Two letters of advice I. For the susception of Holy Orders, II. For studies theological, especially such as are rational : at the end of the former is inserted a catalogue of the Christian writers, and genuine works that are extant of the first three centuries.

Letter. II. CONTENTS.

THE Introduction, and Heads of the ensuing Discourse. Numb. I. What is meant by Scholastical Divinity. What to be observed in Orato∣ry. The Light and Certainty of the Rational Faculties sup∣posed anteedently to all Theolo∣gical proof. II. A method of managing Reason most advanta∣geously in Theological Controver∣sies. III. The usefulness of

Reason and School-Divi∣nity. In what principal Con∣troversies they are especially sea∣sonable. IV. A censure of School-Divinity, and how it is to be used. V. The most accurate way of finding out the sense of the Scripture. The use of Philological Learning in general in order hereunto: particularly, First of those Tongues wherein they were Ori∣ginally written; Secondly, the Idioms of those Tongues; Thirdly, the Idioms of the Wri∣ters; Fourthly, the Antiqui∣ties: the Customes of the Zabij, Chaldaean and Phaenician; their History, Chronology and Geo∣graphy. The way of judging the Testimonies of the Fathers concerning Traditions. VI. The

use of Saecular Philosophy in order to School-Divinity. VII. The use of Saecular Learning to the Text of the Holy Scriptures, of the ancient Greek Poetry; of the Greek, especially the Stoi∣cal, Philosophy. An Apology for it. VIII. The means for un∣riddling the mystical senses of the ancient Poets and Philoso∣phers, and Publick Idolatries of the Heathens: the Oneirocri∣ticks and Hieroglyphicks. An Apology for their use in ex∣pounding Prophetick Books of Scripture. IX. The Authors to be read for initiating a young Student in each of the particu∣lars advised. X. The Method to be observed for preventing di∣straction in so great a variety. XI.