Page:Two tracts on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland.djvu/59

Rh regular and useful plenty of Books. But 2. Hereby all sorts of Learning will mightily encrease and flourish amongst us, and though we be not a great or a rich People, yet we may be a wise and a learned People. Yea further, these Libraries in two or three hundred years will be so full and compleat, that the Most Famous and Magnificent Libraries in the World, shal not outdo the meanest Library in any Paroch of this Kingdom, for numbers of valuable and useful Books, as hath been already demonstrat.

3. If it be our Duty to provide our Ministers with all things necessary for them as a competent Stipend, Manse and Gleib,