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So misreckoning of a point, they mist the ha∣ven, and had like to have run upon the rocks. Had they met with the Shepherds of Bethlehem, they had received better intelligence,* 1.1 then they could from the learned Scribes of Jerusalem. God hath* 1.2 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the weak of the world to confound the wise. Surgunt
indocti & rapiunt coelum, & nos, cum doctrin is noctris, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Gehennam. None are so far from Christ, many times, as know∣ing men. Some of the Scribes and Pharisees were very Atheists, for they knew neither the Father nor the Son. Uspian the chief Law∣yer, Galen the chief Physician, Porphyry the chief Aristotelean, Plotinus the chief Platonist, Libanius and Lucian the chief Ora∣tours of that age, were all profest enemies to Christ. No Church* 1.3 was founded at Athens, Acts 17. which yet Demosthenes calls the soul, sun and eye of Greece, Euripides, the Greece of Greece, Thucydides and Diodorus, the common school of all men, the Mart of good learning, &c. The greatest Clerks are not alwaies the wisest men in the affairs of God. Howbeit, learned Nathanael, Ioseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, masters in Israel, were Di∣sciples to our Saviour: lest if he had called simple men only, it might have been thought, quòd fuissent ex simplicitate decepti, that they* 1.4 were deceived out of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 simplicity, saith one.
1 Cor 1. 27, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
August. con∣fess lib. 8. cap. 8.
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