the world by wisdom that is its Philosophy knew not God how can it by that wisdom reveal God and his things which it never knew Nay the Apostle doth clearly testifie against this carnal and corrupt Doctrine in 1 Cor. 2.7 8. saying We speak the wisdom of God in a mysterie even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory which none of the Princes of this world knew and by Princes of this world he means not only wordly Powers as Chrysostome affirms but also Philosophers and Orators who often obtained the chief Government among the nations God hath wrapped up his Gospel saith Paul into such hidden wisdom that they are never able to search into it or to discover the least part of it seeing God contrived it all and appointed it before the world unto our glory and all their knowledge is but from the world Yea he adds Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have ever entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him In which words God hath shut out the natural man for ever with all his study knowledge abilities and attainments from the having any right understanding of his Kingdom or the things of it For the eye of man hath not seen them at any time nor his eare heard them nor hath any knowledge of them entered into his heart so far is this Doctrine from truth that the Knowledg of heavenly things cannot come to us but by things on earth But the Apostle shews how the faithfull come to know these high holy spiritual and eternal things which lie infinitely beyond the knowledge and discovery of all men to wit by the Spirit saying But God hath revealed them to us by the Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God So that the people of God know the things of the Gospel not by earthly things as Mr. Simpson affirms nor by Philosophy and outward wisdom which only reaches to earthly things but by the Spirit Farther if all Divinity be swadled in Humane Learning then I do affirm that all such Divinity hath no great Depth seeing the bottom of Humane Learning is easily fathomed But can any Christian Heart think that all true Divinity which comprehends in it the heighth and breadth and length and depth of the love of God which passeth knowledge and all the unsearchable riches of Christ and all the infinite and incomprehensible Treasures of his wisdom power and righteousness of his love goodness truth faithfulness and of all the fulness of the Godhead wherewith he is filled can be contained and wrapped up in the narrow and scant bounds of Humane Learning How much truer Doctrine had it been to have taught that all true Divinity is contained in God and his word and that we can know nothing of God aright but by his word which holy men have spoken by the Spirit and believers do receive by faith and out of this word All the Learning in the world doth not contain in it self neither can it reveal to us aright the least thing of God or of his Mind and Will But I conceive he might speak thus that all Divinity is wrapped up in Humane Learning to deterr the common people from the study and enquiry after it and to cause them still to expect all Divinity from the Clergy who by their education have attained to that Humane Learning which the plain people are destitute of For it is the old and new design of Antichrist to make the People depend on the Clergy for all Divinity though the people have the Scriptures as near them and the Grace of God usually nearer to them then they seeing God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble Again if all Divinity be swadled in Humane Learning then must it sadly follow that all who want Humane Learning must needs also want Divinity And then how shall poor plain people who live in lawfull callings and have not the leisure to attain Humane Learning how shall they do to be saved Or what help must they have to teach them Divinity who have not opportunity to gain Humane Learning And yet farther if all Divinity be swadled in Humane Learning then Christ and his Apostles had no true Divinity for they had no Humane Learning to swaddle it in nor would have none Shall we say now according to Mr. Simpsons Doctrine that they had no Divinity I do with all boldness affirm that this Doctrine is contrary to the Christian faith 4. ERROR That Paul was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and God took him so fitted to wit with Humane Learning and made him an able Instrument in his Church Answer Not so But God took Paul not a good Schollar and so made him an able Preacher but he took him as a Blasphemer and Persecutor and as a cruel and inraged enemy against Christ and his Truth and People and magnified the riches of his mercy by converting such an one and Paul having much forgiven him loved much and through his great love was the fitter to preach the Gospel according to that of Christ to Peter Peter dost thou love me feed my Sheep Yea Paul himself ascribes his painful and profitable preaching not to his Learning and Education under Gamaliel which also was or ought to have been only in the Law and Prophets as hath been proved but to the free Grace of God bestowed on him saying I laboured more abundantly then they all yet not I but the Grace of God in me So that Paul became so excellent a Preacher not by his fitting through Humane Learning but through the Grace of God And here I shall mind Mr. Simpson of a passage which I have read in Chrysostome which comes home to this matter in hand it is in the third Homily on the first Epistle to the Corinthians where he saith That God had no need at the beginning of the Gospel of Learned men and Sophisters to preach the Gospel and to convince the world with Syllogisms but did only use the word of faith in the mouths of plain Handicrafts men and Artificers Wherefore saith he when the Greeks shall accuse the Disciples of Christ as ignorant of Letters and unlearned let us our selves who are Christians accuse them more Neither let any one say that Paul was wise and learned but let us say Their men were wise and learned but ours were rude and ignorant For in thus doing according to the truth we shall have the greater advantage against them For if Paul were unlearned and yet overcame learned Plato his Victory was the greater and the Grace of God the more glorious * Now this I say saith he because the other day I heard a certain Christian discoursing ridiculously with a Greek each of them in their Discourse prejudicing their own cause For the Greek spake that which the Christian should have said and the Christian spake that
Salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Praying always with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all Perseverance Here now are the true Christian weapons whereby he defends himself through the word and defends the word against all the world And the same Paul in 2 Cor. 10.3 saith For though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds Casting down Imaginations and every High thing that exalteth it self against the Knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the Obedience of Christ And having in a readiness to revenge all Disobedience So that the faithful do not defend the Gospel by Philosophy as is heathenishly suggested but by the Gospel they defend the Gospel and the Gospel hath in it self that Wisdom Righteousness Strength and those Vertues which are infinitely able to defend it self against all the world and against all the powers of darkness And how contrary is this Doctrine to Mr. Simpsons And thus much for his Outworks to the Gospel Now for his outer Court to the Gospel I know no other outer Court the Gospel ever had then the Law of Moses which Law was the preparation to the Gospel and the School Master to bring us unto Christ which Humane Learning never was But Humane Learning is the outer Court to Antichrists Temple it is the School-master to bring men to Antichrist And thus would Mr. Simpson also turn the Law out of its place and set up Humane Learning in the stead of the Law and so would make void both Law and Gospel for Humane Learning sake Surely one would think he hath some considerable advantage thereby that he thus fences for it 10. ERROR But what is the bottom saith he of all this that is of some mens appearing against Humane Learning as the Vnction of the Ministry and against the Vniversities as the Fountain of the Ministry but this That some say they are one with Christ and as Christ hath the Divine nature in Him so every Believer also hath and he that hath God in Him need not go to any man to Learn Whereas Joh. 17. Christ speaketh of Believers as at an infinite distance from Himself He their Lord they his Servants He in Glory they in the World And if they be so united to Christ then it will follow that Christ is not the only begotten Son of God and that Christ and we should be equal and He not our Lord c. Answer Now doth not all this declare a most woful Ignorance of and enmity to the Gospel of God our Saviour For is our Vnion with Christ the Foundation of error or have true Believers no real Vnion with Christ but imaginary Do not the Saints partake of the Divine Nature doth not Peter expresly affirm it 2 Pet. 1.4 where he saith exceeding great and pretious promises are made to us that we thereby should be made partakers of the Divine Nature and what is the divine Nature but the very Nature of God See Luther on the place Again are believers as he affirms at an infinite distance from Christ If this were true what sad news would it be to the Church of God How can this Doctrine agree with these Scriptures that Christ may dwell in your Hearts by faith and Christ in you the hope of Glory and of Him are ye in Christ Jesus Again saith Christ I am the true Vine and ye are the branches and so as the Vine is in the branches and as the branches are in the Vine so is Christ in Christians and so are Christian in Christ Again Joh. 14.20 At that day ye shall know saith Christ Himself that you need not doubt of the Doctrine that I am in my father and you in me and I in you And again Joh. 17.21 saith Christ I pray not for these alone that is who now believe but also for all that shall hereafter believe in me through their word that they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they may be one as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one that the world may know thee hast sent me and hast loved them 〈◊〉 thou hast loved me Here now is no infinite distance between Christ and Believers but a wonderfull and admirable Nearness and Oneness which the learned Ignorance of Philosophy understands not nor the ignorant Knowledge of any carnal Christian But sure this word of God is true and the Saints receive it in faith and will not be deluded with any Philosophical Sophistical or Antichristian glosses of False Teachers And thus doth the holy word of God affirm plainly enough that Christ and his Christians are most neerly Vnited And yet doth not this Vnion make an Equality and rob Christ of his due glory seeing Christ is the Head and they his Members Christ the first born and they his Brethren And so as Christ hath the Preheminence in all things above them all as becomes the Head and first born so They have Communion with Him in all things as becomes his Members and Brethren And whereas he jests and saith He that hath God in Him needs not go to man to learn I do affirm this is true enough and the Scripture hath affirmed it in several places Isaiah saith to the Spiritual Church All thy Children shall be taught of the Lord And Christ saith it is written They shall be all taught of God he therefore that had heard and learned of my Father cometh to me And John saith 1 John 2.27 The Annointing which ye have received from him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same annointing teacheth you all things and is Truth and is no lye And this Doctrine is so manifest from the Scriptures that he is of Antichrist that denies it For God inwardly teaches all his People by his Spirit his own self and they so hear the word by the Ministry of man that it is alwayes God that teaches them and not Man 11. ERROR Arts and Tongues are the Cups in which God drinks to us Answer In what a sad condition then are the common and plain people that they cannot pledge him But only the learned Clergie keep these cups to themselves as heretofore they kept the Cup in the Sacrament But what strange Phrase is this Savouring of the Ranters Religion as if God was the familiar companion of the Clergie and sometimes drank to them in a Cup of Hebrew sometimes in a Cup of Greek and sometimes in a Cup of Latine as if sometimes he drank to them in a Cup of Logick and sometimes in a Cup of Ethicks sometimes in a Cup of Metaphysicks Is not this truly Profana vocum novitas a Prophane Newness of Speech never before
Gods Law to preach it generally against sins in the Realm But wit ye worldly Clerks and feignedly Religious that God both can and may if it liketh him speed simple men out of the Vniversity as much to know the holy Scriptures as Masters in the Vniversity Wherefore he saith it is no great matter though men of good will be not poysoned with Heathen mens error nine or ten years together But let them live well and study the holy Scriptures and preach truly and freely against open sins till death Thus he Whereby he declares that the Scriptures are not to be understood by Humane Learning but by faith and love And that Humane Learning doth not prepare men to the knowledge of the word but rather corrupt them with Heathen mens Errors Tindal also that Apostle of England as Fox calleth him and blessed Martyr speaks thus to this matter They will say yet more shamefully meaning the Clergy that no man can understand the Scriptures without Philautia that is to say Philosophy A man must first be well seen in Aristotle ere he can understand the Scripture say they Now saith he Aristotles Doctrine is that the world was without begining and shall be without end and that the first man never was and the last never shall be And that God doth all of necessity neither careth what we do Without this Doctrine saith he Ironically how could we understand the Scripture that saith God Created the World of nought and God worketh all things of his free will and for a secret purpose and that we shall rise again and God will have accounts of all that we have done in this life Aristotle saith Give a man a Law and he hath power of himself to do or fulfill the Law and becometh righteous with working righteously But Paul and all the Scripture saith That the Law doth but utter sin only and helpeth not Neither hath any man power to do the Law till the Spirit of God be given him through faith in Christ Is it a not madness then to say that we could not understand the Scripture without Aristotle Moreover Aristotles felicity and blessedness standeth in avoiding all tribulations and in riches health honor worship friends and authority which felicity pleaseth our spirituality well Now without these and a thousand such like points couldst thou not understand Scripture which saith that Righteousness cometh by Christ and not of mans will And how that vertues are the fruits and gifts of Gods Spirit and that Christ blesseth us in tribulations persecution and adversity How I say couldst thou understand the Scriptures without Philosophy in as much as Paul Col. 2. warned them to beware lest any man spoyl them that is to say rob them of their faith in Christ through Philosophy and deceitfull Vanities and through the Traditions of men and Ordinances after the world and not after Christ And after But now ye drive them from Gods word and will let no man come thereto untill he have been two years Master of Art First they nuzzel them in Sophistry in bene fundatum And there corrupt they their judgements with apparent arguments and with alleadging to them texts of Logick of Natural Philosophy of Metaphysick and Moral Philosophy and of all manner of books of Aristotle and of all manner of Doctors which yet they never saw c. Again Huldricus Zuinglius speaks thus to this matter VVe must needs be taught of God and not of men to wit in the knowledge of the Gospel For this is the saying of the Eternal Truth which knows not how to lye Joh. 6. But and if you do not firmly believe that you may be taught of God Humane Doctrines being utterly rejected ye are yet destitute of true faith Neither have I my self devised this thing For Hilarie also is of this opinion But there is no need of his Testimony when we hear that both Christ and all the Apostles were of the same mind And here the whole use of School Divinity falls to the ground and whatsoever is drawn out of the Philosophers For all these things do lean on humane Reasons which when they have once possessed a mans mind he then thinks that the heavenly Doctrine is wholly to be directed and framed according to the Rule of Humane Learning which he judges to be most firm and infallible VVhich thing they sufficiently discover in their words saying ubi cessat Philosophus illic incipit Theologus where the Philosopher ceases there the Divine begins whereby they signifie thus much that he is able to judge most rightly in Divine things who comes most furnished with Humane Learning As if so be the light of our will were more excellent and more perspicuous then the Divine Glory when yet we hear Christ saying I receive not Glory of men but I know you that you have not the love of God in you Joh. 5. For they who have the love of God cleave to no word so constantly as to the word of God seeing this is the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world But no man is able to prove that Philosophy is such a light For which of the Philosophers instructed the Apostles Those simple and in the judgement of the world those foolish men unskilfull and unlearned fisherman were elected and instituted of God and then were sent forth to preach that they might become the Masters and Teachers of the whole world to wit that God according to the saying of Paul might make ashamed all the strength of the world and all the wisdom of the world Thus he Luther also saith It is an Error to say that a man cannot be a Divine but through Aristotle Nay saith he A man cannot be a Divine except he become one without Aristotle And again A man becomes a Divine by living yea by dying and by being damned to wit in his own sense not by studying reading or speculating And again In holy things we must not dispute or play the Philosophers but in Divinity we must only hear and believe and resolve in our heart that God is true though the things he speaks in his word seem never so absurd to reason And again We shall then do well if we leaving Logick or Philosophy in their own Sphear do learn to speak with new tongues in the Kingdom of faith without all Sphear For the affection of faith is to be exercised in the Kingdom of faith and not a Philosophical understanding And thus have these Godly men held forth and proved from the word that Humane Learning is rather a hindrance then a help to the Ministry of the Gospel and doth rather unfit then fit men for it and that the Grace and teaching of God only prepares and enables men to this Divine work and no Humane thing at all Wherefore let all true Christians be advised that Humane Learning is so far from fitting men for the Gospel and the Ministry thereof as is suggested
and royal priesthood to show forth the vertues of him that hath called them out of darkness into his marvelous light as Peter testifies and they all speak as they do believe and have experience and their Sonship Unction and Victory over temptation is as sufficient a ground for them to teach as it was for Christ to teach and so they without any regard of the Laws of Antichrist or Orders of the Clergy go forth to teach the everlasting Gospel as Christ did before them and this is the fourth degree of the faithful in the Church 5. Christs fifth and last degree which he took in the Church was this that he having both preached and lived the word whereat the world and worldly Church were wholly offended and inraged did at the last willingly confirme his Doctrine with his death and seal to the truth of it with his blood exposing himself to the most shameful and ignominious death of the cross to confirme his Gospel to his Church and this was the highest and most glorious Degree that Christ took in his Church as Christ testifies when speaking of his suffering he saith Now is the hour come that the Son of man should be glorified And this fifth degree also all the truely faithful do take with Christ either in deed if need require or in preparation and readiness and that whilst they live in outward peace All the blessed Martyrs have taken this highest degree in the Church with Christ and all the rest of his seed have been and are ready to take it also when it is the good will of their heavenly Father seeing they can say in the same faith and spirit with Christ even in this matter Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me yet not my will but thine be done for they are come to do the will of him that sent them even to the laying down their lives Now these are the onely degrees that Christ himself took in the Church and which all the Saints take with him and the true spiritual Church of believers allows and approves no other Degrees but these And what now are the University-Degrees in Divinity to these they are Degrees in Antichrists Church onely and every heathen or humane creature Turke or Infidel may take them aswel as they with a little time and paines and money Wherefore that I may turn my speech a little to the University do thou University lay this to heart how much thou hast departed from the Gospel of Christ in this matter as well as in all the rest and hast received the Doctrine and Laws and Methods and Manners of Antichrist wherewith thou hast deceived thy self aswell as the Nations And thou University hast like thy own mother Babylon Mystery written on thy forehead for thou hast taken to thy self this title ALMA MATER the beautiful mother which onely belongs to Jerusalem from above and though thou hast brought forth a company of prodigious children heathenish foolish vaine vile and abominable yet hast thou called them learned and given them Degrees in Divinity contrary to the Degrees in the Gospel and hast sent them forth into every City County Town and Village as Ministers of Christ yea as Sons of the morning though unbelievers and destitute of the spirit And thus hast thou deceived the Nations and given them a false Ministery in stead of a true and by this false Ministery a false word in stead of the Gospel and the world hath not at any time received a greater wo nor more grievous plague then from thee Wherefore thus saith the word of the Lord The day of thy vengeance is coming and the yeers wherein thou shalt be made desolate and thy dainty and goodly things shall depart from thee and thou shalt finde them no more at all and the voice of Musitians and Pipers shall no more be heard in thee for in thee is found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that have been slaine upon the earth thy humane learning to wit thy Philosophy and School-Divinity the false Ministery that they have set up and the false Christians that have proceeded from that Ministery have devised and executed all these murders and massacres on the true Saints of God FINIS Quis est sapiens intelliget haec The Testimony of Martin Luther upon the whole matter To wit touching Vniversities Humane Learning or Philosophy Vniversity-Degrees c. MArtin Luther in his Answer to Ambrosius Catharinus expounding the Vision concerning Antichrist Dan. 8. speaks thus The twelfth and last face of Antichrist is that Chaos and open gate of Hell yet very comely to behold to wit the Universities into which perjurie and the abuse of Gods Name are the entrance and the progress is a free and most licentious conversation in all manner of wickedness And yet under these sins and destructions Science and Sapience are promised Yea Titles and Degrees are given in stead of rewards But what do they perform at length First the more choice youth of christian people are here prostituted and are cast into the open throat of Hell that I verily think this destruction was figured by the Idol Moloch to whom anciently they made their choice children to pasâ— through the fire Afterwards Aristotle being read to them and not rightly understood the wits of christian youth are exercised with heathenish and humane learning yea are quite blinded and oppressed with it And in stead of the Word of God the doctrine of Antichrist is delivered that it may seem the devil himself could not bring forth a more subtile and effectual Invention and engine Eutterly to extinguish the Gospel then to set up Universities Wherein under the pretence of Christian Doctrine nothing should be taught but that which is most contrary to the Christian Faith And if at any time it seems good to call forth the choicest to the Government of the Churches they call them out of these Stews and Dens And truly to me this last face of Antichrist seems to be the most hurtful of all because this hath the pretence of the Word when all the rest have onely the colour of Example and this is plainly Schola Hidoth the School of Propositions of which anon For it is incomparably the greatest prejudice under the colour of the Word to teach things contrary to the Word seeing the face of Eâ—amples is formed and strengthened by the face of the Word which otherwise would soon come to nothing if the Word should reign in its genuine sense and also seeing the pretence of Examples doth onely deceive the manners but the pretence of the Word overthrows the Word But if by any Grace of God the Universities should receive the Word to wit instead of Philosophy and School-Divinity how soon would the Papacy with all its faces or appearances perish seeing this face to wit the Universities is the prop bones and whole strength of that kingdom of faces This deceitful face seems to
diligence and speed to procure fifty Volums of the Scriptures to be written in parchment well and Legibly and in such a bigness or Volume as might be carried with greatest ease for she further teaching and instructing of those that came to attain the knowledge of the Christian Religion Judging it most meet that Christian people should be instructed in the Doctrine of Christ And though afterwards when the suffering times of the Church began to be over Christians became more carâ—â—l and secure and that in the very days of Constantine and so began to decline the word of faith and to seek after Philosophy yet had God in all the ages of his Church some of his servants who did reject it and did cleave only to the word Among which I shall only for the present produce the Testimonies of Berno who lived above six hundred years ago and Zuinglius of latteâ— times Berno who lived about the year 1008 and was a man furnished with all sorts of Learning saith That he had for many years rejected aâ—â—ung the figments of the Poets and the Histories of the Heathens and the study of secular Letters and had converted the whole intention of his mind in the word of God and the Divine things contained therein And accordingly he taught no other Doctrine to any Hularicus Zuinglius also Pastor of Zâ—rich in Helvetâ—ae â—man who had been educated in all kind of Learning and was after through faith and the teaching of God an eminent Instrument in his Church he saith thus of himself When saith he I being yet a youth was exercised in all sorts of Learning I can truly say that I did not profit less then the rest of my equals But when about seven years ago I betook my self to the study of the holy Scriptures then the things that I had before sacked in or learned from Philosophers and Divines did procure me so much trouble that being then moved by the Authority of the Scriptures I judged that all those things were to be cast away and counted as dung and that the true minde of God was only to be received from his pure and simple word And therefore I began humbly to intreat the Lord that he would vouchsafe me his own light By which means it shortly came to pass that the reading of the holy Scripture did much delight and please me and they being nakedly and alone propounded did flow unto me with more ease then if I had read them divided and distracted with variety of Comments And as he rejected Philosophy wholly and entertained the word So did he only teach this word to faithful Câ—ristians who are the only true School of Christ in the world Now by all this it appears that the Schools of the Prophets and Apostles and of Christ himself the Head of them and of the most faithfull Christians that followed Christ in the first and latter ages were in no sort like the Schools in the present Vniversities where humane Learning according to the Statutes of the Vniversities prevails for the first seven years and they think youth cannot be made good Christians except they be first made good Heathens The Schools of the Prophets and Apostles would not meddle with the Philosophy of the Heathen but led the children and youth presently to the word of God and therein to the true Knowledge of God in Christ But these Schools first lead youth from God and his word several years together to the corrupt Reason Wisdom Notions Conceptions yea to the Idolatry Blasphemy Atheism Lusts Filthiness and Villanies of the cursed Heathen that thereby in a strange and Antichristian Method they may be the fitter to know and understand the Scriptures The Schools of the Prophets taught only Moses and the Prophets to the Jewish youth and the Schools of the Apostles taught Christ only and his Gospel to the children of Christians But the Vniversities lead men both from Moses and from Christ both from the Law and the Gospel to the Heathen to make men hereby able Christians and Divines The Queen of the South came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon And the Vniversities leave Christ who is Infinitely greater and wiser then Solomon and go to the utmost parts of the earth for wisdom there So that in these Vniversities there hath been the greatest Apostacy and withdrawing from Christ and the greatest dishonour and disparagement offered to him and his Gospel as ever was known For is it not a matter of greatest wonder and amazement that after that Word which was with God and was God and is God blessed for ever hath been manifested in the flesh and that flesh of his hath been justified by the Spirit to have the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in it bodily and that this wonderfull person hath come to his Church in the same common nature with it filled with all the Righteousness Wisdom Truth Power Life Peace and Joy and all the things of God I say is it not strange that He who alone comprehends the fulness of all things and in whom are hid all the Infinite Treasures of Divine and Heavenly wisdom and knowledge that he alone should not be counted sufficient and enough no not by those who pretend his name to make us wise to Salvation which is the only True Excellent and necessary wisdom in the world and to make the man of God perfect and the whole Church of God compleat but to the great dishonor of Christ yea to the very rejection of Christ the children of Christians must be led from the Doctrine of Christ the Son of the living God to the Doctrine and Disciplines of the Wretched Filthy Abominable Wicked and damned Heathen and to spend the prime and flower of their youth in these things Who but Antichrist himself could have brought in and set up such an Abomination of desolation in the Church of God And yet for the better credit of all things must these be them that their Divinity cannot be called the Doctrine of Christ but of Antichrist being wholly contrary to the word of faith And therefore Mr. Simpson was the more to blame to flatter them in their evils and to deceive the world in appropriating to them the glorious Title of the Schools of the Prophets who are in all things so contrary and contradictory to them Now the summe and certainty of this matter is this That the Congregations of Believers where only the word of the Gospel is truly taught according to the Ministration of the Spirit whether to youth or men they under the New Testament are answerable to the Schools of the Prophets under the Old who only taught Moses and the Prophets And the Vniversities wherein Philosophy is first taught the youth and after Divinity and then both are mingled together to the utter perverting and corrupting the Gospel of Christ I say these Vniversities in the time of the Gospel are answerable to the High-Places in