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A49810	A mite into the treasury being a word to artists, especially to heptatechnists, the professors of the seven liberal arts ... shewing what we own herein, being according to God and Godliness, and of God and what we deny, proceeding from and favouring of those deceitful lips which seduced man from his primitive station, a state of blessedness / [by] Thomas Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing L726; ESTC R30492	34,955	52

Cotgrave Printed in the Year 1650. That it was the Stile of France at first as well as of other Countries Tutoyer that is to say Thou to any particular Person they spoke unto but when the Common wealth of Rome turned into an Empire so much Power came into one Mans Hand then in regard he was able to confer Honour and Offices the Countries began to magnifie him and to use You unto him See Symmathus his Epistles to the Emperor Theodosius and to Valentinian Again Pope Clement in his Letter to Sigismund the Emperor wrote We when it was sent from him only and You when it was sent to Sigismund the Emperor only See the Turkish History pag. 1081. Thus the Language of the Spirit of the Holy Men of God of all Nations came to be denied and an improper impertinent and absurd Custom of Speech came to be entertained and is spread as a foul Leprosie and is pleaded for yea by such as would be accounted sharers in Reformation CAP. II. Of LOGICK LOgick is defined to be the Manner or Art of Reasoning and Disputing well of which I have to say as follows The Ante-diluvian and Post-diluvian Patriarchs that is the Fathers that lived before and after the Flood Prophets Seers Evangelists Apostles Bishops Elders Deacons yea all the Holy Men of God Children of Light Children of the Day formed in the Womb of Eternal Wisdom were Qualified and Impowered from above to defend and maintain the Cause Concern and Worship of the Lord in their respective Dispensations with having recourse to Pagan Means Fallen Arts Earthly Wisdom Infectious Sophistry as many Instances left upon Record clearly demonstrate The Lord said unto Moses when he sent him with a Massage to Pharaoh Go therefore I will be with thy Mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say Exod. 4. Here he was drawn from the Puddle of Prophane Arts and Sciences Worldly Wisdom Deceitful Sophistry to have Reliance and Dependance on the living God the Well-Spring of pure Wisdom savoury Knowledg and sound Understanding and he streamed out heavenly Eloquence saying My Doctrine shall drop as the Rain my Speech shall distill as the Dew as the small Rain upon the tender Herb and as the Showers upon the Grass Deut. 32. Moses in the Wisdom from above contended for the Concern of God his Will his Worship maintained the same against Pharaoh Magicians Wise Men Inchanters Apostates without recourse to Pagan Means Arts or Sciences Again Christ who is Alpha and Omega the Amen made a Promise unto his Disciples saying I will give you a Mouth and Wisdom which all your Adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist Luk. 21.15 Thus the Disciples derived heavenly Wisdom from Christ whereby they defended and maintained the Concern of Christ his Kingdom Doctrine Worship against all Adversaries Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites Painted Sepulchres Faithless Lawyers Spoiling Phylosophers Painted Orators Subtil Sophisters Pagan Logicians Christ commended them not to Heathen Schools not to Aristotle Plato or any other Heathen to enable them to refute Hereticks but to his own Gift his Wisdom Armour of Proof his Sword put into their Hands enabling them for his Work Again Certain Libertines Cyrenians Alexandrians Cilicians Asians disputed with Stephen What was the issue of the Contest 't is there Recorded They were not able to resist the Wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke Acts 6 9 10. Thus Stephen obtained Victory over the Champions of the Dragon And how Not by Heathen Wisdom Pagan Logick Spoiling Philosophy but by the Sword of the Spirit Shield of Faith Wisdom from above in this Armour he prevailed So Pagan Logick an Art of the Old Man is not Gospel Armour whereby Stephen refuted the Adversaries of Truth Paul though eminent in Tongues Natural Parts and Abilities and knew what Key opened into the rich Cabinet of heavenly Wiscom and Treasures yet he excluded Natural Arts and Endowments from being that Key saying The Natural Man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are Spiritually discerned 1. Cor. 2.14 A Natural Man though mounted to the Terret of Philosophick Elevations and to the Zenith of Scholastick Notions and stored with the Quintessence of Serpentine Wisdom and profess himself to be a great Sophist that is Wise Man yet groping in the gloomy Region and dark Night of Degeneration Alienation and Estrangement from God he cannot thereby open one Seal of the sealed Book The Seven-sealed-Book is a thing of God so no way to be opened and read but by the Spirit of God Plato a Heathen Philosopher through Divine Glimpses said well Vertue is not acquired but infused This Paul a skilful Warrior of Christ desirous that the Church might be so harnessed as to hold out against all the Assaults of the old Dragon and his Confederates Instruments mentions the whole Armour of God Ephes 6. or all the Armour of God What be they Girdle of Truth Breast plate of Righteousness Shield of Faith Helmet of Salvation Sword of the Spirit Feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel Here 's no mention made of Subtil Logick nor of Painted Rhetorick nor of Spoiling Philosophy nor of Pagan Ethicks Physicks Metaphysicks he that mentioned the whole Armour of God mentioned not any of these which clearly demonstrates they are not of the Armour of God Whos 's then Of the Old Dragon the Devil The Apostles harnessed with the Armour of God reduced many to the saving Truth they stopt the Mouths of Gain-sayers they bore faithful Testimony to and contended for the Living Life-giving Soul-quickning Truth against such as was harnessed with the Old Dragons Armour the Wise the Scribe the Disputer of this World Subtil Logicians Crafty Sophisters Painted Orators Spoiling Philosophers Drunk with the Dregs of Pagan Ethicks Physicks Metaphysicks Heathenism By what is said 't is evident that in the Patrirachal M●saical and Evangelical Dispensations yea in all Churches Professing Christianity while the Primitive Faith Doctrine and Worship was sincerely maintained the respective Membess thereof were qualified and impowered from above to defend the same and such lively and truly influenced Confessors of the holy Truth are true and divine Logicians influenced from above to Reason Dispute for and Defend the Faith delivered to the Saints and all this we own And as in this Generation the Lord influences his for the performance of that Work and Service unto the which they are called So the insinuating Serpent the old Dragon hath his Agents and Instruments in every Generation to carry on his Work and they are bred and formed in the Womb of Earthly Wisdom this is seen not only among the Professors of Christianity but also among the old Heathen who had their Logick which they defined to be the Art of Reasoning and Disputing well And this Art was brought in and invented by one Zono Eleates a Heathen who lived in or about the Year of the World 34

of Philosophy brought in the Method of School Divinity but where Wisdom from below prevails there is a sound a talk of Divinity but 't is cast out of the Region of their Hearts CAP. X. Of School-Titles as Doctor Batchelor of Arts Master of Arts Batchelor of Divinity Doctor of Divinity c. IN the Primitive Times Gospel Ministers were Called Qualified and Impowered of and by the Lord to fulfill the Charge committed to them they laboured together to beget others into the Life of Righteousness to erect a Spiritual Building a Heavenly Structure on the Rock of Ages they affected not Titles nor itched after the same to gain Reputation of the Children of this World they had Names suitable to the Work and Office they were concerned in as Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors Teachers and laboured together for the Perfecting of the Saints Batchelors of Arts Master of Arts were not heard of among them Heathen Learning Arts the Wisdom of this World they bore lively Testimony against But the Divine Call being lost through the ingrest of the Apostacy then they entertained Heathen Learning and Heathen Arts to qualifie them for the Work of the Ministry then arose an Insatiable itch after Titles to gain Honour Reputation and Reverence among such as are under the Delusion of Antichrist Divers Degrees and Titles are conferred according to their standing Batchelor of Art in such a time Master of Arts in such a time c. When University Students have got a Degree in the Arts then they have a Gown and a Cap for the sign of it and the Name Batchelor of Arts in Latin Bacca●…urius which implies as much as Laurel Berries Why so The Pagan Romans accounted Heathen Apollo their Godd of Wisdom and they dedicated the Laurel-Tree to him and such as were judged deserving they became Laureati that is were Crowned with or did wear Garands of Laurel in token of Honour and Glory Po●… tell us much of these things Now the Romans through Consta●… the great received Christianity by the Lump and not knowing 〈◊〉 dying with Christ that his Life might be manifest in their mortal Bodies they continued much of their old Stuff and other Nations received the same from them as now in our Universities Students having got a taste of the Berries of the Laurel-Tree dedicated to the Heathen Godd of Wisdom Apollo as I may say that is having attained to such a Degree in the Knowledge of Natural Arts or such a Standing without much Proficiency then they have a Gown and a Cap to distinguish them and the Title of Batchelor of Arts derived as you see from the Heathen and this Title this Gown and Cap are as Signs and Liveries of that whereof they by their Natural Education are made Masters and such as are attained to such or such a Degree in Scotland are called Laureati Laureat from the Laurel-Tree Thus Heathenism crept in is continued Object The Title of Doctor was in the Apostles Days Answ True but this and other Titles there were Names of Office relating to the Work they were concern'd in and called of the Lord unto this might more properly be translated Teacher so a Name of Office Wickliff touching this thing said 'A Name of Office differs much from the Name of a School-Degree brought in by the Heathen ' He ascribes these School-Degrees to the Heathen Wickliff in Serm. Domini in Monte. Zuinglius on Mat. 23. said ' Thou hears here that the Titles of Masters and Doctors are not of God because Christ forbids this thing ' Wilson in his Christian-Dictionary saith ' Ambitious seeking after Titles ought to be eschewed ' John Wickliff Condemned at Constance who Suffered as a Martyr for his Testimony against the Apostatized Roman Church his Testimony was ' That Graduations and Doctorships in Universities and Colledges then in use conduced nothing to the Church of Christ ' So 't is apparant that Protestants yea such as were Pillars of the Protestant Religion saw an Evil in Heathenism and the Ambitious Titles thereof Object These spoke against the Fooleries and Abuses in Popist Vniversities True it is and their Fooleries and Abuses remain Fooleries and Abuses where-ever they are Practised the self-same Outward and Antichristian Forms Fashions and Follies remain in Universities as in the Darkest of Popery even unto the Hoods Caps Scarlet Robes Doctoral Rings Gloves their Doctoral Dinner and Musick Dell. CAP. XI Of the Rise of Distinct Habits used by the Clergy and by Students in the Universities IN the first Priesthood Aaron and his Sons had Garments assigned them in which they were to execute their Office and the denyal thereof in that Typical Dispensation had been a Transgression those their Garments were a Shadow of some-what to come Now Christ the End of the first Priesthood of its Appurtenances of the Law he put an End to the distinct Aaronical Robes as to the rest of the Typical and Transient Shadows of that Ministration When Christ sent out his Disciples Apostles he taught them not to have recourse to Aaron's Robes nor any Imitation thereof nor that their Garments should be of one Colour their Eye was heaven ward for the Garment of Salvation white Linnen What 's that The Righteousness of Saints and in this white Linnen Righteousness of Saints the Evangelical Royal Priestood was and is clothed without respect to Distinct Habits or to any but what is Common Ordinary Decent and Plain and who Minister without this white Linnen Righteousness of Saints and place Religion in Distinct Robes and Colours without such are false Witnesses made by the Will of Man Run Unsent Polidor Virgil seconds this Testimony saying ' In the Beginning of the Christian Religion Ministers being about their holy Performance unto the Lord put nothing on but as at other times They endeavoured rather to clothe themselves inwardly with the Virtues of the Mind and to put off the Vices of the Body then to put on new Garments ' Pol. Virg. Lib. 6. Cap. 12. And while the woman was clothed with the Sun while the Moon was under her Feet while the Christian Church was a Virgin to Christ and while her Ministers were Stars in Heaven the Care and Regard was for the Robe of Righteousness no Jangling about Robes without but the living Concern was to beget many to the Lord to know Establishment in the Word of his Grace Of such Ministers 't is truly said Even as the Heart hath not a Moments Rest But Night and Day moves in our panting Breast That by his Breathing it may still impart The lively Spirits about to every Part. So those to whom God doth his Flock Betake Ought always Study always Work and Wake To Breathe by Doctrine and good Conversation The quickning Spirit into their Congregation Now when this white Linnen Righteousness of Saints Sun's Clothing the inward Ornament and Garment of the Evangelical Ministry Pastors Teachers Prophets Deacons Elders Bishops through the steaming in of Apostatical Smoke Ignorance

Darkness Heresie Traditions Serpentine Wisdom was lost within then they began to jangle about Garments without and that none should be capable of Orders or Ecclesiastical Livings and Benefits but that conformed thereto A principio non ita fuit It was not so from the Beginning Then Gospel Simplicity came to be slighted Worldly Pomp Splender and Ostentation came to be pursued then the Life Sum Substance being lost they entertained Aronical Rites and Heathen Inventions into the Christian Church Darkning Sun and Air from this Sourse or Spring ushered in Distinction of Garments without Gowns Hoods Tippets round Caps square Caps Gowns with standing Collars the Pall Rochet Surplice Copes Bonnets Cowls Black Coats Miters Girdles Sursingles c. And to the end that Prelacy and Clergy might be had in outward Reverence and Honour and as Badge to distinguish them by it was enjoyned by Eccl●siastical Canons and Constitutions what manner of Robes all Masters and Fellows of Colledges and Halls all Students of both Universities Ministers Arch-Deacons Prebendaries in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches Deans Batchelors of Arts Masters of Arts Batchelors in Divinity Doctors in Divinity Bishops Arch-Bishops should wear and if any conformed not thereto What followed A Thunderbolt of Excommunication Suspension c. Tertullian an Ancient and Learned Latin Father a Philosopher being convinced of the Truth of Christianity he laid away his Gown grown in fashion by the Romans having Dominion whose Garbe it was and took upon him the usual Country Habit for which he was derided as many are now for not conforming to the World Tertul. de pallio In Tertullian's time every one that was made Presbyter did renounce his Gown which was the Roman Vestment and the Clergy and Laity in the end came to be both alike Habited but notwithstanding the Example of the primitive Church wherein the Ministers Stars in Heaven were redeemed from the Pomp Pride and Fashions of the World and were no way distinguished from other men by their Vestures and notwithstanding the Practice of Tertullian's Time yet Pope Pius the fourth commanded that the Clergy should be clad in Gowns and in the Habit peculiar unto them Onuph in vita ejus Thus the Gown invented by the Greeks from their Example entertained by the Lydians and from the Lydians passed to the Romans came to be the Habit of the Clergy by the Popes Authority and others after And how this is observed every respective Parish and Colledge Students give pregnant Evidence Tertul. de pallio Pol. Virg. lib. 3. cap. 6. CAP XII Of the Garments of the Clergy being of one Colour Of their Black Atire FVller in the third Book of his Ecclesiastical History saith That about the Year 1102. it was ordained that the Garments of Clergy-men should be of one colour so that that Custom is of no great Antiquity Black Colour hath been so reverenced accouned so peculiar to the Clergy that in late Years it caused Admiration if any other Colour presumed to preach as if the Ministry of the Gospel were entailed on that Colour but the Lord is opening the Eyes of Thousands to see the Folly Emptiness and Frothiness of such Conceits The Habits of Black Gowns and Black Coats have been borrowed from Rome or from the Idolatrous Chemarims I saith the Lord will cut off the Remnant of Baal from this place and the Names of the Chemarims by Interpretation Black Coats as profound Hebraicians say Z●ph 1.4 Junius and Tremillius on this Scripture gave this Version Nomen Atrotorum cum sacerdotibus that is the Name of Black Coats with the Priests Hosea Prophesied against them Josiah by Interpretation The Fire of the Lord suppressed them and Christ the heavenly Josiah is at work to make a Reformation in the Earth to Burn up Wood Hay and Stuble the Inventions of Men. Jcrom a Learned Man a Reverend Father in the Church about the Year 348. bad Nepotian being to enter into the Clergy To avoid Black Attire And a Bishop was condemned by the Council of Grangre for introducing the Fashion of Long Sad Coloured Cloaks which that Assembly Condemned as unbeseeming the Priesthood Tertul. de pallio with the Notes of Salmasius CAP. XIII Of the PALL THe Pall was an Episcopal Vestment coming over the Shoulders made of Sheep Skin in Memorial of him that sought the Stray Sheep and having found the same laid it on his Shoulders Wrought and Embroidred with Crosses it was Ordained by Gregory the great a Pope That the Metropolitan Dignity with the Honour of the Pall should be at London yet for the honour of Augustin called Apostolus Anglorum that is The Apostle of the English 't was translated to Canterbury The Roman Poet Vergil mentions the Pall Aen. lib. 1. For the Ground of it is from the Pagan Romans I have not read of it either in the Mosaical or Evangelical Dispensations Apostatized Christian-Romanists derive many Doctrines and Ceremonies from the old Pagans or therein symbolize with them and many things as Mire and Clay sticks and cleaves to such as would be accounted high sharers in Reformation Of the Corner'd Cap. The Mystery of the Corner'd Cap used in Universities saith a certain Anonimous is That they are to go into the four Corners of the World to Preach the Gospel though saith he when Richly settled in their Microcosm little World a Parish they seldom go out of its Corners upon the account of Preaching but exactly search the same reaping Profits and supposed Dues from the Living and the Dead CAP. XIV Of the SVRPLICE AAron and his Sons who were to Minister unto the Lord in the Priests Office were to have Coats of fine Linnen and Linnen Breeches to cover their Nakedness Exod. 28. Now Christ a Priest forever after the Order of Melchizedec he put an end to the Law to the Priesthood to its Appurtenances being the Anti-Type the Substance of the Typical and Transient Rites of the first Priesthood The Disciples Apostles and gathered Churches they walked with the Lord in white Linnen they had Robes made white in the Blood of the Lamb the Armies in Heaven the Primitive Church knowing Christ to be the Captain of their Salvation followed him on white Horses clothed in fine Linnen And what was this Linnen Not Aaron's imbroidred Linnen Coat nor his Linnen Breeches but the Substance of these Shadows their fine Linnen was the Righteousness of Saints and Christ is their Rightousness Now as the Apostacy prevailed the fine Linnen Righteousness of Saints was lost then they began to Jewdaize yea and to Gentilize in Imitation of Aaron's Linnen or of the Pagan Priests to introduce these Surplices Anno. 769. Pope Adrian the first in his Time was a Council held at Frankford in which it was decreed That whosoever did any Service in the Church he should perform it in a Surpliee yea the very Sexton The Priests of Aegypt put on White Robes in their Idolatrous Worship so were called Linigeri yea and the Ethnick Romans