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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

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

are desired even so the mind being carnalized Heavenly wisdom Bread of life Water of life Honey out of the Rock the food of the soul is loathed and spoiling Philosophy Satanical Arts Parts and endowments in a word the wisdom that is from below is unsatiably sought after Adam entring the barren Borders of Satanism from a Hellish Lake in the increase of that Kingdom collected gushed out a muddy stream of Diabolical Arts pernicious inventions and Artists hence came he ungodly Astrologers who from the observation of the Heavens take upon them to foretel what good or evil shall betide Men States Persons People so to determine things of future contingence Thence crawled out Charms who use Verses Words Ceremonies Spells to produce their desired ends as to heal or hurt people young or old Hence crawled out Diviners Wizards who by a Diabolical Spirit take upon them to presage or foretel things to come Hence crawled out observers of Times who superstitiously make difference of days and times as good or bad luckly or unlucky as they say for the doing of such a work or undertaking a Journey or appointing times for the doing of things Hence crawled out the Consulters of Familiar Spirits this was Sauls sin who sought to a woman that had a Familiar Spirit for which transgression the Lord brought this heavy Judgment upon him Hence crawled out Inchanters who by observing the events of things gather signs of good or evil luck as they say to themselves or others and who by secret slights and juglings deceive or delude the eye-sight Hence crawled out Witches Sorcerers having dealings with the Devil by compact or confedracy changing any thing before the sight by a Diabolical power Hence crawled out Necromancers speaking to the dead or to the Devil in the form of the dead making inquiry of the same as Saul did Hence crawled out the Magician who through covenant with Satan is skild in Magick Art Hence sprung in the Monthly Prognosticatours taking upon them to foretell the occurrents of each Month. Hence crawled out Southsayers who from the observation of the skie or flight of Birds take upon them to foretel things to come Hence came in Stargazers pretending knowledge of future events by the observation of the courses and conjunction of the Stars these Artists were first found among the Heathens after crept into Israel though expressly forbidden by the Lord and are found also as it is said among the professors of Christianity The Idolatrous Egyptians were great practitioners of Divination who as Writers affirm first of all derived their Divination from the four Elements some Divined from the observation of Fire hence Pyromancy Some Divined by the Air hence Aeromancy Some Divined by Water hence Hydromancy Some Divined by the Earth hence Geomancy After this wickedness and Satanical skill increasing a further progress was made For Some Divined by Fish hence Icthuomancy Some Divined by Herbs hence Botanomancy Some Divined by Figs hence Sycomancy Some Divined by Eggs hence Oomancy Some Divined by Rods hence Rabdomancy Some by the crowing of Cocks hence Alectrimancy Some by She-goats hence Aigemancy Some Divined by Dreams hence Oneiromancy Some Divined by Insense hence Libanomancy Some by Water in a Bason hence Licanomancy Some Divined by Smoak hence Capnomancy Some Divined by the Bay-tree hence Daphnomancy Some Divined by Wax hence Ceromancy Some by the lines of the Hands hence Chiromancy Some Divined by Sieve and Shears hence Cosciomancy This kind of Divination is as 't is said much in use now in the Northern parts by the frequenters of Horse Courses and Foot Races Some Divined by an Ax hence Axinomancy Some Divined by Lots hence Cleromancy Some by the inspection of Flour hence Alphitomancy Some Divined and gave answers out of their Bellies hence Gastromancy Some Divined by the observation of Birds some by the entrails of Beasts some of these if not many are crept in among the professors of Christianity Solomon knew what he said when he said God made man upright but they have fought out many Inventions Eccles 7. From the very same ground issued in Idolatry Superstition damnable Heresies pernicious Schisms strong Delusions perverse Disputings vagrant and wandring Desires fruitless Janglings inconvenient Jestings sinful oppositions of Sciences Inchanting Orations feigned Purgatory dreamed of by Plato the Philosopher and Virgil the Heathen Poet defended by many in the Apostasie Thus you see the wisdom of God being rejected and the wisdom of the old Serpent and his Teaching being entertained what Hellish Artists and Arts what ungodly and unlawful Inventions what strange and soul-destroying Doctrines are crept into the Stage of the World what an Eclipse is come upon the Sons and Daughters of men but the Sun of righteousness is risen and rising with an effectual healing vertue whereby the foggy exhaltation of sin iniquity and transgression of wicked Arts and frivolous inventions shall be scourged away CHAP. III. Of the Rise and Progress of Pagan Philosophy Worldly wisdom crept in among the professors of Christianity and Testimonies of the Holy men of God against the same Pagans of several Nations desirous of wisdom to some straps of Moses relating to Morals Naturals and Supernaturals added the corrupt ingredients of their own Inventions and imaginations so patch up their Ethicks Physicks and Metaphysicks so triumphed in the splendor of their wisdom and gained great esteem thorough the same and were as I may say pointed at by the fingers of others and were called Magi that is wisemen whatsoever saith Andrew Sympson Orpheus Homer Solon Pythagoras Plato and other Grecians Philosophers Poets Historians have left in Record concerning God and Divine things they took all out of the Books of Moses whereunto they added the intermixture of their own Inventions and imaginations depraved and wrested the same August de Civit. Dei to say the best Rabbins and Philosophers saith Trap sunt bona mista malis sunt mala mista bonis that is to say in them good is mixed with evil and evil with good The Greeks through this py-bal wisdom were called Sophoi that is wisemen now Pythagoras refused that Title as too ambitious and peculiar to Ens Entium the being of beings God alone and in way of modesty he called himself Philosophos that is a Lover of wisdom which Title Socrates Plato and others assumed in imitation of these Greeks the Romans called such Philosophy and imitation of the Romans in the English Orthography such are called Philosophers that is Lover of wisdom hence came the Philosophy of the Egyptians Phenicians Caldeans Phrygians Lybians Ethiopians Scithians Thracians Persians Indians Brachmans Spaniards Italians Greeks Druides of Pythagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle of the Cynicks Stoicks Scepticks Epicureans these say and many others received their Philosophy from the writings of Moses by them depraved and wrested adding the dregs of their own opinions inventions and imaginations they received of these things also one from another And of the agreement or rather disagrement