10 'The·Saints fore Epru.u.. I ' grace, ai1dwithout God in the World. when they pro-] fejfed them[elves to he wife, they became fofiles, faith P.tz1l, Rom•. I. z 2:. They were puffed up with a . little vaine~glorious knowledge here upon Earth, . and got them a Name amongft men: But; alas, ! what was this ? When as for the want of the Light 0f Divine Truth, they loft their Soules in another-World, and· their Names·never came in the Booke of Life. where if the wifo ?. ( faith PAul in another place) »:here is the Scribe? where u the Dijfuter of this World? ·As if bee fhould have faid:: A;ll the knowledge of the greatell: Doelors and learnedeG: Rabbins in· th~Wbrld, without Grace, vanifheth into no~hing, into v-aine.:.glory, ernptineffe, and aire -; riay, cail:s them \"vith greater ·horror ~ and confufion, into the Pit of Hell. Every man (faith Ieremie) u· a Beaff by hi! owne knowle~~e , r-'1.!11~ ·tn~·':) ''Ul.::IJ I ere. 1-o. ,1·4 .. Except, belides ·aU other know– ledge, he:- be enlightened from ahove, and have thGtt D·ivine knowledge fan&ified um:o him, hee c..an come- no neerer the ha-ppineffe of Htaven, than avery Beafr. Nt>tworlJly . · z World~ywifedome and policie is fo farrc wife.d~me. frommakisgmen wife untofalvation "s that it is !r~:J~c:~~:lr: no.t onely ~arke fooliHmeffe ~irh Godar:d good · &roam brain, mes,-_but It doth ftrongly fet1tfdfe-and IS af en. fi~nd atodcles, . mitie aD"ain-!l:cGod. Therefore faith ·God· -Lwi!J wull anever· t-> • • ' . • ' . laf\ing oppo-.. deHroy thewifedome of the l'liife, and,m!IcaHaway the £tion>~om.8.7. underftanding~ftheprudent,* I Cor.1. 19 • .Ahitophel ' i .)1 1 cor.~. !9· was fo wife even in the affaires ofKingdomes,and · l :~. ~am.t6.:a.3•· .bu fine{fe.QfSt.ate)that the -couJZfell-wb-ithhccoun[eUea l zn .
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