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kingdom_n	heaven_n	pharisee_n	scribe_n	2,390	5	10.4944	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03735	The sufficiencie of the spirits teaching, without humane-learning: or A treatise, tending to proue humane-learning to be no help to the spirituall understanding of the Word of God. Written (if it may be) for the silencing of such false and scandalous reports, as have been rumored about concerning this matter; and also for the affording of true information to all such as desire to know the truth. By Samuel How	How, Samuel.	1640 (1640)	STC 13855; ESTC S104246	42,052	46

the wise be them that God hath chosen for it is not so for he hath chosen the foolish to confound the wise and therfore such as are godly wise should choose Gods wise but the worlds foolish things for His serve before the worlds wise ones and so I come to another exception which is Object 5 If it be sanctified it must needs be a good helpe to the right understanding of the Truth Answ It is true if it be sanctified so it is But how or where doth that appeare that ever it was sanctified Hath not the Lord long agone told us by his * Isay 19.15 Prophet and wished his to behold it that he would doe a marveylous worke and then he doubles it againe even a marveylous worke and a wonder and then all comes to this that he would cause to perish and destroy the wisdome of the wise and cast away the understanding of the prudent and here if we could see we might all of us stay our wondering at this strange thing and consider the Lord tells us it is a marveylous worke and a wonder and so our wondering and marveyling how these things come so to be is but a fulfilling of Gods word and men might rest in it and see in the next words that it is a wo to them for the former abuse of the same and so now as * Mal. 2.2 Malachy saith that he would curse their blessings and that he had done it already to both which ‡ 1 Cor. 1.19 Rom. 8.7 agrees the Apostle from Isay and concludes also that God hath destroyed it and in another place tells us that it is emnity with God How shall any dare say then it is sanctified whenas so plain a curse is on it as that we are wished to beware of being ‡ Col. 2.8 spoyled by it Now are we wished any where to beware of being spoyled by that which is sanctified to us in a spirituall way Now these things can be sanctified no further then they are of use and that is but in a worldly way for a spirituall use they be accursed from it Object 6 Now another exception from these things thus minded is That by this all Humane-Learning seems utterly to be condemned Answ I Answer that it followes not because it is not to be allowed in this way that therfore it is not of any use for I doe acknowledge it in it selfe to be a good thing and good in its proper place * Gen. 11. from 6. to 10. which is for the repayring of that § decay which came upon man for sinne so I say it is of good use for the repayring of that losse and so fit for States-men Physicians Lawyers and Gentlemen yea all men so farre as they can attaine to it are as men beyond and above others that are without it yea and beyond all other excellencies that this world can afford but bring it once to be a help to understand the mind of God in the holy Scriptures and there it is detestable filth drosse and dung in that respect and so good for nothing but † 1 Tim. 6.21 destroy and cause men to erre as we have seen before It fares with it as I perceive as it doth with Fire keep it in the Chymney and it serves as a good blessing of God for good and necessary uses but let it once come into the roofe of the house and it destroyes all because it is not in its proper place so it is here for this thing among men for humane and worldly imployments it is good But bring it once to the perfiting of the Gospel and it will be found to be the spoyling of it And yet further so farre doe I acknowledge tongues to be of use as to yeeld us the translation of the Scriptures out of one language into another without which we that are unlearned could not come to have the letter of the word and so farre there as a necessity of it for that use but that man which can foe doe is ever the more able to understand the spirituall meaning iof the word thereby that I deny and withall doe affirme that an understanding man may through the teaching of the Spirit know the mind of God which the other may never reach unto according to that * Mat. 13.11 saying of our Saviour To you it is given to know the Mysteries the secrets of the Kingdome of heaven to you his simple Disciples it is given but to others the learned Scribes and Pharisees it was not given But in this case it may fare as it did with those that built Noahs Arke they made a place of safeguard for others but were drowned themselves so these men may prepare a good helpe for others but themselves be altogether without the benefit of it A Lantherne you know is of good use to contain the Candle but let one carry it in a darke night and it will doe him no pleasure without a Candle lighted in it of the same use is the letter of the word it is but as a Lautherne or Candle without light Now the Spirit is the light of the letter and so is the Apostles ‡ 2 Cor. 3● opposition such men then in that respect may be a help to others and yet when all is done be but castawayes themselves seeing as we have before seen the Aegyptians and Babylonians in this kind of learning did excell And it is none other blessing then what the Pope Cardinalls and other professed enemies of the truth as all for the generall confesse them to be have in as great a measure and beyond many others that professe to know the truth and stand stifly for this as a speciall helpe to understand the true meaning of the Lord in the word which if it be so then by their own grants they have the advantage of them and so are to be reverenced of themselves to have more knowledge in it then they so then they are to acknowledge their errour in counting themselves wise above what is meet or else must be forced to confesse that that learning is inavayleable for finding out of the mind of God Neither for all this would I have any to conclude of me as some affirme that I hold all Learned men to be excluded from the spirituall meaning of the Word God forbid for Though the Apostle ‡ 1 Cor. 1.26 say not many of severall rankes yet he saith not there is none but yet not many There was one Ioseph of § Mar. 15.43 Arimathea One † Nicodemus One Deputy * Ioh. 3.1 Act. 13.7 Surgeus Paulus a prudent man and divers of ‡ Act 6.7 the Priests But this was not ususuall for it is hard for such men to entertaine the truth Gods ordinary way is among the foolish ‡ 1 Cor. 1.27.28 Iam. 2.5 with Mat. 11.5 weake and vile so that when as the wise rich noble and learned come to receive the Gospel they