68 ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



To descend from spiritual and intellectual, to sensible 

 and material forms; we read the first created form was 

 light, 74 which, in nature and corporeal things, hath a rela 

 tion and correspondence to knowledge in spirits, and things 

 incorporeal ; so, in the distribution of days, we find the day 

 wherein God rested and completed his works, was blessed 

 above all the days wherein he wrought them. 75 



After the creation was finished, it is said that man was 

 placed in the garden to work therein, which work could 

 only be work of contemplation; that is, the end of his work 

 was but for exercise and delight, and not for necessity: for 

 there being no reluctance of the creature, nor sweat of the 

 brow, man s employment was consequently matter of pleas 

 ure, not labor. Again, the first acts which man performed 

 in Paradise consisted of the two summary parts of knowl 

 edge, a view of the creature, and imposition of names. 76 



In the first event after the fall, we find an image of the 

 two states, the contemplative and the active, figured out in 

 the persons of Abel and Cain, by the two simplest and most 

 primitive trades, that of the shepherd and that of the hus 

 bandman; 77 where again, the favor of God went to the shep 

 herd, and not to the tiller of the ground. 



So in the age before the flood, the sacred records mention 

 the name of the inventors of music and workers in metal. 78 

 In the age after the flood, the first great judgment of God 

 upon the ambition of man was the confusion of tongues, 79 

 whereby the open trade and intercourse of learning and 

 knowledge was chiefly obstructed. 



It is said of Moses, &quot;Th at he was learned in all the wis 

 dom of the Egyptians,&quot; 80 which nation was one of the most 

 ancient schools of the world; for Plato brings in the Egyp 

 tian priest saying to Solon, &quot;You Grecians are ever chil 

 dren, having no knowledge of antiquity, nor antiquity of 

 knowledge.&quot; 81 In the ceremonial laws of Moses we find, 



14 Gen. i. 3. 75 Gen. ii. 3. 76 Gen. ii. 19. &quot; Gen. iv. 2. 



** Gen. iv. 21, 22. 19 Gen. xi. *&amp;gt; Acts vii. 22. 81 Plat. Tim. iii. 22. 



