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A37498	The tryal of spirits both in teachers & hearers wherein is held forth the clear discovery and certain downfal of the carnal and antichristian clergie of these nations / testified from the Word of God to the university-congregation in Cambridge by William Dell ; whereunto is added A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross errors delivered by Mr. Sydrach Simpson in a sermon preached to the same congregation at the commencement, Anno 1653 ; wherein (among other things) is declared, that the vniversities (according to their present statutes and practices) are not (as he affirmed) answerable to the schools of the prophets in the time of the law, but rather to the idolatrous high places ...	Dell, William, d. 1664.; Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655. A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross and antichristian errors.	1660 (1660)	Wing D933; ESTC R219079	121,760	168

already past lay this to Heart how much thou hast departed from the Gospel of Christ in this Matter as well as in all the rest and hast received the Doctrine and Laws and Methods and Manners of Antichrist wherewith thou hast deceived Thy Self as well as the Nations And thou University hast like thy own mother Babylon Mysterie written on thy Forehead for thou hast taken to Thy Self this Glorious Title ALMA MATER the Beautiful Mother which only belongs to Jerusalem from above and though thou hast brough forth a company of Prodigious Children Heathenish Foolish Vain Vile and Abominable yet hast thou called them Learned and given them Degrees in Divinity contrary to the Degrees in the Gospel and hast sent them forth into every City Country Town and Village as Ministers of Christ yea as Sons of the Morning though yet very Unbelievers and altogether destitute of the Spirit And thus hast thou deceived the Nations and given them a false Ministry instead of a true and by this false Ministry a false Word in stead of the Gospel and the World hath not at any time received a Greater Wo nor more Grievous Plague then from Thee Wherefore thus saith the Word of the Lord The day of thy Vengeance is coming and the Yeers wherein thou shalt be made Desolate and thy Dainty and Goodly Things shall depart from thee and thou shalt find them no more at all and the voice of Musitians and Pipers shall no more be heard in Thee For in Thee is found the Blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that have been slain uppon the earth Thy Humane Learning to wit thy Philosophy and School-Divinity and the false Ministry that they have set up and the false Christians that have proceeded from that Ministry have devised and executed all these Murders and Massacres on the true Saints of God Quis est sapiens intelliget haec FINIS The Testimony of Martin Luther upon the whole matter To wit touching Universities Humane Learning or Philosophy University-Degrees c. MArtin Luther in his Answer to Ambrosius Catharinus expounding the Vision concerning Antichrist Dan. 8. speaks thus The twelfth and last face of Antichrist is that Chaos and open Gate of Hell yet very comely to behold to wit the Universities into which Perjurie and the Abuse of Gods Name are the Entrance and the Progress is a free and most licentious Conversation in all manner of Wickedness And yet under these Sins and Destructions Science and Sapience are promised Yea Titles and Degrees are given in stead of Rewards But what do they perform at length First the more Choice Youth of Christian People are here prostituted and are cast into the open Throat of Hell that I verily think this Destruction was figured by the Idol Moloch to whom anciently they made their Choice Children to pass through the fire Afterwards Aristotle being read to them and not rightly understood the Wits of Christian Youth are exercised with Heathenish and Humane Learning yea are quite blinded and oppressed with it And in stead of the Word of God the Doctrine of Antichrist is delivered that it may seem the Devil Himself could not bring forth a more subtil and effectual Invention and Engine utterly to extinguish the Gospel then to set up Universities Wherein under the Pretence of Christian Doctrine nothing should be taught but that which is most contrary to the Christian Faith And if at any time it seems good to call forth the Choicest to the Government of the Churches they call them out of these Stews and Dens And truly to me this last Face of Antichrist seems to be the most hurtful of all because this hath the Pretence of the Word when all the rest have only the colour of Example and this is plainly Schola Hidoth the School of Propositions of which anon For it is incomparably the Greatest Prejudice under the colour of the Word to teach Things contrary to the Word seeing the Face of Examples is formed and strengthened by the Face of the Word which otherwise would soon come to nothing if the Word should reign in its Genuine Sence and also seeing the pretence of Examples doth only deceive the Manners but the Pretence of the Word overthrows the Word But if by any Grace of God the Universities should receive the Word to wit instead of Philosophy and School-Divinity how soon would the Papacy with all its Faces or Appearances perish seeing this Face to wit the Universities is the Prop Bones and whole Strength of that Knigdom of Faces This Deceitful Face seems to be foretold Rev. 9. which Scripture it is worth the while to rehearse and a little to unfold For John saith The first Angel sounded and I saw a Star fall from Heaven unto the Earth and to him was given the Key of the Bottomless pit c. I will here make tryal a little saith he with my own Apprehension Now certain it is that by Angels through all the Apocalyps is meant the Overseers of Churches as doth plainly appear out of the second and third Chapters where it is written to the Angel of Ephesus Smyrna and others Further that other sort of Angels which sounds the Trumpet of which there are seven mentioned chap. 8. cannot agree to any but the Roman Bishop seeing no others are said to sound with Trumpet Now to sound wtth Trumpet can be nothing else as appears by the consequence of the Text and the following effects then to make Decrees which none ever arrogated to Himself besides the Bishop of the Roman Church Neither is it said in vain that they prepared Themselves to sound seeing chiefly in these Popes there hath been an impatient fury and unquiet Tyranny to make Laws and thereby to subject Others to Themselves But let us come to our first Angel who was the first among three who were to bring three Woes upon the Earth and this is He who did first institute and confirm Universities whom it is not easie for me to name Histories so varying in this matter But let him be whosoever he was he was a Star fallen from Heaven to Earth whether it were Alexander of Hales or which I rather think St. Thomas who only after the Universities were approved and this Angel had sounded was either the first or chief Author of bringing in Philosophy into the Christian World being the most Aristotelian yea plainly Aristotle Himself to whom as to the Earth he fell from Christ the Heaven having obtained the Authority of that most Wicked Angel approving such Studies And he received the Key of the Bottomless Pit and opened it and brought forth to us Philosophy long ago Dead and Damned by the Doctrine of the Apostles and from thence ascended the Smoak of that Pit that is the meer Words and Opinions of Aristotle and the Philosophers as the Smoak of that great Fornace for then Philosophy prevailed and became of large Extent and Power so that Aristotle was made equal