comfort, which might overflow and water abundantly the barren and
thirstie Souls of those that perish for want of address unto wisdom;
which in all the waies of humane and divine Learning might bee mainly
advanced, by the industrie of one man in such a place, whose Trade
should bee such as I formerly described, to deal with the spirits of all
men of parts, to set them a working one by and towards another, upon the
subjects which hee should bee intrusted withal to keep in the stock of
Learning. It is the Glorie and Riches of Nations and of great Cities, to
make themselvs the Center of Trade for all their Neighbors; and if they
can finde waies of politie, to oblige their Neighbors to receiv from
their Magazines the Commodities whereof they stand in need, it is
everie waie a great benefit unto the State, so it may bee in matters of
Learning, and by the Trade of Sciences this Church may oblige all the
Neighbor Churches, and that Universitie all Forreiners that Trade in
knowledg to receiv pretious Commodities, whereof they stand in need,
from our Magazines and Storehouses; if a painful Steward and dispenser
thereof, bee imploied and mainteined to use industrie for so blessed a
work, from whence much Glorie to God in the Gospel, and honor will
redound to the Nation. For although the waies of humane Learning are
almost infinite and wonderfully various, and have their peculiar uses in
the outward life of man, for which most men affect them, yet in one that
is to minde the universal good of all, the whole varietie and diversitie
of matters useful unto this present life, as they com within the sphere
of Learning must bee reduced, and may bee subordinate unto the
advancement of the Gospel of Christ, wherein the Glorie of the Nation,
at this and all times should bee thought to stand: And truly that is the
thing which take's most with mee, for which I would have that Librarie
thus improved by a faithful keeper, that when his Trade is set on foot,
with all those that are of eminent parts in their several faculties,
wee knowing who they are and wherein their eminencies do lie, may have