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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

God freely taught the Youth who came willingly to them to learn especially in the corrupt times of Israel and Judah I say they taught them only the Knowledge of the Books of Moses and of the other Prophets then extant and no Heathenish Knowledge or Disciplines of the Gentiles at all And these kinde of Schools began early in the Church For the Fathers before the Flood and the Patriarchs after all taught their Children and Families the Word of God And so each of their Families was such a School And that we may not be at uncertainties in this matter it is manifest what Doctrine they taught by that which God himself saith of Abraham Gen. 18. 19. I know Abraham saith God that he will command his Children and Houshold after him that they keep the Way of the Lord and to do Justice and Judgement This was the sum of Abrahams Doctrine to his Family And this is farther confirmed by that of Asaph Psal. 78. 2 3 4. where he saith I will open my mouth in a Parable I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us We will not hide them from their Children shewing to the Generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and the wonderfull works that he hath done Where we plainly see what Doctrine the Children received from their Parents and the Parents taught their children from one Generation to another to wit not Vain Philosophy and the Disciplines of the Heathens but the Praises of the Lord and his Strength and Wonderful Works This also is manifest by the practice of Jehosaphat King of Judah who sent his Princes with the Levites up and down throughout Judah and they only took the Book of the Law of the Lord with them and no Heathenish Authors and taught the People 2 Chron. 17. And Ezra after the Peoples return from Babylon took only the Book of the Law of Moses and read it to them and the Levites also read in the Book of the Law of God distinctly to the People and gave them the Sense and caused them to Understand it Nehem. 8. And this also James the Apostle witnesseth Acts 15. 21. saying Moses of old time hath in every City them that Preach Him being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath day So that the faithfull Prophets of the Lord during all the Old-Testament had the chief care in their Schools to keep the Word of the Lord among them in a Right Sense according to the minde of the Spirit For seeing the Lords People are his Portion they knew they were to be carefully Educated and Instructed in the Right Knowledge of the Scriptures to prepare them for the Lord and to make them meet for his Kingdom And the keeping of the Word and Doctrine of God pure is one of the Greatest Matters of all in the Church of God For as the Word is such is the Worship such is the Faith such is the Conscience such is All. Wherefore the Holy Men of God would by no means bring in the Philosophy or Doctrine of the Heathens into their Schools to teach that to their Sons or Scholars but only the true faithfull and unmixed Word of God ` And if against this it be Objected That Moses was learned in all the Learning of the Egyptians To this I Reply But did Moses ever teach any of that Learning in the Church or publish any of the Doctrines of it Or did he command or encourage any of the People of God to learn it Or did any other of the Prophets of the Lord in any Age teach their Sons or Scholars any of the Egyptian Philosophy which was the Antientest or the Smaragdine Table of Hermes Trismegistus the pretended Scholar of Moses so much boasted of or any Heathenish Author whatsoever of which there were many then extant I say let them prove that but one Heathenish Author was read by any of the Prophets to their Scholars and then they will have some colour for the present Universities and their Practice But this they can never do during all the Old Testament And now for the New-Testament it is well known that Christ himself who was the Son of God made of a woman was the first and chief Teacher of this Doctrine Even the Son out of the bosom of the Father full of Grace and Truth and He set up the first Christian School and taught his twelve Apostles whom at his own pleasure He chose to Himself And what the Doctrine was which He taught them is manifest in the Gospel in all which there is not One Word of Heathenish Philosophy or of the Doctrine and Traditions of Men but He only taught them the Words of Eternal life which no Man nor Angel could teach He teaches that Word which is the Power Wisdom and Righteousness of God through which Sin is forgiven and Righteousness is given Death is destroyed and Life is brought in Hell is put out and Heaven is planted in all them that do believe He teaches a Word through which the World is renewed and Men are made like Angels and are made meet to partake of the Inheritance of Saints He teaches a Word wherein is contained all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge that are in God Himself And so Christ taught in his School no vain Philosophy or Heathenish Doctrine and yet he came from God and went to God and is a pattern for Doctrine to all true Christians that are his Disciples indeed To whom he commanded when he left the world and went to his Father that they should teach all Nations and gather one Christian School out of them all by teaching them to observe and do Whatsoever he had commanded them to wit in the Gospel and nothing else or more He commanded them to teach all that and only that and promised himself to be with them to the end of the World in all such Doctrine And the Apostles accordingly not by any help of Humane Learning but when they had received the Spirit went forth to teach the Nations and to set up Christian Schools everywhere by their Doctrine and They all only taught Jesus and the Resurrection from the dead Thus Peter first taught the Men of Judea and Inhabitants of Jerusalem That God had made Jesus whom they had crucified both Lord and Christ having raised Him from the dead because it was not possible for Him to be holden of Death who was the Lord and Author of Life And Steven disputing with the Libertines Cirenians and Alexandrians and divers Philosophers of Cilicia and Asia did hold forth to them nothing but Christ and that He should put an end to the Temple and Law and should change all the Customs of Moses And They were not able to resist the Wisdom and Spirit by which He spake Acts 6. And Paul at the University of Athens reproved there Heathenism and taught Nothing among the Epicureans and

read Aristotles Logick according to the Institutions of Porphyrius and Averroes Brother or Fryar William read Tullies Rhetorick and Gislebertus read Divinity to them on Sundays and Saints days And for Oxford that was founded by King Alfred Anno 895. by the perswasion of Neotus the Monk and Rewards were propounded for those that would profess Learning there Afterwards both these Schools were made Universities in Edward the firsts time by the Court of Rome as Robert Remington affirms Yea farther by the very Names of the Colledges it is manifest what Religion set them up some being founded in the Honor of one Saint some of another Saint one being founded in the Honor of Christ another in the honor of Jesus another in the Honor of Immanuel another in the Honor of the Trinity Whereby they have rent the Name of God in pieces each one seeking to honor that Name of Christ most in the Honor of which his Colledge was founded Yea some Colledges have been founded in the Honor of Christs Body as the Colledges of Corpus Christi in both Universities and one in Oxford for the Help of all Dead Souls and for their rescue out of Purgatiry And so it is well known what Religion founded them And what Religion will in due time Destroy these Foundations if they be not Reformed is as well known For Wickliff whom God raised up to be one of the most Eminent Reformers of the Christian Religion since the Apostles times speaks thus touching Universities Colledges and Students Seeing Christ saith he hath not ordained these Universities or Colledges it is manifest that both They and the Graduations in them are nothing but so much vain Heathenism introduced in Testimony whereof as well the Collegiates as other Graduates do seek the things which are their own leaving the Rules of Charity From whence do arise Envies and Comparisons between Persons and Countries and many other seed-plots of the Father of Lyes Again he having spoken of other Sects saith Our Judgement concerning Colledges is the same as touching their General Studies For through Them Persons and Countreys are accepted against the Rules of Charity and inward Envies are heaped up with other Sins Perjuries and Simonies against their own Statutes Notwithstanding it is granted that out of such Colledges many Good Things do arise as well as out of other Sects yet not so Many as by the occasion of the sin of the Devil and the sin of the fiest Man And therefore let a Faithful Man be ashamed to alledge the fruit of such Profit Again saith he If these Colledges are in their Conversation rejected of the Lord who doubts but that to nourish Them in this Way is no Alms but the foolish Presumption of a Faction and Party against Christ For all these Sects and all Newnesses which are not founded on Christ the Lord they tempt Christ with the Devil Mat. 4. seeing they despise the free Ordination of his Sect and do rather choose another servile Sect less good as if they would not ascend into the Heavenly Sion by the steps which God hath Ordained but would flie to the Pinacle of the Temple by the carrying of the Devil What Alms therefore is it to cherish such a Childe of the Devil in Cains Castles against Christ He also affirms that one Ideot through the Help of the Grace of God doth more Good in the Church then many Graduates in the Schools and Colledges and that Gods Inspiration of such doth more profit the Community of the saithful then all the Universities and all their Studies and Priviledges Thus hath Wickliff witnessed in this Matter who was also Himself Master of Baliol Colledge in Oxford And Philip Melancthon gives this Testimony of Him Equidem sapientem virum judico fuisse Wicklefum Anglum qui omnium primus quod ego sciam vidit Universitates fuisse Satanae Synagogas that is I do indeed judge Wickliff of England to have been a Wise man who for ought I know first of all saw Universities to have been the Synagogues of Satan John Hus also that excellent Instrument of Jesus Christ and blessed Martyr saith speaking on that Scripture Isa. 28. Wo to the Crown of the Pride of Ephraim and the Crown of Pride shall be troden under foot saith The Doctorships and Masterships of many who having the Word of God wholly choaked in them do now too shamelesly make broad their Phylacteries and inlarge the borders of their Garments and love the chief Chairs in the Schools and to be saluted in the Markets and to be called of men Doctor And by this They go in the Apparel and Harness of the Mystical body of Antichrist because it is written that He is the King of all the Children of Pride And the Crown of Pride of these Children of Pride shall be troden down And thus as it is manifest what Religion founded the Universities so it is as manifest what Religion will in the appointed time destroy these Foundations if they be not truly and thorowly Reformed For surely as they are if the work of Christ go forward in the World as it necessarily must do notwithstanding the present Defection in the appointed time They can no more be held up then the House built on the sand in the time of Tempest For the true Spiritual Church is built on the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Corner Stone and so it is firmly founded upon a Rock and can never fall But the Universities are built on the Philosophers and Heathens Plato and Aristotle being the chief Corner Stones and so They are built upon the Sand. And neither can their own Hands uphold them nor the Secular Arm establish them in that Day wherein the Lord alone shall be exalted But it is not Men of Moral and Civil Religion and Righteousness who will do this Work and execute this Vengeance for the Inchantments of the Universities are too strong and mighty for all Humane Spirits But the Called Chosen and Faithful Ones of Christ when He shall summon them and call them to his foot They shall not stand on Complements Formalities and Niceties nor regard Friendship or Enmity but through the Power of Faith shall break through all that can be said and objected by the Wisdom Policy Prudence and Religion of Man and shall execute the Righteous Judgements of the Lord on these Mothers of Harlots and Fornications of the Nations And whereas he saith their Destruction will never be but of Themselves I do verily believe that For seeing their Root is rottenness their Fruit must needs be Destruction Yea the Lord will raise up his Word in the midst of them to destroy them For the more the Word of the Lord shall blow upon the University the more shall this Grass wither and the Flower thereof that is Humane Learning fade away till it be at last quite dried up And this is the University whose