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reaps and makes claim to himfeif of nothing 5 but only the Honour of 

 the Inquilition, and Invention of Truth, for fo he faith exprefly, The 

 dory of God is to conceal a things but the Glory of a King is to find it Prcv,i^<; 

 out. As if according to that innocent and affeftionate play of Chil- 

 dren, theDivineMajefty took delight to hide his works, to the end 

 to have them found out 5 and as \i Kings could not obtain a greater 

 Honour, than to beGodspIay-fellovvs in thatgamej efpccially confi* 

 dering the great command they have of wits and means, whereby the 

 inveftigation of all things may beperfedled. 



(j Neither did the difpenfation of God vary in the times after our 

 Saviour came into the world ^ For our Saviour hir/jfclfdidfirjificw his 

 foivcr to fubdue Ignorance^ by his conference reith the Doctors of the Law^ t'Jc 2, 

 (tnd the Priejis in the Temple^ before he fhevved his power to fuddue Na- 

 ture, by his great and fo many Miracles. And the coming of the Holy ^as A- 

 Ghoft ivas chiefly figur'd andexpreji in thefimilitude and guift of Tongues ^ poili, 

 which are the vchicuU fcientite. 



^. So in the eledion o£thofe injirumcnts which itpleafedGod to ufe in 

 the Vlantation of the Faith, at thefirft heiraployed perfons altogether 

 Unlearned, otherwife than by inipiration from the holy Spirit -, where- 

 by more evidently he might declare his immediate and divine work- 

 ing, and might abafe all humane Wifdom and Knowledge : yet never- 

 thele(sthat counfel of his in thisrefped was no (boner perform'd, buc 

 inthe nextviciflitudeand (uccellion of time he (ent his divine Truth 

 into the world, waited on with other Learning, as with fervants and 

 hand-maids 5 therefore we fee ■S"^ Pauls pen , (who was only learned Afta A- 

 amongft the ApoHles) was chiefly imployed by God, in the Scriptures of P"'* '■^' 

 the new Teftament. 



^ So again we know, that many of the Ancient Bifjops and Do&ors 

 of the church ivcre excellently read and Jiudied in all the Learning of 

 the Heathen, in fo much that the Edid:of,the Emper our Julian, nahere- Epin. g^ 

 by it TXiasinterdi&ed unto Christians to be admitted into Schools^ or ex- S-^f^^l 

 ercifes of Learning , was efteemed and accounted a more pernitious 

 Engine and Machination againfl: the Chriftian Faith , than were all the 

 fanguinary profecutionsof his PredeceiTors. Neither could the emu- P.DiacJ, 

 lation and jealoufie of Gregory the Firji, (otherwife an excellent man) ^' ^^'•'S- 

 veho defigned to extinguifi and obliterate Heathen Authors and Antiquity^ 

 ever obtain the opinion of Piety and Devotion amongft holy men. 

 But contrariwife it was the Chriftian Church, which amidft the inun- 

 dations of the Scythians from the North-weft j and the Saracens from 

 the Eaft, did prelerve in the lacred Lap and Bofom thereof the precious 

 relicks of Heathen Learning, which otherwife had utterly perilht and 

 been extinguifht. And of late in ouragewe may likewife fee the Je- 

 fii2ts, who partly in themfelves, and partly by emulation and provoca- 

 tion of Adverfaries, have much quicl^ncd and lirengthencd the Jiate of 

 Learning-^ we fee, I (ay, what notable fervices they have done, and 

 what helps they have brought in, to the repairing and eftablilhing of 

 the Roman Sea. 



§. VVherefore to conclude this Part, there are two principal Duties 

 and Services befides ornament and illuftration, which humane Learning 

 doth perform to Faith and Eveligion .• Tht one, becanfe ihe^ areeffeHu- 

 al incitements to the exaltation and cekbratioa of the Glory oj God: for 



