Serle - BT590 N2 S47 1776

270 ARM, HAND, ANfi likewife has been made by many of the wifeft and molt 'judicious Men in all Ages. Even a Balaam and a Wolfeley faw the Advantage of GOD's Service and Science, in a trying Hour, though they had fpent their precious Time and proftituted their Bodies and Souls, in the Service of Sin. The idly fcientific Labors of a learned Unbe- liever's Life can only bring him to the Confeflion, which Solomon made, and which the greatFabricius, on a Review of his immenfe Learning, repeated; All is Vanityoand Vexation of Spirit. " A Believer, fays Bp. Reynolds, " though he be ignorant of all other Learning, yet, by cc the Knowledge of Chrifl, will be a bleft'ed Man ; ," whereas all the Learning in the World, without this, " will leave a Man miferable. To know the whole " Creation, and to be ignorant of theCreator ; to know cc all Hiftories and Antiquities, and to be unacquainted " with our own Hearts ; to be good Logicians to other " purpofes, and in the mean time to be cheated by Sa- `c tan with Paralogifms in the Bufinefs of our own Sal- " vation ; to be powerful Orators with Men, and never " to prevail with GOD ; to know the Conftellations, " Motions, and Influences of the heavenly Bodies, and " have (till unheavenly Souls; to know exaétly the Laws " of Men, and to be ignorant of and rebellious againít tt the Laws of GOD ; to abound with worldly Wifdom, " and be deftitute of the Fear of GOD which maketh " wife unto Salvation ; is all but a better kind of re- " fined Mifery. The Devils have much more Learn- ing than all this . comes to, and yet are damned for " ever." The Arm, and the Hand, are natural Terms, when applied to the Ability of a Man, which exprefs his Ca- pacity or Readinefs of Power. His Right Hand, being, from Ufe, the ftrdnger and more expert, denotes the molt perfe& Exertion of that Power. Thefe are figue rative Expreffions ofcommon Acceptation, for the Con- veyance of thefe common Ideas. Agreeably to thefe, germ. x. on the Ufe ofhuman Learning. WC

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