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A57597	Shlohavot, or, The burning of London in the year 1666 commemorated and improved in a CX discourses, meditations, and contemplations, divided into four parts treating of I. The sins, or spiritual causes procuring that judgment, II. The natural causes of fire, morally applied, III. The most remarkable passages and circumstances of that dreadful fire, IV. Councels and comfort unto such as are sufferers by the said judgment / by Samuel Rolle ...	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Preliminary discourses.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Physical contemplations.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Sixty one meditations.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Twenty seven meditations.	1667 (1667)	Wing R1877; Wing R1882_PARTIAL; Wing R1884_PARTIAL; ESTC R21820	301,379	534

they assumed some grandeur to themselves as they were a Society whatsoever their condition might be ●ngly and apart Or to say that the meeting together of the members of those Companies in their severall Halls upon many great solemnities was a probable means to increase love and friendship amongst them were to defcend to lower considerations about them then I have yet taken notice of and yet those things are not altogether contemptible and therefore I scarce care to mention them But put all I have said together though possibly I know not half the uses they were put to it will appear a doleful thing that they were burnt and that in their destruction we lost not onely great Splendor but great conveniences helps and advantages and that in several kinds If men did there decree righteous things amongst themselves as I hope they did I know no Crime those places were chargeable with unless it were too much Feasting which the sadness of Times for many years past might put an aggravation upon And if that were all their Crime I see how necessary it is to shun not only greater but also lesser sins which may expose Places and if Places Why not Persons also to ruin and destruction One Hall there was of something a different use from the rest and of greater spendor Guild-Hall I mean in which one Author tells me no less than nine several Courts had wont to be kept whereof one was called The Court of Conscience If any of the rest did not deserve the same name which I cannot charge those or that which did not should be lookt upon as the Acan's which troubled that place and brought a curse upon it One sinner destroyeth much good saith Solomon Eccles 9.18 What then may not an unrighteous Court do which consists of many sinners When I consider the Largeness the Strength and yet the Antiquity the Majesty and the daily-Usefulness of that same Guild-Hall methinks it is not enough to weep over the Ruines of it As firm as it stood it was founded no less than upward of 360 years agoe and to see it confounded as I may call it in one day Whose heart would it not cause to bleed Other Halls were like Parliament-Houses to particular Companies but this to the whole City where the Assembling together of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councill had some resemblance of a King Lords and Commons There seemed to be an awfulness in the very place methinks it had a Majestick look with it and such as made the Magistrates there convened though very venerable in themselves yet something more considerable than they would have appeared elsewhere It was surely that place which did more contribute to make London look like it self that is like the Head-City of these three Kingdomes than any one Structure thereunto belonging London had not been its self if it had lost nothing but that one Hall I wonder That all the Wise Heads that were concerned in it could not save that stately Hall our English Capitol as I may call it from burning Methinks it speaks our Provocations-high that we have sinned away so great an Ornament so vast an Accommodation as that Hall was and to think that almost all the rest are gone with it might make our joynts tremble and our knees smite together as Belshazzar's did when he saw the hand-writing upon the wall I see there is no building certainly durable but that which Paul speaks of 2 Cor. 5.1 and Lord let that be mine as well as his That building of God that house not m●de with hands eternal in the heavens MEDITATION XII Of the Burning of Publick Schools as Pauls School and others IS Learning taking it's leave of England Is that Sun about to set in our Horizon that Schollars have received two such terrible blows Young ones have lost their Schools and both young and old have lost their Books Nevertheless for ever Renowned be Reverend Doctor Colet and the rest of the Founders and Benefactors of all those noble Free-Schools that now lie in the dust I say Let their Memory be ever precious though their Gift hath not continued so long as they and we did hope it might Yet the youngest of the three Publick Schools that are now demolished viz. that which was founded by the Merchant-Taylers had lasted above a hundred years and the eldest of the three viz. Paul's half as long again and many Centuries more they might have stood had not this fire brought them to an untimely end I cannot but muse to what a plunge Parents are now put to get good Schools for their Children especially those who cannot endure their Children should live at a distance from them considering that honest and able School-masters are but here and there to be found A good School-master must in the first place be a good man It is to a wonder what notice Children will take of their Master's Religion and what a lasting impression that will make upon them and how apt they are to take after them because of the veneration they have for them If their Masters be profane they think they have leave to be so and should not take upon them to be more religious than they A Master must consider that his Scholars have souls to save as well as minds to inform and he is not to be trusted with Youth that will not consider it Nextly A good Master must be a good Scholar at least wise for some kind of Learning a good Grammarian a good Linguist and one that is not only so himself but also able to make others such that is one that knows how in an easie and familiar way to communicate Knowledge to Children to make hard things plain c. He must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle saith a Minister should be that is Apt to teach Again A good Master must be a wise man no antick no mimmick as too many are which hath made the word Pedant and Pedantical to sound very ridiculously though the work of a good School-master be very honourable Wise he ought to be that he may set his Scholars the Example of a wise behavior and teach Children to carry themselves like Men whereas some seem to learn of their Scholars to carry themselves like Children that is Conceiptedly Humorsomely Phantastically It requires no small Wisedom to judge of the different parts and tempers of Children where their excellency lies whether in Memory or Invention or otherwise that they may put them upon those pieces of Learning in which they are like most of all to excell and whilest they find them to have an excellency in one kind work upon that and bear with their defects in another kind He may have a great Memory that hath but mean Fancy he may be long in retaining who is slow in getting things into his memory one can make his exercise of a sudden as well as if he had more time another can do nothing of a sudden but

give him time enough and he will perform it excellently and better than he that was quick at it How many Masters commit great errors for want of being able to judge of these things like unskilful Riders that either think a horse good for nothing because he cannot amble well though he have an excellent and an easie tro● or keep him wholly to his pace though he do but shussle at it and can never be made to do otherwise whereas he would trot as fast as could be desired and as well as any horse can do if they would but give him leave The Scholar's Scholar-craft as I may call it in humoring his humorsome Master the Parent 's great bounty to the Master and his great affection to such his Scholars upon those two accounts makes too many partial and injudicious Masters Cry up the pregnancy of those Scholars that little deserve it and so vice vers● And ought not Masters to be wise therefore also that they may be able to judge of the disposition of their Scholars whether fair means or fowl is like to do most good upon them whether fear or shame will most prevail with them whether emulation or correction will most spur them on A word or two will do more with some Children than many blows with others where Balsomes will serve the turn it is folly to apply Causticks and Corrosives which it is to be feared some Masters do for want of judgment Moreover wise and sage Admonitions are of great use to Children and therefore it is needful their Master should be a wise man that he may be able to dispense them Let me add A Master had need be furnished with Wisedom to govern and conceal his own weak humors and passions as there are many that abound with such for that the discovery thereof is like Noah's uncovering his nakedness in the sight of his Children which exposed him to their contempt and made some of them to sin And Masters that give way to such humors are like unsound Nurses that give suck who make the Children that draw their Breasts as unwholsome as themselves and fill them as they say with evil humours I might add That a Master should be no conceited man not one that thinks himself a good Philosopher because he is a good Philologer or the wisest man in the Nation because he is the wisest person in the School He that is a Man amongst Children may be but a Child amongst Men. I had not mentioned this but that I have observed some School-masters to have brought an ill report both upon themselves and their Profession by seeming as wise in their own eyes as they could be in the eyes of their boyes who oftimes think that no man knows so much as doth their Master as if they were proud of that high opinion which their Scholars have of them and did rest in the judgment of Children who scarce know the right hand from the left as if it were infallible Lastly To say nothing of that diligence and laboriousness that ought to be in School-masters I shall only add that they ought not to be either too milde or severe neither like that Beam which Jupiter as it is in the Fable gave to the Frogs for their King Which alwayes lying still when they were used to it a while they leapt and plaid upon it Nor yet like that Stork which was afterwards sent amongst them when they desired a more active Prince whose cruelty made them wish for their Beam again He that is over-mild is like to do little good upon some children but he that is over-harsh may do a great deal of hurt I read Acts 19.9 of the School of one Tyrannus I wish there were no more Schools that did deserve the same name We hear but of one Tyrannical Emperor that became a School-master before he died but Are there not many School-masters that domineer and exercise severity like Tyrannical Emperors or Imperial Tyrants Now if the character I have given of a good School-master be a Digression yet it may prove a useful one if Parents will thereby be directed in the choice of Masters for their Children or Masters that are guilty of any of the forementioned faults would thereby be prevailed with to amend But possibly what I have said about School-masters is no Digression considering that if those Masters that were fired out of London were men of such a good Character as I have given of a good School-master it informeth us what cause we have to bewail the losse of them and of those Schools which might have invited and incouraged a succession of such worthy Masters as themselves This poor Lads little lay to heart as being ignorant of what is for their good yea possibly what through dread of their Masters disaffection to their Books and love of their Play they are even glad their Schools are burnt so incident it is to humane nature to rejoyce in any little good to it's self yea to wish for it though it be brought to passe by unspeakably more hurt and prejudice to others being glad when their own eggs are roasted though it be by that fire that consumes the houses of other men Yet I wonder not at the evil that proceeds from degenerate men much lesse from Children but O Lord I rather wonder at Thy self Why thou didst suffer the Foxes to spoil those Vines the Fire I mean which came like Sampson's Foxes with fire-brands in their Tails consuming those Noble Schools as they did the Philistim's Corn considering that those Vines had tender Grapes Cant. 2.15 But I would answer my self with this Schools had their sins as well as other places which were more and greater than a Master's rod could punish Yea Masters themselves had deserved Correction and who but Th●● self should give it them But oh that these useful Structures might not alwayes lie in the dust but that Piety and Charity might rebuild what Sin hath pull'd down Doubtlesse this Age hath many men in it as able to build Free-Schools as Reverend Colet and some other Founders were and why should they not be as willing If Parents want good Schools for their Children they will hardly come to any thing whilst they live For the errors of the first Concoction as Physicians observe cannot be corrected by the second or third Schools like Stomachs make the first Digestion which if naught will spoil all the rest Let me conjure men of Estates especially those that have no Children or if Children such as are unworthy I say let me conjure you by the regard you have to the honour of God to the renown of the English Nation to the increase of Knowledge to the happinesse of Church and State the chief Officers and Ministers whereof use to receive their first rudiments and seasoning in publick Schools liberally to contribute to the re-building of those noble Schools which the late sire hath deprived us of yea do it yourselves as some have done