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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25809	The worlds idol, Plutus a comedy / written in Greek by Aristophanes ; translated by H.H.B. ; together with his notes, and a short discourse upon it.; Plutus. English	Aristophanes.; H. H. B. (H. H. Burnell), fl. 1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3686; ESTC R6773	47,751	52

because they feel no such wants the very argument they seek to prove their excellence by discovers their misery by so much as it is a happier state of mind not to want than to have minds still working how to supply our wants and therefore here with wonderful ingenuity Aristophanus when Plutus is restored to his eyes finds no office for Mercury that before was instrumental to so many actions of Humane life It was proverbial in Greece of old {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Humane Arts brought in Humane Sorrrow And last of all the strongest argument that men fetch to make conquests over other nations is from the necessity of communicating their speculative Philosophy delivered by their teachers bringing their Authority from men for the most part both against nature and experiment until Humane ratiocination became nothing but agreement not much unlike the Art of a Fencing-School where the Master teaches both the offensive and defensive part so that the Scholars are able to make a good shew of learning amongst themselves their weapons and their guards and motions being agreed upon but if a Country fellow happen to come in with a Flail the vanitie of that Art is soon discovered and he drives the whole School before him and such in my opinion is the end of the Schools of the Professors of Learning when men examine their confidence as it were step by step by the grounds of nature and true experiments and not by their own tearms and principles except it be in such matters as are delivered by a higher Authority than Reason the which admits of no discourse but what is both to the prejudice of the things themselves and the destruction of Humane reason by letting it take a habit in doubtful principles and false conclusions the which once got like an ill disease that follows us through all Aires and Climates so doth it go along with us in the resolution of all the most important questions of our lives to our absolute destruction How ungodly a thing then is it for one nation or one man to press such questions upon another as have no answer and to impose what we our selves have received by faith upon the reasons of such as yet by the divine assistance are not brought further then the degree of natural men And of this what cruel examples have those that are followers of the two eminent Prophets for truth and falshood Christ and Mahumet brought into the world so unchristian-like have been the means of late for the bringing in of Christ that it is more then to be feared that those that have brought salvation to others by it have brought perdition to themselves so that in the conquest over the Moors and Indians it is a question whether the Heathens that are saved or the Christians that are damned are most in number for what can man deserve worse from God Almighty than in seeking for self-interest to bring in his Prophet by means both contrary to the Doctrine of that Prophet and the example of the Prophet himself Ought we to raise war in the behalf of him who to save his own life might have had legions of Angels to have fought for him if he would have prayed to his Father for them the which that he might not destroy the temporal peace of a nation he refused to do How slow therefore ought men to be till they have certain revelation that they are the instruments chosen for that purpose in pressing the conversion of others to the doctrine of their own Prophet how fully convinced soever they themselves are that there is no felicity in the life to come but what is built and founded upon that Faith since though it be fit for every true believer to have that assurance in himself yet is it ill done of them to make desperate conclusions of such whom God himself sees it not yet time perhaps to require more than an universal worship from For such we see his mercy hath been to the ages past that we find in Hebrews 11. where there is a large account of all the degrees and measures of Faith in the world both before the Flood and a long time after there was a kind of faith rewarded then in such who had not received the promises and these were Saints of no less magnitude then Abel and Enoch the chief substance of whose Faith as it is expressed in that Chapter was that the world was framed by the word of God and that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear Now with this Faith the Ancients whom we commonly call Philosophers and I hope were Divines and are now Saints did almost in the very words all of them concur Antiphanus a Disciple of Socrates {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} God is like to no substance and therefore no man can express him by any similitude or effigies Xenophon {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He that with such wonder and terrour moves the world is notwithstanding himself how mighty soever comprised within no form or substance Dion Cassius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not within the compass of words or eies Menander {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The knowledge of mortal man lies in mortal not immortal things Act. 17.13 The inscription upon the Altar at Athens was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} To the unknown God the which the Apostle thought so good a beginning towards the true Faith that he did not deny even those to be worshippers of the divine Essence offering him whom unknown they worshipped to declare to them And many more examples of this kind might be brought if there were not one most pregnant example both to shew the secret mercy of Almighty God to such who heard not of the Prophets coming into the world and likewise to shew how great a measure of Faith was possible to be in that Age and this is in the example of Job who is confessed to have lived long before there was a Jew in the world whose faith was so great that he not onely knew the Spirit by the which the world was made and preserved but he likewise knew the Spirit who intended the subversion again of it and of that picture the Soul who the Almighty himself had drawn after his own original and this so perfectly that he is chosen as the first example given to Mankind how to bear temporal losses for the glories to come Now if there be any as very well they may who think it possible that the fore-going Patriarchs had a light of the Prophets to come notwithstanding we cannot see they had so let that possibility serve for the using of those now mercifully who live yet in the world without them and much more let those who are under the Faith of the same Prophets not be so exact as in our late dayes they have been to prosecute all the points of their faith with such confidence that every circumstace is now thought a good ground to invade a neighbour nation till they are reduced to that extremity that they have no choice left but either to deliver up their lives or their consciences so that such a scandal is brought upon religion that it is thought onely now to be maintained in the world for self-interest especially having such daily example how the Clergy either to please the people or the prince and for preferment preach up almost any thing till the men of sober judgment have great cause to complain that our dayes are like those in the dayes of Moses and Aaron and the great Idol of the world is still the Golden Calfe And here our Author Aristophanus with his accustomed excellency of fancy concludes that when the Priest's made is so well locked into that they can no longer get their bread by it he advises them to use the same 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 and assist in the 〈…〉 〈…〉 in stead of the Temple of Jove and the 〈…〉 will be as good as they were before FINIS