A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

It is true indeed that in regard of the bewitching danger from humane learning, and the too great aptness in the minds of man to surfeit and be intemperate, in the use of it; Some of the Ancients have sometimes interdicted the Reading ^aof such Authors unto Christian men; But this calleth upon us for watchfulness, in our studies, not for negligence, for the Apostle will tell us. That to the pure all things are pure. And even² of harmful things when they are prepared, and their malignancy by Art corrected, doth the skilful Physician make an excellent use. If then we be careful to Moderate and Regulate our affections, to take heed of the pride and inflation of secular learning, not to admire Philosophy, to the prejudice of Evangelical knowledge, as if without the revealed light of the Gospel, salvation might be found, in the way of Paganism; if we suffer not these lean K•ne to devour the sat ones, nor the River Jordan to be lost in the dead Sea; I mean Piety to be swallowed up of profane Studies, and the knowledge of the Scriptures (which alone would make any man conversant in all other kind of Learning with much greater Felicity, and success:) to be under-valued, and not rather, the more admired, is a Rich Jewell compared with Glass. In this case, ⟨image 6⟩and with such care as this, there is no doubt, but secular Studies prepared and corrected from Pride and Profaneness, may be to the Church as the Gt•eonites were to the Congregation of Israel, for H•wers of Word, and Drawers of Water, otherwise we may say of them as Cato Major to his […], of the Grecian Art• and Learning. ^bQuandocunqu• ista Gens suas literas dabit, omnia Cor•umpet.

It is true indeed that in regard of the bewitching danger from humane learning, and the too great aptnesse in the minds of man to surfeit and be intemperate, in the use of it; Some of the Ancients have sometimes interdicted the Reading