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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

the same can scarce by any way or means be rid out of them Recognit Clement lib. 10. Augustin Bishop of Hippo commanded Poetry to be driven out of the City of God so also did Ethnick Plato out of his Common-wealth Cicero forbad the same to be entertained Cor. Agrip. Devan Scient Augustin called Heathen Poetry the Wine of Error drunk of drunken Doctors Jerom called it the meat of Devils Logick is nothing but the Art of Contention and Darkness whereby all other Sciences are made more obsure and more hard to be known Cornel. Agrip. de vanitate Scientiarum Almost all the rabble of Schollars busied in the inventions of Philosophers or Sophisters seems to do no more then learn to commit Error and to make the Truth more obscure or to lose the same Carnel Agrip. de vanitate Scientiarum Queen Elizabeth enjoyned that Schoolmasters should accustom their Schollers reverently to learn such Sentences of Scriptures as should be most expedient to induce them to all godliness Tindal a Martyr said whosoever ordained Universities be it Alexander of Hales Thomas Aquinas or any other he was a Star fallen from Heaven to Earth for there are brought in saith he Moral vertues for Faith Opinions for Truth and said they were a confused cloud Tindal of the Revelation of Antichrist CHAP. V. A memento to Schoolmasters and Tutors to turn from Heathen to the godly and Christian education of Youth as also of the rise of Christian Schools and how the same came to be corrupted NOw O Schoolmasters and instructers of Youth in Schools and Colledges let me come nearer unto you 't is not Schools but corrupting spoiling and depraving abuses therein managed I speak against Cicero could say we cannot any wise do the Common-wealth more service then by teaching and instructing Youth provided saith I it be in the knowledge of the Lord of his Creation of savoury and necessary things and useful accomplishments Let me tell you I oppose not Teaching or Learning of Languages as of Latin Greek or Hebrew c. Knowing there may be a service therein for the management of Forreign Transactions and Negotiations and Correspondence with other Nations but it being that all savoury and sound knowledge relates primarily to God secondarily to the knowledge of the Creation and of the useful and necessary imployments My Testimony is that Children should be instructed in the aforesaid in the fear of the Lord it being the door of Heavenly wisdom How precious were it if their Souls like Gideons Fleece did drink up betime the pearly dew of Divine Grace and Heavenly vertue 'T is honourable saith Ambrose for Youth to be found in the fear of the living God 't is the Devil his Books and his wisdom which is earthly sensual and devilish I speak against if in learning of Languages useful profitable and necessary matter were learned a double advantage would accrue unto the learner cannot Languages be learned except in the Devils Books and Arts I testifie that all lascivious Poems wanton Comedies vain Tragedies frivolous Fables inchanting Orations spoiling Philosophy Pagan Ethicks Physicks and Metaphysicks now taught in Christian Schools are the muddy streams of the lying Spirit and to be denyed by serious Christians You may read that the Patriarchs before the Law taught their Children and Housholds to walk in the ways of the Lord they taught them not Heathenism nor Serpentine Inventions Gen. 18.17 19. Under the Mosaical Despensation the Prophets had Schools wherein they taught Youth the knowledge of the Lord the Book of Moses and the Prophets then extant they taught no Heathenish learning no Egyptian Philosophy nor the Smaragdine Table of Hermes Trismegistus during the continuance of that Ministration Oh that there were such an heart in Israel said the Lord to fear me and to keep all my Commandments always that it might go well with them and with their Children for ever Deut. 5.29 Solomon wise in the wisdom of God said Train up a Child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Prov. 22.6 He should go in the way of holiness in which the ransomed of the Lord walk with songs of deliverance in their mouths Children are to be trained up in the Lords way not in Heathenism Serpentine inventions Heathen Philosophy lascivious Comedies and Tragedies frivolous Fables these things are in the Devils way I saw it in the glass of Immortality in the lamp of Eternity in the sin-discovering dispensation of the Almighty that such as teach these things they are Satans Cooks preparing a deadly dish Satans Butlers making Youth drunk with the Cup of Abomination and Fornication a rusty Channel through whom a stream of folly enters into those committed to their charge which nothing but a Divine rod can drive out Prov. 22.15 David the sweet singer of Israel enquired saying Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way in taking heed thereto according to the word Psal 119.9 He commends young men to the word the word of Faith of Patience of Reconciliation of Vivification that they may be cleansed and purified thereby he commends them not to Paganism Ethnick Education spoiling Philosophy The Lord saith the holy man of God established a Testimony in Jacob and ordained a Law in Israel which he commanded our Fathers that they should teach their Children that Children which should be born should stand up and declare it to their Children Psal 78.5 6. The Testimony and Law of the Lord was to be propagated and taught to young and old in that Dispensation the wisdom of God which causes the face to shine and fills the inward parts with joyful Melody not Serpentine wisdom the wisdom of this World the Dictates of the Internal Dragon drowning men in perdition Further the Lord said Learn not the way of the Heathen Jeremiah 10.2 Now all Heathen Philosophy Ethicks Physicks and Metaphysicks Heathen Poets Comedies Tragedies and Fables are the way of the Heathen so not to be learned the language of the Serpent to be rejected when Israel was stained with the Inventions of the Heathen the Lord raised complaints against them Psal 106. As the holy men of God in the Patriarchal and Mosaical dispensations through the shield of Faith fenc'd out the wisdom of the Flesh So in the Evangelical dispensation the Disciples and Apostles of the Lamb kept the same and laboured in the vertue and strength of Divine abilities committed to them to bring them to Christ the Magazine Repository and store-house of Heavenly wisdom and knowledge Christ Jesus saith Hospinian de Origine Scholarum instituted the first Academy in the New Testament and called twelve Disciples whom he diligently instructed in Heavenly Doctrine he taught them no Heathen Philosophy nor Traditions of men After the Resurrection of Christ the Apostles being well confirmed in his School and furnished with the gifts of the holy Spirit went out into the World according to Christs command and commended unto others what they had

by Charles the great from Rome to Paris about the year 791. Thus Cambridge was made an University by King Sigebert of the Romish Faith and the Lectures there were begun by four Monks Fryer Ode read Grammar Tericus read Aristotles Logicks Fryer William read Tullies Rhetorick Dilsebert read Divinity to them on Sundays and Saints days so called About the year 895. King Alfred through the perswasion of Monk Neotus made Oxford a publick University and appointed Maintenance for the Professors of Learning there as saith Georg. Lilius in Chron. Britt After both these places of Literature were made or confirmed Universities in Edward the first his time by the Court of Rome as Robert Remington affirms The very names of the Colledges discover their Founders as Christs Colledge Jesus Colledge Immanual Colledge Trinity Colledge Corpus Christi that is Christs body Colledge and one in Oxford for the help of all dead Souls and for their rescue out of Purgatory called All Souls Colledge Now how these Collegians shew forth the Spirit of Christ by their Fruits and how their deportment is to such as in faith and patience wait for the Kingdom of Christ and the righteousness thereof or whether they be as the Lilie among the Thorns or as the Thorns Heave another pen to discover Universities to gain the greater profit to themselves give divers Degrees and Titles as Bachelors of Arts Masters of Arts Bachelors of Divinity Doctors of Divinty whereby saith Dell they gain Honour Reverence and Reputation among all that are under the delusion of Antichrist true it is a principio non it a fuit 'T was not so from the beginning till the Star fell from Heaven to Earth and the smoak arose out of the Pit darkening Sun and Air these things were not in seven years in Universities they are Masters of Art as an Apprentice is Master of his Trade having served seven years Papists made their Ministers in these places as the Protestants do now the Philosophy there taught now is the same that the Heathen Roman Emperors set up they caused to be taught Grammar and Logick and most of the seven Arts as now The Vicechancellor admitting a Bachelor of Divinity to his Degree uses these words We admit thee to preach all the Apostolical Epistles in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Spirit But Admitting a Doctor of Divinity to his Degree he saith We admit thee to preach all the Sacred Scriptures both of the Old and of the New Testament in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit cap. 20. de Ceremoniis in gradibus conferendis Zuinglius In the Primitive times such as were called of the Lord they waited for Heavenly Abilities to be capacitated to beget others into the life of Righteousness and to build them up in the most holy Faith they did not ambitioussy affect Titles out of the God-serving life the Pharisees were guilty of this as formal Christians were After the ingress and inrode of Apostasy Zuinglius on Matth. 23. said Thou heare herest that the Titles of Masters and Doctors are not of God because Christ forbids this thing and those Titles that are not of God nor of Christ they are of Antichrist so to be denyed by such as are branches of the true Vine Further Wilson in his Compleat Christian Dictionary said that ambitious seeking after Titles ought to be eschewed Obj. In the Apostles days there were several Titles as Evangelists Apostles Prophets Pastors Doctors Ans True it is but these and the rest made use of or mentioned in the New Testament were significant names names of Office befitting and expressing the work they were called unto and concerned in as I might particularize as for Doctor it might more properly be translated Teacher so a name of Office Wicklif touching this thing said a name of Office differs much from the name of a School Degree brought in by the Heathen Wicklif in sermone domini in Monte. While the Primitive purity Life Power Faith and Order was kept he that ministred he was to do it out of the ability which God gave 1 Pet. 4.11 The power of the Ministry was derived from the pure Spring of Divine ability but this ability being lost Schools were erected Heathen Learning was entertained where men are qualified now for the Ministry this muddy lake open in Rome-Heathen steamed into Apostatised Rome-Christian drunk up in Protestant Countreys and Kingdoms now To draw to a Conclusion you Teachers of Schools and Colledges it being that the specious Fabrick of the World being finished God looked upon every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Gen. 1.31 were it not more God-like more Christian-like to instruct Youth in the knowledge of God whom to know is life Eternal and in the knowledge of his works being very good and useful and necessary things then in the knowledge of Heathen Arts and Sciences brought in by the Serpent which in every Age and Generation the holy men of God yea and such as have lived in the midnight of Apostasie with some glimpses of Divine light in their Goshen bare Testimony against as the fore-mentioned Testimonies with others that might have been subjoyned sufficiently evidence David in the wisdom of God said The works of the Lord are wonderful sought out of all them that have pleasure therein Psal 111.2 Such as have pleasure in the Lord cannot but have pleasure in his works Now you that make Heathenism your concern you neither have pleasure in the Lord nor in his works which are very good Further David in the consideration of the Lord broke out saying Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdom thou hast made them all the earth is full of thy riches so is the great and wide Sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts Psal 104.24 25. If man should live the days of Mathuselah who lived 969. years yet is the Lord the Book of life and the Book of Creation sufficient for his observation I tell you in downright Tearms the Lord made man to eye him and his Creation but the Serpent dislocating man brought him to eye him and his products and all Heathen Authors Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables spoiling Philosophy Pagan Ethicks Physicks and Metaphysicks are the products of the Serpent so see what you do and where you are Rainold in his Orations said he is to be accounted a wise man who knows things that are profitable not he that knows many things Now if Languages must be Learned were it not more Christian like that out of Latin c. Books for that purpose provided Children and Youth read the Natures of Trees Birds Beasts Fish Serpents Infects Earths Metals Salts Stones Vulgar and Precious as also rules for Gardening Agriculture Grazing of Cattel Buildings Navigation Arithmatick Geography Chronology sound History Medicine knowledge in Law Improvement of Lands Chirurgery Traffick Government ordering of Bees

treasury of Heavenly wisdom Who gives eternal life and an everlasting Inheritance and run a Whoring after faln wisdom so are guilty of Israels sin Jer. 2.13 Paul was first brought up at the feet of Gamaliel born in Tarsus that had read Aratus Meander and Epimanides Authors is clear by what he cited but while he stood in the Ethnick mind he was a grand persecutor idolized his Ethnick education but Christ being revealed in him the Store-house of Heavenly wisdom knowledge and understanding then he accounted Ethnick Learning as dung and dross Phil. 3.7 8 All his idolized magnified and highly prized Arts Parts and Attainments of faln wisdom he accounted but as dung wisdom from above being revealed the Lord called Paul wise in naturals and many that were ignorant thereof to Preach the everlasting Gospel Further Paul in the wisdom from above at the University of Athens he reproved their Idolatry Superstition and Heathenism he taught nothing but the living God and Christ Jesus Acts 17. In the comprehending life he saw these Philosophers Epicureans Stoicks and withstood them but they in the gloomy region of Heathenism saw not him nor the Heavenly wisdom that he Preached so called him a babler yet he fought not in vain but conquered several so prevailed that many renounced their Pagan Philosophy and curious Artists burned their Books of earthly Satanical wisdom thus Paul in the Armour of righteousness disarmed these pagan Philosophers the Devils Champions and brought them to be Sions Converts to receive her Armour Acts 19. James one of the Lords worthies writing to the twelve Tribes scattered said if any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally James 1.5 He commends the ignorant to the Lord not to Aristotle Plato nor to any other Pagan Philosopher Further James the Apostle of the Lamb describing the nature and quality of Heavenly wisdom said the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie Jam. 3.17 Now no other wisdom then this was taught in the primitive Times in Christian Churches and Schools while the purifying and Victory giving Faith was kept the wisdom of the world was Preached against as foolishness with God Now whoever refuses Wisdom Knowlege and Understanding at the mouth of the Lord such learn Foolishness Ignorance Carnal wisdom and wickedness at the mouth of the Serpent and his wisdom nothing that 's good prospers under it CHAP. II. Of the Rise and Progress of Serpentine Wisdom that is the Wisdom of this World A Dam was Created a noble Plant a blessed Disciple while obedient to the teaching of his Creatour among many Pure Heavenly Sound Savoury and wholesom lessons this was one not to eat of nor touch the forbidden Tree lest they die Now the Serpent filled with subtilty laboured first to beget Eve into a questioning of the verity of Gods Heavenly Doctrine saying Yea hath God said Ye shall not eat of every Tree of the Garden Secondly the Serpent expressly contradicted Gods Heavenly Doctrine saying Ye shall not truly die Thirdly The Serpent informed Eve that by touching and eating of that Tree an advantage should accrue thereby to them Ye shall be as Gods knowing good and evil Gen. 3. the Serpent became prevalent Gods teaching was rejected the Serpents deadly Teachings and Insinuations Charms and Inchantments were entertained through this compliance the Serpent got the Chair as I may say and became Teacher than according to the Lords Heavenly word death entered in upon them even as a Consumption seizes upon mans body gradually in this compliance with the Serpent a seed of enmity was sown in mans heart and from that seed sprung another World even a World of wickedness savouring of the nature of the hellish seedsman Adam had never been driven out of the Paradise of blessedness but that through the Serpent being his Teacher he learned to know good and evil saith Cornelius Agrippa of the vanity of Sciences While man kept his Station in the vertue of the ancient of days he lived moved and had his being in him he thought spake and acted in him Yea his thoughts words and actions were the thoughts words and actions of God in him and through him here was a blessed Sabbath Christ said unto his Disciples travelling unto the pleasant Valley of Adams Innocency it is not ye that speak but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you Matth. 10. yea and Peter an Apostle of the Lamb bare Record saying Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.21 So that all the Holy Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Primitive Christians Children of Light Children of the Day who thought spake and acted in and through the vertue of the Lords presence in them their Language was the Language of the Lord 't is so now of what Nation Kingdom or Countrey soever such be yet they are living wirnesses of that Language promised by the Lord who said I will turn to the people a pure Language that they may call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent Zeph. 3.9 In like manner Adam back-sliden from the Lord and complying with the old thoughts words and works from the miry lake of his power and his posterity center'd in the gloomy region of the same what proceeds from this hellish conjunction is the Language of the old Serpent the Language of the beast all wanton Poets Comedians Tragedians painted Oratours Pagan Philosophers are here found thus of Bethel that is the House of God man became Bethaven that is a House of iniquity and vanity Thus the Serpent prevailing and his Kingdom increasing his hellish Pills as I may say being swallowed man was wrought out of his right course and disposition hence issued a numberless number of internal Diseases As in a corporal Imposthume purulent and foul matter is gathered together in some part of the body so through joyning with the Serpent purulent and foul matter of sin iniquity transgression satanical Arts and Inventions are brought forth whereby the Sons and Daughters of men are defiled As in an external Atrophy or Consumption the body through the want of due and convenient nutriment by little and little pines way so through complying with the Serpent the mouth of faith came and comes to be shut which receives spiritual nourishment which not being received spiritual leanness stept and stept in yea a spiritual Consumption As in a corporal Lethargie there is an unsatiable propensity to sleepiness drowsiness and forgetfulness so Adam not keeping his Heavenly Dominion in his ●aker but attending to the evil one was thereby brought into a spiritual Lethargy into a sleepy drowsie and forgetful state this was Isaraels which occasioned the Lords complaint my people have forgotten me days without number Jer. 2.32 As through a depraved Appetite wholsom nourishment is refused nonconvenient unprofitable and Noxious things

in the Patriarchal Mosaical and Evangelical dispensations justified the same and in it by it and through it grew in clearness of understanding distinguishing persons so bare Testimoy against the old Serpent and all his products his spoiling Philosophy wisdom of the flesh introduced into the world by those lying lips that seduced Adam and Eve from their blessed being and welbeing in the Lord. Certain Philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoicks in wisdom of the Serpent encountred Paul who was partaker of Divine wisdom and called him a babler Acts 17.18 and how the Divine wisdom revealed in the lovers of simplicity is entertained by Philosophers now this Nation and others afford many examples yet the wisdom of the living God who are of God cannot but contend for the pure wisdom of the rock of Ages who said Heaven is my Throne and Earth is my Foot stool Act. 7.49 there are as Schools distinguish Bona throni the Treasures of Heaven Christ the repository of pure sou-Isaving soul-refreshing life-giving wisdom and knowledge and there are Bona Scabelli that is the fruits and riches of the Earth now the carriage and deportment of multitudes is such that their very life speaks that Earth is their Throne and Heaven their Foot-stool hot in the pursuit of the Earth the pleasures and delights thereof slighting the pearl of Heavenly wisdom the Duke of Alva said he had so much to do on Earth that he had no time to look after Heaven Trapp saith the frame of the spirits of men bespeaks them to be thus minded complying rather with the Divinity of Sardanapalus Ede bibe lude post mortem nulla voluptas then with the Doctrine of Christ who said learn of me the beforem-entioned Epicureans were a Sect of Philosophers so called from Epicurus who was born in Athens and lived in the time of Alexander the Great Ptolomy Lagus and Philadelphus he held that the world came of the Atomes or Motes in the Sun that the Souls dye with the Bodies that there is no providence that worldly pleasure is the Summum bonum the chiefest good these with others Philosophers resisted Paul Paul writing to the beloved of God in Rome called to be Saints bare this Record relating to the wisdom of the flesh and to the wisdom of the Spirit Rom. 8.6 to be carnally minded is death which being truly translated is thus the wisdom desire or mind of the flesh is death but the wisdom desire or mind of the spirit is life and peace the wisdom of the flesh is death and is not spoiling Philosophy lascivious Poems Comedies Tragedies frivolous Fables Inchanting Orations the Subject taught in Schools and Colledges of the wisdom of the flesh I say yes and that they are death and tend to Bind and Fetter Men in Chains of darkness in the Dungeon of death but the wisdom of the spirit gives the simple a residence in the fragrant Chamber of life and peace Paul further Testified to the Sanctified at Corinth saying Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel not with wisdom words least the Cross of Christ should be made of none effect for it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise Here the Serpents wisdom affected eloquence pompous and painted speech attained by satanical inspiration orhumane acquisition by Study perusal of Heathen Authors is decryed not wisdom of words saith he least the Cross of Christ the door through which pure Divine Heavenly wisdom enters the Tabernacle of mans heart should be made of none effect Further saith he the world by wisdom knew not God neither doth the world by its wisdom now know God to what purpose then are Youth and others so toiled for the attainment of that which is foolishness in the account of God and brings not to his knowledge 1 Cor. 1.17 19 20. Again this clear-sighted Apostle of the Lamb through Divine eye-salve distinguishing between the grounds natures and effects of the wisdom from above and the wisdom from below saith on this wise We speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the Princes of this world that come to nought but we speak the wisdom of God in a Mystery which none of the Princes of this world knew for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory which things also we speak saith he not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Spirit teacheth 1 Cor. 2.6 7 8 13. Further he saith the Natural man knows not the things of the spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. The Natural man though mounted to the very Zenith of Philosophick notions and stored with the quintessence of fleshes wittiness which in very deed is wickedness filled as a well loaded Vessel with acquired Arts and Parts yet being a natural man darkened with the smoak of carnal wisdom in that State he cannot receive the wisdom which is from above in his eye it is foolishness the world and its wisdom is a pearl in his eye the harmless Dove of Heavenly wisdom enters in at another window the Cross of Christ foolishness to them that perish Further the faithful Embassador and true witness Paul in the wisdom of God bare Record against the wisdom of the world saying The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God 1 Cor. 3.19 Adam in the wisdom of God knew God and the Creation Now the Serpent by his insinuations working man into a compliance with his will brought in a Sea of iniquity and confusion a world of unrighteousness and a wisdom favouring of his Nature now spoiling Philosophy Inchanting Orations wanton Poems Comedies Tragedies Fables are a part of of his wisdom taught in Schools and Colledges so is foolishness with God though highly esteemed among men yet are they abomination in the sight of God Luke 16.15 I am brought into the credence of this that as the rays of the Sun of righteousness are displayed in man as Heavenly wisdom is exalted as Nations become seasoned with the salt of the Kingdom these abominations will become burdensom yea and rejected as a Menstrous Cloath then shall Composers Printers Correctors Stichers Binders Stationers School-Masters Tutors in Colledges that have Traded in this dead Sea dregs of Satanism turn from their unlawful concerns as the evil thereof is discovered and justifie the wisdom that is from above Further this faithful Steward Paul writing to the Saints and faithful Brethren at Collosse exhorted them saying Beware least any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceipt after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ Colos 2.8 thus who keep not in Christ the wisdom of the Father but lend an ear to the Pagan Philosophick notions of false teachers they are led by them out of the right path bound and Captives thus Paul in the wisdom from above cautions them to beware of wisdom from below