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Show ~ Of the Aduancement ifJ:earni~g,_ Em perique Statefinen,· not we~l ~tng~ed ~tth men grollnde(tin Leaming.B t~t co~trary wife, It 1s almoft . without 'inftance tontradtttorte, tha~ euer any gG-· uernement was difafirous, that-was In. the hands of learned Gouernors. for howfoeuer it hatn bee~e ordinarie With po\itiq~1e men tO extenuate and d~fable learned men by the names of ~edantes : ye~ tn~ tL1e Records of time it appearetllm many parucu-~. l¢rs, that the Gouernements o£ Princes in minori ... ty(notwirhftanding tile· infinite difaduantag~ ~f ~hat· · kinde of State) haue neuertheleffe· exc~lled· the go .. tte.rnement of Princes of mature age, euen for that 11eafon,which.they feek tO traduce, which is, that by, that occafion.the.Jlate hath been in the hands of P~dAnttJ: for fo .\vas the State of Rome for the firft flue · yee~es, which are.: [o, much magnified, dttring the: minoritie of 'l(!ro, in the han des ofs en tea a.P-tdanti: So itwasagai~eforten yeres fpa~eormore'during · the minotide of Gordianus the y9unger, with great applaufe-and·contentation in the hand's of J.l!.~(ithetu a· Pedanti : fo:was it before that, in·-rHe minoritie of .Alexander SeueruJ ibliKf' happinelfe, ih.hands not . much vnlike, b-y reafon ofthe.rule of the worn en;. . whowereay~ed bythe~eachers and Preceptors.r ~ay,Jet a.n1an looke into the gouernement of the BiJhops of R:'ome, as. by name, into the gouerne· • ~ent· of Pim · f2.!~if!tuJ, . and's extuf ~intm in our; ~tmes, who'w.ere both-at tneir entrance elleetned; brit·~s Pe~an ·icaU Friers, and he fhall find'that fuch·.P. o~e~ <loe~e~ ·~r ~hing~s,. and ·proceed vpon truer b ~ .. • •• 2finci~.Ie~- · The firft 13oo~·. · 9 .) ' principles of E,fiate, than 'thqfe w·hich h~ue aCe en-- ded to tne :Papaciefrom'an education~ qreeding , in affaires of Efiate, and Courts of Pfinces ; for although tnen bred in Learaing~are perhaps to feeke iri points of conuenienc.e, and accommodating· for the prefent which die lta.lians call Ra!)oni di jtoaro, whereof the fatne Pius ~intus could not heare fpoken with patience, tearming thetn Inuentions a .. gainft Religion and the morail vertue~ yet ·on t,he otper fide to recompence that ,they .are perfite in ihofe fame plaine grounds of Religion, Iufiice, Ho ~ · nour,and Motall vertue; which if they be·we11 and , ·watchfitlly purfued, there will bee feldome v{e of thofe other,no more than ofi Phificke in a found or ~ell diete? bo?ie ! . n~itber can the experience of ()ne mans h.fe, htrndh examples and preftdents for the et~ents ·of one mans life. ~or as it happenerh fomeumes, that the Graund chtld) ·or ·other defcen- .. dent, re{embleth the Ancell or more than ~he Sonne: fo many tim~s occ~rrences of prefent tin1es may fort better wnh ancient examples, than with thofe ·'Of the later ot immediate dm~s;and lafily,the wit of . - ·Gne man, can no more ·cou~teruaile learning, than · one ·mans meanes can hold way with a common .·purfe. · '· · · .. . · A~d as for thofe particular feduce·ments or 1ndif- .. pofiuons ~f the ~in~e for policie an~ gouerne- • ment, w~~ch learntng ts pretend·ed to infinuate; if -it be gratl~t~d .. that any fuch thing be, it muff~e re- · membred wuha~, -that Ieat·ning miniftreth in euery . .c l . ()[ |