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Show .. . 01 the .AduancCment of Learning, ~onfii\Cd of the two famtriarie.parts o~knowledg e, the View ofCreatllres,an~ th~ tmpofiuon of~ames. As for ~he knoWledge w htch mduced thefall,tt was, as was touched before, not the namrall knowledge of Creatures bitt the morall knowledge of good and euill wh~rein tl!ie fuppoUtion was, that Gods commat~demems or p11ol'libi_tions were not the originals .of good a~d .euill, b~lt that they had other begtnnings whtch man af ptred to know ,tO the end, to make a totall defeCtion from God, and to 'depend wholy vpon bimfelfe. . . , To paifeon>in the firftebtent or o.ccur,rence a~er the fall of Man; wee fee (as the Scr1pttires haue tn~ finite M yft~i es, not violating ·at all the ~ruth oft he Storie or letter) an Image of the ·two Eftates, the , · Contemplatiue ftate, and the aaiue ftate, figured in the two perfons of !..Abell and Cai11, and in the two -fimpleft and· moft p~imitiue Trades o_f life :_ that of the Shepheard (wh0 by rea( on of hts lea(ure, refi · in a place,andliuing in view ofheau-en, is a liuely Image of a comemplatiue life) and that of the huf. band man; wheDe we fee againe, the fauour and e·. · lea ion of God went to the Shephea.rd, and not to the tiller of the ground. : · ~ So in the age hefore·the fl.Qud, the holy Records within thofe few memorials, which are there en· tred andregiflred, bane vouchfafed to mention,and· ·honour the name of die Inuentors and Authors of Mufique, and works in mettall. In the age after th~· ; ·. Floud; t\i: fidl great'·iudgemcni. of God vppo~ ~he .. amb1uon . frhe ftrfl fBook!. : 2 9 . ambition· o£ mat1, was the confufion of tongues ; · ~~erebytheopen Trade and intercourfe Of Lear .. ~tng and knowledge, 'Yas chiefely itnbarred. · · To defcend to.lv.J oyjes the law. giuer , and Go as .fir~ pen.n~; Hee 1s adorned by the ~criptures with· ~h1s addtuon, a~d commendation : That he was jeene In all the Le~rntng of the ~i? 'Y'ftians · which Nation k f c.. ' we now was one o the moft ancient Schooles of th~ world:for!)(o PlJ.to brings in the Egyptian Prieft, faytng vnto Solon: rot~ G~e~ians are et~tr children, you hatee no know!edg~ of anttqutttl, nor antiquitie of know- ~ ledge. Take a vtew of the ceremonialllaw of."lf oyfts; you !hall find. befide.s the ,prefiguration of Chrift, · the ba~ge or ~tffere~ce of the people of God, the e~c~rctfe and 1mp~efston of obedien.ce, and othe~ ·dtutne vfes and frutts thereof, that fome of the moft ~earned Rabynes haue trauailed profitably, and profoundly to obferue, fome of them a naturall fo1n·e . of them~ morall fen~e, or reduaion 0f many ~f the ceremontes and ordtnances : As in the !awe of the· Leproufie, where. it is f~yd: 'If the whit(nefoe hau~ 0• · llerfi.read thefir{h,the Pattent nray pa!Je abroad for· clean; ,Btlt if there benny wholefi<fh remayni1~e,·, he is to be jhat tJf for v~clettne: One ~f t~e,m noteth a principle of nature., ~hat putrefaB:ton ts more contagious before mrunue tha~ after: And anothet not eth a pofition 0 morall Phtlofophie,that men abandoned to vice ~oe not fo much corrupt manners, as thofe that ar~ a~e good,a~d halfe cuill, fo, in this and verie many .ot er places In that lawe, there is to bee found be- H 2 fides |