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But Aristotles Philosophy, and Porphyry's Commentary, are but ill measures in The∣ology, and you should do well to scour bright that armor in which you trust, which unless it be prudently conducted, will make a man a Sophister rather then a Theologue: but you are wiser.
Aristotle and Porphiry are no contemptible Authors in Philosophy; but who ever thought them infallible in Philosophy, or their Books measures in Theology? Phi∣losophy is a very usefull Hand-maid unto Divinity, and none will decry it, but such whose sayings and writings cannot endure the test thereof; nothing that is true in Philosophy, can be false in Divinity; for verum vero non opponitur, one truth doth not, cannot clash with another: As for my Philosophy, I hope God will preserve me from trusting in it, or in any other arm of flesh: If you can detect any error therein, I shall be ready to retract it, and be very thankful to you for your pains; as for the dirt you have hitherto thrown thereon, it will not stick, but recoil∣eth on your own face.