Or, if they have lived there [at the University] upon their own, who knows not that seven years' charge of living there,--to them who fly not from the government of their parents to the licence of a University, but come seriously to study,--is no more than, may be well defrayed and reimbursed by one year's revenue of an ordinary good benefice?
If they had then means of breeding from their parents, 'tis likely they have more now; and, if they have, it needs must be mechanic and uningenuous in them to bring a bill of charges for the learning of those liberal Arts and Sciences which they have learnt (if they have indeed learnt them, as they seldom have) to their own benefit and accomplishment.

But they will say 'We had betaken us to some other trade or profession, had we not expected to find a better livelihood by the Ministry.' This is what I looked for,--to discover them openly neither true lovers of Learning and so very seldom guilty of it, nor true ministers of the Gospel." _University Education of Ministers not Necessary_: "What Learning, either human or divine, can be necessary to a minister may as easily and less chargeably be had in any private house ...
Those theological disputations there held [i.e.at the Universities] by Professors and Graduates are such as tend least of all to the edification or capacity of the people, but rather perplex and leaven pure doctrine with scholastical trash than enable any minister to the better preaching of the Gospel.

Whence we may also compute, since they come to reckonings, the charges of his needful library; which, though some shame not to value at L600 [equivalent to L2000 now], may be competently furnished for L60 [equivalent to L200 now].

If any man, for his own curiosity or delight, be in books further expensive, that is not to be reckoned as necessary to his ministerial either breeding or function.

But Papists and other adversaries cannot be confuted without Fathers and Councils, immense volumes and of vast charges! I will show them therefore a shorter and a better way of confutation: _Tit.