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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

of Men at his Pleasure and in great Readiness and with much Ease shall gain it to Himself And Antichrist by such Men saith I. Hus doth make his Body or Church strong against the Saints of God and Welfavoured and Glorious that it may appear very taking to the World and may win in all Men to it that are not taught of God and renewed by his Spirit And thus Antichrist serves himself of all Learning and Learned men whereas Divine Learning and the Teaching of God He could never in any measure subject to Himself but is alwaies discovered resisted and overcome by it Martin Luther saith That whosoever it was whether Alexander of Hales or Thomas of Aquine who first instituted Universities he was a Star fallen from Heaven to Earth who received the Key of the bottomless Pit and opened it and brought forth into the Church Philosophy long ago dead and damned by the Doctrine of the Apostles and from the Smoak of the Bottomless Pit that is Philosophy came forth Locusts on the Earth that is saith he populus Universitatum è Philosophia natus the people of the Universities born and bred of Philosophy c. thus Luther Abbas Joachim Calaber who was long before these and flourished about the year 1230. in his Commentary on Jeremy the Prophet speaks to this purpose That the sixt Angel mentioned Rev. 9. opens the Bottomless Pit and brings out Philosophy into the Church and out of the Smoak of this Doctrine Lecusts proceeded and are spread over all the Church into every Fruitfull Place and these Locusts he saith are Scholastici Magistri qui nunc facie tenus blandiuntur ut decipiant nunc cauda tenus feriunt ut subvertant simplices incautos that is the Locusts are Scholars and Masters according to the Academical Degrees who sometimes flatter with their Countenances to deceive and sometimes strike with their Tails that they may subvert the Simple and Unadvised And to these Scholars and Masters the Ignorant and Common People resort and they open to them the old Cisterns of Heathenish Learning and Disciplines long ago stopt up by the Doctrine of the Apostles and these Cisterns they open by teaching Philosophy to the People But they shut up the Living Fountain of saving Water that is the Word of Faith But the Spirit of the Lord saith he in the following Prophets whom the Lord shall raise up idola studiorum carnalium visitabit shall visit the Idols of Carnal Studies maintained and kept up by Secular Stipends Further he saith that as Antichrist brings forth his Mark which is Philosophical Doctrine in the Church of Christ and by this Mark all his Teachers and People are known so there shall rise up against these such as have the Mark of Christ or the sign of Thau in their foreheads that is the Open and Manifest Doctrine of Christ Crucified And as the Signs of Moses destroyed the Signs of the Magicians so shall the Word or Preaching of the Cross destroy all Philosophical Doctrine and Humane and Secular Learning out of the Church And then the Children and Youth and men of all Ages Sorts and Conditions shall be taught no other Doctrine in the Church of Christ then that which is found in the Scriptures even in the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles and that not according to any Humane and Philosophical Understanding but according to the Teaching and Mind of the Spirit And God by all his true Servants shall destroy the Studies of carnal Doctors and Masters in Divinity and shall dissipate all Secular and Philosophical Learning by the Word of Truth in their mouths And so shall the Church be reformed aright when the Doctrine of Christ only shall be received and esteemed of and shall live and flourish among Christians And thus as Antichrist hath laid aside the Scriptures and all true Spiritual and Divine Learning out of his Schools and Universities and hath brought into them instead thereof Philosophy and Humane Learning and so these Schools are most unlike to the Schools of the Prophets so in due time when God shall undertake to reform his Church all this Sort of Learning shall be cast out again as dirt and dung and the plain Word of the Gospel only shall prevail and flourish among the Christian People Which Time the Lord hasten for his Elects sake 2. ERROR That they who have endeavoured to pull down Schools have always been Men who were found Enemies to Religion So Julian the Apostate shut up the doors of the Schools because he would have all Religion to go down Answer True it is that they who have sought the subversion of Christian Schools wherein the Doctrine of the Gospel is purely taught without the mixture of Philosophy and Heathenism They all have been and are very Enemies to the true Religion But they that seek to put down Heathenish Schools and to erect Christian or to reform the Schools of Heathen into Christian or to remove Heathenism out of Christian Schools They are not before God and Good Men Enemies to true Religion but the great Friends of it Nay they that call Heathenish Schools by the name of Christian that they may still remain with the better credit in their Heathenism without any true Reformation according to the Gospel I rather judge them to be Enemies to the true Religion and Friends only to their own Profit Preferment and Ends. Julian indeed did forbid that Christians should be instructed in the Disciplines of the Gentiles but saith Sozomen the Writer of the Ecclesiastical History he did this because he thought that by those Disciplines men might attain to a Great Faculty to perswade which Advantage he would not have the Christians to gain to the Help of their Religion Now certainly this was done as Socrates another Writer of the Ecclesiastical History doth acknowledge by the Singular Providence of God For seeing then Christians had begun to degenerate from the Gospel and to betake themselves to Heathenish Learning Julian attributed all the Glory and Excellency of Christianity to that Learning and so thought with Mr. Simpson that if Humane Learning were denied to Christians Christianity it Self would soon be at end Wherefore the Lord stirred up Julian to put down the Doctrine of the Heathen in the Schools of Christians that it might appear to all the World That as the true Christian Religion is not helped by Humane Learning so neither is it hindred by the Want of it And that there is more Light Knowledge Truth Wisdom Power Utterance given to Christians by the Unction of the Spirit alone which all receive who believe then through all Heathenish Disciplines And also that it might be manifest that true Christianity is founded on Faith in Christ and the Gift of his Spirit only and not at all on Humane Learning For what Humane Learning had Peter and John and yet in what Wisdom and Authority did they being Ignorant and Unlearned

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

Ministers of Antichrist The Seventh Sign The true Prophets and Ministers of Christ do not force any body to hear them and obey their Doctrine against their Wils neither do they vex and trouble them with Secular Power who will not obey them and be subject to them but they leave all such People as they found them lest they should seem by their Doctrine to seek any Worldly thing Thus Christ when he taught the Gospel still cryed out He that hath ears to hear let him hear and he that had not ears to hear he did not punish him and again saith Christ If any man Will be my Disciple let him deny Himself and take up his cross and follow Me and still left men to their own Freedom whether they would be his Disciples or no. And as Christ did thus Himself so he left the same thing in command with all his true Disciples and when he sent them forth to Preach Matth. 10. he charged them saying Whoever will not receive You nor hear Your Words when you depart out of that house or City shake off the dust of your feet as a Testimony against them he doth not bid them if they be refused to betake themselves to the Secular Power to get Authority from thence to stay and abide there whether they will or no or otherwise to punish them but bids them only to shake off the dust of their feet that they might know they came not to them for the Love of Earthly things And when the Apostles out of a false zeal would have had Christ to have commanded fire to have come down from Heaven to have destroyed them that would not receive Him he plainly reproved them saying Ye know not of what Spirit ye are for the Son of Man is not come to destroy mens Lives but to save them It is recorded in the life of Simon and Jude the Apostles as both Gulielmus de sancto Amore and John Hus relate That when the Chief Ruler was very angry with those who defamed the Doctrine of those Apostles and in great zeal commanded a great Fire to be made that such Opposers might be cast into it The Apostles fell down before the Emperour saying We beseech you Sir let not Us be the Authors or Causers of this Destruction who are come to publish the Doctrine of eternal Salvation neither let Us who are sent to Revive those who are Dead through sin become the Killers of those who are Alive Wherefore those Teachers who for Worldly Advantage sake will force Themselves upon those men against their Wills who will not Willingly receive them and will provoke the Worldly Powers and Magistrates to punish those who will not hear and receive Them and their Doctrine they all are false Prophets and Ministers of Antichrist The Eighth Sign The true Teachers are content that Others should teach as well as They and would not make a Monopoly of the Ministry to themselves alone for Worldly Advantage sake Thus our Lord Jesus Christ did not content Himself to preach the Gospel alone but he sent forth Others as his Father sent forth him yea he pours forth his Spirit on all flesh that sons and daughters and servants and handmaids may prophesie and so Knowledge may cover the Earth as Waters the Seas and to make the world willing to receive such Teachers he saith He that receiveth You receiveth Me and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me. And when Eldad and Medad upon whom the Spirit of the Lord did rest did prophesie in the Camp of Israel without asking any License from Moses and one told Moses of it in great displeasure and Joshua thereupon wished Moses to forbid them to Prophesie then Moses the meek servant of the Lord replied Enviest thou for my sake would God saith he that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them All Numb 11. 29. And so the Godly mind of any faithful Teacher desireth to be helped in the work of the Word that the pretious Truth of the Gospel which he himself alone cannot sufficiently express all mens tongues might declare And so they do not envy in Others those Spiritual Gifts which God hath given them but do wish that Every man had a Mouth and Wisdom given him to declare the Mysterie of the Gospel and the infinite Love Mercy Wisdom Truth Power Redemption and Salvation of God by Jesus Christ which cannot by all mens Tongues be sufficiently published in the World Farther as no worldly Prince or Magistrate hath such unlimited Power over the Goods of the people as to forbid them to give corporal Alms to them that stand in need as occasion is ministred no more hath any Power whether Ecclesiastical or Civil such Dominion over the Word and Truth of God written by the Spirit in the hearts of Believers but that they may at all times and upon all occasions minister spiritual Alms to them who stand in need by the teaching of the Gospel Wherefore those Teachers who are envious that any should preach the Word but Themselves and their own Tribe as they call it because they get great Worldly Advantage thereby whereas otherwise they would be contented that any should preach and so would have the civil Magistrate only to License Them to be Preachers because of their Degrees and Orders and to forbid all Others they all are false Teachers and Ministers of Antichrist The Ninth Sign The true Teachers do not only teach the Word but are also ready to seal to the Truth of it with their Estates Liberties and Lives Thus did Jesus Christ as was foretold by Isaiah Chap. 50. 5. where Christ saith by his Spirit The Lord hath opened mine ear and I was not rebellious neither turned away back I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them who plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting And in the dayes of his flesh how willingly did he seal to the Truth of his New Testament Doctrine with his Suffering and suffered himself to be apprehended by the hands of men and to be crucified when he could have commanded Legions of Angels for his succor if he had pleased and would not have made use of his own infinite and almighty Power And this submission and willingness to suffer for the Truth Christ hath commanded all his Disciples saying He that will save his life shall lose it and he that will lose his life for my sake shall save it And if any man will be my Desciple let him deny himself take up the cross and follow me And again I send you forth as sheep among wolves and ye shall be brought before Kings and Rulers for my Names sake that is for the true and Spiritual Teaching of the Gospel Now as nothing will procure us more enmity than the spiritual holding forth of the Gospel which will cause the worldly Church to cast