tabli&s;h'd by the Act of Uniformity. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Hammond L'E&s;trange</HI>'s Alliance of Divine Offices. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hooker</HI>'s Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Polity. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI>'s View of the New Directory, and a Vin|dication of the Ancient Liturgy of the Church of <HI>Eng|land. In his Pract. Di&s;cour&s;es.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Falkner</HI>'s Libertas Eccle&s;ia&s;tica, or a Di&s;cour&s;e Vindica|ting our Liturgy and Wor&s;hip. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stilling fleet</HI>'s Mi&s;chiefs of Seperation. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Unrea&s;onablene&s;s of Separation. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI>'s Defence of Dr. <HI>Stillingfleet</HI>'s Unrea&s;ona|blene&s;s of Separation. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; A Vindication of the Defence. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Williams</HI> brief Defence, in an&s;wer to Mr. <HI>Mather</HI>'s Brief Di&s;cour&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ca&s;es again&s;t the Di&s;&s;enters, by the <HI>London</HI> Divines. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>King</HI>'s Inventions of Men in the Wor&s;hip of God, with the Defence. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Allen</HI>'s Per&s;wa&s;ive to Peace and Unity a|mong&s;t Chri&s;tians. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o may be read, St.</HI> Cyprian de Unitate Eccle&s;iae.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> In Particular, again&s;t the &s;everal Sects, with reference to their particular Principles re|&s;pectively,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Again&s;t the Quakers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hi&s;tory of the Quakers. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Quakers &s;et in their true Light, by <HI>Francis Bug,</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Keith</HI>'s &s;everal Di&s;cour&s;es, &s;hewing how they Al|legorize away all the Principles of Chri&s;tianity.</ITEM>
<PB N="100" REF="61">
<ITEM>A Friendly Conference between a Mini&s;ter and his Pa|ri&s;hioners. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Vindication thereof. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Allen</HI>'s Di&s;covery of the danger of Enthu|&s;ia&s;m in an Ep. to the Quakers. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Snake in the Gra&s;s, or Satan transform'd into an Angel of Light, di&s;covering the deep and un&s;u&s;pected &s;implicity of many of the Principal Leaders of the Quakers. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Again&s;t the Ana-Bapti&s;ts.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hi&s;toria Ana-Bapti&s;tarum. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Authoritates Patrum contra Ana-Bapt. Collectae &agrave; <HI>Ti|manno Borcken&s;e</HI> Col. 1671.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Allen</HI>'s &s;erious and friendly Addre&s;s to the Nonconformi&s;ts, beginning with the Ana-Bapti&s;ts. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI>'s Review of the State of Chri&s;tian Infants. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;More Proofs of Infant Church Member&s;hip, and con&s;equently of their Right to Bapti&s;m. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o read Dr.</HI> Hammond<HI>'s fourth Query in his Pract. Di&s;cour&s;es.</HI> Walker<HI>'s Plea for Infant-Bapti&s;m. Dr.</HI> Hick<HI>'s Ca&s;e of Infant-Bapti&s;m,</HI> ut &s;upra.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Again&s;t Independents.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Walker</HI>'s Hi&s;tory of Independency. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Allen</HI>'s Catholici&s;m, or &s;everal Enquiries, touching vi&s;ible Church-Member&s;hip, Church-Commu|nion, the nature of Schi&s;m, and u&s;efulne&s;s of National In&s;titutions, for the furtherance of Religion. <HI>Among&s;t his Works.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Lamb</HI>'s fre&s;h Suit again&s;t Independency.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="4"><PB N="101" REF="61">4. <HI>Again&s;t the Presbyterians, in Defence of Epi&s;|copacy.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>&V;&s;&s;erius</HI> de Eccle&s;iarum Chri&s;tianarum Succe&s;&s;ione &amp; &s;tatu. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Pear&s;on</HI>'s Vindiciae Ignatii Epi&s;tolarum. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Lloyd</HI>'s account of the Church-Government in the&s;e Kingdoms. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stilling fleet</HI>'s Origines Ecce&s;ia&s;ticae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Heylin</HI>'s Hi&s;tory of the Presbyterians. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>The&s;e for the Hi|&s;torical part, whether in reference to the Catholick Church in General, or the Churches of</HI> Britain <HI>in Particular.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> adver&s;us Blondellum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Woodhead</HI>'s Account of Ancient Church-Govern|ment. 4<HI>o.</HI> 1662.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Maurice</HI>'s Defence of Dioce&s;an Epi&s;copacy, in An&s;wer to Mr. <HI>David Clark&s;on.</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Campegii</HI> Utringiae Archy&s;ynagogus ob&s;ervationibus no|vis Illu&s;tratus, quibus veteris Synagogae Con&s;titutio tota traditur, inde deducta Epi&s;coporum Presbyte|rumque Primae Eccle&s;iae Origine. 1685. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<PB N="102" REF="62">
<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<P>And &s;ince it has been found by Experience in every Age, that the &s;ucce&s;s of all our Labours, whether in Preaching or Di&s;puting, depends entirely, in a man|ner, upon the Holine&s;s of our Lives: And through the Malignity of the World, (which is more quick-&s;ighted to di&s;cern the minute&s;t Failures, than the mo&s;t &s;hining Vertues of the Mini&s;ters of Religion) the &s;can|dals of one vicious Clerk &s;hall Influence a Pari&s;h to more Wikedne&s;s, and occa&s;ion the Peoples running more into Here&s;ie and Schi&s;m, than the Indu&s;try and Piety of Ten the mo&s;t Vertuous and Laborious of the Clergy &s;hall be able to retrieve from either: To compleat our <HI>American</HI> Clergy for the Purpo&s;es of their Mini&s;try, and our Libraries al&s;o, for the Purpo&s;es of making 'em fit for it, and &s;ucce&s;sful in it: It is de|&s;ir'd they &s;hould have always before 'em &s;uch Authors as will fir&s;t direct 'em in their Studies, Offices, and Duties, and excite them to Care and Vigilance in the Practice of them: <HI>Secondly,</HI> As will lay before them the Be&s;t Examples of each to be a Copy and Pattern for them to follow: And <HI>La&s;tly,</HI> &s;uch Materials and Helps for Devotion, as will advance 'em to the high|e&s;t degrees of Perfection in a Holy and Spiritual Life.</P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="103" REF="62">
<HEAD><HI>I.</HI> As to the Mini&s;terial In&s;tructions, relating to the Di&s;|charge of our Office, Preaching and Practice.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> Among&s;t the Ancients may be read,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorii Nazianzeni</HI> Apologeticus de Fuga &s;ua.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ambro&s;ius</HI> de Officiis.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo. Chry&s;o&s;tomi</HI> de Sacerdotio. Lib. 6.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sti. <HI>Nazianzeni</HI> de Theologia Oratio prima.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stus. <HI>Hieronimus</HI> de Vita Clericorum ad Nepotianum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Augu&s;tini</HI> de Pa&s;toribus in <HI>Ezekielis,</HI> Cap. 34. Liber.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; De ovibus in eundem locum Liber.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gregorii</HI> Pa&s;torale.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sententiae Patrum de Officio veri Rectoris Eccle&s;iae.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Among&s;t the Later and more Modern Writers.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>As to the proper Directions to form our Studies and Reading.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Jo. G. Vo&s;&s;ius</HI> de &s;tudiorum Ratione.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Grotius</HI> aliique de &s;tudiorum Ratione. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Hi&s;tory of the Choice and Method of Studies. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Stephanus Gau&s;&s;enius</HI> de Ratione Studii Theologici. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Johannes Mabellonius</HI> de Studio Theologico.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Dodwel</HI>'s two Letters of Advice. 1. For the Su|&s;ception of Holy Orders. 2. For Studies Theological, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are Rational. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Penton</HI>'s Apparatus ad Theologiam. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Barlow</HI>'s Remains. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2"><PB N="104" REF="63">2. <HI>As to Directions for Preaching and Catechi&s;ing.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> As Preparatory to Preaching, <HI>Era&s;mus</HI> in his excellent Book <HI>de Ratione concionandi,</HI> p. 254. pre&s;cribes and prefers before others,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Demo&s;thenes.</HI> Et</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cicero.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>N.</HI> Nullus e&s;t, quem <HI>Demo&s;theni</HI> &amp; <HI>Ciceroni</HI> prae|feramus, vix etiam quem Conferamus &s;an&egrave; quod attinet ad dictionis virtutes. <HI>Ari&s;toteles</HI> ad Judicandum &amp; cognitionem conducit plurimum, ad popularem dictionem non ita multum. <HI>Plato</HI> long&egrave; ad hoc accom|modatior, fu&s;us &amp; Jucundus, &amp; per &s;imilitudines veluti manu deducens ad veri cognitionem. In <HI>Livianis</HI> tamen Orationibus, aut &s;i eas non explicet, in proponendis con&s;iliis, plurimum e&s;t tum prudentiae, tum Eloquentiae. <HI>Cornelius Tacitus</HI> alioqui duriu&s;culus, in orationibus acu|tus e&s;t &amp; copio&s;us.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> As to the Books more immediately u&s;eful for the Compo&s;ing of Sermons.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cau&s;abon</HI> of Preaching as anciently us'd. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Wilkin</HI>'s Eccle&s;ia&s;tes. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Glanvil</HI>'s E&s;&s;ay concerning Preaching. 8<HI>o. And for Directions to Catechi&s;e.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Augu&s;tinus</HI> de Catechizandis Rudibus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Addi&s;on</HI>'s Primitive In&s;titution. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="3">3. <HI>As to Directions which concern both the Exerci&s;e of our Mini&s;try in Preaching and Catechi&s;ing, and the conduct and innocency al&s;o of our Lives.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Era&s;mi</HI> Eccle&s;ia&s;tes, &s;ive de Ratione Concionandi. Libri 4.</ITEM>
<PB N="105" REF="63">
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Herbert</HI>'s Country Par&s;on. <HI>A Book ine&s;timable for its Piety.</HI> 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI>'s Gildas Salvianus. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Burnet</HI>'s Pa&s;toral Care. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The late Vi&s;itation Charges of the pre&s;ent
<LIST>
<ITEM>A. Bp. of <HI>Dublin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. of <HI>Worce&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. of <HI>Che&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. of <HI>Bath</HI> and <HI>Wells.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. of <HI>Roche&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lohneri</HI> In&s;tructio Practica. 6 Vol. 8<HI>o. Dilingiae.</HI> 1682.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>This Book in In|different</HI> Latin <HI>contains very good In&s;truction, I &s;hall here &s;ubjoin an account of the &s;ubject Matter thereof in the Authors own Words:</HI> <Q REND="margDblQuotes">Hi Libri con&s;tant novem partibus &s;ive In&s;tructionibus, prima de Mi&s;&s;ae Sacrificio juxta Ritum Eccle&s;iae Romanae Offerendo; Secunda de Horis Canonicis juxta Rubricas Breviarii Romani Recitandis:</Q> <HI>Quo utroque Argumento parum quidem e&s;t quod ad In&s;titutum Mini&s;trorum Reformatorum attinet, at Sequentibus non ita.</HI> <Q REND="margDblQuotes">Tertia enim In&s;titutione agit de Conver&s;atione Apo&s;tolica &agrave; Curatoribus Animarum pi&egrave; &amp; fructuos&egrave; in&s;tituenda; Complectens varios &amp; &s;olidos modos Juvandi &amp; Con&s;olandi diver&s;orum Statuum Per&s;onas afflictas, praecipu&egrave; aegras &amp; Cap|tivas. Quarta continet Doctrinas &amp; Indu&s;trias, ad Pa&s;torale Munus pi&egrave;, fructuos&egrave;, ac &s;ecur&egrave; obeundum pertinentes, un&agrave; cum ca&s;ibus frequentibus cir|ca idem officium occurrere &s;olitis, &amp; ex communiore Doctorum &s;en&s;u deci&s;is. Quinta complectitur de confe&s;&s;ionibus rit&egrave; &amp; fructuos&egrave; excipiendis Doctrinas, tam Generales, quam &s;peciales ad varios Hominum &s;tatus accommodatas. Sexta In&s;titutiones Quintuplicis Theologiae, po&s;itivae, A&s;ceticae, polemicae, Speculativae, &amp; Moralis complectitur. Septima e&s;t de Munere Concionandi, Exhortandi, Catechizandi. Octava continet In&s;titutiones Theologiae My&s;ticae. Et Nona denique agit de Sacerdotii Origine &amp; prae&s;tantia, variis item in|du&s;triis, &amp; praxibus, quibus Sacerdotes boni ad Dei Gloriam, &s;uamque &amp; proximi &s;alutem promovendam u&s;i &s;unt; Malorum quoque &s;acerdotum In|felici Interitu, radicibus, &amp; remediis; To which may be added, as of more particular concernment to tho&s;e who are Mi&s;&s;ionaries.</Q></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;ephi</HI> Aco&s;ta de natura Novi Orbis Libri duo, &amp; de promulgatione Evangelii apud Barbaros; &s;ive de pro|curanda Indorum &s;alute. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Godwyn</HI>'s Negro's Advocate. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<PB N="106" REF="64">
<ITEM><HI>Th. Gonzales</HI> Manuductio ad Conver&s;ionem Mahumeta|norum. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>II.</HI> As to &s;uch Writings as lay before the Clergy the best Ex|ample in all the Parts of the Mini&s;terial Office (a kind of Reading of exceeding good u&s;e, the influence of Examples, which is a living Rule, being va&s;tly beyond the power of Pre|cepts, which in re&s;pect of the other, are but a dead Letter) upon this Subject therefore it may be very requi&s;ite that the Or|thodox Clergy of our Church &s;hould have always before their Eyes, &s;uch as follow, <HI>viz.</HI></HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor</HI>'s Life of Chri&s;t, <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Cave</HI>'s Lives of the Apo&s;tles and Primitive Fathers, 3 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ellies Du Pin</HI>'s new Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Hi&s;tory, 7 <HI>Vol. Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Melchior Adamus de Vitis Theologorum Exterorum prin|cipum qui Eccle&s;iam Chri&s;ti Superiori &s;eculo propagarunt, &amp; propugnarunt, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Camerarii Vita Melancthonis.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Humphrey</HI>'s Life of Bp. <HI>Jewel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Burnet</HI>'s Life of Bp. <HI>Bedel,</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Fell</HI>'s Life of Dr. <HI>Hammond,</HI> 8<HI>o. or before his Practical Di&s;cour&s;es.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jack&s;on</HI>'s, <HI>Bramhal</HI>'s, <HI>Mede</HI>'s, <HI>Lightfoot</HI>'s, <HI>Barrow</HI>'s Lives be+fore their Works</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vernon</HI> or Life of Dr. <HI>Heylin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bernard</HI>'s Life of Dr. <HI>Heylin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>J&s;aac Walton</HI>'s Lives of
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Don,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Herbert,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir. <HI>Henry Wooton,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Sander&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="107" REF="64">
<P>N. <HI>Here al&s;o I would particularly recommend to the reading of a Mini&s;ter, all tho&s;e virulent Books that are Written by our Enemies on all Hands, on purpo&s;e to be&s;patter us. For as the Excellent</HI> Plutarch <HI>in his Book</HI> de capienda ex Ho&s;tibus Utilitate, <HI>&s;hews, the be&s;t Rules and Mea&s;ures for an ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">t Government of our Lives, are to be taken from our Enemies, who do narrowly watch our Failings.</HI> Quid Impedit quo minus gratis <HI>docentem</HI> magi&s;trum admit|tentes inimicum, utilitatem capiamus,<NOTE PLACE="marg">&tgr;&igragr; &Kgr;&ohgr;&lgr;&uacugr;&egr;&igr; &dgr;&igr;&dgr;&aacugr;&sgr;&kgr;&agr;&lgr;&ogr;&ngr; &asggr;&mgr;&igr;&sgr;&thgr;&ogr;&ngr; &lgr;&agr;&bgr;&oacugr;&ngr;&tgr;&agr;, &tgr;&ogragr;&ngr; &esmogr;&khgr;&thgr;&rgr;&ogragr;&ngr;, &amp;c. Plu. ib.</NOTE> &amp; ali|quid eorum quae nos latebant di&s;camus, multa enim inimicus amico facilius &s;entit, cum ama|tor, ut <HI>Plato Ait,</HI> caecutiat in amata re. <HI>And that we may the better know how to reap advantage from our Enemies, I cannot too much commend to our peru&s;al the Book now nam'd,</HI> viz. De Capienda ex Ho&s;tibus utilitate <HI>Plutarchi</HI> Libellus. <HI>Inter Moralia.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD><HI>III.</HI> As to &s;uch Writings as will more immediately &s;erve our Devotion, and tend to advance us to the highe&s;t Degrees of Perfection in the Spiritual Life.</HEAD>
<P><HI>First,</HI> For Reading.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ephraem Syri Opera Omnia cum Scholiis <HI>Ger. Vo&s;&s;ii.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Ba&s;ilii</HI> A&s;cetica &amp; Moralia.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Hieronymi</HI> A&s;cetica &amp; Moralia.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancti <HI>Augu&s;tini</HI> A&s;cetica &amp; Moralia.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bibliotheca Patrum A&s;cetica, &s;ive Selecta Patrum de Chri|&s;tiana &amp; Religio&s;a perfectione Opu&s;cula, 3 <HI>Vol.</HI> 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. Per Scientiam A&s;|ceticam intelligitur ea quae ad perfectionem obtinendam, at&abque; ad Vitia Eradicanda, Vertute&s;que plantandas Ordinatur: tanto&abque; magis nece&s;&s;aria e&s;t Pa&s;tori, quanto magis proprium e&s;t illius Officium, Animas &s;ibi commi&s;&s;as dirigere &amp; Juvare, ut qui&s;&abque; perfectionem &s;uo &s;tatui convenientem con&s;equatur. <HI>Lohneri In&s;truc. Pract.</HI> 4<HI>ta. p.</HI> 24.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Bernardi</HI> Opera.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomae a Kempis</HI> Opera, praecipue de imitatione Chri&s;ti.</ITEM>
<PB N="108" REF="65">
<ITEM><HI>Ger&s;onis</HI> Cancellarii Pari&s;ien&s;is Opera.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Era&s;mi</HI> Enchiridion Militis Chri&s;tiani, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Drexellii Opera.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sales</HI> Bp. of <HI>Geneva</HI>'s Introduction to a Holy Life, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bellarmini</HI> Opu&s;cula, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>De A&s;centione Mentis ad Deum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Aeterna faelicitate Sanctorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Gemitu Columbae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>De 7 Verbis Chri&s;ti in Cruce.</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Arte bene Moriendi.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Par&s;on</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Directory or of Holy Re&s;olution, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Card. <HI>Bonae,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Manuductio ad Coelum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Principia &amp; Documenta Vitae Chri&s;tianae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Via Compendii ad Deum.</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Divina P&s;almodia, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Horologium A&s;ceticum, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lud.</HI> Granaten&s;is Opu&s;cula Spiritualia Varia.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cau&s;in</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Diary, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Entertainments for Lent, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Drellincourt</HI> on Death 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI> on Death, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Judgment, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Horneck</HI>'s Great Law of Con&s;ideration, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; Happy A&s;cetick, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Delight and Judgment, 12.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>The&s;e and the like Books in which there is found a more than ordinary Spirit of Piety, Devotion and Heavenly-minded|ne&s;s, are &s;uch as will &s;carcely fail to mould tho&s;e into a like temper of mind, who are much conver&s;ant in them; even as we are in&s;en&s;ibly form'd into the Ha|bits and Manners of tho&s;e per&s;ons with whom we con&s;tantly conver&s;e; and there|fore I think that Books of this nature cannot be too much under our Eye.</HI></P>
<PB N="109" REF="65">
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> To promote Religious Conference among&s;t us, ought to be often read.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Goodman</HI>'s Winter Evenings Conference, 3 <HI>Parts,</HI> 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>Chri&s;tianity being the highe&s;t and noble&s;t Philo&s;ophy, as the Primitive Fathers where wont to &s;tile it, and lov'd to call it, it becomes us who are its Mini&s;ters, upon all occa&s;ions, and in all manner of becoming Methods, to expre&s;s our Sentiments of it as &s;uch; And therefore if we &s;carcely ever find two or three of the Antient Philo&s;ophers met together, but the Re&s;ult was &s;ome excellent Di&s;qui&s;ition upon Morality, as may be &s;een in</HI> Cicero, Plutarch, <HI>and others; How infinitely becoming our Character and Profe&s;&s;ion is it, to make the great things of another World the Subject of our Conver&s;ation, and never to break up, till (as a great Prelate of our Church was wont to call upon his Friends to do, before they parted,) we have warm'd each others Hearts with an Affection to the things above. And therefore as to create in us a contempt of all Di&s;cour&s;e when we meet together that &s;avours in the lea&s;t of Froth and Levity; and to inure our &s;elves to a Manly Con|ver&s;ation, as it would be of good advantage in our reading of</HI> Plato<HI>'s,</HI> Cicero's, <HI>and</HI> Plutarch<HI>'s Morals, nicely to ob&s;erve the antient way of Dialogues, that we may learn how with dexterity to introduce, and with a right management to carry on a Philo&s;ophic and Elevated Conver&s;ation; &s;o to perfect it by making it Religious and Divine, we cannot too often read the now mentioned</HI> Winters Evening Conference, <HI>as al&s;o Dr.</HI> Hen. Moor<HI>'s</HI> Divine Dialogues, <HI>recom|mended above,</HI> p. 26. <HI>if it were only on purpo&s;e to form our Souls into the like Divine Spirit and Genius with tho&s;e Excellent Writers.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> To direct us in the Excellent Art of Di|vine Meditation:
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Barth. Riccius</HI> de modo rect&egrave; Meditandi de rebus Divinis, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lud.</HI> Granaten&s;is de Oratione &amp; Meditatione, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Hall</HI>'s Art of Divine Meditation, in his Works.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Meditations, in his Works.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Contemplations, in his Works.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gerardi</HI> Meditationes, in his Works.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="110" REF="66">
<P><HI>La&s;tly,</HI> Helps for Actual Devotion.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>For the better Performance of Publick Wor&s;hip.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Sparrow</HI>'s Rationale on the Common-Prayer, 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Beveridge</HI>'s Sermon concerning the Excellency and U&s;efulne&s;s of the Common-Prayer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Comber</HI>'s Companion to the Temple. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Helps for private Devotion.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Wittenhal</HI>'s Enter into the Clo&s;et. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Wilkins</HI>'s Gift of Prayer. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI> of <HI>Winwick,</HI> his Practical Chri&s;tian, or Devotions in Four Parts. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Devout Chri&s;tian. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Inet</HI>'s Guide to the Devout Chri&s;tian. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Andrew</HI>'s Manual of Private Devotions. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Gr. &amp; Lat. &egrave; Theatro. 12<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A. Bp. <HI>Laud</HI>'s Devotions for the Hours of Prayer. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Co&s;ins</HI>'s Hours of Prayer.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>N. <HI>The&s;e latter have provided De|votions for the &s;everal Hours of Prayer, which is both a Primitive, and mo&s;t excellent Method of Devotion. As to its Antiquity, &s;ee</HI> Cardinal Bona de Divina P&s;almodia, <HI>who C.</HI> 3, &amp;c. De varia Diei &amp; noctis Di|vi&s;ione, <HI>does treat upon that Subject. And as for the excellency of this Pri|mitive Method of Devotion, I &s;uppo&s;e it mu&s;t needs tend to maintain alive the Fire of the Altar, to have it &s;o frequently &s;tir'd up; be&s;ides, that the determinate Times call upon us to that, which, if left to be perform'd at plea|&s;ure, will be in great danger of being forgot or neglected, through the multi|tude of bu&s;ine&s;s. And I could wi&s;h that there were &s;ome &s;hort Ejaculations and Prayers collected out of our</HI> P&s;alms <HI>and</HI> Collects <HI>for the Country People, which by the frequent hearing of 'em in our Divine Service, would be ea&s;ily got by Heart. And as the &s;hortne&s;s thereof would make it ea&s;ie for 'em to lift up their Souls in Pious Thoughts, without Interuption to, nay in the mid&s;t of their worldly Imployments; &s;o that con&s;tant Exerci&s;e of &s;uch Devotion re|curring
<PB N="111" REF="66"> every third Hour in the Day, would elevate their Spirits Heaven|ward, and keep 'em up in a perpetual Elevation above the things of this World. But to proceed, there only wants to compleat the Provi&s;ion of Books I would de&s;ire for Devotion, and with that the fir&s;t Theological part of our Parochial Libraries, to have &s;ome of the be&s;t Sacramental Devotions, of which the Piety of Learned Men of our own Church have furni&s;h'd us, of late Years, with &s;uch excellent choice;</HI> as,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Sacrifice, 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Weeks Preparation for the Sacrament.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>N. <HI>Al&s;o upon this oc|ca&s;ion may be us'd, Sacramental Devotions at the end of the</HI> Whole Duty of Man; <HI>as al&s;o,</HI> Kettlewel<HI>'s Help and Exhortation to Devout and Worthy Communicating.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="112" REF="67">
<HEAD>A Draught of Books made out of the fore|going Catalogue, and upon all, or mo&s;t of the foregoing Heads, and in the &s;ame Order and Connection as they there lye; con&s;i&s;ting of one or two upon each Theolo|logical Point, and given here as a Spe|cimen, how it is intended to divide the whole Catalogue among&s;t the &s;everal Pa|ri&s;hes.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>I. Upon the Divine Exi&s;tence and Providence.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Pelling</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e on the Exi&s;tence of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI> upon Providence.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>II. Upon Natural Religion.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Wilkins</HI> of Natural Religion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Boyle</HI> of the u&s;e of Rea&s;on in Religion.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<PB N="113" REF="67">
<HEAD>III. Upon the Scripture.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>For the Text it &s;elf.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Novum Te&s;tamentum. <HI>Grae. Oxon. Var. Lec.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Engli&s;h Bible. 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>To under&s;tand the meaning of the Text.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. To under&s;tand &s;ome of the more important parts of Scripture-Matter, as the Scripture and concurrent Hi&s;tory, Chronology, Geography, and Jewi&s;h Cu&s;toms.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>&V;&s;&s;erii</HI> Annales Veteris &amp; Novi Te&s;tamenti. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Lightfoot</HI>'s Works. 2 Vol. <HI>Fol.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. To explain difficult places of Scripture.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Commentators upon the whole Bible.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Heideggeri</HI> Annaly&s;is Generalis &s;ingulorum V. &amp; N. T. Librorum.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pool</HI>'s Synop&s;is Criticorum. 5 Vol.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Expo&s;itors of &s;ome of the more concerning Parts thereof.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI> upon <HI>Gene&s;is.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Upon <HI>Job, P&s;alms, Proverbs,</HI> and <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes.</HI> 5 Vol.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> upon the New-Te&s;tament.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Oxford</HI> Paraphra&s;e upon St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Epi&s;tles.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="114" REF="68">
<P>Thirdly, <HI>For the more skilful Application of Scripture, according to various Occa&s;ions.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Petri Ravanelli</HI> Bibliotheca Sacra: Being a Concordance of things.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cambridge</HI> Concordance for Words.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IV. To prove the Truth, and to under&s;tand the De|&s;ign of Chri&s;tianity.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>To prove the Truth of Chri&s;tian Religion.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stillingfleet</HI>'s Origines Sacrae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Williams</HI>'s Sermons at Mr. <HI>Boyle</HI>'s Lecture.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Parker</HI>'s Demon&s;tration of the Divine Authority of the Chri&s;tian Religion.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>To under&s;tand the De&s;ign of Chri&s;tianity.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>A. Bp. <HI>Teni&s;on</HI> of Idolatry.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Fowler</HI>'s De&s;ign of Chri&s;tianity.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Henry Moor</HI>'s My&s;tery of Godline&s;s.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>V. For Bodies of Divinity.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Schola&s;tical.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Philippi a Limborch</HI> Theologia Chri&s;tiana.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Turretini</HI> Compendium Theologiae.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Le Blanc</HI>'s The&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>And to &s;ecure the Reader from Imbibing the Heterodoxes of either of which, contrary to the Doctrine of our Church, may be added,</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Joh. Elis</HI> Articulorum 39 Eccle&s;iae Anglicanae Defen&s;io, un&agrave; cum eorundem ver&s;ione.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="115" REF="68">
<P>Secondly, <HI>Catechetical.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI>'s Practical Catechi&s;m together with his other Practical Di&s;cour&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Scot</HI>'s Works. 4 Vol. 8<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VI. Upon the Doctrine of the Covenant of Grace.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>General.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Allen</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e of the Nature, Ends, and Difference of the two Covenants.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Upon the Particular Articles.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The Mercies on God's part.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Ju&s;tification or Pardon of Sins.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Allen</HI>'s Chri&s;tians Ju&s;tification &s;tated.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Divine Grace and A&s;si&s;tance.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Allen</HI> of Divine A&s;&s;i&s;tance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Claget</HI> of the Operations of the Holy Spirit. 2 Vol.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Everla&s;ting Life and Happine&s;s.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Baxter</HI>'s Saints everla&s;ting Re&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor</HI>'s Contemplations of the State of Man.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. The Conditions to be perform'd on our part.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>On the Doctrine of Faith, and the Articles ne|ce&s;&s;ary to be believ'd.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Pear&s;on</HI> on the Creed.</ITEM>
<PB N="116" REF="69">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Barrow</HI> on the Creed.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kettlewel's</HI> Practical Believer.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>On the Doctrine of Evangelical Obedience.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Whole Duty of Man.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kettlewel</HI>'s Mea&s;ures of Chri&s;tian Obedience.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>And as Appendant thereunto for Ca&s;ui&s;tical Divinity.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Sander&s;on</HI> de Obligatione Con&s;cientiae.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash; His Ca&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Taylor</HI>'s Ductor Dubitantium.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>More particularly, in order to a&s;sist the Sick.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Kettlewel</HI>'s Companion to the Penitent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Wake</HI>'s Preparation for Death.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>On the Doctrine of Repentance.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Ingelo</HI> on Repentance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Goodman</HI>'s Penitent Pardon'd.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>And as Appendant thereunto, upon Fa&s;ting.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI> on the Lent-Fa&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hooper</HI>'s Di&s;cour&s;e concerning Lent.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VII. On the Means enabling us to perform the Co|venant.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Divine Grace and A&s;si&s;tance.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Allen</HI> and Dr. <HI>Claget</HI> ut &s;upra.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="117" REF="69">
<P>Secondly, <HI>Prayer.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI> concerning Prayer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Barrow</HI> on the Lord's Prayer.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>The Sacraments.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Bapti&s;m.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Aqua Genitalis. <HI>At the end of his</HI> Men&s;a My&s;tica.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hicks</HI>'s Ca&s;e of Infant Bapti&s;m. <HI>At the end of the</HI> London Ca&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>And as Apendant to the Doctrine of Bapti&s;m, or Confirmation.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> de Confirmatione.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Camfeild</HI> on Confirmation.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. On the Lord's Supper.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Men&s;a My&s;tica.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rawlet</HI> on Sacramental Covenanting with God.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>VIII. Sermons.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Barrow</HI>'s Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Calamy</HI>'s Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arch-Bpi&s;hop <HI>Tillot&s;on</HI>'s Sermons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Dorrington</HI>'s Sermons.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IX. Controver&s;ies.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>With the Papi&s;ts.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Chillingworth</HI> again&s;t <HI>Knot</HI> Abridg'd.</ITEM>
<PB N="118" REF="70">
<ITEM><HI>Rawlet</HI>'s Dialogue and An&s;wer to a Popi&s;h Catechi&s;m.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Again&s;t the Socinians.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stillingfleet</HI>'s Sermon on My&s;teries.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;A Di&s;cour&s;e in Vindication of the Trinity.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Of the Doctrine of Chri&s;t's Satisfaction.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Again&s;t the Di&s;&s;enters.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. In General of what Denomination &s;oever they be, who are,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Doctrinally Erroneous,</HI> viz. <HI>Antinomians.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI>'s Knowledge of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, 2 <HI>Vol.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Baxter</HI>'s Aphori&s;ms of Ju&s;tification and the Covenant.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Schi&s;matically &s;uch.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Stillingfleet</HI>'s Mi&s;chiefs and Unrea&s;onablene&s;s of Separation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ca&s;es again&s;t the Di&s;&s;enters by the <HI>London</HI> Divines.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>King</HI>'s Inventions of Men in the Wor&s;hip of God.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. In particular again&s;t the &s;everal Sects in refe|rence to their peculiar Principles.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Again&s;t the Quakers.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Allen</HI>'s Di&s;covery of the Danger of En|thu&s;ia&s;m in an Ep. to the Quakers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Snake in the Gra&s;s.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Again&s;t the Anabapti&s;ts.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Allen</HI>'s Serious and Friendly Addre&s;s to the Nonconformi&s;ts beginning with the Anabap|ti&s;ts.</ITEM>
<PB N="119" REF="70">
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Hicks</HI>'s Ca&s;e of Infant Bapti&s;m, <HI>ut &s;upra.</HI> p. 89.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Again&s;t Independants.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Allen</HI>'s Catholici&s;m, or general Enquiries touching Vi&s;ible Church-Member&s;hip, Church-Com|munion, the Nature of Schi&s;m, and U&s;efulne&s;s of National Con&s;titutions for the furtherance of Religion.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>Again&s;t the Presbyterians, in Defence of Epi&s;copacy.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Woodhead</HI>'s Account of Antient Church-Government, 4<HI>o.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Maurice</HI>'s Defence of Dioce&s;ian Epi&s;copacy in An|&s;wer to <HI>David Clark&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>X. Mini&s;terial In&s;tructions.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>For &s;uch as direct us in our Studies, and in the Di&s;|charge of our Offices and Duties, and excite us to Care and Vigilance in the Practice of 'em.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Burnet</HI>'s Pa&s;toral Care.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The late Vi&s;itation Charges, <HI>ut &s;upra,</HI> p. 105:</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>And as Appendant thereunto, but of more particu|lar Concernment to tho&s;e who are Mi&s;&s;ionaries.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;ephi</HI> Aco&s;ta de procuranda Indorum Salute.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Secondly, <HI>For &s;uch Writings as lay before the Clergy the be&s;t Examples to be a Copy and a Pattern for 'em to follow.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Cave</HI>'s Lives of the Apo&s;tles and Primitive, Fathers.</ITEM>
<PB N="120" REF="71">
<ITEM><HI>Ellies Du Pin's</HI> new Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Hi&s;tory.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I&s;aac Walton</HI>'s Lives <HI>ut &s;upra</HI> p. 106.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>As to &s;uch Writings as will more immediately &s;erve our Devotion, and tend to advance us to the highest Degrees of Perfection in the Spiritual Life.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. For Reading.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Sherlock</HI> on Death.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&mdash;Judgment.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Horneck</HI>'s Great Law of Con&s;ideration.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="2">2. To promote Religious Conference among&s;t us.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dr. <HI>Goodman</HI>'s Winters Evening Conference.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="3">3. To a&s;&s;i&s;t us in Divine Meditation.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Hall</HI>'s Art of Divine Meditation.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gerardi</HI> Meditationes.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="4">4. Helps for Actual Devotion.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Devout Chri&s;tian.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arch-Bp. <HI>Laud</HI>'s Devotions for the hours of Prayer.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>And la&s;tly, as Apendant thereunto, to a&s;&s;i&s;t us in our Sacramental Devotions.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Bp. <HI>Patrick</HI>'s Chri&s;tian Sacrifice.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kettlewel</HI>'s Help to Devout and Worthy Communicating.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="proposals">
<PB N="121" REF="71">
<HEAD>PROPOSALS For the Incouragement and Promoting of Religion and Learning in the Foreign Plantations; And to Induce &s;uch of the Clergy of this Kingdom, as are Per&s;ons of Sobriety and Abilities to accept of a Mi&s;&s;ion into tho&s;e Parts.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHEREAS</HI> the Propagation of the Chri&s;tian Faith, and the Increa&s;e of Divine Knowledge, a|mong&s;t all &s;orts of Per&s;ons in His Maje&s;ty's Foreign Planta|tions, are the Wi&s;hes, De&s;ires, and Prayers, of all Pious and Serious Christians, and &s;uch as are Zealous of God's Glory, and the Salvation of Mens Souls. <HI>AND WHEREAS</HI> that Ble&s;&s;ed Work, next under God, does principally depend upon the Abilities of the Clergy in tho&s;e Parts, the Exemplari|ne&s;s of their Lives, and their Industry in Teaching others; <HI>WHEREAS ALSO</HI> the Clergy, that are already in the Plantations, as well as tho&s;e who are to be &s;ent thither, cannot (Humanly &s;peaking) be &s;o capable of Informing them&s;elves,
<PB N="122" REF="72"> and of In&s;tructing others in the de&s;ign of Christianity, in the Nature of the Covenant of Grace, in the Meaning and Im|portance of the Articles of our most Holy Faith, and in the Nature and Extent of all Chri&s;tian Duties, without the A&s;si|&s;tance of &s;ome good Commentators upon the Holy Scriptures; and one, at lea&s;t, or more of tho&s;e Authors, who have be&s;t treated upon each, and every of tho&s;e Points. <HI>WHEREAS ALSO</HI> for the &s;upply of that Want, Men of Parts and ad|dicted to Study, will hardly be induced to leave the Expectations they may have of better Encouragement and Improvement in their Native Country, to go to remote Parts and Climates le&s;s agreeable, without &s;uch Advantages, as will over-balance all Con&s;iderations inclining 'em to &s;tay at home; and, e&s;pecially, not without a competent Provi&s;ion of &s;uch Books, as are nece&s;&s;ary for their Studies in tho&s;e Places where they are to &s;erve: (Few of them that go over from hence, being able to furni&s;h them|&s;elves with &s;o many Books as they &s;hall need.) <HI>AND, LASTLY, WHEREAS</HI> In&s;ufficiency and Scandal in the Clergy of tho&s;e places, in all probability, would he most &s;uc|ce&s;sfully prevented, both in this and future Ages, &s;hould every Parochial Mini&s;ter in the Plantations have a &s;ufficient Libra|ry of well-cho&s;en Books, of all tho&s;e kinds before-mentioned, in which he might &s;pend his time to his own Satisfaction, and with Improvement and Profit to him&s;elf and others.</P>
<P><HI>TO PROMOTE THERFORE</HI> &s;o Ble&s;&s;ed and Noble an End, as the propagation of Chri&s;tian Knowledge in tho&s;e Parts; and as well to encourage tho&s;e who are there al|ready employ'd in the Mini&s;try; as al&s;o to invite over other able Mini&s;ters, and to furni&s;h both, with proper Means for accompli&s;h|ing
<PB N="123" REF="72"> &s;o good a Work; <HI>IT IS HUMBLY</HI> offered to all that are hearty Well-wi&s;hers to the Souls of Men, and the Honour of their Saviour, to con&s;ider, and as they &s;hall &s;ee Cau&s;e, to favour the&s;e Propo&s;als following.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1. THAT</HI> a Catalogue being made of what particular Books are judg'd mo&s;t immediately and nece&s;&s;arily U&s;eful, for a Parochial Mini&s;ter, wherewith he may be &s;ufficiently enabled both to Inform him&s;elf, and to Instruct others, in all the Nece&s;&s;ary and E&s;&s;ential parts of Chri&s;tianity; &s;o many of &s;uch Libraries be &s;ent by the Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> by the Hands of &s;uch as his Lord&s;hip &s;hall Commi&s;&s;ion for that pur|po&s;e, to be Appropriated and Affixed, one to each Pari&s;h in the Foreign Plantations, particularly tho&s;e of <HI>Mary-Land,</HI> and farther as the Fund to be be rai&s;ed &s;hall enable.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. THAT</HI> every Parochial Library &s;hall be Affixed in a decent and large Room of the Par&s;onage-Hou&s;e of &s;uch Pa|ri&s;h, there to remain to the &s;ole U&s;e of the Minister thereof for the time being, unto all future Generations, and to be as <HI>UNALLIENABLE</HI> as any other the Rights and Dues of the Church, which are A&s;certained by Law.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3. THAT</HI> in Order to the Pre&s;ervation of every &s;uch Library to &s;ucceeding Ages without Lo&s;s (as far as can be Hu|manly provided in any thing of that kind) there be made an exact
<PB N="124" REF="73"> Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Library of each Pari&s;h; and that every &s;uch Catalogue be fairly written in four Books of Vellum provided for that purpo&s;e: The fir&s;t whereof to be left with the Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>London</HI> for the time being; a &s;econd with his <HI>Comi&s;&s;ary,</HI> or &s;ome chief Clergy-man in every of tho&s;e Plantations where &s;uch Libraries are provided; and a third to remain in the re&s;pective Libraries them&s;elves: and a fourth to be depo&s;ited in the <HI>Ve&s;try</HI> of each of the &s;aid Pari&s;hes.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4. THAT</HI> the <HI>COMMISSARY</HI> be obliged, at lea&s;t once in three Years, Per&s;onally to make a <HI>Parochial Vi&s;itation;</HI> And then, be&s;ides the Charge of his Duty in other re&s;pects, that it be incumbent al&s;o upon him, particularly to In&s;pect the <HI>Parochial Libraries,</HI> and to &s;ee that none of the Books be Imbezell'd or Lo&s;t: And that the Church-Wardens of each Pa|ri&s;h be al&s;o obliged, every Year, before the Vi&s;itation, to inform them&s;elves in what Condition the &s;aid Books are, and to Pre&s;ent accordingly at the Vi&s;itation.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5. THAT</HI> for further Security to pre&s;erve them from Lo&s;s and Imbezelment, and that they may be known where-ever they are found; in every Book, on the one &s;ide of the Cover, &s;hall be Letter'd the&s;e Words, <HI>SUB AUSPICIIS WILLI|ELMI III.</HI> on the other &s;ide the Name of the Pari&s;h to which the&s;e Books do belong: <HI>EX. GR. E. BIBLIOTHE|CA DE MARY-TOWN: E. BIBLIOTHECA DE JAMES-TOWN,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6. THAT</HI> the Mini&s;ter of each Pari&s;h, his Heirs and Admini&s;trators, may be obliged, by Virtue of an Act of A&s;&s;embly provided and made for that purpo&s;e, to make good what Books &s;hall be Imbezelled or Lo&s;t by his fault.</P>
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<HEAD>MEANS of obtaining &s;uch Parochial Li|braries.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> THat Application be made to the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, for their Charitable Contributions to &s;o Pious a Work; and e&s;pecially that the Merchants and Traders to the Foreign Plantations be earne&s;tly call'd upon, as Per&s;ons principally concern'd, to encourage this De&s;ign: It being mo&s;t rea&s;onable to expect, that in Gratitude to God, and the Inha|bitants of tho&s;e Plantations, the <HI>more plentifully they have reaped of their Temporal Things, the more liberally they &s;hould &s;ow to them in Spiritual Things.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> That Application be al&s;o made to &s;uch Learned Authors as are now living, that they would be&s;tow &s;ome of their own Books, which &s;hall be judged u&s;eful to the Purpo&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
<P><HI>La&s;tly,</HI> In Gratitude to the Benefactors towards this Pious De&s;ign, all tho&s;e who &s;hall Contribute any thing thereun|to; &s;hall have their Names and re&s;pective Summs; And the Authors &s;hall have the number of Books given by 'em, tran&s;|mitted to Po&s;terity, by being Registred in Books kept for that purpo&s;e in each of the Libraries, and depo&s;ited in the <HI>Ve&s;try</HI> of every Pari&s;h.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>THE CONCLUSION,</HI> Shewing the Pre&s;ent State of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion</HI> in <HI>Mary-Land,</HI> and what farther is now doing in that Colony towards the Pro|moting the &s;ame, taken from the Account of His Maje&s;ty's <HI>Secretary</HI> in that Province.</HEAD>
<P>SInce it gives the greate&s;t Encouragement to con|trive good for a People, that they appear di&s;pos'd to receive it; I cannot conclude this Di&s;cour&s;e more appo&s;itely, than with a &s;hort Repre&s;entation of what is now actually doing in the Colony where the&s;e Li|braries are de&s;ign'd, towards promoting of Religion and Learning; and that by the Inhabitants them&s;elves, under the Influence of an excellent Governour.</P>
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<P><Q REND="margDblQuotes">In the Year 1691. His Maje&s;ty having graciou&s;ly thought fit to take the Government of <HI>Mary-Land</HI> in|to his own Hands, and the Province into His imme|diate Care, in <HI>May</HI> 1692. An Act of A&s;&s;embly pa&s;&s;ed for the E&s;tabli&s;hment of the Prote&s;tant Reli|gion there, and for dividing the Ten Counties there|of into five and twenty Pari&s;hes, each of which are endowed with a Competent Maintenance for a Mini|&s;ter; But the Execution of that Act was in a manner wholly neglected, till it pleas'd His Maje&s;ty to Con|fer the Government on the mo&s;t Worthy and Ex|cellent Per&s;on <HI>Francis Nicol&s;on,</HI> E&s;q; who &s;ince his Arrival in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1694. with an indefatigable In|du&s;try and Zeal to Promote His Maje&s;ty's Honour, the Intere&s;t of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and the Good of the whole Province, hath Reviv'd and Re|inforc'd the &s;aid Act by another additional one, for the Increa&s;e and Maintenance of Religion, hath Collected the Arrears, and is now Building &s;everal Churches, be&s;ides one fine Church at <HI>Annopolis</HI> in <HI>Arundel</HI> County, with a Par&s;onage-Hou&s;e to every Church; towards all which, His Excellency, the Council, and other Inhabitants of the Province have Generou&s;ly and Largely Contributed.</Q></P>
<P><Q REND="margDblQuotes">And that a perpetual Succe&s;&s;ion of Prote&s;tant Divines of the Church of <HI>England</HI> may be provided for the Propagation of the True Chri&s;tian Religion in the &s;aid Colony; His Excellency hath by the Con&s;ent of the Councel and Burge&s;&s;es in A&s;&s;embly, Promo|ted
<PB N="128" REF="75"> a Law, Ve&s;ting a Power in certain Tru&s;tees for Erecting one Free-School in each County: One of which is already begun at <HI>Annopolis,</HI> and is endow'd with 100 <HI>l. per Annum,</HI> for the Maintenance of one Ma&s;ter and two U&s;hers, for the In&s;tructing the Youth of the &s;aid Province in Arithmetick, Navi|gation, and all u&s;eful Learning; but chiefly for the fitting &s;uch as are di&s;pos'd to Study Divinity, to be farther Educated at his Maje&s;ty's College-Royal in <HI>Virginia,</HI> in order upon their Return, to be Ordain'd by the Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>London</HI>'s Suffragan, Re&s;iding in the Province, both for that purpo&s;e, and to Supervi&s;e the Lives of the Clergy thereof; for who&s;e Support al&s;o at the Reque&s;t and Recommendation of the A&s;|&s;embly, His Excelltency hath &s;ettled a Fair and Com|petent Maintenance.</Q></P>
<P>This may be &s;ufficient to &s;hew &s;uch as are di&s;pos'd to Good Works, and who&s;e Duty it is to be Di&s;creet and Prudent in ordering their Charity to the be&s;t Pur|po&s;es, as well as to be Bountiful according to their Ability; that here are a People as wel di&s;pos'd to re|ceive Benefit by a Learned and Indu&s;trious Clergy, as can be wi&s;h'd or de&s;ir'd. And therefore to induce So|ber, Serious and Studious Young Divines to go to the Foreign Plantations, and to Qualifie 'em to An&s;wer the Ends of their Mi&s;&s;ion, I could not think of &s;o proper a Means, as to provide them, each with a Collection of Choice and U&s;eful Books; and to perpetuate an U&s;eful Clergy there, to fix the&s;e Parochial Libraries in the
<PB N="129" REF="75"> Par&s;onage-Hou&s;es, for the perpetual U&s;e of tho&s;e who &s;hall &s;ucceed them.</P>
<P>And &s;urely a more &s;uitable encouragement to Men of Good Parts and Inclinations, to go upon &s;o Ble&s;&s;ed a Mi&s;&s;ion &s;carcely can be thought of; for as it is Good Books alone which will encourage the mo&s;t Studious, Vertuous, and con&s;equently the mo&s;t U&s;eful Per&s;ons to go over; &s;o it is an Encouragement that is in a manner nece&s;&s;ary to be provided in the Foreign Plan|tations; Since few or none at their fir&s;t going over, are in a Condition to provide them&s;elves therewith: And when they are there, Books are not to be met with by tho&s;e who &s;hall be able buy 'em; and yet without a Competent Provi&s;ion of &s;everal U&s;eful and Nece&s;&s;ary Books, (I cannot forbear often to repeat this) it is Morally impo&s;&s;ible that any &s;hould be ena|bled to In&s;truct their People.</P>
<P>And now that &s;uch excellent Works are begun and carry'd on by an excellent Governour, and well di&s;po&s;ed People, what a happy Conjuncture is this for Per&s;ons who are Piou&s;ly di&s;pos'd, to give their helping Hand to|wards &s;uch Ble&s;&s;ed and Glorious De&s;igns, as the Pro|pagating of True Chri&s;tian Knowledge and Practice in Places formerly &s;o much uncultivated therewith? Surely, if <HI>he who Converteth a &s;ingle Sinner from the Error of his ways, &s;hall hide a multitude of &s;ins,</HI> What abundant matter of Comfortable Reflection upon a Death-Bed &s;hall that Per&s;on lay up, who &s;hall Contribute to|wards
<PB N="130" REF="76"> providing of the mo&s;t Proper and Genuine Means, next to the Divinely In&s;pired Writings, of Converting many poor Souls, not only in this, but in all future Generations, even <HI>&s;o long as the Sun and Moon endureth.</HI></P>
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