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A56743 Learning and knowledge recommended to the scholars of Brentwood School in Essex in a sermon preached at their first feast, June 29, 1682 / by William Payne ... Payne, William, 1650-1696. 1682 (1682) Wing P904; ESTC R32171 13,563 38

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light Enthusiasm is a kind of Spiritual Frenzy and Religious madness that proceeds from a great Zeal that puts the Blood and Spirits into an Extraordinary Ferment and Commotion and has but very little knowledg to slake and cool and govern them and next to the Applications of Physick and letting Blood there is nothing will so certainly cure it as sober Learning and Instruction this clears the mind of all those fumes that disturb it and dispells those dark Images and Representations of things that are before it all those Phantasms and Chimeras like Sprites and Hobgoblins vanish at the approach of Light and Day and hant and disturb People only in the dark The Enthusiasts and pretenders to Inspirations have been always the great decryers of Humane Learning under the name of vain Philosophy as being sensible that nothing does more tend to abate the excesses and allay the violences of their Enthusiastick Fervors then this doth and then I am sure nothing can be more serviceable to Religion than that which prevents one of the worst deseases it is subject to A Spiritual Hectick and Consumption I shall crave leave to add but one thing more to show not only the serviceableness but the absolute necessity of Learning to Religion and that is this Religion that was taught by God and deliver'd from Heaven is contain'd and transmitted down to us in such Books and Records as do necessarily require Learning to understand them not only the skill in Languages as a Key to unlock and decypher the meaning of those Holy Books and the peculiar Idiotisms and Proprieties of those Languages without which we have only the sound and not the sence of them but the knowledg of Times and of Places and the Customs and Manners of those People to whom many things in Holy Scripture do immediately relate and their true meaning cannot be understood without them one of the great Causes of mis-interpreting and mistaking the sense of Holy Scripture is the taking it as a Book writ in our Times and not many Ages ago and the thinking nothing necessary to understand and manage the Bible but a vulgar Translation and a large Concordance when some of the most considerable things in it not only the Prophesies of the Messiah and the time of his coming but the nature of the two Sacraments nay that of our Saviour's Sacrifice and satisfaction cannot well be understood without knowing the Jewish and the Heathen Notion about Sacrifices and yet 't is that upon which the whole Gospel oeconomy does mightily depend Indeed the great and necessary lines of Morality are so plain not only there but even on the hearts of all Men that they need not much Comment but the understanding all the parts of those Holy Books part of which is the most antient Writing we know of and all the several Revelations and particular matters contained in them is a Work of the greatest and the most valuable Learning But I shall add no more but my earnest advice and wishes that we who have had the advantage of Learning and good Education would take care to employ it some way or other to the purposes of Religion and bring some honor and advantage to that by it And as 't is the most ill Manners and ill Breeding not to treat Religion the most sacred thing in the World with decency and respect so 't is a sign of little Wit and less Learning not to believe it and then 't is the grearest folly i' the World not to practice it unless it be that of Buffooning and Burlesquing it and therefore let us take care to leave all those rude and unmannerly as well as mad and wicked things to those Atheistical and Prophane Popish and Fanatical Fools who are those chiefly who despise Wisdom and Instruction FINIS