114. IROVERBS. world to confound themighty, andvile things oftheworld, and thingsdefiled bathGod chofen,andthings which arenot,to bring to nsoreght things that are : Thatneflef2Jhoîddreioyce inht, pre- fence, but according as it is written, he that reíoyceth, let him, rtioyce in theLord . See Chap.9,verfe 4. Childe,&c.] Men without fpirituall wifedome are no better Defl.t,. thenchildren. They take preferment , they applaude their owne wifedome, and fceme to the world to be of greatelt vnderflanding , but God termeth them according as bee fecal, and knoweth them to be indeede, the belt of them is but a child at the bell. Ifchildilhnefte had pafl'ed away with theyearesof childhood, why would Saint Paulgiue that ad- monition, That wefhould be no more children , carried about Epbef4.r4; wit)) every bla.il ofdoc`1rine, by deceit ofmen , and craftinefe, whereby they lie in wait to deceitae. The Prophet Efay maketh ob(linate Non-proficients to be farre inferiour to children , efleeming it an caíìcr mat- ter, tolcarne infants new weaned, to writeand reade, than fuchmanner of oldlings to become wife and godly. Whom (faith he) !hallhee teachknowledge ? andwhom!hall hee make Efay 4.1°, to vnders`land the things that hee heareth ? them that are wea- ssedfront themike, ? or drawnefrom, thebreaRs ? forprecept snot be vpon precept, precept vponprecept, line vnto line, line vnto line, therea little, and there a little. Yet Jeremy maketh reran. io. x4. their cafe work , and matched-) themwith vnreafonablecre- atures, laying; Eueryman í3a beas7 by his owne l`nowledoe : And Zophar in the booke of Job proccedeth ful ther, and compareth them to fottífh and contemptible beafls, fayiog; lob r x. x z. Vaine manwouldbe wife, though man borne (that is by his owne corrupt nature without regeneration) be like a wilde 4fe-colt. Firfl, all menof every age were borne blinde , and fo re- Rafo 3, maine, as touching the fauingknowledge of God , and the tl,yflerics offaluation , vntill they be illuminated by the re- uelation of the Spirit. The Elders vnderfland no more thereof, in filch manner as they arc tobe apprehended, than theyongcr fort 's nor the learned than the ignorant , as the E anfwere
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