A treatise of the necessity of humane learning for a Gospel-preacher shewing the use of I. Languages, II. Rhetoric, III. Logic, IV. Natural philosophy, V. Moral philosophy, VI. History, VII. Chronology, VIII. Arithmetic, IX. Geometry, X. Astronomy, XI. Geography, and the benefits of learning in all ages : also this question is determined, whether grace be essential to a minister of the Gospel? / by Edward Reyner ...
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A treatise of the necessity of humane learning for a Gospel-preacher shewing the use of I. Languages, II. Rhetoric, III. Logic, IV. Natural philosophy, V. Moral philosophy, VI. History, VII. Chronology, VIII. Arithmetic, IX. Geometry, X. Astronomy, XI. Geography, and the benefits of learning in all ages : also this question is determined, whether grace be essential to a minister of the Gospel? / by Edward Reyner ...
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Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.
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London :: Printed by John Field, and are to be sold by Joseph Cranford ...,
1663.
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Philosophy and religion.
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"A treatise of the necessity of humane learning for a Gospel-preacher shewing the use of I. Languages, II. Rhetoric, III. Logic, IV. Natural philosophy, V. Moral philosophy, VI. History, VII. Chronology, VIII. Arithmetic, IX. Geometry, X. Astronomy, XI. Geography, and the benefits of learning in all ages : also this question is determined, whether grace be essential to a minister of the Gospel? / by Edward Reyner ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57125.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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SECT. I. That the people may be better for the Learn∣ing of their Ministers.
MAny Objections are made against the use of Learning, for the Mi∣nisters of the Gospel.
Object. What are the people better for the Learning of their Ministers?
Answ. The people, which are unlearned, may enjoy the benefit of all the Studies, and Learning of their Ministers (in the extract, result, refinement, or quintessence thereof, as a Learned man saith) in, and by their labors in preaching, and writing; by which they convey the same unto them, which the people could not by their own private industry have attained.
So that the Ministers of the Gospel may be said to study (even Learning, as well as Piety) for the People; as Mothers, and Nurses eat, and digest food for their children, to whom they give suck: and
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the people suck Learning, and Knowledge out of the Breasts of the learned labors of their Ministers (both Sermons, and Books) in Translating, and Expounding the Holy Scriptures: in handling points of Divinity, in deciding Controversies, in resolving Cases of Conscience, in compo∣sing Tracts, &c.
In all which Learning is prepared, and fitted for the Peoples reception, and dige∣stion: and by all which they are made par∣takers of the Sap, and Virtue of their Ministers Parts, and Studies, Gifts, and Graces.
Hereby the people may be kept from Errors, and Heresies; from corrupting, or rejecting wholesom Doctrine; from per∣verting, and wresting the holy Scriptures, which (as S. Peter saith) they that are un∣learned (to wit in themselves,
* 1.1 and in their Teachers) do unto their own destruction. That saying is very true, scil. that judici∣ous Believers can never be unthankful de∣spisers of those Gifts of good Learning in their Ministers, by whom they have been instructed foundly and plainly in the truth.