may bee found most fit and inclinable,
whether it bee to bear som civil Office in the Common-wealth, or to bee
Mechanically emploied, or to bee bred to teach others humane Sciences,
or to bee imploied in Prophetical Exercises. As for this School, which
at this time I have delineated, it is proper to such of the Nobilitie,
Gentrie and better sort of Citizens, which are fit to bee made capable
to bear Offices in the Common-wealth: the other Schools may bee spoken
off in due time, so far as they are distinct from this, but that which
now I have to suggest is chiefly this, that as out of the Schools the
chois, which ought to bee made for Colleges, ought, _Caeteris paribus_,
onely to bee of such as are most fit to Advance the Ends of a Collegial
Association; so out of Colleges a chois ought to bee made of Professors
for the Universitie onely, of such as are fitted to advance the Ends of
Publick teaching in Universities, which are not to Repeat and
Compendiate that which others have published twentie times already,
over and over again, but to add unto the Common stock of humane
knowledg, that which others have not observed, to the end that all these
degrees of Studies and Exercises of the minde of man, beeing subordinate
unto the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the happiness of Man by all Rational
and Spiritual waies of improving humane Abilities, may bee advanced unto
it's perfection in this life so far as may bee.

But how far short wee com now of all these designs, I need not to relate
unto you: the Colleges as they are now Conformed, can scarce reach to
the half of that which the Schools might bring us unto: and the
Professors of the Universities com not up to that, which the Collegial
Associations might elaborate, if they were rightly directed to set their
Talents at work; and if the publick Spirit of Christian love and
ingenuitie did possess those, that are possessed of publick places in
the Colleges of the Universities. For if this Spirit did rule their Aims
and Endevors, there would bee no self-seeking, no partialitie, no envie,
nor anie cross actings for private ends, to the prejudice of the
Publick; but the generous love of virtue and of profitable Learning,
would swaie all their inclinations to a free conjunction; and make all
their endeavors subordinate unto the publick good of the Common-wealth
of Israel in the Communion of Saints. But how far this Principle of
acting is now wanting amongst us all, I shall not need to me