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up to Divine Oracles '•> the Tributes of Faith may be ' 

 rendred to Faith. In the lafi place^ that the i;enoMe of I{tiow- 

 ledge iiifufedby the Serpent ^ whereby the mind of man is 

 fxvdUd and blorfnnp^ being i>oided', rpe tndy not be too a- 

 fpiringly wife^ or abo^e fobriety^ but that we may improve 

 and propagate Verity in Charity. § Now we have per- 

 formed our vows to heaven, converting our fel ves to men, 

 we admonifli them fomethings that are Profitable , and re- 

 queft of them fome things that are equal. Firft we ad- 

 monifli (which thing we have alfo prayed for,) that wc 

 keep humane Reafon within due Limits in matters Divine, 



Phiiojud, and Senfe within compafs : Forfenfe li\e the Sun^ opens 

 and reveals the face of the Terrejiial Globe , but jhuts up 

 and conceals the face of the Celejiial. Again, that men be- 

 ware that in flight from this error, they fall not upon 2. 

 contrary extreme , of too much abafing "Natural Fewer ^ 

 which certainly will come to pafs, if they once entertain 

 a conceit, that there are fome fecrets of Nature feperate and 

 exempt J as it were by injunSlion-, from Humane Inquifition, 

 For it was not thzt pure and immaculateNatural Knowledge^ 

 by the light whereof Adixa gave names unto the Creatures-^ 

 according to the propriety of their Natures ^ which gave the 

 frji motion and occafion to the Fall ; but it was that proud 

 and Imperative Appetite of Moral Knowledge, defining the 

 laws and limits of Good and Evil, with an intent in man to 

 revolt from Gody andto give laws unto himfelf, which was 

 indeed the projeSl of the Primitive Temptation. Fotjof the 

 knowledges which con tepiplate the works of Nature, the 



prov. 2j» holy Philofopher hath faid exprefly ; That the glory of God 

 is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the King is to find it 

 out: as if the Divine Nature, according to the innocent 

 and fweet pfay of Children, which hide themfelves to the 

 end they may be found, took delight to hide his works, to 

 theend they might be found out; and of his indulgence 

 and goodnefs to mankind, hadchofenthe foul of man to 

 be his Play-fellow in this game. § In fumm,I would advife 

 all in general, that they would take into ferious confide- 

 rationthe true and Genuine ends of knowledge ■) that they 

 feekk not cither for Pleafure, or Contention, or Con- 

 tempt 



