would be the meanes to heale up those wounds in Schooles Churches and Common-wealths and to restore peace to the Christian world that not onely all Christian nations might flourish in the studies of true Wisdome and Piety but even Infidels themselves might partake of the same light and be won to the embracing of Christianity in this divinely revealed way of Truth And so at last we should see what Gods sacred Oracles have foretold shall at length come to passe that the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Isa 11. 9. And that the Lord shall be King over all the Earth and there shall be but one Lord and his name one Zach 14. 9. And that the way of SION shall be so plaine that even fooles shall not erre therein Isa 35. 8. Which is the same that another Prophet hath foretold That in the last dayes the mountaine of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountaines and it shall be exalted above the hils and people shall flow unto it And many Nations shall come and say Come and let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord that he may teach us of his wayes And afterward And they shall beate their Swords into Plough-shares and Speares into Pruning-hookes Nation shall not lift up a Sword against Nation neither shall they learne warre any more Micah 4. 1. Take pity upon us O Lord and let thy peace rest upon Jerusalem Let thy glory arise over us that the Nations may walke in thy light But may such things be hoped for Certainely we must not despaire of them if this guide and director of humane understanding be once framed whereby mens minds may be infallibly led by continuall degrees and in open light from the groundworks and fundamentalls unto the highest tops of things For if wee come once by this meanes to behold the Theater of Gods wisedome mens minds cannot but be filled with joy and gladnesse so that they will call one unto another Come and let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord that he may teach us of his wayes Now that such a Director or perfect method of Pansophie is not to be despaired of we have these perswasions First although things may seeme infinite and innumerable in respect of their multitude not to be measured in regard of their divers disproportions and unsearchable by reason of that depth wherein Truth is plunged Yet it is most certaine that all things are beneath man and subject to his understanding For all things are made for his sake but in an inferiour degree hee therefore being the last accomplishment of the creation and the most absolute Image of his Creator containing in himselfe onely the perfections of all other things why should he not at last habituate himselfe to the contemplation of himselfe and all things else For seeing God hath appointed him to be a spectator of his wisedome it is most certaine that he hath made him suitable to that e d which would not be if he had made either Things unproportionable to his understanding or his understanding uncapable of the Things It may then be cōcluded that God alone is great over all and his greatnesse is unsearchable Psal 145. 3. all things else are made in number weight and measure Wisd 11. 20. Isay 40. 12. They are therefore to be numbred measured weighed untill this universall harmony do clea ly appeare unto us Secondly God hath made all things well as the Scripture saith but every thing in his time that is by degrees Is it then in vaine that God hath set the world in mens hearts that is a desire to find out those things which he worketh from the beginning to the end Eccles 3. 11. It would be in vaine if that desire could not obtaine its end But we must not ascribe any frustraneous actions unto that Soveraigne wisedome Thirdly wee have already great store of provision hereto those bookes and monuments of mens diligence compiled with great care and industry Can we thinke that all these have done nothing That cannot be in regard as I have shewed already of the supreme governour of all things who will not suffer any thing even errours themselves to be in vaine Let us grant therefore that they have erred and beene deceived in most things yet God who is the eternall and unchangeable foundation of Truth will surely order the matter so that even errours themselves will at last perforce be made subservient to the farther discovering and establishing of Truth Now it is manifest that many things are already found out and why should we not hope that the rest will follow It it no small matter that Euclides Archimedes and others have brought the knowledge of Quantities to such evidence and perfection that even miracles may be effected by numbers measures and weights It is not a thing of nothing that Hermeticall Physitians and others have by meanes of Chymistry found how to extract the qualities out of naturall bodies and to separate even the very essences of things It is a matter of moment which the Lord VERULAM hath effected in his excellent Novum Organum where he shewes the infallible way of making a narrow search into the natures of things and that which JUNGIUS the Saxon is now about who laboureth to bring the Art of Logicke to such perfection that the truth of propositions may be upheld and all fallacies avoided with as much certainty as any of EUCLIDES's Problemes can be demonstrated Why should I adde any more as one pinne drives out another so doth one invention thrust another forward especially in this age so fruitfull of wits and why should wee not hope for some invention of inventions whereby the severall inventions and endeavours of so many wits may not onely in their matter but even in their manner of discovery be united into one and made common to mankind It would surely be an excellent thing For if every one hath formerly had his owne sharpnesse of wit his owne rules of proceeding and his owne weights of judgement what might not be effected if all these wits were united into one their lawes into one and their judgements into one The more candles the greater light If only the way be found out how all these lights may be united into one that is how those divers and infinite devises inventions and knowne truths may be reduced unto one perpetuall immutable and eternall rule and manner of inventing knowing and devising For if this be found out that which we seeke for is easily obtained And why may it not be found out we are already possessed of more than a contemptible store of knowne truths and for our farther progresse we are provided of such light of method as wee need not feare walking in the darke Onely let us presse forward unto the utmost bounds of Method and of things themselves For where there is a progresse there will at
he shewed to Ezekiel the forme of the mysticall Temple that is of the new Church under Christ with expresse charge to be attentive in the receiving of it and to declare it all unto the house of Israel Ezek. 40. 4. Now we must observe that every latter draught was more full and perfect than the former Not as if God gained skill by continuance of time and practise for the mending of his workes as is common with men in building that their latter devises please them more and are better than the former but because hee would therein prefigure the State of the Church as it was to improve with time For it was for our sakes not his owne that these things were figured out to us The Tabernacle of Moses therefore consisted of three parts the Court the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies as appeares in the 40. Chapter of Exod. The Temple of Solomon contained without the inward and last space the Holy of Holies three outward spaces the Court of the Common people the Court of the Levites and the Court of the Priests and lastly the Holy of Holies which might be entred by the high Priest onely once every yeare The structure of Ezekiels Temple consisted of the same number of parts though of more walls and gates but of a diverse situation For Solomons Temple was built upon Mount Moriah but onely on the plaine thereof but the outward parts of Ezekiels Temple were situate on the side of the hill every more inward Court being raised certaine degrees above the other so that the Temple it selfe that is the Holy of Holies being pleasantly seated on the very top yeelded every way a most refulgent splendor Which divers structures of Gods dwelling places amongst men did typifie the various increases and enlargements of God Church as well in regard of its spreading among many peoples and tongues as also in respect of knowledge which was to be encreased according to the Churches ages For the Church hath its ages as well as the world infancie youth middle age declining and old age which last as it brings decay of bodily strength so also it perfects the vigour of the mind in regard that then the temper of the body declines to drinesse whereby the animall spirits become more fixed and the mind more sedate and quiet in its motions Seeing therefore it is very fitting that the Church of the New Testament should be of ripe understanding especially now the world is drawing towards old age 1 Cor. 14. 20. Eph. 4. 14. We have therefore borrowed for this Temple of Christian wisedome the forme of the draught of the last Temple given to EZEKIEL distinguishing the whole worke of Pansophie into seven severall parts in every one whereof severall things may be presented to the beholders view that so mens minds being raised from baser things to those which are more sublime may at last attaine to its Holy of Holies that is Gods blessed eternity But how this may be drawne from the forme of EZEKIEL's Temple remaines now to be explained I. First EZEKIEL declares briefly and in generall what he saw in the visions of God to wit 1. A City scituate upon a Mountaine the place of that most magnificent Temple which hee was about to describe chap. 40. vers 2. 2. A man standing by him provided with measures and rules who should shew him all those things exhorting him to listen and behold and to set his heart upon those things which should be shewed him vers 3. 4. 3. The compasse of the Temple or the outward wall with the measures of its breadth and height v. 5. II. Next he describeth the gate of the Temple which was onely one in the whole compasse of the Temple and that on the Easterne side thereof v. 6. to the 17. III. The first or outward Court which was called the Court of the people because all the people might come into it is described v. 17. to the 28. which had three gates through which the ascent was by seven steps unto the pavement of that Court v. 6 19 22 26. IV. Then hee describeth the middle Court where the holy instruments were kept and preparation made by the Levites as was fitting for legall sacrifices and oblations the description whereof may be found from the 28. vers to the 44. And we must observe that it was higher by eight steps than the first Court as appeares by the Description of the Gates thereof v. 31 34 35. V. Then followes the inward Court wherein was the Altar of burnt-offerings with other necessaries for making of atonement wherefore it is called the Court of the Priests The Description thereof is v. 44. to 48. VI. The Temple it selfe called the Holy of Holies chap. 41. v. 4. is described from the 48. vers of the 40. chap. to the end of the 41. chap. and the scituation thereof upon the very top of the Hill chap. 43. v. 12. Therefore in the Description of the Porch thereof chap. 40. v. 49. mention is made of steps yet without any expresse number how many there were In the Temple it selfe or House of the Lord nothing is mentioned besides the Cherubims and Palme-trees chap. 41. vers 20 21. and the Table which is before the Lord v. 24. VII Lastly after the setting downe of the Ordinances for Gods worship in this new Temple chap. 43 and 44. and the forme of politicall government among Gods people chap. 45 and 46. he comes at the beginning of the 47. chap. to describe the river of waters issuing out of Gods Temple through those three Courts and from a small beginning rising to a very great depth and how from thence it was diffused over all the earth giving life and fruitfulnesse unto all things Now if wee forme the divisions of the structure of wisedomes Temple according to this patterne it will also consist of seaven parts I. In the first part shall be generally handled by way of preface 1. What manner of booke this Pansophie is and what end and use there is thereof 2. What are those helps which Gods goodnesse hath supplyed us withall for the furnishing of universall wisedome 3. What is the generall forme thereof II. In stead of the Easterne gate we will have a Systeme and collection of such common Notions as are of themselves obvious to all mens understandings For our mind being the image of that high God from whom all things derive their essence is composed of harmony and furnished with inbred rules for the discerning of Truth from falshood And these Rules are certaine common Truths which need no proofe because as soone as they are uttered every sound understanding doth admit them freely But other particular things which are subject to any question are examined by these and either allowed or rejected Now a sufficient store of such common and obvious notions will prove a truly sacred Gate for our easie safe and speedy entrance into the knowledge of all things III. The Court
flowing brooke The Sonne of SYRACH brings in wisedome thus speaking of her selfe I came out as a brooke from a river and as a conduit into a garden I said I will water my best garden and will water abundantly my garden-bed and loe my brooke became a river and my river became a Sea Ecclesiast 24. 30 31. Therefore in this last part of Pansophie it will be our work to consider of and designe such fit channels as may convey these waters abroad on every side that so the vast Commons of humane affaires together with the private garden-plots of every ones soule and the whole Paradise of the Church may be therewith watered And this among others is the reason why we sayd this Temple of wisedome was to be consecrate to Christs Catholique Church gathered and to be gathered out of all nations to wit 1. Because she as a mother may justly challenge from her children whatsoever they are able to invent or do for her honour and comfort 2. Christ saith Matth. 5. 19. Men do not light a candle that they may set it under a bushell but upon a candlesticke that it may give light to all that are in the house Now this light of universall wisedome which puts every thing in subordination to its true end is as it were Gods candle and must therefore be set up in his house which is the Church that it may give light to all 3. This house of the living God the Church as it is called 1 Tim. 3. 15. is built after the same patterne according to which this Temple of wisedome is reared so that by beholding hereof she may be advanced much in knowledge of her selfe According to to that in Cantic 1. 8. If thou know not thy selfe O thou fairest among women goe thy way forth by the footsteps of the flocke c. For here by these continually deduced footsteps of Things the Church is guided the right way to the discovery of her owne and her eternall Spouses comelinesse And seeing that the manifold wisedome of God is made knowne unto Angels by the Church Eph. 3. 10. we ought also to take speciall care that the Church in contemplation of her selfe Angels and of God may have all advantages supplyed her for her promoting in the knowledge of this manifold wisedome of God 4. But chiefely because God hath foretold that the Glory of his new Temple the Church of the New Testament should be most conspicuous in the last times and hath promised a large affluence of light and blessing to it For thus hath God declared by the Prophets ISAIAH and MICAH and by divers others at severall times and twice in the same words that he might manifest the certainty of his decree It shall come to passe in the last dayes that the mountaine of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountaines and it shall be exalted above the hils and all Nations shall flow unto it c. Isaiah 2. 2. Micah 4. 1. And it shall come to passe in that day that the mountaines shall drop downe new wine and the hils shall flow with milke and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters and a fountaine shall come forth of the house of the Lord and shall water the valley of the choyce Cedars Joel 3. 18. For living waters shall goe out from Jerusalem halfe of them toward the former Sea and halfe of them toward the hinder Sea in Summer and in winter shall it be And the Lord shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one Lord and his name one Now because these things remaine yet to be most certainly fulfilled men should be stirred up by all meanes possible not onely to behold but also to promote as much as in them lies this glory of the house of God to enlarge the Churches bounds and to derive such rivulets from Gods streame as may water even dry places which were never yet moystned with this heavenly dew that at last all with one accord standing as it were upon a Sea of glasse with harpes of God in their hands might begin to sing the song of MOSES the servant of the Lord and the song of the Lambe saying Great and marvellous are thy workes Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy judgements are made manifest Revel 15. 2 3 4. And now I beleeve it appeares sufficiently what manner of booke it is that wee would have compiled and what are our reasons for the urging of it Let therefore all feare and suspicion of confounding sacred and prophane things together be utterly banished For first all things are pure to those that are pure Tit. 1. 15. The gold and silver which was gotten away from those impure Egyptians did not at all defile the Israelites or the Tabernacle Againe here is no confounding of things together but provision is made of remedies against those confusions which so much distract mens minds by a distinct and graduall knowledge of all things which may or ought or are worthy to be knowne Therefore first we declare such generall and knowne truthes as are cleare of themselves by the testimony of common sense next such things as fall under the outward senses to be seene or felt without any errour or mistake afterward such things as are rationally and certainly deduced from sensuall apprehensions but with an application of their truth also to sensible Objects Lastly those things which Divine revelation imparts to us and faith onely receives but so that Sense and Reason may also beare record unto God and the truth of things invisible revealed to us may be acknowledged in the analogie of such things as are visible that the voyce of eternall Truth uttered from all sorts of things may be found to agree in one eternall harmony This confusion therefore beeing so harmonious is nothing else but perfect order But they object Christ taught no such matter he onely declared the way of Salvation Answ 1. Why do you then by your selves or by others take care to have your children instructed in the meaner things of this life as in Arithmeticke Logicke and other sorts of learning 2. Be it so that Christ taught not these things it is most certaine he forbad them not but rather signifies unto us that we ought not to be ignorant of them in that he so often borrowes from things naturall and artificiall both the occasion and the manner of unfolding spirituall mysteries thereby declaring to us that there is such proportion betweene things visible and invisible that these cannot be easier understood than in reference unto them Therefore they would be wiser than Christ himselfe who restraining themselves onely to spirituall and heavenly things reject from the study of Christianity all such things wherewith as they terme
them worldlings imploy themselves If indeed they do so imploy themselves and settle their rest hereupon yet wee alwaies mindfull of our plus ultra will not be imployed therein but imploy them as steps and degrees for our more easie and speedie attaining unto things of an higher value 3. If Christ taught not such things himselfe yet he hath taught them by others and if not then yet now at least he teacheth them For he is the same yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13. 8. to wit that wisedome of God by which all things are made Prov. 8. v. 22 c. Therefore whatsoever wisedome light or order is any where or in any time or person to be found it all comes from him and is derived out of his treasury When hee came into the world his worke was not to speed forward these things of smaller moment but that he might give his life a ransome for many Matth. 20. 28. Therefore he committed the writing of the Gospels and constituting of outward order in his Church unto his Disciples care promising to be with them and their successours even unto the end of the world Therefore this worke if profitable or what ever good thing otherwise shall at any time breake forth even unto the worlds end must be all accounted to proceed from Christ who maketh every thing beautifull in his time Eccles 3. 11. Now if our designe for the rearing up this Temple of Universall wisedome do go forward it will be meete for us to consider 1. That according to DAVIDS instructions to SOLOMON the Temple to be builded must be great and magnificall of fame and glory throughout all countries 1. Chron. 2. 5. Therefore workemen should be sought out who are worthy of such employment and who are skilfull to find out every thing that is thereto necessary 2 Chron. 2. 7. 14. 2. SOLOMONS Temple was builded by Gods command upon the mount Moriah which signifies the vision of God and the ground-worke of wisedomes Temple shall likewise be the vision of God that is all visible things shall be used as Perspectives for our minds to behold the invisible Ruler of the universe with his power wisedome and goodnesse richly mantling over all things 3. The matter whereof SOLOMONS Temple was built was of three sorts stones wood and metals the stones were all of great value as marble and pretious stones the woods were fat and odoriferous as the firre and the cedar the metals most pure as gold perfectly refined The matter of wisedomes Temple shall be supplyed out of the store of three sorts of principles Sense Reason and divine Revelation of which Sense resembles the nature of stones in the grossenesse of its perception Reason for its ever flouring quality may well be compared to the spreading of trees and Gods word which remains for ever is like unto pure incorruptible gold 4. Of the stones were made the walls of the woods seeling for to cover the walls and the seeling was over-laid with plates of gold 2 Chr n. 3. 5 6 7. Moreover the marble floore there of 2 Chr. 3. 6. was over-laid with gold 1 King 6. 30. but the sacred vessels the Altar the Table the Candlestickes the Lamps the Censers all were made of most pure gold 2 Chron. 4 19 c. So the foundation and walls of wisedomes Temple shall be reared onely of such Truthes as are palpable evident to the sense to which reason shall supply the causes why every thing must needs be so as it is and lastly the lustre of divine testimony shall thereto be added that truth may every where retaine its native majesty But the sacred furniture hereof which hath reference to the mysteries of faith and salvation shall be the most pure gold of the Oracles of God 5. SOLOMONS Temple was built of stones that were hewed perfectly aforehand so that there were neither hammer nor axe nor any iron toole heard while it was in building 1 King 6. 7. So in the building of wisedomes Temple it will be very unseemly to have the noise of disputes and brawles heard it is more fitting that it should be reared of Truth already squared that is not of such tenets and opinions as are promiscuously taken upon trust and when they come to be laid in the building must then be new hewed and squared to fit them for the understanding and to bring them to some similitude of Truth but such as being exactly wrought in the shop of Principles come forth without any crackes ruggednesse or other inequality so that being applyed they fit fully on every side with things going before with and after them By this only meanes can Truth be settled in the light and recovered from contradiction 6. The parts of that materiall Temple were of most exact proportion and therefore in the story of the building thereof you may find every where mention made of numbers and measures 1 King 6. And the Angel which was to imforme the Prophet concerning the building of the mysticall Temple came provided of a line of flaxe and a measuring reed Ezek. 40. 3. In like manner in this Temple of wisedome all things must be reduced to such an universall Symmetrie that the wandring thoughts of our minds may be contained in their just certaine and immoveable bounds 7. There were added artificiall ornaments by graving and embossing of Cherubims Palme-trees and Flowers 1 King 6. 29. Answerable thereunto this Temple of wisedome must be framed in an apt method and elegant stile that so the outward palate may be therewith delighted as much as may be 8. All things contained in the compasse of that Temple were holy for the outward wall thereof onely was to separate the sacred from that which was prophane Ezek. 41. 20. So let every thing that comes into the content of wisedomes Temple be holy erther in it selfe or else in reference to sacred uses I meane as a step for our easier finding and attaining our ends which are Gods glory and our eternall blisse in him to which all things both great and small every one in their severall order are here directed 9. And as God for the encouragement of those who did reedifie the ruined Temple of Jerusalem promised them abundance of blessings together with his presence and assistance Hagg. 1. 2. the same may the builders of wisedomes Temple be confident of according to that promise of Wisedome from above I love those that love mee and I will fill their treasures Prov. 8. 17 21. 10. Lastly according as when the builders laid the foundation of that materiall Temple the Priests and Levites stood in their apparell with Trumpets and Cimbals to praise the Lord and all the people shouted with a great shout while they praised the Lord Ezra 3. 10 11. So it will well become all good Christians that are any way privy to this pious designe to add their good desires and prayers while the foundation of Wisedomes Temple is in laying that
this worke begun in Gods name and feare may happily go forward unto his praise saying Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore from the rising of the Sunne to the going downe of the same the Lords Name be praised Psal 113. 2 3. THE SEVERALL TITLES OF THE SEVEN PARTS OF THE TEMLPE OF CHRISTIAN PANSOPHIE I. THE THRESHOLD OF THE TEMPLE OF WISEDOME Representing unto us the fore-parts and outward structure thereof together with the necessity possibility and easie way both of the rearing thereof and entring thereunto II. THE GATE OF THE TEMPLE OF WISEDDOE Through which lieth the first and readiest entrance unto the true knowledge of all things which are to be knowne OR WISEDOMES GENERALL STORE Wherein the general kinds of all things together with their frames and lawes are represented to us and that chiefly by the help of such common Notions as are inbred in humane minds and beeing once illustrated by examples are easily admitted thereinto without farther proofe From which notwithstanding all the rivulets of particular knowledge are to be derived as from the originall fountain of truth III. THE OUTWARD COURT OF THE TEMPLE OF WISEDOME Wherein the visible world and all things therein contained with the course of Nature incident thereto are laid before our view to the end that man may learn to know the fabricke necessaries of his naturall life with reverence to magnifie the wisdome of his Creator IV. THE MIDDLE COURT OF THE TEMPLE OF WISEDOME Wherein the reasonable creature MAN stands forth to be seene with all things that either are or may be effected by humane understanding To the end that Man may be brought to know the abilities of his owne mind and to use them to the honour of God who hath endued him therewith and so to live A TRUE RATIONALL LIFE V. THE INNERMOST COURT OF THE TEMPLE OF WISEDOME Wherein the more inward part of MAN by which he approacheth neerest unto God is unveiled to wit his FREE AND UNLIMITED WILL together with the horrible abuse thereof and the mischiefe ensuing thereupon as also our recovery into the state of Salvation by Christ both God and Man To the end that Man being restored to God and to himselfe may begin to lead a divine and spirituall life VI. THE LAST AND MOST SECRET PART OF THE TEMPLE OF WISEDOME CALLED THE HOLY OF HOLIES Wherein is to be seene as farre as he hath pleased to reveale himselfe the high and ever-to-be-adored Governour of the world Lord of Angels and Men JEHOVAH God of Gods raigning in his eternall Kingdome and shining with infinite Majesty and Glory To the end that Man being brought neerer unto God by all things and by most ardent love closing with him the center of eternall blisse and rest may yeeld up himselfe as an holy and living Temple for him to dwell in for ever VII THE FOUNTAINE OF LIVING WATERS OF THE TEMPLE OF WISEDOME THAT IS Of the use of true WISEDOME flowing out of the Temple of God to wit that it may streame forth and runne over all the earth to fill it with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea PSAL. 43. 3. Send forth thy LIGHT and thy TRUTH O Lord that they may lead mee and bring mee unto thine Holy Hill THE GREAT DIDACTICK SHEWING THE UNIVERSALL MEANES TO TEACH ALL MEN ALL THINGS OR A certaine and exquisite way for the erecting of such Schooles in all the Cities Townes and Villages of any particular Christian Kingdome as that all young ones whether males or females none excepted may be brought up in learning polished in manners and grounded in piety and so may be prepared in their minority for all things concerning this present life and that which is to come The GROUNDS of which designe are drawne from the very nature of the things themselves The TRUTH is cleared by instances answerable hereunto in Mechanicke Arts. The ORDER is by assigning taskes for Yeares Months Dayes and Houres And lastly an easie and certaine WAY is declared of happily efecting these things THE MAINE DRIFT OF THIS OUR DIDACTICK SHALL BE To discover a way whereby Teachers may teach lesse and learners may learne more Schooles may have lesse noyse tediousnesse and fruitlesse toyle but more ease delight and reall profit The Christian State lesse darknesse confusion and dissentions but more light order peace and tranquillity PSAL. 67. 1 2. God be mercifull unto us and blesse us and cause his face to shine upon us and be mercifull unto us That thy way may be knowne upon earth thy saving health among all Nations THE TITLES OF THE SEVERALL CHAPTERS OF THE GREAT DIDACTICK In the Preface thereof Magistrates Parents and Schoole-masters are earnestly exhorted to the diligent education of children by divers reasons and examples The worke it selfe containes as followeth Chap. I. Wherein is proved that Man is the last most absolute and excellent of all creatures II. That mans chiefe good and last end is not here but in another life III. That this life is but a preparation for life eternall IV. That there are 3. degrees of this preparation for eternity 1. to know 2. to order and governe 3. to direct to Gods Glory as our selves so all other things respectively V. That there are some seedes of those three Knowledge Morality and Religion naturally implanted in us VI. That it is requisite for to make a perfect man to for me him anew VII That this forming of man may best be effected while he is young and very hardly afterwards Chap. VIII That youth may best be formed or instructed in company 〈◊〉 of another and that Schooles are necessary IX That youth of both sexes should be put to Schoole X. That instruction in Schooles should be universall and that all should be taught in every thing XI That we have hitherto wanted perfect Schooles XII That Schooles may be reformed and brought to a better passe XIII That the groundworke of reforming Schooles is the observing of an accurate order in all things XIV That this accurate order in Schools must be borrowed from nature Therefore XV. Are declared out of Nature the grounds of the prolongation of life And XVI Such things as are generally requisite both for teaching and learning that is such a certaine way both of Teaching and Learning that there cannot but follow a good effect XVII The grounds of easinesse both in Teaching and Learning XVIII The grounds of solidity both in teaching and learning Chap. XIX The grounds of the most compendious and speedy way of teaching where among other things is cleared how one Schoole-master may suffice for a very great number of Schollers XX. Is set downe the true method of the severall Sciences XXI The method of the Arts. XXII The method of Languages XXIII The method of Morality XXIV The method of instilling Piety XXV It is plainly demonstrated that if we would have such a reformation of Schooles as is according to the rules of true Christianity Profane and Heathen Authors must be either quite rejected or used with more choyce and caution XXVI Is set downe a fourefold division of Schooles according to the age and ripenesse of youth XXVII The description of the first Schoole under the Mother XXVIII The manner of the next Schoole in teaching to read their Mother tongue XXIX A draught of the Latine Schoole XXX Of the University XXXI Of an universall and very accurate order of Schooles XXXII Of such things as are necessarily required for the bringing of this universall method into practice FINIS * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Otium Prolixity Difficulty Want of Truth Learning not fitted the use life Learning not leading us to Go * Vt in Archetypo * Ectypo * Antitypo * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Gate of Languages Unum Verum Bonum * Generall knowledge or wisdome 1 King 19. 11 12. 13. * Generall wisedome Omni sapientia Omnes circa omnia omnino Doubt 1. 2. Solut. * Art of Teaching * Quantovis discipulorum c.