onour
done to the Church, but a plain dishonour."

_University Education of Ministers:--State of the Facts:_
"They pretend that their education, either at School or University,
hath been very chargeable, and therefore ought to be repaired in
future by a plentiful maintenance: whereas it is well known that
the better half of them, and ofttimes poor and pitiful boys, of no
merit or promising hopes that might entitle them to the public
provision but their poverty and the unjust favour of friends, have
had the most of their breeding, both at School and University, by
scholarships, exhibitions, and fellowships, at the public
cost,--which might engage them the rather to give freely, as they
have freely received. Or, if they have missed of these helps at the
latter place, they have after two or three years left the course of
their studies there, if they ever well began them, and undertaken,
though furnished with little else but ignorance, boldness, and
ambition, if with no worse vices, a chaplainship in some
gentleman's house, to the frequent imbasing of his sons with
illiterate and narrow principles. Or, if they have lived there [at
the University] upon their own, who knows not that seven years'
charge of living there,--to them who fly not from the government
of their parents to the licence of a University, but come seriously
to study,--is no more than, may be well defrayed and reimbursed by
one year's revenue of an ordinary good benefice? If they had then
means of breeding from their parents, 'tis likely they have more
now; and, if they have, it needs must be mechanic and uningenuous
in them to bring a bill of charges for the learning of those
liberal Arts and Sciences which they have learnt (if they have
indeed learnt them, as they seldom have) to their own benefit and
accomplishment. But they will say 'We had betaken us to some other
trade or profession, had we not expected to find a better
livelihood by the Ministry.' This is what I looked for,--to
discover them openly neither true lovers of Learning and so very
seldom guilty of it, nor true ministers of the Gospel."

_University Education of Ministers not Necessary_: "What
Learning, either human or divine, can be necessary to a minister
may as easily and less chargeably be had in any private house ...
Those theological disputations there held [i.e. at the
Universities] by Professors and Gradua