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A49809	Dagon's fall before the Ark, or, The smoak of the bottomless pit scoured away by the breath of the Lords mouth, and by the brightness of his coming written primarily, as a testimony for the Lord, his wisdom ... : secondarily, as testimony against the old serpent his wisdom, which is foolishness with God ... : wherein as in a glass, teachers in schools and colledges may see their concern, neither Christian nor warrantable / by Thomas Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing L724; ESTC R226480	38,604	101

Propagation of Plants by Roots Seeds Slips Layers Suckers by Grafting Inoculating Imping and of Geometry which one Proclus ascribes to to the Aegyptians who the River Nilus now and then overflowing confounding and disordering their Land-marks found out the use and benefit of Geometry by means of which every one came to be settled in their former and proper right I say were it not more Christian like that Children and Youth were instructed in the knowledge of the Lord of his Creation and of necessary and useful things whereby they might be qualified for the help benefit and advantage of others in their respective Generations then to be trained up in lascivious Poems wanton Comedies foolish Tragedies frivolous Fables Heathen Orations Pagan Philosophy being the Language of the old Serpent and of the smoak which darkened Sun and Air after the Primitive times Certainly saith Baptista Van Helmont in his Physick refined I could wish that the spring of Young-men might not hereafter be seasoned with such trifles and lying Sophistry they would learn in the seven years Arithmatick Mathamaticks Geography With the Circumstances of Seas Rivers Springs Mountains Provinces Minerals the property and custom of Nations Plants living Creatures c. So by way of recapitulation let me tell you the knowledge of the Lord of his Creation and of useful and necessary things I own and desire propagation thereof seeing in measure mans state and concern before Abbadon Apollyon the destroyer prevailed but the knowledge introduced by the old Serpent his Wisdom his Poems his Comedies vain Tragedies spoiling Philosophy Heathen Ethicks Physicks Metaphyficks as depriving and corrupting Youth I utterly deny Take the Testimony of the Reformer Martin Luther who said It is a serious thing a weighty thing that Youth be instructed in a Godly and in a Christian manner Obj. Didst not thou teach all usual School Authors how comest thou thus to inveigh against them I Answer true it is I taught these things being deeply plunged in the waters of Marah waters of bitterness but I found no peace therein but always entering into the Chamber of seriousness and commencing with the Lord in his Despensation of Grace to me committed I found the Mouth of Heaven open against them I saw them as the full and lothsome matter of an Ulcer as the Waters of Babylon transporting into the region of the shadow of death Spiritually a dead Sea in which no man can live unto God and though I used them after I knew them to be evil I had no peace therein but waited for a deliverance desiring of the Lord I might not dye therein in that heathenish muddy concern but he delivered me from the bewitchings of that Dalilah In secret retirements spiritual resignation the abomination and inchantments of the aforesaid is more and more discovered I have put off that Coat and have entertained a resolution never more to put it on I have washed my Feet how shall I be defiled therewith You that are bound with the delights bewitchings or profits of Heathenism of the seven liberal Arts or of any inventions of the Serpent as Samson was bound with seven green Wyths which he broke as a threed of Tow when it toucheth the Fire I tell you the Truth as it is in Jesus as the light which shines in darkness arises out of darkness and clears your understandings and gives you the knowledge of the excellency of Heavenly wisdom and of the danger of the wisdom from below in the lustre of this and in Heavenly strength received in it you will break asunder the seven green Wyths of the bewitching delights of Heathenism of Heathen learning and bear Testimony for an education of Youth in the knowledge of the Lord and of the Creation and of necessary things expedient for the accomplishment of Yougth for lawful and honest service in their respective Generation wherein as the Lord opens a door and encouragement is given I am ready to be serviceable being raised to that hope that Babylon must fall as in the particular so must he in the General and her Merchants cease Trading in her proud waves and that the knowledge which is Heaven-bred must cover the Earth as Water covers the Sea and that the wisdom which is from below must be scoured away as clouds before the wind so be wise and not pillars to support that putrified structure which the Lord is risen to overturn 't is not learning but unlawful learning not Schools but abuses and corruptions thereinto crept that this Testimony is against as the Intelligent Reader may understand CHAP. VI. Lastly A few Queries soberly proposed to the Consideration of such as Teach Heathen Authors in Christian Schools IF Adam and his posterity had kept the state of Innocency whether ever had we had wanton Poets and Poems lascivious Comedies feigned Tragedies frivolous Fables spoiling Philosophy yea or nay 2. Whether it ought to be the concern of Schoolmasters as of Ministers to eradicate or propagate what was introduced by the Author of the fall 3. Whether to have Teachers in every Parish vi armis as by force of arms to drive Heathenism into Youth be the way to eradicate the same yea or nay 4. Whether man was not created to eye his Creator and the Creation yea or nay 5. Whether the Serpent Prevalent over man laid not the foundation of another kingdom yea or nay 6. Whether wanton Poems lascivious Comedies and Tragedies frivolous Fables spoiling Philosophy taught in Schools be not the Language of that Kingdom yea or nay 7. Whether it be not a shame to Christian Schools and Colledges that Languages cannot or are not taught without being beholden to the Heathen yea or nay 8. Whether wanton Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Philosophy were taught to Youth in the Primitive Church before the fall of the Star from Heaven yea or nay 9. Whether wanton Poems lascivious Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Philosophy be not of the smoak that arose out of the bottomless pit which darkened the Sun and Air yea or nay 10. Whether wanton Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Phylosophy be not of the foam of that Sea which the beast arose out of yea or nay 11. Whether the Lord and his works which are wonderful be not sufficient to take up the short Age of man yea or nay 12. Whether wanton Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Philosophy be not of that knowledge which puffs up brought into the World through the breath of Satans Bellows yea or nay 13. Whether wanton Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Phylosophy were ever kindled in Christian Churches before the old Serpent kindled them by the breath of his Bellows yea or nay 14. Whether lascivious Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Philosophy be not of that wisdom which is earthly sensual and devillish yea or nay 15. Seeing all the Treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Christ are they not deluded who seek the same at Aristotle's mouth or any other Heathen 16. Whether wanton Poems Heathen Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Philosophy and Idolatrous Traditions be not dregs of the Cup of Abomination and Fornication wherewith Kindreds Tongues and People were and are made drunk yea or nay 17. Whether such as Teach these things in Schools and Colledges be not the old Serpents Cooks preparing a deadly dish yea or nay 18. Whether such as Teach these Heathen things be not eating the forbidden Fruit yea or nay 19. Whether it be not Idolatry to Teach that Mars is the god of War Bacchus the god of Wine Apollo the god of wisdom yea or nay 20. Whether Teachers of a plurality of Gods be not transgressors of the Law of Moses and of the Gospel yea or nay 21. Whether God-fathers and God-mothers so called that vow that such and such Children shall forsake the Devil and all his works pomps and vanities yet concern themselves for their Education in lascivious Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Philosophy be Vow keepers or Vow breakers 22. Whether such as are concerned in Teaching wanton Heathen Authors are not concern'd to keep that alive which Christ comes to destroy yea or nay 23. Whether such as Teach Heathenism in Schools or Colledges do not labour to keep the Sun and Air darkened by the smoak of the pit yea or nay 24. What is the great Star called Wormwood which fell upon the Rivers and Fountains of Waters and what are the Waters made bitter whereof many dyed mentioned Revel the 8th In Learning of Languages wholesome sound savoury useful and necessary matter being Learned a double advantage as was said before accrues to the Learner Pura decent puerum faedis eatemperat aetas A vitiis puerum nil nisi pura decent Virtutum dulces pueris infunde liquores Et mores aetas promet adulta bonos T. L.

worship Christ Lactant. lib. 3. cap. 30. Vlpian the chief Lawyer Galen the chief Physician Porphiry the chiefest Aristotelian Plotinus the chiefest Platonist were profess'd enemies to Christ and his Truth Trapp Augustin Bishop of Hippo in Africa about the year 399. said the unlearned take Heaven by force but we with our learning are thrust into Hell It repented Augustin that when he was young he had preached more to please then to profit others Neither the Jews by their profound Doctors nor the Gentiles by their Wits and Wizards could grope out God Trapp on 1 Cor. 1.21 The Greeks sought after wisdom viz. of this World so shut out Heavenly wisdom Intus existens prohibet alienum they attained not what they sought Trapp on 1 Cor. 1.22 We that have obtained the knowledge of God by and through his Grace are far more Wise and more blessed then Plato Aristotle c. Piscat on 1 Cor. 1. In a natural man there is an impotency that is want of power to know and understand spiritual things Piscat Wisdom that is of the Flesh serves the Worldling as the Ostrich wings to make him out-run others upon Earth and in Earthly things but helps him never a whit towards Heaven Trapp on the Corinth Constantius the Emperor suspecting Julian's proneness to Paganism sent him to be carefully grounded in Christianity to Nicomedia but he frequented by stealth the company of Libanius and Iamblichus Philosophers who warped him wholly to their bent which brake out afterwards Trapp on Colos 2. In the year 220. the Artemonites a certain kind of Hereticks corrupted Scripture out of Aristotle and Theophrastus turning all into Questions as afterwards School-men did that evil generation of Dunghill Divines as one calleth them Trapp on Colos 2. The Gentiles could not be saved by their Philosophy without Christ and yet not only the Divines of Cullen set forth a Book concerning the Salvation of Aristotle whom they called Christ's forerunner in Naturals as John Baptist was in Supernaturals but also some of the School Doctors grave men saith Acosta do promise men Salvation without the knowledge of Christ Trapp on Colos 2.8 The Moral Philosophy of prophane Authors treating of the chiefest good and of the happiness of man and of virtue is no other thing then vain deceit Pisc Colos 2. Seeing we are complete in Christ they commit folly who have recourse unto prophane Philosophers The deep Theorems of Philosophy said King James make one learned but seldom better and oftentimes worse meer Atheists There is an Arabick Proverb Cum errat eruditus errat errore erudito that is a learned man hath learned errors Trapp on Acts 17. Aristotle wrote many things most absurdly concerning God as that he is a living Creature that he works not freely but by a kind of servile necessity and that therefore he deserves no praise sith he doth but what he must do yet at Stuckard in Germany was found a Doctor of Divinity that preached to the people that the Church might be sufficiently well taught and governed by Aristotle's Philosophy especially his Ethicks Trapp on Rom. 1.21 To use Heathen Authors for oftentation is to make a Calf of the Treasures gotten out of Egypt Trapp of Arts. Many saith one through their love to the Tree of Knowledge lose the Tree of Life Papists say that we may find their Holy-Water and sprinkling of Sepulchres in Juvenal's sixth Satyr their Lights in Sepulchres in Suetonius his Octavius Lamps lighted on Saturdays in Seneca's 96 Epistle distribution of Tapers among the people in Macrobius his Saturnals Purgatory in Virgil's Aeneids Trapp Thus proving their Doctrines by Heathen Authors not by Scripture Averroes an Arabian Physician so madly admired his Master Aristotle as that he said there was no errour to be found in his Works that his Learning was the chief Truth c. When he dyed he cryed out Sit anima mea cum Philosophis Let my Soul be where the Philosophers Souls are Trapp Justin Martyr tells us that he left his Gentilism upon reading a piece of Plato Trapp of Arts. Augustin acknowledgeth that nothing more cooled his affections towards that Book called Cicero's Hortensius then that he found not the name of Jesus in it and that on this confideration he was perswaded to the love of Heavenly wisdom and contemplation of things above Trapp The knowledge of Christ is the only Learning without which all other Learning doth but light men into utter darkness Trapp of Arts. As for Aristotle's Divinity which he calls his Metaphysicks whereof he wrote 14 Books it is saith Ramus the most foolish and impious piece of Sophistry that ever was written Trapp of Arts. Lotamus Lovaniensis wrote that there was no other Faith found in Abraham then was found in Cicero a Heathen Philosopher whereas Abram saw my day saith Christ and rejoyced he walked with God and was upright it was not thus with Cicero Trapp of Arts. Latimer was so wrought upon by Bilney's confession as that he began to smell the Word of God and to forsake School Doctors and such like fooleries and horrible barbarism which had overspread the eye of whole Christendom Trapp of Arts. The dignity and study of Latine Greek and Hebrew the Holy Spirit seems to intimate their continuance in the Church by the Inscription of Christ's Title on the Cross in those three Tongues and the utter eradicating of all frivolous and fruitless School Quirks Monkish Dotages Legendary Fables Trapp The Romans one time banished all Philosophers out of their City Gel. lib. 15. Trapp of Arts. Licinius the Emperor called Heathen Learning the plague and poyson of the Commonwealth Trapp of Arts. Pope Paul the second pronounced all Scholars Hereticks and seriously exhorted the Romans not to breed up their Children at School saying it was enough if they could read and write Trapp of Arts. The Heathen Romans having conquer'd this Nation and inhabiting in it for 500 years as Histories inform us they erected Schools in this Nation to teach the Britains and brought in their Heathen Poets Comedies Tragedies c. into Schools which to the shame and corrupting of the Nation are yet continued Julius Agricola a Roman Emperor's Lieutenant in Britain taught the Britains civility and prevailed with Noblemen to breed up their Sons in liberal Arts and brought them to affect the Roman Eloquence then they began to imitate the Roman Fashions the Gown proud Buildings Baths and Banquetings which the foolisher sort called Civility but was indeed a secret Art to prepare them for bondage Milton Edgar a Saxon King put forth a Canon that on Festival days every one should abstain from prophane Heathen Songs and from diabolical Games and Pastimes Further he enjoyned that every one abstain from the reading of fabulous and absurd things and from filthy and blasphemous Ballads Not well observed now I Martin Luther give notice to all that on Monday c. all the Books of the Pope be burned and of some of his Disciples