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Show Of the AduAnctment Ojlettrning ma»eLearning: Onely'if m(!n ·wiJlkaow.their.o"'n · firength,and their owrie weakenetfe both: and take ~ one from the othe.r, light ofinuenr.ion, and not fire of contradiction, and efieeme of the Inquifition of truth,as of an enterprife,& not ~sofa quaJirie or or ·namem, & imploy wit. and magnificence to things of \Vorth & excellencie, & not to things vulgar,and of pQpular efiimation; As for my Jabors,if any man Jhall pic: ale himfelfe, .or others in the reprehenfion . ()/them; they thall m~kethat ancient and patient re .. .4J.uell,~erhtr4Jed audi. ·Let men reprehend. rhrm fo they obferue 2nd waigh them:· For· the·Appeale is Ja~vfuU (tho.ugh it may be itiball Not ben~edefull) · . from the fi1-.fi cogitations of men to .tl.leir fecond, & . frotn the ncerer rimes,to the times .further ot Now . let v& come to thatlearniAg, which both the former, times·. w.ere not fo blelfed as to knowe, S,zcred&inj} red Diuinitie, the Sabaoth anef pa;rt of all mens.. ]a. _ bo.ursanq per~grinations. .. [\f?He preroga.tiue of God e:xtenae.th as well to, . ·l·~. the rcafon as to rhe \viii of Man; So· that as \V.e . are to obey his la\v though \Ve fin de a relueta • · t·iO in our.wii\Sowe-are to bclieue hfs word,though . '1veiind.e a reludation in·duruafon :, For if we be· Jeeuc o.nely that \vhich is agree-able to our fence, , \~e giue -confent tothemartcr) . and not to the Au·. ~· tbor;whichis no morclhen \Ve·,wouid doe to\v-ards .. :afufpet1ed and difcredi ed witneff"e :. But that faith \·Wh~ch · \vas accounted to AbrAhAm for righteouf .. . - . ·.nelfe ' . · · . . Theflcond hoo'<!. · . 1 o;, , rb nell'e was ~ffuch a point, as whereat Sttr~tb laughed whG rheretn was an Image ofN aturaiJ R eafo ' How~~ic (if v.:-e will truly conllderofit) %ore worthy It 1~ to belteue ) then to kno1Ve as we now _lmow;For m knowledge mans mind futfaeth fro ~te)but in beliefe it fUffererh from Spirit,fuch on~ as nholdeth for more aurhorifed then it felfe & {J {uffereth from the w~mhier Agenr:orherwife iris of thefiace of man glonfied,fonhen faith fhal ceafe & we fhalJ knowe as we are knowne~ · . ) . ~h~.r;fore w~ condude.rhatfacr,.dTbeologie {\\'htch m our,Id&ome we call Diuioitie) is groun. ded on ely vpon the word & oracle of God and not . · ~On the light of nature:for it is written c.elienarr4t · gll~i4m Dei: But it is not written Ctli m;rr 41'11 vo/un • _ldl6111 Dei: B u~ of that itjs fuid; Ad legem & tejlimoni • h 116» ftcerm~ (ecundu ver hum ijlud &c, ThiS h ol. not on ely 1n !hofe points ofJaith, which con .. e the great mtll:eries of the Dei tie, of the Crea. -""''lll ... la.A .. of the Redemption, but likewife thofe which .-.-~~c:erne the law M~al truly interpreted;Loueyour •jrmres, doe good 161 he that h.tte you, Be likt·to yosrhe11 • her,t?a! fojfereth hiJ r ttine to foJ vpon t6e I ujJ & To th1s It oughtro be applauded,Nec 'l/Ox 6o. or~ttt, It is a voice beyond the JightofNature: we fee the heathen Poets when they fall vpon a · ' · e paffion, · doe fiill expofiuiate \Vith la w~s Moralities ) a.s if they were oppolire and Nature : Et t]N~d .natNrtt · .rtmittit,- invida, |