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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65239	An humble apologie for learning and learned men by Edward Waterhous, Esq.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1653 (1653)	Wing W1048; ESTC R826	172,346	272

when he is in danger who hath turned a deafe ear to the prayers of the poor since the Moralist sayes true He that when he had power to help would not destroyes Hearken to this all ye who have had opportunities to procure peace and prevent war to save effusion of Christian blood to forbid blasphemies against God and vexations of men who might have saved many mens hearts from breaking and families from itrecoverable ruine ye who have had the Sun and Moon of Greatnesse standing for a long time still in the heavens of your families ye that have had life and death weale and woe your Pensioners consider well whether you have done your duties if so 't is well You have your reward in the peace of a good conscience if not you shall have your requitals both here and hereafter for as he said well They erre who meditate on power as their way to glory and supremacy and not rather to procure the peace and welfare of others and shall onely have cause to joy in so much thereof as they have improved to the honour of God and weale of men I do not deny Christian Magistrates use of the sword as well to the punishment of wickednesse and vice as the encouragement of those that do well I know there are necessary severities which men in power do and may expresse in order to preservation and publick peace the Politicians are generally for this nay God himselfe useth this method The Lord is not lesse known by the judgements he executeth then the mercies he multiplyes on man There is also much to be said from the wisdome of this world in defence of exactnesse in this case the Orator tels us that as in bodies natural the amputation of one corrupted member saves the whole from a Gangreen and death so in the Body Politick The tye on Magistrates is not that they should not punish offenders but that they should not make men offenders who are not so nor proceed against men only for words nor punish them with death when lesser punishments may reform and not ruine them but proportion to every one such testimonies of their displeasure as may render Rulers formidable and frowning on those that break the peace and make other men hear and fear and do no more presumptuously St Augustine tels Judges their duties excellently They saith he ought to keep the high road of justice not to turn to the right hand by over-much favour nor to the left by over exact rigour To which add that of the Civilians Iudex debet habere duos sales scientiae ne sit insipidus conscientiae ne sit diabolicus These cautions admitted punishments may be and are usefull yet Saints should have a care how they are too busie with the weapons and artillery of this world If Christs Kingdom be not of this world then not theirs if Christs and theirs be one Nay so long as he would not make use of Legions of Angels which he had and said too he had upon call to defend his innocency against a lawful though an ill-used Power I see not what ground Christians have to rest on that arm which he declined or to use force in any way but what is according to godlinesse and honesty for otherwise to do were to incur Saint Bernard's censure Omnes amici omnes inimici omnes necessarii omnes adversarii omnes domestici nulli pacifici omnes proximi omnes quae sua sunt quaerunt I know 't is the mode of men to indulge themselves and their friends Acharnan Lysimachus Alexanders Master would call himself a Phoenician that is learned Alexander Achilles and King Philip Peleus disdaining other men as thimbles full of dust and the goodly braveries of his scorn It is familiar to pardon faults to Favourites while men out of their Books though never so worthy cannot find mercy This purple Robe this equipage of State follows men whom times and titles honour In mine account worthy men are not paid Chequer pay if they receive lesse then the courtesie of England honour and estimation Falshood and Flattery are no good heads in a Christians Alphabet whom it more concerns to be pious and good then politick and great The Maxims of this world are husks fit for the King of Heavens Prodigals who have expended their Patrimony of grace and interest in God on vanities to feed upon This Babel which they have built for the glory of their fancied Kingdom they may boast of the Lord give me that Wisdome that inflates not that Riches which corrupts not that Power which abuseth not it self by abusing others yea the Lord direct me more to look to his glory in this and all indeavours then to mine owne applause or to that censure which worthy actions have met with from worthless ages I confesse my expectations are to meet with few who will salute my Apologie with that fair language that Diogenes did the Harper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Persons of tender heads and sleepy constitutions are often offended at the Bell-man whom those more healthy like and cherish To these I say as our Lord to his Disciples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The generous and virtuous people and Powers of the Nation will consider what Agrippa the noble Counsellour and Favourite of Octavian said to him Virtue onely makes men equall to the gods no humane Vote can deifie If thou beest good and rulest well the whole Land will be to thee a Temple every Citie an Altar every man a Statue erected to thy memory For those that carry things by Power and allow Right little place in their Debates and Conclusions shall by all the Trophies they erect in publick to their renowns be dishonoured and by so much shall the stench of the instances and records of their infamy and demerits be more noysome by how much more of time and continuance it shall gain and conquer And therefore if that Painter took great care in the piece he drew for eternity onely upon account of a temporall fame what warinesse ought those to expresse whose eternity of blisse as well as of fame depends upon the well managing of this moment Rulers then are highly concern'd in the Art of weldoing their opportunities are much to the gain or losse of good Fulgentius sayes Conversio Potentum saeculi multum militat acquisitionibus Christi and Cassiodore Publici decoris mater est mens Regentis If Rulers of a people cause them to err if the light that is in a Nation be darknesse how great is that darknesse Usitata vulgo sententia est juxta mores Domini Familiam esse constitutam The Lord therefore who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and hath the hearts of all men in his hand accept this humble Tender of his servant and incline those who are in place to think upon and commiserate the decaying Universities the ruined Churches the

if there be any sorrow like my sorrow We pity the fond zeal of carnal men and giddy professors who begin well but are hindred in their way by wiles of men crafty and by their own lusts regnant in them who have a clamorous Magnificat for Diana and an Hosanna for Christ who are contented with nothing but discontents changes and every thing that fights against the power of godlinesse and proclaim a Treaty with all the infernal Furies the Divel the world and the flesh And in fine we pray for Charity which the Apostle calls the bond of perfection and terms greater then faith or hope because more durable the grace that only accompanies us to heaven there stays with us and the grace that makes us live heavenly upon earth without which all grace is but as sounding brasse or a tinkling cymball yea without which the gifts of Prophecying understanding mysteries and all knowledge faith able to remove mountains distribution of all we have to the poor yea martyrdom it self is nothing 1. Cor. 13. These and other things we professe to concur in with all sound Protestants and if this to believe and thus to do be to be scandalous Popish disaffected we would not be of good report nay we pray we may carry this Crosse of Christ to our graves and account this Reproach great Glory We can comfort our selves in these buffetings revilings contempts as in the sufferings of Christ which are to be fulfilled by us as by the holy men of all ages foregoing members of his body the Church Col. 1. 24. For as S. Ierom saies 'T is a great glory to reach from earth to heaven from dust and ashes to a being of immortality of Servants to be made Sons and of beggars heirs heirs of a Kingdom and that of heaven too the most durable and supream dignity our nature is capable of For we can through the power of Christ wish our selves accursed for his sake and resolve to be and suffer his rebuke without smiting again though we had power and command thereto since thus God hath allowed Religion to be defended●… non saevitiâ sed patientiâ non scelere sed fide and we hope while we thus walk to Sion with our faces thitherward we shall be suffered to passe safe and if we fall with the good man in the Gospel into the hands of men cruel and inhumane shall have Powers like good Samaritans to restore what is unjustly taken from us and pour oyle and wine into our wounds yea we pray though not for preferment not for gain by wording godlinesse yet for permission to worship the God of our Fathers though after the way which some men mis-nāme Superstition Formality Will-worship not thereby intending Rivalry with any other way of worship but desiring to attend upon Gods discovery in the use of that means which we are perswaded is according to the word of God written in the Law and in the Prophets and to which the judgments of many holy Martyrs and men have given testimony and this we trust your favour will permit since to others no more nor no truer Protetestants then we this liberty is indulged as a means to propagate the Gospel and since that of Casiodore ought to be in the mindes of Governours Neminem gravare debet Imperium quod ad utilitatem debet respicere singulorum This O Powers is the sense of those who are well-willers to learning who would not have troubled the world with any taste of their fears and sufferings or defence of their innocency did not their silence amidst the many provocations of bold and defamatory challengers in some sense and in easie peoples opinions though not in Truth confesse them guilty impunitatem consequuntur mali dum modesti tacent yea did not they fear Crowns of thorns preparing if some may have their wills for their captive heads for which Crowns of gold and silver for a memorial in the Temple of the Lord are I hope appointed as the Phrase is Zach. 6. 11. 14. so true is that of the Orator Nihil est tam sanctum quod non aliquando violetaudacia For mine own part I professe before God Angels and men I am moved to this service to the Muses not out of Passion not out of Vain-glory not to gratifie any party I Love or displease any party with whom in principle I cōply not these would be uningenious motives and receive their defeat and brand to be unproper foundations for so Christian a work that which rouses me up is that glory of God peace on earth and good will to men all which are propagated by Learning and the promise of God to own those that in a right and pious way own him I look upon the primitive Fathers and Christians who thought not so meanly of their faith and art as to forbear owning them for fear they might be lost with their party or lie too open to the worlds knowledge of them I love a sober freedom in a cause that concerns whatever is dear to man his soul his eternity his fame all which are in hazard if Learning and Learned men grow obsolete Our Lord says If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch There is nothing so great a spur to me next the glory of God as the Presidents of former times and the courage of holy men who were more ready to suffer then deserve so ill requitall of their integrity Synesius tells us nothing is more rhetoricall then sufferings the blood of Martyrs was seed to the Church and made their persecutors turn admirers yea sometimes sufferers it is surely a great distrust of God which makes men faint in a good cause how much more Evangelical and Christian were the minds of Polycarpus Athanasius Cyril Cyprian Iustin Martyr Arnobius Epiphanius Luther Melancthon and all the holy Fathers and Reverend Bishops of the Church who dealt with men like Solinus his Agriophagi who fed upon Panthers and Lions and breathed out nothing but bloud and wounds then are ours while we are to deale with Christian Magistrates well disciplned souldiers and common people who have heard of Christ and seem to cry a daily Hosannah to him Why should we not believe that God will protect and men pardon if not be perswaded to love those who call to them as Ionas did almost out of the Whales belly in the language of the Disciples to their Lord and Master Carest thou not that we perish Who O who knowes the mind of God perhaps God is now dealing with our Governours as with Artaxerxes to contribute to the restoring of the destroyed places of religion and learning It may be not by might nor by power but by his Spirit by a jawbone by rams horns all the rampiers raised against learning may with Iericho's wals fall down and therefore it concerns us all to wait the good pleasure of God and to cast our bread upon the waters to do