A55307:107
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9. Let Ministerial Qualifications be set as high as prudently they may: Let them be required to have good Skill in the Learned Languages and Philosophy: Let them be skilled in History, especially that of the Church: Let them know something in the Controversies of Religion, and in the Writers of the Primitive Times. And in these things, let them undergo a strict Trial and Examination; and if they be not found competently instructed in them, let them be rejected. Let it not be thought a sufficient Qualification, to have seen a University, and spent some little time there. Let enquiry be made, what Advantage ⟨p. 65⟩they have made, what Learning they have obtained by the time they have spent there. Persons may come as arrant Fools, and Ignorants, from thence, as they went thither, and sometimes much more. If no place in the Ministry, nor Preferment in the Church were to be obtained without Learning, it would oblige young Scholars to follow their Studies, and employ their Time in the prosecution of necessary Qualifications for the Ministerial Office, that they might be capable of it: But where little else is required in order thereunto, but Submission to the Ecclesiastical Yoke, and a good wide Throat that can swallow a Pompion, 'tis no wonder if nothing else be Learnt or Laboured after by a great many.
9. Let Ministerial Qualifications be set as high as prudently they may: Let them be required to have good Skill in the Learned Languages and Philosophy: Let them be skilled in History, especially that of the Church: Let them know something in the Controversies of Religion, and in the Writers of the Primitive Times. And in these things, let them undergo a strict Tryal and Examination; and if they be not found competently instructed in them, let them be rejected. Let it not be thought a sufficient Qualification, to have seen a University, and spent some little time there. Let enquiry be made, what Advantage ⟨p. 65⟩they have made, what Learning they have obtained by the time they have spent there. Persons may come as arrant Fools, and Ignorants, from thence, as they went thither, and sometimes much more. If no place in the Ministry, nor Preferment in the Church were to be obtained without Learning, it would oblige young Scholars to follow their Studies, and imploy their Time in the prosecution of necessary Qualifications for the Ministerial Office, that they might be capable of it: But where little else is required in order thereunto, but Submission to the Ecclesiastical Yoke, and a good wide Throat that can swallow a Pompion, 'tis no wonder if nothing else be Learnt or Laboured after by a great many.