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A41659	The court of the gentiles, or, A discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophie, from the Scriptures and Jewish church. Part 2, Of philosophie in order to a demonstration of 1. The perfection of Gods word and church light, 2. The imperfection of natures light and mischief of vain philosophie, 3. The right use of human learning and especially sound philosophie / by Theoph. Gale ...; Court of the gentiles. Part 2	Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing G138; ESTC R11588	456,763	496

in his exhortation to the Gentiles speaks thus O Plato what ever good Laws are afforded thee of God c. thou hadst from the Hebrews and else where Strom. 1. he cals Plato the Philosopher who derived what he had from the Hebrews and he speaks this universally of the Philosophers that before the coming of Christ the Philosophers took part of the truth from the Hebrew Prophets though they acknowledged not the same but attributed it to themselves as their sentiments or opinions and thence some things they adulterated and other things they did by a needles diligence unlearnedly yet as seeming wise declare but other things they invented Thus Clemens Eusebius tels us that Pythagoras and Plato translated the Learning of the Jews and Egyptians into Greek The like Euseb praepar l. 9. c. 1. The most Illustrious of the Greeks were not altogether ignorant of the Judaick Philosophie some by their Writings seem to approve their manner of life others followed their Theologie so far as they were able Thus again Euseb praepar l. 10. c. 2. praefat in lib. 5. The Grecians like Merchants fetcht their Disciplines from else where So Theodoret l. 2. de Curand Graec. affect saies that Anaxagoras Pythagoras and Plato gathered many riddles or dark sayings of God from the Egyptians and Hebrews The like is affirmed of Justin Martyr Ambrose Augustin and Jerom as Justinianus in 1. Joh. 1.1 and Selden de Jur. Nat. Hebr. l. 1. c. 1. have observed And Johannes Grammaticus called otherwise Philoponus speaks affirmatively to this point so de mundi Creatione lib. 1. cap 2. pag. 4. he tels us that Plato in expounding the production of the world by God imitates Moses in many things The like he affirmes de mundi creatione lib. 6. cap. 21. pag. 24● what Moses saies he said of Man that God made him after his own image Plato translates to all things in the world whence he stiled the world a sensible Image of the intellectual God But of this more in its place § 5. As for Moderne Writers we have a cloud of witnesses and those of the most Learned and that both of Papists and Protestants who have given assent and consent to this our conclusion touching the traduction of Grecian Philosophie from the Jewish Church and Scriptures Amongst the Papists we might mention Brietius in his Geographie Mariana on Genes 1. also Ludovicus Vives upon August de civ Dei de veritate c. of whom else where we shall at present content our selves with the Testimonie of one or two of the most learned amongst them August Steuchus Eugubinus De Peren. Philosophia lib. 1. cap. 1. treating of the Succession of Doctrine from the beginning of the world begins thus As there is one Principle of all things so also there has been one and the same Science of him at all times amongst all as both Reason and Monuments of many Nations and Letters testifie This Science springing partly from the first origine of men has been devolved through all Ages unto Posteritie c. Thence he proceeds to shew the Modus how this Philosophie was derived from hand to hand in all Ages The most true Supputation of Times proves that Methusalem lived and might converse with Adam as Noah with Methusalem Therefore Noah saw and heard all things before the Floud Moreover before Noah died Abraham was fifty years aged Neither may we conceive that this most pious man and his holy Seed would concele from Abraham who they foresaw would prove most holy and the Head of the pious Nation things of so great Moment so worthy to be commemorated Therefore from this most true cause it is most equal that the great Science of Divine and human Affairs should be deduced unto following Ages greatly overcome with Barbarisme c. Thence having explicated how Philosophie was handed down even to Moses's time the same Eugubinus addes Therefore that there has been one and the same Wisdom alwaies in all men we endeavor to persuade not only by these reasons but also by those many and great examples whereby we behold some Vestigia of the truth scattered throughout all Nations which Moses in his books long since held forth to be beheld as in a glasse a far off So in what follows he saies That Sapience also besides what the ancient Colonies brought with them passed from the Chaldeans to the Hebrews except what Moses writ which passed from the Hebrews to the Egyptians from these to the Grecians from the Grecians to the Romans For Abraham was a Chaldean in whose family the ancient Theologie and the Traditions of the Fathers whereof he was Heir as it was most equal remained All these things being reteined by Noah and his Sons were seen and heard by Abraham he declared them to his Son Grandchild from Jacob they passed unto posteritie Whence also flowed the Pietie and Sapience of Job who in no regard came short of the Pietie and Sapience of the Hebrews Canst thou conceit that he who was most ancient even in Abraham's daies saw not Noah and heard him not discoursing Hence the same Eugubinus cap. 2 having divided Philosophie into 3 parts the first conveyed by Succession from Adam to Moses the second corrupted by the Philosophers the third restored by the Sacred Scriptures of this last he concludes thus At last the third kind of Philosophie shone forth scattering by its Brightnes all the darknesses of the former not conteining it self in one place but by its beams filling the Universe c. Justinianus on the first Epistle of John c. 1. v. 1. having given us a large account of the Jewish Traditions scattered up and down amongst the Pagan Philosophers touching the Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Word concludes thus Truely many things have been taken up by the Philosophers and Poets from Moses's Law which they depraved changed and wrested as touching the Chaos the Giants War the Floud and many other things as we learn out of Augustin de civ dei l. 8. c. 11. and lib. 18. c. 37. And it is likely that in the same manner they corrupted those traditions they had received touching the Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his generation so taught that those Persons differed in nature which according to the word of God differ only in Hypostasis or manner of subsisting c. § 6. But none have given a more full Explication and Demonstration of this our Assertion than the learned Protestants as well Divines as Philologists of this last Age. Amongst whom we may mention P. Melancthon in his Preface and additions to Carion Serranus that learned Philologist as well as Divine in his Preface to and Annotations on Plato almost every where asserts our conclusion as we shall have frequent occasion to shew The like doth Julius Scaliger that great Philosopher as well as Critick and Joseph Scaliger his Son more fully in his Notes on Esebius's