Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls crossCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse

For this cause, the Heathen, when they erected temples in the honour of their gods, did also build libraries, that is, places to keep books: that by such means, their priests might grow in knowledge, & be better able to persuade others to their religion. Strabo writeth of the Smyrnians, that they built a temple in the honour of Homer, and joined thereto a library. Augustus the Emperor, built a temple and also a library in the honour of Apollo, Traianus in like manner built a library and called it Ulpia after his own ⟨image 27⟩name. At Rome in the Capitol, where all yt gods •ad a solemn place for to be worshipped in, there was also placed a library. Athens was a famous University, & had many colleges, and schools •f learning, Academia, S•oa, Lyceum, Canopus, Prytaneum, Tempe, Cynosura, in which places were divers sects of Philosophers. Such were •n Persia the wise men, whom they called Ma•i: in Babylon, the Chaldees: in India, Brachma•es: in Ethiopia, Gimnosophistae: in France and England Druids, & others in other countries. In all times yt kings & princes which did set forth religion, were also builders of schools and colleges, & advancers of learning. The people of Israel were never in better state (as P. Phagius, a •earned man noteth out of their story) then when they had in every town & village Bathe chenesioth, and Bathe medraschoth, that is, Synagogues wherein they assembled together, and places to preach in. The same Phagius reporteth of Jerusalem, that there were in it more then 4. hundred common schools & Synagogues, in which y• Law of God was taught. The Patriarch Jacob was called Minister domus doctrinae, a Minister of the house of learning, because he applied himself to the knowledge of the law of god, & to godliness. The Prophets of God had their schools, to breed up under them such as might after their death draw the people from idolatry, ⟨image 28⟩and resist the false Prophets. They which were so taught by them, were called Filij Prophetarum, The sons of the Prophets, Samuel taught in such sort at Rama. Elijah and Elisha the Prophets, in such sort, taught the Law of God besides Jericho. Saint John the Evangelist, taught at Ephesus: and Eusebius reporteth out of Philo, that S. Mark had at Alexandria sundry scholars, which gave themselves to reading and reasoning, and expounding of the Scriptures.