C H A P. 2. . Expo*ion vpon the fecond V E A.I 5. Apof+olicall; withal! grew wanton and luxuriant in glcf_ fing and inferring from the facred text, mixing withal! their Philofophicall conceits, and language ouer hyper- bolical!, vnwittingly they hatcht that Cockatrice egge, whereout hath ifl'iied the Serpent of Papifine. In euery age inclinations of doiirine, are well obferued by the cen- tury- writers; out of which rags of Fathers heedleffe opi- nions, they haue patcht vs vp their Poperie. Yet would God wee could by that harme learne cauti- on : I haue long obferued the e two witneff es to Trophecie in fackc, loth. And learning of higher Eiraine, then what fimplicitie of Scriptures affords, to bee much affe45ìed by profefl'ed diuines. Fathers,who lane he that knowes them not, but reuerenceth ? But its (hang, when Saint 'Paul mufl be forced to accord with Saint Auguffine, elfe fcarce- ly bee deemed Authentique. Harlh, when liberty is not permitted, with reafon and faluaí reuerentia, CO difhent from their opinions. Saint eflugufline defired not to be fo read, nor did himfelfe fo read others. Too too !Lame- full, when eArriflotle and 'Plato mull not illuurate onely, or explicate, but affront Saint 'Paul. Of all I moll won- der, how the Barbarifme of Schoolewen hath regained re- putation of highefi learning : and their-myfteries feene higher, then thofe Paul f heard in the third heauen; their Seólaries more learned, then bee that, as g efipoflos, is mightieff in Scriptures. Mine errour, if yet an errour, ile confeffe. Much preti_ ous time I haue fpent in them, led thereto by thefe reafons. z The high efteeme I law them in, with men whole lear- sing and fanditie, I could not but reuerence. a Next, their promife, of enabling rationally to conceiue highefi myfieries, of Theologie ; at leaf+ to defend them, as more rational! then their contradictories. ; I found them in Moralities, exa&, and diílind, farre aboue the ordinatie rate of our Diuines. 4 Why Ehottld a Papli in Schoole language be a Barbarian to me, as I to him in the language of Canaan. y Competently I feemed enabled to difcerne betwixt good and euill. 6 Conuerfed in t1em, not vt transfuga, .
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