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are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through 
the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to par- 
ticipate of the wisdom, illuminations,‘and inventions, the 
one of ‘the other?” Nay further, we see some of the phi- 
losophers which were lea’st divine, and most immersed in— 
the senses, and denied generally the immortality of the 
soul, yet came to this point, that whatsoever motions the 
spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of 
the body, they thought might remain after death; which 
were only” those of the understanding, and not of the— 
affection; so immortal and incorruptible a thing did 
knowledge seem unto them to be. But we, that know 
by divine revelation that not only the understanding but 
the affections purified, not only the spirit but the body 
changed, shall be advanced to immortality, do disclaim 
in these rudiments of the senses. But it must be re- 
membered, both in this last point, and so it may like- 
wise be needful in other places, that in probation of 
the dignity of knowledge or learning, I did in the be- 
ginning separate divine testimony from human, which— 
method I have pursued, and so handled them both 
apart. 
4. Nevertheless I do not pretend, and I know it will 
be impossible for me, by any pleading of mine, to reverse 
the judgement, either of AZsop’s cock, that preferred the” 
barley-corn before the gem; or Of Midas, that being>* 
chosen judge between Apollo, president of the Muses,*' 
and Pan, god of the flocks, judged for plenty; or of 
Paris, that judged for beauty and love against wisdom>\ _ 
and power; or of Agrippina, occtdat matrem, modo im- ot 
peret, that preferred empire with affy condition never so” 
detestable ; or of Ulysses, gud: vetulam pratulit immort-»” 
alitati, being a figure of those which *prefer custom and” 
