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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77100	Paideia Thriamous. The triumph of learning over ignorance, and of truth over faleshood. Being an answer to foure quæries. Whether there be any need of universities? Who is to be accounted an hæretick? Whether it be lawfull to use coventicles? Whether a lay-man may preach? VVhich were lately proposed by a zelot, in the parish church at Swacie neere Cambridge, after the second sermon, October 3. 1652. Since that enlarged by the answerer, R.B. B.D. and fellow of Trin. Col. Camb.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1652 (1652)	Wing B3760; Thomason E681_10; ESTC R206793	32,371	43

declared plainly before the Congregation that they were free from that whereof they were falsely suspected i. e. Haeresie agreeable to that of the Learned and most profound Augustine Ep. 162. Qui sententiam suam quamvis falsam atque perversam nullà pertinaci animositate defendunt sed veritatem cautâ solicitudine quaerunt corrigi parati cùm invenerint nequa quàm sunt inter haereticos deputandi The meaning of which words in brief is this that He onely is to be counted an Haeretick who persists with obstinacie in an opinion which is against the word not He who erres yet is ready to forsake his errour and yeeld to the Truth so soon as he is convinced of it This pious and humble Temper was in those my Antagonists for whose farther confirmation and satisfaction to their modest desires together with the rest of that populous Parish of Swacie I have published the Discourse with some enlargements hoping that it will meet with as good successe by Gods blessing on it in the conviction of those by whom it shall be perused whose judgements perhaps have been formerly perverted by false Teachers who beguile unstable Soules having hearts exercised or overcome with covetousnesse cursed Children they are children for their Ignorance who forsaking the way of all righteousness have gone astray following the way of Balaam that made Israel to sinne 2 Pet. 2.14.15 Jude ver 11. Num. 25.2 31 16. Such blind guides as these have been the cause of many poore Soules falling into the ditch of Haeresie which if backed with obstinacy is a barre that shuts men out of all hope of glory This hereafter shall be proved in my answer to the second Doubt May the Infinite goodnesse to whose onely glory I humbly desire to devote my selfe and all my weake endeavours make them as usefull and beneficiall in the confirming and reforming of weak deceived Soules as they are well meant and intended to the Churches good by the unworthiest of his servants who am likewise Christian Reader Thine in Christ Iesus R. BOREMAN A SHORT VINDICATION OF THE Use and Necessity of Vniversities and other Schooles of Learning Being An Answer to the first Quere What need is there of Vniversities IT is truly observed by a learned * Gentillet exam Concil Triden Li. 1. Sect. 7. 8. Ignorantiam Romanae sedis autoritatē simul auctam c. Vicissimque ut bonarum artium literarum instauratione facessere caepit ignorantia ita Pontificis autoritas paulatim imminui labascere visa est Writer that the Pope of Rome and that Church never flew higher in power never sunk deeper into errour then when Ignorance prevailed and Learning was suppressed Wee may as safely and with as much truth assert That where the purity of God's Word is corrupted and not preserved in it's integritie that Kingdome Church or State cannot but fall into ruine and moulder away into divisions caused by the multiplicity of false Opinions which being joyned with Schisme doe often as they have now done engender and beget a monster the subverter of all Government and the disturber of Peace the nurse of Religion This and Learning wee may fitly resemble to the great Luminaries of Heaven the Sunne and Moone both for their light and influence And as for the preserving the entire luster of the Moone there is required a continuall emanation of light from the Sunne So Learning borrowes it 's true light from Religion without which a man having a learned Head and an unsanctified Heart is the fittest Agent and best Instrument for the Devill to doe mischief with But now here is the difference between that lesser Luminarie and Learning in that resemblance The Moone repaies no tribute conferrs no benefit to the Sunne but Learning by way of reflection conduces much if not to the being precisely taken at least to the happy and well being of Religion These two like Eros and Anteros in the Fable of the Poets are sick and well both at a time G Naz. Orat. 3. Julian the Apostat understood this well when hee put down by a poblike Edict the Schooles where the Children of Christians were to be educated So did Pope † Platin. in vita ejus Paulus the second when hee absurdly pronounced those Hereticks that did either in jest or earnest but use the Word Academie in their Tongues or Writings The Jesuites and their Factours men subtile in their Generations and active in their mischeivous intentions they know the same and therefore endeavour now to effect what of late one vauntingly said in the Eares of a good Protestant would be done that is To destroy the Vniversities and with them the Ministery and Religion That the Vniversities so called as * Fab. Soranus in Thesauro one explaines the terme because the Circle of all the Arts and Sciences is in them expounded or taught to young Students and others of all sorts Degrees and Callings whatsoever That these Vniversities and other Schooles of Learning seedplots and nurceries subordinat to them are not onely profitable to the Church but also necessary for the maintenance of Religion so necessary that without them neither the Doctrine of the Gospell can be preserved pure and uncorrupted neither the Church wherein wee live stand sure upon it's foundation but will certainly be destroyed This I shall endeavour to prove by a familiar climax or gradation proposed to vulgar capacities by way of question First by what meanes can the Church be pure and free from Heresies without the guidance and light of the pure Word of God the holy Scriptures 2. How can that Word be preserved in it's purity without the Ministery 3. How can there be a Ministerie without able and fit Ministers to explaine and publish that Word purely without corruption whose Office it is to act the parts of Truth 's Champions to defend it against seducing Hereticks who as † Tertul. lib. de praescript Scripturas obtendunt hâc suâ audaciâ quosdam movent c. Tertullian well notes evermore alleage Scripture to back and bolster out their absurd Opinions and by this their boldnesse they move some tire out those that are strong by their restlesse disputes take the weake in their Nets and as for those of a middle temper these they send away full of doubts and scruples And whence doe Heresies arise but from this as St. * Aug. Tract 18 in Evang Joh. Augustine observes dùm Scripturae bonae intelligantur non benè quod in eis non benè intelligitur etiam temerè audactèr asseritur c. i.e. Whilest the good Word of God is not well understood and that which is not well understood is rashly and boldly asserted for truth c. Now in the fourth place How can such stout Champions learned and faithfull Pastours be had without Schooles of learning the Vnivesitirs It will follow then by a necessary Illation or Consequence that without Vniversities out of

glorious chaines c. Hee was borne in Devonshire bred up at Oxford † First in Mert●… afterwards in Corpus Christi Colledge and if it lay at my mercy to save or destroy it I should spare it because it bred such a Pillar of Truth and the scourge of Rome as the Conquerour spared Syracusa because hee found in it an Archimedes With him wee may parallel our famous Whitgift who was contemporary with him For the former dyed Anno. 1571. this latter was installed Bishop of Worcester Anno. 1577. afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury 1583. Hee was borne in Lincolneshire bred here at Cambridge first in Pembrook Hall afterward fellow of Peterhouse and not long after hee being of rare and eminent parts was made president of Pembrooke Hall next Master of Trinity Colledge in which time hee was first the Margaret then the Kings Professor of Divinity This matchlesse patterne of prudence and patience did stand as stoutly as the former in the defence of the Truth against our home bred Innovatours who as our learned Camden in his Annalls trampled on all Government and making Phansie the mistresse of their judgement pride and a zealous ignorance being their guides they inveighed against the † Elizah Queenes authority and herein spake the Language of Ashdod acted highly for the Jesuits denied uniformity in Divine worship although establish'd by the authority of Parliament sever'd the Administration of the Sacraments from the preaching of the Word Sacramentorum administrationē à verbi divini praedicatione se jungebant Camd. Novos ritus pro arbitrio in privatis edibus usurpabant c. They neglected and despised the Sacraments forgetting that God will not save us without the use of the meanes They refused to go to Church thus making a dangerous Schisme and rending the seamlesse coat of Christ Pontificiis plaudentibus multosque in suas partes trahentibus quasi nulla esset in Ecclesiâ Anglicanâ unitas Hereby they made our adversaries to rejoyce and triumph over us and were the cause of many weake ones turning Papists upon this ground that there was no unity in our Church I feare our Separatists have now caused the like if not worse mischief in the revolt of many thousand from us Those Chams men of hot and fiery Spirits who inveighed against their Fathers and uncovered their Mothers nakednesse Those Scindentes as † Aug. l. de Civit. Dei 16. c. 2 comparat Chamo haereticos li. 4. c. 43. Irenaeus well calls them to which hee joynes elati superbi those proud high-minded daring Schismaticks that Reverend Learned and most patient Whitgife quell'd and suppressed in a short time by his discreet meeknesse and gentle exhortations to peace first stopping by arguments the mouths of their Antesignani their Leaders as Cartwright and others this hee did by disputes and mild perswasions to peace and at last having by a patient courage overcome many strong oppositions from the Nobles and their adherents abettours in that schisme by Gods blessing hee restored the Church to unity and concord both in Doctrine and Discipline Who but a man of great learning and grace could have done this and been the instrument of setling in a distracted Kingdome an universall Peace Let mee adde to these one though of a lower ranke in the Church yet not much inferiour in gifts of nature and grace the renowned Whitakers first Scholar and after Fellow of Trinity Colledge famous for his admirable skill in the Arts and Tongues as for his Excellency in the knowledge of Divinity his famous workes now extant his confutation of Campian Sanders Duraeus Rainolds Stapleton nay of Bellarmine himselfe with whom then living this our Champion encountred Hee confounded the former proving the Pope to be Antichrist and maintaining the authority of the Scriptures above the Church and at last singling out the † Bellarmine Cardinall himselfe the Goliah of Rome hee stunned him so with the strength of prevailing Truth and reason in his controversies concerning the Church Scriptures and councells c. That the Cardinall it seemes fi●st convinced by his argumentions having him in high estimation procured his Picture and hung it in his stu●y among the portraitures of other noted men and was heard to say That though hee was an Heretick yet hee was a Learned one Never any saying had more of Falsity and Truth in it When he confessed him to be learned it was all one as if hee had acknowledged that he was by him confuted What firmer testimony then that which falls from the Lips of a professed Enemy To these forenamed Worthies I might adde the late Reverend Bishop of Salisbury Davenant the now living and most knowing Prelats Armach and Morton true nursing Fathers of the Church fed with their Doctrine and defended by their Pennes which they have with great successe dipped in the Inke of confutation against Jesuites and Hereticks 2 Sam. 23.12.20 The Lord hath done great things by these Benaiahs and wrought great victories by meanes of their painfull works against our Adversaries Could these famous usefull and Church-preserving acts with many hundred more which have beene effected by men of parts could these mighty things have beene done without Learning could this have been attained without the helpe and furtherance of publike Schooles and Universities I suppose no man is so wanting to Truth and Modesty as to say it This made Alphonsus King of Arragon beare an open Booke in his Scutchion to testifie thereby to the World his high esteem of learning as being the prop of Religion and the Pillar of a State and Kingdome Middendorp l. de Academ 1. p. 104. And therefore Charles the Great wheresoever hee erected a Church there hee ever annexed a Schoole of Learning unto it Oh then let not the undermining and crafty Jesuits who now swarme amongst us blow any longer this poyson into your Eares believe not the voyce of these † De his vid. Franzii Histor S. p. 1. c. 20. Hyaenas who may speake like Men nay like Angells but within are ravening Wolves and savage Beasts Their common Trade and Worke now is to cry downe Learning and the Fountaines of it the Vniversities They know that their cause cannot thrive so long as Learning does flourish These * De his vid. Solinum Solifugae hate that confounding light These Frogs love to croake in the black Night of Ignorance They ever digge their Mines in darknesse The Traitour Faux and his dark Lanthorne was a true embleme of a Jesuit who has some light within which makes him sinne against his conscience yet that light wrapped up and obscured by malice which forces him to act in defence of the Catholick cause and contrive any bloody wickednesse And now is his Harvest who loves to fish in troubled waters Hee hath put forth the Sickle of his undermining policy to cut downe the Clergy and the Vniversities witnesse the late Petitions against Tithes and that other from some