incapable of attaining to W fdom. 261 valued themfelves upon their philofophy S E R M. and their eloquence, their fcience fo called, X. which was then in great reputation, fuch Pimple inftitution as that of chriflianity, fo plain, accommodated to the weakeft capa- cities, without any thew of learning, taught , by illiterate men who fought not their own honour, nor at all attributed the contrivance or the fuccefs of their doctrine to any (kill and wifrorn of theirs, but wholly to God To thefe proud conceited Greeks, I fay, fuch an artlefs inftitution as that of the gofpel, appeared very contemptible. And, in ge- neral, that it muff be fo, that the pride of men, a high conceit of their own wifdom muff hinder them to become truly wife, is evident, becaufe it marreth diligence and impartiality, without which no man can be fuccefsful in his enquiries, nor attain to un- derftanding in any thing. The fcorner will not admit a fufpicion of any error ; the opi- nion and the fchemes of religion he hath embraced, however wrong and faulty in themfelves, have a great advantage to re- commend them to his efteem, becaufe they are his own, and they are now no more to be fubjeded to a new examination : To dif- cover an error would be an affront to him, and he ftandeth too fair with himfelf to fub- S3 mit
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