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 May 2, 2024.
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SECT. VII. Of Christian, or Church-History under the Gospel.
THus much may suffice to evidence the History both of the Jews, and Gentiles, to be useful for explicating many passages in Scripture. The same may be affirmed of the Christian History, or the History of the Church in the times of the Gospel, from which we must receive information, about that usage of being baptized for the dead, mentioned 1 Cor. 15.29. and about the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or Feasts of charity, Jude 12. the understanding of which is of use to clear the meaning of 1 Cor. 11.21, 22. And
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concerning the Nicolaitans, who they were, and what their Doctrine, Rev. 2.6, 15.
It is Ecclesiastical History that must give light to those places of Scripture which foretell of Antichrist, or which concern the Church all along, since the first pub∣lishing of the Gospel.
From hence also must we be instructed in those Cases, wherein it is requisite to know the custom of the Churches, 1 Cor. 11.16.
Ecclesiastical History is one of the near∣est attendants to Divinity, and therefore hath always experienced the same fate with it: Simul floruerunt, simul jacuerunt, both flourished, and both were out of respect together: as Isaac Casaubon shews in his Prolegomena to his Exercitations on Baro∣nius's Annals.
Who so desires to see the use of this sort of History largely pursued, may read Grynaeus's Preface to the Ecclesiastical Hi∣story of Eusebius, &c. rendred into Latine.