27o DireEionsforgetting and keeping was non-pluil ; and all ulefúll Sciences carne down and acknowledged themfelves Servants, and took their places_, and wire well contented to attend the pleafure of Chriff ; As Mr. Herbert faith in his Church Militant : Religion thencefled into Greece, where e4rts Gaveher the bigheft place in all mens hearts : Learning was poa'd : Philofophy Was fet Sophifters taken in anthers Net. Plato andAriftotle were at a tofs RndWheel'dabout again to fel Chris Croft. Prayerschas't Syllogifms into their den, e gnd Ergowas transform'dinto Amen. The Serpent envying this Happinefs of the Church, hath noway to undous, but bydrawingus from our Chriftian fimplicity. By the occafion of Hereticks quarrels and errours, the Serpent Reps and will needs be a fpirit ofZeal in the Church ; and hewill fo Over-do againft Hereticks, that he per- fwades them, they mutt enlarge their Creed, and add this Claufe againft one, and that againft another, and all was but for the perfe&ing and prefervingof the Chriftian Faith: And fohe brings it to be a Mat- ter of fo much Wit to be a Chriftian (as Erafmus complains) that ordinary heads were not able to reach it. He had got them with a Religious zealous Cruelty to their own and others fouls, to lay all their Salvation, and the Peace of the Church upon fame unfcearchable myfteries about the Trinity, which God either never revealed,or never clearly re- vealed , or never laid fo great a ftrefs upon : Yet he peg-
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