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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44613	The sufficiency of the spirits teaching without humane learning a treatise tending to prove humane learning to be no help to the spirituall understanding of the word of God ... / by Samuel How.	How, Samuel.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.	1655 (1655)	Wing H2952; ESTC R24385	44,603	49

David without Sauls Arm or only with a Sling and a stone through the Name of the Lord may so wound great Goliah of Gath the enemy of God and his people as that he may receive his deadly wound and lye groveling on the ground to the dismayment of all the Host of the Philistins and great rejoycing of the Israel of God and this the Stone that is he wen out of the Mountain without hands is only able to do Therefore let all that fear the Lord take heed that they lean not to their own wisdome but so much the more that any ●f us have wisdome and Understanding Memory and such ●ike naturall parts above other so much the more let us be watchfull and carefull over our selves as knowing that the h Rom. 8.7 Wisdome of the flesh is enmity against God and is ready to butt against the Spirit And now to draw to a conclusion of all in the words of the Prophet i Esay 44.25 The Lord frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh the Diviners mad turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolishness If any shall except against the matter for the rudeness of it as that it is without form or learning all such are to know that it is but suitable to the whole argument and that if it should be otherwise I should condemn that in practise which I justifie in words and so make my self a Trespasser Thus I commit this my labour with all those that out of love to the truth shall seek information in this matter to the blessing of the most High and remain an unfaigned well-willer of all them that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity The 25. day of the first moneth 1639. WHat How how now hath How such learning found To throw Arts curious Image to the ground Cambridge and Oxford may their glory now Vail to a Cobler if they know but H●w Though big with Art they cannot over-top The Spirits teaching in a Coblers shop Reader if thou an humane Artist be Let Humane Learning be no Judge for thee Lay down thine Arts then try this Coblers end And see if it be by the Spirit pen'd Mean time adue ye Arts and Artists all The Spirits teaching may attend the Aul And thou brave Cobler blow another blast Upon their learning though thou blow thy LAST R. O. THE SVFFICIENCY OF THE SPIRITS TEACHING WITHOUT HVMANE LEARING The Text 2 PETER 3.16 As one that in all his Epistles speaks of these things in which ar some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures unto their own destruction THese words that I am * By J.G. and S.B. Ministers of London allotted to speak from at this time have respect as it should seem to such things as the Apostle had spoken of before which things seem to me to be those that are contained from the beginning of the second Chapter to the end of the 13. verse of this third Chapter and the 14. verse contains Peters exhortation strengthened in the 15. verse by his Brother Pauls writings who in all his Epistles speaks of these things as of the † Christ second coming mentioned in all Pauls Epistles coming of the Lord Jesus and other things such as are herein contained among the which that is Pauls writings in his Epistles some things were hard to be understood and so indeed was the coming of Christ Iesus which it should seem was hard of them to be undersood and that appears by his earnest w●iting to the a 2 Thes 2. at the beginning Thessalonians where he exhorts them That they should not suddenly be moved neither by Word nor Epistle as it were from him as if the day of Christ were at hand for there were many things to be fulfilled first as a departure from the Faith the rising up the perfection and the consumption of the Man of Sin and this it should seem though he had told them of it before yet to them it was hard to be understood which had the true learning here meant which things they that were unlearned and unstalbe perverted as they did other Scriptures to their own destruction therefore the great thing here to be minded is to find out what this learning is that Peter here intends And secondly who they be that are the unlearned ones and by that we shall easily find who they be that are the perverters of the Scriptures to their own destruction For this end therefore I will consider what this learning is not and then what it is What learning it is not It is not Humane Learning That I may not be misconceived about it I will here lay down my understanding in it and by Humane Learning I do not mind the knowledg and understanding of our own language which every man of what Tongue soever he be might in some measure be taught of another as the Parents teach their Children and they learn of them of this there is a natural necessity as the Apostle saith How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard Now the hearing there mentioned Rom. 10.14 must needs be a natural hearing seeing it is set before Faith and this hearing must needs be the understanding of the sound of words spoken Now thus Peter and John and all the rest learned the foolish things spoken of 1 Cor. 1.21 And thus I acknowledge that there is none but in some measure have this learning and must of necessity have it to understand Gods mind in an ordinary way But by Humane Learning all along in this matter which I oppose it is the knowledge of Arts and Sciences divers Tongues and much reading and a persisting in these things so as thereby to be made able to understand the mind of God in his Word this is it that I condemn from the Word of Truth for being that by which any is made able spiritually to understand the mind of God which the Apostle saith cannot be attained to by the words which mans wisdome teacheth all which these excellencies are said to be ●or 2.13 So that by Humane Learning I do here understand that whereby certain men do excell and are far above and beyond other ordinary men and in this sense do I understand that the Councel judged Peter and John to be no such learned men Act. 4.13 For we in common speech do oppose a learned man to one that otherwise can read and write in his own Tongue though he do not understand the grounds of his own speech as the other man that is learned doth as may appear by the Book called the English Schoolmaster and so such learning do I not conceive to be here meant which I conclude for these reasons 1. Because that then Peter must of necessity condemn himself 1 Reason for he was a man that in the b Act. 4.13 Councels knowledge was such an unlearned

he saith himselfe should please him though it will not give carnall men content Likewise are not the Scriptures alledged frequently by these learned men for the Nation and people for being the Church of God and for the same end Nationall observances as the High Priests consecrated and set apart for the services of the Church and so under him the rest of the holy Priests with their holy garments and tithes and such like for ●heir maintenance and for this purpose the Scriptures alledg●d in a most plentifull manner both from the Law and ●he Prophets for the justifying of their names orders and ●dministrations when as if it be spirituall discerned and ●he Scripturs not wrest●d nor perverted it will be found ●rue as Peter o Act. 10 14 15 saith that not every Nation nor any more any Nation but in every Nation them that fear the Lord and none other are accepted of him Whereas Christ Jesus himself p Rev. 13.7 with Rev. 16 19. hath told us that the q Psa 125. Psal 1. beasts should have power over every Kindred Nation and Tongue and that the National Cities should fall whereas Mount Sion the City of God shall never be moved as saith the r Heb. 12. Prophet and also the Apostle by this then it appears that all such Scriptures as are alledged for the maintenance of a National Church are perverted being that long since the Lord hath rejected it now accounting a company of Saints in fellowship with himself to be Mount ſ Rev. 14.1 Psa 14 9 from 6. to 9. Sion that shall never be moved and these he hath made t Rev. 1.6 5.10 1 Pet. 2.9 Kings and Priests to God The like we may see in the Ministers of the Church seeing that they were of old times in that Church to be honorable persons in outward honor and esteem for their names Priests for their callings above the rest of the people a distinct body of themselves for their apparel different in their administrations from other of the people and so for their maintenance by tythes and offerings all which had a respect to Christ and were in him to have their end as the Apostle u Gal. 4.12 declares as being but worldly rudiments Yet these men though they professe themselves Ministers of Jesus Christ and under the Gospel yet Child-like as under Tutors and Governors do yet observe these things after the rudiments of the world and so suitably to the Gospel cannot abide to approve themselves to be Ministers of Christ by such marks as his Word affords as we have x 2 Cor. 6. from 4. to 10. before considered but they must be men of Honour and such as be distinct from others in their apparel maintenance and such like dishonor and reproach and nakednesse and living on meet Alms they cannot brook but they be so far from working with their own hands for their own necessities as the Apostle requires that the y Act. 2.33 34 35. Ministers of the Gospel should do as that they wrest the Scriptures of the Law and the Prophets haling in as it were by the hair of the head the Scriptures to speak for them and their delicious living faring like Dives deliciously every day whereas the Elders of Jesus Christ should z 1 Pet. 5.1 2 feed the Flock of God not caring for it for filthy lucre but of 〈◊〉 ready mind But leaving these things and such as these are which declare them to be more suitable for Moses and the Law which tends unto wrath and bondage then such as are Ministers of Christ and made partakers of the liberty of the servants of God 1 Object with the Answer I will speak of some few things that are in difference among them and us You know it is usually objected against us because of our departure out of the a Joh. 6.68 words of Peter to our Saviour being these Whether shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life From whence is concluded against us if the Text be not perverted that we in leaving them do forsake Jesus Christ wherein they take it for granted that he is with them and not with those that forsake them whereas the Text is clear to prove that the words of eternall life are in him as b John 6. himself saith also The words that I speak are Spirit and Life and this who denies but that he that hath the Son hath life he that hath not the Son hath no life But let not the Text be wrested yet what proof is here that Antichrist hath the words of eternall life and that there is no forsaking of him and yet all that know wherein the difference lies know that this is the controversie and how that these persons thus forsakeing go to Christ and to the word of Eternal Life seeing that the Lord c Isa 8.16 binds the testimony and seals up the Law among his Disciples so that till it can be proved that these leave Christ and forsake the words of Eternal Life the Text must be taken for none other but to be perverted and a Vail drawn over it to beguile the simple Object 2 Upon this same head hangs another great exception against us which is Where we had our conversion if we have any if not among them and so taking it for granted that we had it among them a great out cry is made against us as if we had stoln their gods and done them great wrong and for this purpose this amongst other things is alledged that that Church which is able to beget is able to bring up Now for answer hereunto it is to be minded that conversion doth properly belong to the d Psal 19.7 Rom. 1.16 1 Pet. 1.3 23. Word of the Lord Now this word by which we are all begotten is the proper portion of the Church of God as e Ps 147.19 20. Mat. 13.11 1 Cor. 3.22 divers Scriptures declare Hence then must it needs follow that whosoever are converted to the Lord those by vertue of their conversion belong to the true Church * Converts belong to the true Church because as is before said the word is hers and therefore they are to cleave to her and forsake those places where they were converted and that for this reason because the Lord himself is f Psa 78.6 said to count when as he writes the people that this man was born there that is in Sion the Church of God though that the man were converted in mans account in Babel and Palestina yet the Lord when he counts shall write the converted man to be born in Sion his Church Now all Gods people should count and write as God doth and give Babel no honour at all of their conversion because the Lord doth not give her any and the same thing is abundantly seen in the Converts that they are g Act. 2.40 exhorted to leave those places where they were