An evident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianism Wherein is mightily cleared the…An euident display of Popish practises, or patched Pelagianisme Wherein is mightelie cleared the…

that is, till he went into the Sanctuary of the Lord. Thou shouldest have sought out the nature of GOD before that thou diddest ⟨p. 23⟩dispute of his love and hatred. There be manifested to us living in this world two ways to know [Greek or Hebrew], that that may be known of God. One the contemplation of things created doth show us, which Paul disputing with the Romans and Athenienses of the first principles of Christian religion, doth manifest. The other, God hath showed us in his word. None of both I confess is to be neglected, but how much more certain this is than the other, David proveth by his own example, and if not of our selves, yet by continual observation of all ages it may plentifully be perceived. For who ever taught more unmeet things of GOD than those wise Egyptians of whom afterwards was Greece taught? or whence but from the same did spring Idolatry? let be perused the speeches of Apollonius with the Bracchamans & Gymnosophists, and we shall see what humane Divinity is. Yea how doteth that divine Plato, and how often erreth he from those first principles which they call [Greek or Hebrew] common knowledge: Truly the very last words of Socrates when he died, we owe a cock to Aesculapius, do sufficiently bewray how sound knowledge Socrates had of divine things, except he then began to dote on his deaths bed, and also that Plato would lean the self dotage of his Master in writing: or else that then he left not [Greek or Hebrew] dissembling. But without doubt that saying of Paul is true, they are become vain in their own reasonings & their foolish heart is full of darkness: when they thought themselves wise they became fools. Also that the world in the wisdom of God did not know God. When Paul wrote these things, he did not undoubtedly blame nature, daily showing us (as David saith) the wonderful works of God: but accused our blindness which may be holpen of one only God, and that by the hearing of his word. ⟨p. 24⟩Because thou doest not consider this thou rightly reapest this reward of thy foolishness, that because thou endeavourest by the rules of this nature, to conclude the nature of God, thou offerest thy self to be laughed at of very children. But, thou wilt say, I afterwards show thee Scripture.

that is, till he wente into the Sanctuarie of the Lorde. Thou shouldest haue sought out the nature of GOD before that thou diddest ⟨p. 23⟩