of tbif WorJ^ oj 



CAP. VI. 



The Dignity of Learning from Divine Arguments and Tefiimoniei, 

 I. I'rom Gods Wifdom. § Angels of Illumination. § The firjl 

 Light. § The fir H Sabbath. § Mahs iniployment in the Garden. 

 § Abels contemplation. § The Invention of Atuficl^. i^ Confufio?z 

 of Tongues. II. The excellent Learningfof Mofes. § Job. § So- 

 lomon. § Chri^i. § St. Paul. § The Ancient DoQors of the 

 church. § Learning exalts the Mind to the Celebration of Cods Glo- 

 ry 5 and is a prefervative againU Error and Vnbelief. 



CAP. VII. 



The- Dignity of Learning from humane Arguments and Tejiimonies> 

 I. Natural Inventors of new Art s^ for the Commodity of Man's lifd 

 confecrated as Gods. 11. Folitnalj Civil Ejiates and Affairs ad- 

 vanced by Learning. § The be[i and the happieji times under Learn- 

 ed Princes and others. ^ Exemplified in fix continued fucceeding 

 Emperoursfrom the death <>/Domlti^n. III. Military : The Con- 

 currence of Arms atid Learning. § Exemplified in Alexander the 

 Great. § Julius Csfar the DiHator. § Xenophon the Phifopher, 



C A P. VIII. 



The Merit of Learning, from the influence it hath upon Moral vertues. 

 (j Learning a Sovereign remedy for all the Difeafes of the Mind. 

 § The dominion thereof greater than any Temporal Forver, being a 

 Torver over Reafon and Belief. § Learning gives Fortunes, Honours 

 and Delights, excelling all other as the foul thefenje. § Durable 

 monuments of Fame. § A frofped of the Immortality of a future 

 World. • 



The fecond BOOK. 



THE FRO EM. 



THe Advancement of Learning commended to the Care of Kings,, 

 I. The aUs thereof in general three, Kexvard, DireSion- , Ajfi- 

 Jiance, II. In fpecial,abouf three Objeiis,Places, Books, Perjons. ^ In 

 Places four Circumjiances, Buildings, Revenues, Priviledges, Laws of 

 Difcipline, § In Eool^stwo.^ Libraries, good Editions. § In Perfons 

 • two. Readers of Sciences extant. Inquirers into Parts non-extant. 

 III. Deficients in the Acfs of Adv/fnccmcnt, (ix, want of Foundations 

 for Arts at Urge. ^ Mcannrfs tf Salary to Readers. ^ Want of al- 

 lowance for cxperimentt. ^ PrepoUcrous Tnjiitutiont : unadvifed 

 praUifes in Academicaljitidies. ^ IFant of Intellrgencs between ths 

 VnJverfities of Europe. § Want of Enquirers into the Defers of Arts, 

 (j The Authors particular dejigv. § Modeji defence. 



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