The phenix Author:Phoenix Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ger days he much addifted himfelf to the Study of Scholafti- cal Philofophy, and commenc'd in England Mafter of Arts ; an Honour due not fo much to his ftanding ... more »in the Univerfity, as his Rnowledg in the feven liberal Sciences: in none whereof he had been then ignorant, in moft of them exquifitely learned. All TuBy's Works were as familiar to him as his E- piftles. He had read over Plato and Phtintu fo diligently, that when I heard him fpeak, methought I heard Plato himfelf talk, lib. 5. ep. 2. pag. 309. c. And he had a Smattering in each part of Mathematicks. §. 3. Being thus well principled at home, he began to look abroad, and improve his Stock in Foreign Parts. In France he added to his Humanity what he thought necefiary for the Study of Divinity: which then he effectually profecuted in Italy. Amongft the Antients he was moft taken viithDionyfiHft Ortgen, St. Cyprian, St. Ambrofe, and St. ffierom: but among them all he moft digefted St. Auguflin. And yet he did not fo tie himfelf to Antiquity, but that (as occaiion ferv'd) he fometimes furvey'd Ayanm,ScotM, and other Schoolmen. In a word, he was well yers'd in both Laws, and fingularly read in Hiftory, both Civil and Ecclefiaftical. And becaufe he faw that England had her Dmtes and Petrarcbs as well as Italy, (who have perform'd the fame here,which they did there) thofe and thefe, he both read and diligently imitated; accommodating thereby his Stile to the Pulpit, and Preaching of the Gofpel. §. 4. After his Return from Italy, he ftaid not long in Lon- don (where his Parents lived) but chofe to live inOxford, where he publickly (yet freely and without ftipend) expounded St. Paul's Epiftles, being not full thirty years of Age, younger than I was by two or three months. There and then I had the happinefstocomefirft acquaint...« less