loo Reafoni'tioning to thecontempt oftrorldly learning. Pure and delight, that they thinke their wholelife too little to fatisfie their curiofity,and ro furnifh them with thefe lear- ned treafures:in the meane time vtterly negleéling the fludy ofthe Scriptures, which alone are fufficient to make them wife to their faluation: it puffeth themvp with pride, and makcth themin the ouerwcening conceitoftheir owne ex- cellencies to contemne al others, &that whichis worfi ofal, r.Cor.r.a;. todefpife the fimpl icicleof the Scriptures,andtoelleemethe preachingofthe Gofpell meerefoolifhnes : yea andbecaufe they difdaine to be learned after the vulgar fafhion, they coine newconceits,andafter much painesand long trauaile theyare deliuercd of the vnnaturallbirthes, and miflhapen monflers oferrour and falfhood, which they fo curioufly a- dorne with their pleating ornaments ofwit, eloquence and fub tilelearning, that theirdeformities are not difcerned by an ordinaryvnderflanding,norfeeme vnhandfome to an vn- judiciousbcholder.fn fomuch as it may trulybePaid, that as pride is thefather, fo thisworldly learning is the mother of all dangerous errors and damnable herefies : and feldome (as , tlagni raraer- one faith) hauethere been anygreat errors, which hauenot rores,nift ex been the offeringofgreat wits; and as they are readie to magrúsprodiere broth errots and herelies,fo alto are they mofl fiiffe inmain- ingengs. taining anddefending them, their learning making them a- ble to contend, and their pride impatient of receiuing any foile. g.Sa8. And therefore feeing thisworldly learning, being feue- That worldly red from fauingwifdome and true godlineffe; doth not pro. leatningis to be fit vs, as being vaine andof no excellencie; feeing itloth contemnedin not inrichvs with Gods fpiritualgraces;nor at all furthereth compaureDop . the faluationofour foules ; yea feeing ir dothmuchhurt va, geofGod. by making vs more proud and erroneous fchifmaticall and hereticall; let vs not fufferour felues to be bewitchedwith the alluring notes of this Syren; let vs not ouerualue this well decked worldlyvanities preferring it to thetrue know- ledgeofGod andhis fauing grace; but efleeminga dramof fpirituall wifdome and true piede, before many poundsof this worldly learning, let Vs negletl it, or rather purge it from this,worldly filth offinne andcorruption, and Petting our
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