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Show ,. Of the ailtcancement oJ.learni.ng . . . . This is a Wor ke "'hich I fi ode defi cten t ,bu tls to bee Hiflorut d . h ·r~-l'ft robrietie aodreuerence,or ~ot ~-n , . one wu Wlu,uuu•,l' ' . ·r roptJett- . ll . . ' at a • .. . · f p C(t. The third, which ts HIs -r o a Y 0 r.· ado v r- .c B contain.eth thatexcelletcarre,pon eHce, "·Dv hE iNc h is b' etweene Gods.reucale d "}} d h • fi \Vt ' an ·ts e-cret will: which though It h,e fo obfcure' as for the moft part.it is not 1 egible to the N Jtu.rall Man ; no, nor ~any times to thofe that be~old u from the 1 a. . bernacle: yet at fome times it pleaferh ~ad for oar better. efiabli{).uilent , and the confuttng of t~o~e which are as without God in the world; to wntC·lt . in fuch Text and Capitall Letters, t~at, as ~he Pro· .phet faith,He th4t runneth !Jy,m4J rettdlt: ~bat ts,mecre fen!ilal perfons,whichha~e~ b~ G~ds1udgements, and neue[ bend or fixe their cogttallOnS vpon them() are neuertheletfe.in their paffage and race vrged to di.fcerne it.Such are the notable .euents and e~~m- . · pies of Gods iudgcments, chafhzements, de hue· ranees and bleffin~: And this is a work which hath p~ffed through the la~our of many, and therefore r. cannot prefent as omttted. · · . . . · There are alfo oth~ . p~rts of learning which ~re A P P E N n x c li s to H 1 s -r o R Y ,for at the extenor proce~in&s of man .conl4ft ofWor~es and Dee~s:· whereof Hdtol'y doth properly rece1ue,and r-etatnc in M etnory the Defdes, and if Wordes, yet but.as Inducements andpatfaoesto Deedes·:- S·o are there b . othet: Books and Writings., which arerapproprta~ to thccuO:odie,and receiteo~Wordesonely : .wh1~h· · hkew1fc I I • .. . . Fr-:befot-mriAVo . ~ · 1 7 · fikewifc are of three forts: 0 R AT I 0 N S~L E T- ~ S,·&BRIE'FE SPEE G'H 5S, or A¥jlo · G S:O R' AT f'Q_ N·S are ~Je~dings)S.p,'(!ecbcf) ofcounfell; .Laudatities, inuett1ues ;:Ap0lo.gir , Reprehenfions ; Orations of Formalitie , or Ceremonie, and the like : Lette.rs are according to aJI - rbe.varietie of occafions; Aduertifmcrlts;·Aduifes, · l!>iredions, Propofitibns, Peticions, C~mtn nd"tr. forie,E?CpGauJatorie,S.ati(fa~orie, of Cotnpiem~r, of Pleafure, of Difcourfe, ana all other pallages ·of Action~ And.fuch as are \Vrittenfrom wife men, ·ar~)bfall the words of Man, ·in my. iu·dgenlen~ta~ ·beft,for the~ are more Naturall tnen Oration"s ,rand ·publ_i~efpeeehes;~ more aduifed til en c6fetenccs,, · or prefent fpeeche~ : So againe ·Letters.of Affaires ·from fuch as Mana_ge them, o.r are priuie to them, of aU others the heft inltrudions for Hill:ory,:~ntf a ~diligerit read r,the befi'Hiftorics in themfelues• - · dr A P0 THE G MES: Itisagreatloffeofthat · oke:of C4_fors; For as his Hi !tory ,and thofe fewe tett~r~o,~ his which w.ce hauc, ~n~ thofe A pot~~- ~ w111cti \VereofhBownc, c:Uettml ·men5clfe: . ~I nppofe would bis·cOllection of A p 0 ?B·H·EA ~ ME S haue done;FQr as for thofc which arecol· ~·b~ others, eithel I haue no t~R in fuch Mat· · ~ ... hV.~Ife their~hoice~th ~ot bteneAhappie. But n~me~fe three kin des df: Writings .I doc not i~- , .~caufe I ha~e no· de~cteces to propo .. u~d con mQgthem, ~ c .. ~ · · .. - "~Jlois |