Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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Credit: Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have gone a great way towards promoting it. And I could with no more Inftances, even in latter Ages, were to be found ol that kind. It appears, by the form of putting a flop to that Bifeafe before-men¬ tioned, it was a mental Difeafe, no bodily Conta¬ gion, or poifonous Air, which could not have been flopp’d that way. We know Regimen animorum eft ars artium ; but there is a great Nicety in it. Mite hominum ingenium fleBi ducique per arte $ Mon rigidas, doBa mobilitate decet. Youth’s tender Minds ft)Quid be wrought on% and led By gentle Arts, not roughly managed. V To return to Virgil. As I have affirmed the Birth celebrated by Virgil to be the inward Birth, I may take notice, w'e find three ways for bringing Men to this regenerate State. The firft is, by the immediate Call or Vifitation of God, as it happened to Saint Paul. The fecond, by the common training of Church Difcipline. The third, by a Means more than ordinary ufed to bring the Mind of Man to be de¬ livered of this Birth. And this was the way gene¬ rally ufed by the Gentiles for this end, the Managers of this Work having a regard to that Saying of the Poeta FleBere ft nequeo Superos, Acheronta movelo. hthis is the long Line which great Fiftloers ufe9 When muddy Streams lie wide, and Fifth refufe 7%e Bait thrown near the Shore—*** Nor do I wonder at this Proceeding among the Gentiles ; for indeed they had no genuine training, as there is among Chriflians, for bringing Perfons other? wife to a regenerate State, which they look’d on as the moft perfed and confummate State a Man can arrive at in this Life, and confequently for the great Benefit of Mankind. It feems ftrange, that even among the Americans, there is found a Difcipline carrying fome Analogy to thofe ufed by us for bringing Men to a regenerate A a 2 State*