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Ch.2.Farther Progrefs ofthefe Arts. 241
We will only reser the proof of this to the examples
in the 31 of Exodus of Bezakeland Aholiab i of whom
God himsels witneiTeth, that he called them by name
to make the tabernacle h and filled them with his spi-
ris, not only to devise curious works in Gold, in Sil-
ver, in Brass, and in SUk^ \ but also gave them skill to
. teach others the same,
HI. Nature also bath not been idle, but bath aUed a
Mailer-piece herein.
To pass by the glory of Flowers, the excellent com-
liness of beasts ( as in the spots of Leopards, tails of
* Peacockj, and the like) I will only remark the same os
a Gem, which Pyrrbus ( who made War with the Ro-
mans J had, os which Pliny in lib. 37. cap-1, ot his na-
tural History, reports, that it being an Agath had the
nine Muses and Apollo holding of a Lute depicted
therein ; the spots not by Art, but by nature, being so
spread over the sione, that each Muse had her peculiar
mark. See Gajserel cap. 5.
IV. The care os Parents in tbe Education of their Chil-
dren, was another reafon os the progress hereos.
The Grecians, saith Aristotle in cap. 3. lib. 8. of his
Politicks,did teach their children the Art of Painting:
and Plutarch saith, that Paulus JEmilius had Sculptors
and Painters amongst the Matters of his children as
Well as Philosophers and Rhetoricians: and Pliny
saith, that by the Authority of Pamphilus, this Art
hath been ranked among the liberal Sciences, and that
only Free-born children should learn it. And Galen
enumerating several Arts as Fbysicl^ Khetorick, Musukj
(jeometry, Arithmetic^ Logickj Grammer, and knowledge
of Law; add unto these5saich he, Carving and Painting.
And as the Grecians were the sirst, that taught their
children these Arts, so also they provided betimes for.
them choice Matters.
V. thest
We will only reser the proof of this to the examples
in the 31 of Exodus of Bezakeland Aholiab i of whom
God himsels witneiTeth, that he called them by name
to make the tabernacle h and filled them with his spi-
ris, not only to devise curious works in Gold, in Sil-
ver, in Brass, and in SUk^ \ but also gave them skill to
. teach others the same,
HI. Nature also bath not been idle, but bath aUed a
Mailer-piece herein.
To pass by the glory of Flowers, the excellent com-
liness of beasts ( as in the spots of Leopards, tails of
* Peacockj, and the like) I will only remark the same os
a Gem, which Pyrrbus ( who made War with the Ro-
mans J had, os which Pliny in lib. 37. cap-1, ot his na-
tural History, reports, that it being an Agath had the
nine Muses and Apollo holding of a Lute depicted
therein ; the spots not by Art, but by nature, being so
spread over the sione, that each Muse had her peculiar
mark. See Gajserel cap. 5.
IV. The care os Parents in tbe Education of their Chil-
dren, was another reafon os the progress hereos.
The Grecians, saith Aristotle in cap. 3. lib. 8. of his
Politicks,did teach their children the Art of Painting:
and Plutarch saith, that Paulus JEmilius had Sculptors
and Painters amongst the Matters of his children as
Well as Philosophers and Rhetoricians: and Pliny
saith, that by the Authority of Pamphilus, this Art
hath been ranked among the liberal Sciences, and that
only Free-born children should learn it. And Galen
enumerating several Arts as Fbysicl^ Khetorick, Musukj
(jeometry, Arithmetic^ Logickj Grammer, and knowledge
of Law; add unto these5saich he, Carving and Painting.
And as the Grecians were the sirst, that taught their
children these Arts, so also they provided betimes for.
them choice Matters.
V. thest