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CHAP. VIII. Of Humane Learning, Divine Inspira- and Revelation.
HAving briefly dispatcht the Business of taking Texts, framing Discourses on them, and selling those Discourses for Money▪ that which comes next under Consideration is Humane Learning, which the Priest asserts the Necessity of in interpreting the Scriptures, pag. 90. He takes an Occasion to enter up∣on this Subject, from some words of R. H. which (as he sets them down: for he names no Book) are thus, The Scribes and Phari∣sees were Learned Men, and they could not open the Scriptures; Peter an Vnlearned Man, he opened the Scriptures, pag, 87. At this he carps, saying, R. H. magnifies the Lear∣ning of the Scribes and Pharisees, and makes a very Ignoramus of St. Peter, &c. p. 88.
Answ. He had no Cause to quarrel at this; for R. H. spake but the Truth. He did not magnifie the Learning of the Scribes and Pharisees, but barely said, they were Learned