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Show • · 0{the .Aduancement ofLear~ing,. to [ubdne nature h¥ his miracles.And the ~ommtn~ of d~e hol fpirite, was clli~fely figured ~na,e.xf>rel· Jed in tlle ~militude and gmft of tongues, whtc hare bucrehiculajCienti~. . h, . . So in the eletHon of thofe Infirun1ents, w htc . It plea fed God to vfe for the P.lantati~n of the fauh, nocwithflanding, that at the firfi he?td etnploy. pe~ .. ions altogether vnlearned, otherwtfe t.ha!l bv tn~pt· ration, more euidently to declare hts .tmmedtate working, and to a.bbafe all hutnane'"' wtfedome ~r ·knowledge; yet neuer~hetea·e, th.at <. ounfell ~f. h~s was no fooner perfourmed, btu ~~ t~e ?ext vtct~si· tude and ft cce[sion, he did fend h1s dnune tr~tth tnto the world, wayted on with other Learntngs~as w·ith Sernants or Handtnaides : For fo we fee Satnt p atele, who was only learned amongft the A pofiles, had his penne moft vfed in the fcriptures of the new~ Teflament. · · · · so againe, we fin de that many of the ancient Bi- ·lhops and father of the Church, were ~xcellently red de, & fludied in all the learn.ing of the Heathen, infontuch_, that the Edia of the l:mperour luliant~s (whereby it was interditled vnto Chriftians ~o bee admitted into· schooles, LeCtures, or exerct!es of learning) was efteemed and accounted a more ~e~-· nitious engine and machinatio~ ag~inft the Ch~tfit· an faith; than were all thefangutnarte profecuuons of his Predecelfors; Neither could the emulatio~ ~ and lealoufte of Gregorie the firft of that name, Bt· {hop of Rume,cuero~tainetheopinionofpietieor · deuotion: · : fThe ftrfl 'Book.!. . · . 3 1 deuotion': bttt contrarywife receiued the ce}Jfi1re of humour, tnalignnie, and pufillanimitie, euen amongn holy men: in ,that he defigned to obliterate and extinguilh the nlemorieof,H.eathen antiquitie.; and Anthers. But contrarewde tt was t-he Chrifii .. an Church, which amidit the inundations of the · S'cythians, on the one fide from the North weft: and the Saracens from the Eafi, did preferue in the facred lappe and bofome there?f, the pr_etious Reliques, euen of Heathen Learning, whtch otherwife had:t beene extinguifhed, as if no fitch thing had eucr beene. · And wee fee before our eyes, that in the age of. our felues, and our Fathers, when it pleafcd God to . call the Church of Rome to account, for their degenerate n1anners and ceretnonies: and fttndrie do- .. (trines, obnoxious, and framed to vphold the fame 1 ~bufes: ~t~one and_ rhe fame time, it was ordayned ~ by the dtu.tne protudel)ce, that there .fhould attend: Withall a~· renouation, and new fpring of all other know ledges : And on· the other fide, we fee the.Ie~ lites, 'Yho partly in the~nfelues, and Fartly .by th~ · ~.tnulatton and prouocauon of their example, haue · ~ucnquickned and firengthned the fiate of Learnt~ g· : ~e fee (1 fay) what notable !eruice and reparauon they haue done to the Romane sea. · Wherefore to conc.Jude this p:art, let it bee ob .. f~rued, that there be two principall duties and fer~ tuces befides ornament & illufiration~ which Phi~ ofophie and.humane, l~arning doe perfour~e to . ~ l,H 4. faith ~ |
