lyo I'he Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



parifon whereto that of Words and Phrafes feem 

 to me infipid and jejune. That Learning (faith 

 a wife and obfervant Prelate) which confifts only 

 in the Form and Pedagogy of Arts, or the criti- 

 cal Notions upon Words and Phrafes, hath in it 

 this intrinfical Imperfection, that it is only fo 

 far to be efteemed, as it conduceth to the Know- 

 ledge of Things, being in it felf but a kind of 

 Pe(kntry, apt to infed: a Man with fuch odd 

 Humours of Pride, and Affediation, and Curio- 

 fity, as will render him unfit for any great Em- 

 ployment. Words being but the Images and 

 Matter, to be wholly given up to the Study of 

 thefe, what is it but Pygmaliori^ Frenzy, to fall 

 in Love with a Pidure or Image ? As for Ora- 

 tory^ which is the beft Skill about Words, that 

 hath by fome wife Men been efteem'd, but a vo- 

 luntary Art, like to Cookery, which fpoils 

 wholefome Meats, and helps unwhojefome, by 

 the Variety of Sauces, ferving more to the Plea- 

 fure of Tafte, than the Health of the Body. 



It may be (for ought I know, and as fome 

 Divines have thought) part of our Bufinefs 

 and Employment in Eternity, to contemplate 

 the Works of God, and to give him the Glory 

 of his Wifdom, Power, and Goodn.efs, mani- 

 fefted in the Creation of them. I am fure 

 it is part of the Bufxnefs of a Sabbath-day, and 

 the Sabbath is a Type of that Eternal Reft ; 

 for the Sabbath feems to have been firft infti- 

 tuted for a Commemoration of the Works of 



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