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Show Oft be adu:tncement rf learning, Eye ioyeth to rec.eiue light, .a~d not ~:mely dcltghtea in .behold.tng_ the ·va.r!ette of thtnges and vlcifsitude of tin~es, but ra.y ted alfo to finde out and difcerne the ordinances and d.ecree~ which thro'ughout aU lhofe Changes arC infallibly ob~ ferued. And although hee doth ~n!inuat~ that die fupreame or fitrnmarie law of Nature; \Vh:ch. ne callet'l,_ The 1vorke whit11 God worketh .from the. beginning t'O . the e~ad, is not poftbfe tO be found 0 t~t hJ ~l14n; yet th~t doth. not . derogate frotn the capacitie of the minde ; . but may . bee ref~rred to the 1mpedi~nents as of fhortneffe of life , ill coniunaion of labours , ill tradition of know- . leag"e ouer from hand .. to h.aqd;, and:tnany other fbconuenien~es, \vhere~lnto the. condition of ~an is Jubiea. For that· nothing p_arcelf of the wqrld, is deni~d to Ma.ns e~quirie ~nd ·inuenti.:. ()Il : . bee doth ln ano(ller pla.ce rut~ ,ouer; wnen )lee fa.ydi, T'he S.pirite' of Man. is. as tl1e .. Lampe of God, where'With het fiarr!Jeth the inw.trtlnif(e ~r till ftcrets . If _then fuch be the capacitie and . re-ceit of the mind. of Man~ it is tnanifefl,. th'at t.here i~ !lo daunger at al.t in ttf~· prop~rtion or qnan· tttte of kllo\vledge how·e large Coeuer ; leaft it fl1ou!d t~ake it [~ell or f)tttcotnpatfe it felfe; no, but Jt 1s meerely .the qualitie of k11o.wledoe, which be i~ in quantitie more 0~ relfe, if it bee taken witHout the true correB:iue tnereof hath . in it fome 'Natnre qf venome or m3lignitie: and . f9ll\e !f~C.ls o£ that. venosne whi~h is ventofitie 0r ... .... . · rr'he jiift hook!. 1 or (welling. This corre[tiue fpice; ihe mixture wh«eof maketh knowledge fo ioueraigne, is Cha .. · · ritie, wht<::h the ApoiUe imediately addedt to the former claufe, ~or fo he !ayth, Knowlecl.ge bloweth vp, bttt charitie btttldeth 't'f ; not vnlike vnto that which bee d~liuere~~ in another place: lf I j}ake ,(/ dyth hee) wtth the tong}tes of men and <-4 nge!s, and h4d not charitie, ft ~er~ but as a tinckli~6 C)'m~ hall~ not. ·.but lhat 1t 1s ·an excellent thing e to fpeake wuh the tongues of Men and Angels, but becaufe ·if it bee feuered from · Charitie, and not referred to the good of Men and Mankind i~ ha~h rather a. ~ounding'. and ~nwoJ;"thje- gio!, rte, ~han a mertung and fubHanuall vertue. And as for .that Cenfi1re_ of Sttlo1non concerning die excelfe of writing and reading Bookes,· and tHe anxietie of fpirit \Vhich redoundeth from know .. · ·leg de, and that admonitiqn of Saint. P attle, That wee bee ,not Je~uced by vayne Phil~(ophit; let . thofe places bee rtghtly vnderfioode, · anq they . doe indeede· excellently fette ·foorth the true boun~s. and limitations, Whereby humane know.. . Ie.~ge ·is confin(:d and · circumfcribed : and yet """' Wtt~out any fitch ~con~taaing or .coaraation, but . ~hat 1t may comprehend all the vnitterfall nature of · th.inges .: for ·ihefe limitations are three .: . Tlie · firft, That wee doe not fo place Ofl·r felicitie/n knowledge, 11s ·wtt forg~t o1er ·mtJrtalitie. The· fecond that ·we maj:e application '.four knowlidge io giue 'ou; ...- ' [_e!Nts repofe ~nil cmtentmmt ,ttnd not dija.ft orrepinine,. .- · ;~~ · The |